User talk:Schmloof/archives/information

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(footballer) not (football)
I refer to a page move you made to Scott Thornton (footballer) a few weeks ago. Unlike Ice Hockey, for soccer and Australian rules footballers, the preferred term is (footballer), not (football). NFL players tend to be labeled (football player). This is not based on any published convention, but on the >300 existing pages of Australian rules footballers with (footballer) compared to the ten or so with ((football). The examples on the WP:NCP page seem to back this approach using Cyclist, musician, politician and actor rather than cycling, music, politics & films.  I am going to revert it back to stay with our common use convention. The-Pope (talk) 02:06, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Illinois
Your recent edit to the page Illinois appears to have added incorrect information and has been reverted or removed. All information in this encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable, published source. If you believe the information that you added was correct, please cite the references or sources or before making the changes, discuss them on the article's talk page. Please use the sandbox for any tests that you wish to make. Do take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. (In French, spelling has only 1 "p" in Miss., see ref) --Funandtrvl (talk) 19:38, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Non Free Images in you User Space
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No archive?
Don't you want a bot to archive for you? Otherwise, this page will be filled with headlines. Archiving is a great and better way to organize all messages here, making it easier, faster and more efficient for readers searching in the archives to find specific old messages or just want to read in through the whole archive and go back a few years maybe. I just want you to know that I just wanted to be nice to you. Thanks, / Hey Mid  (contributions) 09:16, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yup, I know about archiving. I just prefer to archive by hand, when the time comes.  Thanks, though. –Schmloof  19:56, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Don't "fix" links to redirects that aren't broken
See WP:NOTBROKEN, please. Just because we have an article on the political entity Heard Island and McDonald Islands, but we don't yet have an article on the geographic entity named Heard Island, doesn't mean links to Heard Island should be "fixed". Hesperian 05:19, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

template placement
Hello fellow mover, please place the template above the "#REDIRECT" magic line, not below it. Otherwise the redirect still works and will cause the attending sysop a moment of confusion. (From your usage in Gaspar Makale) Regards, Kimchi.sg (talk) 05:24, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Userspace edits
 Connormah  talk 06:45, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

'''Ed. note: The original discussion can be found User talk:Heymid/August 2010'''. –Schmloof (talk · contribs) 22:09, 18 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Replied again FWIW, but we should just drop it :)  Connormah  talk 07:06, 9 August 2010 (UTC)


 * No problem. I just don't like pointless messages (which is why I despise text messaging for the most part, since a call can resolve things much more efficiently).  I tried to be ultra sarcastic, but the Internet does tend to rudify things.  Sorry if you felt slighted. –Schmloof  08:04, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Signature
Not sure if it's been discussed with you before, but you're not supposed to have templates in your signature, and you use toolbar. Can you just render it with the plain code? Thanks,  — fetch ·  comms   02:42, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks! –Schmloof (talk &bull; contribs) 09:21, 21 August 2010 (UTC)