User talk:Yardcock

Images for deletion
See my message to you at images for deletion --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 21:47, 2004 Jun 30 (UTC)

Deleted the BMP image, upon explanation --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 22:05, 2004 Jun 30 (UTC)

Your user name
Could you please explain your user name? We have a policy against offensive user names, and I'm just trying to get clear what your name is supposed to mean. Thanks. RickK 05:14, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)

OK, thanks for replying. Don't be surprised if others ask, though. :) RickK 06:30, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)

vfd
Hi there. It seems like you have a quick hand in putting articles up for vfd. Just to remind you, articles can be edited and you could put up a message like and. I am sure people are just as willing to 'help out' an article then, as they are when you put it on vfd. Yardcock 19:45, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what article you are referring to. If you are responding to my summaries that say "Not a candidate for speedy deletion - please list on Votes for deletion if appropriate" then you are looking at the message I use when someone has listed an article for speedy deletion when it is not a valid candidate.  Occassionally, I will move that article to VfD because I can see that the request has merit but it still does not qualify for speedy deletion. Does that help? -  T&#949;x  &#964;  ur&#949;  19:51, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)


 * I am referring to several messages on your talk pages in general and the article on Mary Cheney in particular. The 'lack of NPOV' was an honest mistake by a serious wikipedia member and the article was not supposed to be an advertising.


 * Point out specific items on my talk page if you wish to discuss them. Mary Cheney has improved over the original.  It was originally phrased as an advertisement solely supporting the one site and not addressing the individual for that person's own merit.  I do not agree with rewarding any article focused on a single web site rather than the topic of the article.  In my opinion, it is still not an article about Mary Cheney but rather an article about this one position she has taken that the site is against.  If it remains I hope it will improve. -  T&#949;x  &#964;  ur&#949;  20:24, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Please see my latest post on Talk:2004 European Football Championship Mintguy (T) 18:54, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

EU medal count
As I keep saying, the count is invalid because the EU is not competing as a country, and therefore they have more participants than would be allowed if they competed as a single team. RickK 22:15, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)


 * right! It is good argument. But I very like that page and see it useful. :)


 * Dear Yardcock I fully accept your proper remark about Template:2004_Summer_Olympics_medal_count, but please dont call me vandal! :) Liso 22:08, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Just because the article acknowledges that the count is bogus, doesn't mean it shouldn't be deleted. RickK 22:30, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)

re:Baseball Project
Sure, I'll take a look at it and see what I can contribute. Thanks for showing me. - Mattingly23 21:47, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Obrigada pelos parabéns! Muriel

re: Happy Birthday.
Thanks!! :-) --Saint-Paddy 01:11, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks also. Hyacinth 19:06, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Robert Lindsay
I've noticed that you recently moved the content from Robert Lindsay to Robert Lindsay (actor) to make room for a disambiguation page. While it is acceptable to move pages, it is generally frowned upon to do so through copy and pasting, as it doesn't retain the page history (see Renaming (moving) a page). In the future, please move pages using the move function located at the top of the page, and then change the resulting redirect to a disambiguation page afterward. Thanks. - MattTM 02:00, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * I would have done so. However the original page included information about all three individuals. So rather than moving it to one particular article, I split it up in three different articles. If there is a better way to do that, please advise. [[User:Yardcock|Yardcock | talk]] 06:55, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * In situations such as that, it would probably be best to keep the edit history with whichever section of the article has the most text (the actor part), and move with rest manually with a note in the edit summary of the new locations. I'm not sure if there's a solid rule on this, but it's how I would do it.  Take care. - MattTM 07:20, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

Category:Cities in Sweden
Hello! Nice work with the Cities in Sweden. The main reason why very few cities are listed there, or are alternatively listed, is that cities does not exist as separate administrative entities in Sweden. Currently all articles with "city names" are stubs for municipality articles and as such listed in that category. One sollution could be to separate municipalities and cities into different articles, but before that happens we might contend ourself with the fact that name of category is properly formatted. Cheers. -- Mic 21:04, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the move, I had probably made some blunder (opened the list of municipalities and memorized it was the full list of cities). Now thanks to your help, we are done with the "Cities of ..." series --French Tourist 21:17, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

U.S. Southern Wikipedians' notice board
Hey! I've created this new notice board specifically for articles related to people from the U.S. South. If you are interested in contributing, leave a message on the page and add articles you feel need to be reviewed, contributed to, or started. Mike H 21:09, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

Obrigada pelos parabéns! Muriel G 07:24, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


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Unverified image
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 * Image:University of South Carolina Horseshoe.JPG

Greetings
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WikiProject Baseball players
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Articles for deletion/European Union member states at the 2004 Summer Olympics
You might be interestd to have a look. Regards --Pgreenfinch 12:43, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

User categorization
Greetings! Your user page hasn't been vandalized :-) --it was updated to use the new User Categorization scheme. I have categorized your User Page as a Wikipedian in South Carolina (Category:Wikipedians in South Carolina) since your name was listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/South Carolina page.  The Wikipedia:Wikipedians/South Carolina page is scheduled for deletion.  Thanks!   Roby Wayne  Talk &bull;  Hist 01:31, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Belated Birthday
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WikiProject Eurovision
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Unspecified source for Image:USA_Baseball.JPG
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 * I got this message on my talk page. You originally uploaded this image a long time ago, and later I came along and converted it to a PNG, I think; perhaps you can provide the required source information. —Bkell (talk) 22:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs
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