User talk:Hbdragon88/Archive 1

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Fame and fortune!
What an excellently titled show! Maybe I should ask if I can have a part &mdash; they could use a Wikipedian, I'm sure! I haven't see the show, no, though judging from the website it sounds good. Being on the other side of the Atlantic, it'd be a bit of a trip. I did visit Las Vegas (and of course The Strip) three summers ago. In fact, at a good guess, I would say that it must be almost three years to the day! I enjoyed it. I can't remember if we went in The Riviera or not. Hmmmm. Being associated with a LV show is much more attractive than the alternative. One upset new editor (I had voted to delete an article on their forum) enquired why I would be "named after a sucky Tom Hanks movie"; at which point I discovered Splash. Can't win 'em all, I guess! -Splash 05:10, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Save system criticized
I don't think one GameFAQs topic is enough to make it a verifiable major POV. Andre ( talk ) 23:35, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the support on my RfA. I was very pleasantly surprised to see so much support throughout the week. Please do keep an eye on me and my logs, especially while I'm learning the ropes with the new buttons. Thanks again! -Splash 23:52, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

re: Blank and redirect?
Hmmm... It probably should be deleted. That was one of the first pages I created at Wikipedia, not knowing at the time to see if it was covered elsewhere. Feel free to merge and redirect if you think you should, seems like a good idea. Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 00:57, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Although I could technically delete it myself, I won't since I'm not sure I should (a process issue, not an issue of if it should be) and if in doubt, I won't. I would suggest just replacing the article with a redirect yourself. Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 15:05, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Los Angeles Metro Revert
"You reverted too far"

I reverted to the point where the article was canabolized. Any discussion of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority which excludes the history of Metro Rail is wholely incomplete. In fact it is critical to its twelve year history and to the understanding of what the authority does. The information which you deleted is only partially repeated in other articles. Even if it were repeated it is appropriate that the information be compiled in one article.

I concur more bus history is in order. However, I don't have that knowledge. I'll see what I can dig up. You might want to do the same.

Lastly, I'll go through today and piece in information which was added, post revert.

--SAUNDERS 18:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

More on Los Angeles Metro
HB,

Below is what I put on the talk page for the Los Angeles Metro. I hope that we can work to make this article a better one. ___

This article is about the authority not the history of indivisual lines. For History of individual lines one can refer to those independent articles.

It is not necessarily to devide the history of MTA up into further categories. This only makes the readability of the article more difficult as the flow is heavily disrupted. For example the history as it now starts in 2004, eleven years after the foundation of the twelve year old authority then it jumps back to 1990, then forward to 2000, then back again to 1993, 1994, 1999 and then once again back to 1994.... It's very difficult to get a quick understanding of  how the  order these the lines came into operation.

The division also makes the article lopsided as the bus history is obviously less developed then rail.

Beyond the structure the article now several run on sentences and misspellings.

I am hesitant to revert back to the Nov. 12 edit because I have already once reverted HBdragon's edits when he deleted swaths of information several weeks ago. It is my hope that someone else will revert or hbdragon himself will consider my comments and revert the article him or herself

Thanks

--SAUNDERS 18:21, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Lueshi
I 100% agree that it is fancruft. But I am not here to judge how deep it was propagated. I merely noted that the procedure was improperly followed. The first VfD ony 3 persons took part. Anon's vote is not counted. Two persons cannot decide the fate of article. Consequently, the speedy opinion in the secod vote is invalid as well. I should have written this in the article. talk. Copying there...mikka (t) 02:39, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

LACMTA
Thank you for asking my opinion.

I think that User:SAUNDERS' organization of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the better version between the two of them. However, I suggest changing the organization of that version slightly by adding some timeline markers as subsections (every 5 years?) so that it isn't such a massive block of strait text. (There's also a little tweaking and copy-editing that I think needs to be done in the history section. The second paragraph on alternative fuel buses should be moved down to the bus section, with a brief summary mentioned in the article's intro. The first paragraph on the founding of the agency in 1993 should be integrated into the rest of the timeline in the proper place, and the opening paragraph should be just a mention of the two agencies that were the precursors to LACMTA. The founding date should also be mentioned in the intro.)

In my opinion, your version of dividing the history into sections for each service essentially makes the LACMTA article a repeat of the individual articles on each of the LACTMA services. Remember that the article should be an overview of LACMTA. Any details about the Metro Rail and Metro Bus should be in those articles and not the LACMTA article. What putting all of the history together does is that it allows the reader to understand the history of LACTMA as a whole, and allows them to understand how each action relates to the rest of LACMTA. It allows the reader to see what was going on at the same time, and to see what came before and what came after. That gives them a good context for understanding LACMTA's actions. For example, the Bus Riders Union agreement involved both Metro Rail and Metro Bus, so putting it the Metro Rail section would mean that in your version anyone who quickly scanned the article and only looked at the Metro Bus section would miss that information.

If you disagree, you could ask for more opinions by filing a Request for comments. You could also ask for the opinions of some of the members of the Southern California WikiProject, who should be more familiar with LACMTA. Blank Verse 10:32, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

NES series
The point im making is that these are THE ORIGINAL GAMES from the NES. So what you're saying is that these criticisms are relevent to the original 20+ year old NES games? I am not even including the word "Classic".

So when SMB was released in 1985 it was criticized for not having the levels and extras that didint even exist yet? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ERW1980 (talk • contribs) 20:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Girl, Interrupted
Thanks! Poisonouslizzie 09:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I know you from somewhere...
...WHERE DO I KNOW YOU FROM...

Somewhere...somewhere. The name is indeed familiar. Xizer 10:59, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Karts
If you think all those karts from Mario Kart DS belong in a list, then why don't you make it? I personally think you can make a table with the info in the main game article. - Mgm|(talk) 13:50, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Tip: If you come across a large number of similar articles again, please consider making a mass nomination. (Putting them all on the same AFD page. - Mgm|(talk) 13:51, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Snaking
Article was previously deleted for containing "another term for anal sex". For it to be deleted for being a recreation, the article needs to be sufficiently similar to the earlier discussed content. Please renominate it on AFD. Instructions on how to do a renomination are on AFD. Just so you know. - Mgm|(talk) 13:56, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

So what is not a slang term for anal sex these days? --8bitJake 05:43, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Mass nomination
If you make a mass nomination, you change the link in the afd template on the article (in subst:afd) to whatever page you put the AFD discussion on.

In the header of the AFD discussion page, you name all articles, or if that takes too much space, you use a collective name and mention them in the body of your nomination. - Mgm|(talk) 22:12, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Generation Nex page
The Generation NEX page was the one of the first articles I tried to edit on the Wikipedia. I was still learning the ways. --8bitJake 05:35, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Yom Kippur War
Did you intend to duplicate the ongoing vote? : ) -- M P er el ( talk 05:38, 6 January 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem, it all got kind of buried earlier up on the talk page, and you were obviously just trying to help. -- M P er el ( talk 07:21, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Template:Main
Hi Hbdragon88. Template:Main is meant for links from subarticles back to main articles, not vice versa. I'm pretty sure Metrolink (Southern California) should continue to use details. See Template talk:Main. Mike Dillon 22:39, 6 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I think it is telling that what you said about the Glendale train crash article, "to shift all the discussion and add more details", is so similar to the "For more details on this topic" used by the details template. If you really want to change it to main, would you mind discussing it on Talk:Metrolink (Southern California) before changing it? Mike Dillon 02:43, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

re: Talk page deletion
Hi there. We don't generally delete talk pages, unless they go with deleted articles (and not always then). Since you and Tregoweth have removed the soapboxing from them, and it shows no sign of returning, we may as well just leave the talk pages with their full history intact. There isn't a specific place to request talk page deletions, although out-of-the-ordinary requests can be placed at WP:SD. -Splash talk 02:12, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Kelly Martin's ArbCom candidacy page
At Arbitration Committee Elections January 2006/Vote/Kelly Martin I noticed that you have voted oppose, but you have placed your vote in the neutral section - was this intentional? Thryduulf 23:53, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I spotted that after I left the message on your talk page. As it currently stands with the vote in the neutral section struck out is the best imho. With voting pages you've to make it clear why votes were moved or removed, and at the moment it is nice and easy to see what happened. Its likely to be more confusing (imho) in edit summaries, so I'd say leave it. Thryduulf 00:02, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

HBHS
Hey Michael, I'll be working on Huntington Beach High School in the coming weeks. I'm out of town starting Thursday, but when I return I'll be doing some fact-finding about the school. I also have access to all the old yearbooks, so I think we could make the page into a featured article in the high school wikiproject. worth a shot, eh?WesleyPinkham 04:29, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Minimal clean up work done, but more importantly, I started a to-do list. I had sent Mr. Linzey an e-mail...months ago, he never responded. Because he's a POS. I'm over it. I'll do my own fact finding and what not. I've got a copy of the seal somewhere from a picture I took of the memorial in the front. It'd be fun to feature art around campus (primarily the mural and the tile art on the front of the office facing main street. anyway, feel free to make changes, i'll be working more when i get home on monday. WesleyPinkham 08:40, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

re :70s construction: That started soon after I graduated in 1972, so it was probably started in the Summer or Fall of 72. I only know the pre-destruction HBHS. I heard the main problem was in the way that the second stories were constructed, which is the reason that the Tower and Auditorium were allowed to remain standing. (Besides, if they had threatened to tear down the Tower, 65 years worth of HBHS alumni would have tried to block the demolition equipment. Do upper classmen still try to sell Tower Passes to naïve incoming freshmen?) If the small pond/nature center near the athletic field is still there, I was one of the students that built that. Your best bet for info will probably be either on campus (old school newspapers and yearbooks) or the large Main Library for Huntington Beach (going through either microfilm or microfiche of old Daily Pilot and Orange County Registers--except I think it was called the Santa Ana Register then). The '72 yearbook has a nice aerial photo on the inside covers--you might ask the yearbooks staff if they still have the original. You'll have to dig for verification, but if I remember correctly HBHS is the 2nd oldest continuous high school in Orange County. Blank Verse 12:17, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


 * This year is our centennial year, and as a yearbook editor for this year's book, I've been doing extensive work in the archives. I have access to the whole yearbook archive and will be digging through in the coming months to get everything this article needs. We have close to 1,000 scans that I'll burn to disc for use on this article. We don't have the pond/nature center that you're referring to, but I'd be happy to pick up a yearbook from that time period to see what was covered. (We don't sell Tower Passes but our librarian recalls her brother selling her one in her Freshman year..) Originals are hard to come by for a lot of the shots (Mr. Morehouse, the photo teacher has a few), but we have some high quality scanners at the school. Resources are pretty much endless... This article really has some POV issues...anyway, happy collaborating! WesleyPinkham 19:35, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


 * re: the aerial photo: I am sure that it was professionally done. The yearbook probably purchased the rights for a one-time use, so unfortunately it will probably be unusable on the Wikipedia. re: the pond: I know that there aren't any pictures or mentions in any of my yearbooks, although I think there were one or two articles on it in the school paper. It probably disappeared after the biology teacher who was responsible for creating it either left or retired (Mr. Ortiz). re: Tower Passes: They were fake passes usually created by students in the printing class that were sold to unsuspecting new students. Blank Verse 19:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I uploaded one of my shots for the bell tower image, as promised. I think it's an excellent addition to the page. Let me know what you think. WesleyPinkham 06:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Delinking Years
Hi I saw on one of you edits you included this notice de-linked years according to WP:MOSNUM) I'm not really sure what part of the Manual your basing this on but it is proper wikipedia policy to wikify every date, I'm not really sure why, but I read the MOSNUM and it said nothing to discourage this practice. Deathawk 20:52, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

What did you do?
You made an edit on my user page and listed WP:AUM as the reason. I read WP:AUM quite a few times, but I still don't understand the difference between a / and a |. Could you explain it to me? I'm just curious, that's all. - Hbdragon88 02:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi. As a result of WP:AUM the &#123;{user wikipedia}} template was edited so that instead of showing different results depending on what came after the pipe '|' character (in this case the 'I do not want to be an admin' box) it just always showed 'This user is a Wikipedian' no matter what parameter was set after the '|'. The page was then protected in that format... causing hundreds of user pages to display boxes other than what the user intended. To remedy this, separate templates were created using the '/' to differentiate the various individual boxes. The format represents two calls to Template:User wikipedia... passing in the 'anti-administrator' parameter the first time and the 'rcp' parameter the second. In the past it would have displayed different results based on the parameter passed, but now it has been edited to ignore that. The new form,  are two separate templates which just have a '/' in their names. So, basically... some people trying to comply with WP:AUM (which actually isn't particularly important) made a mess of things and AzaToth, Commander Keane, myself, and others have been going through the individual user pages and cleaning it up. --CBD &#x260E; &#x2709; 02:50, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

GameFAQs
In regards to your question, yes- I am (or was, I should say) user Doom127 on those messageboards. I left over a year ago with regards to several changes in the site moderation system. It left too little leeway for honest discussion. Too many people who just wanted to start fights, too few people interested in actual discussion. Daniel Davis 07:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC) (Doom127)
 * September of 2005? That late? Well, I don't remember it, but it's possible. Either way, around that time I left and haven't been back.

Image:Mariokartdsemblem.jpg
Despite its current tag it looks like a screenshot from a video game. Those are considered to be copyrighted no matter who captures them and require a screenshot tag and fair use rationale on Wikipedia. On the Commons images like that are not allowed as all Commons images must be free. If you want a second opinion, I recommend asking people from the Image sleuthing project who are experts at this. See Image sleuthing. - Mgm|(talk) 22:37, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm unsure about the rules at Wikibooks, so you'd have to ask there. But if you want to use it there, you need to reupload (and properly tag it) there - not post it to the commons. - Mgm|(talk) 05:59, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Hack-a-Shaq
Do you know any more about this shooting coach you mentioned in your addition to the Hack-a-Shaq article? I know he was working with that Austratlian guy back around 2000/2001, but then he dropped him. I'd heard O'Ndal many times after that swear off further coaching, so I hadn't heard he'd relented and hired someone else in/around 2004. Do you have any idea about the new coach's name or background? I'd like to add some detail on that if I can find any. Thanks! Mwelch 22:24, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I've been searching but haven't found any reference to him hiring a new shooting coach after that first guy. I'll keep looking though. Mwelch 00:10, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Just as an FYI, I've been unable to find anything that substantiates what you're remembering being in the 2004 timeframe. Reviewing his statistics, Shaq'a free throw numbers since 2004 are actually the worst they've ever been in his career. So I've re-worked the section that you added, operating under the assumption that you're correctly remembering what was reported in the articles, but that you read those articles in 2001, not 2004. Thus, the shooting coach you remember reading about is the same one I had heard about and mentioned above, and indeed Shaq has remained dead set against any more personal coaching since that time. Therefore, since he's back to being absolutely horrible at free throws again, rumors of Hack-a-Shaq's demise have been greatly exaggerated. 8-) Let me know if you think I'm horribly off-base on my re-write.  Mwelch 04:38, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Kelly's Wikibreak or vacation
Hbdragon88, I noticed this addition to Kelly Martin's page after her last page edit in early February from Man in Black which, according to his comment, read "vandalizing with a picture of a dick". I also read the February 4th posts on your talk page under the heading "Wikibreak" with a few individuals stating they regret Kelly is taking a "wikibreak" (I used the term vacation, should've used this). From these two, it seemed that someone had vandalized her page with a picture while she was gone. Now reading her contributions, she has been active since then, however I was simply defending the integrity of another user's page. It was with the most sincere intent I did this. My apologies if I overstepped my bounds. Netkinetic 05:10, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Handheld video game consoles
THe micro was a radical redesign, as opposed ot hte other varients. And also the micro is the smallest ever handhel d video game console, thus it its wirht merit IMO. --Larsinio 01:42, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Game & Watch
Sorry about the deletion, I should have performed the history merge. But I'm wondering... do you want the final article to be at Nintendo Game & Watch or at Game & Watch? Mushroom (Talk) 22:00, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Lueshi vote count
I'm more than happy to share that with you. A total number of 25 votes were cast. I discarded seven of those (of which 5 keep votes, 1 merge and 1 delete). 18 votes were counted for the consensus. Keep gathered 33% of the votes. Merge harvested 28%, and delete 22%. Then the shared type of votes; Merge/delete and merge/keep gained 6% and 11%. Clearly, this is not a consensus in either way. Soothing R  08:02, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

re:Image help
It was because you had enclosed the image in 🇦🇩 rather than and. So MediaWiki thought you wanted to transclude the page itself (as if it were a template, basically) rather than display the image. I fixed it. -Splash talk 05:55, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Removing the zits link
Thanks for the explanation about the redirect--I missed that fact the first time. Sorry for the mis-revert.  &middot; rodii  &middot;  01:58, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Vanishing pages
The Wikimedia servers have been behaving a little...off colour...in the last few days and various people have been alarmed by this effect. The solution appears to be a combination of purging the page and repeatedly asking for the version from the history or the edit box itself until the servers tell the truth. Developer Brion Vibber has indicated that this was a bug, see WP:VPT, where he says it should be nearly fixed now. -Splash talk 22:44, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmm?
On the ZERO-ONE (Pokémon Snap) page, you replaced my db-bio with a redirect. However, when I clicked on the page itself, it still reflected my version (the last changes I made), and it was only by looking in the "diff" that I found out what you had done. Did Wikipedia...somehow...preserved your edit differences, but actually didn't store the edit to teh actual page itself? Or is it my browser? - Hbdragon88 04:51, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Chances are there is an issue with your browser caching the page, or that you may have somehow looked up an old version. If it persists today, try reloading the page by pressing Ctrl-F5.
 * Incidentally, db-bio can only be used for articles about real people, not fictional characters, not vehicles, and not fictional vehicles. I find prod useful for this, however. Thanks! Stifle 13:36, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

mario dude
I agree, but I am not an admin. --OrbitOne 10:28, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

MUN
Did I get an award?! I'm dying to know. WesleyPinkham 23:18, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Game Boy micro
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I removed your CSD tag for Game Boy micro because it seems that on that article's talk page there was a previous discussion about this move. The result of this discussion seems to have yielded no consensus on the matter. Since speedy deletions really isn't the proper method to go about this, I suggest you try listing the article on WP:RM. Thanks -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 06:56, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Alan Colmes
On January 18th, 2006, you made a revision to the Alan Colmes article in which you included him in the category "pro-life celebrities." I assume this was an honest mistake on your part, and I would encourage you to research more carefully before throwing people into categories in which they obviously don't belong. Stanley011 23:09, 19 April 2006 (UTC)


 * That's ok--I've made many worse mistakes than that. Stanley011 14:02, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Comment on the GBA SP IfD
I put the image on IfD because the image isn't actually orphaned if one user keeps inserting it into articles, so the count should be from the last date it was used in an article; I just didn't update it because the IfD will close sooner and I see zero chance of it being kept. Also, at least the IP editor gets a chance at explaining why this image is so important, even if he seems not to use that chance at the moment. -- grm_wnr Esc  23:10, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Lyn Me
I'm slightly confused by your move request. If you don't think that Lyn Me deserves a separate article, you can just copy and paste the contents into a new section of the List of minor residents of Tatooine article, and change Lyn Me to a redirect. You can do all this without going through any formal process. Let me know if you need any more information. — sjorford (talk)  13:26, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well spotted :) Don't know what I was thinking there. Never mind, ignore me.... — sjorford (talk)  21:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

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Justin Berry
Greetings... Thanks for your work to improve the article on Justin Berry, especially in archiving the talk page & fixing the redundant references. I noticed you moved the High school section back to the top of the article. I was planning on deleting the section since it contains uncited references, based on previous discussions in Talk:Justin Berry/Archive 1 regarding the deletion of the original article and the need to carefully cite sources. I had initially moved that section to the end of the article, so as not to emphasize it over & above the focus of the article, the situation for which Berry gained notoriety, and to give the original contributor a chance to add a citation.

I wanted to give you some background on the situation with this article. There are strong feelings among some of the editors on this article, and there has been a complaint from the article's subject about the article's accuracy & point-of-view, resulting in User:Jimbo Wales deleting the original article, and in a later application of WP:OFFICE. What I'll probably do is move the High school section to the talk page, so its information isn't lost while a reference is located. I didn't want to just go & do it & leave you feeling like your work was arbitrarily being undone.--Ssbohio 03:52, 7 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Hello Hbdragon88. Sshbohio left a request for a third opinion on the use of ampersand in the Justin Berry article. I haven't read it or the discussion with Sshbohio yet but will do so in the next hour or so and offer MHO. Best. Ekilfeather 12:03, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Opinion is over on [Talk:Justin_Berry]. Best Ekilfeather 13:15, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

VP
It happens on Vandal proof since you can't cancel actions. :P Yanksox 04:55, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Headers
It is harder to edit, and it looks daft. If you don't like the TOC, hide it then. I suggest we take it to the talk page, because we won't decide. Regards, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 10:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Templates
I thank you for your message about the Director:Templates, I respect your opinion about them, and I just believe that these templates help the Wikipedian fan in jumping from one movie to another, without having to reach the Director/Writer/Composer article and then looking for the movie or the book or composition. If you think that there is one unnecessary, contact me and I join you for deleite it, like the Uwe Boll template. User:Jainituos

Thanks!
Thanks for the archive box. I've been meaning to work out how to do that for ages! -Splash - tk 23:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Race
Actually, I had just finished protecting it when I got that message. Academic Challenger 06:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Compositions by Cole Porter
Since you nominated the category for merging and the decision was Keep, I hope you'll be pleased that I cleaned up the category, removing the songs, and adding full musicals. I also added descriptions to both Category:Compositions by Cole Porter and Category:Songs by Cole Porter to help editors categorize correctly in the future. -- Usgnus 00:06, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Pokémon Gold and Silver
Hello there. Only general templates (like Template:Cleanup) need an entry in the Talk page to explain why the tag has been put there. Specific templates like Template:Inappropriate person or Template:Cleanup-spam don't really need a talk page entry as they already explain why they have been inserted in the article. As for why I wrote that in the summary, note that in the last change I did I removed a paragraph which was in familiar tone (if you trade, you will obtain, gave to you, etc). The Inappropriate person tag was removed before this paragraph was cleaned. The options were to either clean up that paragraph, change the tag for the Template:Inappropriate tone one, or delete it as Wikipedia is not an instruction manual nor FAQ.

Note that "Little first or second person" usage in an article is enough to have the tag there so that someone else can clean the "offending" lines. Although both Inappropriate person and inappropriate tone could have been used, I prefer the former as it is much easier to understand than the later. Hope that clarifies it all. -- ReyBrujo 03:55, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi
Did you redirect Offical mods and unoffical mods to AOW:HT. Iam making a list of upcoming mods for AOW:HT. --SkyWalker 16:14, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi again.
Iam expanding those articles. Currently iam working List of units and other function. I was going to put the links there. The next day i came those articles just disapperared for past three days i was tracing it. I found out that just now. --SkyWalker 16:22, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Re FP
Please check replies to your query on FPs Wikipedia_talk:Featured_picture_candidates. --jjron 10:51, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification article
I've done some work on the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification article. I've basically deleted the crystal ball stuff that was in the article. If you think it's satisfactory, then you can take down the tag. Kingjeff 05:16, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Gamez4gamerz.piczo.com
Greetings. I changed it to a PROD because it's a poorly-formatted and -written advertisement. It didn't seem incoherent enough to me to merit CSD A1. Not salvageable indeed, as it's an advertisement, but "advertisement" is not grounds for a CSD. IceKarma&#x0950; 08:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Will (computer game)
Thanks for clarification, and I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to merge articles. Tristam 17:26, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Gym Leaders
Thank you for realising about the Kanto Gym Leaders. The Gym Leaders have been merged and have information, so feel free to add images, or more data. I also noticed on your user page that you wanted help, I would be glad to help you, just tell me what you need help with on my talk page and I would gladly help you with it Poke Master  (Talk &bull; Contribs) 19:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

school deletion
I know, but it had a location; it doesn't need a street address. School deletions are often controversial. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 01:16, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Taylor Stevens
Thanks for your witty comment, you've restored my good humor.--Fil e  Éireann 00:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Ganeshbot
The edits by Ganeshbot are clearly labelled with edit summary, so you should clearly be able to distinguish it. Regards, Blnguyen | rant-line 04:26, 26 June 2006 (UTC).

Bots on New pages
I got your message about the trouble going through new page patrol. I cannot think of an option to hide the bot edits on that page. You can request that feature here though. It would help a lot. Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 15:02, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Cornwall parishes
Hi, thanks for the feedback. Yes these are notable entries, and there is plently to fill in here, but I only have one set of hands! These entries will get filled out in good time, but I've just been creating stubs for now as a starting point, and to create a focus around which others can work. I've previously been working on parishes of Penwith, some of which were non-existent when I started (St. Buryan for example), but many of which are in a better state now. There are only a few of us that are actually working to seriously improve the content of Cornwall geography articles, so it may take some time to get there! Hope that helps clear up the notabilty query? take care Mammal4 20:00, 27 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for replying to my entry. Its so nice to see people  acting in a warm and civil way toward one another.... Honestly, you criticise Ahoerstemeier for cold editing but by not acknowledging my response you are acting in the same way yourself! Mammal4 10:40, 28 June 2006 (UTC)


 * By the way, having read your question again it seems that there is some confusion as to what a parish actually is. You've lumped it in a sentence with churches and templets.  Civil parishes are administrative divisions of county districts, an area of land maybe of around 10 000 acres that might contain several villages and towns. They don't have anything to do with religion.  Maybe you are confusing these with ecclesiastical parishes which are subdivisions of land used by the christian church to divide up worshippers.  Sometimes the boundries of the two types are the same, but more often these days they are not.  Sorry if I have misquoted you on this and that wasn't what you meant - I was a little confused as to why you would not think a civil parish notable, but it makes more sense if you thought it was a type of chapel or something.  Mammal4 10:40, 28 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry - maybe I was being a bit sensitive about it, but I was still waiting to see if you'd decided that you wanted them deleted, and wanted to know if I was going to have to deal with a conflict over it. I've come across too many 'cold' editors in my time on the site who steamroller over others and either ignore the questions you put to them, or give caustic replies.  I had a quick stalk through your edit history (which I should have done before I bit your head off)and I can see that you aren't one of those now!  Take care Mammal4 18:05, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Your semi-protection request on WP:RFPP
Your semi-protection request on behalf of an anon has been denied. There is not enough recent activity to justify semi-protection. Kimchi.sg 08:25, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Free barnstar for everyone
For everyones contributions in the PCP, I hereby award this barnstar to all PCP members.

Pan Am
Well I'm not the one that removed the bullets. You should look more carefully at the history and post your comment to the user's page that did remove the bullets. Clipper471 22:58, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

March Together For Life
I would suggest that you not be so hasty with the call for deletion of the March Together For Life article. Already that website has jumped in hits to well over a hundred thousand (from just a couple a week prior) in a couple of days because of the internet phenomenon it has generated. This is (albeit for a political satire reason) an early stage of the Tron Guy. For perspective, it has already generated more page views than the majority of small town newspapers do in a month. Just a kindly suggestion that it not be tagged it for deletion. Lestatdelc 06:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

new day boilerplate
Why did you remove today's new nominations section? That is relied upon for links. Where did you discuss this before making the change?
 * --William Allen Simpson 17:30, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I removed it because I thought it was superfluous. Two commented comments already indicate where the nominations should go.  It was also rather ugly to see a huge NEW NOMINATIONS header on the top of each TFD page.  Was there a discussion page someplace that indicated that having a huge NEW NOMINATIONS was better and more useful than the two commented comments? Hbdragon88 17:33, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes.

Note that the comments are not visible to the editors, until after they have already clicked on the appropriate place. When they don't follow instructions, they will never see those hidden comments (or may see the one at the bottom that tells them to go back to the top).

As a point of interest, for awhile I had tried NEW NOMINATIONS.

We appreciate your indulgence in accepting things that appear to be "ugly" to you, as experience has shown that it helps less esthetically aware folks color inside the lines. Thank you.
 * --William Allen Simpson 01:34, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Port City PD
What can I do to clean this article up?

-No-Dachi

Okay, I submitted the press information I know of the site. Will that be sufficient?

What do you mean? Sign it where?

Oh.. Since it met the requirements. can I remove the deletion notice?

The Schools' Rugby Website
I submitted an article with the above subject heading recently and it has been deleted. Some of the reasons for the deletion were not clear, particularly someone stating that there were no hits from a Google search. In truth we are placed at number one if the full title or "schools rugby" is used as the search criteria and third if "rugby website" is used. Can you please let me know if you think the article could be re-phrased in order to be more compliant; or am I wasting my time. Thank you and kind regards Phil

Lots of work
I noticed that on your user page was the message "I have lots of work". Is there anything I can do to help you? &mdash; M  inun    Spiderman  11:07, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Alright, i'll help with the Pokémon related tasks, cheers &mdash; M  inun    Spiderman  14:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * i've fixed up Pokémon Red and Blue like you wanted on the page, cheers &mdash; M  inun    Spiderman  11:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I undertsand your problem with the Glitches getting deleted, I think you did a good job and I don't think it was a good idea those getting deleted. It has been suggested the rest get merged, but that would make it worse so i'd just like to warn you, cheers &mdash; M  inun    Spiderman  15:19, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Animorphs suggestions
The proposed mergers sound good, I'll go ahead and do them. Thanks!--Lkjhgfdsa 20:33, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Another thing: since Esplin 9466 the Prime did hold the rank of Visser One for a while, I feel that the latter page shouldn't redirect to Edriss 562.--Lkjhgfdsa 20:58, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

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