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Thanks for the heads up, I am new to contributing to wikipedia and wasn't aware of all the guidelines. Will do so in future.
SongsignSongsign (talk) 17:06, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
I disagree that these references are not appropriate for an Encyclopedia, because they are strictly relevant to the subject they offer additional information on the subject they provide images of example pages from selected works of the subject.
Furthermore the entry for Pepusch had been there some time without your objecting - I did not enter it, I merely updated the URL.
I can understand that the mention of Green Man Press is not essential nor strictly relating to the subject, and suggest that you let the references stand, but omit this mention.Cedriclee (talk) 08:40, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
I had season tickets during the Brian Hoyer years at Michigan State. He was announced every game as born from North Olmsted, OH. It also says North Olmsted on his MSU Profile as well as his Cleveland Browns Profile. The NFL is wrong as he was not born in Lakewood. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.122.185.119 (talk) 18:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/brian_hoyer_227568.html http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9547/ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/players/9547/ http://www.patriots.com/team/roster/brian-hoyer/6ce0576f-3a79-4e8a-adfe-0ec114b82f37/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.122.185.119 (talk) 20:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
You do realize that the Cleveland Browns and New England Patriots websites both said he's born in North Olmsted right? Not to mention all the articles you see about him are out of North Olmsted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.122.185.119 (talk) 20:53, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Alas, it's just a stub. I'm not sure how to link to it, so I just repeated the prior reference to the law library position. But here's the jstor page; for some reason the google link worked yesterday, doesn't today, but is the top hit. Says it's a stub, tho. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3480115?uid=3739256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21103315236637 Thanks for looking into this! 174.62.68.53 (talk) 02:56, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the WP:ELDUP link at the 2014 State of the Union Address article. It seemed helpful to be an EL as well as a reference, but I wasn't aware of the guideline that allowed it. I always appreciate a good explanatory edit summary like that. Best, Bahooka (talk) 00:15, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Hey, TJRC -- concerning your edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California_foie_gras_law&diff=593372732&oldid=593367005 . The link had been simply "[[Factory farming]]", but a couple days ago I changed that to "[[Intensive animal farming|Factory farming]]" . Now, upon studying your edit, I see (in Wikipedia:NOPIPE#When_not_to_use) that it says "It is generally not good practice to pipe links simply to avoid redirects." So, how about if I change that link back to "[[Factory farming]]" ? Mksword (talk) 06:43, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Why do you worry about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pieter202 (talk • contribs) 17:11, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
"Whilst" is a perfectly good word in British English. Please would you not change this useage in the various lists of shipwrecks. Mjroots (talk) 21:51, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
I second this. Please respect WP:ENGVAR and stop removing the word from articles. Thank you. Number 57 07:58, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi TJRC - in response to your recent edit (Hello, I'm TJRC. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Comparison of Business Process Modeling Notation tools because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 19:38, 27 February 2014 (UTC))
It would be very much appreciated if you attempted to contact me first as all of the revisions you made were not an advertising attempt. In particular, the section you edited was the "feature" section which clearly only listed features of the software. You have now caused a great deal of work for me to reproduce that as you simply deleted it.
Also, you may have noticed the number of revisions to that article in an attempt to raise my number of "edits" so that I can upload an image to Wikipedia. It would be greatly appreciated if you returned the text on "Comparison of Business Process Modeling Notation tools" to its previous state, and SUGGEST modifications.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marketeer415 (talk • contribs) 20:03, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I note that you reverted the removal of cited material. My first instinct was the same, but I checked deeper, and have started a discussion at Talk:Steven_Stayner#Removal_of_some_cited_material_about_CARY_Stayner, and i hope you will contribute. Fiddle Faddle 10:03, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for PRODding Filemail. But a paid advocate dePRODded it.
I have tagged it for speedy deletion now.
The page now starts:
"This article may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion because — article was recently edited by the now-blocked paid User:Schmidthoff, a sockpuppet of the <http://www.freelancer.com/u/chaklalajob.html> who has recently taken on a paid job to edit this article. Article was first created by a one-edit SPA who I suspect was another paid sockpuppet. Article reads like a news release. Please delete per CSD G11."
One tip: May I suggest you visit your Twinkle preferences panel and enable PROD logging and CSD logging.
If you reply, I kindly request that you move the conversation to my talk page. I shall not watchlist your talk page.
Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unforgettableid (talk • contribs) 19:25, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Category:Thailand alpine skiers, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Paul_012 (talk) 11:48, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
I fail to understand how your revision of my supposed correction to line 48 is correct. Please clarify.
Here is a part of the revision sentence:
"She also spoke with police negotiators, telling them those she had shot made easy targets,...."
bold emphasis mine on what I think is a clerical error.
How can this be correct? I'm not a genius, but I'm not completely without English skills, either.
It makes no sense to me. It seems to me that one of those words, either "shot" or "made", is redundant and should be removed.
Please explain.
Alpine Joy (talk) 21:16, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I see where I made my mistake. My error. Thanks for correcting me. Although I think if I was writing the sentence, I would have written:
"....telling them those she had shot had made easy targets.... I missed the first "had", and then the sentence made no sense to me. Actually, even without any "hads" at all the sentence does make sense, so My Bad all around! Oh well. For a little while there, I was so sure and up on my high horse. Thanks for your constructive help!
Alpine Joy (talk) 21:31, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Ok! :-)
Alpine Joy (talk) 21:40, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
I was a programmer at System Development Corporation in 1967-1969 and worked on the SAGE system from 1967 to 1968. I remember seeing a printed sheet of joke instructions for the SAGE computer, the AN/FSQ-7 (Q-7 for short), including the HCF as well as "shred tape" and "rewind card reader" and others. I recently contacted Paul Cudney, a co worker there, and asked him about it. He recalls that the author of the piece was "Q Septimus Maximus" (I.e. Q 7 the great). I have asked him if he kept a copy of it, but have not yet seen his reply. I doubt that he did for 47 years. I recall hearing at that time (1967) that the incident reportedly occurred some time previously at a SAGE site, possibly North Bay, Ontario, the test site, or perhaps even a live SAGE sector. I can't cite a source, since the only source I have is that piece of paper I saw with my own eyes 47 years ago.
The existing article attributes it to the IBM System 360, but I doubt that, since the sheet I saw contained some instructions that referred to drum storage, which was available on the Q-7 but not the 360. Both were IBM products, and the sheet may have originated with their programmers. Ronenfield (talk) 20:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC) Ronenfield (talk) 20:19, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
How many personal testimonies would it take to constitute a source?68.36.69.42 (talk) 20:51, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
THe point of discussing HSD (Halt and Self Destruct) in a talk page is i doubt such a thing will ever make it into a published magazine or journal, or even generally well recognized consolidation as such things as the JARGON file. The actual implementation of HSD makes a good beer story but, will ultimately be lost to the mists of time unless the perpetrator somehow gets it into his obit or some "Last Lecture". --108.18.187.241 (talk) 20:07, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed that you have listed the find links app by Edward Betts on your user space. Would you mind explaining how it works. I have tried to feed in article titles and all I get is ""searching for article xxxxxxx 0 found (7 total)"". My question is what follows after these results. Answer on my talk page. Thanks in advance. Juhuyuta (talk) 16:34, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
I was going to revert the same addition, but I just had to go and look at the two immediate citations.. lo and behold: there it really was, in e-print! I didn't have the heart to warn the user with an "Um, really?" for that edit message they used.--☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(talk) 00:08, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I was notified that you was the one who deleted my additions to the Wind Evergy Software page. Could you please clarify why you did this so I can fix whatever was wrong and put it back up? I don't see how the information about Breeze that I addded differs from all the other product specific information on the same page? /Fredrik — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fredrik84larsson (talk • contribs) 08:01, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
I have revoked talk page access and extended the block, as well as posted an identifying ((whois)) on the page. Daniel Case (talk) 18:52, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for your 'welcome back' email. I was out of commission for the better part of a year due to injuries and illness. But I am OK now. PraeceptorIP (talk) 16:27, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your helpful actions at First Amendment to the United States Constitution and your wise comments at Talk:First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
I strongly agree with everything you've stated on the talk page.
Hopefully this won't become much of an issue with the other user attempting to add back in the lower-court stuff repeatedly.
Thanks again, — Cirt (talk) 23:04, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for the help with creating Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus. Bearian (talk) 20:17, 14 April 2014 (UTC) |
Hello,
I received a message from you informing me that you had removed multiple external links from some edits I made on the pages for Phill Niblock, Sol LeWitt, Eva Hesse, Romare Bearden, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, William Wegman, Richard Tuttle, Neil Jenney, and Willem de Kooning. I have read the Wikipedia guidelines on external links and now understand my errors. However, I do not appreciate my edits being entirely removed. If the inclusion of such external links were the only issues, I or someone else could have easily removed them. I would like to know why all of my edits were completely eliminated. Thank you.
209.156.241.131 (talk) 20:39, 16 April 2014 (UTC) Julia
Yes so I see, thank you for informing me. Is it acceptable if I include one link to the actual archive pages for the artist's MATRIX show? For example: "In 1975, Sol LeWitt presented twelve corn stalk drawings in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's third MATRIX exhibition." If this is not permissible, would adding this page as a reference be alright?
209.156.241.131 (talk) 18:23, 18 April 2014 (UTC) Julia
Thanks for adding a second reference supporting Felicia Day's birthday! Much appreciated. --Yamla (talk) 21:22, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Well, that was mighty nice of you! Just doing what I can. Best, --Nabak (talk) 20:08, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
I hope the new article will grow more! (Thank goodness the Houston Library allows people to see Chronicle articles!)
I started out with an article on Ghulam Bombaywala.. then I found out he bought a stake in Stop N Go, and I remember the Stop N Gos growing up in Houston. And doing research on that resulted in me being curious about Diamond Shamrock. There were those in Houston too.
I think more Wikipedians should consider researching things from the late 1980s and 1990s that may not be current/have much of an internet presence now but are easily verifiable through searches of electronic newspaper articles. I think the journalists who wrote the articles will be happy that people are again reading their work and that they will be recognized for it. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:39, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for removing my blog as a link to the photo by Stuart Franklin, but I think you are missing something: Franklin has complained about copyright violation. This is something Wikipedia takes seriously and I expect the photo will have to go, sooner or later. But, unless Franklin comes after me again, I will leave this to others. CCBC (talk) 00:35, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
A few days ago, I used the word "which" in the article Mercury (planet). Someone changed it to "that", which would be American usage in that context. I changed it back to "which", but now you've changed it to "that" again, apparently under the impression that I was imposing my preferred usage on someone's original text. You referred me to WP:COMMONALITY, but my actions were in accordance with it, and yours were not!
I'll change it back to "which" one last time. If anyone changes it again, I'll give up in disgust.
DOwenWilliams (talk) 14:41, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Talk:Johann Hari#Does "Religion: None (atheist)" imply that atheism is a religion? --Guy Macon (talk) 23:04, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Rodw. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Minehead because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. — Rod talk 20:05, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Per your helpful explanation on the article's talk page after removing the prod tag, I have nominated it for deletion to facilitate further discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman. ~Amatulić (talk) 12:36, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi! Would you care to review my FA nomination for the article Of Human Feelings? The article is about a jazz album by Ornette Coleman. If not, feel free to ignore this message. Cheers! Dan56 (talk) 01:46, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
I was aware that the "Wasn't the pianola..." section was an old thread, but the matter is still far from settled: the article still contains a section of irrelevant material about player pianos and the like, added by one or more good-faith editors who did not quite parse out what the phrase "sound recording" means. I crammed it all together under a new "Prehistory" heading a couple of years ago, but the material needs to be either deleted or split off into a new umbrella article about mechanical musical instruments, which did not exist the last time I looked -- there are only articles about music boxes, player pianos and other specific types, which could very usefully be a list of links in such an umbrella article. I figure I'll probably get around to doing it myself eventually if nobody more familiar with that subject notices the need and takes up the task. The purpose of my addition to the talk page was prophylactic.
I've re-revised the heading of the other section to "78 RPM gear ratio claim". Your deletion of my previous word choice "myth" is fair enough -- it is a very loaded word -- but some indication of doubt seems descriptively desirable and justified, as that is the tone set by the initial posting several years ago. AVarchaeologist (talk) 07:13, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for following up on this. I left this reply on my talk page as well:
I agree that it should be added. Will you do so? I think I will delete the last warning on his talk page and add a note. Donner60 (talk) 05:30, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
Hey there, I noticed your post here today and while browsing your user page, I noticed the phrase "passed away" under "periodic wikignoming". Interestingly, (yes, that's debatable,) I'm currently on a campaign to remove "passed away" from Wikpedia articles (minus quotations, and references of course) via AWB. I've removed over 70 instances and I'm only into the Ds. Keep up the good fight. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:15, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Just FYI, to help clarify the misunderstanding, the tag you saw that said "indefinite" was probably the expiry for the move protection. The page was already move-protected indefinitely, and I left that protection the same. However, I simply added a (different) protection for the editing half of it, which expires in two weeks. Hope that clears things up, Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 19:42, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your edit. I'd included the link to the Senate vote in external sources for the edification of the more curious. The vote was "bipartisan," as you note. Only a few "D"s supported, but more interesting I thought was the ideological gulf between "R"s who opposed: the liberal Weicker, the centrist Cohen, and the libertarian/conservative Goldwater on the other. I don't know the reason that the three non-voting members didn't cast ballots, but that was curious as well: Zorinksy, clearly the most conservative "D" in that Senate, and Rockefeller and Heinz (who, except for a couple of years, rarely missed a vote), whose politics weren't terribly dissimilar. Activist (talk) 14:00, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi TJRC,
Your message on my page asked that I respond here, but instructions on your page say to respond on mine, so I hope this is okay. I am truly sorry not to have provided citations for Claiborne Pell and Clay Pell. The information on their selection as recipients of our advocacy award is available on our website and in our conference program booklet. I don't know of anything else to cite. Is the following acceptable?:
Official Program: 2014 Northeast Conference, "Sustaining Communities through World Languages." March 2014, Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, p. 64.
Thank you for letting me know.
RRKlineRRKline (talk) 21:00, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Thank you! I will recheck all my edits -- there weren't many awards lists in the entries I edited, but I always listed our award with others in such cases. Assume I can use the same citation for everyone, but let me know if that's a(nother) mistake! I really appreciate your help! RRKlineRRKline (talk) 18:33, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
For some reason you keep trying to suppress the use of the word "copyrighted" claiming it is incorrect. I mention that the OED and two other dictionaries I checked say it is correct, and you say that's not good enough because the OED is British and the reference is to US law. First, while the OED is British, Merriam-Webster is American. Second, how about the last sentence of the first paragraph of the US Copyright Office's "About" page? "The Office’s registration system and the companion recordation system constitute the world’s largest database of copyrighted works and copyright ownership information." [1] Yes, there are lawyers who decry the verbing of this former noun. But if the dictionaries and the copyright office itself have gone that way, the battle is over. Thomas Phinney (talk) 04:04, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hi,
I am proposing to merge High-prssure area into Anticyclone, the same thing. Please feel free to enter the discussion.
Pierre cb (talk) 02:20, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
See here and here. (I am notifying you because you participated in the earlier discussion on these categories.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:00, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
WP:NOTNEWS is the rule against updating inning scores as they happen. Also, if you're looking at the line score of a not-completed game, you don't know if the game was suspended, in progress, or just not up to date. It's better to just wait until the game is over. This is an encyclopedia, not espn.com. — X96lee15 (talk) 03:37, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
Undersigned had created article Legal awareness in may 2012. Since then I updated and improved the article many times in past one and half year.
I will be happy if you help me in reassessing tags in article namely ((Multiple issues|confusing|date=February 2013|reason=Laudable effort has been put into this article, but it seems rambling and incoherent.))((essay-like|date=February 2013))
and also
may be article is due for udating class status futher from ((WikiProject Law|class=Start|importance=Mid)).
I suppose a peer feedback will help me improve the artle content still further. You are one of experinced and active WikiProject Law members, and I request your kind support in this respect.
Mahitgar (talk) 06:01, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
When you have a moment, could you weigh in on my suggestion in Talk:Copyright_notice that the Copyright notice article be expressly limited to u.s. law (all that it now covers anyway) and renamed accordingly. (E.g. "Copyright Notice (U.S. law)." The article could use some work. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Federalist51 (talk • contribs) 03:10, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
There is a straw poll that may interest you regarding the proper use of "Religion =" in infoboxes of atheists.
The straw poll is at Template talk:Infobox person#Straw poll.
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