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Hey, great to see a new user adding content. Excellent stuff too. Warm welcome to you. Grace Note 05:35, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Argh.
Copy vio error caught before out more than a couple minutes. Teeny tiny print at the bottom of an article is easy to miss. Methinks a wiki icon embedded at the front of a wiki derived article would be nice, to prevent noobs like myself from making an a** of ourselves too easily...

Cousins of the Grammar Facists...
The cite your sources bandits are irritating. I just added info for sourcing on an author. It took 2 minutes at Amazon to confirm 90% of the material. Making something a stub is one thing, but author entries like that take almost less time to verify, than to mark as unsourced. Ditto for athletes, most of the time. Grr.

Jedi Civil War tone tag
Hey Zotel. As an aside before I get down to business, you definitely get the Fernando Newbie Seal of Approval. Good edit summaries, man, keep it up. Now, about Jedi Civil War. I can see where you're coming from and I understand why you took down the tone tag. I'll give you my rationale for putting it there, and I'll leave it up to you to see if you think it merits being replaced or not. Anyway, that's my two bits. Keep contributing at the level you are right now, and you'll be a fine editor. Drop me a note on my talk page after you read this. Fernando Rizo T/C 03:51, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The article is very talky and conversational. It doesn't read like an academic piece. I'll admit that I might be asking a bit much for fanbois to be academic, but look at the relative quality of Tatooine and Lightsaber. It can be done.
 * It's essentially a plot synopsis of the Knights of the Old Republic video game. I imagine (although I'm not a big enough SW fan to know) that there's more to the Jedi Civil War than just the events that occurred in that game. I'm sure there's novels and comic books and what not.

Hmm - Note to self, come up with a consolidation / trim / concise / ??? tag. Expansion is great, but HA how about a (too much info) tag! That would be pretty close to what it should be...

hmm. hmm. should probably be the tag. might work too. ''This article is too in-depth for an encycolpedic article. Please consider trimming/removing some of the extraneous/excess content to make this a more concise and relevant/readable/usable/??? article'' Still needs work tho... Zotel - the Stub Maker 05:37, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

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Cochlear implant
Hmmm... I hadn't read it that way, good change over there. It did sound negative, didn't it? Semiconscious ( talk  ·  home) 02:50, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

New Orleans Disaster - Katrina
Grr. Martial law, not martial law, a state of emergency, oh wait we are declaring martial law now finaly. Sigh.

Aluminium / Aluminum
Fer crying out loud people, make a decision and stick to it. The notation of alternate spelling as it currently exists should be enough. It's just freakish. I am staunchly American-centric but give it a rest people...

Fundraiser
Apparently more servers/bandwidth does a wiki good. Random pages were slowwww but they have really picked up recently Zotel - the Stub Maker 01:59, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deletion
Hm. Apparently it doesn't show up in your history if it gets nuked. Did a speedy tage n a DigiD??? something, and doesn't show in my history. Oh well. =) Zotel - the Stub Maker 01:18, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Shared IP/AOL Template
Make it into a restricted used template ONLY for IP user pages, and have the user pages locked to a "welcome page" to prevent spamming newbie wikipedians and confusing them... Just a thought...

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Fixed-wing aircraft
Did a major revamp of Fixed-wing aircraft based on the old version combined with the portugese version as translated by babelfish. Oy. I think I won't do that again for a while. Zotel - the Stub Maker 23:34, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Missed cat tags on the temp page, and a few other things. Got it to 90% or so of what I wanted. Hopefully all the tweakers will catch the stuff I missed. Just couldn't stand the paper thin article that was there compared to the portugese version. At least it will be easier to fix up into something decent now... Zotel - the Stub Maker 01:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Trees and deforestation
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7749

Source for the problems with trees=water argument. Apparently due to their higher surface area for aspiration, they lose more water than smaller plants, and actually can suck water right out of the enviroment. Go figure. STOP THE DESERT. Plant a bush. Or grass. Very contrary to what I always heard/thought, but I guess thats why they have to do studies on this stuff, since even the obvious can be wrong. Zotel - the Stub Maker 01:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Misc - Wiki print, Ads
Just noticed the printable version link on the sidebar. Don't think something like that would be new, but surely would have noticed before? Maybe? Not sure I like the idea of ads on wikipedia to answers.com but on the other hand it would be good revenue stream theoretically. Hopefully it won't be too intrusive and muck the site up. Zotel - the Stub Maker 01:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

William Ford Gibson
Fixing all the cyberpunkish articles that link to generic William Gibson. Or starting on it anyhow. As popular as he is, nobody seems to have the gumption to fix all these. Zotel - the Stub Maker 02:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Wiki chokes
keeps whining about losing session data. Only a problem on minor edits, if I removed the check from the box it gives no problems. Ah well, not a huge deal, just a trivial annoance that will most likely be fixed soon. The servers being flaky at random times is soemthing I don't think will go away uless some rich person bequeathes a large trust fund to wiki tho...

Also gave me fits the other day when trying to upload an updated image for browser usage. Still chokin on random links and standard links on a fairly regular basis. Sigh. Zotel - the Stub Maker 04:38, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Oldest articles
Using this special page to go thru and see if there are any articles that are interesting or need to be stubbed, fixed, etc. Running across a few interesting things anyhow... Zotel - the Stub Maker 02:24, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

List of international organization leaders in 1641 and others
According to the article on International organization, these only came into vogue in the late 1800's. Do a quick and dirty look for these down from 1641 and up from it (via List of state leaders in XXXX). So far, these deadwood links disappeared at 1621. Went back to 1591 and no further mentions. (BTW the table is ugly on my browser, with the dividing line chopping thru the text, alignment seems to be a wiki prob with images too) Leaving list of religious leaders, since there were popes, Anglican church leaders, et al thru this period. Disappears in 1710-1810, again. GRR. after 20 pages of search of "list of international organization leaders in" came across more redlink spam, in the 1200's for crying out loud. Spot checked to 100 pages. So far, have NOT seen many of these lists at all, and none seem to be older than 20th century. Leaving there 50 years prior to 1878, on off chance they are notable before then. No non-redlinks up to 1828. Be nice if I knew how to make a bot, to auto chop these. used to be decent at modding terminal scripts to do what I wanted.


 * Additional note - if there were enough "important" international orgs back then, they should have had something by now. Since there are only redlinks, I am assuming that there are very few if any, and if so, they would be adequately covered by their own article. Zotel - the Stub Maker 16:08, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Colonial governors back to 1200's is link cruft too. only go back to late 15h century apparently. Gut them too. Zotel - the Stub Maker 16:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Struct-stub
Hi - I've just reverted your re-wording of struct-stub. Not sure why you changed it, but it certainly confused a lot of people. I've just had to empty all the building terms and architectural styles out of its category. Struct-stub is only intended to be used for individual buildings or structures. Everything else related to building (methods, styles, types, features, etc) gets architecture-stub. Grutness... wha?  05:10, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Fixed it up as best I could now, hopefully my little notes on the stub page will help as well. Ahh the lovely fine tuning that always seems to never quite get to the point where someone new won't muck it up a bit. Zotel - the Stub Maker 15:31, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Trouble is that someone's been changing the architecture-stub wording, too. That's a tricky one to word, though - it's basically for everything that isn't a specific building but is related to buildings. personally, I'd say that Flood wall is pretty close to being a geographical term (like, say, Flood plain or Drove road, so geo-term-stub is just as possible. there are always a few grey areas you can't quite pin down! Grutness... wha?  21:59, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Spider-stub and insect-stub? No troubl. The big problem areas are things like the geo-stubs for Israel and Palestine, or any stubs using the word "China". Still, edit wars are better than real ones... Grutness... wha?  22:59, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Waste Management
Just checking - you moved the link "For the corporation, see Waste Management Incorporated" from the bottom to the top. It seem to give a disproportionate emphasis on a single local company over the who field. Is that simply to be in line with standard Wiki practice?
 * Yes, moved to be "standard location" - after all, if you happen to be looking for a secondary link, you don't want to have to scroll thru and entire article to find it, and you may not know to, since the vast majority of thses are at the top of pages. Zotel - the Stub Maker 14:59, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
 * And also, it is not a "local" company, it covers the US and Canada and is a fortune 500 company. I didn't know how large it was until I looked at their site and wiki entry. Bigger than I thought they were Zotel - the Stub Maker 15:07, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

The Movement
What do you think of the movement? Reply here. Thanks. --Kin Khan 02:59, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry...
I saw your stress level, and I wanted to say I'm sorry that your child died. God bless you. --Violin  G irl ♪ 17:44, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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Eh, no problem. Everybody needs hugs now and then. Besides, how could I not hug somebody who took their name from Fiddler? - Corbin Simpson 01:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Template:User anti-fascism
Since some people feel that this template was T1 (which may or may not apply to UBX templates depending on what day of the week it is and which stars are in alignment) I am manually subst on all user pages linking to this template, since individual users are allowed more leeway in their personal pages than the template namespacey thing. Zotel - the Stub Maker 16:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, thanks for the subsitute. -- WGee 03:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Vote requested for Exocortex}}}|Exocortex AfD
The Exocortex article is being considered for deletion. You may wish to share your thoughts on the matter. (Any reply posted here will not be reviewed by me.) --Amit 02:59, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Louisville
Greetings. I've been dropping a line to all Louisville residents I can find to ask them to consider joining the new WikiProject Louisville. It has been determined there is a *lot* of work to do yet remaining for Louisville-related subjects, and therefore we would definitely appreciate your presence. If by chance you are unable to join us, that's all right, but if you can, please tell other Louisvillians about this worthy project. Thank you for your time! Stevie is the man! Talk &bull; Work 19:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Windows user template
May I ask what you are resisting? I am resisting GUS, the German Userbox Solution. My plan is to merge as many like templates together to reduce the amount of templates while still keep the function of them so that those against them will have less to argue about. My goal is to remove the need for GUS. Would you please consider restoring the master template to your user page? - LA @ 23:18, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * "Windows" is a sufficient name for the template, adding User os blah blah seems extraneous and wasteful. At least to me. I liked the old template. So I'll keep it until its mangled enough to annoy me. As Bobby Brown would say its "My Prerogative", I can do what I wanna do Zotel - the Stub Maker 02:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

To say thanks
Thanks for taking the time to congratulate me on my contributions!, it lets you know that people are noticing your contributions. I am quite new so I would just like to ask, when you sent me a message - how did you do it? I know how to email a user via wikipedia but I do not know how to send an internal message to a fellow wikipedia editor like you did to me, please help! thank you for your comments: Tellyaddict 17:43, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Louisville growing and changing
WikiProject Louisville is sprouting its wings for 2007! We have a new Assessment Department and a much more refined project template. We have nearly 1,000 articles catalogued for our project. And we still have a lot of work to do. We have 500+ articles left to assess for quality, and all our articles, as always, need tender loving care. Please consider dropping by the project and seeing what you might be able to do to move Louisville-related articles forward. Cheers, and Happy New Year! Stevie is the man! Talk &bull; Work 01:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Power pack (science fiction)
Hi. To get the article undeleted, see Undeletion policy, and add the article to Deletion review. With the new pages patrol, occasionally an article gets deleted that may have stayed otherwise. That has happened before and will happen again. Personally, I still think the article is not significant enough, but I have erred before, and I would have no problems with the article if the community wants to keep it. I hope this helps, please feel free to ask me if you have any other questions. -- Chris 73 | Talk 15:51, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Louisville brainstorming about enhancing communication and coordination
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Fixed Wing Aircraft (23:12, 22 October 2005)
By translating from the Portugese wiki to english, the article went from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fixed-wing_aircraft&oldid=26039404

to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fixed-wing_aircraft&oldid=26224344

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