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LA Metro Pages

Dear Zzyzx11 - as you are adjusting these, I wonder if you could offer some (administrative) help? There was debate a while ago about spaces in station names, and while the consensus seems to be that the article should match whatever the agency is using, many pages were moved by well meaning editors to include extra name spaces. While some were moved back - the rest can't be moved back due to the redirect. Can you help? A brief survey shows the following still contain extra spaces in the name:

• Vermont / Santa Monica (Los Angeles Metro station)]
• Westlake / MacArthur Park (Los Angeles Metro station)
• Vermont / Santa Monica (Los Angeles Metro station)
• Expo Park / USC (Los Angeles Metro station)
• Expo / La Brea (Los Angeles Metro station)
• La Cienega / Jefferson (Los Angeles Metro station)
• Olympic / 26th Street (Los Angeles Metro station)
• Colorado / 17th Street (Los Angeles Metro station)
• Colorado / 4th Street (Los Angeles Metro station)
• Little Tokyo / Arts District (Los Angeles Metro station)

Thanks, 白痴美國 (talk) 15:51, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

The background on this is that per Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles, WP:PUNCT is applied to article titles. Regardless of whether there is a consensus from a small group of editors to use whatever official convention is used (see also Wikipedia:Official names), WP:COMMONAME and WP:PUNCT ultimately prevails, so you do have those well meaning editors coming in and moving it to reflect whatever WP:SLASH says. The problem is that the wording of much of WP:PUCT has been debated and frequently modified from some time. Thus, I'm going to fix it once, but no further as I do not want to be dragged into an edit/move war over this issue. Zzyzx11 (talk) 18:01, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I believe it was only one editor who did this (with no warning) - and he has since stopped. We'll see what happens. Anyway, thanks much for your help and everything else on these pages. 白痴美國 (talk) 03:13, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

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Peekaboo

You have added information to many station articles about "peek hours". Do you mean peek or peekaboo or should it be peak hour with an "a"? Sw2nd (talk) 17:26, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. The typos have now been corrected. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:44, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

FYI...

I took the liberty of zapping that drive-by's comments about Joe Buck, as an obvious BLP violation. In the process, I also took out your comments, since they would seem odd standing by themselves. ←Baseball Bugs <sup>What's up, Doc?</sup> carrots→ 05:21, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Actually, at that moment, I was trying to find an example from the help desk or reference desk archives where a poster originally added their email address, and then an admin blanked it out but still answered the question to some degree. I wanted to see how it was done before I changed my response to resemble that. But since you got there first, I won't bother ... unless that person asks again. Zzyzx11 (talk) 05:29, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Well, I can't say I did it "by the book", but in the past I've seen BLP violations get removed. It's still in the history, though. If the user returns with the same spiel, we might want to accelerate the incident, as it were. ←Baseball Bugs <sup>What's up, Doc?</sup> carrots→ 14:02, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

NFL

Could you please discuss issues with this? The old version you reverted to fails GA criteria on almost all counts and the new one meets it, also putting it in line with FA-quality sports league articles like Premier League. Also, there is nothing under discussion - the only thing that is so is Super Bowl titles, which is only contested by an IP and hadn't been responded to for over two weeks. That is such a minor aspect that it doesn't warrant indiscriminately removing content improvement. Toa Nidhiki05 03:24, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, what you responded on that talk page was the thing under discussion, but I failed to realize until now was, as you said, the IP was not active for two weeks. However, you need to add a very clear edit summary. How is this suppose to let me or others know that you are trying in good faith to get this to GA status? This generic edit summary, importing content from your sandbox, is basically interpreted as an unexplained edit to massively change the article without discussion. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (talk) 03:40, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Alright, my apologies - I didn't have this issue when I did the same to the American football article (which is now a GA). I did do otherwise to notify - I noted in the talk page history that I was nominating it for good article, and I notified the NFL, American football, and Sports Wikiprojects that their input or actual GA review would be welcome. In this case the article is massively changed in prose, but not as much in content - the goal was to bring it in line with GA policy and other high-quality league articles like the EPL. However, I see what the description is needed. I'll aim to avoid that in the future. Toa Nidhiki05 03:49, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, the American football article probably gets way less traffic than the NFL one, so that is why you got away with that one earlier. But as you get into subjects that are more popular, it is more important to add a clear edit summary for that because there are more people looking at the article -- even those that do not actively have them on their watchlist but occasionally still look at the various changes each week. Anyway, good luck on the GA nomination. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:00, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll be sure to note upon making big changes in the future. :) Toa Nidhiki05 04:05, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Tim Keck

I'm doing research for a project on the Onion. I'm trying to get biographical information on Tim Keck, one of the founders of the Onion and the man behind The Stranger magazine and other projects. I noticed that his wikipedia page has been deleted a couple times. Could you give me some information about why you deleted Tim Keck's wiki page in Sept 2005 for being an attack page. What made it an attack page? Who created the page? What problem could they possibly have with the creator of the Onion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mlnb57 (talk • contribs) 05:59, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

It was deleted under what is now Speedy deletion criterion #G10: "Pages that disparage, threaten, intimidate or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose". That version was created by an anonymous unregistered user, before the implementation of the 'autoconfirmed' access level a few years later to restrict the creation of new pages. What made it an attack page was that the anonymous user basically used several profanities to describe and disparage him. Who knows what that person had with Keck? There was nothing substantial to save.

As you noticed, a second version was deleted in October 2005. From what I can tell in the logs, JoJan deleted that version under what is now Speedy deletion criterion #A7: "No indication of importance (individuals, animals, organizations, web content, events)." This was also created by an unregistered user before we restricted page creation. And all the content that was there is what you saw in the log -- about a different Tim Keck from Israel, whose only claim to fame apparently was the son of a national welterweight champion. This reason, merely the son of a famous person, is invalid per our guidelines on notable people to warrant separate articles.

You are welcome to create a new page on Keck if you become autoconfirmed, or post a request using the Wikipedia:Requested articles feature. Be sure to follow Wikipedia's policies, including Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons and Wikipedia:Notability (people). Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 06:21, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Request

Hi Zzyzx11, I recently created some new designations for the template {{Designation}} for the cities of Albuquerque, Berkeley, Dallas, Davenport, Long Beach, Omaha, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Monica, and Seattle. I have already added them to {{Designation/text}}, {{Designation/colour2}} and {{Designation/abbreviation}} but I am unable to add them to {{Designation/colour}} apparently because it was vandalized last summer and is now protected at the admin level. I thought it would be best to ask someone familiar with the template and saw that you had edited it in the past. Could you please add the color designations for the cities to {{Designation/colour}} for me. The code that needs to be added can be found here: User:Cacw/sandbox. Thanks for any help you can give me. If you can't just let me know. Cacw (talk) 08:04, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Any reasons for that particular choice of colors? They should probably not conflict with the national ones. The reason why I set the Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco designations to a yellow color is that yellow all appear in their respective flags, but are still distinguishable from the California designation (a Golden color for the "Golden State"). Zzyzx11 (talk) 03:21, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm not really concerned about what colors are chosen, I just wanted to have the designations created so that they can be used. The choices I made were based mainly on trying not to conflict with the national ones as you said and trying to contrast them with the state ones as most city designations will often be on state lists as well. If you want to make all CA city colors the same that is fine with me. I chose these colors because I was trying to distinguish Long Beach, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Riverside, etc. from each other since they are all located in the same metropolitan area. Feel free to change any to whatever you think is best.

I also created some for a few states, but I didn't want to try to add too many all at once and wanted to see if you thought they were appropriate before adding them. I will add them to User:Cacw/sandbox so you can see what they look like. Thanks for your help adding these. I really appreciate it. Cacw (talk) 04:24, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

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Templates

Please leave comments regarding these templates at User:Frietjes. I use her code.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:08, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Although you may use someone's code, tool, script or gadget, you may not blindly apply them -- you ultimately take full responsibility for any action performed using these features, including any WP:3RR or what may perceived as vandalism or template breakage. I'm puzzled why you used collapse_state parameter on {{Zacatecas}}[1] and others using {{Mexico state navigation box}}, but failed on noticing it was the same with {{Colusa County, California}} and those using {{US county navigation box}}. Regards. Zzyzx11 (talk) 08:46, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

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re: Deletion of content from How I Met Your Mother episode articles

I noticed your informative comment here and I thought you might be interested in a discussion I started here about deletion of content from How I Met Your Mother episode articles. - tucoxn\<sup>talk</sup> 00:02, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

I'm sure that Nikkimaria had a good faith, legitimate reason for blanking those sections, but it is his responsibility to provide a clear edit summary. As WP:FIES says, "When a major edit (e.g. deletion of a substantial amount of text, a significant addition, or a substantial rewrite) doesn't have an edit summary, there are fewer reasons to assume good faith and busy editors may be more inclined to revert the change without checking it in detail". I don't watch those pages myself, nor edit them on a regular basis -- so I'm unfamiliar with what the issue is, so it is best to resolve it with that user. But as long as there are no clear edit summaries, as per the guideline a cited, it it more likely those edits will be reverted by others. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 02:19, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

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