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I want to thank you for your olive branch an extend one of my own. I grew (OK...drew) this olive branch myself. ;-) I hope we can work together to find common ground with as many editors as possible to improve the lead and find text that everyone can live with!--Mark Miller (talk) 01:46, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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Tim Weed banjo
I mixed sound for Tim Weed last night and I thought hey, the guy should have a Wikipedia page. I found very little to base such a biography on and I wondered if you had any better sources, maybe some banjo journals I don't know about. There's a Marin Independent Journal article by their in-house music critic, Paul Liberatore: "Lib at Large: West Marin's Tim Weed celebrates his 'Soul House'". However, the notability guideline needs more than this. Binksternet (talk) 03:32, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
 * It's probably worth asking him directly for a list of articles that he knows of. From there we can build an article. That's what I'm doing with Buddy Wachter. --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 17:33, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Good idea. I'll chase that down. Binksternet (talk) 17:45, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Mr. Weed says look at this cover story: Tim Weed: Interview by Mike Kropp. Pretty good coverage. Binksternet (talk) 03:26, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * That looks good, ask him for his basic info (birthdate, place, etc.) for the infobox and see if he's willing to let us have a photo to upload to Commons. Later today I'll go find the musician article template and setup a framework in my Sandbox. Sound good? --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 16:49, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

More sources:
 * Tim Weed was born in 1959 in SoCal as Timothy Wiedenkeller. He moved to Tucson in 1999 with his wife, son and daughter. Tim's group includes violinist and bassist Rob Paulus, keyboardist Richard Katz and vocalist Debbie Daly.
 * "Debbie Daly Interview", West Marin Citizen, January 27, 2011. "Debbie Daly moved to Point Reyes Station from Tucson, Arizona with her partner Tim Weed in 2008. She met Tim in 2003 in her yoga class in her studio in Tucson, and as singers, they were drawn together."
 * Played with Stuart Duncan and Alison Brown in a bluegrass band called Last Chance.
 * Song "Morro Glenn" played on NPR.
 * Tim Wiedenkeller: "The New Old Pueblo" Tucson (2006) video, on NME.com
 * "Morro Glenn" by Tim Weed - original music on banjo & mandolin video, on NME.com
 * Tim Weed demonstrates the EMG ACB banjo pickup
 * Tim Weed MiniDocumentary Video, Online Video Guide
 * "Bluegrass band Frog Mountain in concert", August 31, 2001, Arizona Daily Star. In Frog Mountain band from 1994 to (at least) 2001: Peter McLaughlin – guitar; Tim Wiedenkeller – banjo, voice; Chris Brashear – fiddle, guitar, voice.
 * Various Tucson Citizen, Tucson Weekly and Arizona Daily Star pieces.
 * http://www.banjohangout.org/teacher/classical
 * https://myspace.com/timwiedenkeller/music/album/tim-on-banjo-with-dave-matthews-band-3964234
 * "Incredible: Modern Mandolin Quartet and Tim Weed", July 16, 2011. Steve Schaefer blog.
 * "President's Message", East Bay Banjo Club. Tim Weed to play solo as part of the June 2009 Summer Jazz Banjo Festival.
 * "President's Message", East Bay Banjo Club. Tim Weed to play solo as part of the June 2009 Summer Jazz Banjo Festival.

If you start the biography in your userspace I would love to help work on it. I will contact Weed to get a photo from him. Binksternet (talk) 19:25, 15 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Dang! I started the biography already in my own userspace. I should cultivate more patience, heh heh. Feel free to jump in and work on it: User:Binksternet/Weed. See you there! Binksternet (talk) 22:23, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

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Your Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode moves
Hello, Scalhotrod. I noticed your moves on these matters yesterday (or the night before yesterday). Because I was busy with other things, I decided to hold off on approaching you about it. I don't see where Disambiguation allows for the type of moves you did, even if you consider the episode titles ambiguous without the parenthetical "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." It's not standard Wikipedia practice to disambiguate in such a way. The standard practice in this case is that an article should only be disambiguated if there is a Wikipedia article with the same title; perhaps that is why some of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode articles were already disambiguated. Either that, or they are wrongly disambiguated. I'm thinking that the ones you disambiguated should not be disambiguated because there are no other Wikipedia articles with those titles. I understand that you disambiguated them for consistency, but I don't think that is a good approach; it simply unnecessarily makes the episode title longer. An experienced Wikipedia editor who can help with this matter is Zythe, who has been involved in a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Wikipedia editing. Flyer22 (talk) 17:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Flyer, thanks for taking the time to write. I'm not sure what you are referring to regarding the DISAM policy, I simply changed some article names, but here's my take on the moves. Some of the articles had titles that were simply the episode name and others (more than the former category) had titles that were the episode name followed by "(Buffy, the Vampire Slayer)". As I ran across them, for consistency sake, I moved them to articles with names consistent with the rest of the series articles. That was it, no other intention or plan involved.


 * I consider what I did to be a house keeping task and a trivial one at that. In fact, I consider it so trivial that this is last time I'm going to comment on it. I don't care enough about the articles in question to devote any additional time discussing the matter. I did not save a single article into my Watch List so if you revert anything, not only will I not care, I won't know either. Best regards, --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 21:54, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia:Disambiguation is a guideline, not a policy. Since you don't understand what I mean with regard to it in this case (I don't understand what you mean by "more than the former category"), and have basically stated that you don't care enough about this matter (not that I care much about it either, but I did care enough to point out what is standard practice with regard to Wikipedia naming conventions), and since Zythe has decided not to weigh in on it, I won't elaborate on why the moves are not good practice. But, as is clear above, I did not imply any intention with regard to your moving these articles other than for consistency. Flyer22 (talk) 00:38, 19 November 2013 (UTC)