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Prison Break

Thanks, although I don't really consider myself to be a WikiDragon, maybe a Wikipedia:WikiFairy? You may have noticed I made some pretty heavy edits on the main Prison Break page. I removed a lot of POV and merged a lot of really short paragraphs. I also increased the lead, and trimmed (or removed most of) the television section under distribution. Your thoughts? Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 01:45, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Nothing to say but "Excellent!" You managed to save the important imformation and cut what was unneeded. Great job! - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 01:49, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I noticed that you switched Michael and Lincoln; while I agree that the series basically focuses on Michael, Lincoln receives first billing and should be mentioned first. I'll leave the decision up to you. Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 02:04, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

With the season articles, I recommend removing the distribution sections. There's nothing wrong with the one on Prison Break (season 1), but you don't really need to add one for season 3. And also, are you planning to get each season up to Featured List status? Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 03:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Featured Lists are my eventual goal for all 4 (+ future) seasons.

As for the distribution, they could probably get merged into reception or even cut, as the information is already in the main Prison Break article, correct? - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 03:41, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Cool. Well I'll be here to help anytime. I agree, since the distribution info is already in the main page, it can probably be cut from the individual season pages. Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 07:42, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Nice work on Prison Break (season 1). Just a tip, I wouldn't really link any of the characters in the episode table, unless they haven't been mentioned before. I have also nominated Prison Break (season 2) for FL. Have a look. Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 00:43, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

The season 2 article is excellent (as is all your other work :) ). However, I'd try to work on expanding the episode summaries to more than a few sentences, like I'm trying to do with season 1. I can help with that if you wish. - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 00:45, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, and season 1 is looking great. I had been trying to avoid doing that (increasing the summaries), but I guess I can have a go. I think three lines is a good length. I'll increase the lengths, and tell you to look over it once I am done. Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 02:26, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

To be fair, I didn't write much of season 1. A lot of it was just stolen from the main page. As for the length, five lines is probably better. That should be enough to sum up the major plot points. - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 02:45, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Five lines? I think that's too much. I started working on the summaries on the season 2 page, and the revised ones are three to four lines. Have a look and tell me what you think. Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 05:19, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

I have finished expanding the summaries. Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 00:10, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Um, wow you work fast :D They look pretty good to me. I'll do a quick glace through and see if I can clarify a few points. - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 00:15, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 00:25, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

I went through it and added a bit more. It was very good; I didn't have to update it much at all. - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 00:44, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for addressing Rambo's Revenge's comments. I had to through the article again and fix the publisher sections, please make sure to link the publishers next time! :) And I don't think that Rambo's concern with the refs was valid, I have seen many articles where the ref does not use the template. Anyways, thanks for fixing them, it must have taken a while. :) Also, a user changed the cast section and made Bellick a main character. I actually think that the IGN ref is wrong, and that Williams did indeed receive star billing. I tried to find a ref, but to no avail. Could you have a try? Thanks. Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 03:13, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh sorry, I totally forgot about doing that. I used a offline analyzer to do some of my dirty work; it must be malfunctioning slightly. And I can check for Bellick; sure thing :) - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 03:24, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I found another ref from TV Guide that confirms him to be a season 2 regular. Hopefully Rambo doesn't find many more problems. :) Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 03:39, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

I have finished Alexander Mahone (finally) and nominated it at GAN. Since I have read it about 1000 time (lol), there may be some mistakes I haven't picked up. Take a look and tell me what you think! :) Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 02:19, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Wow you are doing well. I'll give it a review. - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 02:20, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. I tweaked it a bit more, and tries to address your concerns. Also, thanks for the adminship vote of confidence. I replied on my talk page that I might consider it in the future. Right now, I'd rather focus my energy/time on article building, rather than getting ready for a RfA. Thanks for the thought, and I really appreciate it. :) Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 04:12, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

The FLC passed! That's one down, three to go. ;) Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 06:13, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Yay! Do you want to work on Season 1 next? I feel that it is almost ready for FLC anyway; it shouldn't be that much work to get it through FLC. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 16:43, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Sure. I guess the next few days will be a bit iffy, (that's reminds me, Merry Christmas!) but I'll start working on it asap! :D Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 09:02, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

And to you too as well. Don't forget, you should always wiki for fun, not as a job :) NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 17:09, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

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symbols

you may have noticved by now that we do not use keep or delete symbols is discussing AfDs. Just plain boldface keep or delete. DGG (talk) 08:31, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm working to get that fixed with the author of the script I'm using. Sorry for any inconvenience. NW's Public Sock (talk) 20:49, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Outreach

WP:OUTREACH now exists in larval stage. Please visit the talkpage to help it pupate. // roux   21:42, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

TY Roux. I've visited; this is just bot sigging. - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 04:14, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Your edit to List of solar eclipses in the 21st century

Hi. I've reverted your edit to List of solar eclipses in the 21st century [1] because both of the changes you made were incorrect. You removed the leading "0"'s from the convert table, which broke the sort feature for that column (e.g. it was putting 13 after 100), and "south Africa" is not "South Africa" - the latter is a country (see South Africa), the former is the southern half of a continent. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:07, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh I'm sorry. When I looked over that edit, I thought it would be all right, but I guess not. I'll add this to my list of things to make sure of before hitting save. - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 16:48, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

BLP Flagged Revisions

The !vote at WP:Protecting_BLP_articles_feeler_survey#Oppose Flagged Revisions for all BLPs is currently 51 to 8; my sense is that it's going to pass. However, just as in the previous 3 times we've voted on Flagged Revisions (when it didn't pass), the supporters have made an effort to respond to the legitimate concerns of the opposition ... and you guys have legitimate concerns. Your concern was that we shouldn't set this in stone, it should be a trial. The folks who have been around for a while generally have "got it" that we're not omniscient, and that anything new is a trial. If it does turn out that this is going to pass, I think it would be helpful if we got overwhelming support (so that people who enjoy vandalizing BLP articles can't claim that what we're doing is "illegitimate"). Would you consider switching your vote to the support column, making it clear that your support is conditional on taking a hard look at the data for 3 months and discontinuing if the test is unsuccessful? (I'm watchlisting for a few days.) - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 15:21, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey there. Thanks for your post. I followed up your post a clarification, which is probably not what you wanted to hear, but still, it is something that I feel reflects my beliefs on any sort of trial. - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 16:59, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Smaller trials have gotten support in the past; I'm kind of surprised myself that you're the only vote in that direction this time around. Perhaps if the vote passes for all BLPs, we could focus on a more reasonably sized subset for our trial data. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 18:20, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Motivation

{{helpme}}

See this please. I just want the code analyzed. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 00:38, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

I took a look, at the bottom there should be another }}, and the TF5 you added looks like it should be TF6. I left the helpme active as a sanity check. Hope this helps. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 05:10, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks :D NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 05:17, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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I am confused as to why a page I created was nuked. Is every other individual member of Living Legends page going to get nuked aswell? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 5u2g3 (talk • contribs) 05:36, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. Thanks for your edits. I've noted a few comments using a template on your talk page; please check them out in relation to your new articles. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 01:14, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

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Proposal for Policy VP

Here it is. Please let me know what you think. Cheers, Jake Wartenberg^Talk 03:37, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey thanks. Let's see if we can get a few more look overs before moving it to the VP. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 16:40, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

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Regarding your edit to Aang

Please do not replace hidden messages with slanderous content for no reason, as you did here. That message was obviously put there to keep people from repeatedly changing that sourced statement. Use Talk:Aang and not my talk page if you have questions, comments or concerns. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 18:33, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Please refactor and assume good faith. My message was not slanderous and it was a merge from the season articles. I've been one of the key figures at this Task Force for the last few months; I know what I'm doing. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 18:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Refactor what? See WP:AGF yourself. I have been watching the Aang article for a little over a year, so I probably know more than you. What you did was not a merge. Again, you deliberately wrote in a random factoid over a hidden comment that was intended to keep people away from editing a sourced fact. If you have a reliable source that says Katara is Aang's girlfriend, by all means, put it in but not over legitimate content. Now if you're gonna reply please do so on your talk page and do not send me another one of those dreadful "talkbacks" (this conversation is on my watchlist). Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 18:49, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

I did not add any "slanderous content" there. Can you even add slanderous content to a fictional character? Anyway, there is no need for this conflict. The reason removed the hidden comment and added the information was based on comments on Talk:Sozin's Comet, where requests for adding this have been perennial. I went back to the article and found a source for my edit, which I added here. If you disagree, can you tell me what you think please? NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 19:03, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

I guess it's fine. Let's see what others think. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 19:16, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Even with a source, the kiss was only a very minor part of the show. The plot revolved around the groups quest to defeat the fire lord. I could see mentioning the kiss if the show had a romantic plot, but it doesn't. Continually adding relationship info to all of the character pages just encourages further 'shipping' edits from other editors. We've had countless discussions about this before. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 20:21, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

The show's plot definitely was about defeating the subplot. But there were undertones of a romantic subplot throughout all three seasons for sure. We should attempt to give due weight to each of the features of the show. Since perhaps 99.5% of the show was about defeating the Fire Lord and Zuko's quest, at least 98% of the plot summary should be about those two plots. But why should the other 0.5% of the character bios (half a sentence) not be about the romantic subplot? And I see no evidence that including this will lead to overdetailing of other minor details. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 21:54, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Saying that the show is just about defeating the firelord is dumb. If you've watched the shoe at all you know that there are mutiple plot lines that are explored within the show. Some effect certain characters more than others. One that majorly effects Aang is his relationship with Katara. -Dylan0513 (talk) 23:12, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

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Re: FLC?

I'm not sure. There's no harm in shipping it over - we can address problems during the process. --haha169 (talk) 04:00, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Nominated. Click the link for magic! NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 04:10, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

Hope you have a good one. bibliomaniac15 21:42, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Your comments at WP:RPP

Please leave more explanatory comments than "Time to give it a shot?" at WP:RPP. The administrator who has to go through that has to do a whole lot more work to deal with terse requests like that. --Rschen7754 (T C) 03:44, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I had talked it over with Aitias, and I gave my rationale on one of them, which applied to all of them really. I probably should have copied that response over to the rest, which I have now done. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 04:15, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

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Year items in World Science Festival

I'm wondering whether the redundant citation information ("year=2008") you removed from World Science Festival really is redundant. I put it in believing that the year, even if not displayed, was important for some automatic read-out of the bibliographic information (which, after all, is one of the reasons for using citation templates - and I'm pretty sure, for instance, that Harvnb-style references need the year given explicitly, and cannot derive it from the date). If you're 100% sure that the tags are not needed, fine, but if not, please be kind enough to put them back. Markus Poessel (talk) 12:29, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

From look at the current one versus the old one, I actually cannot find any effects of the removal at all in the reflist. Which is interesting, because I thought the old one would have added a double year, but apparently the cite templates are smart enough to parse them out. If you find any evidence that this messed up your citing, feel free to change it back. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 16:00, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Russians in Mexico

Hi. You mentioned that a similar article is currently at AfD. I was just wondering which article you're referring to? Thanks. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:50, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

That would be Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russian Chilean. Regards, NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 19:53, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:56, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Highlander: The Series (season 2)

Hello, there. Thank you for catching this one, I've spend months on this and I didn't even spot it ! (Although I wrote it myself ;) Have a nice Christmas holiday, Rosenknospe (talk) 22:14, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Ah, the beauties of automated tools. :) Have a nice holiday! NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 22:15, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Images on wikipedia

Hi, I have a (hopefully) quick question for you. I spoke with you the other day on the wikipedia-en-help IRC channel about the Den Schliker article. The article creator has asked me to upload a picture of the subject. He posted the link on my talk page in this post (later signing it when he logged in). I don't really know how to go about getting that uploaded (copyright vio and all that). The picture's filename says that it is "for media free for use", but I didn't find the same picture (with that filename) on his website. Any info or help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Killiondude (talk) 22:49, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

The best option for that is to have him go on somewhere on his website and write "http://www.denschliker.com/Den.Schliker_photo.for.media.free.for.use.jpg is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.3 and later." That will allow us to use it on Wikipedia.

Hope this helps, NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 22:53, 26 December 2008 (UTC)