User talk:J04n/Archive 2009

Re: li value
I can answer that. Thanks for your curiosity. Well, I did the li value thing for the track listing and how the numbering is distributed in front of each track. Below displays how the track listing was before.

Side one

 * 1) "Computer God" – 6:10
 * 2) "After All (The Dead)" – 5:37
 * 3) "TV Crimes" – 3:58
 * 4) "Letters From Earth" – 4:12
 * 5) "Master Of Insanity" – 5:54

Side two
Notice how the track listing goes like this: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Now, with the addition of the li value code, I made the track listing appear like so:
 * 1) "Time Machine" – 4:10
 * 2) "Sins Of The Father" – 4:43
 * 3) "Too Late" – 6:54
 * 4) "I" – 5:10
 * 5) "Buried Alive" – 4:47

Side one

 * 1) "Computer God" – 6:10
 * 2) "After All (The Dead)" – 5:37
 * 3) "TV Crimes" – 3:58
 * 4) "Letters From Earth" – 4:12
 * 5) "Master Of Insanity" – 5:54

Side two
Notice how the track listing's numerals are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. That's what the li value did. So, if you want to put down a different number for a track listing or any other listing, without having the default labeling of 1, 2, 3, etc. then use this code: #. There are various other codes involving the li code, but that is the one I prefer to use. Thanks for your curiosity, once again. B T C 02:21, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) "Time Machine" – 4:10
 * 2) "Sins Of The Father" – 4:43
 * 3) "Too Late" – 6:54
 * 4) "I" – 5:10
 * 5) "Buried Alive" – 4:47

response
Current Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell was in Dio for several years, albums, and tours. That definitely makes Dio a Def Leppard related band. Gringo300 (talk) 00:27, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Track numbers
About your recent edits adding the "li value" tag to Grateful Dead album articles, I was really thinking that the track numbers in the article should correspond to the actual CD track numbers. They do that when you add the tag to single CDs that were originally released as LPs, like this, but not when you add the tag to have track numbers cross discs, like this. In other words, I really think it's better not to have track numbers span multiple discs. (If you reply here, I will see what you say.) — Mudwater (Talk) 15:29, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I will defer to your opinion since you do more with Grateful Dead related sites than I do. -J04n (talk) 16:23, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm looking at the guidelines at WikiProject Albums. It's a bit ambiguous but I think they're saying the same thing: "If the album was released primarily on CD and spans multiple discs, these should be listed separately under sub-headings named 'Disc one', 'Disc two' and so on."  Also if you look at other album articles about albums that have more than one disc, you'll find that the track numbers pretty consistently start over with each disc, to correspond to the CD track numbers.  Anyway, I'll go ahead and undo those edits, unless you get to it first.  Thanks! — Mudwater (Talk) 16:37, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * All fixed -J04n (talk) 17:23, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks! — Mudwater (Talk) 18:10, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

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Edit to Black Sabbath
Heya. In this edit you changed "Ozzy" to "Osbourne". Normally I'd agree in that the latter is far more encyclopedic-sounding, but it was in a direct quote; and I suspect the quoted person actually did say "Ozzy". Were you correcting an error in the quote, or was it a mistake on your part? Let me know. Cheers ~ mazca  t 22:01, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Absolutely a mistake on my part, thanks for catching it. Went a little first->last name crazy today. I'll fix it. -J04n (talk) 22:39, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Great, no problem. Thanks for fixing. :) ~ mazca  t 23:02, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Regarding WP:PHARM:CAT
If avaliable, we would love your additional comments, feedback, and/or help. kilbad (talk) 18:46, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure, sounds like fun. Should I just look at the proposed categories at PHARM:CAT and make comments on the talk page? J04n (talk) 19:00, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * That would be great. kilbad (talk) 19:11, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Dio
Yeah, you're right, and I apologize. I just assumed the "Dio" article still applied to the band. Shows what I know. Thanks for the heads-up. -- Cubs Fan   (Talk)  03:12, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Metal reviews
I'm attempting discussion on the involved parties' talk pages. Alas, as with so many IP users, they're mostly refusing to get the point. So it will likely just be a case of waiting until they lose interest. Prophaniti (talk) 10:47, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh I totally agree. It's endlessly frustrating to always look at my watchlist and see more damn IP edits ignoring the guidelines :/ And even when you explain the guidelines to them they just ignore them. I've seen stats quoted about IP users mostly making useful contributions, but I refuse to believe that. The fact is that the majority of IP edits are disruptive, and the majority of disruptive edits are from IP users. It just causes trouble and lets people treat wikipedia like their own personal website rather than a community. Prophaniti (talk) 11:19, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It's an unfortunate problem in wikipedia, dealing with IP users. You can't explain things to them, because they just tend to ignore it; you can't revert them, because then you get blocked for "edit warring"; and you can't inform admins of it because they usually just say "It's just an IP user" or some such. There's no real system in place. At least not that I'm aware of. Prophaniti (talk) 11:44, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Protocol for edits (re "Smoke on the Water")
In the "Smoke on the Water" article, you completely reversed an edit by IP 74.59.161.59 on 2009 March 27. I partially reversed your reversal. I can see where the edit needed correction as verbose (in that left/right panning issues are superfluous, not part of composition), but recognizing the introduction of distorted organ along with the hi-hat was a valid correction in my opinion.

I add this note not to argue these issues, but to comment on two things that I thought were wrong with your edit.

1) The edit was flagged as "minor". I see the change as material to the meaning, and in no way superficial. Reviewing the article on what is considered a minor edit in Wikipedia, I see this as an error.

2) Your description ("unreference change to accepted section") was incomprehensible to me; even looking at the history of the article, I still contort to apply it. Does it mean that the edit reverses a change to an "accepted" (i.e. what? long lasting without debate or change?) section because the change was made without reference to any authority?

I must say, Wikipedia is a momentous project. It'll be interesting to see if we can manage to agree with each other, at least concerning the meaning of things. Cheers.

Willondon (talk) 05:25, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

RE edits to Ronnie James Dio discography
The certification I listed was in the UK. RIAA = Recording Industry Association of America. The British website is www.bpi.co.uk, that is where these things should be checked. I sourced my facts from Black Sabbath discography which cited having checked the BPI website.

You HAVE however alerted me to a discrepancy there; the BPI website does not list the certifications listed on the Sabbath discography page. As you've taken an interest, any ideas what I should do? I think the BPI website must be wrong, the sales figures it gives don't sound at all right to me though it's never failed me before since it's an official record:
 * We Sold Our Soul for Rock And Roll - Silver
 * Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Silver
 * Sabotage - Silver
 * Heaven & Hell - Gold
 * Mob Rules - Silver
 * The Collection - Gold
 * The Best of Black Sabbath - Gold

There's no way in hell that Heaven & Hell is their best selling album in the UK and no way that the best selling Ozzy era albums are SBS and Sabotage. It appears the official source is wrong. Advice? (The Elfoid (talk) 14:37, 30 March 2009 (UTC))

Roma/Romani disambig
Hi! I saw that you've made some clean-up in various Roma/Romani articles. I have to ask to be more cautious because Roma is used with a double meaning: once as a name for all Romani people, and once as a proper name for the Roma - roughly the Romanies from Eastern Europe. So, when the article (or the section) talks strictly about the Roma, you can disambiguate to "Roma (Romani subgroup)", but when it talks about other Romani groups, or, generally about the Romani people, then you disambiguate to "Romani people". See this map for the historical distribution of the Romani people:. Kenshin (talk) 12:30, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No major problems, good luck:) Kenshin (talk) 08:32, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh, by the way, if you are not sure, use "Romani people", you can't go wrong with "Romani people". In fact, in most cases, "Romani people" is the best name. Kenshin (talk) 07:56, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Black Sabbath
I've never been any good at reviewing GA candidates, and in this case, I'm kind of biased in regards to being a big Sabbath fan, so I'm probably not the best person to review the article. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 23:22, 2 April 2009 (UTC))

Black Sabbath
Hello there! The article you nominated, Black Sabbath, has been placed on hold at its GA review. Please see the talkpage for details. Unfortunately, I was so busy working on the review, that I did not notice that you have announced that you'd be away at the same time I was doing my review! My apologies for that. You may address the concerns when you have returned from being away. :) Have a great week! Carpet Crawler  message me  05:25, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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Black Sabbath
Thank you very much for the barnstar! I thought you had left Wikipedia, so I did all those editions—to not let the article fails with the nomination. Only later that I was read your talk page...--  C  anniba loki  02:36, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep up the good work, both of you! :) Carpet Crawler  message me  17:13, 26 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, I accept your terms and conditions.--  C  anniba loki  15:34, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * All we need now are the books containing biographies of Black Sabbath, to replace the references of Rockdetector site.--  C  anniba loki  16:07, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell's The Devil You Know Lands in U.S. Top 10 You saw that?--  C  anniba loki  14:13, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * And this? Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: The Battle for Black Sabbath--  C  anniba loki  14:38, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * --  C  anniba loki  14:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Watchlists
I would like to see the feature described in Village_pump_(proposals) implemented. I made an identical suggestion at Village_pump_(proposals) and it's pretty far along. I don't feel encouraged about actually getting anything done on that proposals page, given that what seems like a well-discussed, advanced, and solid variant of your proposal has been slowly dying for a couple weeks. The problem might just be that it's not at the bottom of the page, or has too much text to read through. Thoughts? –MT 03:16, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

If not much happens with yours, I think I might end up waiting a couple of weeks, and then re-proposing with a clearer and shorter outline. The thing is, even if the bored kid (nevermind having a registered account - just an ip) edited a bunch of "unwatched" articles, those vandal edits would end up smack at the top of the very slow-moving "recent unwatched changes" page. At this point, we can turn on the feature we'd like to see with 0 problems. Ah well, we'll see how it goes. –MT 08:53, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Looks like the proposal for the recent-unwatched-pages (which solves the watched-count vandal problem) has lasted longer than I thought. I don't know if I'll be re-proposing soon, since this has gotten a bit of attention, but you may want to look over the current proposal and leave a vote here, if you're still interested.   M  02:58, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

DISAMBIG
I don't know if I am in the right place, but all my fixes for Lloyd George just disappeared from the leaderboard? Geoff Plourde (talk) 03:08, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Who runs the tool? Geoff Plourde (talk) 15:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * K, thanks! Geoff Plourde (talk) 15:44, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Revert
Sorry about that. Lapsed Pacifist (talk) 20:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome. :)

You were right in deleting my change, it was already there. I'll keep editing when i can. :) Yonobi (talk) 04:08, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Link changes
Hi J04n! I have noticed that you have been changing a lot of links in a clearly good-faith attempt to avoid disambiguation pages and such. However, some not-so-good edit fall through the cracks. For example, here you replaced a relevant disambiguation link with an irrelevant one. I have seen a few more examples but mostly decided to ignore them at this point (didn't have much time). Please be more careful and try to manually follow the links before making the edit. Also keep in mind the context. Thanks, Ynhockey (Talk) 11:34, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi again! I have indeed noticed that you were not just mindlessly changing the links, but actually thinking about the context. However, it's not always correct or relevant. For example, linking to Palestine when the text says Palestinian is not helpful, because of the many definitions that both terms have. At least the term Palestinian gives the reader a general direction (and who doesn't know what a Palestinian is?), which Palestine brings them to an article about a vague geopolitical region which usually has nothing to do with what is said in the original article. Generally there should either be a link to Palestinian people or Palestinian territories. —Ynhockey (Talk) 23:30, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Pitchfork Ratings on Kiss Albums
Please DO NOT revert my changes. I will explain why I made them later. EthanEndlessNameless (talk) 09:45, 25 May 2009 (UTC) Sorry it took me so long to update, but please add the ratings back. I found archive versions of the reviews for the Kiss albums at http://web.archive.org/web/20030601204349/www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/k/ (scroll down to find Kiss). Could you add the ratings back and link them to these reviews? Thanks. EthanEndlessNameless (talk) 22:00, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Voice type
Thank you for your comments/edits on Talk:Vince Neil. I wonder if this also applies to Tamara Johnson-George. In particular, [?title=Tamara_Johnson-George&diff=293038510&oldid=293032792 this edit], which was partially reverted. Thanks for your input. Plastikspork (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: Disam Hall
Thank you! :) I try. :) --User:Woohookitty Diamming fool! 04:18, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks for the barnstar! You made my day. Cheers, twirligig T tothe C 23:12, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Consensus sought
There is a new consensus question posted at WT:PHARM:CAT, and, if available, your comments would be greatly appreciated! ---kilbad (talk) 13:03, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
for the award regarding the Bruce D article...yeah there was certainly a lot of editing involved! Kohran (talk) 23:16, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks from Joe Hepperle
Thank you for noticing and awarding a 'Barnstar of Diligence' for my edit on Ace Frehley page. Take care -- Joe Hepperle (talk) 16:27, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

polka tulk
Hi,

Sorry for taking so long to reply to you.I don't know if I'm doing this right because I'm new to wikipedia. I got the information on the name Polka Tulk from the sleeve notes of the double CD album 'The Best of Black Sabbath'. I will dig these up and get back to you on this in more detail. Please let me know if this is not considered a reliable source of information. Like I said, I'm a greenhorn here...

Cheers, Theredserpent (talk) 06:30, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Levaquin article
Appreciate your interest in the Levaquin article, but unfortunately I had to remove your recent edit. You had provided a link from "side effects" to an article about adverse reactions. There is a definate distinction to be made between the two. A side effect is NOT the one and the same as an adverse reaction. A side effect is something that takes place WHILE you are taking a drug and abates once the drug is discontinued, or shortly there after. Whereas an adverse event is the damage done to your body as a result of being on the medication and an adverse event does not abate when you discontinue the medication. The damage has already been done. And at times such reactions result in permanent injury, disability, or even death. A side effect is a minor annoyance in comparision to an adverse reaction which is a serious medical complication that requires immedate intervention to prevent further harm to the patient. Comparing apples to oranges as they say.

Regards,Davidtfull (talk) 04:59, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Black Sabbath covers
Hello! I haven't been here for a long time...As I see the article has been deleted but I don't understand: WHY? Why is it considered to be trivia? Isn't it an important article? Everything can be checked...--Slav9ln (talk) 18:44, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It's strange for me that in Russia and Spain it hasn't been deleted (not considered to be unimportant) and in the motherland of Black Sabbath it is so :( Thanks for answer!!--Slav9ln (talk) 06:25, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Tommy Thayer
Hello. I'm sorry about the Thayer entry. I accidently undid your correction where you took out what I wrote.....but it was then later undid again......so your correction is still what shows on the page now.

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.197.120.33 (talk) 15:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

BCKS
I'm not sure of the specific reason for this post of yours: "This article is written like an advertisement. Please help rewrite this article from a neutral point of view. For blatant advertising that would require a fundamental rewrite to become encyclopedic, use db-spam to mark for speedy deletion. (July 2009)" I'm the STRATCOM Manager for BCKS (Battle Command Knowledge System). It is not intended as a product nor an advertisment. BCKS is the Army capability's for exchanging knowledge in fostering amog Soldiers and units. Let mew know what specifically needs to be modified. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.149.1.36 (talk • contribs)

Incorrectly signed unsigned comment
Yes, mistaken identity indeed. If you check the edit history, it appears the comment was mis-attributed to me. I was the one who removed the db-spam tag from your talk page. Thanks! Plastikspork (talk) 20:01, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Dab network
I noticed your valuable disambiguations, however I suggest that it would be much better to use Computer network as the target for "network" rather than Wikitionary network as done here and here. I will fix these, but I noticed at least one more. Johnuniq (talk) 10:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Ooops – I might have spoken first and thought second. From Rod Beckstrom's background, I assumed that his law was 99% about Computer networks (and indeed, his paper starts with an example using the Internet), but when I went to "fix" the dab I noticed that it claims to cover more general networks. When checking, I can't find another dab problem but I did find that you have used Computer networks in at least one case, so sorry – my mistake and I have not changed anything. Johnuniq (talk) 10:17, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Dab epoch
I think this edit was a mistake. You linked to Epoch (reference date) which is a point in time, quite different from the meaning of 'epoch' as an interval of time in geology. In this case, in fact the relevant article is already linked to as Series (stratigraphy) so the most appropriate action IMHO is to remove the link altogether. I've done some dab work myself, and sometimes if unsure the best thing is to leave the status quo. --93.96.136.249 (talk) 20:58, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Caveat
Wonder how long this will last... thanks for helping with the outline of rock, by the way. Delete these at will. Sswonk (talk) 14:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

please warn and report vandalism like that on psychosis
thanks for the undo on psychosis - but it would be good to also report the edit of this vandal  cheers Earlypsychosis (talk) 10:52, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Smoke on the Water
Thanks for the heads-up. What do you think now? I'm all for adding CNs rather than removing content outright.Luminifer (talk) 00:35, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I've actually seen your edits somewhere, though I can't remember where, and I remember thinking they were reasonable :) . I've been on wikipedia for a number of years, and have generally been ok with it, though recently I have been noticing that I simply don't have the energy to battle it out with some of the more abrasive bullies (I believe I use the term accurately) on some of the music pages. I do try, every now and then, but they won't even really discuss it on the talk page - I have many questions left unanswered by people who just don't want to bother and hope I'll go away (and I do because there are places I can improve on here where it won't be as problematic). Just my rambling. I was curious about the SotW page, but it's probably not worth watching since nothing interesting is going to change on it :) Luminifer (talk) 03:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Also FWIW, a lot of the more aggressive wikipedia editors really are in violation of policies - it's just such a pain finding the right policies, and most newbies don't bother. Luminifer (talk) 03:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

have happy happy night. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.54.92.55 (talk) 19:13, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Darn! :)
Looks like you just edged me out for the Disam title for August. By 40 or so. Good work. --User:Woohookitty Diamming fool! 23:47, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep. :) Hopefully they will get September up a bit faster than they got August up. --User:Woohookitty Diamming fool! 23:53, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Weightlifting question
It seems like we're both working on it at the same time, and I noticed this edit where you had gotten in just ahead of me. I was wondering why you chose Powerlifting instead of Olympic weightlifting, since this woman appears to be an Olympic athlete. Should I be changing links like these to powerlifting instead of the article on the Olympic version? Dekimasu よ!

One more message for you on my talk page. No problem about the e-mail (as far as I'm concerned, anyway... can't speak for others). Dekimasu よ! 18:39, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay, the skeleton is up at Requests for adminship/J04n. The instructions for proceeding are at Requests for adminship/Nominate. I'm about to go to sleep (UTC+9, it's pretty late), but feel free to transclude the request whenever you'd like. (Sorry if the pronoun happens to be wrong... never thought to ask.) Dekimasu よ! 19:34, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Probably best to add your signature after the acceptance. Anyway, good night! Dekimasu よ! 19:43, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, I rarely get onto wiki.....saw that you removed my comments on Ronnie James Dio back in June. I grew up a few miles from Cortland, where Ronnie and all the original band members are from, saw the Electric Elves/Elf play probably 50 times during my high school/early college years. Firmed up a lot of my details from Jeremy Whitted on Padavona.com, he and I have talked several times, I sent him some of the photos on his site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drummike46 (talk • contribs) 14:27, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Cool-down blocks
I think you've misunderstood the section on WP:CDB which you've used to make your answer. A "cool down block" for someone who is angry about a content dispute but is not generally a vandal is not the same thing as a preventative block on someone who just wants to cause problems. However, it's a matter of terminology only: a block is a block, so I can see your case for your answer being correct. It happens that this question is used as a trick question on many RfA's and people will oppose over any answer other than "never". -- Soap Talk/Contributions 01:47, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Not many people would agree with me that it's a trick question. My saying so is primarily because the question doesn't define what a cool-down block is, and the term isn't all that widely used outside of RfA, which means the question is really a test of whether you've been reading up on the various policy pages in preparation for an RfA, rather than a test of your ability to respond appropriately in a real situation.  I would rather the question be replaced with a description of a situation and a "what would you do here?" at the end. Also, I don't really think your comments to me, either on my talk page or on the RfA, were out of line, so don't worry about that. -- Soap Talk/Contributions 18:51, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Eric Singer
KISS: Behind The Mask is a book, not a video. It's an authorized biography and song-by-song breakdown of every KISS album with commentarty from the band, performers, songwriters, etc. all thrown infor good measure. Singer explains his situation in a passage there from an interview conducted exactly who knows when. I'll add a ref to it soon. Right now I'm too damn tired... :) 76.214.203.72 (talk) 04:43, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

RFA
Your RFA was closed as unsuccessful. Please work on the concerns and try again. Thank you for your interest.  — Rlevse • Talk  • 01:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree with Rlevse (My emphasis on try again). Most of us who fought for you knew we could not turn the tide. It was important that you be encouraged as you represent the very best of the project. The truth is that there are many broken, angry users at Wikipedia. You can help bring healing. I will be eagerly awaiting your next RFA ! Cheers and Happy Editing - Ret.Prof (talk) 12:45, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry
Sorry for the way the RfA turned out. If you run again, I'll be willing to nominate you. I'll even get over your little Red Sox issue. :P  Gl ac ier   Wo lf   18:13, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

I want to apologize as well, particularly because one opposer suggested that I nominated you before you were prepared to go through an RfA. I know you could be a great administrator, starting today, and your answers to the questions were just fine, especially since I know you would be careful using the administrator tools. It's unfortunate that people oppose RfAs when they read answers that aren't stock answers from people who have requested adminship in the past–and even go so far as to say that there is one "right" answer for a given question. But I don't want to place all the blame on the people who opposed. Since it's clear that you didn't go through the hassle of your own accord anyway, I feel really bad about the results. Sorry, again. Dekimasu よ! 01:58, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguation links
Hi, I noticed that in you created a link to a non-existing page. In case you're using an automatic script, there may be a bug somewhere. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 03:59, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Reply/Thanks
I don't really know what to say, except thanks a lot. I always try my best on Wikipedia :D  Ss 112  09:16, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Lorraine
I'll catch most of these as I translate the infoboxes and do other clean-up. The rest I will pick up at the end. Thanks for letting me know. Rich Farmbrough, 21:48, 24 September 2009 (UTC).

Form (disambiguation)
Hi, you have created what seems to be an undesirable pipe by adding (disambiguation) to Form note at top of Formal. I suspect this may have been created by a script. It is clear from the context that it is going to an other uses page. E x nihil (talk) 02:03, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi; you're the first to leave me a message! It's always nice to be noticed, and oops, I should have been consistent by using last names, but I was mostly reacting to the "M.A.R.F." reference. (Very sad that I'm your age, 42, and I'm watching - and paying attention to - Nickelodeon cartoons!) Since you seem to know Kiss pretty well, I just left a message on the discussion page about the "Killers" album/LP/compilation/whatever it really is. I'm sitting here listening to all the Kiss albums I can get my hands on, and reading the biography, in preparation for seeing Kiss in October (haven't seen them before) -- and "Killers" is mentioned, but I can't find much information about it. In short, I was wondering whether the fact that 4 new songs seemed to have been released as part of the album would warrant its mention in the text of the article (or whether it should just stay hidden in the discography).

BTW, I have been looking at the Judas Priest main article; nobody has responded to a message on that discussion page (I think I posted about 3 weeks ago) regarding a now-completed 2008 tour. The dates and locations (and even the days of the week) of the concerts are listed in what I think is nauseating (and confusing) detail, and until I edited it in a minor fashion, the whole section was still in future tense. Changing it to past tense only helped a little but I am VERY leery of starting to delete the details unless I can get someone more experienced than I to look at it and help decide whether the details were only relevant when the concerts were truly in the future! Perhaps you could take a look (see the section on "Nostradamus" and the 2008-2009 tour).

Thanks again!

Tigger-ibby (talk) 04:45, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Hadn't even thought of looking for Ace touring - really like Anomaly, though!

Tigger-ibby (talk) 04:58, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

I felt better about continuing the edits of the Judas Priest article once you started them; I think the section reads MUCH better after our judicious cutting of the dated material. And yet again thanks ...

Tigger-ibby (talk) 05:31, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!
Well we'll see about that! :) I see that the disam list is updated even if the contest page isn't. I don't know about you but I'm not touching Cantonese. :) One of those very confusing disam pages. --User:Woohookitty Diamming fool! 04:37, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

DRMC
Dear J04n, Thanks for your repairing of disambiguation page of Dhaka Residential Model College. I have nominated this article for WP:GA. Please review the article. If you think the article is eligible enough for WP:Good article status, then please give it "PASS". Thanks, User:Tanweer Morshed, User talk:Tanweer Morshed

Sab
I really think we should continue the Sabbath debate, so please see their page. Thanks. Rockgenre (talk) 19:37, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't really call what I do here a "crusade". I just think that if Purp and Zep can be listed as hard rock than I don't get why Sab shouldn't.


 * I think I should have put more effort into a name and came up with something else other than "Rockgenre" because I'm obviously no expert(I didn't intend to work on this site for very long so I didn't think the name would really matter) The only reason I came to this site in the first place was to prove GNR being metal, but I've had a good time adding new facts and creating a few new articles. Rockgenre (talk) 20:13, 22 October 2009 (UTC)


 * No, you didn't come off wrong(though I hope I didn't) and I do thank you for showing a lot of class and being a general good person, but I do believe I can decide for myself what makes my contributions here, "enjoyable and fulfilling." Rockgenre (talk) 20:00, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Editor review archived
Since it has been well over 30 days since you requested to be reviewed, I've gone ahead and archived your request as part of my effort to cleanup Editor Review. You may view your review here. Thanks & happy editing. If you have any questions, please message me on my talk page. =D Netalarm   talk  00:47, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Ramones
Thank you for your note. I've been extremely busy of late, but I should have some free time this coming weekend, and I think it would be worthwhile to bring it up to Good Article status. I'll contact you again in a few days when I've had the opportunity to look over the review and what needs to be done. Thanks again.DocKino (talk) 22:09, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Wicked Lester
Hi, thanks for your message. If you read the reassessment you will see that the article was de-listed on 12 September, so you will need to re-list at WP:GAN. Jezhotwells (talk) 02:02, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Please review another editor
Thanks for filing your recent request to be reviewed. To help alleviate the backlog, please consider reviewing another editor. Netalarm  talk  21:58, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Request for adminship
I would be honoured to put forward your name at the end of January. - Ret.Prof (talk) 22:41, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

REGARDING THE DELETION OF THE "ALVIN FIELDS WIKI PAGE
I I'm not at all impressed with the condescending and deletion of the Alvin Fields wiki page. The suggestion that he appears to be no more than a lounge singer is more than inaccurate. Alvin is an extremely talented individual. However his explanation of fame is that in the world of show biz, Fame is a booby prize for being good at what you do. In his case, that would be excellence in music. Alvin's career started at a very young age and he did not take it seriously until he began to hang out with Jean Michelle Basquiat the late painter.("A Quick Killing In Art" by Phoebe Hoban Page 24, Paragraph 5), Alvin is mentioned as Jeans roommate) Alvin started as street musician and Jean Michelle would collect money for him from the crowds that would gather to hear him play the guitar and sing. He went on to fulfill his dream of writing songs and singing .Here are a few examples of his accomplishments to help enlighten you about some one who you referred to as a "Lounge Singer"?#$@???

Take Note on this list of some Alvin Fields' Accomplishments...And no..he has not passed and is quite productive in the music industry.

http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Special%20Delivery:1921135590:page=user-reviews?reviewer=KzIF40E- Alvin’s Album produced by Michael Zager on A&M

http://www.ralfhenke.de/whitney_houston.html the Second Album Whitney appeared on at age 12 take note of her guest appearances, Special Delivery at the bottom of the page.

Let’s All Chant By the Michael Zager Band Alvin Fields co wrote and performed vocals to this song, 6 million records sold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A60He4wjTx4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nCNk3tk4SY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WJJFjfenM The Original Version

This song is covered on over 68 albums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_All_Chant

http://books.search.shopping.yahoo.com/p:Alvin%20Fields:1927030552

Products involving Alvin Fields on co-writes and vocal appearances.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZn68Z875ls Alvin at 30years of age playing a 17 year old in the "Broadway on Showtime" airing of Obie Award winning telecast “The Me Nobody Knows”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYTJBl_d5xc Alvin is the lead vocalist in this video for NYBC’s appearance on the Arcenio Hall Show. He had to cover for the originally intended singer because the boy was suffering stage fright. In this appearance he is 44 years of age looking much younger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STSSPO0vEio&feature=related Alvin Fields conducting his arrangement in this performance for Stevie Wonder and Coolio. The 1994 Billboard Awards.

As a songwriter his co-write credits also include: The Manhattens: Am I Losing You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6uxRLUfSnI

http://mog.com/music/Gladys_Knight_%26_the_Pips/Gladys_Knight/I_Just_Want_to_Be_With_You By Alvin Fields, Cissy Houston

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdzDyL7f6oY By Alvin Fields, Cissy Houston, Michael Zager Produced by Barry Manillow

There are many other recorded songs to his credit including http://www.discogs.com/Michael-Zager-Band-Zager/release/1493308 - duets with Luther Vandross

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W99kHaYUJs - Alvin's low voice on Chaka Khan's "Tearin It Up"

Film Music Credits: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162677/  Summer Of Sam http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120728/ The Last Days Of Disco

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077530/ Eyes Of Laura Mars

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080928/ Inside Moves

Alvin appears on the “British Rock Symphony” DVD as a Lead vocalist along with music greats such as Roger Daltrey of the Who…Alice Cooper, Simon Townsend, Billy Preston, Gary Brooker of Procal Harum, And Zak Starkey son of Ringo Starr of the Who. Now Honestly…does that sound this sound like all the makings of a “Lounge Singer”. Hardly.

I am beginning to understand why my professors at school are warning me to never use wiki for any citations or references. Your deletion of this artist page was unnecessary and pretty ridiculous!!! To your own credit you might want to do some more research and create a Wiki page for this artist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rhasheene (talk • contribs) 05:08, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Repairing links to disambiguation pages
Please be careful with making rapid fire edits to remove links to disambig pages. If you end up sending the user to the wrong page, that's worse then sending them to a disambig page. If you don't have time to read the article and be sure you understand the context, I think it would be better to put a note on the talk page, asking those who know the topic to correct it. Thanks Ccrrccrr (talk) 02:37, 1 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note and I'm sorry I wasn't more specific. The efficiency ones were what I noted.  I redid three--Malone engine, Work output, and Rural society in China.  I'm not sure I did the latter right, but I think it is better than it was.  It might actually be best to send it back to the disambig page and let someone who knows the topic better than either of us fix it.  I'm not convinced that a dictionary page is better than a disambig page--it still lists multiple meanings, and the user has to pick between them.  And then the problem is buried, rather than fixed.  I suspect there are a bunch more that are like Malone engine where it's the physics meaning rather than efficient energy use.


 * But my point is not that I'm going to check all your work and tell you specific things that need to be changed. My point is to encourage you to be a little more careful because pointing the user in the wrong direction is a lot worse than giving him a map.  Quality, while hard to track, is hugely more important than making progress on an automatically generated list of potential problems, especially when the "fix" drops it off the list of things that need attention. Ccrrccrr (talk) 12:35, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

thanks for the review
Immediately after your review, I got a second WP:DYK :) And point noted regarding the summary and messages to newbie users- I must confess to not going beyond the default one generated by twinkle.I had been planning to work on WP:AFD- but most of the articles that come up there don't exactly deal with subjects I have much knowledge about. As it is I am looking like getting a tad too trigger happy with WP:CSD again thanks to twinkle- will try to contribute to AFD whenever possibletrakesht (talk) 05:54, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Pretties For You
After reviewing a couple pages of your edit history, I feel compelled to bestow this (not so very) prestigious, and important award upon you. Pin it to your wikileathers with pride! You rock! Best regards, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 04:33, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Julian Lloyd Webber albums
I noticed you nominated her Elegy for deletion. Might want to check the others as well. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 17:11, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Oops, misread. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 17:26, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Editor Review
Many thanks for returning the favor! Your words were very helpful. To answer your question, I didn't have an account before this one, but I dallied around and studied the process as an IP. As soon as I discovered Special:Newpages I went with it :) Thanks for calling me out on being a little impersonal in my messages to new users. I do see what you mean. I will try to be more welcoming in the future. Thanks again, and happy editing!  Jujutacular  T · C 06:38, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the Motorsport Barnstar! :) --Roadblocker (talk) 18:40, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Re Black Sabbath (album)
Hey man, thanks; there are many more changes I could make to the article, and related ones, but I just thought that had to be done there and then. Andre666 (talk)
 * No problem buddy, thanks for the link; I need to get to my lectures now, but expect numerous and constructive Sabbath-related edits in the near future. Although I may end up sitting on it too! Andre666 (talk) 15:01, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

photo uploads
i appreciate your contributions to the Okefenokee Oar page and could use your help. I have uploaded a photo of the oar to Wiki but when I try to post it to the page it only displays the link, not the image. Also, I appreciate you correcting the gator logo, but i cannot find the code or whatever you used to keep it from being removed. Finally, i am not sure where you will reply to this note. I don't know how to set up this talk page, etc.

Davemaul —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davemaul (talk • contribs) 14:04, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Spiritual Machines
Thank you very much! Publichall (talk) 22:05, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks and related
Thanks. Then also on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Tweed it should be changed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mistakefinder (talk • contribs) 01:31, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Into the Void
Thank you for the apology. I had no intention of making you wrong or a hypocrite. I simply wanted to point out what I believed to be a quick and very human oversight. Your rigor was good in that it forced me to create a source to an otherwise sourceless page. Always glad to meet a fellow Sabbath fan. :) Zycollier (talk) 22:27, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Big Four/Theodore Judah
I think you linked to the wrong Big Four on the Theodore Judah article.--Lastexpofan (talk) 06:24, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Spiritual Machines
Oh. I'm sorry I didn't get back sooner, I thought I was waiting for your reply! Anyway, I believe the article is ready for the next (and hopefully last) inspection. Cheers! Publichall (talk) 11:36, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Sourced two of the items and removed the third realizing it was just a piece of opinion (not my writing). That should do it. Publichall (talk) 02:07, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for your time. It's been a pleasure working with you! See you around.. Publichall (talk) 05:35, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Just me
Thanks for making me aware of that project. It's good to have friends and fellow wikipedians like you who keep me informed on these things. And BTW Libs got busted again with puppets. Appartenly the opinion he had, "was the only one voiced"-"After Forever" by Black Sabbath. Rockgenre (talk) 04:09, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Reply
Hey, thanks a lot man. I just figured that I would give the article a small edit. 72.66.111.58 (talk) 19:09, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

WT:RFA
Thanks much. I see from your current Editor Review that things are going well. (Watching) - Dank (push to talk) 21:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Edit on Anthrax Side Projects
This article from Blabbermouth.net should be a proven source [url]http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=130958[/url] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.113.222.165 (talk) 21:55, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Re Dio Personnel
Hey, that's fine; I'll add some picstures in to fill the space. :) Andre666 (talk) 09:52, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Welcome
Sorry so late, good to see you join our group!

{| style="border: 4px solid #C00; padding: 6px; width: 80%; min-width: 700px; background: #FFFAF0; line-height: 20px;" cellpading="30" align="center" Hi,, welcome to the Article Rescue Squadron! We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying and rescuing articles that have been tagged for deletion. Every day hundreds of articles are deleted, many rightfully so. But many concern notable subjects and are poorly written, ergo fixable and should not be deleted. We try to help these articles quickly improve and address the concerns of why they are proposed for deletion. This covers a lot of ground and your help is appreciated!
 * colspan="2" |


 * Moved from ikip:
 * Hi, thanks for the welcome. This project is the type of thing that I am interested in contributing to.  However, I think that it needs to be more efficient somehow.  I realize that there is an ongoing attempt to notify members when new articles are added to the list, this will help alot.  I have some other ideas for the list and the project in general, after I actually write them down I will post on Wikipedia talk:Article Rescue Squadron.  J04n(talk page) 14:17, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree it needs to be more efficent. There is actually a bot which we suggested and pushed for now, which notifies all people who have 5 of more contributions to an article about it being deleted. Which is mentioned in our first newsletter:
 * WikiProject_Article_Rescue_Squadron/Newsletter/20090901
 * there is WP:ARS/Tagged which you can add to your talk page.
 * I look forward to your ideas! Welcome again! Ikip (talk) 14:37, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Waka
Hi J04n, I found confirmation of the Billboard entry at WP:Articles for deletion/Waka Flocka Flame if you'd like to reconsider your vote. 86.44.59.169 (talk) 05:09, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguation
Hey there, I decided to work on repairing links to Iranian this month, and I had a question. If a sentence reads something like: "The Iranian man drives...", would it make more sense to link to Iran, or Iranian peoples?  Jujutacular  T · C 21:15, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

WikiBirthday
I saw from here that it's been one year since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 15:23, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

2010 WikiCup Signups Reconfirmation!
To ensure that everyone who signed up is still committed to participating in the 2010 WikiCup, it is required that you remove your name from this list! By removing your name, you are not removing yourself from the WikiCup. This is simply a way for the judges to take note of who has not yet reconfirmed their participation. If you have not removed your name from that list by December 30th, 2009 (by 23:59 (UTC)) then your name will be removed from the WikiCup.

It's worth noting the rules have changed, likely after you signed up. The changes made thus far are:
 * Mainspace and/or portal edits will not be awarded points at all.
 * Did you know? articles (which were worth 5 points last year) will now be worth 10 points.
 * Good articles (which were worth 30 points last year) will now be worth 40 points.
 * Valued pictures will be now awarded points, however the amount (5 or 10 points) is still being discussed.
 * Featured lists (which were worth 30 points last year) will now be worth 40 points.
 * Featured portals (which were worth 25 points last year) will now be worth 35 points.
 * Featured articles (which were worth 50 points last year) will now be worth 100 points.
 * Featured topics (which were worth 10 points per article last year) will now be worth 15 points per any article in the topic that you were a major contributor to.
 * Good topics (which were worth 5 points per article last year) will now be worth 10 points per any article in the topic that you were a major contributor to.
 * In the news will still be awarded points, however the amount (5 or 10 points) is still being discussed.

If you have any final concerns about the WikiCup's rules and regulations, please ask them now, before the Cup begins to avoid last minute problems. You may come to the WikiCup's talk page, or any of the judge's user talk pages. We're looking forwards to a great 2010 WikiCup! On behalf of the WikiCup judges,  iMatthew  talk  at 03:43, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Relisting notice
Per Spartaz's request, I am notifying you that this discussion that you participated in has been relisted at Articles for deletion/Una Healy (2nd nomination) in the hopes to gain a more fair consensus due to the participation of three sock puppet accounts in the earlier discussion. The three sock accounts that checkuser confirmed are the same person voted to delete or redirect and made multiple edits to the discussion which closed as "redirect" and therefore may have created a false impression of consensus by vote-stacking. Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk 19:58, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

RfA thankspam
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Thanks at Junko Sakurada
Thank you for your help with the article Junko Sakurada. Much appreciated, Cirt (talk) 12:54, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Happy Holidays
Hi, thank you for the nice holiday note, and here's wishing you the same! <div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks">

 Gongshow  Talk is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Xmas, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hannukah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to your friends' talk pages.
 * Thanks! Happy Holidays from me too :) Publichall (talk) 01:15, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Re: Happy Holidays
Thank you! :) Same to you. :) --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 01:11, 14 December 2009 (UTC)


 * "   :) -- Ret.Prof (talk) 14:44, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Xmas

 * And a fun Festivus specifically to you! :) Thanks for the wishes! — what a crazy random happenstance 08:26, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

AfD Prophet (band)
Hi, J04n! I saw your vote in Articles for deletion/Prophet (band) for deleting the article Prophet (band). I found some sources and I justified my vote for keeping the article. I'd like you show me your opinion about the sources I found, please. Thank you! Victor Silveira (talk) 06:14, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! I answered your message on my talk page. Can you see it later? Thank you! Victor Silveira (talk) 10:24, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, J04n! Thank you very much for the star! Victor Silveira (talk) 09:56, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

"It's the most wonderful time of the year"
Thanks for the greetings and I hope you have a great Christmas or what you and your family celebrate. Enjoy the holidays and take care. Rockgenre (talk) 21:08, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Bongwater: The Big Sell-Out
Thanks for the cover to The Big Sell-Out CD by Bongwater. I tried to scan an image for this article and it turned out like crap. DanTD (talk) 00:55, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks very much for your kind words about my work on the article Junko Sakurada. Cirt (talk) 19:34, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject_Article_Rescue_Squadron/Newsletter/Draft Issue 2
It seem like you have a lot of energy with for the WP:Article Rescue Squadron, would you be interested in helping write some information for the second issue?

I just asked two editors to be interviewed for the issue.

That leaves the following to be written:
 * WikiProject_Article_Rescue_Squadron/Newsletter/20091001/News the news and announcements section to be filled in.
 * WikiProject_Article_Rescue_Squadron/Newsletter/20091001/Want_ads what the Article_Rescue_Squadron needs right now, beyond just rescuing articles.
 * A WikiProject_Article_Rescue_Squadron/Newsletter/20091001/Feature section. I have asked FeydHuxtable to write a feature (editoral) again, we can ask another editor too also.

Here is the previous issue: WikiProject_Article_Rescue_Squadron/Newsletter/20090901 Ikip  00:05, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Dee Dee
I didn't know about that album, so I just reverted myself. Do you have any plans for New Year's Eve? RG (talk) 18:29, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Not Surprised
i did not create the article nor did i tag it as fun —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sopher99 (talk • contribs) 04:12, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

oops sorry, i thought you were talking about the attempted vandalism i cleared on a different article, i must have not seen your refs on your article, but i do now so i took away the tag —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sopher99 (talk • contribs) 04:16, 31 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 19:20, 31 December 2009 (UTC)