User talk:Roadrunner3000/Archive 1

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Re. Law & Order page
Many of your edits have been reverted due to general consensus. Please, do not edit them back (specifically, the useless statement about the Beginning, and the statement about Elisabeth Rohm being hated by everyone). While you are welcome to edit pages, and the community encourages editing to help an article, some of your edits have been unwelcome. Please, if you have any questions over what is/what is not acceptable, leave a note on the Law & Order talk page. Consider this your only warning. ral315 03:13, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

I see a few things I would change...
But why don't you post the new SVU article anyway. I have time tomorrow night (Friday night), so if you post it on the SVU page, I'll fix up what I think needs to be fixed up, and we'll get a good article out of it. Make sure to post again on my user page when it's done, or I WILL forget.

I was actually planning to fix up SVU and Criminal Intent at some point in the future- glad to see you got one of the two for me. ral315 02:45, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

A list of Television Show Casting Changes
Please stop removing the "Votes for Deletion" box from A list of Television Show Casting Changes. Please leave it on the article until the article is no longer listed at Votes for Deletion. Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 19:11, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

Pokémon does not equal Digimon.
Hi there, and welcome to the Wikipedia! I've noticed you've been adding a bunch of Pokémon articles to the category "Pokémon and Digimon." However, Pokémon and Digimon, despite their similarities, are two completely different franchises made by different companies. Please stop. --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 23:22, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

I second that. Please put all the Pokémon articles back into the Pokémon category and all the Digimon articles back into the Digimon category. Note that we don't have a Category: Coke and Pepsi, or a Category: The U.S. and Canada, or a Category: Spanish and Portuguese things. Andre ( talk ) 23:45, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

I concur. Unless you can explain your actions, I may be forced to report all of this as vandalism. kelvSYC 00:22, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I agree. This is misusing the category system. If I'm not sure I completely understand how something is used in Wikipedia, I don't go out and make big changes or a lot of changes based on it. You should put articles in the most specific category that exists, and you're stealing articles out of specific Pokémon and Digimon categories and moving them to this one. That takes away information from the Wikipedia. Please revert your changes back? Thank you. Samaritan 01:19, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Why would you categorize the two together anyways? They are two clearly distinct series, from two different animation studios, with two unrelated plots, starring two different sets of voice actors, that have little to do with each other (other than the fact that they just happened to exist at the same time when both were popular - and even then they were popular for different reasons). Is comparing the differences between Pokémon and Digimon encyclopedic and worth a Wikipedia article? Do we need something like Comparison of apples and oranges? kelvSYC 04:34, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I see you've reverted yourself. Thank you very much! ^_^ --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 23:47, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

DO NOT EDIT OTHER USERS' PAGES
I understand that Law and Order SVU is not a Stub anymore, and my user page is in error. But it doesn't mean you have the right to edit my page to reflect that. None of the headings on my user page are particularly correct- I just want a general idea of what articles need to be added, fixed up, etc.

Once again, do not edit User pages (except for your own).

Sincerely, ral315
 * As per WP:UP,


 * In general, avoid substantially editing another's user page without their permission, but feel free to correct typos and other mistakes. Some users are fine with their user pages being edited, and may even have a note to that effect. Other users may object and ask you not to edit their user pages, and it is probably sensible to respect their requests. The best option is to draw their attention to the matter on their talk page and let them edit their user page themselves if they agree on a need to do so.


 * But don't think of this as a "rule" &mdash; even WP:UP is editable. Many user pages like User:Jimbo Wales were edited collaboratively by several people.  -- Perfecto [[Image:Flag_of_Canada.svg|25px|Canada]] 00:22, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright
Thank you for uploading Image:Rhea.gif and for stating the source. However, its copyright status is unclear, so it may have to be deleted. If it is open content or public domain, please give proof of this on the image page. If the image is fair use, please provide a rationale. Thank you.

User 204.108.88.10
I noticed that you have left a message to this IP concerning stubbing television articles that are too long to be stubs. This user, using this and other IP's, has been doing this for some time now. I did leave a message for him on one IP to quit doing this, but he didn't respond. It's annoying, and I did leave a couple of notices on the vandalism page concerning one of this user's main IP's. They haven't blocked him on the basis that he also re-categorizes other broadcast stubs correctly at the same time. I guess at this rate, we are going to have to live with it. ErikNY 15:08, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

New stub template
Hi. We over at WikiProject Stub sorting have just discovered your new stub template Looney-tunes-stub. Normally, stub categories are created after a process of proposal and debate at WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria, to ensure that they meet the requirements for a new stub category&mdash;such as not cutting across the current category hierarchy, having a viable number of stub articles (a mininmum of 60), and not being covered by any current categories. Your new stub has been listed here. &mdash; Fingers-of-Pyrex 21:20, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Blanking to REDIR is not minor
Hi there, I just reversed a change you made to SpongeBob SquarePants (TV show). You blanked the page, put in a redirect, and marked the change as minor. A change of that size is really not minor. I repaired the content and put in a mergeto tag. Two requests, please be descriptive in your changes (eg, 'redirected to SpongeBob SquarePants'), and second, please be careful with the minor edit tag. Many editors filter all minor changes, meaning a large 'minor' change might skip under the radar. Thanks! C HAIRBOY (☎) 04:42, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

WB Shield
WB Shield seems to be a direct copy-and-paste of http://members.fortunecity.com/teamfx2000/WarnerBros/warnerbros.htm. I have tagged it as a copyright violation. Please do not submit copyrighted work into Wikipedia without permission. Can you please review this page? Thanks! -- Perfecto 05:37, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Production Logos
Hey Roadrunner3000. If you support the inclusion of pages about production logos in Wikipedia, I'm on your side. Wikipedia is not paper, and any article that could be of interest to anyone, that doesn't get in the direct way of another article should not be deleted. --Nick Dillinger 10:32, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Nyse template
I think it's better to leave out the parentheses. Please visitTemplate_talk:Nyse for a discussion about this. Shawnc 15:38, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

2005 NFL standings
As the primary user who updates that standings chart, I have to ask: is there a particular reason why you split this from 2005 NFL season? You did not enter anything in the edit summary, which you should do if you split, merge, or move content to another page. And as mentioned on Merging and moving pages:
 * Do not move or rename a page by copy/pasting its content, because doing so destroys the edit history. (The GFDL requires acknowledgement of all contributors, and editors continue to hold copyright on their contributions unless they specifically give up this right. Hence it is required that edit histories be preserved for all major contributions until the normal copyright expires.)

Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:47, 14 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Quite frankly, you might want to read Transclusion costs and benefits. Because unless 2005 NFL standings is transcluded onto a number of pages besides 2005 NFL season, the costs on the server's cache and memory outweigh whatever benefits you were thinking of. Also, since "2005 NFL standings" is in the Main article namespace, it takes several minutes longer than a normal template for the server's cache to update "2005 NFL season" automatically unless I or someone else takes the extra step in manually purging the cache. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Hillary Andrews
yes, i understand that you think she's hot, but when you expand an article to include someone, it's rather immature to end it with 'I bet she's a good shag'. Please stop doing stuff like that. ß 03:13, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

RE: I don't remember adding that?!--Roadrunner3000 15:58, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

cleanup tag
Hey there, I noticed you put a cleanup tag on Brooklyn Nets Arena. It's generally accepted practice to explain why/what needs to be cleaned up on the article's talk page, or over at Cleanup. Articles are tagged for cleanup when they need to be better organized into sections or copyedited, which isn't really the case at that article. --Howrealisreal 02:08, 27 December 2005 (UTC)