User talk:Questionic

Talk page archiving
For older talk here, see User talk:Questionic/Archived talk from 2009. Questionic (talk) 00:01, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Geocities link editing project
Here is a list of the last 12 articles edited by Updatehelper to change a Geocities link to an Oocities link -- I believe all 12 have now been reverted by Xeno. I am taking these as a random test case for manually looking at old Geocities links in the context of an article and deciding what should be done with them. Questionic (talk) 15:32, 18 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Some conclusions from these 12 edits:
 * Old Geocities pages should not be factual references; move to "External links" if they are retained.
 * Some geocities.com links already redirect to a new website, but they may not redirect to the appropriate page in the new website.
 * Only one page of these random 12 was not found at archive.org; said page was also not found at oocities.com.
 * Only one of the 11 pages re-found was uninformative; previous Wikipedia editors have done some quality control already.
 * Articles that link to geocities pages may do so because the article contributors found few other sources of information on a fairly obscure topic.
 * I hope this experiment of mine will help people working on the larger Geocities repair project. Questionic (talk) 22:34, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

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Sea Patrol (season 1)
As I explained in my edit summary, Yousou's edits to this article consisted of an excessive amount of unnecessary and inappropriate italicising and bolding that left large sections of the prose, not just names, bolded and italicised. It's not up to other editors to fix the huge number of errors that he made, which were far too many to count; it's up to him to do that. He should have checked his work before leaving the article. Very little of what he did was justified or appropriate so a blanket reversion, to restore the article to a stable version was appropriate. Reintroducing the errors and the unnecessary edits was not. Please refrain from doing so again. --AussieLegend (talk) 14:50, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I just did a quick count and identified at least 52 inappropriate changes, compared to 9.5 valid changes. ("$750 000" should have become "$750,000" and not "$750000" so he lost half a mark there) This further justifies reversion to the stable version rather than correction of the more than 52 errors. --AussieLegend (talk) 14:59, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I did not find the formatting changes that jarring, but I am content to let you have your way. I had thought you were unaware of the copyedits made, which was why I did the reversion. Questionic (talk) 00:39, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Copyedit checking
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Re: In what form do you want credit for use of your image
Crediting as "MissMJ" with a link to my Wikipedia userpage would be perfectly fine. :) MissMJ (talk) 23:18, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

If it's possible to have such a link, that is. If not, username is fine. MissMJ (talk) 23:23, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks so very much. I will make the appropriate change to the notecard of information. To anyone wondering what we are talking about, it is the elegant image from Wikimedia I'll paste below. Questionic (talk) 23:54, 5 September 2010 (UTC)



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