User talk:Oobopshark

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Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Hi, have reverted your edit to List of people who have suffered from depression. I think it's generally considered appropriate to use non gender-specific descriptions for jobs. This is also the view of Equity []

Uncle Bill

Dorothy Parker
I have to say your Dorothy Parker addition: "following two years at Vogue" is now less clear. A writer is "on" staff, not "at" the staff. You want to change that back now? --K72ndst 18:57, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Lost edits on Washington Metro
Hi. I accidently wiped a recent edit of yours when rv'ing out some nonsense. I was putting your edit back in but hit a conflict with further edits you were doing. Being that the first one was pretty substantial, you may want to back the article up to that version and just put in your later material. The goal of my rv was to get rid of a POV tag further down in the article. Sorry for the headache. Nice edits you are putting in. --StuffOfInterest 19:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Eliot Spitzer
It doesn't help to put quote marks round Govenorship; this is POV editorialising and not permitted. -- Rodhullandemu  (Talk) 18:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * My mistake, I misread your edit; it appears you were trying to italicise the title, but this is deprecated per manual of style. It's been reverted anyway. -- Rodhullandemu  (Talk) 18:59, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Edits to Kirk Franklin
Thanks for the contributions to Kirk Franklin, however you did not provide a source for your edits or an edit summary. Do you have a citation or source for the information you changed? Absolon S. Kent (talk) 19:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Ricardo Montalbán
I have reverted your recent edit to the above -- delinking dates is probably ok per WP:MOSNUM. Also, please use edit summaries. – ukexpat (talk) 22:48, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Dates and
Hi

Sorry to let you know that i had to roll back some of your pages.

They were unfortunately not following MOSNUM - dates, and in particular  Linking dates out of context

They were flagged as vandalism, but i have not reported you.

Please try not to do this and follow the guidelines

thanks  Chaosdruid (talk) 01:16, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Manual of style
Hello! I just thought I'd drop by and leave you a link to the manual of style. This message is prompted by the many, many edits you did today in which you bolded certain phrases related to the toxicity of plants. This is highly discouraged. I don't know of any other encyclopedias that do so. Cheers, Rkitko (talk) 02:59, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Warning about linking dates
It has already been explained to you to stop wikilinking dates and violating other WP:MOS guidelines, but you continue to do so. Therefore: Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. . Ward3001 (talk) 16:59, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * As per above, please don't link dates, they don't add anything to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ged UK (talk • contribs) 21:49, 18 March 2009


 * I just reverted another of your edits for exactly the same reason. 58.8.11.89 (talk) 09:27, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * And another one: - 58.8.7.150 (talk) 22:29, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * And another. tedder (talk) 01:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Two Three more:   - 58.8.2.151 (talk) 21:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Please stop wikilinking dates in articles. You have received many warnings about this.  –BMRR (talk) 22:59, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Vaughan Williams tweak
Hello - I reverted your tweak to the first line of the article on Ralph Vaughan Williams - you'll see the reason why. Best wishes. John Hamilton (talk) 10:22, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Paul Williams (The Temptations)
Please stop linking dates such as the recent edit you made to Paul Williams (The Temptations). This is against the editing guidelines. You have been warned not to do this before, so if you do this again you maye be blocked from editing. --Pontificalibus (talk) 23:28, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

October 2009
You have been temporarily blocked from editing for linking dates. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text  below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. tedder (talk) 00:23, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I've blocked you indefinitely as you continue to wikilink dates, despite many warnings over many months to cease doing so, and no response on your part. Please communicate over this issue. tedder (talk) 00:23, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I've unblocked you, per email received. Cheers, tedder (talk) 18:48, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

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