User talk:Mikesmash

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The photo is not a copyright of ourcampaigns.com, but of the subject's campaign itself. The website, ourcampaigns is using it from the Szwaja presskit just as wikipedia is. It's a promotional photo and it's been linked to in the picture's information. Mikesmash 08:12, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Primary results updates
You may want to consider waiting until the Washington primary results are certified before updating them. The update you just made is already will shortly be out of date because the SoS website is being updated constantly frequently as tallies from the absentee ballots come in. 100% of precincts only means the numbers from the polling stations are done and does not include absentee. Just a thought, but if you want to continue with the updates, more power to you. --Bobblehead 19:12, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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AFD
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Guy Gardner
I think retcon is a better word, as it wasn't taken away. If you are unclear as to the definition, I had provided you with a link to see the entry regarding the article.Arcayne 04:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Retcon means that the ring was taken out of continuity. It hasn't been. -- mikesmash

Mike, we know that it is nearly impossible to destroy a power ring. But if you say it was destroyed (a fact that I am unaware of), perhaps you could cite a verifiable reference that it was destroyed. I will leave the statement alone for a bit, but you really need to tag a citation to that statement, or cannot stay.Arcayne 05:23, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I got it for you.Arcayne 05:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:MrTerrificHolt1.jpg
This doesn't appear to be a cover, because it's lacking the usual things a cover would have like the name of the publication. More likely it's a promotional pic you found on a website somewhere. If so, you need to change the licensing and indicate which website it came from. It's a great image, and I want to use it as the main pic, but can't without the full and correct info. CovenantD 12:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Grayvage Hulk
The term "Grayvage Hulk" gets a grand total of 6 Google hits. Only 6. And yet you keep reinserting that material. Pushing a term like that is what constitutes original research. Because it is not a common phrase at all, trying to pro mote it is the OR. Doczilla 08:10, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

GRAVAGE, not Grayvage. And it gets 648 hits and is repeated by THE CURRENT Hulk writer with citation. That's two more citations than any other incarnation listed on the entry now.


 * I get 574 Google hits for it, but either way, you're right. That's more than 6. It's still pretty small compared to the number of hits most things get, though. You do realize you're not supposed to revert a page more than 3 times within 24 hours, don't you? In the last few hours, you've reverted the Hulk page 5 times to a version you posted a couple of days ago -- when YOU had changed the spelling from Gravage to Grayvage, by the way. (And don't deny that the user at 24.16.211.40 is you. You repeatedly edit the same articles and in the same order in your edit history.) Doczilla 08:16, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

It was me, yes. And it wasn't to evade any rules -- which I was unaware of. This isn't a career to most of us. But the incarnation is prominent and has appeared continually in the series for over two years now. Not to mention its' previous appearances. The Devil Hulk has a section, yet he appeared in a video game and in only a single writer's run on the character. I really do not care what you label the section, but the incarnation deserves to be included on the page and I provided citations for it, including a quote by the series' current writer.


 * If it wasn't to evade any rules, the obvious question is: Then why did you wait until after your 3rd revision before logging in as Mikesmash? (I don't really care. I'm just pointing out how that looks.) Doczilla 08:25, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Simple answer? Because I was lazy and wasn't logged in automatically. I didn't even KNOW there was such a rule. Fiddling with these entries is a hobby, not the serious pursuit that so many on here treat it like. And I was pissed that when it was first reverted, the patronizing description of "nonsense". Aside from the objections to the name, I haven't yet heard a rational motivation for taking a section about this Hulk incarnation down.

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Szwaja Picture
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 * Unfortunately, my understanding of fair use guidelines is foggy at best. I would start, however, by editing the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Szwaja.jpg as detailed in the licensing section (you dispute the tag), and then putting what you said to me in the talk section.  You may also want to write to editors such as Quadell, who know much much more about wikipedia's rule for picture use.  Also, you should put a "hangon tag" to the Szwaja article if you don't want it to be deleted - without any dispute, an administrator will have no reason not to delete.  Good luck!  Surfeited 06:58, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

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Joe Szwaja‎
Just FYI, that 201 IP address person had put that article up for prod. I took it off. See Joe Szwaja‎ talk. • Lawrence Cohen  13:25, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Joe Szwaja
Childzy, can I get a third opinion on an editing dispute I'm having with another user on both Jean Godden and Joe Szwaja? We're certainly both partisan and I'd like more opinions and involvement of people who don't care about this election. Mikesmash 04:49, 1 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Sure whats the dispute about? --  Chil dzy  ¤  Ta lk  09:24, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Okay I've had a pretty good look at what has been going on. It seems this user is taking issue with some of the things that arent in the article? Saying that some important things are missing. Well i have read the article and sources a bit and the article in no way what so ever fails WP:LIBEL. Everything that is in the article is well sourced and it seems "User:Landsfarthereast" is using the talk pages of article to tell you to do things to the article, dont feel obligied to listen to the guy. Just tell him WP:SOFIXIT, there is nothing stopping the user from editing the page himself. A good thing to remember is not to get stessed, you are a valuable wikipedia, you are getting things done. I left once because it got stressful. Also wikipedia is not cited as being purely factual so if "User:Landsfarthereast" has an issue the tell him/her to read which explains things. If you need any more help with this edit dispute just let me know, i've just tried to outline the basics here. Hope i've been of help --  Chil dzy  ¤  Ta lk  09:51, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Hulk (comics)
We need your help. The persistent anon IP who keeps reinserting fancruft edits that a consensus of editors has been removing. I don't want to risk an edit war, so I'm asking other recent article editors to come take a look at weigh in. Thanks. --Tenebrae 18:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

FYI
FYI. • Lawrence Cohen  22:25, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Joe Szwaja cleanup
Just another FYI; I've basically finished a heavy-duty clean up on Joe Szwaja now. Take a gander. • Lawrence Cohen  17:11, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

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Szwaja image
Just a note, the article is up for GA, and I didn't realize/remember that was a fair use image. It isn't valid for that article, so it has to go. Sorry... Byt the way, lots of work coming up on the article this week for the GA review. • Lawrence Cohen  22:20, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

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Invitation to Meetup/Seattle6, a focus group
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Proposed deletion of Joe Szwaja


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