User talk:Dynaflow

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The Internet, where intelligence goes to die:

nazi censorship police states are wrong, please refrain from defacing legitmate concernskthnx! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.27.18.25 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 17 April 2007 PDT.

Your edits will continue to be reverted by me or other editors if they do not contribute constructively to the discussion. Conspiracy theories involving Karl Rove and the Virginia Tech shooting are not constructive. Thank you. --Dynaflow 01:21, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

this man is a nazi apologist-----^—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.27.18.25 (talk • contribs) 18:29, 17 April 2007 PDT.

[^this man doesn't know his asshole from his armpit HalfShadow 21:44, 8 May 2007 (UTC)]

Man, I love Godwin's law. This tedious conversation is over already. --Dynaflow 01:33, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Phoenix Five

Thanks for your comments! Yeah, the problem with citing to that section is that none of the 1998 Daily Cal articles are archived and available online (they only have it back to 1999, for some reason). I added a cite to an article that mentioned a couple things in that section though, so hopefully that'll be ok. Go Bears! DEMKID 00:08, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: my revert warning

just look at the evidence on hand (the talk page for A Perfect Circle -> Was/Is section), myself and several other people have pointed out to "Alex 101" that he is wrong about this and he still continues to edit the page to state that the band is no longer together. if you look @ the talk section of his userpage you'll see that this is nothing new and he even says that he got banned for several months for his behavior on another talk page/article. i would say he needs another ban, but i don't know how any of that works. all i know is that according to the most recent sourceable info, he is wrong, is editing a wikipedia article to reflect misinformation, and is now threatening to get me banned for trying to correct this. i've tried to clear this up in the talk page and he is being obstinant and refusing to listen to reason. so i guess now i'm just supposed to let the article remain inaccurate and completely wrong. or else i'll jget banned for trying to update it with correct information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.252.94.153 (talk • contribs)

I've warned you both. Edit warring is unacceptable under any circumstances, and the two of you need to cool it and bring in others for third opinions if you can't agree between yourselves. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Vandalism on A Perfect Circle --Dynaflow babble 19:53, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

i undertstand that and i frankly don't care anymore as i'm officially giving up on it as did the other one or two people who pointed out that he was wrong. if he wants the wikipedia article to be inaccurate, that's fine with me.68.252.94.153 20:13, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

You don't have to give up; just try to get changes made in a different way. I've found myself in situations like yours before (and situations like Alex101's too), and the best thing to do is to ask someone else experienced with Wikipedia and knowledgable in the subject area to weigh in. I suggested to Alex101 that he post on the Talk board at WP:ROCK, and you may want to do so as well. Also, consider getting a username. Due to myriad factors, not all of them valid, users with names tend to be taken more seriously here than users with only IP addresses. Take a look at WP:U. --Dynaflow babble 20:23, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

meh. i value my anonimity. and i'm not losing sleep over the fact that people on wikipedia don't take me seriously. i posted a link to an interview with the singer of the band in question. and several people on that talk page before this interview was done pointed out that alex is wrong. i don't care about me being "right", in fact (generally speaking) if i'm wrong, i'd like to know rather than go around spreading false information. it just irks me that some kid from california is being as obstinant and insisting in the face of reason that he is correct, depsite the fact that this seems to contradict what the singer stated. like i said before, i really don't care anymore.. i mean i do, but i've wasted far too much time on this crap over the past day or two, and it's just a bunch of ones and zeros floating around that technically don't really exist anywhere in any physical form.68.252.94.153 20:34, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

The username actually helps in the anonymity department. With a username, all anyone can tell about who you are is what you put on your own userpage. With their IPs displaying, "anonymous" users are actually far from anonymous. It's just something to think about. In any case, it would be a shame to lose a contributor over a tiff like this; do consider riding it out. --Dynaflow babble 20:44, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

yeah but the username makes it easy to track the edits i've made (that's all i meant when i spoke of anonymity). i've made quite a few contributions over the years and done considerable work on several band's pages, but i really don't care about receiving credit for them, especially when you consider that many things you contribute may be edited out or completely changed within a year. and don't worry, i won't stop contributing and tweaking mistakes anytime soon, i just don't care about the is/was apc conflict anymore. like i said it's all just 1's and 0's floating around in cyberspace and if all of the computers in the world died tomorrow it would mean that i've wasted lots of time for nothing. 47 is the answer to life, the universe and everything adjusted for inflation.68.252.94.153 20:56, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

In that case, cheers; so long, and thanks for all the fish. --Dynaflow babble 21:07, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

:p 68.252.94.153 21:12, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

UCR Mascot page

Mascot of UC Riverside looks like an unswept up sock of Summer thunder was able to slip this under the radar. I think this set off the Betacommandbot. Amerique^dialectics 02:03, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

That would appear to be him. I {{db-banned}} the page and tagged the sock. --Dynaflow babble 02:09, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, great userbox! I thought you might be interested in this edit I just removed: [1] (not sure what sock was used to insert this, though...) Amerique^dialectics 23:15, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Found him: his only edit[2] Amerique^dialectics 23:18, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I just did a little futzing with it; it's Szyslak's work. I'm not sure that's a sock, and it's not ST's usual ISP. Someone may just be trying to add legit info. Watch the IP and see what happens, though. nevermind --Dynaflow babble 23:20, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Mascot of UC Riverside

Hi. I saw that you carried out the deletion of the above page, and I was wondering if you could also issue a block against Pntnes (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), the SummerThunder sock that put it up. The case is too stale for WP:SSP, but it would be good to zap his sleeper accounts whenever we find them, in case he plans on reactivating them to edit protected articles in the future. Thanks. --Dynaflow babble 02:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

He seems to have stopped for the time being, but if he starts up again, let me know and I'll be glad to do so. Since I'm not familiar with his background, providing a few diffs for me would help, just to make it clear that it's the same person - that way I'll have something to point to if the block is questioned later on. Tijuana Brass 03:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

• What? My alma mater bear in a kilt wasn't notable? I'll surely take this up with DRV. :) the_undertow ^talk 04:02, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

• I thought you might see it my way. By the way, he is Scottish and his name is SCOT. I just blew your mind. the_undertow ^talk 04:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

For blockability, I can do better than provide diffs; here's the dossier: Wikipedia:Long term abuse/SummerThunder. Reposting that version of the UC Riverside mascot article under different titles is a classic part of his MO. --Dynaflow babble 04:42, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Done and done. Thanks for the link, I'll keep an eye out in the future. Tijuana Brass 04:46, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. --Dynaflow babble 04:48, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

A murder at a college

Howdy. I noticed you were involved in the discussion on whether the Virginia Tech shootings should be mentioned in detail on the VT page. There is an edit war going on at St. Mark's College (University of Adelaide) where some editors want to include a paragraph about a single, non-notable murder that occurred there 16 years ago. I don't think it merits inclusion. Have a look at the page, the discussion, and please contribute. Cheers, --Yeti Hunter 10:15, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Done. --Dynaflow babble 07:46, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Fundraising banner

Your fundraising banner is being discussed at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Give us your fucking money. PrimeHunter 16:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Requiescat in pace, tasteless banner. You were funny while you lasted. --Dynaflow babble 07:49, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Angolan Civil War

Hi, I saw you removed the infobox image on Angolan Civil War. While you are correct in that the tank is Croatian, the picture is of combat in the Angolan Civil War. Cuba bought many tanks from Eastern Europe which it used in the 70s and 80s when it invaded Angola. Would you mind restoring it? If there is any question as to the accuracy of its placement, see the Spanish Wikipedia article - they also use it in the infobox there. Jose João 06:11, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I removed it because it is of a Croatian T-55 at Barbara Range, an SFOR drive-around-and-blow-stuff-up area near Glamoč, in Bosnia. There is no apparent connection between that picture and the Angolan Civil War. --Dynaflow babble 06:20, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Really? How do you know the tank was in Glamoc? I added it based on what I found at the Spanish Wikipedia. Jose João 06:25, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

The winter-weight, rather un-Cuban-looking uniforms and the residual snow at higher elevations on the hillsides tipped me off, and the summary on the image page (Image:HVO Army T-55 Glamoc firing MG.jpg) confirmed it. I've also gone and removed the images from es.wikipedia. --Dynaflow babble 06:45, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Hahaha thanks. Jose João 07:04, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for my poor english:

- The T-55 tank was the last tank model used for Cuba in Angola. BUT the T-55 of the imagen is not cuban, is european. I used that imagen because I couldn't find any more.

- The T-72 tank never was used by Cuba in Angola.

Anyway. My article about Angola War is very bad and have a big mistake. But I hate the spanish Wikipedia and the spanish burocratas — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.128.161.158 (talk • contribs) (es:Usuario:Zósimo)

Florida Institute of Technology & Template:FloridaTechTemplate

Thanks for helping me with those! Wow, I didn't realize you're the creator of the UC naviboxes. It's funny because I was just about to take one of my pictures I took at Florida Tech and use it to replace the logo on the navibox last week. (Look @ my talk page for last week's discussion... haha) You'll see me mentioning how Cal's navibox uses buildings. Thanks again for streamlining the Florida Tech article lead. I needed a fresh pair of eyes. I've been having alumni and random people from Georgia Tech review the article... and I have to admit, some of the article's material has NPOV issues. I've been trying to weed that stuff out for a while...while taking on a couple personal detours on side projects. Anyways, thanks again! :D - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 10:44, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

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Brilliant!

Thank you for contributing so brilliantly to the latest Virginia Tech massacre response cruft jamboree. You expressed exactly what was bothering me so much about including the names, but I couldn't figure out the words to express it. I just hope your comments do not get lost in the discussion thread.--Sfmammamia (talk) 04:19, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

the lead thing

Here was my dilemma. The reference I had only referred to those who had been on missions before graduating, thus rendering the statement after female missionaries incorrect. I had to remove it, even though many women do probably go after graduating. Wrad (talk) 23:50, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

My first! Thanks!

My birthday was yesterday, so logging in this morning to the FA rating and the barnstar was like getting additional presents! And I hadn't even finished with all the nitpicky ref tweaks yet! Thanks again for your help, good humor, and encouragement. Kinga shinnen --Sfmammamia (talk) 19:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

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An article you helped edit is now on WP:UNI/COTF

The current University Collaborations of the Month are Ohio State University & Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University
Every month two B-, C- or Start-Class higher education-related articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTM is organized by WikiProject Higher Education. (vote for future collaborations or see past collaborations) This collaboration is effective: May 20, 2011 — June 20, 2011 until someone updates it. Pick the next WikiProject Higher Education COTM!

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SummerThunder - Unknow Rebel from Beijing (sic)

Caught User:Innerchado and Unknow Rebel from Beijing in bed together. Blocked the user as a sockpuppet, protected the redirect for the article. Since you've been dealing it with it, thought you might want to know. Cheers, CP 05:04, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Looks like he's giving it to you now. Luna Santin seems to have stomped this latest sock. --Dynaflow babble 09:57, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Logos for UCLA and USC Athletics

Dynaflow, thanks for uploading the pictures to replace the UCLA and USC athletics logos. I read through Wikipedia:Logos more than once in the past few months. Would you please explain how you interpreted where the UCLA and USC logos are not fair use when used to represent the subjects in question: Victory Bell, UCLA-USC rivalry and Lexus Gauntlet. Thanks, Group29 (talk) 14:22, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I am going by the overarching Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria policy and the guidelines at Wikipedia:Non-free content, rather than just the Wikipedia:Logos guideline. In a nutshell, it is not that the use of the logos wasn't fair-use (by domestic copyright law) at the articles in which they were placed, per se, but that the way they were being used was at odds with how the Community has decided it wants to work with non-free content vis-a-vis free content.

Specifically:

• • WP:FUC #3 calls for keeping use of non-free media to an absolute minimum: "As few non-free content uses as possible are included in each article and in Wikipedia as a whole. Multiple items are not used if one will suffice; one is used only if necessary." If it's not absolutely necessary to include a piece of non-free media, then it shouldn't be included.
  • WP:FUC #8 says that, "Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding." For example, Image:UCLA Bruins Logo.png's use at UCLA Bruins would be acceptable because it shows the official logo of the entity which is the article's primary focus, and it is definitely germane, encyclopedic content when included there. The article would be poorer for the loss of it. On the other hand, the primary focus of the Lexus Gauntlet article is the competition over this thing. The use of Image:UCLA Bruins Logo.png (as well as Cal's, USC's, and Stanford's logos) as visual markers in subsections of that article was not necessary to the encyclopedic mission of the article, and little, if anything, would be lost by replacing them with something free -- which brings us to...
  • WP:FUC #1, which says, "Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose. Where possible, non-free content is transformed into free material instead of using a fair-use defense, or replaced with a freer alternative if one of acceptable quality is available; "acceptable quality" means a quality sufficient to serve the encyclopedic purpose. (As a quick test, ask yourself: "Can this image be replaced by a different one that has the same effect, or adequately conveyed by text without using a picture at all?" If the answer is yes, the image probably does not meet this criterion.)" The answer was "yes" for the images I took out and replaced with free content.

I am going to post this reply to the ongoing thread at the UC project Talk page as well, so that others can participate in the conversation. Please reply there. Thanks. --Dynaflow babble 18:23, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion of Template:History of San Francisco

A tag has been placed on Template:History of San Francisco requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes.

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:56, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

He's back...

Just before you caught ST's latest IP, I had a hell of a time getting him blocked, as my AIV report was "declined" at first, on the grounds that it wasn't "obviously" ST, and because the report was "supposed" to be at WP:SSP. Oh, and there were no admins watching AIV for almost an hour. szyslak 12:14, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I saw that. And it was even after ST altered your AIV report. I've found that, because not everybody is familiar with him, it helps to be a little bit more descriptive in AIV reports on him. Mine went to the front of the line. --Dynaflow babble 18:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Invite

Century Tower

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Rollback granted

I gave you rollback since you asked for it, have been an established user, and its been a long time since you were blocked for a good faith 3RR block. Just remember to only use it in clear cases of vandalism or as part of a community consensus thing, not content disputes or places where an UNDO summary would be better. Happy editing. MBisanz ^talk 05:37, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. --Dynaflow babble 05:38, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Your recent rollbacks

Well, congratulations on your rollback status. I seem to be the first editor you are trying your new found tool on. I read your remarks on my talk page and have asked for some consensus from the Law Enforcement Project. However, I was slightly distressed to discover that you have rolled back many of my page changes prior to any actual discussion. I would have preferred you waited until this could have been agreed upon. At this point I am unaware of any actual violations of any policy, so it is just two opinions. Mine is certainly open for change.

You stated that the actual name of the department should be used. I agree with you. However, in regard to the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, what is the actual name? I have seen it listed variously as:

• The City and County of San Francisco Sheriff's Department
• The Sheriff's Department of the City and County of San Francisco
• The San Francisco Sheriff's Department

The official website uses the headings CCSF Sheriff's Department

I work for the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office in New York State. My Office is referred to variously as:

• The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office
• The Suffolk County Sheriff's Department
• The County of Suffolk, Office of the Sheriff
• The Suffolk County Office of the Sheriff
• Office of the Sheriff, Suffolk County, NY

I added considerable content to various lists and was finding links directed to the incorrect state. I began to list them including the state name for clarity. While I can agree that the San Francisco Sheriff's Department is not going to be confused with another organization, it was changed in a effort to provide consistency and the redirect page should have sufficed for anyone hitting the older title. You also mention that the strict use of grammar would seem to prohibit the title as I change it. Perhaps, but it is not unheard of to refer to other departments in this fashion.

Please let me know if you have any other input on the naming of law enforcement agancy pages, as this is "my thing" and I rarely venture off the reservation. I would like to use one style of naming the departments. Some of the options I have come up with include:

• San Francisco Sheriff's Department (California)
• San Francisco Sheriff's Department (CA)
• San Francisco, CA Sheriff's Department
• San Francisco, California Sheriff's Department
• San Francisco, CA, Sheriff's Department
• San Francisco, California, Sheriff's Department

I am not sure what the other members of the Law Enforcement Project will say, but I will wait for some kind of consensus before renaming any additional pages. I would appreciate you leaving these pages alone until others have joined the discussion. It also appears that the use of rollbacks for content disputes is discouraged and should be used only in relation to vandalism or a consensus. SGT141 (talk) 22:12, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I actually only rolled back a few of your pagemoves before my NyQuil took effect (I've had some long-lived variety of flu for the past week or so) and I stopped for need of rest and for fear of making sedative-addled wiki-mistakes. [edit: Looking into article histories now, others seem to have finished what I started, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San_Francisco_Sheriff%27s_Department&diff=198652727&oldid=198405675.] I based my finding of consensus on this thread: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive385#Need sysop help to roll back large number of good-faith/badly-executed pagemoves, in which experienced admins agreed that the pagemoves weren't in keeping with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style, and granted me rollback to return those articles to their "zero state." As I suggested, and as User:bibliomaniac15 also suggests in the above-linked ANI thread, a good format, consistent with MOS, could be "Name of the Department (Incidental Geographic Identifier)." It would be good to move many of the articles on departments with similar names to that format; I just wanted to make sure those moves were done from the original titles, so we wouldn't have to deal with double- or (shudder) triple-redirects or anything like that. --Dynaflow babble 05:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

RE: where to place the state name in the title- I have been working for a while on the Law Enforcement wikiproject and have noticed the with agency titles (and other titles) the disambiguation goes behind it in parenthesis. For example, the San Fran sheriff's office would be San Francisco Sheriff's Office (California). There isn't an official stance, but that has been the defacto standard for any disambiguation. For example the article I created on a local political was originally titled Sheriff Michael A. Jackson, an admin changed it to Michael A. Jackson (sheriff) to keep with consistancy within the wiki. I have also noticed that format quite a bit. Just something I've noticed around the wiki! Cheers!--Sallicio^{$\color {Red}\oplus$} 02:07, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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interwiki link removals

Hi, my bot Vina-iwbot just uses the standard pywikipedia interwiki.py, without any special configurations. What seems to be the cases with "incorrect" removals are where regular pages link to categories. The bot considers inter-namespace links to be incorrect, though some wikis are now doing redirects of pages to categories. Most of the problems that I saw are with the "List of ...." type of pages, that are redirected to the corresponding categories instead. I need to contact the interwiki operator community to see if/how I can remove links to non-existent pages only. I didn't see a config flag for this. Upon further investigation, it seems that the bot considers anything with ":" in the name to be a different namespace as well, so some links to regular pages are being removed as well. In the mean time, I'll just turn off the remove option completely while running the bot. -- Vina (talk) 04:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for the nice welcome! 70.133.76.83 (talk) 22:20, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

UC template image, UCSC, etc

I understand. The problem with the map was that the writing was illegible at that resolution and the image itself drab. Sather Gate was built when Cal was the only UC and using the "Fiat Lux" star detail, rather than the gate itself, de-contextualizes the symbol from its setting in a way that effectively conveys the idea of the whole university, I think. Any photograph we use is necessarily going to be situated on one of the campuses, unless we want to use the UC president's office pic, which is ghastly; I would rather the image be of an all-encompassing symbol, wherever it's located, than something that attempts to legibly represent all the campuses within thumbnail dimensions. The "Fiat Lux" star is on all the seals... I don't immediately know of a better concrete representation of the whole university than that, and I say this with no special affinity for or affiliation with the Berkeley campus itself. My solution may give an implicit nod to Berkeley, but they are the founding campus of the system anyway.

If you want, make a proposal at WP:UC. I'll go with whatever recommendation they suggest. Anyway, there is a ton of on-line accessible material on UCSC... work on it on my part hasn't been proceeding quickly, because there is a lot to digest. The campus officials definitely had a sense of destiny about them, recording oral histories and such, while their history was still in progress. (Such a contrast, really, from UCR. Did you know UCR doesn't have the papers of its founding provost archived? It's like neither he nor they wanted to leave any evidence of a crime behind.) But this only means that there is more to go through and make sense of, and I have no special familiarity with the campus, (outside of a brief trip I took there a few years ago) alas. Amerique^dialectics 05:18, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I went ahead and opened it for further discussion at WP:UC. The decision probably shouldn't be any one person's. Amerique^dialectics 21:14, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Spammed article for your watchlist

Noting your interest in keeping Canterbury University of the Seychelles on the straight & narrow, might I invite you to add Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument to it as well. It's the same MO - a COI snake oil saleswoman appended what amounted to spam; I've turned it around by adding input from a couple of academic papers which debunk the whole thing. I anticipate the last has not been heard of the original poster...thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:59, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Noted. --Dynaflow babble 08:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

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UC templates

Hi Dynaflow,

I recently converted a number of the UC templates to use the standard {{Navbox}} template. I maintained most styles and colors, except for a few I felt should be modified. The changes I made were:

• Making them 100% width. Almost all other templates on articles using these ones have 100% width, so it looked funny that this one was smaller. This can be undone by using style = width:800px;
• Making the list cells use left-alignment instead of center alignment. This is basically the standard way it's done on Wikipedia, save for a small handful of few exceptions, and I think it's much, much easier to read anyways. The group cells also got right alignment for the same reason (standard alignment, easier to read). This can be undone by using liststyle = text-align:center; and/or groupstyle = text-align:center;.
• Moving the 2nd line of the title into the "above" cell. In the collapsed state there's no need to see the second line, so it makes more sense to be hidden in the "above" cell.

Anyways, you're the expert, so feel free to adjust any of the styles; just figured I'd give you a heads up that I made the changes. --CapitalR (talk) 08:52, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Virginia Tech template

Hey, Dynaflow. I just converted {{Virginia Tech}} to a Navbox. I tried to keep the great look you set up. Take a peek. --Gwguffey (talk) 03:34, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Wow. I was just hoping that you wouldn't hate it and am humbled by your response. Thank you for all of the work you have put into the college templates. The UC series is outstanding and I am glad have been able to be of service to you and add a small contribution to your work with those. If there is anything that I can do for you in the future, let me know. --Gwguffey (talk) 02:17, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Unaccredited followup

I stumbled across the unaccredited school situation and added a relevant category to some pages which mentioned lack of accreditation. As you seem to have an interest, feel free to browse my Contributions for school articles which need more work. I did notice an unaccredited Christian category exists, but I was only adding the more general category so some which I tagged might be better served with the more specific cat. -- SEWilco (talk) 06:06, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Your recently useless edit

Please note that there is a less than 0.01% chance that any messages left on the talk page for 204.100.184.23 will reach the intended target. Rather than waste time and confuse innocent people, you should request an immeadiate ban on anonymous editing from this address.

Thankyou —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.100.184.23 (talk) 17:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

If you check the date, you'll find that I left a marginally friendly request not to blank out article talk pages on your IP address's talk page, within a few minutes of the offending edit, over a year ago. Though it is actually quite likely that the intended recipient got the message, I thank you for taking the time to point out my folly, anyway. --Dynaflow babble 05:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area roll call

Hello from WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area!

As part of a recent update to our project main page we are conducting a roll call to check which members are still active and interested in working on bay area related content. If you are still interested in participating, simply move your username from the inactive section of the participant list to the active section. I hope you will find the redesigned project pages helpful, and I wanted to welcome you back to the project. If you want you can take a look at the newly redesigned:

• Main Page
  
• Talk page
  
• Cleanup listing
  
• Template list
  

As well as the existing pages:

• Assessment
  
• Article Worklist
  
• Watchlist
  
• Deletion sorting (California)
  

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page, and add it to your watchlist, if it isn't already.

Again, hi!  -Optigan13 (talk) 07:52, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

--Dabackgammonator (talk) 04:59, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:SFPD Patch.gif)

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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 05:10, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism at Talk:Seung-Hui Cho

Hello, Dynoflow. Thanks for the welcome.

I think you should watch Talk:Seung-Hui Cho a little more carefully, because User:Punkymonkey987 has altered and deleted my most recent opinions regarding the subject social and sexual aspects of his life. That is not fair and that is not nice.

Hope you take this notice seriously.

I've left a message on this user's talk page. 88.105.117.18 (talk) 12:48, 1 September 2008 (UTC)