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Redlinks in disambig

I agree with your recent edit since the Chelsea Carters were probably not the same. However, I wanted to make sure that not all redlinks get deleted, as some are ok according to MOS:DAB#Red links. If you check Special:WhatLinksHere/Chelsea Carter, you'll see that a page does link to Chelsea Carter, so in some vague technical sense the red link qualified for being on the disambig page. Like I said though, I agree with your edit on this one. JackSchmidt (talk) 20:24, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I looked over some of your past edits, and your work seems good. It's very nice to see someone improving technical details of sci-fi articles. It is also very nice to see an editor acknowledging and fixing their own mistakes (e.g. the authorlink). Every editor makes mistakes, and no one can know and understand all of the silly guidelines, but an editor who keeps learning more about the process and adapts is pretty much equivalent to a perfect editor in my book. Let me know if you need any help with arcane templates or citations or something, but as near as I can tell you are doing great. JackSchmidt (talk) 15:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SOX Invite

Please accept this invite to join the Red Sox WikiProject, a WikiProject dedicated to improving all articles associated with the Boston Red Sox. Simply click here to accept!

--RyRy5 (talk ♠ wikify) 01:59, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stave Puzzles

On 27 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Stave Puzzles, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 01:04, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cheadle Bleachworks

Hi Captain, just wanted to say thanks for your comments and advise on this. »xytram« talk 10:01, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Emma Hunton

User:Captain-tucker/Emma Hunton Here you go. Wizardman 03:16, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Contact Harvest

If you've got it, yes! Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 01:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Email is fine. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 13:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Citation Challenge

Someone has made it to level one!

LAAFan is now working on achieving level two.

Are you going to let him stay ahead of you?

Just curious. :)

The Transhumanist 20:27, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXV - June 2008

The June 2008 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. SteveBot (owner) 23:48, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Award Center Newsletter

Wikipedia:AWC/newsletter/archive/4 - Newsletter Bot Talk 02:05, 21 June 2008 (UTC) If you would not like to receive this newsletter, please add your name here.[reply]

Thanks Captain..

Proxxt is So Pleased to share Hamish. The novels of M.E. Beaton are very different from the T.V. adaptations, but each has its own rewards. I know what it is like to be time poor. I commute 4 hours per day in my smelly car! You are doing Hamish fans a great service. Don't worry about small things like commas. I'm happy to tidy these up.

Love from Proxxt —Preceding unsigned comment added by Proxxt (talk • contribs) 10:56, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot to add Proxxt (talk) 11:00, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just a heads up

I thought you might like to know that the Awards Center page has been deleted, along with its newsletter. :(

So, where do we go from here?

To new and even more interesting projects, of course!

As announced in the newsletter, I've been preparing to co-coordinate a large collaboration/competition called Around the World. It was going to be run at the Awards Center, but since that no longer exists, the collaboration will be hosted somewhere else.

Around the World will begin July 15th as planned - it's location will be announced soon.

It'll be a blast. In the competition, participants will be helping to develop over 200 pages (drafts, which will be moved to article space once they are ready), using advanced tools to edit every single one of them!

This is going to be interesting.

And the event shall have awards which are being created specifically for it as we speak!

If you would like me to keep you informed of this and other interesting collaborations I'll be working on and/or organizing in the future, please drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll be happy to keep you in the know.

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

The Transhumanist 21:41, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I need your feedback...

Which of the following medals looks better. This one:

Or this one:

Which one do you like better?

Please let me know on my talk page.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:13, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced Article Cleanup Userbox

Thanks for adding a userbox and other useful templates to the Wikiproject Unreferenced Article Cleanup page. I have added the userbox to my userpage. Thanks again for your additions and for notifying me of them! Cheers! Scapler (talk) 18:42, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template Barnstar

Here, have a delicous, gooey, template barnstar. ;) Scapler (talk) 18:52, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Invite

I joined the project. I might add more references than clean them up, but I'll help out. --LAA Fan 18:54, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the invitation. I can't guarantee that I'll be very active, but I figure some help is better than none. I'm losing interest in Wikipedia, but this might help give me something to do. I already finished referencing one article since getting your invitation, so it's a step in the right direction. GaryColemanFan (talk) 20:39, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're Quite Welcome

For the barnstar, that is Scapler (talk) 19:10, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is Around the World?

It's a collaboration!

A collaboration using advanced wiki-tools!

The event is being co-sponsored by Wikiproject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."

The set of pages we are working is currently located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics.

Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of Wikipedia's contents system.

The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than tediously working on a single country to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!

For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees. :) The energy is contagious.

And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.

The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.

Standing by to help are co-coordinators, who can lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators also use advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.

Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.

The Transhumanist 01:29, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Captain

I have accepted the invite. As a librarian, I appreciate the importance of referencing and using reliable sources. Now all I need is the time to do this! Proxxt (talk) 12:04, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for inviting me as well. I will join Juthani1 ^tcs 15:11, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

13th Army Band and 13th army band articles

Not sure how that happened that there are two copies. The 13th Army Band needs to be deleted or redirected in this case the name of the unit is referring to the service and not the 13th Army as a formation. Cheers--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 22:45, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have also added myself to the unreferenced articles project. I have been participating without knowing though for some weeks. The best way to catch them is during new articles patrol.

What I do is place the following sections into the article

==See also==

==Citations==
{{reflist}}

==References==
{{find}}

==Further reading==

==External links==
<br />

The use of Citations rather then Notes is to encourage people to read the works they are using for reference rather then just getting a list off Amazon.com. The find function is useful to encourage others to use the special relationship that exists between Wikipedia and Google, with GoogleBooks often being sufficient to cite references for many articles in the Humanities and Natural sciences disciplines. Cheers--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 22:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My hatred

is eternal. You, RyRy, and Schfifty are GOING DOWN. Beam 00:14, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You know exactly why. Don't act ignorant, YOU KNOW. Beam 00:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So now you're going to rub it in my face? YOU ARE GOING DOWN. Beam 01:04, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously. Beam 01:18, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You barely beat me. I'll get you though, you haven't heard the last of me. MY HATRED IS STRONG AND I WILL AVENGE THIS INJUSTICE. Beam 01:24, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No need. I'm going to whoop you up no matter how fast you are.Beam 01:58, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have made an enemy for life. Beam 01:58, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize that you have been subject to this person's abuse and threats, I have blocked him for 1 week over this incident. Chillum 02:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

~~:::Oh, good lord, Chillum, this is obviously in jest. Unblock or I will. Keeper ǀ 76 02:11, 17 July 2008 (UTC)~~[reply]

lol Just because you got someone to ban me doesn't mean I will give up my life-long goal of defeating you. Beam 19:37, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This section is very funny. Enigma ^message 04:20, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Beam is a very funny guy.--Captain-tucker (talk) 07:32, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I GOT YOU!

MWahaahahahahah. It was worth all the trouble I went through! I AM A CHAMPION! I AM A CHAMPION! lol

Thanks a lot for that barnstar btw, it's very appreciated. Especially considering that we're friends now! Beam 22:20, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Posting Images on an existing Wikipage

Hi there, just a quick question. I am currently working for Eidos Montreal for the team making Deus Ex3. We have some logo's and images we would like to share with the wiki users, how do i go about getting them published?

many thanks

Tomwaine (talk) 13:38, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks but...

I heartily thank you for the invite to the CIET cleanup project, but I don't think its project for me. I cited up AT&T Hobbit because I'm totally into failed CPU designs, not because I like fixing cites. :-) Thanks though! Maury (talk) 02:06, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Question on talk page deletion?

All of those talk pages had only one revision. They all contained only {{talkheader}}, and they were deleted as part of general housekeeping. None of them had citations or any conversation. Template:Talkheader recommends that, "This template should be used only when needed. Do not add this template to every talk page. In particular, it should not be added to otherwise empty talk pages." Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:49, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cerâmica de Valadares

I added some sources, independent ones. Now I believe there's no need to delete the article: The facts have been proved! A corporation which produces per year 800000 to 900000 is not such a small one! And the quality and the design are recognized worldwide! But you still can take a look at the websites... NovosibirsK (talk) 08:13, 2 August 2008 (UTC)NovosibirsK[reply]

DYK: The Concrete Blonde

On 6 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Concrete Blonde, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--PFHLai (talk) 23:38, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Rose Rent DYK

The article is fine. Sorry about missing the "move" in the page history.... nom verified. Cheers. Thingg^⊕^⊗ 01:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clyde Barnhart

I also said this on Template Talk: DYK, but I fixed the above article so it meets requirements. May it be reassessed? Thanks.--LAA Fan 02:01, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed the article again. Guess I'm rusty on submitting DYKs.--LAA Fan 15:56, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Andy Vores DYK - please re-review

As per your suggestion, I fixed the reference in the August 5 DYK for Andy Vores -- please re-review and confirm that this makes the grade. Thank you. Ecoleetage (talk) 03:23, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

O Captain, My Captain -- thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:21, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ecoleetage (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

The Rose Rent

On 11 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Rose Rent, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 12:35, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Great article! Congrats on some well-earned honours! Ecoleetage (talk) 14:19, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A little doubt

Is my account restricted to a single laguage page on wikipedia?

I mean, If I want to make articles on the spanish wikipedia do I have to sign up all over again?

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 P.S. Great article!  Congrats on some well-earned honours! [[User:Ecoleetage|Ecoleetage]] ([[User talk:Ecoleetage|talk]]) 14:19, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
+== A little doubt ==
+Is my account restricted to a single laguage page on wikipedia?
+I mean, If I want to make articles on the spanish wikipedia do I have to sign up all over again?