User talk:WeeWillieWiki

You stole my brilliant idea for a name. ;-)

WiiWillieWiki 15:09, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, sir! Or sorry, miss! as appropriate. LOL WeeWillieWiki —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.156.188.254 (talk) 17:39, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks BanyanTree! I did some editing w/o logging in; now if I could just remember the articles... Oh well. And as for remembering my password, I had to reset it to something I can remember (sometimes). Always glad to be of assistance. WeeWillieWiki (talk) 14:11, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:Franklin
Good catch. At the moment I have an open request for peer review on Wisconsin, so i have added your comment about Franklin there so as to adress it later. What I am going to do (hopefully, if time permits) is check the histories of the ships mentioned in the article to make sure that they all agree with each other. Keep of the good work. TomStar81 (Talk) 23:12, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Woohoo! Someone agreed with me. LOL. Several years ago, the Dallas Morning News stated on their "this day in history" segment that the Franklin had been put out of action permanently by a kamikaze. I fired off an email countering that, and received a reply to the effect of "We've been getting a lot of these today; we just pull the story off the AP wire." Harumph.

Anyway, I am glad to contribute. If I new more about the Wisconsin, I'd be happy to review it. Alas, all I can do is edit for grammar and punctuation. WeeWillieWiki (talk) 01:43, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

USS Elizabeth C. Stanton (AP-69)
Thanks for fixing up the dates that had got partially unlinked. However, you might like to know that in the latest version of the Manual of Style, the advice on wikilinking dates has changed - it used to recommend always linking dates for autoformatting, but it now takes a much more measured approach - see MOS:SYL. Personally, I'm unlinking dates whenever I'm making other changes, because - as it says there - the autoformatting benefits only a very small number of readers and the valueless links are a distraction to the >90% of readers who don't benefit from the autoformatting. Colonies Chris (talk) 12:34, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the input; it's much appreciated. Another user pointed that out a couple of days ago, and I'm trying to go back through my history to undo those changes. Sadly, I'll never get to all of them before somebody else does. Guess I'll just look the fool, just as in realspace. I swear I read the MOS before starting... Oh well. WeeWillieWiki (talk) 13:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC)


 * It's a recent change - and up until then I'd been linking dates in line with the previous recommendation (even though I didn't like it much), so that's a lot of linking to undo. (sigh) Colonies Chris (talk) 15:28, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Ataegina
Hi Willie,

Don't worry about it. I was only making a quick & dirty merge as part of another project, and didn't spend the time that I should have. The article needs to be much more balanced—it's currently mostly Ataegina in modern Portugal, with a bit spliced in about Ataegina in modern Spain—countries that are completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. If I've run roughshod over something you were trying to demonstrate, by all means go ahead and revert me. Also, I have no real reason to think that the g vs. c spelling is Portuguese vs. Spanish: it might have been Celtic vs. Iberian, for all I know. Iberian didn't distinguish g from c, so an original Celtic g would likely show up as c in Iberian inscriptions. kwami (talk) 18:30, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Second foray
Sorry for causing you to think I had vandalized your page. I noticed how you lightheartedly allowed someone to note that you stole an idea for a name so I thought to best spread WP:WikiLove I might jokingly add some puns from a variation of the Wee Willie Winkie nursery rhyme, which your username resembles and I admire. I used the "tapping at the window, rapping at the lock," variant of "tapping at the window, crying at the lock," to suggest he was "rapping at the loch" and thus bringing Hip hop to the Loch Ness Monster. I wanted a cerebral way to thank you personally for your contributions to Wikipedia.

I in no way wished to vandalize your page. I try to always WP:AGF and notify users that I suspect have vandalized a page before/when I publicly note their action as WP:Vandalism but I understand that others work differently and respect their positive contributions to Wikipedia. I am sorry for any incovenience. :)--Thecurran (talk) 15:23, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Delinking dates
Re the notice you left on my talk page. I have replied to you there. Additionally, I noticed that you have been delinking dates. A semi-automatic tool which performs this job is available. You can read about what it does, how to use it, and where to get it here. Ohconfucius (talk) 04:06, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for your very good edits. See you around. --SulmuesLet's talk 22:12, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

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Your "commenting out" on Indoor Football League
You never heard of the "backspace" button before? Tom Danson (talk) 18:10, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

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