User talk:Gary/Archives/2009

Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible.

Watch out!
"And I was so looking forward to nominating myself, too! :P" Somebody out there is going to take you seriously, you know, and you are going to end up with an unwanted RfA nom ;). Unless you have changed your mind, that is... Dabomb87 (talk) 02:16, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, I'll just delete it—I mean, get an admin to delete it then. :D Gary King  ( talk ) 02:29, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * And here it is. Interested to run? :P - Mailer Diablo 04:54, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Nope, not really :) Gary King  ( talk ) 05:14, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * What did I tell you? :D Dabomb87 (talk) 05:16, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * LOL. Btw, happy new year to both of you! ;) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 05:33, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Same to you two! Dabomb87 (talk) 06:09, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Happy new years! Gary King  ( talk ) 15:21, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

(outdent)Gary, there is a question for you on my talk page wrt XHTML, it is out of my league. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:46, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I am probably going to review one (or more) of your GANs later tonight, just a heads-up. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. I don't feel that I critiqued it as hard as I could have; I might come back with more—on a full stomach :) Dabomb87 (talk) 00:31, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and passed the article, if I see any other issues I can bring them up on the FAC. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:47, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Featured topic candidates
...Now passed. I'll leave it up to you to notify anyone else involved in the topics. You have three months - go! ;) rst20xx (talk) 17:24, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Alright, good idea, doing now! rst20xx (talk) 14:28, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * lol! What the?!? That has NEVER happened before! :S Though you have to be amused by how it's made a list of the GTs, but says it can't find the FTC... because they're GTs! rst20xx (talk) 14:24, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Final Fantasy (video game)
I was wondering about two things regarding the article:
 * As the article is essentially about the original game, it's pretty much assumed that the gameplay and plot sections refers to the NES version's gameplay. Therefore I believe "(NES version)" in the caption of the first two images in the body are unnecessary, while the image of the WSC version needs to state that it's from the WSC version.
 * There are several parentheses throughout the plot section that confuse me. Example: "Lefeinish (Lufenian)". I think it refers to the original name, and to the name used in later versions in parenthesis, but I'm not sure. Anyway, if I'm correct, I think the parentheses can be removed, based on my first comment. This would also help trimming the plot section a little. A hidden note could also be added, telling the reader that the name's refer to the original game.

So, what do you think? The Prince (talk) 00:48, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I've removed the parentheses. Do you know how to add the Edit Notice, because I don't. The Prince (talk) 13:11, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe something like: "This article is mainly about the original NES version of the game, and therefore only the original names of e.g. items, races, and locations should be used in the Gameplay and Plot sections. Other relevant information about later versions should be added in the Versions and re-releases section instead." The Prince (talk) 14:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I see you've beat me to the punch. Thanks for taking care of it. The Prince (talk) 14:51, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Half-Life 2: Survivor/GA2
You can go ahead and close it. I'm trying to figure out the method and it's just frustrating me. The instructions for closing aren't making sense.--Remurmur (talk) 07:50, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Template:dts help
Hi Gary. Earlier this morning, I was trying to implement sorted and unlinked dates into List of English football transfers winter 2008–09 with dts. Unfortunately, I was informed that this was not possible due to template limits (the article also uses citation templates and sortname). Is there any way to fix the dates without surpassing the template limits? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 16:28, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I am also having the same sorting problem; let me comment out twinkle and friendly on my monobook and try. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:06, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You are right, hm, have you talked to User:Azatoth and User:Ioeth about it? Dabomb87 (talk) 18:10, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It is definitely a Twinkle/Friendly problem; the sorting on Internet Explorer works fine; consequently, Twinkle and Friendly do not work at all on IE. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:12, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I noticed another thing: For the past couple of weeks, the page tabs at the top were shortened by default ("discussion"-->"talk", "new section"-->"+"). When I removed those scripts, they reverted back to their full-out names, I wonder if this is also an associated problem. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:16, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert; how can you find the template limits anyway? Dabomb87 (talk) 18:17, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Cradle of Rome
- Dravecky (talk) 05:35, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of futureU
Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:14, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Check out your nom of François Charles Archile Jeanneret, too; it doesn't have an inline citation for every other word as per DYK criteria ;) Dabomb87 (talk) 23:15, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep, resolved Gary King  ( talk ) 17:03, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Metroid Prime Pinball
Wow, I gotta say that I'm impressed with how quickly you improved this article. I swear I looked at it just recently and it was just an average article! Here you go. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 08:25, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, I'll try to find some sales information - I and others used to have access to full NPD figures, but I need to find a source if it may exist that mentions this. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 08:28, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Alright; thanks for the barnstar! Gary King  ( talk ) 17:03, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Expansion Packs
Depends on the article. For example, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 will not have much more beyond two or three paragraphs in total once the new features are discussed and the gold and platinum editions mentioned. Then of course there is Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne or Brood War. For TLotR, I would put the expansion info as a seperate heading after Release (Expansion or similar); that's what I'm doing with Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, and I figure it's a good "coda" for the video game article. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 18:15, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Featured topic/sound/image discussion
Hey there. We've had quite a bit of discussion about my featured topic idea since you last commented, but it seems to be fizzling out. Would you mind taking a another look at it? I'd like to reach some kind of consensus/conclusion rather than just letting the section die off. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 20:01, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

AHIG
I put you as co-nominator for All Hope Is Gone FA nominaton. REZTER  TALK &oslash;  14:25, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi
We've talked but never really talked if you know what I mean. We've been more of acquaintances. I feel it is long over due and I see you almost everywhere. So, hi! How do you do? My name is William, and it is nice to meet you.-- Will C  14:52, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, so what projects are you working on now? I'm guessing some type of video game probably.-- Will C  14:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll take it into consideration. I've never expanded a video game article and been wondering how I'm going to expand TNA Impact! (video game) since I'll be the only one that will expand it. I'm not too familiar with the Metroid series. I always wanted to buy all the ones on Gamecube but never did. I did borrow 2: Prime from a friend and played it. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played. I believe I got 10% on it before I gave it back to him.-- Will C  15:01, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * That is one problem I'm probably going to have with Impact!. They had that thing in development hell for three or four years. From mid-04 to late 08. It was supposed to have been release early 08 but got pushed by twice. It isn't a very popular game, so no telling if I'll be able to fine sources. But that is a future project anyway. I have everything seen here to finish first. I see you have alot of Featured topics, how long did that take you?-- Will C  15:08, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * What is it called?-- Will C  15:16, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Well it seems you like five from being done. The only one I've ever played on those is Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. How long will you think it will take you to finish all of them and nominate them for a topic?-- Will C  15:23, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah I understand. The GA and FA backlog are always long. It took the four I got to GA already probably a month and a half to pass. It took the first one I wrote Lockdown (2008) probably two months since I got it reviewed and then the nominator left so I had to wait for another review. I've had one on there now for a month and a half. Wondering when it will get reviewed. The FAC process takes almost as long. It took Lockdown three weeks its first time around and a month and a week its second. I'm glad the thing finally passed. My only advice for Samus is too read alot of other FA or GA character articles to get more ideas. I'm going through films and video games reception sections thinking of new ideas for wrestling PPV events receptions, it helps in the end.-- Will C  15:53, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm guessing you are a Slipknot fan for having the All Hope is Gone album at FAC?-- Will C  18:18, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * How long have you been a fan of their's?-- Will C  18:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Since almost the beginning then. I just recently became a fan in late 07 and 08. I couldn't stand listening to them before then. A friend of mine loved them but I just wasn't much into metal at the time.-- Will C  18:56, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Gary, thanks for all your suggestions and patience with the GA review for High-level radioactive waste management. It was a pleasure to work with you and Dabomb and learn how some of these things are done. Maybe we'll have another opportunity on some other occasion. And thank you for the rating as well, of course. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 20:37, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Optical properties of carbon nanotubes
I asked a few questions on the linked page. Anyway I am close to passing the article as a GA, and wish to consider your opinion if you think the article is GA quality. Crystal whacker (talk) 20:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Metroid II
I noticed you'd been putting a lot of work into this article recently to get it to GA standard (not to mention your FA work on the Prime series, which was awesome, and I thank you for). Unfortunately, I don't have any suitable development info for that or its prequel. What I wanted to talk to you about was the remakes section. I saw that you had marked two refs with the questionable source tag. I'm actually not arguing your actions; I just want to make sure you see the reasoning behind why we allowed that entire section and the two refs backing it to get into the article, which you probably wouldn't have seen since the discussion about it started at the Metroid II discussion page (in this convo) and then ended up moving to my own talk page (here). Whether those links continue to be considered reputable is up to whoever will look over the article for eventual FA status, I suppose, but I just want you to be aware of all angles so you won't be surprised by any results or know enough to argue your own opinion if and when the time comes. Though it's probably notable that there will never be more reliable refs we could possibly find for that section due to the legality of the subject matter and major sites not wanting to cover it, so I imagine if these refs get the axe, then the article will likely have to ditch all info on the remakes for good. Arrowned (talk) 09:33, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Samuel Beatty (mathematician)
13:59, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

The Simpsons Hit & Run
The screenshot in Hit & Run and GTA3.png is from Vice City, and we need one from GTA 3. These are the best I could find: http://www.firingsquad.com/media/gallery_image.asp/145/30 http://www.firingsquad.com/media/gallery_image.asp/145/49 http://www.firingsquad.com/media/gallery_image.asp/145/41 http://www.firingsquad.com/media/gallery_image.asp/145/9 http://www.firingsquad.com/media/gallery_image.asp/145/19 http://ps2.ign.com/dor/objects/15548/grand-theft-auto-iii/images/gta3_54.html (I can remove the IGN logo) —The Le ft orium 10:34, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks good. —The Le ft orium 18:41, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (December 2008)

 * Newsletter delivery by xenobot  22:12, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: List of Metroid media
Yeah, I think its fine. In fact, I like it because it further underlines the difference between video games and the rest. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:11, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

DYKs
Hello. I noticed you edited the format of my DYKs list. Do you know what is going on with it as they still haven't been counted? --➨♀♂ Candlewicke STundefined 03:29, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


 * That's what I've been doing. But no one seems to have been able to tell me why they were taken off my score in the first place... --➨♀♂ Candlewicke STundefined 03:33, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


 * So is it formatted properly now then? --➨♀♂ Candlewicke STundefined 03:59, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah well, I suppose time will tell. Thanks for getting in touch anyway. Good luck! ;) --➨♀♂ Candlewicke STundefined 04:03, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

WALL-E
Gary, would you like to do the honour of putting every citation in WALL-E into a template. Much appreciated. Alientraveller (talk) 20:24, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Featured lists
Hi there. I just read the dispatch on featured lists in Signpost. From that dispatch, you seem like a good person to approach for advice on this topic. I would really like to get the list of Tasmanian cricket captains to featured list status. Apart from the obvious need to actually have articles on all of the players on this list, are there any other areas to improve, or advice you can give to get this list to featured status? Robert Fleming (talk) 12:04, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

LOZ
How do I withdraw? Do I just blank the FAC page?  TJ   Spyke   16:28, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Template:WPAVIATION
The template is coded to require the use of the B-class checklist for C- or B-class ratings. If the checklist isn't filled out the template shows it as Start-class, and categorizes it accordingly. I've done this for several reasons. According to Template:Grading scheme, in order for an article to be B-class, it needs to satisfy 6 criteria (Our requirement was developed earlier, and is for just the first 5). If any one of the five are "no", for example if it was not suitably referenced (#1), then at best it is a C-class article. If it only meets 2 or less (or none if the checklist isn't done) of the five then it is automatically assessed as start-Class. By using the checklist the article is placed in a number of maintenance categories. If you say "no" to criteria #1, it goes in Category:Aviation articles needing attention to referencing and citation, #2 is Category:Aviation articles needing attention to coverage and accuracy, etc. I've put instructions to this effect at WikiProject Aviation/Assessment and WikiProject Aviation/Project banner, but if more explicit warnings are required, I suppose I could add code to the template to have a warning pop up, how about "You have assessed this article as (C- or B)-Class. Until you complete the B-class Checklist, is will be assessed as Start-Class."

Overall I had hoped this system would enforce proper assessing of articles and the use of maintenance categories for better editing. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 18:42, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

The 50 DYK Medal

 * Thanks! Gary King  ( talk ) 04:43, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

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 * Yay, thanks! Gary King  ( talk ) 00:31, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Metroid articles
Awesome job on the Metroid articles so far. Might I suggest adding information on the games' musical scores, which are notable in that soundtracks have been released and pieces have been played at the Game Music Concerts as well as remixed for later titles such as the Super Smash Bros. series. You could also add some merchandise info, especially to Super Metroid which had plenty available through Nintendo Power during its release in North America. It would be helpful to find some reliable sales info though; I'm wondering how many copies each of the games has sold considering their "Player's Choice: Million Seller" status. ~ Hibana 04:16, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't either, but some of it, as well as the ads for it, can be found here at the Metroid Database. ~ Hibana 05:23, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I guess I could look for some scans online. ~ Hibana 16:48, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. The intro is the only part of Metroid Fusion that seems to need improvement. Gameplay and plot could use a bit more work, but I would wait for the GA feedback to change it before you removed it. But if you complain, alright, I'll edit it a bit more before re-nominating. Also, thanks for your contributions in that article, including doing something my laziness prevented (expanding Reception). igordebraga ≠ 18:24, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Outliers (book)
This is a good book. Do you plan to add content to the sections? Bearian (talk) 20:59, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, yeah, weird, it's a bestseller. Do you have a link to any online or bestsllers' sales lists? Bearian (talk) 21:23, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Good job! Did you intend remove the less reliable sources, such as the Airline magazine? Bearian (talk) 15:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Scene7
Yeah, sorry...don't have time to do a full review at the moment. The main thing I was worried about was comprehensiveness (we're still not told anything more specific than "mid-1990s" for its origins in Autodesk...a brief search on LexisNexis returned some news articles on the launch of Picture This Home on January 15, 1997...it was apparently the first software to earn the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval...the articles also discussed Autodesk's vision for the product and its role in the marketplace). Budding Journalist 09:31, 13 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Wow, thanks for re-adding Lost. I am sorry that I opposed—I just could not support something (even if it did follow the rules) that was potentially my request's downfall and the reason given for my oppose was filler.  I was surprised by some of the reasons for the other opposes, although some of them might have been made in favour of mine.  Best of luck for your next TFA(R).  Oh, and nice work topping WBFLN(08).  – thedemonhog   talk  •  edits  04:17, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Quick look over
So, I'm kinda new to this whole video game article writing business, but from what I've gathered, it looks like you're the king (pun completely intended). I was hoping to bring Star Wars: Rogue Squadron to FAC sometime soon, but I don't want to look foolish when I do. Would you be able to simply take a quick look at the article and tell me if you feel like there are any glaring errors that I could fix? I'd really appreciate it! --TorsodogTalk 20:22, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Howdy
What have you been writing, Gary? Are you an admin yet? :) -- Laser brain  (talk)  02:29, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Gah, you dare write a business FA? You have some balls.  I wrote one once and had it featured on the main page - all day I had to face charges that I was some kind of company operative on Wikipedia to promote the business. -- Laser brain   (talk)  03:55, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow, nice work. Well, now I'm motivated to get busy on some writing myself. -- Laser brain  (talk)  04:50, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. I can probably get to it tonight. -- Laser brain  (talk)  21:05, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Re
My mistake. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 00:55, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Screenshots
At least the gameplay screenshot is more informative, since it shows how the game changed since its earlier incarnation. See: Halo: Combat Evolved for something similar.--ZXCVBNM 01:59, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It's still informative, and it's just a minor screenshot, I don't see how it could do any harm to Wikipedia or Nintendo to use a single picture from an old game version.--ZXCVBNM 02:03, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * But Halo: Combat Evolved became a featured article, even with that picture in it...--ZXCVBNM 02:12, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Metroid Prime Pinball
I am reviewing your article, Metroid Prime Pinball for GA and have left a few comments at Talk:Metroid Prime Pinball. I am too tired to complete it now, but I will finish it tomorrow. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. Regards, &mdash; Mattisse (Talk) 03:38, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Jennifer Hale on Samus Aran voice acting
[http://www.powerweb.nl/headlines/Interview_met_Samus,_Naomi,_Tira,_Bastila,_enz.aspx?id=359 Might be of use. The bit is right at the beginning]. Recalled similar character articles quote what their voice actors think about the character/approach the work so it might be of use. Also oddly she's not mentioned at all in Samus's article, just the 2008 voice actor.

Hope that helps.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 10:09, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know to be honest, I've never played them. Though from what's there she clearly says she does. Hale's wikipedia article also credits her as speaking in all three games.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 16:35, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

DYKs
I've asked about that before and didn't receive an answer as to what it meant. I was shown that the current format was alright and it seemed to match the pages of others. As well as this they were counted on previous occasions. All of the DYKs were nominated this year if that's what you mean (I'm not sure if that's what you were asking?). In fact half of them are currently on the Main Page, another quarter were on earlier today and as I'm the creator and main contributor to them all I would be the most likely nominator too. Other than that I'm not entirely sure what you mean but I hope it helps. :) --➨♀♂ Candlewicke STundefined 03:54, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh right. Yeah. I asked about that somewhere too. Especially since #2 was actually put onto the page by someone in my absence. So #1 doesn't count? Sorry about that, I may have misunderstood you - I thought you were questioning my honesty and how I have had so many DYKs suddenly appear on the page in the past few hours. --➨♀♂ Candlewicke STundefined 04:14, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * How will I recover all of those now? I'd thought I was doing it right. --➨♀♂ Candlewicke STundefined 04:16, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Not especially, no. There was a backlog of some sort and I've a load being rushed through now. --➨♀♂ Candlewicke STundefined 04:19, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm just after finding a load of links but now there's an edit conflict on my page in another window for some reason. 'Tis very tiresome. Yet if I ignore I'll probably do more damage. --➨♀♂ Candlewicke STundefined 04:39, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * But I shouldn't be losing points? The ones that I've added far outweigh two in number... --➨♀♂ Candlewicke STundefined 04:47, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

your opinion please...
I'd like to ask your opinion. Did you see this reply? Do you think evading an indefinite block is a valid reason to post from an anonymous IP?

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 20:06, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you for adding the access dates to Port of Albany-Rensselaer's citations. I had thought all of them had access dates and didnt know that was what was lacking. I will go ahead and look to see if more citations do not have the access dates. Thank you again for help! I hope someday I can repay the good deed.Camelbinky (talk) 21:18, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I figured out that I had access dates on the cite webs, but they weren't showing up on the references section due to a space being between access and date instead of it being spelled accessdate. Should I go ahead and remove your accessdate's and fix the original access dates? Or should I just edit out the old access dates? Or should I just leave it?Camelbinky (talk) 21:07, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you again for fixing another mistake of mine! I now owe you twice!Camelbinky (talk) 22:36, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

RE: Homer's Barbershop Quartet
Sure, I'll get it sometime next week. —<font color="#A04652">The <font color="#A00952" >Le <font color="#AD5160">ft <font color="#C15563">orium  16:24, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Outliers (book)
I have reviewed your article for GA and placed it on hold. The comments are at Talk:Outliers (book)/GA1. The aricle is very thorough. Aside from a few picky prose issues, my main complaint is that it seems somewhat long and repetitious, with too many quotes and examples that do not add more information. (And the enigmatic behavior of J. Robert Oppenheimer was left hanging - he tried to poison his tutor but was able to "compromise"!) Regards, &mdash; Mattisse (Talk) 19:32, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

en dash
I noticed that you changed the dashes in the titles of all the Pokémon lists from - to –. Could you explain why you did this? Unlike the simple -, the %E2%80%93 kind of dash is not on my keyboard. Moreover, your actions created about 500 double redirects, as there are about 500 Pokémon, and their names redirect to their entries in the lists (a few examples: Spearow, Fearow, Ekans, Arbok). Cheers, theFace 21:36, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok. I didn't knew about WP:DASH, and I didn't thought about the bots. Thanks for the quick response. - theFace 21:56, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reviewing the changes I made to the Half-Life (Series) article. I just joined the Valve WikiProject and I am attempting to upgrade the article to a "Good" status. I will finish the plot summary to include the events of Episodes 1&2 in the future. I know my grammar skills aren't the greatest in the world so thanks again!

Seankieran (talk) 01:16, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia:Peer review/Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock/archive3—left some comments. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:06, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, are you sure that Outliers belongs in the Culture and society subcategory at GAN? Seems to me that Literature would be a better fit. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh well, doesn't matter now. Gary King  ( talk ) 03:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * That was my line of thinking as well; otherwise, I would have moved it. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:51, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Second batch of comments done. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:01, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Half-Life (Series) Plot
I'm currently updating the page to include Episode 1,2,3 information. As soon as I'm done I will add the upcoming video game template at the beginning of the section since episode 3 has yet to be released. Before I add the few plot details that have been revealed, I will find a source to credit the information.

I saw your comment on that page about merging all of the episodes into one paragraph and if you would like to do that, it is fine with me. However I believe that there is too much information in those 3 episodes to merge their plots. Tell me what you think!

Seankieran (talk) 22:08, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok. I'll attempt to refine it after I'm done, I'm currently on Episode 2.

Seankieran (talk) 22:16, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Fun for the statsaholic
Stumbled across this fun widget... -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 02:28, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Comments in Local Time
I've moved the info to this location and made your script a gadget. Good work. Oren0 (talk) 04:40, 22 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, very useful - one of those tools that really helps make the interface more user-friendly. Thanks for developing it. FYI, I have modified the "Preferences" message a bit for clarity and posted the new version. Cheers. --Ckatz <sup style="color:green;">chat <sub style="color:red;">spy  05:12, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Homer's Barbershop Quartet
I'm not done with it. I've only listened to about 5 minutes of the DVD commentary. I'm extremely busy with homework at the moment, but I'll try to get it done this weekend. —<font color="#A04652">The <font color="#A00952" >Le <font color="#AD5160">ft <font color="#C15563">orium  15:29, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

French Revolution navbox
Well it's almost finished, I just got stuck as to articles to link to for the Royalist Revolts, and then got distracted. So if you have any suggestions... Apart from that it's finished, I think. It was a bit of a solo endeavour, so I feel that as more people see it, it may need some tweaking... Glad to hear you liked it, thanks!Hrcolyer (talk) 15:47, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

VG Barnstar

 * Thanks! Gary King  ( talk ) 17:31, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * If you keep this up and give me this competition, I might have to take you out of the picture... permanently. :P -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 18:53, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Zelda: TP
You, me, and others have been working on this article and the various fixes recommended. Do you think it's good enough for me to nominate again or are there other things you think should be done?  TJ   Spyke   02:28, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I have placed a request at WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests to see if someone there would be willing to help.  TJ   Spyke   05:10, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

List of awards and nominations received by Fiona Apple
Hey there! I just wanted to thank you again for some previous assistance you provided me. You helped me with the List of awards and nominations received by Rufus Wainwright, which reached FL status, and I have done the same with List of awards and nominations received by Fiona Apple (which is currently a FL candidate). I am also working on a similar awards list for Amy Winehouse. Just wanted to let you know your help has paid off with more than just the one article. Best wishes! -Whataworld06 (talk) 21:57, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

RE: WikiCup featured picture points
I suppose you're right there... a drop in points for some users for some brackets would perhaps be fair - obviously voluntarily - to encourage competition. Trust me, I know how it feels when a couple of people are pushing out too far to catch and it's not great, I just don't know whether the bot is smart enough to do that. I'll give ST47 a nudge on IRC or ask him about it. <font color=#3333cc>Garden. 22:56, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Guitar Hero III
I finished the PR comments. What else is left before FAC? Dabomb87 (talk) 03:24, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter

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Age of Empires
I just wanted to say thanks for your comments so far on the Age of Empires FAC page. I really hope these issues will clear up soon, so that it will become featured. I'll probably have more luck with this article than The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. But thanks again. --EclipseSSD (talk) 18:54, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Could you do a GA review second opinion?
Hi Gary. I see you do a lot of GA reviews, and I'm much newer to the process. I have a GA review open at vanadium. It's a great article, but there are four "citation needed" tags, and as I wrote there, "There are other places where I could arbitrarily put tags if I were in a contrarian mood." Could you take a look and see if it's good enough anyway or if it should be put "on hold" or failed? Thanks for whatever help you can offer. Crystal whacker (talk) 19:44, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Localize comments
Hi there, I noticed (here) that on AM dates the time has a 0 before it. ie Today, 04:27 am (UTC-5); but PM dates don't have the leading 0. Also, instead of a hyphen, it is a hyphen right?, the script should use a minus (− / &minus;) Thanks, §hep   •  <sup style="color:green; font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Talk  20:13, 25 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. §hep   •  <sup style="color:green; font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Talk  20:46, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Re:Icon
You mean an actual icon for use on a FT, or photoshopping a nonfree logo? -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 23:01, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Coming up with a nonfree will be hard, but this can tide you over. -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 23:32, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. We want to avoid misrepresenting the work—and throwing up a different typography is doing that. On the other hand, if we create a version too close to the original, it's derivative and thus needs a FUR (like File:Aoe fuchs.png). -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk  ) 01:56, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Musician Awards
I'm sure you "watch" the template talk page, but in case not I wanted to let you know of several other music awards you could list on the template: the GLAAD Media Awards, MOJO Awards, Helpmann Awards, and Genie Awards. All of these have music categories and could be used on musicians' awards pages (see this example). Hope this helps! - Whataworld06 (talk) 03:56, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Metroid Prime Hunters
This should jumpstart the nomination. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:54, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

FAC overload
Gary, please hold your noms to one at a time until the page drops below ... about the mid-40s. Thanks, Sandy Georgia (Talk) 03:00, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

A small favor
Hey Gary, school has forced me to take a wikibreak. I was wondering if you would be so kind as to watch my userpage while I'm away. If you can, I will be appreciative beyond words. Thanks. —<font color="black" size="+1">Ł ittle <font color="black" size="+1">Ä  lien <font color="Black">¹8²  03:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Vanadium
Hi Crystal whacker, hiGary King; I tried to get the points you mentioned, the ref 50 and the open cite needed tags, do you think that re submitting it will make it a GA or are there other things in the article? I was on a business trip last week and was not able to do a lot on the article and feel sorry that it did not become a GAN.--Stone (talk) 06:17, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Premiere (The O.C.)
Hi Gary, I notice you have got a TV episode article currently at FAC. As someone with quite alot of experience at FAC I was wondering if you could comment at a peer review about what might need to be done to get "Premiere" to an FA standard. Many thanks, <b style="color:#E32636;">Rambo's Revenge</b> <b style="color:#FFA500;">(talk)</b>  19:33, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Metroid FTC
I know that you've been a major editor at the Metroid articles, passing Corruption (more, I'm sure) through FAC. I've just taken the initiative and nominated the Prime trilogy simply because it fits the criteria. I thought you should be notified since you are a main contributor.

Happy editing! --haha169 (talk) 05:49, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Thanks
I did a little of both (involving H-L storyline) I haven't played the first one in a while and I had to look at different locations in order to write it correctly, but I just recently replayed Half Life 2 plus the episodes.

Seankieran (talk) 23:40, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Localize comments2
I saw this on Gadgets and immediately gave it a try. I thought you might be interested in a quick review.


 * Why change the formatting of dates by default? IMHO best just provide a class for dates and let users decide on formatting themselves.


 * I find it remarkably useful to have it written clearly when a post made was today, yesterday or in the last week. But finding out that X edit was made 5 weeks, 3 days, 5 hours and 37 minutes ago seems a bit trivial. Wouldn't it be better to leave anything from last week intact other than changing the time zone?

(You might as well respond here or else I'll lost track of he conversation.) — Blue-Haired Lawyer 19:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree that the default format of YMD might not be a good idea considering that Wikipedia uses DMY by default, so I have changed the script to use DMY by default. However, users can already change the date's format. Check WP:LOCO. Also, trivial, perhaps, but I still appreciate seeing the date relative to today, knowing that it was a few months or years ago. Gary King  ( talk ) 20:10, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Cheers for the quick response, but I meant the font size. The ambiguity only strikes me now! — Blue-Haired Lawyer 20:14, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, I removed the 90% font size and instead wrapped the timestamps in a <tt>localcomments</tt> class. I suppose it can be a big change for people new to the script to see all timestamps in small font (I am used to it as I've been using the script for about a year). I'd like to also point out that the script doesn't say "5 weeks, 3 days, 5 hours and 37 minutes ago" like you said; it only gives the date in years, months, and days ago :) Gary King  ( talk ) 20:18, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Is there a way to get the smaller size back? Having gotten used to it, I now find it much better as it is easier to find the date stamps. (It also makes it easier to find the end of comments as well.) --Ckatz <sup style="color:green;">chat <sub style="color:red;">spy  22:11, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree, I like the smaller font too. But ultimately, I decided to make the normal font size the default as newbies to the script will be most used to that. However, yes, you can make it smaller again by following the instructions at WP:LOCO, and instead of <tt>font-size: 100%</tt>, set it to <tt>font-size: 90%</tt> and you're all set. Gary King  ( talk ) 22:19, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick reply; I've added the .css configuration and it works well. You've done a nice job with this script - thanks again. --Ckatz <sup style="color:green;">chat <sub style="color:red;">spy  23:05, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

← On second thoughts if you're keeping the long date format, I guess having a small font size makes sense. Anyway, acting on my own preference and just to see if I could do it I've written my own script here. Just thought you might be curious. — Blue-Haired Lawyer 20:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I've noticed a new issue. here, I see 16:50, 31 January 2009 (UTC) in the edit box and 11:50 am, January 3, 2009, Friday (29 days ago) (UTC−5) in the main window, for some reason it thinks January 31 is January 3. Thanks, §hep  • <sup style="color:green; font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Talk  01:42, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I'm already on it at Wikipedia talk:Comments in Local Time. Gary King  ( talk ) 01:44, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I forgot about that page. *goes to watchlist it* §hep  • <sup style="color:green; font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Talk  01:45, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

refs before or after punctuation
I know it's minor, but as you do a load of very helpful GA reviewing, I thought I'd point out that you can't really put "move refs to after punctuation" in a GA review, because MoS says consistency is needed, but either usage (before or after) is fine. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 20:31, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

List of Metroid media
See if anything else is needed in the lead (and all of the article, in fact). igordebraga ≠ 20:34, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Gary, my friend, when you nominated this a few days ago, Sandy removed it with a note about limiting to 1 FAC at a time while FAC is backlogged. The backlog has lessened, but you know we have a rule concerning multiple concurrent FACs. I'm baffled why you would re-renominate a 3rd FAC when neither of your first 2 has gained significant support. Am I missing a piece of the puzzle here? Maralia (talk) 05:18, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Gary, until we get more reviewers or the backlog is decreased, we need to stick to one nom at a time; you have three on the page now. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 14:16, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It's well below the "mid-40s" range though. Gary King  ( talk ) 16:20, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Sheng Long
Fixed what you pointed out, at least what you have pointed out thus far anyway. Kicker in all this is Guyinblack actually had suggested I hit you or David Fuchs up for a copyedit prior to going for FAC. Went to Dave and I think he ignored the request. :\--Kung Fu Man (talk) 17:15, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Adding empty sections with an expand tag
I'm not really sure this is the best way to go about improving the article (adding an empty section in hopes someone will come along and fill it in)... – xeno  ( talk ) 21:54, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, one of my goals is to standardize the sections for all video game articles. And, on the contrary, I think that adding empty sections with expand templates do work. I've seen it work in articles that I've worked on, especially for Plot sections, because people really enjoy writing those. Gary King  ( talk ) 21:56, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Maybe for a new or upcoming game, but I doubt someone is going to come along and fill in those empty sections for the Leisure Suit Larrys, for example. Perhaps go forward with this in mind... – xeno  ( talk ) 21:58, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't think so. I've had particular luck with books that are about a hundred years old; I put an empty Plot section with an expand template, and in a day or two someone has written the section. Gary King  ( talk ) 22:00, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup?
Since when does removing templates requesting that references be found and added, qualify as an article "cleanup"? Could you please provide a more accurate summary of your edits.

Also why would you remove an Unreferencedsect template from the Cossacks: European Wars article? I can't work out why your removed the Expand-section template from the same article either. - Shiftchange (talk) 22:14, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The expand template was removed because it isn't clear what needs to be expanded. I suggest using the expand template in an empty section to make it clear that there is a request for that section to be written. If we were to place an expand template in a section that already has text, then nearly every article's sections would have expand templates. Same with the refimprove; the article already is already more well referenced than the grand majority of articles. Gary King  ( talk ) 22:19, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Anyways, ultimately it is a matter of personal preference of when and where to use maintenance templates. If you feel that some or all of them should be re-added, please feel free to do so. When I edited that article, I was going through other articles and re-organizing them, which was my primary focus. Gary King  ( talk ) 22:31, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Off on a tangent, I think I'm going to review one of your GANs tomorrow. I will try to look at content more so that the articles don't get battered at FAC for lack of research and such. Any preference on which to look at? Dabomb87 (talk) 03:51, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Re development, I was just going to say something along those lines. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:11, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

(outdent) Well here, there are bunch of videos about gameplay and here I see at least one developer interview. I'm not sure if these are usable. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:18, 4 February 2009 (UTC) And this might be helpful. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:19, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Lastly (for now), http://www.mahalo.com/Mario_Kart_DS has a list of links to all sorts of potentially useful things. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:23, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I thought as much. Oh well, glad to be of some help. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:34, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Wrong object indeed
Yes, despite the swift closing of your earlier AfD, it's back. There may be no copyright issues, but a heavy odor of self-promotion and, dare I say it, spam still hangs over a set of articles by "Wrongobject". -- Hoary (talk) 01:07, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay thanks for letting me know. Gary King  ( talk ) 03:04, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I've notified others about this: here and here. -- Hoary (talk) 04:30, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (January 2009)

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Mario Kart DS
The article passed its GA review. Good work. Tezkag72 私にどなる  私のはかい  14:25, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, so much for that :) Dabomb87 (talk) 14:32, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ehh, you did. I think I made a couple minor changes, but overall it deserved what it got. I'm working on an article of my own right now, and maybe it'll be you who reviews it. Tezkag72  私にどなる  私のはかい  01:40, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know if you misunderstand me or not. I was going to review (and probably pass) that article, but you beat me to the punch! :) Dabomb87 (talk) 02:05, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Can I ask a big favour?
I could really use some help from an experienced FAC guy with Sam & Max: Freelance Police. The FAC has pretty much reaffirmed for me what I already believed: I suck at criteria 1. Could you run over it and give it a thorough copyedit for me, so its got more chance of meeting the "brilliant prose" requirement? I'd greatly appreciate your help in this. -- Sabre (talk) 21:12, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks Gary, much appreciated! Hopefully that will bring it at least a little closer to satisfying the FAC reviewers. Remind me to get back to working on that HL series article sometime in the near future! -- Sabre (talk) 23:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Joseph Adams (businessman)
Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:01, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

It was Removed
Hi you left me a msg about a DYK article i nominated, i think it was removed, sorry but i couldn't replay sooner Maen. K. A. (talk) 22:41, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Featured lists
Since you have some music FL experience, can you take a look at one FLC I'm currently into? igordebraga ≠ 23:47, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, when you have the time, Peer review/List of Toronto Raptors head coaches/archive2 needs an audit for quality. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:31, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Atorvastatin
hi thank you for reviewing my nomination, about Atorvastatin, first of all i worked allot on the article creating most of its sections, you can check that here and adding about 90% of its citation, and second, about the citiation of pharmacokinetics the to citiation that are included, can verify all the information in the section, again thank you for your time, and please give me more advise as am working on the article at this time Maen. K. A. (talk) 22:32, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your review
Gary, I wish to thank you for reviewing Wineville Chicken Coop Murders and assessing it no longer requires copy edits. I appreciate someone with your writing credentials making this assessment. I am currently reviewing the recently published information in the LA Times, Daily Mirror, related to the case in order to determine what would be appropriate to incorporate into the article.

Sincerely, --Dan Dassow (talk) 01:34, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Questionnaire
Hello, hope you have been well! If you were not aware, WikiProject Films has an ongoing questionnaire to help shape the future of the WikiProject. Since you've been involved in editing film articles, I was wondering if you could take the time to complete the questionnaire. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated! — Erik (talk • contrib) 17:54, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for your feedback (and your clean-up)! — Erik (talk • contrib) 21:09, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter

 * 20:32, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

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Preload
Ah, I see that you just created the preload. Good work :) Dabomb87 (talk) 16:56, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Just a reminder, when you add the tools to existing FLCs, you have to put them in noinclude tags. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:19, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

NPD sales
With Brain Age 2, are you referencing the press releases for its NPD sales? If so, that may be an idea on how to reference some sales information. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 20:53, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah Gary King  ( talk ) 21:14, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Vanadium GAN
Thanks for the help to get it GA status. --Stone (talk)


 * 01:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

:)

 * Yay thanks :) Gary King  ( talk ) 20:00, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Dance Dance Revolution
Yeah, but I don't think the name is supposed to have spaces, at least nowadays. It's written without spaces in every instance I've seen of it in DDR X; the box, the game, the promotional material, etc. Elm-39 - T/C 13:04, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * How about I just make a mention about it, such as "Dance Dance Revolution, stylized DanceDanceRevolution..."? I've seen other articles do this. Elm-39 - T/C 17:20, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Plot and Synopsis
I've actually got to thank you, for some reason your explanation of the terms actually sunk in. I've always thought that "Plot" should be the main header for a game's story section, and "Synopsis" is the summary of the story itself. Hard to believe it took this long to make things click; maybe you just said it in a way that made sense. Anyway, sorry for any inconvenience, I just thought that a synopsis could be summary of potentially anything (synopsis of the plot, of the story, of the day's events, etc.), and a plot section is what encompassed both the characters and the story. Thanks again for somehow cracking enlightenment through my somewhat thick skull, this was actually a bright point in my day. -- Commdor    { Talk }  20:31, 11 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Yep, I can't believe the popularity either, but it will probably shift over to Modern Warfare 2 once that's out (something to worry about down the line, but depending on if I can get another article I'm working on to FA, I may not be editing as much by then). I tried trimming a little off the plot yesterday, but I've been editing the article so long I guess lost objectivity. I don't think I've seen you edit around there for a while, and it appears you had the fresh perspective needed to make real cuts. In any case I'll continue to keep my eye on the article, so things shouldn't get too out of hand too quickly. Thanks for understanding about the plot thing, it just takes eureka moments for me to change my views on anything nowadays. -- Commdor    { Talk }  20:52, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the DYK idea, went ahead and added one. The hook I made seems a bit dry, but I've never contributed to DYK before so I'm not acquainted with the content standards; i.e. if a hook is supposed to be about the topic as a whole (which is how I made mine), or just an interesting factoid from the article. Should be fine, though. -- Commdor    { Talk }  20:48, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Should be fixed, the hook is mentioned (and now cited) in the intro and explained in more detail in the development section. If it's a problem that multiple sources relate the info in the hook, then there's my second choice to mention the Resident Evil 5 voice actor's working with the game. -- Commdor    { Talk }  21:09, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Awards lists
Wow, that was fast. While you are at it, you may want to make the merger/acquisition lists consistent too. Dabomb87 (talk) 05:11, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * They're pretty much consistent already. Some of them don't have mergers so they don't have "mergers" in their name. Gary King  ( talk ) 06:00, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah. For some reason I thought that there were lists titled "List of X mergers". It seems there isn't, so it is fine. Dabomb87 (talk) 13:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Tours lists
It looks like your tour page is a little bit different from mine, so feel free to use whatever criteria you deem worthy. I tended to include all NIN tours (ie more than once event), but skipped one-off performances (like an MTV VMA performance or something like that). Since I guess multiple dates/locations defines a "tour". Hope that helps. Drewcifer (talk) 01:10, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Metroid
Hi! I just passed the GA review of Metroid: Zero Mission and thought you'd want to know. Good work! -Drilnoth (talk) 03:57, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Re:admin
I hope you're happy that I accepted it with pirate-speak (I do hope a little humour can be gotten away with at these things). Though I can't quite understand the connection between Limeys and pirates. We mostly gave it up after Drake. -- Sabre (talk) 20:08, 11 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for reminding me, forgot to do that bit! -- Sabre (talk) 20:43, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Is S@bre's RfA enough evidence that you would pass by a landslide? You two share a lot of the same characteristics -- superb content contributions, cool head, no major civility issues or other disputes -- and you have the benefit of not attracting the "OMG deletionist!" !votes that occasionally turn up as well as having a staggering amount of content contributions that would blow away the RfA regulars. In any case, please run? If not for yourself, run for my peace of mind so I don't have to start this discussion every few months or so ;-) — sephiroth bcr  <sup style="font-family:Verdana;">( converse ) 11:06, 14 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, I'm having Sabre run so that my minion of administrators slowly grows. Eventually, everyone I know will be an administrator and there will be no more need for myself to run. The plan is coming together very nicely, very nicely indeed... Gary King  ( talk ) 20:10, 14 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Personally, I think Gary is scared, although he might have good reason... Dabomb87 (talk) 21:14, 14 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, it's not like there's a time limit, anyways. I'll at least need Dabomb to run for RfA before I even think about doing it! Gary King  ( talk ) 21:17, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Vis a vis this
I was trying to get the bot to move 50K of text to the next archive, to make that one smaller. I dunno if it would work but it was worth a go. <font style="color:white ;background:#006600;"> GARDEN 14:50, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
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 * Thanks! Gary King  ( talk ) 19:51, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

CoD 4
I was just reading through your unbelievable credentials of GAs and FAs and noticed that you repeated Modern Warfare in both the GA list and FA list. I don't know if that's intentional or not, but thought you might want to know.  Jolly  Ω   Janner  22:50, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

FAC
Hi, as someone who previously commented on Featured article candidates/John Wilkes Booth, you may wish to revisit this page, as the FAC has been restarted and additional content to meet the concerns expressed has been added.  JGHowes   <sup style="color:blue;">talk  23:35, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!
Hi! I just passed the GAN on this one. Great work! -Drilnoth (talk) 15:52, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter

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Metroid: Zero Mission
What do you think it´s needed before trying GA nomination? (I could also ask about Metroid Fusion, but considering you decided to keep a short paragraph in the lead, you´re probably still thinking on what to improve) igordebraga ≠ 03:01, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

I must restart visiting the GAN... and what else do you want in Fusion? igordebraga ≠ 14:42, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Related note: please, don't withdraw this. You can add some comments, or even your name as co-nominator, I'm willing to accept it. igordebraga ≠ 23:36, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

New SMB music source
I found this while looking for SMB theme info, where Kondo discusses how New SMB's enemies react to the music. Hope it helps out at all: - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 22:55, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * And while I'm here, would this constitute free use? - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 22:57, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Quick note of thanks
Thanks for cleaning up List of Numb3rs episodes and its associated pages. NuclearWarfare  ( Talk ) 16:31, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Edit summaries on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/to do
Sorry about that. I didn't know I had to do that. But I wil in the future.
 * P.S: I hope you and Igordebraga will do well with the Metroid titles. GamerPro64 (talk) 21:58, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Followup
Hmm... I wonder why you would want to work on a film article... -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 22:01, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Lol, I meant to link to WP:WBFTN, I know this is a coldhearted attempt to get another star! You should go back to lists where I don't have a chance! :) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk  ) 22:14, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately our library has jack in the way of film databases... you can browse a list of what we have here. -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 22:30, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll discuss on the PR when I get the chance. I've got an art project I have to finish first. -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 22:38, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Bart the Mother
I've reviewed your GAN for Bart the Mother; there's really only one suggestion I have, so I think this should be ready for GA status very soon. (I'm also interested in some of your video game noms, I may read those soon too.) Nice work! --Hunter Kahn (talk) 22:02, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Re:Re: Homer's Barbershop Quartet
The stuff regarding Best has already been added. As for All Singing, All Dancing, I'm not sure if there is anything of use, I ust know they talk about it. I would listen to it for you, but I don't have my DVDs at the moment. Sorry. -- Scorpion <sup style="color:black;">0422  22:18, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Mac OS X/GA2
Hi, Gary. What's your opinion about the the issues I raised at Talk:Mac OS X/GA2? I thought it said too much about components of the system (which were mostly just names, not very well explained from the point of view of non-techies) and too little about what's important to users, and was too reliant on sources close to or commited to Appe. --Philcha (talk) 12:33, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know I am glad to be reviewing the article WarioWare: Smooth Moves you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Vantine84 (talk) 07:36, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Userbox for GA reviews
The userbox User Good Articles reviewed has been updated so that it can now link to a page in your user subspace where you keep track of all your GA reviews, if you have such a page. This can be done by adding a | and then the name of your user subpage (or subsection of your regular user page) wherever you have the template called. For example, on my user page I am using ""which displays as There is more information on how to do this at Template:User Good Articles reviewed.

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Articlehistory errors
Gary, remember to scroll to the bottom of the page to check for the red articlehistory error category after updating the ah. Best, Sandy Georgia (Talk) 21:06, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: User adding list of stocks to articles
I reverted him once, and if he adds the info again, then feel free to take him to ANI. I will tread carefully—with the Arb case going, I don't want to come close to 3RR or edit warring. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * "A few times" seems below average to me ;) Dabomb87 (talk) 02:43, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the situation is under control now. Call me if you need any more fires to be doused :) Dabomb87 (talk) 02:54, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll keep tabs. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:04, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I caught that, that was his 3rd revert though. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:14, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I know, it was just a heads-up. ANI may be a bit premature, an uninvolved admin might be better first. Your call. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:20, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

(outdent) On the other hand, he is making you out to be some kind of Stalin ... Dabomb87 (talk) 03:22, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I have an idea, but it may take some patience from you. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:26, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Trust me, that doesn't work ;) Dabomb87 (talk) 03:28, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * See here. The admins there tend to be a bit more rational (IMO), and it is less hectic than ANI. It is also a good potential test case. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:38, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Gosh, and you went to all that trouble... Dabomb87 (talk) 13:10, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ironically, I think my calling you an "experienced editor" make things worse. Hmm... Dabomb87 (talk) 13:24, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Peer Reviews
As a member of the metal WikiProject I noticed the help you have given to getting some of our pages, such as List of awards and nominations received by Metallica, toward FA status. We really appreciate your help. As an experienced Wikipedian, would you mind commenting on several articles (Cannibal Corpse, Origin (band) and Symphony X) that I have submitted for peer review? For comparison, see the three articles before I started editing them: Cannibal Corpse, Origin and Symphony X. Huntthetroll (talk) 02:43, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Tattoo the Earth
--Dravecky (talk) 11:53, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Homer's Barbershop Quartet
Yeah, I listened to the commentary for "All Singing, All Dancing" but they didn't say anything useful. —<font color="#A04652">The <font color="#A00952" >Le <font color="#AD5160">ft <font color="#C15563">orium  15:43, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK for The Subliminal Verses World Tour
--Dravecky (talk) 23:43, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of WarioWare: Smooth Moves
The article WarioWare: Smooth Moves you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:WarioWare: Smooth Moves for eventual comments about the article. Well done! Vantine84 (talk) 12:55, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Nevado del Ruiz FAC
Could you give some feedback? <font color="#2F4F4F" face="Century">Ceran <font color="#2F4F4F" face="Century">thor 21:35, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

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GA Norton Internet Security
Thanks for your suggestions. Can you give me some starters about citing sources? I have read the mos articles; however I just don't seem to get it. Where do I place the references? Do I cite every website I use? TechOutsider (talk) 04:06, 23 February 2009 (UTC)TechOutsider

Re:colwidth
OK, thanks for the clarification. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:26, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems surprising that the reflist was 3 columns considering that I was on a 12 '' inch screen at the time (a friend of mine let me test his new laptop). Dabomb87 (talk) 02:32, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * OK. On an unrelated note, I was reminded about just how much I hate Vista! Dabomb87 (talk) 02:38, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

modern warfare plot
I know you are bitching about 700 words, but why delete the images? Except for Prypiat. Mallerd (talk) 02:55, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Be consequent. If you understand that people want a picture, I'd say place some more like before. But to say that Prypiat picture shows how desolate the place really is, is not a good reason to keep that one and delete the others because they are "just" weapons. I know you understand but I think you just don't give a sh*t. Mallerd (talk) 03:11, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't care where you took it, point is: the article looks empty with this massive text and so few images. You removed some of them inconsequently and now that I am confronting you with it, it is uncivil. Right. The extra images are no harm to the article and you know it because they fall under the same quilification scale of the picture you decided to keep. Mallerd (talk) 03:26, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That is nonsense, a marine has just as much to do with the plot as a ac-130h etc., because they are mentioned in the plot. That is what it is about. It seems you like to own this article Gary. A real shame, you are just not consequent. Mallerd (talk) 10:26, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

ping
Today's featured article/February 28, 2009 –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  04:03, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep, and as a bonus, we have one of mine on March 4. :) –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  04:15, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That might be a concern; Elderly Instruments comes to mind. The Scene7 article was promoted rather recently, though, so I think it should be fine. –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  04:23, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Because then we're sure the article is in tip-top shape, to avoid the "OMG HOW DARE YOU FEATURE THIS?!" –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  04:31, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Eh, I hadn't noticed that. Odd... –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  04:58, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It depends. If the IPs are close in nature, then a range block could be applied. Otherwise, page protection would likely be a reasonable solution. –Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  05:02, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Template:Foodbox
Hello, regarding your recent merge of this template - the change you made screwed up a lot of pages, For example the product pages of several fast food items such as Whopper, Big Mac and others. I have reverted the change.

--Jeremy (blah blah) 17:59, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Flatworm
Review completed. Thanks for the reminder. I must have forgotten I tagged it,... Dr. Cash (talk) 00:57, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Peer review
I reviewed Star Wars II - would you mind looking at the peer review for Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron? Seems right up your alley in terms of topics. Thanks, Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 17:18, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks - I see Laser brain also weighed in. Let me know if you want me to take a second look at Star Wars II. Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 19:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Artcile assessments
Please do not assess without providing a rationale. And advice as to how to improve the article. This is in the guidelines. Please also see User:Psb777. Thanks, Paul Beardsell (talk) 07:09, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

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Category:Slipknot concert tours
As much as I appreciate the effort (trust me I really do), I believe that all the articles that you created are not anywhere near what they need to be and I think it's impossible for them to ever be because I have been trying to work on finding sources for all that is needed for months now. Please go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Slipknot to continue this discussion but I feel that the current articles are (to be honest) useless and I feel they should be deleted. <font color="#344D69">REZTER  <font color="#3C225E">TALK <font color="#344D69">&oslash;  18:17, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Ray Edwin Powell
Ray Edwin Powell never became a Canadian citizen, much to the chagrin of his adopted country of Canada. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick Darling (talk • contribs) 20:32, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Image/File
I noticed you switched my change back to File instead of Image on Final Fantasy (video game). Is this the preferred way of listing images? I was just using the changes checklinks made, but I can easily switch back tags when fixing links if they should not be changed to Image. Thanks, Ost (talk) 20:54, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response and help. I played around more with checklinks and it doesn't seem to change File to Image on all pages (including if you try to run it on Final Fantasy again).  I think it may have to do with consistency within the article.  Before my edit, some of the markup used Image and others used File.  My edit changed to all Image and your current revision is all File.  I could be wrong, but I know I didn't manually change to Image.  I'll pay attention for the change in the future and be sure to use File. —Ost (talk) 22:05, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Universities vs. Colleges
There is a legal difference between a college and a university in Alberta. The the articles List of universities in the Canadian Prairies and List of universities and colleges in Alberta both eroneously list colleges as universities. Currently there is a bill before the Alberta legislature to rechristen MacEwan College and Mount Royal College as universities Intercamp, "MacEwan and MRC could add University to name". A university is also different that a "university college" which is infact, legally a college. (see Alberta Advanced Education). In both cases I think we should work to correct the articles, and since you have been a major contributor, I would like to work with you to build consensus for the changes.

On a related note, I agree with the recently posted critque of List of universities in the Canadian Prairies that it is geographically abtitrary. Why should they not be provincial rather than regional lists? Legaly universities are creations of the provinces. --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 21:20, 27 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I take it you agree that the lack of distinction between colleges and universities and colleges is a problem. Yes? --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 21:49, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

1. Universities are not the only intitutions that offer degrees in Alberta. Some colleges do as well. Specifically: Private Colleges: Public Colleges:
 * Ambrose University College
 * Canadian University College
 * Concordia University College of Alberta
 * DeVry Institute of Technology-Calgary
 * The King's University College
 * St. Mary's University College
 * Taylor University College and Seminary
 * Grant MacEwan College
 * Mount Royal College

2. "University Colleges" in Alberta are legally colleges, not universities.

see Advanced Education and Technology > Post-Secondary System --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 03:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to assume that the Government of Alberta's definition of a university has legal force whereas the AUCC's does not. I would think that this is not the only province where this is true. We should look for province-specific sources, rather than relying on the AUCC. --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 19:54, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know who added it, or when it was added, but there is a fact tag in List of universities in Canada, for the statement "There are 83 universities in Canada that are post-secondary education institutions with degree-granting authority.". Dabomb87 (talk) 04:30, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

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Question about Ratings
Hey, I'm Hunter, the guy who reviewed the GAN for Bart the Mother. I figured you could answer this question for me. How can I find the weekly ratings from the week a specific episode aired? For example, I'd like to improve this specific Law & Order episode to GA status, but it aired on November 28, 2006 and I don't know how to find the ratings for it from that week. Can you help? --Hunter Kahn (talk) 15:58, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you VERY much! I couldn't find anything on the ratings for this episode, so I really appreciate that link. Is this the site you use regularly for ratings? Since I imagine I'll be looking doing more episode articles in the future... --Hunter Kahn (talk) 18:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Featured topics
Please, don't withdraw this (you can make a nomination to add Samus later, or if it reaches GA status while the FTC is running, edit the nomination to include it). igordebraga ≠ 22:16, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

It's just that you run lots of simultaneous projects, and only recently the GA process went back to being quick, didn't think Samus could reach GA level fastly. But all apologies, maybe I can help you with the remaining article to make things the way you planned (although the Kingdom Hearts and Halo FTs show complementing a topic isn't that hard). igordebraga ≠ 15:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I added some info to that sandbox version (you know I sometimes update your "Goals" page, so I knew about it), and wondered if anything here can be helpful. I had an idea to solve the confusion, but I don't know if you'll object: after Samus passes the GA, restarting my nomination, but on the Good Topics (the FA process is too slow to wait... not to mention unpredictable, thought your MPH nomination would pass). igordebraga ≠ 00:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
–Drilnoth (T • C) 18:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Consultation
Hey Gary, I'm thinking that maybe "titles" featured topics should have "List of media" or "List of games" as their main article, if such an article exists, and only have "series" as their main if such an article doesn't exist. This in a sense is similar to how "albums" topics have "discography" as their main article, and not the band themselves, and lines the "titles" topics up better with the idea of overview topics.

I went through the existing topics to have a look and see what topics such a change would effect, and found two - both yours! One would be StarCraft, but the List of StarCraft media is an FL so no work needed there, just a sup nom to change the lead across. The other would be the Zelda topic, but List of The Legend of Zelda games isn't featured. However if you DID get it featured and swap it for the GA lead, then that would bring the number of featured articles in that topic to 5/13, so that is a potential route to getting the topic to 33% featured.

What do you think? Obviously there'd be no big rush to make the change, you could take your time to make the list featured, but I think this way makes more sense - rst20xx (talk) 13:40, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Gary- let me know when you plan on working on the Zelda list. I meant to finish it up for FLC a while ago but got bogged down with other things. I think I have a some print sources for some of the obscure bits of info too. The both of us working together on it should speed up the improvement process considerably. (Guyinblack25 talk 20:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC))
 * Well I guess it's up to you, Gary, to sup nom each topic across, if/when you're ready to do so - rst20xx (talk) 21:23, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I've withdrawn the Metroid titles FTC nomination. But to restart it later... do you mind if I already transfer the contents of this page? (people are sensitive about "stealing" contents from subpages, and you seem to be working in other things right now, specially Watchmen) Unrelated note: see if anything else is needed in Minority Report (film). igordebraga ≠ 18:14, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

List of characters in Watchmen
Can you undo your move of List of characters in Watchmen? The article was moved to Characters of Watchmen because it was not a list, and was modeled on character articles Characters of Carnivàle and Characters of Smallville. WesleyDodds (talk) 08:43, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. WesleyDodds (talk) 23:33, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

hi
Due acknowledgment by me, the tech-klutz. Tony  (talk)  09:50, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Alright thanks! Gary King  ( talk ) 15:31, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Final Fantasy (video game)
Hi! I've put your GA nomination of Final Fantasy (video game) on hold for improvements. I've listed what I think still needs to be done at Talk:Final Fantasy (video game)/GA2. –Drilnoth (T • C) 16:08, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Moving without any consensus or reason
Your recent move of Henry Fielding's early plays goes against the ideas of consensus and are completely inappropriate. This served no purpose and is disruptive. Please revert yourself at once. Ottava Rima (talk) 22:37, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * No. Many FAs have subpages with possessives. You want to have the proper name first for unification. Hence, Samuel Johnson's early life, Samuel Johnson's health, Charles Darwin's education, etc. Ottava Rima (talk) 22:58, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not attacking you or criticizing you. Please, just warn people before you do that and try to get consensus. Ottava Rima (talk) 23:00, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Your featured lists
I've just noticed that List of awards and nominations received by Akon got vandalized by some IP addresses. This should be a warning that you should watch your promoted featured lists, just to make sure they would not be vandalized. Thanks, -- <font face="Mistral"> SRE.K.A.L. | L.A.K.ERS ]] 08:43, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * An IP brought up a minor but valid point at Talk:List of premiers of Nova Scotia. You may want to make these changes on the other premier lists. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:52, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, check this change. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Both done Gary King  ( talk ) 21:27, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Free Entrprise
I suggest you set up a disambiguation page for Free Enterprise --Snowded (talk) 15:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Steve Higgins
--Dravecky (talk) 21:19, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Schiaparelli link
Hi Gary, I'm Aubrey from italian wikisource. Could I ask you why you remove the link to italian wikisource from Schiaparelli page? I'm not comfortable with en.pedia, so I'm really looking forward tips and advices. I just saw that there were link to italian texts (i.e Gutemberg project), and so I just put a link to the italian wikisource (that owns several source texts from Schiaparelli). Thank you for your kindness. --Aubrey (talk) 02:33, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

An A-class review request
Hey Gary, I was wondering if you could review the Spokane, Washington article in an ACR. After you read the article, I believe all you need to do is apply the A-Class criteria to the article and put whether you believe it is worthy of being A-class in the section dealing with the review in the articles Talk page. Also, in addition to doing the assessment, it would be helpful if you could include some points for improvement. If you are up to review it, notify me here or on my Talk so I can stop looking for reviewers. Thanks! Anon134 (talk) 20:27, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

re: Ted Kaczynski
Thanks for the advice Gary. I will do as you suggested: I will try to integrate it into the article, as well as explaining my use of propaganda by deed as I do so. I appreciate you being reasonable, and working with me on this to figure something out instead of edit warring ... if only that happened with people here more often! ... Jrtayloriv (talk) 23:01, 14 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Gary -- I just read about the quote template, and I'll take care of that in a moment, as well as the spacing. As far as the lengthy quotes, I do think they are important as they stand. Considering all of the talk that focuses on psychology -- whether or not he was insane -- I think it is important to balance things out by adding what he said he was thinking.


 * Also, this is one of a very few primary sources in the article, as opposed to commentary by people who:
 * a) were not involved,
 * b) were members of his family who had very little contact with him as he made the transition from professor to bomber,
 * c) were at the court proceedings, and while they do present at least present some of his perspective on what went on during his trial, they still don't shed much light on his original motivations ...
 * anyway thanks again for the advice ... I'll have the new edit up in a jiffy!
 * Jrtayloriv (talk) 00:31, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Image review at FLC
Hi, Gary. I conducted an image review at Featured list candidates/List of United States Naval Academy alumni, but the nominator has said that I was over the top, and too strict and nitpicky. I've asked Ecobbola, who is more experienced in image reviewing to comment, and I was wondering if you, as a non-image reviewer would be able to visit and comment also. Was I too strict? Does correct license tagging on Commons matter for article purposes, or should it be kept a separate thing?

I know an image needs a FUR if it is not GFDL or Creative Commons licensed or in the public domain, but when an image is said to be in the public domain, does that need to be verified or can it be assumed by, for example, the age or career of the subject in the photo?

This was my first image review, so if I was wrong, I'd like to know for future purposes. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 00:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

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List of universities in the Canadian Prairies
nominated List of universities in the Canadian Prairies for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks, where editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevlar67 (talk • contribs) 02:47, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I have just proposed that these lists are merged into one. I hope you don't mind, but I just went ahead and proposed it because I felt that discussion is needed and that the talk page of the article would serve as a much better centre for discussions than either of your talk page or the FLRC. Best wishes, <b style="color:#E32636;">Rambo's Revenge</b> <b style="color:#FFA500;">(talk)</b>  21:36, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Copyediting
Hi. I noticed that you did copyediting work on Sam & Max: Freelance Police, so I thought that, if it's not too much trouble, you might help me out. I've been working on Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss and I'm about to take it to FAC. It's been solo work, though, so the article's only had one pair of eyes. I've tried copyediting it, but I can tell it won't pass 1a. If you wouldn't mind taking a look at it, I would be seriously grateful. Thanks. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 06:02, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, no problem. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 16:40, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Did (along with Ruhrfisch) the copyediting you requested in Minority Report. See if more is needed to close the GAR. igordebraga ≠ 04:42, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Bloc Party/archive1
nominated List of awards and nominations received by Bloc Party for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks, where editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. -- Scorpion <sup style="color:black;">0422  02:54, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Proper style
Please familiarize yourself with WP:MOSPOKER before randomly changing citation styles. Poker articles should have "Notes" for inline citations and "References" for general article references. Additionally, it is never appropriate to merely change from one type of citation style to another. Also, please don't add incorrect access dates to citations. Soemthing that has been in an article for four years should never be labeled as accessed today. This causes considerable confusion. 2005 (talk) 06:03, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Metroid multiplayer aspect deletion
Hi, if you poll random people about metroid prime hunters I guarantee you more people focus on the multiplayer aspect, why, because single player sucks, let me put it this way, this game is one of the top 10 guides on strategy wiki and it's mostly because of the multiplayer, 90% of game reviews I have seen say the single player aspect of the game sucks and i quote "multiplayer is where this game shines".

You don't need to erase that, if you find a metroid prime hunters community they will not be chatting about how awesome single player is, they'll be looking for matches.

This game was the first game to use voice chat and the first FPS to get it right for the DS, no previous DS FPS compares to this game, so if you want to erase the section then take a poll first and see what the general opinion on multiplayer is, I'm an elite hunter by the way what rank are you, do you even have the game? I bet you don't.

This game is the best 3d multiplayer game for the DS so deal with it. I bought mine used and my friend bought his used recently, even though the game is so old, and we don't play single player because it sucks, the other metroid games have awesome single player, this one doesn't and anyone who buys this buys it for the multiplayer.

Search metroid pime hunters on you tube, it's review that say the game sucks because they didn't try multiplayer, multiplayer matches, and friend codes, and only a very small fraction of single player stuff.

The only reason I played single player is to get the badge for beating the game and to unlock the hunters.

And now I blast you with the omega cannon, goodbye. 74.166.95.229 (talk) 17:22, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Javascript help needed
See this. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:32, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for working on it. Take your time. Dabomb87 (talk) 13:14, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * If you have time/willpower, Wikipedia talk:Featured list criteria needs your input. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:03, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Works like a charm. I think it such a script would be very useful; write up a documentation page. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:27, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the talk page stalking but I noticed you enquired with Dabomb87 if you thought the watchlist javasript could have a wider audience. Personally I have wanted this for a while now but assumed it could not be easily done. Can you let me know if/when this gets into the Wiki mainspace as I'd like it too. Also does it work the other way around for only watchlisting talk pages, but not the main pages? Thanks, <font color="#DC143C">Rambo's  <font color="#FF4500">Revenge  <font color="#FFA500">(How am I doing?)   21:25, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Rambo, it works for any page, main or talk, or whatever. A page is a page; in the software's point of view, pages are just identified by different names (the "Talk:" is part of the name). I'll write up a documentation now. Gary King  ( talk ) 21:31, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Gary, something strange is happening. I clicked "watch" on your talk page, then I click on your user page, which is not watched. Then, I return to your talk page, and that is not watched either. Have I entered something wrong into my monobook.js? Dabomb87 (talk) 21:34, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, disregard my comment above, but the script isn't working yet. Have I entered something wrong into my monobook.js? Dabomb87 (talk) 21:36, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It works now. I removed some test code that I was using to test. Gary King  ( talk ) 21:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Eureka! Dabomb87 (talk) 21:46, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, any other comments goes at Hide Pages in Watchlist. Gary King  ( talk ) 21:53, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Am I being an idiot because the MOS page I am trying to ignore still comes up on my watchlist despite a few hard refreshes. <font color="#DC143C">Rambo's  <font color="#FF4500">Revenge  <font color="#FFA500">(How am I doing?)   22:19, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It doesn't work in Internet Explorer yet. Gary King  ( talk ) 23:11, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay but I can't get it to work in Firefox either. <font color="#DC143C">Rambo's  <font color="#FF4500">Revenge  <font color="#FFA500">(How am I doing?)   23:24, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

← In Firefox, go to Tools -> Error Console, and click on the "Errors" tab. Copy any errors to me that looks relevant. Gary King ( talk ) 23:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Is this it?

Error: unterminated string literal Source File: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rambo%27s_Revenge/monobook.js&action=submit Line: 138, Column: 15 Source Code: + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"> <font color="#DC143C">Rambo's  <font color="#FF4500">Revenge  <font color="#FFA500">(How am I doing?)   00:02, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * No Gary King  ( talk ) 00:07, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * For now, the script does not work if you are using Enhanced Changes. Gary King  ( talk ) 01:20, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for BlogShares
<b class="Unicode">r ʨ anaɢ</b> talk/contribs 00:10, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Please famailiarize yourself with the guidelines
Sister project links do not fall under 'external links'. They fall under SIS. The operative text is Links to Wikimedia sister projects are best placed in the section of the article to which they relate, including the lead section, if necessary. Please read the guideline. 2005 (talk) 00:36, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

The Simpsons GACs
I was wondering if you are still interested in getting episodes up to GA quality? We could finish off WikiProject The Simpsons/Featured topic Drive/season 10 if you wanna help me.  C T J F 8 3 Talk 08:09, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, sounds good! We can use all the help we can get from great editors like you!  C T J F 8 3 Talk 08:15, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * "a month or two"!? :( Dabomb87 (talk) 21:26, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

RE: GameRankings
Why did you just go on my talk page and tell me that Gamerankings' R needs to be Capitalizied? Was it because I didn't do it on those two Metroid articles? Either way, its still the same. GamerPro64 (talk) 18:35, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Fine, I'll capitialize the R. Happy!? GamerPro64 (talk) 21:46, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Bling bling

 * Thanks! Gary King  ( talk ) 21:04, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Date script
I saw here that you said you wrote a script for converting dates. I am interested in changing the dates away from the ISO style in these 5 articles, but don't want to do it manually. Can you either run the script on those pages, or make the script public so I can do it. Many thanks, <font color="#DC143C">Rambo's  <font color="#FF4500">Revenge  <font color="#FFA500">(How am I doing?)   13:20, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Brilliant, thanks! Just out of interest how did you do this (in layman's terms) and is this something that any Joe Bloggs editor like me could do, or is more complicated than simply importing a monobook script. Thanks, <font color="#DC143C">Rambo's  <font color="#FF4500">Revenge  <font color="#FFA500">(How am I doing?)   20:13, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Calgary
i have listed Calgary for a GAR but i need some help setting it up i know your really good with article and i would be grateful if you could help. Cheers  Kyle1278 17:50, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh! well thank you anyway.  Cheers  Kyle1278 17:57, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

New FL criteria discussion: Final phase
Hello, I think we've hammered out a good revised Featured List criteria here. If this passes, there will be quite a few FLs (my estimate is somewhere between 60 and 75) that could soon be delisted just because of 3b. With that in mind, I'd like to get comments and opinions from all FLC regulars and everyone else who has participated in the discussion before it's implemented. Thanks, Scorpion <sup style="color:black;">0422  17:38, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter

 * 20:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Delivered for the WikiCup by <font style="color:#993333;"> GARDEN at 20:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC). Queries to my talk.

Thanks!
Thank you for your participation in the Spring 2009 GAN backlog elimination drive, in which you reviewed 2 articles. Great work! —The participants on the Spring 2009 GAN backlog elimination drive 21:39, 31 March 2009 (UTC)}}

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The Legend of Zelda titles FTC under retention
Just letting you know that you have 3 months from the date of creation of the article The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, or until 25 June, to get it fully peer reviewed and added to the Legend of Zelda titles FTC. Hope that's okay! :) rst20xx (talk) 13:56, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (March 2009)

 * Newsletter delivery by xenobot  16:46, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

RE: Re: WikiCup Newsletter
Yes, but this issue was especially important so I uncollapsed it. <font style="color:#006600;"> NEDRAG 20:17, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Star Wars
I know you have plans to return Attack of the Clones to FA level (keeping that Featured Topic would be nice). Well, I'm trying the same with The Phantom Menace, and if you're not too busy, some input on what to do would be helpful. igordebraga ≠ 01:10, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Bruce Dickinson discography
I'm about to nominate this for FL, but before, I want to get some opinions. Could you take a quick look at the article's lead. That's all I need, you don't have to go through anything elsed, just the lead and tell me your opinion about it. Thanks in advance.

PD:Could you please answer back on my talk page? <font size="-1" style="color:red;"> Rockk3r    <font size="-4" color="Navy">Spit it Out!  06:19, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

FT question
Hi Gary. I am wondering about the FT procedure, what should I do next? My topic is currently in the "questions" section. Jaespinoza (talk) 18:39, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Star Wars episodes and The Legend of Zelda titles go from FT to GT
Sorry... but obviously if you get an article in either of them to FA, straight back up they shall go - rst20xx (talk) 23:06, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Your next project...
Wikipedia talk:Featured list removal candidates. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:43, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Excellent, thanks a lot. I'll try to take a look at your FAC to help your quest for the Metroid FT. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:39, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Notification
nominated List of awards and nominations received by Akon for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks, where editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. iMatthew : <font style="color:#ffffff;background:#465945;"> Chat 13:08, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XI
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Notice
Hi Gary, if you weren't already aware, several of the Canadian universities lists have been submitted for FLRC here, and in all likelihood, will be delisted and merged into the main list. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:40, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Preload
Do you know where the preload message for creating FLs is located at? Or generally, how to create one?-- T ru  c o   19:52, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No, not that one. The yellow message located above the edit box during the preload.-- T ru  c o   21:01, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

FLC nominations and reviews
Hi, Gary. You may not be aware, but the new Featured list criteria was implemented Sunday 5 April, 00:56 (UTC) following two weeks of discussion at Wikipedia talk:Featured list criteria.

I've gone through the nominations and have noticed the following have received reviews from you, but no indication whether or not you support or oppose their promotion to WP:FL: Please could you take the time to revisit the articles and candidate pages, check them against the new Featured list criteria, and indicate whether or not you support or oppose their promotion to WP:FL. It would be much appreciated as the nomination will not have to be kept open any longer than necessary.
 * 1) Featured list candidates/List of acquisitions by Juniper Networks/archive1 (List of acquisitions by Juniper Networks)

Finally, please accept my apologies for the brusqueness of this message; the same wording is being sent to everyone who has outstanding reviews, with only the names of lists being changed. Regards, Matthewedwards : Chat  05:29, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

"ruby script"
Hi Gary. At Lightmouse's talk page you said you use a Ruby script for converting ISO dates in references. This is something I've been having to do manually. Where do I find the script to put in my monobook? Regards, Matthewedwards : Chat  18:37, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

List of awards and nominations received by Coolio
nominated List of awards and nominations received by Coolio for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks, where editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:44, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * P.S. I updated your user page to reflect the delisting of a couple of your FLs. I hope you don't mind. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Jennifer Hale reference
Hello, Gary King. You recently removed the Jennifer Hale reference from the Samus Aran article. I'm a bit puzzled as to why this video isn't a reliable source. Why does it matter where the video originated from when Jennifer Hale herself acknowledges she voiced Samus within the video? Thanks. -sesuPRIME talk • contribs 08:08, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello again, Gary King (can I call you Gary?). Are you suggesting the woman being interviewed in the video may not be Jennifer Hale? The interviewer, UltraNeko a.k.a. Sadie, has interviewed several voice actors that gamers are likely familiar with. In addition to Hale, she's interviewed David Hayter (see here) and Christopher Randolph (see here), and even hosted a fifteen minute improv session with Hale, Hayter, Randolph, Quinton Flynn, and Paul Eiding (see here). So, to suggest the Hale interview isn't authentic is to suggest all her videos are inauthentic. -sesuPRIME talk • contribs 03:09, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey, Gary King. I asked Ealdgyth: User talk:Ealdgyth -sesuPRIME talk • contribs 06:08, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Metroid
Good news. But I need to ask you if I can nominate the topic for the GT, or I'll have to wait for the result of the Metroid II FAC (feedback positive by now... but very few responses) so it can go straight to the FT. igordebraga ≠ 00:57, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

remove any reliable sources' that you added, if any. Uh? Adding sourced statements is a problem? And I didn't add any sources, just added based on the ones you've already included. igordebraga ≠ 02:07, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XII
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Max Payne 2
I changed what I did on Max Payne 2 because it was wrong. It isn't what happened. Max injured the villain but he died because Max shot a bunch of stuff that fell on him and then he, the villain fell. Lots42 (talk) 17:08, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Notice
Three of your featured lists are at FLRC:


 * 1) List of Natasha Bedingfield awards – Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Natasha Bedingfield
 * 2) List of awards and nominations received by Blink-182 – Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Blink-182
 * 3) List of Good Charlotte awards – Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Good Charlotte

Since these fail criterion 3b, I don't think you can prevent these from being delisted, but just thought you would want to know. Dabomb87 (talk) 14:17, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

KGB
The information i provided on the KGB was factual info from my World History professor. The only info from the site was in "". IF you would like, you could delete that info, or i can. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.127.77.230 (talk) 20:50, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XIII
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User:Gary King/Team Full Tilt
Here it is, enjoy! Skier Dude ( talk ) 02:30, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Your recent move
Hi Gary ! Could you please revert the move you recently made on Template:WikiProject Chess, for the reasons explained on the corresponding Talk page (see section Template talk:WikiProject Chess). Or at least, could you please discuss the move you want to make on the Talk page, so what Voorlandt and myself have the opportunity to understand the pros and cons ? SyG (talk) 19:15, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks ! SyG (talk) 18:40, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

PR and help needed
Hi Gary, I'll take a look at Samus when I return on Monday. Also, if you have the time, can you sort out the FL log issue described here? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 03:04, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

hugg boots?
To Gary King,

I can only guess, but the reason my so-called contribution towards "Hugg Boots" was unproductive exists in the fact that no contribution was ever made or attempted. Yet, if you still feel disappointed in the outcome, let me know. After I look into your issue (for the first time), I will put something together that might help raise the issue to new heights. Seriously, thanks for responding to my comments, even if I did not make any.

Good luck,

Loyde Yates —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.130.24.40 (talk) 21:57, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

WP:FOUR
You may be eligible for some WP:FOUR awards.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:18, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Iowa
Hey man, I know you've helped out on some of the articles I've worked on before and I was wondering if you could helped me with Iowa (album). I think it's near FA quality and it's having a Peer Review now, I was just wondering if you could give it a look over and help me with the FAC after this PR. <font color="#344D69">REZTER  <font color="#3C225E">TALK <font color="#344D69">&oslash;  14:21, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XIV
Delivered for the WikiCup by <font style="color:#006600;"> ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 14:27, 26 April 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

Advisor.js
I read that you use Advisor.js. This script causes damages by making "editorial changes" to URLs, causing them to stop working. An example is recent edits to International System of Units. Please examine any edits you have made with this tool and undo any damage that might have occured. --Jc3s5h (talk) 15:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

FAC?
Gary, do you plan to address or respond to the concerns at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Metroid II: Return of Samus/archive1? If you don't plan to work on it further, please withdraw it to avoid wasting reviewers' time. -- Laser brain  (talk)  15:50, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Alrighty then. -- Laser brain  (talk)  16:50, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Metroid II reviews
Since it's your project and you might have a better idea on how to integrate them into the article, I'll just give you the two magazine reviews for Metroid II that I have. These pages were from scans done by Retromags, which are better than I could've done (and save me from having to pull my old mags apart). (Megaupload link) Nall (talk) 23:58, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Retromags has a bunch of gaming mags for download. It's volunteer run and doesn't have everything, but they add more over time and it's a very useful source for getting scans for any game pre-1999.  Some of the downloads are pretty huge and you might have to slog through a ton of articles to find what you need, but they have a wiki that's supposed to catalog some of the content of each one.  Almost all mags available have Rapidshare links, but if they don't you have to sign up and donate to get direct downloads. Magazines are saved as .cbr so you need Comic Book Reader to view them (or just change the extension to .rar and extract all the individual scans yourself). Good luck on your article! Nall (talk) 00:29, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm kinda swamped with housing/job issues for the summer right now (and at some blasted point in the future I wanna actually copyedit Star Trek: The Motion Picture and throw it at FAC), but when I have a chance I'll send you what I can scrounge up in the way of newspaper sources. -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 03:11, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Just related to Metroid... are you planning on any FAC in the next days, or can a GTC be started? (also, if you have anything else to say here, I'm willing to hear them) igordebraga ≠ 02:04, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Another courtesy notice
Three more FLRCs of FLs you nominated, but once again, you won't be able to do much:
 * Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Matchbox Twenty/archive1
 * Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Korn/archive1
 * Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Justice/archive1 Dabomb87 (talk) 04:48, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Gallery
I see you removed a gallery from Fishing village. You referred to WP:IG, so I presume you think these images are "an indiscriminate collection". In fact they are anything but indiscriminate. They have been carefully selected from hundreds of possible images to show a wide spectrum of localities, time periods and types of villages, and each image has been captioned with specific information about this. The gallery captures, in a small space, more information than could be given in many paragraphs of text. --Geronimo20 (talk) 21:02, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XV
Delivered for the WikiCup by <font style="color:#006600;"> ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 08:33, 4 May 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

Cleanup on Poker articles
I noticed you have been editing a lot of poker articles. I'm not sure if a discussion regarding this had taken place, I disagree with your cleanup as I think it makes these articles vastly more difficult to read. Everything is jumbled together and it is difficult to determine one thought from another. I think it should be paragraphed out. One line paragraphs are easier to read and more accessible to people. A discussion should be started regarding proper clean up (if it hasnt already). <font color="DarkSlateGray">Valoem <font color="Black">talk  21:28, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree with that. Some articles are great like Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey, however the article on Vanessa Rousso for example is definately more difficult to read. <font color="DarkSlateGray">Valoem <font color="Black">talk  00:50, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Nevermind I think someone edit that article looks good now. :) <font color="DarkSlateGray">Valoem <font color="Black">talk  00:51, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

A note regarding the WPVG Newsletter
Due to an apparent lack of interest, the WPVG Newsletter will be switching from a monthly publication schedule to a quarterly one. The next issue be delivered on July 1, 2009, and will pertain to the second quarter of the calendar year. If you have any comments regarding this, or suggestions to improve the newsletter, please post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Newsletter.
 * —VG Newsletter Contributors
 * Notice delivery by –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b> <sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 14:57, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: Production info for "Bart the Daredevil"
Hey, it's nice to see you back at WP:DOH! Sure, I can get the production information for you. I'm really busy IRL right now, though, so I won't be able to do it until Sunday or next week. Is that OK? :) <font color="#A04652">The <font color="#A00952" >Le <font color="#AD5160">ft <font color="#C15563">orium  17:19, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * You mean before the WikiCup round ends? I'm not sure if Maitch will finish Lisa the Iconoclast anytime soon. You should leave a message at his talk page. Maybe you/we can finish it for him. <font color="#A04652">The <font color="#A00952" >Le <font color="#AD5160">ft <font color="#C15563">orium  17:33, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Outliers (book)
Hi, why did you remove this review? It's not obvious to me. Bearian (talk) 00:29, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, no problem. Bearian (talk) 14:01, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

RfA
How 'bout now? :) – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 04:21, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I second the motion. Useight (talk) 04:33, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe soon... Gary King  ( talk ) 05:35, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I third the motion and beg Gary to just run already so we can stop having to remember to ask him every couple months or so ;) — sephiroth bcr  <sup style="font-family:Verdana;">( converse ) 07:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * What? You're not an admin?!!! Bearian (talk) 14:02, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am sending you this message since you are a member of the GA WikiProject. I would like to invite you to consider helping with the GA sweeps process. Sweeps helps to ensure that the oldest GAs still meet the criteria, and improve the quality of GAs overall. Unfortunately, last month only two articles were reviewed. This is definitely a low point after our peak at the beginning of the process when 163 articles were reviewed in September 2007. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. All exempt and previously reviewed articles have already been removed from the list. Instead of reviewing by topic, you can consider picking and choosing whichever articles interest you.

We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 08:13, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Citation formatting
Gary, do you remember what tool you used to format the citations that weren't templated in WALL-E? I'd like to use it, or if you would be so kind to help me and use it, on the Star Trek section of my second sandbox. :D Alientraveller (talk) 12:29, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

More awards list FLRCs
Just letting you know (ping me if you don't want these notifications):


 * Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by The Neptunes/archive1
 * Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by No Doubt/archive1
 * Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Nirvana/archive1
 * Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by The Notorious B.I.G./archive1 Dabomb87 (talk) 21:27, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Bart the Daredevil
Hey Gary. I've finally finished the production section for Bart the Daredevil. I've got some links for the Reception section here that might be useful. <font color="#A04652">The <font color="#A00952" >Le <font color="#AD5160">ft <font color="#C15563">orium  17:47, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

New Super Mario Bros.
Woot! Dabomb87 (talk) 04:19, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XVI
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Phantom Hourglass
Do you think it would pass a FAC? OboeCrack (talk) 14:03, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XVII
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USNA
Sorry about the inadvertent GA trespass in this article. I did not understand the transclusion. Not sure I do now, but will try to be wary. Student7 (talk) 22:44, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

broken edit?
Hi, not sure what happened here, but it affected the sourcing. I undid that and re-added the category. <span style="color:#0D670D; font-family:Georgia, Helvetica;">rootology /<span style="color:red; font-family:Georgia, Helvetica;">equality 02:22, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, misread it! I'll go back. <span style="color:#0D670D; font-family:Georgia, Helvetica;">rootology /<span style="color:red; font-family:Georgia, Helvetica;">equality 02:56, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Samus Aran
Sorry for being so late; they're meager, but I didn't want to just not say anything. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:00, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup newsletter XVII.V
This is just a quick reminder that the round ends this Friday, May 29, 2009. I wanted to let you guys know the current standings. If you are very close, but not close enough, work as hard as possible these next two days. Pool leaders are listed as usual, and under the 10 wildcards, are competitors that are still fighting for a spot. Also, if you currently have any un-reviewed GAN's up and you'd like them to be reviewed and counted for this round, you must place them on the appropriate thread of the WikiCup talk page.


 * Pool A
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 * Pool F
 * 1) 🇨🇭 Sasata (961)


 * Current Wildcards
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 * 2) 🇮🇸 Scorpion0422 (372)
 * 3) 🇹🇭 Rlevse (329)
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 * 8) 🇮🇪 Juliancolton (181)
 * 9) the_ed17 (179)
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 * 11)  Bedford (156)
 * 12)  Gary King (147)
 * 13)  97198 (142)
 * 14) 🇱🇺 Ceranthor (111)
 * 15) 🇮🇳 Tinucherian (106)
 * 16) 🇻🇺 Matthewedwards (98)

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Heinrich Schönfeld
Hi you added a 'Living people' category to this person's article, even though, if they were still alive, they would be nearly 109 years old! I have removed it. Cheers, GiantSnowman 22:20, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

FLRC
Hi Gary, this is just to let you know that I have nominated some lists you worked on for removal at FLRC. List of awards and nominations received by Katy Perry, List of awards and nominations received by Sam Roberts and List of awards and nominations received by Rage Against the Machine. Sorry. -- Scorpion <sup style="color:black;">0422  15:41, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

User:Shappy/Amazing Race Wikipedia
Shappy told me you were looking for a partner for the Amazing Race thingy so maybe we could be "teammates"? ;) Cheers, <font color="#A04652">The <font color="#A00952" >Le <font color="#AD5160">ft <font color="#C15563">orium  12:59, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, getting an FA might be difficult, but it's worth a try. So is it okay if I add our names to the page? :) <font color="#A04652">The <font color="#A00952" >Le <font color="#AD5160">ft <font color="#C15563">orium  14:37, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XVIII
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The Legend of Zelda titles GTC under retention
As The Legend of Zelda (series) has been delisted, the article has 3 months, or until 31st August, to get back to GA, or the topic can be nominated for removal. Chars... - rst20xx (talk) 20:24, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps June update
Thanks to everyone's dedicated efforts to the GA Sweeps process, a total of 396 articles were swept in May! That more than doubles our most successful month of 163 swept articles in September 2007 (and the 2 articles swept in April)! I plan to be sending out updates at the beginning of each month detailing any changes, updates, or other news until Sweeps are completed. So if you get sick of me, keep reviewing articles so we can be done (and then maybe you'll just occasionally bump into me). We are currently over 60% done with Sweeps, with just over a 1,000 articles left to review. With over 40 members, that averages out to about 24 articles per person. If each member reviews an article a day this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. I know that may be asking for a lot, but it would allow us to complete Sweeps and allow you to spend more time writing GAs, reviewing GANs, or focusing on other GARs (or whatever else it is you do to improve Wikipedia) as well as finish ahead of the two-year mark coming up in August. I recognize that this can be a difficult process at times and appreciate your tenacity in spending time in ensuring the quality of the older GAs. Feel free to recruit other editors who have reviewed GANs in the past and might be interested in the process. The more editors, the less the workload, and hopefully the faster this will be completed. If you have any questions about reviews or the process let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 18:02, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Metroid FT
Metroid's topic now completely fits under the scope of WP:FT?. Are you still planning on featuring all of them? --haha169 (talk) 04:22, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, really? 38% isn't enough? I was under the impression it was... OK then. --haha169 (talk) 00:40, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Here I was, celebrating Golden Sun DS, and I completely forgot about the new Metroid. Ok, I see. But because the new Metroid is new, it can be temporarily omitted, can't it? --haha169 (talk) 00:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * It is a new article and new game that hasn't been released yet. There's been plenty precedents of omissions of unreleased games. --haha169 (talk) 03:08, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Guitar Hero is the first one that comes to mind. There are two omitted games - both of them unreleased. --haha169 (talk) 19:44, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I see. Thank you. --haha169 (talk) 19:57, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Editing help
Gary,

I need to encroach on your expertise just a little. You were good enough to have removed the STUB tag on a page that I have been editing for a Japanese actress Hiroko Sato but there are a couple of things I don't know how to do safely. In the listing for STUB articles, the Hiroko Sato page is still listed as a STUB, the article priority is listed as low and neither reflect the amount of work done on the page recently.

I also need to know how to remove the empty photo box as it is doubtful that any of the photographic material available on the internet would comply with Wikipedia policy of privately owned and displayed with permission. If you have the time would you respond on the "Discussion page" for the topic "Hiroko Sato" ?

Regards,

Steve Hutchesson

Hutch48 (talk) 11:58, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Gary,

Thanks for your help here, the rearrangement looks a lot better and has improved the readability of the page.

Regards,

Steve Hutchesson

Hutch48 (talk) 03:49, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Original research?
Hello again Gary. Isn't it speculation to claim the man in the Metroid: Other M trailer is Adam Malcovich? Isn't this the same type of situation as the armored sidekick/Phantom issue we're dealing with on the Spirit Tracks page? Thanks. -sesuPRIME talk • contribs 23:10, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

PokerTracker assessing
I am curious why you removed so many tags from Talk:PokerTracker.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 01:57, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I thought poker software belonged in both gambling and computing, but maybe software does not go in computing. If you think the page is right as you have amended it, I'll go with your opinion.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:08, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I just noticed your Total Gambler DYK. Have you taken a look at the text of PokerTracker?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:11, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I have tried, but it is too big in any true text format I have tried. I have hidden my last attempt. Maybe you can help me tweak it.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:55, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Is there a way to make the scroll bar only part of the width of the page and move it back up to the part of the text that references it?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 22:46, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Don't those changes conflict with Accessibility?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:40, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I guess this article will be ineligible for FAC. I don't think shortening it that much would help the readers who are able to access it.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:57, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you shrink the font. That might make the left to right scroll bars unnecessary.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:58, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, the current GAC is requesting a copyedit. I have done my best, but if you have a chance give it a run through.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:11, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * If you look at the image in the infobox, you can see that I rarely play tournaments with less than 45 players and usually play at 9-person tables. I will look for shorter examples though if we get complaints.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:03, 6 June 2009 (UTC)


 * If you know how to make the tournament summary a sidebar insert without the scrollbox, you could just chop it at 15 or 20 players and make the title Excerpted Tournament Summary.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:01, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Scream/Childhood
Hi Gary, would it be possible for you to use that tool to turn the references dates for the publishing and accessdates to the format June 6, 2009. Like you did on Michael Jackson a few weeks ago. Hope you can help. Best. — R  2  23:45, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Another editor must have read this message and formatted them for me. — R  2  00:29, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

List of universities in Canada FLRC
As a result of the Canadian university merges I have listed the List of universities in Canada list at FLRC because I think it needs reviewing. Please participate with the discussion if you are interested. Best wishes, <b style="color:#E32636;">Rambo's Revenge</b> <b style="color:#FFA500;">(talk)</b>  18:41, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Expedia and Dell mergers/acquisitions FLRCs
nominated List of mergers and acquisitions by Expedia for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:39, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

nominated List of mergers and acquisitions by Dell for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:44, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XIX and XX
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Just in case you don't watch it...
19:33, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

FLRCs
Hi Gary, this is just to let you know that I have nominated List of awards and nominations received by Wolfmother(FLRC) and List of awards and nominations received by The Strokes (FLRC) at FLRC. -- Scorpion <sup style="color:black;">0422  14:51, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Footnote within a box
Hi Gary, how've you been? I know you're busy, but I need formatting help here. Specifically, is it possible to neatly fit a footnote inside a box (as seen in linked section)? Don't worry, you don't need to comment on the content. Regards, Dabomb87 (talk) 17:13, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Amazing Race Wikipedia
Hello, Gary King. Welcome to the Amazing Race Wikipedia. In your travels, you will encounter two types of tasks. In a Detour, you have a choice between two tasks. Both of you must work together on this. In a Roadblock, one team member must work on a task alone. Your Amazing Race Wikipedia submissions page is located here. Enjoy the competition! Best, and. 19:35, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Problem with Comments in Local Time
I've been having a problem with the gadget "Comments in Local Time." I checked the box to enable it in my preferences, and I also set my time zone under "Date and Time." However, I still see times in UTC. Is there anything else I need to do to make it work? 95j (talk) 22:08, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

FAR
nominated The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Ottava Rima (talk) 22:15, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

H.M.S. Pinafore
Hi. I remember that you helped with our last FA project, Trial by Jury. I have now nominated Pinafore at FAC: Featured article candidates/H.M.S. Pinafore/archive1 If you have a chance, would you kindly take a look? All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:24, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

You are mentioned in a Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct
You are mentioned in a Requests for comment/User conduct. The Request for Comment page is here. Cirt (talk) 22:19, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XXI
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Thanks
For the fix at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Datestempprotectedsection; I tend to overthink things sometimes :). I note with some disappointment that you don't seem to be editing much these days; I hope you return to your normal production levels soon. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 17:31, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Poker tools
Thanks. Look for PokerTracker back at GAC soon. I wrote it because it is the software that I use. I don't intend to switch software, although I am disappointed in the current state of development of PT3 (It does not import all of my 2005 tournament results yet). I don't intend to write an article about software that I don't use.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:30, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Pages

 * FAC - Christopher Smart, Sermons of Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, and Nicolo Giraud.
 * GAN - John Milton's early life and Samuel Coleridge's early life
 * Partly done - William Wordsworth's early life, John Milton, Samuel Johnson's health, and Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)

Those are the pages. Ottava Rima (talk) 03:36, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Happy 's Day!
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it.<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 00:07, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Sorting?
Poker Hall of Fame; the 0s aren't sorting probably. Do you know what's wrong? Regards, Dabomb87 (talk) 15:21, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:40, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XXII
Delivered for the WikiCup by <font style="color:#006600;"> ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 21:46, 28 June 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

Bambifan protection
Hi. I haven't fully protected any articles. All I've done is semi-protect them against edits by new users. You should be good to go. If there are any fully protected articles, just contact the admin who issued the protection. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 05:24, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Gary, I just double-checked a couple of the titles you just mentioned. All I did was to protect them against new users. The blocks aren't admin-only, I assure you. I may have placed the wrong block template if anything, but that shouldn't keep you from editing the articles. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 05:54, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Looks as if we have a software bug. Sorry about that. I can unlock all of the Scooby-Doo articles or any others if you wish. Only takes a moment. That shouldn't be happening and I am sincerely sorry about the inconvenience. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 05:57, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Weird. I did check some and I'm seeing them as "block new and anonymous accounts." Any particular articles you'd like me to unblock for the time being? I can unblock more when I have a bit more time since I'm getting ready to log off. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:03, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, you got it. I just had another admin weigh in and he's seeing the same protection level. I'll start in with the Scooby-Doos for now and work on some more tomorrow. If you run into another of these blocks, please don't hesitate to let me know. I am really, really sorry for the unintended hassle. I'm only too happy to unblock them. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:08, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, the Scooby-Doo articles are wide open and it looks as if I did indeed accidently place full protection on a couple of them. I promise to double-check the rest of those blocks I placed today.  It's just that these juvenile-themed entertainment pieces are the targets of what is quite possibley the most persistent vandal I've ever had to deal with.  He's bad enough IMO that I just created a separate LTA page for him.  --PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:15, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

I sure do hear you and I've been thinking about the same thing for most of the evening. The really frequent target articles this guy has been most active on are already locked down. I spent 45 minutes blocking the latest round and wondered later why the heck I bothered. This is a really unusual case, but I honestly don't want to spend this kind of time blocking whatever he touches; it's become counterproductive and this hassle I've inadvertently put you through is proof. I'll just keep swatting the socks if and when they come in. His new LTA page is here if you'd like to get a better idea of what this individual is about. Thanks for the help and guidance. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:23, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi
Sorry if I seem bothersome, but I saw you make this edit, which means you might be a little less busy. If so, I left a few comments here that were never addressed. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 00:44, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

List of awards and nominations received by Barenaked Ladies
nominated List of awards and nominations received by Barenaked Ladies for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:15, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Wiki-Conference New York Update: 3 weeks to go
For those of you who signed up early, Wiki-Conference New York has been confirmed for the weekend of July 25-26 at New York University, and we have Jimmy Wales signed on as a keynote speaker.

There's still plenty of time to join a panel, or to propose a lightning talk or an open space session. Register for the Wiki-Conference here. And sign up here for on-wiki notification. All are invited! This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 03:15, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Amazing Race Wikipedia Starts!
Hello, Shappy. This is a reminder that Amazing Race Wikipedia will start very soon. At 00.00 (or whereabouts), our host Firestorm will place the first Detour on your submissions page. Again, the Detour is a choice between two tasks; both members of the team choose one task and work together to complete it. A Roadblock is a task only one team member must perform; he/she may not have any help from the other team member. Good luck and enjoy the Race! :-)  and  --EdwardsBot (talk) 13:33, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey Gary, do you know any articles we can expand for DYK? <font color="#DD0623">The <font color="#E03A1D">Le <font color="#DD4027">ft <font color="#E03A1D">ori <font color="#DD0623">um  15:24, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Nice work, but I don't know if that counts. The submissions page says "5x Expansion DYKs". <font color="#DD0623">The <font color="#E03A1D">Le <font color="#DD4027">ft <font color="#E03A1D">ori <font color="#DD0623">um  21:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Heh, the submissions page is located here. Some of the sections here might make stuff clearer for you. :P <font color="#DD0623">The <font color="#E03A1D">Le <font color="#DD4027">ft <font color="#E03A1D">ori <font color="#DD0623">um  21:32, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure. Do you know any articles we can model the lead on? <font color="#DD0623">The <font color="#E03A1D">Le <font color="#DD4027">ft <font color="#E03A1D">ori <font color="#DD0623">um  21:43, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi Gary. I'm feeling very stressed right now both on Wikipedia and IRL so I'd like to withdraw from the contest (Sorry!). Is that okay with you?  The leftorium  16:21, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

multi-column templates
Hi Gary,

At User_talk:John_Vandenberg I have been asked about Internet Explorer support for divbegin. While documenting this at Help:Columns, I noticed that you have created a similar template, colbegin, differing only in that it defaults to 2 columns. I've been doing a bit of additional research into what options we have, and if possible it would be good if we can find a solution that also works in IE, which neither of our templates do. Columns-start and multicol appear to work well in many browsers.

John Vandenberg (chat) 07:56, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (Q2 2009)

 * Newsletter delivery by xenobot  15:22, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps July update
Thanks to everyone's dedicated efforts to the GA Sweeps process, a total of 290 articles were swept in June! Last month was our second most successful month in reviewing articles (after May). We are currently over 70% done with Sweeps, with just under 800 articles left to review. With nearly 50 members, that averages out to about 15 articles per person. If each member reviews an article every other day this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. This may sound difficult, but if everyone completes their reviews, Sweeps would be completed in less than two years when we first started (with only four members!). With the conclusion of Sweeps, each editor could spend more time writing GAs, reviewing at the backlogged GAN, or focusing on other GARs. Again, I want to thank you for using your time to ensure the quality of the older GAs. Feel free to recruit other editors who have reviewed GANs in the past and might be interested in the process. The more editors, the less the workload, and hopefully the faster this will be completed. If you have any questions about reviews or the process let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 17:48, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The video games section of the articles remaining to be swept could use you, if you've got the time :) -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 18:41, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

pokerstars
FYI, I would not consider the bio on PokerStars of Chris to be a reliable source. I put the major poker sites as contigent reliability. They can be reliable, but when they are discussing their "team" then you have to treat it like a SPS. PokerStars wants to hype Chris because Chris is their posterboy. I would trust a bio on Chris more if it was from a rival site ;-)--- Balloonman  NO! I'm Spartacus! 22:04, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Metroid Good Topic
You should nominate it, Samus Aran passed a while ago :) Judgesurreal777 (talk) 20:36, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XXIII
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Devil May Cry (series) GA delisted...
...and so Devil May Cry titles has until 2009-10-08 to meet criteria 3.a. with article Devil May Cry (series). Hope that's OK! rst20xx (talk) 14:10, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XXIV
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WikiCup participates in the The Great Wikipedia Dramaout
Hello all, iMatthew here. I just wanted to let you know about "The Great Wikipedia Dramaout" which starts this Saturday. The goal of the Dramaout is to spend five days working on improving articles and abstaining from any of Wikipedia's drama. I don't think that any of you will have a problem focusing on articles for five days, because of course, any work you get done during the Dramaout will count towards your score in the WikiCup. Details are on the page; hope to see you all signing up! :)  iMatthew  talk   at 00:27, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XXV
Delivered by JCbot (talk) 16:43, 18 July 2009 (UTC).

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II
Hi, could you go through and add alt text to this? The FAR seems to be in keep territory, so this is one of the few things left to be resolved. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 18:29, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

FAC
Wow, Gary King makes an appearance at FAC.. I'm shocked! -- Andy Walsh  (talk)  18:21, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep, it's pretty creepy! <font face="Verdana"> Gary King ( talk ) 18:35, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, but it would be even more shocking if this were bluelinked. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:43, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Bethena review
Hi Gary,

Sorry to bother you, but you reviewed the article Bethena which I've been working on, so thanks for taking the time! There have been some major additions to the article since you reviewed it in April, so could you take another look? I've no idea whether it is now better than a B, or whether there are some obvious things which can be improved on it for WP's readers, but I'd appreciate the input. Many thanks, and keep up the good work! Major Bloodnok (talk) 18:57, 23 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Will do. Major Bloodnok (talk) 19:01, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

wikEd archiving
Hey, I have reverted your archiving because I would like to keep the unfixed or not yet addressed issues on the wikEd talk page. Feel free to archive the explicitly fixed or addressed threads to a new archive page if you want :-) Thanks, Cacycle (talk) 01:24, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Edit Count
Is there a way for me to know how many edits I've made?

Ojay123 (talk) 17:56, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

NFLretired infobox
I don't think I have a problem with the updated infobox, great job. Thanks --Phbasketball6 (talk) 04:42, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

David Carradine
Any reason for deleting the Queen of Swords item. I put it in because it was shortly after this appearance that he got the part of sword wielding Bill. I do not think it was not unnoticed by Tarrantino because Carradines career had been in the doldrums for a number of years. Bo Derek also appeared in the Queen of Swords.REVUpminster (talk) 06:28, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry did not see it hidden there. Incidently on youtube in five parts The episode The Serpent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8AQht4yC1o This is the french edition although with original English soundtrackREVUpminster (talk) 06:42, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Re: Help on another Simpsons episode article
Sure, I'll do it tomorrow or sometime this week. :)  The left orium  09:26, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Black Widower = done! Let me know if there's anything you need help with.  The left orium  18:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

New user template
At one point last year when I joined Wikipedia, you posted a welcome message on my talk page. Do you know where I can obtain that template, as I wish to pass it on to another user.

Ojay123 (talk) 01:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

List of awards and nominations received by Alison Krauss
Hi Gary! Given your extensive work on musician award lists (you have dozens of FLs on the subject to your name), I would greatly appreciate any advice you have for Alison Krauss' list which I am currently working on. The only difference I see (other than potentially missing non-win nominations for the non-Grammy awards, I haven't dug through looking for those yet) is I have the awards sorted by # of wins rather than alphabetically. Think I should shift that? Also, I snipped a few awards to keep the list reasonable, but I'd be interested if you think some or all of them are notable and should get tables:
 * 1 Canadian Country Music Award
 * 2 CMT Music Awards
 * 2 Academy of Country Music Awards

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give! Staxringold talkcontribs 15:31, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick reply. I'll get right on both of those things. Do you know how to add awards properly to the Musician table? It would be nice if the awards were sorted alphabetically there along with the rest of the article, but using the custom award slots dumps them automatically after all named awards (so after Grammys). Staxringold talkcontribs 15:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks again for your notes, thought you might like to know I have now FLC'ed the list. Staxringold talkcontribs 00:45, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Also, if you're interested in updating your many awesome lists, I added an alt text option for the images in Infobox Musician Awards (just "| alt ="). Staxringold talkcontribs 00:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Whoops! Thanks for that, you're much much MUCH more experienced at template-work than I am. Staxringold talkcontribs 00:35, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Wait, I think I had it correct, the alt text isn't working now. Staxringold talkcontribs 00:36, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Right you are, apologies. Dunno what happened. Staxringold talkcontribs 00:42, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

PokerTracker GA Thanks
Thank you for your editorial assistance on PokerTracker, which is now a WP:GA.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 03:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:FOUR
I can not recall if I have notified you about the WP:FOUR award. You may be eligible.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 03:09, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Main page
There are no requests on WP:TFAR right now; it might be a good time to submit a request for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:18, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, didn't see that. Cheers. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:42, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * You added The Simpsons Hit & Run to the request page, but it says "You must return to add to the requests page when it's eligible"? Dabomb87 (talk) 22:46, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * TFAR is accepting up to Sep. 17. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:47, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I thought it was −2 points for within one month, so it would be −1 w/ anniversary point (pity you didn't get it to FA before last September!). Still, if you might as well try as long as there's nothing on the request page (unless there's a rule against putting something with negative points up). Dabomb87 (talk) 23:01, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

(Sorry for being a talk page stalker) Would this (the 20th anniversary one) be effected if Hit & Run goes on the main page?  The left orium  23:12, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * That's three months later, so there shouldn't be any problems according to WP:TFAR rules. <font face="Verdana"> Gary King ( talk ) 23:25, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

FLRC for List of awards and nominations received by Gwen Stefani
nominated List of awards and nominations received by Gwen Stefani for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.--<font style="background:orange;">Crzycheetah 17:41, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps August update
Thanks to everyone's dedicated efforts to the GA Sweeps process, a total of 215 articles were swept in July! We are currently nearly 80% done with Sweeps, with under 600 articles left to review. With 50 members, that averages out to about 12 articles per person. Once the remaining articles drop to 100, I'll help in reviewing the last articles (I'm currently taking a break). If each member reviews an article every other day this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. Again, I want to thank you for using your time to ensure the quality of the older GAs. Feel free to recruit other editors who have reviewed GANs in the past and might be interested in the process. The more editors, the less the workload, and hopefully the faster this will be completed. If you have any questions about reviews or the process let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 19:27, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

User Subpages
I was wondering if there's a way to delete subpages on your own user page? Thanks

Ojay123 (talk) 23:19, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

GA sweeps user box
Can you look at Help_desk.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:08, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Mathematics
If you're still interested: Good article reassessment/Mathematics/1. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:13, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi. I was thinking that your post-delisting comments might be useful for the GAR, but didn't want to copy them accross myself. If you could do it, it would be great, or even better, write a quick overview of problems (this may be appear less confrontational than simply copying the initial review, as it seemed to be getting a bit heated). Thanks either way.<font color="#0000CD">Yob <font color="CC3399 ">Mod  13:23, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Max Payne 2 Reception
Ahh man... I did not even notice that. All that work for nothing. Thanks anyways.

Motorheadx 08:57, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Re: FL nomination
Thanks for letting me know, I'll keep an eye on the nomination page. I've gotta say, that was impressively quick work, well done. -- Nomader (Talk) 04:00, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Question
Hello again Gary. What's this about? - sesu <font color="#b22222">PRIME  15:28, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * You can also see the diff more clearly (without that temp. edit) with WikiEd's diff viewer. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:37, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Or you could have moved the "In Metroid (1986)..." bit to the same line as (which you did), then hit "Show changes" rather than saving the page; that would have caused the paragraphs to line up between the diffs without having to save the page. Just sayin'. - sesu <font color="#b22222">PRIME  16:03, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

WP:FOUR award
In order to keep the backlog down, we try to have the nominators review an article for each one nominated. If you get a chance come by and second a nomination.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:45, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

delete?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Collier_Township_shooting

Is this an article that should be deleted? If there is news about it in a few months, then maybe it can be re-created. Acme Plumbing (talk) 03:16, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

thanks heaps!
Gary, nice of you to fix my mini-dilemma. Don't know why it started misbehaving after so long.

I was going to visit here anyway to ask whether it's possible to slightly enlarge the text displayed in your Editing exericise template, which has contributed so much to the professional look of about eight pages (some of them much used, I suspect). It may be my iMac, Safari, or some other factor, but the text does look a little small on my default 1920 × 1200 res. Tony   (talk)  02:59, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Timeline help
Any clue as to how to make Timeline of Macintosh models comply with WP:ACCESS? Refer to Featured list removal candidates/Timeline of Macintosh models/archive1. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 04:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Mags
You can go ahead and grab them. I really will get in trouble with the missus; we're in the middle of a move. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 16:52, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


 * LOL, looks like we're both somewhat-unenthusiastic-receivers of this gift. I'm in the west end. Maybe whoever is closer should grab 'em ? =) –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 17:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Zelda list
Gary- Nomader is going to expand the manga section later today. Do you know of some reliable sources for the soundtracks? (Guyinblack25 talk 15:45, 11 August 2009 (UTC))

Automatic Peer Reviewer
Just to inform you that your version of the peerreviewer script is being use by ~dispenser/view/Peer reviewer (see the about section). I hope this is alright with you. Also, somebody had ask to fix image: being change to file:. — Dispenser 16:10, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Okay I've made the script check for File: as well. When I use the script, for some reason it returns different results every time I hit the "Load article" button. At the very least, I've noticed that this happens on the Samus Aran article. <font face="Verdana"> Gary King ( talk ) 02:34, 14 August 2009 (UTC)


 * As far as I can tell with the regular expression documentation it is a Firefox/Chrome bug. I've simplified down to a test case  .  It work as excepted if the g flag is dropped, which suggests that the pointer moves and resets at the end.  — Dispenser 01:23, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98409 — Dispenser 01:55, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Help?
While I'll later try and help fulfill those requests in the Samus FAC, are you too busy or can you take a look at Watchmen (film)? The GA review asks for a copyedit on tense use problems. Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 02:04, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

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Semi-automated peer review script fixes
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Your edit count...
Because of your service to Wikipedia, you're able to display one of these on your userpage as a service award, and you can update to the next level if you wait a few months (until October 26th, to be exact). I just wanted to show that to you!

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Kennedy
Don't you think it's a bit counterproductive on a high-visibility page to re-combine the lead into a too-long section, and then complain about your own action via the ugly  template? -- Yellowdesk (talk) 18:45, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Please make a proper section for the discussion on the split, and state your argument there for others to respond to, or remove the split template. It's a courtesy to actually make a case, instead of just placing the template there for some other random party to pick up the responsibility and conversation on. -- Yellowdesk (talk) 19:04, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * The link fails because the section is misspelled, which is why I did not find it, and why most others will not either. -- Yellowdesk (talk)
 * I now see on further investigation that the "too long" family of templates, unlike the merge/split templates don't allow the editor to specify the particular section the discussion is occurring at. -- Yellowdesk (talk) 19:28, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Enhanced comments in local time script
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History of China Template
Hi Gary, I'm wondering what your motivation is for your recent changes to the size and title box of Template:History of China. It seems to me that the new version is not as good as the old one. It's narrower, but longer, and not as pretty, as there is now no 'title' box. Can we discuss the look of the template? thanks LK (talk) 04:45, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Review of Your recent Edits
Can be found here. Melodia should have informed you, but I am sure it was just an oversight. Please take heed of the discussion there. Eusebeus (talk) 19:01, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

The Zelda FT
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 * Hey, I'm referring to this one. I don't think using the list instead of the article changes which other articles need to be included in the topic one bit. The focus-narrowing from media to titles is comparable to the narrowing of discography articles to just albums. Personally I think this topic is a little bit iffy in that it only includes games Nintendo considers official canon, and not all the games Nintendo actually had a hand in making, but this holds true no matter what main article is used, and if you use the list, it not only brings the topic more in line with the majority of other topics which do use such lists, it also gets the lead back to good or featured, something that should have happened by now - rst20xx (talk) 10:08, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Black Widower/GA1
In case you haven't noticed, Black Widower just passed. Nice job! :)  The left orium  17:33, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

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RE: Flag icons at All Hope Is Gone
If the flagicon shouldn't be used on Wikipedia, when why is a template & why is it used on countless articles, usually in the infobox? Flagicons are more commonly used on mulitple county release dates for albums than <insert country wiki article here/>. 「ɠu¹ɖяy」 ¤ • ¢ 19:55, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * If you look at Template:Flagicon, you will see all the flags included alt text & if you click on the flag, it links you to the article about that country. 「ɠu¹ɖяy」 ¤ • ¢ 20:03, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The flag icons over the text, in my opinion, provide a quicker reference. See the small text, draws more attention due to it being smaller & more of a strain on the eyes. There is no guideline or policy directly stating that one should be over the other for album release dates, it just looks more encyclopedic (or higher quality) with the flags over the small text for infoboxes. 「ɠu¹ɖяy」 ¤ • ¢ 20:20, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Well with article being an album, I looked at the best WikiProject for an answer, WikiProject Albums. The only true discussion about this concern was this one. It was a lot to read & there isn't a clean answer but it appears to more of a lean towards flagicons over any other alternative, but this discussion was was back in 2007. I really wish Albums would make a clean & concise determination of which is correct for this project. But still after everything, I still believe the flagicons are a better approach for this. 「ɠu¹ɖяy」 ¤ • ¢ 20:40, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Small vs Large
Hi, Source of confusion: I typed small in my edit summary before when I meant large... sorry.

Key items: Crucifixion & Resurrection of Jesus should really fit on one line and teh Rites section should take only 2 lines to optimize Real Estate. Your last template actually looks pretty good on different browsers, yet I would suggest making the font still 90% of what it is to be sure it works on moire systems without overspilling. You can do that yourself if you like so it does not look like we are in an edit war. Cheers. History2007 (talk) 18:16, 22 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I think it fits now, but to be prudent, it would be best to reduce the font a little still. History2007 (talk) 18:30, 22 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok, I think we can just leave it as such, although it would look better at 90% of default. I may experiment with the look later. Now I am busy with a few things. Cheers History2007 (talk) 18:56, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Famly Guy
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Thank you
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About Internet and the image
Hi! I want to discuss about that image on Internet that we disagree about. Admittedly the caption was not enlightening, but the image is about the Interface Message Processor: ''The Interface Message Processor (IMP) was the packet-switching node used to connect computers to the original ARPANET in the late 1960s and 1970s. It was the first generation of what is known as a router today.'' -basically, it is the first (or one of the first) computers ever being connected to the predecessor of the current Internet, and Leonard Kleinrock was the one sending one of the very first messages.

As such I think it's relevant to the article. What do you think of putting the image back, with a thorough caption? Thanks! (You can answer here, I keep your talk page on my watchlist for the time being) --Cyclopia (talk) 21:53, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

New user header talk-page layout
Thanks, Gary; you've much improved it. The only thing now is that the box listing the writing tutorials seems to be squashed into the middle, unless I widen my window significantly. I think most visitors won't open wide windows. Any way it could be on either side, or in the middle but under the right- and left-side info? Tony  (talk)  02:54, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

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Facebook is down.
Hi there! Don't ask me how I got to you but I'm hoping you can help. I'm in Australia. Facebook in Brisbane appears to be unobtainable. I don't know if they are aware of the fact. Please! Do you know how to contact them? My email is :-   aussie_bobel@yahoo.com I appreciate any help you may be able to give,

Thanks, Elln D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.217.35.85 (talk) 04:11, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Cruise ship pollution in the United States
Why did you remove TOCright from Cruise ship pollution in the United States? I cannot find anything in WP:ACCESS that prevents its use. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 07:20, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Alésia Glidewell
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The WPVG Newsletter (Q3 2009)

 * Newsletter delivery by xenobot  04:12, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

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References at the end of quotes
Do you mean to say that this is not good enough:
 * In his reply, Smith said that the argument was "bogus". He also objected that the timing was "ludicrous". He finally stated that the motivation was "questionable".<font color="#002bb8">[67]

but that we must use:
 * In his reply, Smith said that the argument was "bogus".<font color="#002bb8">[67] He also objected that the timing was "ludicrous".<font color="#002bb8">[67] He finally stated that the motivation was "questionable".<font color="#002bb8">[67]

? I don't think it makes the quotes the slightest bit more verifiable. --Lambiam 22:20, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Four Award
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How do you find time to put as much work into Wikipedia as you do? Are you retired? Alatari (talk) 04:19, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Not at all. I put in a lot of hours this week but have the time.  Mostly I go weeks without even logging in.  Your list of edited articles and contributions is immense and I couldn't have done the same and kept a job.  Alatari (talk) 06:10, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, maybe I have done more this month but for all the work it doesn't seem I've made any major contribution or improvement. This has happened before; next I go off to other recreations having not achieved a feeling of accomplishment on Wikipedia.  Alatari (talk) 06:17, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Peer reviewer script
Assuming (yes, I know...) that this is the script behind [], is there any chance this script could exclude quotations and template parameters from MOS requirements? I'm getting hits for dateth, engvar, and contractions off World War I, most of which seem to be instances that fall inside quotations and cited titles. Thanks, LeadSongDog <font color="red" face="Papyrus">come howl 21:07, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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Removal of review of book
Hey there. I do not mind the removal of the link (see here: ) but may I ask why the link was removed? I assumed that links to peoples book reviews indicated more notability to the subject (since if your books are getting looked at and talked about etc.) but if this is incorrect then I apologize and probably should stop doing so (whenever I come through such articles/essays/reviews I tend to add them to Wikipedia due to me thinking they make the article better... but again if that is not the case let me know). Kind regards.Calaka (talk) 09:21, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
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MTV VMA controversy in a heading of the Taylor Swift article
Hello, Gary King. You seem to do good work here, but I objected to one of your recent edits on the Taylor Swift article and reverted it. Is there any valid reason you removed MTV VMA controversy out of the heading of the Fearless section? The controversy generated notable interest, and clearly made her even more famous, and should be presented in that section's title. Aside from that, readers are going to be looking for it, and presenting it in a heading's title makes it easier. A fan of hers or someone knowing which project she was working on at the time would automatically know where to look, but not people who have heard about her or the incident at random. This is no different than presenting Chris Brown's 2009 (and so far only) controversy in a heading combined with one of his albums. These sections are not just about their albums but also about their controversies.

If you tend to revert me on this matter, I will try to get other editors to weigh in on this so that we can better achieve consensus about it. Flyer22 (talk) 20:53, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Copyright
I noticed you uploaded a picture on call of duty 4 on wiki using a copyrighted picture do you think it is ok to take a photo of a game and claim it as yours I will be taking this futher expect to hear from me —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.9.28.102 (talk) 14:30, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Proposal to raise FT criteria to requiring 50% featured
This passed, so your FT(s) need more articles featured by 1 September 2010, or else they will become GTs - rst20xx (talk) 21:02, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

FA-Team revival
I've made a proposal to bring the FA-Team out of inactivity—with a mission a bit different than we're used to. This is just a generic note I'm sending to members asking for their input. Cheers, Mm40 (talk) 01:29, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

The 2010 WikiCup begins tomorrow!
Welcome to the biggest WikiCup Wikipedia has yet seen! Round one will take place over two months, and finish on February 26. There is only one pool, and the top 64 will progress. The competition will be tough, as more than half of the current competitors will not make it to round 2. Details about scoring have been finalized and are explained at WikiCup/Scoring. Please make sure you're familiar with the scoring rules, because any submissions made that violate these rules will be removed. Like always, the judges can be reached through the WikiCup talk pages, on their talk page, or over IRC with any issues concerning anything tied to the Cup. We will keep in contact with you via weekly newsletters; if you do not want to receive them, please remove yourself from the list here. Conversely, if a non-WikiCup participant wishes to receive the newsletters, they may add themselves to that list. Well, enough talk- get writing! Your submission's page is located here. Details on how to submit your content is located here, so be sure to check that out! Once content has been recognized, it can be added to your submissions page, from which our bot will update the main score table. Remember that only articles worked on and nominated during the competition are eligible for points. Have fun, and good luck! Garden, iMatthew, J Milburn, and The ed17 19:18, 31 December 2009 (UTC)