User talk:HowardBerry/Archive5

Editor Assistance/Requests
From WP:EAR I've removed the whole section on the grounds that (a) it wasn't interesting (b) none of them were facts. School Uniforms aren't interesting facts but important - see Eton College Uniform or Carpenter London Uniform. If "facts" are particularly obnoxious or beyond belief invoke WP:BOLD which carries a useful notice ''Though the boldness of contributors like you is one of Wikipedia's most precious assets, it is important that contributors take care of the common good, at least that they do not edit recklessly. However, any changes you make that turn out badly can be reverted, often quite painlessly''. So be Bold, if you act rashly they can be undone and editors should understand your concerns. But please don't use it on every single article you see, WP:BOLD can quite easily be seen as WP:POINT if you go on an editing spree of "Interesting facts". You discussed, you asked for a second opinion, second editor invoked WP:BOLD sharing your concerns. (and lol ignore hissy fits if you are clearly in the right.) -- Bp E ps - t @ lk 17:37, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Sottolacqua
This edit to The Joker's Wild removed an entire section for no given reason. --Jnelson09 (talk) 02:15, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Icons
Sure, no problem! The code for my icons (which can be reconfigured to your own of course) can be found at User:Canadian Paul/Promotion; all you have to do is create your own user subpage and replace my articles/icons with your own. Then, to put it on your own user page, just add (replaced, of course, with whatever you call your subpage) anywhere on your userpage. Hope this helps; let me know if you need anything else! Cheers, CP 19:42, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

ITC Project
Hello, thanks for the invitation. :o) I will certainly try to help out as and when, but I'm finding my "To Do" list is already spiralling out of control to an excessive degree just with trying to help out with comics..! Added to which, (almost) all my ITC books and DVDs are in another country, which makes me less of a help than an enthusiastic supporter. When I recoved them, though, I shall try to help out more. My main forte would be The Prisoner, but that seems to (hardly surprisingly) be the best covered already. ntnon (talk) 03:41, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

jamiecg74
Thanks for your comments. With regards to my page that I created, am I able to keep all of the content I created on as a user page? How do I do this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamiecg74 (talk • contribs) 22:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

I have now changed the page to a user page - is it likely that the page will be kept?--82.19.60.209 (talk) 22:58, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Article Modification
G'day Howard,

I have a quick question, I posted an update to the article for BSFC (Brake Specifc Fuel Consumption). My previous version can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brake_specific_fuel_consumption&oldid=204090949

My post was removed by another user and I don't believe it should have been.

At the bottom of the article (BSFC) they quote the best figures attained for BSFC of an internal combustion engine. These figures are no longer accurate as a newer engine has exceed them (lower figure). I added to the article to include this new information and also provide evidence to support the new claim (independant test report).

I hope you can assist, I'm not sure if you are the most appropriate person.

Kind regards,

Shane

Gtmnetwork

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Gtmnetwork (talk • contribs) 22:52, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer, Howie, but I will pass on it. I removed the libelous content which is probably the best contribution that I can give right now. Best wishes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MattKeegan (talk • contribs) 22:58, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Your screen capture of Brains
Hi HowardBerry, I saw that you contributed the screenshot of Brains to wikipedia. Do you think it would be a good idea to add a screenshot of the characters to the rest of the character pages. Eg. Jeff Tracy etc.? I know it states a limited number of screenshots, what do you think? IF so, how is it that you make the image smaller, as in make the resolution smaller? Because when i have taken a screenshot its been considerably larger than your one. Just like your thoughts. Thanks  Roadrunnerz45  (talk 2 me) 11:35, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll see what i can do and IF i do it ill give you a shout out. By the way hopefully you can come up with something in relation to the Brains image because it looks like its going to be deleted in a couple of days ;)  Roadrunnerz45  (talk 2 me) 14:47, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

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Editor Assistance
Greetings, I have been involved in an edit war (Yes, I know, not good) in many articles having to do with Argentina's population and Amerindian ancestry (Argentina, Argentine American, White Argentine, Demographics of Argentina, White People, etc.)

One user in particular, User:Fercho85 reverts my many edits every time, even though they are backed by reliable sources. Our problem, I suspect, is that he doesn't want to acknowledge the Amerindian ancestry of many Argentines and insists that the whole population (practically) of Argentina is White/European. I agree that Argentina has a large European descended population (Next to Brazil and Mexico) in Latin America (Or all the Americas, for that matter), but there are many studies that show a large population have Amerindian ancestry (About 56% have some Amerindian ancestry).

My sources, in Spanish, http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/01/16/sociedad/s-03415.htm and http://coleccion.educ.ar/coleccion/CD9/contenidos/sobre/pon3/index.html state that 56% of Argentines has some Amerindian ancestry and that Argentina is a country of mixed ethnic groups (many even have Afro-Argentine ancestry). This, to me, should be added in all articles having to do with the Argentine descended population... as the European population is always referenced, rather tirelessly and given a larger percentage than should be. Please help me to overcome this POV of sorts.

This may not be your area of interest or expertise, but if you can help I would be very greatful! Thank You in advance. Cali567 (talk) 06:11, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Help
Could you maybe help out on these page with displaying references in is own section; tidy it up a bit Kelvin Martinez (talk) 21:43, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Honorific titles in popular music

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Sixth Form Common Room
You're wrong, couldn't be more wrong to be quite frank, best sixth form common room in the consortium, stick it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.22.247.171 (talk) 22:21, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Actor's name...
I recently purchased the complete first season of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" TV series from Amazon. In addition to the fun of seeing various bit players switch sides every other episode, I would
 * like to know the name of the actor who played Will Scatloff (?) in the first two episodes and 'Terence' in "The Youngest Outlaw." It seems the end-credits for these episodes were taken from somewhere else in the series, since they name characters that did not appear in those specific episodes.
 * Also, I gather from the 'official' site that the version I purchased may not be legal.

Would you be able to clarify this for me? Thank you, Shir-El   too  21:16, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Answer is Bruce Seton He was uncredited. I have the first two episodes and the end titles are correct. Luckily he was in my book.15:51, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Edwin Astley
I am a fan of Edwin Astley and have made an amendment to his page and added his name to The Champions page re incidental music.REVUpminster (talk) 17:22, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

department s
I am a fan of this as well but a discription as /science fiction. I am not sure which episodes would qualify.REVUpminster (talk) 11:52, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I see you have changed this to Spy/Fi but why?? They were not secret agents, but part of Interpol and Jason King was only like a consultant. Only 2/3 stories involved the British secret service. They were detectives and only occasionally went undercover.REVUpminster (talk) 00:28, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

The stories always had fantastic "hooks" at the begining but worked through to a logical and plausible ending ie; six days, the trojan tanker, the man from x, etc. What would you class Jonathan Creek as? I thought, if Department S was ever remade, an excellent replacement for Jason King as having a magicians assistant stumbling across crimes was always the hardest point to accept, but we in Britain also have Rosemary and Thyme, your every day gardening sleuths. Anyway it is 1am here so I am going to bedREVUpminster (talk) 00:54, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I looked up spy-fi and Department S is not included and I still do not think it is a correct discription as there is no science fiction element in Department S. That was why I changed it. But I was shocked to see Danger Man included, James Bond yes but not Danger Man.REVUpminster (talk) 00:35, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Help with an editing dispute
Hi there. I have logged in with an alias to leave this message as for the time being I do not want the editors who I am in dispute with to trace this conversational thread.

I see you help out with dispute resolution, which is why I contact you, and also I see that you are not in the United States (which I regard as a bonus as you will see).

I came across on article refirected from here RKBA and, as you do, I saw some gross errors and ommissions and starting editing it. There seem to be several regular contributors there who I now suspect are all on one side of the issue (which is why the article does not have balance). At least one of the editors there regularly "argues" with the others but I am now convinced that these "arguments" are just there as a sham... to give the impression that the article is properly being edited by people on all sides. I had a long session on legal matters and have since moved on to issues of controls and the reasons for them. There were some problems with the other editors there not wanting me to insert comparative data in the national sections. I then added a new section to discuss the reasons for controls on RKBA and to act as a placeholder for comparative statistics done by academics, government bodies and internnational organizations. I did not get very far as one editor kept deleting the section and even when it stayed (briefly) it was heavily flagged on issues of citation, relevance. synthesis, and POV. One editor broke 3RR and has now deleted the section I think at least 5 times. Now an non-logged in user /who I suspect is the same person) has deleted the section again.

I'd be grateful if you could take a look and without editing there or on using my other user page (I'm sure can work out who that is) let me know here what you think I should do.

I have already let it be known that I think these editors are working in cahoots and may (though maybe unlikely) be sockpuppets. I feel inclined to go to formal dispute resolution on the rights and wrongs of the section, but I fear that these people are an organized group, well funded, and may well have "infiltrated" wikipedia at the highest levels. If you are careful and follow the links I posted to a news item at broadcast news producer called democracy now you will see what I mean.

Please reply here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slinkyworm (talk • contribs) 17:10, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Your message
Howie, thanks for the note. I will agree, the other user may have gone too far with his terms (however, the first user continually referred to them as a "sockpuppet", so I expect it was tit-for-tat). It doesn't excuse the behaviour, but explains it. The prime issue is that a user was told to either STOP calling people socks, or file the SSP. They then created a second account so that they could continue the name-calling, and then canvassed. I have no dog in the fight, except as can be found in the WP:WQA report on the editors regular account. ( talk→  Bwilkins / BMW   ←track ) 09:56, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

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