User talk:Red Slash/Archive6

George W. Bush Intro
What's up? In deleting some of my edits you said "add info or get out of the way." I wasn't sure if the "get out of the way" was directed specifically at me and my Bush edits or if you were just speaking figuratively. If it was directed at me I hope you realize I'm only trying to improve this article by expanding on the introduction while still keeping it concise.

The reason I listed those other topics is because the current intro only talks about the War on Terror. While that's most likely the biggest part of Bush's presidency, it's not the only thing that happened. I wanted to inform readers of other things that have gone on during Bush's time as president. If I were to elaborate on all of that, it would make the intro ridiculously long. So I thought to list them and figured if anyone is interested they can check the rest of the article where those topics are all addressed in more detail.

Hopefully we can discuss this, because I feel that the intro should accurately reflect that the War wasn't the only thing happening during Bush's presidency. SpiderMMB 02:59, 18 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey. First of all, thanks for the message you left me.  I left you one on here earlier about your other reversion, but apparently it didn't go through.  Anyway, I appreciate your apology and figured that you were acting in good faith.  I understand where you're coming from with the list and won't add it back until I can find more information.


 * However, I have a problem with the intro as it currently stands. It is obviously POV in favor of Bush.  It says Iraq "may" have been in violation and that there was faulty intelligence.  That is almost verbatim the positon of the administration.  It mentions nothing about any of the controversies.  I'm really trying to be fair here, elaborating on Bush's presidency while presenting both sides.  I feel that the old edit did that.  If you'll look at the reverts, you'll see I also took out lines that Doctor11 inserted that were blatantly anti-war.  The current intro has a notable lack of information and I really do think we should expand it.  If you disagree, please, let's you, me, and Doctor11 get together at talk and discuss it so that we have something that is agreeable to all of us and this doesn't turn into an edit war.  I'm perfectly willing to compromise, and since I believe you are acting in good faith, I'm pretty sure an agreement can be reached.


 * To be sure, just let me know what it is you don't like about my current edits. I'm going to revert it back, but if you want to delete suff just tell me.  Let's talk about this at George W. Bush talk so that we can create an intro that is unbiased but still informative.  SpiderMMB 22:56, 18 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey. Just another message to let you know, I am trying to do the same thing at Bill Clinton, and tried a bit at Ronald Reagan (though not as much because I don't know much about his presidency}.  Check it out to get an idea of what I'm trying to do here.  I'm not trying to be difficult, and I hope this is helping you to understand where I'm coming from.  I also don't want to disregard your opinion, and to that extent I hope that we can discuss any problems you have with my edits (either at George W. Bush or elsewhere).  Best regards, SpiderMMB 23:07, 18 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Hello again. Just wanted to let you know I left a few messages about the intro on the Bush talk page.  SpiderMMB 05:48, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Cool. I'm glad we're in agreement. It's moments like these make me think Wikipedia can work in spite of all the frustration that goes on. Whenever you get around to reworking the intro, just post it into the article. I look forward to reading it. SpiderMMB 23:36, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I like the intro. Good job. SpiderMMB 00:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Bulbasaur edits
Matt, you removed the tags on the Bulbasaur article, commenting that this is what FARC is for. It might have been more constructive to add the article to that page yourself rather than simply remove the tags. The page does resemble a fansite, and the section that was marked with 'fiction' does fail to differentiate between fact and fiction. I would rather the article was improved however that happens than have my constructive tags removed and have to then learn and follow whatever bureaucracy is deemed "correct". --82.33.51.52 10:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Rutgers University
First off you are a teen in Washington so what authority do you have editing something about a place of higher education 3000 miles away? Second, though you call Don Imus' comments recentism and "not a smidgen to do with RU" Rutgers has garnered more press in the past 2 weeks than anything else in their history. Don Imus' page has hundreds of lines about the comments made. Yes they were disparaging but in the history of who Don Imus is (he's been on radio for more than 30 years and is a predecessor of Howard Stern) this is the fall of his career and it is directly tied to RU and people will remember many years from now that link, please replace the edits that you have removed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by PlanitTide (talk • contribs).

Matts
Looks like you're not the only 18 yr old Matt Yeager on Wikipedia. Came across Matthew Yeager and it was just enough to confuse the hell out of me...doesn't take much I guess. More importantly, if you'd take a look at Talk:George W. Bush and see if you can figure out why the TOC has disappeared, I could use another set of eyes. I can't seem to figure it out. -  auburn pilot   talk  08:27, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


 * o geeze, let the confusion begin :P   how's it going man ?  WA ? i'm in MI for school, but home = NJ. so i'm sure we would have never known besides awesome wiki.   whats up ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Matthew Yeager 21:55, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


 * yea ditto, seeing you in the history is definitely weird. yes, i'm new to editing wiki, but i've been using it for a while. writing articles here and there, mostly combating vandalism. what do you prefer to write ? Matthew Yeager 21:55, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Regarding your removal of cleanup templates
I wish you would not refer to road topics as "cruft," since it is a valid topic and upsets many of the road people. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 18:25, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Link to FAQs on Talk:United States page
Please read and consider contributing to the relevant discussion section. Thank you. JonathanFreed 14:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:USRD/ELG
Please do not mess around with the U.S. Roads project without consensus, or labeling topics as these as "cruft". As Rschen said, it is a valid topic, and you will upset many people who work on it, including Rschen and myself. If you do these kinds of things again, you will be blocked for WP:POINT.  V 6 0  干什么？ · VDemolitions  ·  ER 3 21:14, 24 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I just wanted to take the opportunity to clarify what Vishwin said. The exit list guide meets every part of the definition of "guideline" at Policies and guidelines.  It lists an actionable style guide, and it's authorized by consensus.  There are three talk pages full of consensus-building discussion.  If your issue is solely that it's a subpage of a WikiProject, I'd be happy to move it to a subpage of the Manual of Style, à la WP:USSH.
 * Also, I'm tempted to agree with you that the cleanup templates should be edited avoid self-references. However, removing them rather than editing them was wholly inappropriate, especially since this occured only a week and a half after the templates were kept on TFD.  (Yes, it was technically no consensus, but IMHO it was called wrong -- and there was certainly no consensus to delete or remove them from the pages in question.) -- NORTH talk 21:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem. Glad there was an easy solution. :-) -- NORTH talk 23:31, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:1915 Dance by Rodchenko.jpg
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Diamond Rio
Hello. I'm just dropping you a note to let you know that I've given the Diamond Rio page a serious overhaul. I added more information on the formation of the band itself, corrected other info (they were founded in 1984, not 1989), and made some other much-needed cleanup (there were far too many red links). Ten Pound Hammer • (((Actions • Words))) 04:43, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the barnstar. Ten Pound Hammer  • (((Actions • Words))) 21:23, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

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Prodding OPS, so to speak
See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Other people's signatures. Sorry about the formality; really, I'd hoped to "Prod" it. Again, you'd of course be very welcome to develop the essay in your own way, unrestrained by any contrary or qualifying opinion, within your own userspace.

No need for any reply, but if you reply, please do so here. (I hate pingpong discussions.) -- Hoary 00:42, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

removing todo from Template:PCP
do you have a reason for this? i wasn't aware of a consensus that todo shouldn't be transcluded into other templates, and as the project has over 500 articles, it seemed like a simplistic way of incorporating todo lists unilaterally. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 16:22, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, actually. When you try to make the template "small", the todo box shows up and is impossible to remove. So I just removed the todo box from the actual template, and problem solved! "Unilaterally" I don't think is the word you're looking for, unless you have a very different idea of Wikipedia's basic policies than I do. ;) Anyway, I don't think most pages need a "todo" added on automatically. If a certain poke actually does need it, it can be added on easily enough, right? Matt Yeager  ♫  (Talk?) 21:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * well rather than rming the template it may have been better to try and find a coded workaround (like just making todo not be transcluded if the small paramter is set). those boxes helped facilitate the project's focuses and now there are invisible pages (to do pages with no link to them) on whtever articles used todo. i'll put the above code i mentioned in, to prevent any problems, but in the meantime, could you also give me a page that uses the small parameter so i can see what the problem is? i may be able to fix it. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 12:27, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the comment! I appreciate it. Rougher07 22:35, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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Please stop
Please don't remove project banners from talk pages any more, like you did to Talk:Falling Up. Pop music bands are explicitly in scope of WPBiography, and Falling Up originates from Albany, Oregon, according to the infobox, and are thus in scope of WP Oregon. Er rab ee 00:41, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

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Ahem
Look at these edits for sundown towns. Need your input. :) It's taken right from Loewen's book, which is fine, but I'm not sure that's good enough. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 05:37, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, not even Loewen is completely certain. He makes that clear throughout the book. Thanks for the help. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 02:30, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Color sources?
You have any basis for all your recent changes to magenta and fuchsia color stuff? Dicklyon 06:19, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

List of road accident
Please donot revert, I'm typing my arguments on talk.Circeus 22:53, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of All USRD Clean-up Templates
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care to vote?
A vote at Talk:Cougar is taking place, where you have been a recent participant. All the best. Beyazid 03:12, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Internet Explorer
You reverted a large number of properly cited and crosslinked criticisms of Internet Explorer with the vague justification "reverted a large number of unfounded statements". You have to come up with something better than that to remove properly referenced facts from an article. I'm putting them back. Please don't remove again unless you have evidence that the statements are factually incorrect. That you disagree and happen to like IE is not sufficient reason to remove factual statements demonstrating its failures. Kwertii 23:57, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Hypocrite
You call yourself a Christian? Do you think Jesus would leave a snippy message on someone's talk page entitled "Don't make me laugh"? Kwertii 11:13, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

United States presidential elections
Hello. We worked together for a brief period of time on the George W. Bush article. I'm contacting you because, as someone interested in American politics, I would like your opinion. I'm currently taking issue with the format for the U.S. presidential elections pages. I'd appreciate if you participated in the discussion on the 2004 talk page. As the changes in question have occurred to all the election pages it's hard to centralize the discussion, so the most recent election page seems like the best place to start. Here's my comment, thanks! SpiderMMB 04:46, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Winner/Runner-up
I have to voice my concern that this format is hurting the article. I will post this on a few notable election pages and hope that it's noticed. I have to admire the determination of whoever came up with this idea (it's apparently on every page) but ultimately, I think it should go. I think that having "winner/runner-up" displayed so prominently in the infobox overshadows the importance of the election. Some of these elections were not mere contests, but were epic events in American history where a variety of important viewpoints were symbolically represented and voted upon. Just in the last 50 years, the notable political climates of 1968 and 2004 came to a boiling point around election time. We should not be placing so much emphasis on the "winner" and the "runner-up" -- this is not a spelling bee. If we condense this into who "won" we are doing a disservice to the issues that drove these elections. SpiderMMB 23:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Rattlesnake Mountain
I am undoing the change to Rattlesnake Mt. redirect and reverting to the redirect to the DAB page. There are 60+ mountains with the same name in the US alone including several much taller than the one in the Tri-Cities. Oh Snap 16:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * True, but there are two articles. Rattlesnake Mt. originally redirected to Rattlesnake Ridge in North Bend, WA.  The info box is for Rattlesnake Mt. Oh Snap 18:26, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

About Template:Cy used on your main page
Your main page is the only page in all of Wikipedia using template, which is actually an alias for the template City, so I have changed the one usage on that page from using Cy to City.

The reason is, since that Cy template exists, I want to hijack borrow it for a similar purpose. The City template is used to create a link in the form City, State with both visible. I'm going to use Cy for the same thing but where the state is not shown in the visible part of the link. For example, where someone shows a list of cities in a specific state, it's not necessary and quite redundant to show the state. So this provides a quick way to do that. Just thought I'd let you know. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 21:38, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Let me give an example. Cities in Nevada:, ; Cities in Wisconsin: ,. These are links to the location without showing the state, but the state is in the link. using the template, I can do  otherwise I have to do Las Vegas. This way is faster, shorter, and you can't misspell the name in the link. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 06:20, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion of Steve Pederman
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Falling Up
Why do you keep removing the project tags from this article? Once you characterized these as "silliness". The band is from Oregon, and band articles are part of WP:WPBIO. Articles that are looked after by WikiProjects have more people watching them, tend get improved more often and any vandalism gets reverted quicker. So, care to explain your objections? Katr67 (talk) 23:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Notice
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 * Glad that one edit--unblanking a full, formerly featured article--makes me "appear to be engaged in an edit war". I mean no harm, but throwing a B.S. standardized (thankfully subst'd, though) "if you continue, you may be blocked from editing" line typically doesn't lend itself to a reasoned discussion. Just throwing that out there. Matt Yeager  ♫  (Talk?) 06:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I apologize, but that line comes up automatically when the template is posted; unfortunately that is the only template I thought to be suitable for use in this case. I am aware that you only made one edit, although as the page was continually being reverted on both sides the edit war template was appropriate for just that single edit. I posted the identical message to everyone who was continuing to revert the page from a redirect to a full article, and from a full article to a redirect.  Instead of turning it into an edit war, I was trying to begin a reasoned discussion so that it would not become one. I sincerely apologize if I did not make this clear in my notice, or if you interpreted my notice in a different way than I intended. MelicansMatkin (talk) 15:43, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

My Rfa
My effort to regain adminship was unsuccessful, and I'll do what I can to ensure your opinion of my suitability for adminship improves. Thank you for taking some time out of your day to voice your opinion.--MONGO 04:52, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

RFA thanks
 .: RFA thanks :.

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Can you believe it?
It's deja vu all over again, Talk:Bobcat. It's hard to believe this still is going on. It has even branched to a request for arbitration and a discussion on the wikiproject page, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mammals. Beyazid (talk) 17:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Washington Cities
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WP:Mammal
Your comment As per the consensus... I love your dedication, but one single editor doesn't overrule a consensus. when reverting Uther, the discussion referred to didn't look very consensusy to me. Several comments in favour of caps, several more in favour of not caring. A slight majority in favour of caps, for sure, but some steadfast refusal from some very prolific mammal contributors. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  00:29, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It's 9:3:4 actually - My vote in Pro-caps was not a vote, simply an explanation of what a point in favour was. I sided with either. Just saying. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  21:14, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

straw poll
I know you will say that Wikipedia is not a democracy, but please check out my straw poll anyway. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 04:56, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Red gazelle
Hi Matt,

Just want to draw your attention to WikiProject Mammals, where the question of capitalizing mammal names is summarized. Note the point about original authors and please reconsider capitalization of Red Gazelle. By the way, I am not the original author of the article in question :-). Cheers—GRM (talk) 16:39, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:PN
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Former U.S. House members
Matt, we're discussing redirecting a handful of lists you created over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress. Somebody else created similar lists for each letter of the alphabet, so there's a bit of redundancy. Let us know if there's some special reason to keep them the way they are. --Michael Snow (talk) 20:35, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey
I've just started getting interested in saying hey to other wikipedia users, and your profile page was pretty sweet because a) my wife kills me at nertz every time b) you're the second person I've met who has actually played egyptian ratscrew so, all in all, we have some common interests.Sushilover boy (talk) 16:58, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I recently saw
where you tried a while back adding "Wikipedia" to the see also of the "Tower of Babel" article, and the argument you put up for it on the talk page. Can I just say that you are honestly the strangest fellow I have ever encountered here. 78.146.17.255 (talk) 08:47, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Couth
Hi Matt,

I was wondering why you removed some forms of verbs from the List of English irregular verbs |in August. I don't quite understand your explanation that "A -F fixed. All these words are english, now." The reason I bring this up is because of the word "couth", which is an obsolete past participle of "can". "Couth" was one of the words you removed. The list includes archaic forms; do you believe it should not? I created couth as a redirect to the list. One user questioned the redirect because the word no longer existed in the list, but was satisfied with my explanation that it was indeed an archaic form of "can". Without knowing that this discussion had taken place, another user deleted the redirect and then contacted me to apologize, but suggested that I discuss the subject with you before recreating the redirect. What is your view on the subject? Would you mind if the redirect was recreated?

Neelix (talk) 15:45, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Admin Ethics and Standards
Hi Matt,

Would love your thoughts on this deletion review because I admire your philosophy on admins not abusing their powers along with a proper deletion process. The original article in question was "speedy deleted" after being listed here on Wikipedia for over two years and having endured an AfD before. The admin in question deleted links from the original article then used his "speedy delete" powers to delete it. When questioned, the article went before a 2nd AfD, at which time the admin in question allowed the article to be judged, sans his link deletion of credible sources from the original state of the article. When the sources were added during the 2nd AfD, the admin would delete them and eventually block them, including a link to a page here on Wikipedia where the notability of the person (article in question) was clearly established by the University of Texas, San Antonio. You appear very knowledgeable in these matters and do not appear to be the type described in this article, and because of this, we request your help in overturning an improper deletion. Thank you for your time. --72.191.15.133 (talk) 18:45, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Deletion Review You Voted in Favor of Relisting/Overturn
FYI, you voted to either re-list or overturn this article after a 2nd AfD deletion. Unfortunately the article now, is incomplete with sources from the state when it was set for a 2nd AfD, many source links, found on this page, are now deleted. This is unfair and perhaps you can help get this straight and give Wikipedia a better name for what it once stood for. --74.223.216.130 (talk) 05:03, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Rolando Gomez
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Rolando Gomez. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedy-deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.--72.191.15.133 (talk) 19:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Rollback
I have granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see New admin school/Rollback and Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. –Juliancolton Happy Holidays 02:25, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Flagged Revs
Hi,

I noticed you voted oppose in the flag revs straw pole and would like to ask if you would mind adding User:Promethean/No to your user or talk page to make your position clear to people who visit your page :) - Thanks to Neurolysis for the template  « l | Ψrometheăn ™ | l »   (talk) 06:51, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Holland
Hi, Matt Yeager. I just noticed you changed Holland into Holland (subnational area). While as such a defensible move (though it is regrettable you moved without reference to earlier discussions about such a move, which did not reach a consensus) this causes the problem that there are now several thousand links that need to be changed. Do have you any suggestions about how this will be brought about? You will do it yourself or some bot will?

Greetings,--MWAK (talk) 22:17, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Will respond on article talk page. Red Slash - Smily.png <font color="#DF0001">Matt Yeager  <font size="3" color="#B46611">♫  <font color="#00AA88">(Talk?) 23:03, 14 February 2009 (UTC)