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"The Coinage Act of 1792 has never formally been repealed and thus is theoretically in conflict with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913."
BKONRAD: Please provide evidence that the Coinage Act of 1792 has been repealed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.67.7.244 (talk) 13:58, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
BKONRAD: The claim is not speculative. If you look in the text of the Federal Reserve Act, there is no language that indicates that the 1792 act is now null and void. Therefore, I have taken the liberty of reverting your edit. Please do not change it further without further evidence to back up YOUR claim as I will simply change it back until you can prove the act was repealed by Congress. I have no compunctions about wasting your time going back and forth over this and will do so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.70.102.188 (talk) 07:53, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
BKONRAD: Neither do you. And stop being such a pompous ass. Your nose is so high, that when it rains you'd probably drown.
BTW, are you enjoying this? I can go back and forth like this forever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.67.111.188 (talk) 12:44, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Bill, you're just an asshole. Stay to things you know, which doesn't include economics.
Re the ref to WP:ACCESS on your edit of Go, according to WP:ACCESS#Lead section, last paragraph in the dropdown box, shouldn't the floating TOC go at the end of the lead section, right before the first heading? Otherwise, screen readers "will ... miss any text placed between the TOC and the first heading." Station1 (talk) 05:47, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm guessing you missed this? And I read the exchange you had with Station1 above, yet that still doesn't say much to me. Response? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 14:36, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your comment on my talk page. I see what you mean about the editor with unexaminable preconceptions. Don't worry, I had no intention of edit warring. I did put some comments at Wikipedia talk:Hatnote about depreciating the ((Distinguish)) template. (I probably put them in the wrong place and should have started a new section, oh well. Smile.) I also left a comment at Template talk:Distinguish#Rationale for this template high up in the discussion, so it will probably go unnoticed (not my intention, Smile.). David Göthberg did say in October 2008 that the ((Distinguish)) template was used on about 4400 pages. So if I stay away from articles about comic books and games, I should be okay. (I try to anyway. Smile.) Any further thoughts would be appreciated. --Bejnar (talk) 19:36, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
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We have a situation where we have a group calling itself "East of the River Shawnee", supposedly and unrecognized Shawnee group in Ohio. Though I am able to find ample chatter on the internet about them, I am not able to find any official listing from a recognized, reputable Native American groups, nor have I been successful in finding them mentioned in a official notice (State or Federal government sources). On Wikipedia, the Shawnee article update as of 21:47, 8 April 2007, is where they first appear. Now the second instance appears at List of unrecognized tribes in the United States. On the second article, I have tagged them. Maybe due to the bad chest-cold that I have not been able to shake off the past month, I seem to not have enough patience to further check them out. Could you look into them a bit closer? If you find something, please add in the citation, otherwise, please delete both instances from Wikipedia. Thanks. CJLippert (talk) 00:44, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
As I noted in both my change note and the comment I made on this issue back in 2007, the information I added regarding the three unrelated computer games called "empire" is necessary for most people to figure out which article they want. Is that not the point of a disambiguation page? I carefully considered everything I placed there, for at least the third time, as I have been through this exact same sequence of events before, as evidenced by the 2007 discuss comment on the page and the previous existence of the "empire (computer game)" disambig page. I appreciate that many more words are required than on most disambiguation entries on most disambiguation pages, but unfortunately the reality is that it is a terribly confusing situation; the page as it stands now simply doesn't disambiguate such that most users will be able to do anything other than read all three articles in the hopes of finding the one they want. I'd like to revert the revert of my change. -- Akb4 (talk) 01:11, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for pointing to WP:ACCESS re position of TOC - I hadn't come across that before, and it explains why TOCs sometimes appear oddly low on the page! There's always more to learn about this WP lark. PamD (talk) 17:35, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
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Are you reading User talk:Rmhermen#Is this your preferred method of improving the encyclopedia?? SamuelTheGhost (talk) 23:33, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Why did you undo the "In 1997, there was a spotting of an alleged liger, a lion/tiger hybrid, but it was never caught. Police claim from video surveilance that it was just a large house cat." post? It was a legitimate story from the Macomb Daily.
2007 Census? I'm not a population maven (the #s seem plausible), but I have my doubts. Please take a look. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 01:34, 28 January 2009 (UTC) Stan
Regarding your edit at Orion,
Why did you remove:
For the below, what is your definition of a "meaningful" mention?
For the red link, why did you remove:
Jay (talk) 13:03, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. My brain isn't switched on properly this morning :) Guettarda (talk) 15:27, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting that out. Not quite sure what the editor is trying to do, but he seems to be an enthusiastic editor of 96.4 The Wave, so perhaps hopes to make that the Primary Usage! PamD (talk) 21:40, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the move; I was editing Wikipedia:Requested moves when I found it was already moved :-) Shreevatsa (talk) 22:09, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I was of the impression that the standard way to handle acronyms that spell out common words is to make the all-caps version a disambiguation page and give the meanings of that acronym pages with other titles. This would seem to be confirmed by pages such as LEAF, LEAP, LOVE, and so on. There are many exceptions, such as LOOP, HOME, and so on, but these seem to be things for which the acronym can mean only one thing. Whereas SOAP can stand for various things. See also the discussion here where I made the decision to make SOAP a redirect page. Soap Talk/Contributions 14:53, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
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I wasn't going to create six disambig redirects just to link to them. The links were redlinks before I cleaned up the page--your efforts at that point would have been much more beneficial. Propaniac (talk) 23:48, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
It is from the AfD template. "Unregistered users placing this tag on an article cannot complete the deletion nomination and should leave detailed reasons for deletion on Talk:Daniel Mulhern. If the nomination is not completed and no message is left on the talkpage, this tag may be removed." I think it is pretty clear. A message was left on the talk page. Please follow Wikipedia Policy when editing. 75.1.7.70 (talk) 11:04, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, I was wondering what we should do about the ((Disambig-plants)) thing (and now the corresponding parameter in ((disambig))). Are you happy with it adding dab pages to Category:Plant common names, analogously to the surname and given name categories, or should there be a different category, like Category:Plant disambiguation pages, analogously to places, airports, numbers etc.? I remember we had a similar discussion about what to do with pages that included names of snakes; someone wanted to include dab pages in snake categories.--Kotniski (talk) 09:26, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
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How was the AfD improperly closed? The article was nominated on the 9th, five day closure on the 14th. As to improper closure, read Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators; in short, this isn't a head count, and I found the nominator's rationale more compelling and grounded in policy. "Probably notable" is not a useful opinion; fails GNG and BIO is. If you disagree, take this to WP:DRV rather than reverting. Thank you, --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 16:39, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
BK, whole bunch of edits that look unsourced and odd (esp. pop. figures). I know you would probably find them on your own, but . . . 7&6=thirteen (talk) 00:24, 15 February 2009 (UTC) Stan
Pop figures are totally screwed up. Because he's being so cute, could not undo all of his mischief. I did undo them in the other articles (to this moment), but he will press on regardless. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 01:27, 15 February 2009 (UTC) Stan
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Thanks for your heads up on my talk page, Bkonrad. How do I edit something out? I've seen the tags on pages but I can't remember what they look like. T@nn (talk) 13:01, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
I see you removed the listing Tanith Carey from the Tanit wikipedia page. Did you research this first?
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