User talk:Matt McBrien/Archive 3

A line from Dan, the CowMan
Good evening, morning, or whatever. Since we have collaborated in the past, I thought I’d drop you a personal note to say that (#1) I appreciate what we have done in the past & (#2) I’ll be available for a while in case you need me, especially regarding CCM project. Thanks much, and here’s to a bright future. Dan, the CowMan (talk) 02:46, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to bring up an old topic....
Sorry to bring up an old topic, but I was bored tonight, and glancing back through my old edits I came across my attempt at third party mediation over at Sheriff (company). Alas, my mediation failed horribly, and I put in a lot of effort for nothing. It appears that both users involved in that edit warring have since been blocked multiple times and/or banned. Unfortunately, the article on Sheriff which we both attempted to mediate their dispute over is still in shabby shape. I don't want to jump in and edit it... but my compromise piece from my attempt at mediation seems to me to be far superior to the current state of things. I also don't have a clue why it wasn't adopted in the first place. I was just wondering... do you see any reason why I shouldn't re-write the article with the compromise piece, editting merely to add in the pictures now available? I hate to see such a short stubby article on the mainspace when what I personally believe to be a much better version is just sitting on the talkpage. Thanks. -- PEPSI2786 talk 05:54, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Pepsi,
 * I agree that the article never got improved, despite your rather heroic attempts at the compromise version. I see no reason why your version shouldn't go up. Best wishes and happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester  07:01, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

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Plagiarism
How do I report plagiarism on a Wikipedia article? The first line of the article on "Atheism" is nearly identical to the opening sentence of Austin Cline's article on Atheism on about.com, barely paraphrased, without clear attribution. I've changed it enough to have the same meaning without being too close to Cline's sentence but other editors keep reverting my change. I didn't think removing plagiarism was something that needed to be debated. Chuck Hamilton (talk) 20:03, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Page moves

 * How do I undo a move and return an article back to it's original page? Someone had come thru and moved several pages from where they're supposed to be and I don't know how to undeo moves yet. Chuck Hamilton (talk) 22:36, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Findlay house picture
Nice picture for the Bigelow House — I really like the way that you got the sun behind the house. Are you in Findlay often? If so, pictures for the other NRHP sites in the city would be appreciated :-) Nyttend (talk) 00:06, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Good job, thanks :-) I'm in Logan County (when I'm not at college), but I have a hard enough time getting the ones around me — definitely I don't get much of a chance to see the Hancock County sites.  Nyttend (talk) 00:45, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Great! As far as the night one, look at this picture that I got over my spring break: you could say that I was a tad bit late, too.  The difference is that you're typically rather closer to 826 Washington St., Findlay than I am to 15 3rd Ave., Longmont, Colorado :-)  Do you plan on retaking it?  Nyttend (talk) 01:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons
I wanted to let you know: I've deleted all the pictures that you uploaded for National Register of Historic Places sites in Hancock County. Nothing was wrong with them, and if you go to National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Ohio, you'll see no difference. I deleted them because I'd first uploaded them to the Wikimedia Commons, a site related to Wikipedia. Are you familiar with the Commons? As long as you're uploading pictures you took yourself, it's always better to put your pictures there, rather than on Wikipedia: a picture on Commons can be used here at the English Wikipedia as if you'd uploaded it here, but a picture uploaded to the English Wikipedia can't be used at any other Wikipedias. You might be surprised how many pictures of local topics are used by Wikipedias in other languages! If you're not familiar with the Commons, I'd like to encourage you to begin an account there: simply go here, and it will create an account for you there with the username of Pepsi2786, and the password will be the same as the one you use for Wikipedia. Please know that there's nothing wrong with uploading your own pictures to Wikipedia, and you don't have to create a Commons account, but because pictures there are more useful and it's not any extra difficulty, I heartily encourage you to use the Commons in the future. Nyttend (talk) 13:42, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Replacing the Wikipedia-uploaded images with the Commons-uploaded images was the reason I modified your sandbox pages, by the way. It's good to see well-formed articles almost ready to post for these sites :-)  Let me ask you, however, to change the introduction: "registered historic building" etc. was language that we now realise to be incorrect — for a time we thought that such a title, or "Registered Historic Place", would be an actual term, but some months ago it was discovered that such a term is a neologism.  Could you change the text to "historic building" and expand "National Register" to "National Register of Historic Places", or something like that?  Thanks!  Nyttend (talk) 13:46, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note and for your other work! One of your pictures is already in use in another language: see fr:Findlay (Ohio).  Nyttend (talk) 23:24, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

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Masanori Hirasawa and Shohei Suzuki
I really appreciate your stepping in with the Masanori Hirasawa AfD. I really wanted a reason to keep that article, and you came through. I went ahead and withdrew my nomination, and re-created Shohei Suzuki. However, I'm already getting some notability questions on that article, so if you have access to anything more, it would be great. The two men worked together, went to the same schools, so hopefully we can get some more joint sources. Jo7hs2 (talk) 01:38, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I actually know nothing about the topic, either. ;) I found Shohei Suzuki in the most wanted articles queue, and that led me to Masanori Hirasawa. Jo7hs2 (talk) 11:46, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

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DYK for Charles H. Bigelow House

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Wangari Maathai
It's a nice article, do you want to nominate it for GA? Hekerui (talk) 19:53, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

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Hey!

I was going through some userboxes and I saw one you might like. Vdrj2 (talk) 15:26, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Wangari Maathai
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