User talk:Jonpat123

Speedy deletion nomination of Amped Games
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October 2010
Please do not add content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did to Armbrust. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. ROG5728 (talk) 20:17, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Undoing your own edits
Hi,

I see that you have used Undo when you have changed your mind about something.

That's ok, but it makes you look like a user who needs to be undone.

So, still click Undo, but now delete the default description line that comes up automatically.

Just a suggestion. Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 11:46, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
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File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Saan Man Sulok ng Daigdig-1964.jpg
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Ballad of a Soldier
Hi, It's been a very long time since I last saw that film.

Anyway, titles in the list should be italicized. They should also be listed in alphabetical order.

I realize that that is not always the case right now; however, that is the standard which I have been retrofitting into the list for months.

Thanks for all the additions to the list, Varlaam (talk) 21:40, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Güldene Bäumchen
I suspect that would be a case of someone deleting it, and someone else putting it back.

The items on that page are quite prone to that problem.

I compiled the list, but I don't have the time, or the energy, to reconfirm those details regularly.

Also, since I know you are a serious editor, I will tell you that I intentionally left holes in that list.

I wanted to create opportunities for other people to have something to contribute.

(This is why I generally support Trivia sections in WP, since it allows non-specialists to add information, rather than vandalizing what is already there.)

So, in many cases, where the film link is "missing", it exists.

I just left it blank, so someone else could get excited about that list.

Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 17:19, 7 November 2010 (UTC) (in Toronto)

Urda
We can't copy text from another part of WP and pretend that we wrote it ourselves.

That description should be shorter and in our own words.

Don't forget; if someone thinks that film sounds interesting, he will go and read the full article or watch the movie.

Varlaam (talk) 20:16, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Alpha sorts
Thank you for taking up the challenge of alpha sorting.

But we want to make sure that we are on the same page with that.

We want to do real English alphabetical sorting, not the type of sort you get on a computer when it looks at the ASCII values of the characters.

If a title begins with "...", then that, or any other punctuation, is ignored. If a title begins with a number, we think of it as words. How you would actually pronounce the title in a conversation. So "100" becomes "one hundred" for sorting.

English articles are ignored, "the" and "a(n)". I personally, if it were my private list, would also ignore foreign language articles too, le/la/les, un/une, etc. But not everybody is good with foreign languages.

So what should we do with those? Ignore or not?

Varlaam (talk) 21:47, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Soldiers and guerrillas
Hi, You are the expert in this area.

I asked a guy where I can find Filipino WWII films here in Toronto, and he told me, but I haven't had time to go and look. Now that it's Christmas, maybe I'll have time.

As I recall, the "soldiers and" came from IP addresses. Maybe 2 different guys. Because of the strange nature of the edits, it could be 1 guy and 2 IPs. You know how to see what city the guys are in?

You could nicely ask these guys what they mean.

It's not vandalism. Those look like good faith edits, but these guys are confused, or something.

If you leave them a friendly note, then they will probably get frightened and leave the page alone.

Just an idea. Merry Christmas, Varlaam (talk) 19:27, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Happy New Year
Varlaam (talk) 02:18, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Japanese occupation
Hi,

Thanks to your contributions, mostly, we now use that lookup a lot.

Why don't you add Japanese occupation of the Philippines to the common topics list at the top, then we don't need to use that precise, long phrase every time down below?

Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 20:00, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

October 2014
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