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Invitation to join WikiProject Ships

Hello Life of Riley! I noticed your contributions to Wichita class replenishment oiler, and thought you might be interested in WikiProject Ships, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of ships of all kinds. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! Maralia (talk) 04:46, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

LHD-6 pic

Replied on my talk page. - BillCJ (talk) 06:08, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Duplicate templates

Yes indeedy. :) I'd recommend keeping the more complete one and then redirecting the other one to it. If you need any assistance, let me know. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 04:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Infobox Class - Infobox Ship Class

Hi - {{Infobox Class}} and {{Infobox Ship Class}} are deprecated and will soon be nominated for deletion. I notice that you are using these templates in your user space and wanted to inform you that they will no longer function once the templates are deleted. They have been replaced by using {{Infobox Ship Begin/doc}}. Thanks :) --Brad (talk) 07:21, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

notice all the pages you created and thought I might shoe my (and I'm sure others) my appreciation

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		is hereby awarded to Life of Riley for his great work done at creating surname pages. brewcrewer (yada, yada) 04:26, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you! Life of Riley (talk) 04:27, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if you've noticed or not, but I've been subcategorizing a whole bunch of the surname pages that you created. Obviously, if you wish, you can create them with the correct subcategory. Also, you might want to add the {{WikiProject Anthroponymy | class = stub | importance = mid }} template to the talk pages of the surname pages. Best, --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 12:47, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

• I did notice that you had been applying categories. It’s fine with me. I will probably let you continue categorizing the names, as you have more experience with it than I do. •Life of Riley (talk) 03:12, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
  • To be honest, I'm not that experienced. In most of the articles I took it right off the intro that you provided. Those that have no intro can also be deciphered by the names that are listed. But if you don't want to know, its fine. I'll try to do them. Best, --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 03:19, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Cascade tunnel

Your .svg update needs a slight mod. The tracks should line up with the bottom of the blue tunnel, and not the middle.

Also, see Ruling gradient for a second .jpg needing change to .svg. The original tunnel was not properly designed as it had too steep a grade for fume-producing steam trains causing fumes to suffocate the tunnel. The tunnel should have been made with only a gentle gradient, with the steep gradient left out in the open where the fumes could blow away.

The tunnel designer, Stevens, went on to build the first half of the Panama Canal when he resigned suddenly without giving a reason. Stephens was an expert at building railways, yet he had made a big mistake with the Cascade tunnel, namely its fume problem. He must have realised that he was not infallible. Stevens was not an expert at building canal locks, and - it is suggested -- resigned from the Panama Canal because he getting "out of his depth" at the lock building stage. Theodore Roosevelt was furious. Stevens got out while he was on top.

Tabletop (talk) 02:40, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

The second tunnel should be slightly sloping to help drainage, say 1 in 400 (0.25%). It does not really matter which way the gentle slope goes.

Tabletop (talk) 04:28, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Your revision of the Cascade-might-have-been-tunnel looks fine. If the tunnel is long, there may be some sense in having the gentle slope peak in the middle and thus drain water in both directions. Tabletop (talk) 06:31, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		for your efforts in anti-vandalism on Coast Guards, thank you!! Cuprum17 (talk) 19:24, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Short-term accounts

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Not link monitoring, sorry

I was just on newpage patrol, and it caught my eye because of Odilon Redon, who is one of my favorite (if weeeeeeeeeeeird) artists. So I clicked, looked, saw the need for italics and patched it up. Helps that I'm a quick typist, too. ;-) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 23:46, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

List of ambassadors from the United States to Poland

Thanks for the interesting article. If you could add some inline cites, you could nominate it at T:TDYK.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:56, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your good additions to the article. I had not known the facts about the U.S. withdrawing recognition of the government-in-exile and recognizing the new communist government of Poland after the war. The major source for the article, the U.S. Department of State, did not mention that fact.

However, I have to disagree with your moving the article to a new title. All of the many articles on U.S. ambassadors are named "United States Ambassador to xxx" (see Category:Lists of United States ambassadors). It would be better to move the article back to the original name for consistency.

I am not sure what you mean by adding inline cities. •••Life of Riley (talk) 18:14, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

List of Great Lakes Hockey League Teams

I would suggest going ahead with changing List of Great Lakes Hockey League teams into a redirect. I have removed it from WP:RM, without objection. 199.125.109.126 (talk) 16:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thank you for the barnstar. When I came across the parfact article, the magazine feature aroused my suspicion as it seemed just too convenient for an article which read as if it was mostly original research, particularly as the article's author knew for certain (how?) that there were no other printed references to it. Jll (talk) 21:40, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Apology

My editing of "is" to "are" on band pages was a case of obsessive-compulsiveness. I apologize sincerely. 169.233.58.87 (talk) 05:00, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

• Apology accepted. Are you British? •••Life of Riley (T–C) 05:02, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Continued use of "Sir" in main title headers

Since you took set the parameter for and cast a vote in the Sir George Hayes/George Hayes (judge) proposed move, a related discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles)#Use of prefix "Sir" as a disambiguation aid may be of interest.—Roman Spinner (talk) 11:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Renaming History of the molecule

I'm trying to revive the discussion at Talk:History of the molecule#Requested move and reach some kind of consensus compromise since I think the general sentiment was the current name was not correct. I wonder if you would like to contribute? --Rogerb67 (talk) 22:34, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Moiraine Damodred

Fan artwork really isn't appropriate for inclusion in a Wikipedia article. I know it's frustrating because we don't have alot of media for the Wheel of Time series to add to the articles, but adding fan art as you did to Moiraine Damodred just lowers our credibility. If you feel a mighty need for an image, perhaps a scan of the image from the guide or a cropping of the cover image from TEotW would do the trick. Nutiketaiel (talk) 19:49, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

I found it on Commons while looking for other images, and so added it to the article. I don't care about it one way or the other. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 00:24, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

List of Indian satellites

On the contrary, the tag is valid. Even articles on NASA subjects are required to have additional sources than just from NASA. Using only sources from the organization being written about is not appropriate and the primary sources tag is meant for all articles, not just certain types of articles. From WP:PRIMARY, "Wikipedia articles should rely mainly on published reliable secondary sources and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources. All interpretive claims, analyses, or synthetic claims about primary sources must be referenced to a secondary source, rather than original analysis of the primary-source material by Wikipedia editors." -MBK₀₀₄ 00:48, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Georgia Ice Dogs men's ice hockey

Hey, would you mind taking a look at the comment I made on this AfD? I think it will change your opinion. Grsz¹¹ 02:19, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks for the comment and clarification. Now it is not so clear. What is the association with the UG? The article states that they are the ice hockey team of the university. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 02:25, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
  • ACHA is in organization for club ice hockey teams, which are essentially just large-scale intramurals. The teams are associated with the university in the sense that any club, such as the College Democrats or a fraternity is, but are not associated with the school's athletic department that is responsible for varsity sports, such as those that compete in the NCAA. Funding varies, most receive very little, and most costs are covered by the students themselves, compared to varisty sports that earn scholarships. The article Georgia Bulldogs is about the university's varsity sports: football, basketball, etc. Additionally, ACHA is divided into divisions much like the NCAA is. The Georgia team appears to compete at Division 3, which is the lowest men's level. Hope this helps. Feel free to ask anything else. I actually cover ACHA hockey for my university and am working on an article now. Grsz¹¹ 03:35, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the clarification. I have changed my comment on the AFD page. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 20:52, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Psidsi

Psidsi had created an article called Geo metro truck, which I tagged for a host of issues. The problem is that Psidi will not stop extensively removing the tags. I have given him warnings: [1] [2]

He still refuses to stop. Should the article simply be deleted? Should any action be taken against the user? Is he allowed to remove tags in the way that he is? I can't assume good faith any longer, because I had offered help and warned the user. He ignored both. --Delta1989 (talk/contributions) 14:19, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

• I saw that article and I noted that it was created by the same user as 2011 Toyota Sienna. No, contributors are not allowed to remove tags, but that does not mean that the article can be summarily deleted. The contributor can, however, be sanctioned (i.e., blocked) if he continues to remove tags after four warnings. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 20:51, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

• • Understood, thanks. I don't believe that the article should be deleted simply due to the creator's disregard for posted warnings. It may acutally be genuinely unnotable. He still has two warnings to go, though, until he is eligible for a block. Thank you for responding, I appreciate the help. --Delta1989 (talk/contributions) 21:08, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Barry Foster

Who is the third Barry Foster? PatGallacher (talk) 02:04, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

• Barry Foster
• Barry Foster (actor)
• Barry Foster (footballer)

•••Life of Riley (T–C) 02:07, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

What on earth?!!?

Riley, VASCO from Portugal here,

My only words for now: careful with the accusations, i did not do what i am accused of! Furthermore, why does the message come signed by you, and when i check my talkpage's history, it comes with an anon address (and the longitude/latitude of the said address is highly familiar, an idiot which has been on my case ever since i reported his antics and protected some pages!)? Quite strange...

Attentively, VASCO - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 20:41, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

• I saw the user warning on your talk page, but I did not place that warning on your page. It was added bya vandal: 88.106.186.51. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 20:49, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

• That's what i thought man, was almost sure, now it's a given...The poor idiot, have already dealt with him the only way he understands. Sorry for any incovenience,

VASCO, Portugal - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 20:50, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

• Look at what this person's doing right now (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/88.106.186.51), i've been granted rollback rights two weeks ago, but it will solve nothing. And now, i will definitely follow the advice of so many good people here at WP, no more FEEDING TROLLS, i have come to the conclusion it's much much worse!

Cheers, VASCO - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 22:09, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

• He needs to be blocked. Will you report him to WP:AIV? •••Life of Riley (T–C) 22:13, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

• What good will it do Riley? Has a neverending supply of anon IPs, editing from England of all places, i clearly am at a loss now. In a related note, the person sent me a SMILEY, making it look like i also sent him one (not the case! But i still said "thank you" back)...Oh well!

Cheers, VASCO - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 22:52, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

• Well then I suppose we will just to go on reverting him. By the way I enjoyed my visit to Portugal back in 2000. I spent two months in Cascais and Lisbon and a week down in the Algarve. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 22:59, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

• Glad to hear it my friend, do come back anyday :) The "funny" messages and templates keep arriving at my talk page, but i'll keep a brave face on...Regards, VASCO - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 23:22, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

for the links at the afd - that helps! cheers SatuSuro 04:45, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

• You're welcome. I presume you are referring to Glokal. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 04:49, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes - the curse of the indonesian project is dumped indonesian language material - this one is particularly contentious POV stuff about malay race and culture - the sooner the better - as they say SatuSuro 04:52, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

normally i would never pass comment (so many are so good) impressed by your user page SatuSuro 04:55, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Actually I just today created the collapsible boxes so that the page is viewable all on one screen. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 04:58, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Autoreviewer

Hi, after seeing one of your articles at newpage patrol, I was surprised to see that an editor who has contributed quite so many articles as you hadn't already been approved as an wp:Autoreviewer. So I've taken the liberty of rectifying that. ϢereSpielChequers 22:24, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks for the vote of confidence. Actually, I was not aware of the Autoreviewer privilege. But now I know! •••Life of Riley (T–C) 22:29, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome, PS have a Happy New Year. ϢereSpielChequers 18:00, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Dammam

Hi Life of Riley

I noted that you had edited one of the contributions on the Dammam page from 78.93.165.191.

see 14:52, 22 December 2009 (hist | diff) Dammam ‎ (→Biology) and several of same date.

I am very puzzled by some of the content on this page, and in particular the section marked "Biology". What is this list about - am I missing something?

I would like to help to clarify some of the content on this page, but would appreciate your advice and help before I get involved.

Thanks

Wikiwerdna (talk) 18:13, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

• Frankly, I have no idea what that "Biology" list means. It was not clear to me either. All that I did was to make a long, narrow list into two columns. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 18:18, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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Please include the Grand River Valley in ohio in your ice wine discussion. While relatively new to ice wines, this appellation has a lot to offer consumers. Thank you 173.188.29.28 (talk) 14:35, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

You are welcome to add the subject wine to the ice wine page. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 15:48, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

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Prefontaine fountain photos

Commons:Category:Prefontaine Fountain - Jmabel | Talk 02:23, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! The fountain has kind of gone to ruin, hasn't it. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 02:51, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Yup. I don't remember ever seeing it with water, certainly not in recent decades.

The whole area around city hall park has become, at best, a place for the leisured indigent to hang out, and at worst an open-air drug mart. The Pioneer Square neighborhood in general isn't doing to well these days. It worked pretty well when the lofts were full of artists, but now you have the untenable combination of people willing to pay a lot to live in the lofts (and to come and go by car) and the Skid Road that was always there. Artists could bridge it with a certain "urban homesteading" mentality and because they themselves became part of the street life, but the current batch of condo dwellers are taking more of a "siege" approach that doesn't seem to me to work at all. - Jmabel | Talk 23:12, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that. I don't recall the area being that bad when I worked in the Prefontaine Building back in the 60s. Down on First Avenue there were any number of bums homeless people, but the area on Third Avenue and Yesler was OK from my recollection.

P.S. Enjoyed your P.C. “leisured indigent”! •••Life of Riley (T–C) 23:50, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Jane Jacobs's term; about 50 years ago, she distinguished NYC parks used by the "leisured indigent" from those that harbor actual criminal activity, and argued that the city needed to make sure that in cracking down on the latter it didn't crack down on the former. - Jmabel | Talk 01:49, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

I just recently found & uploaded an image of the Prefontaine Building under construction. - Jmabel | Talk 03:29, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Great! Thanks. I remember that Tashiro building across the street from when I worked in the Prefontaine Building. I didn't realize that it is even older than the Prefontaine Building. I remember that building because Tashiro's Hardware was in that building—this was back in ’64—and occasionally my boss would send me across the street to buy some item or other at Tashiro's. Tashiro's Hardware must have been there forever. Next time you get down to that area, check to see if Tashiro's Hardware is still in the building. I especially recall the hardware store because my boss always used to call it Shapiro's. Don't know if he was kidding, or if he had the name Shapiro on his mind, being a Jewish man.

Here is a picture of my boss, Ralph Capeluto, at Seattle Curtain Mfg. Co. in the Prefontaine Building in the 1940s. (I wasn’t there then!) This picture is from the University of Washington archives. Very much worth exploring if you have not see the archives before. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 04:52, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

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You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

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Masyu Images Copyright Violation

I see you created .svg versions of my .png files for the sample puzzles (and their solutions) in the Heyawake and Masyu articles. I have no problem with the former, but for the latter you stripped out my copyright notices and declared the files public domain, something you do not have the right to do and is a violation of the GFDL which I provided them to Wikipedia under in the first place. I have reverted the article to use the original images, and must insist that you correct the attributions and license notifications on your versions of those two images or else delete them from Wikipedia entirely. - ZM Zotmeister (talk) 22:06, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

• You are correct. My apologies—I put the wrong license tag on it. I am usually pretty careful about that when creating derivative works. I have corrected the error. I assure you it was an unintentional error. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 01:33, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
  • Both images are still in violation at this time: the solution image shows the license, but no attribution (unlike your Heyawake image descriptions); the unsolved-puzzle image appears completely unchanged. I do appreciate your attention to this so far and have no doubt it was an honest mistake, but I still insist the errors be completely resolved. I will be happy to re-revert the article myself once you have. - ZM Zotmeister (talk) 13:19, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
    • I think I got it right this time—if not, we will try again. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 15:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
      • It seems the German Masyu article is still using a bad version of the unsolved-puzzle image, but the solved image there and both files on the English Wikipedia are now fine. (I would have thought both articles used the same image files, but apparently that isn't the case.) I have re-reverted the English article as I said I would as it is now perfectly fine, and I'm appreciative of your work on this; if you could fix that one last version, we'd be all set. - ZM Zotmeister (talk) 17:20, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
      • UPDATE: With some assistance from an admin, I was able to figure out why the German article was showing the old version, despite it having been fixed. Everything seems to be in order now. - ZM Zotmeister (talk) 18:09, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Deer Valley School District high schools

Template:Deer Valley School District high schools has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Raymie (t • c) 06:01, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Charles A. Ray

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Template:Diplomats

I have removed Template:Diplomats from all articles, and opened a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject International relations#Template:Diplomats with my reasoning and a request for a discussion on what to do with the template. Your comments are welcome there. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 16:26, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

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