User talk:Mild Bill Hiccup

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Kia Rio

Hi Bill, why you write in Kia Rio page, that hatchback have new lenght for models 2009? I cannot find source for this information. I find article http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/reviews/healey/2009-03-19-test-drive-kia-rio-review_N.htm , but i think author is wroong, because sedan lenght have -1 inch. (sorry for my english. russian kia rio fan) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.118.85.90 (talk) 14:48, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello, I believe the edit you are referring to was actually made by "Bull-Doser" on February 7, 2009. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 15:03, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. Best regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.118.85.90 (talk) 11:25, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello - Edit summaries

hi Bill. Thanks for correcting a typo on Cornelius Burges.

Would you mind filling in Edit Summaries when you've made a change; this makes it easier, when using watchlists or the recent changes list, to see what people have been doing. A short note saying "typo" or whatever would suffice. Ideally leave an edit summary every time you edit. The edit summary box is immediately below the main ecdit box. Many thanks -Tagishsimon (talk) 13:04, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for using edit summaries. It made reviewing my watchlist easier. Your interesting name caught my eye. Keep up the great work fixing the typos! Royalbroil 04:51, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

No problem, and thanks for the reminders. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 23:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for correction on SIGINT

I've been braindumping into articles on SIGINT and MASINT, as well as National means of technical verification -- and a few pertinent biographies such as George Kistiakowsky and Dino Brugioni.

The first two articles are far too long, and I'd like advice on breaking them up -- even though I have more material for both, especially SIGINT. MASINT may be a better first target.

With SIGINT, I don't think it's as simple as splitting into COMINT and ELINT; there's lots of overlap. Any help would be appeciated. Howard C. Berkowitz 15:39, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello

I am a new user to wikipedia and I was wondering if I could get your input on an article that I have just posted. Any comments or feedback would be very helpful to me. Thanks. The article is titled Automated Quality control of meteorological observations. Or this should link to it Automated Quality control of meteorological observations --Amanrye 16:37, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Great name! Dogru144 20:40, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

• I concur. - Crockspot 16:41, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
  • I like it too. Cheers. MURGH ^disc. 19:38, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
    • Me, too, or is it me, four? __Just plain Bill (talk) 17:03, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
      • Me five. Pmcalduff (talk) 01:44, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
        • Sixth! lol. btw thanks for correcting the spelling on my edit. --BleedingProphet (talk) 08:21, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Brian Epstein

I saw you deleted quite a bit of text in this edit. I think maybe that ought to be taken to the talk page of the article? I didn't see why it was deleted in the edit summary... ++Lar: t/c 16:29, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I suppose I should have explained that more fully. The usual "undo" function wouldn't work because the same user had made some small intervening edits. I didn't intend to get involved in an edit war. See the Talk Page for Woody44 for more information. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 22:00, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

No worries, makes sense to me. Recording it on the article talk page does sometimes help avoid random bystanders (<- me) from popping by and asking questions though. :) Happy editing. ... count me in the "died laughing about your userid" column, by the way ++Lar: t/c 22:47, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Glenn Gilbertti

Dude... Your comments on Disco Inferno's page was amazing. Reading his posts on wrestlezone makes me think he is losing it, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.114.175.209 (talk) 12:25, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Edit summary

Your addition to the article was good but your edit summary left me guessing at first... but you did indeed replace "wtih" with "with". →Wordbuilder (talk) 00:31, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Megohm

Why are you changing "megaohm" to "megohm"? — Omegatron (talk) 23:38, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

The best reference I found was this web page NIST Guide to SI Units Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 11:52, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Ok, that's fine. I guess both are acceptable. — Omegatron (talk) 01:43, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Sacrifice (2008)

Yeah dude there is really no use to place a copyedit template is the article since I'm working on it in my Sandbox. So any mistakes will probably be gone after I'm done working on it. So there really is no reason to place that there. Also I haven't worked on it in my sandbox that much. I've been busy with this.--WillC 20:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

So you're working on it, but you're not really working on it? Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 06:55, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm working on it from time to time. Just slow about it. As much as most people work when they are focusing on 2 articles. I'm almost done with Lockdown. As soon as I'm done with it (probably tomorrow) I'm going to finish Sacrifice.--WillC 07:15, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Italian locomotives

Ciao! Thanks for correcting my locomotives article FS Class E656 and E646. I'm Italian so my english is not perfect. Can I ask, if you've time, also help at my new addition, ETR 200? Thanks anyway and good work. --Attilios (talk) 17:07, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

My pleasure; please continue with the nice articles (and especially the locomotive pictures). And as for the English, you're very modest; as we often say here in the US, "Your English is better than my Italian" (or German, Greek, French, etc). Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 23:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Dangerously In Love

Hello Mild Bill. Thanks for the copy edit. I really suck at using prepositions and some basic grammar. Regarding the tag, are there major grammar issues in the article? --Efe (talk) 11:41, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

No, nothing major. I changed a few more minor ones and removed the tag. Overall, it's a very comprehensive article. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 10:57, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I might seek help from you sometime. =)--Efe (talk) 11:56, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

hello there. Your name popped on my watchlist. thanks for copy editing it again. BTW, its not necessarily to change real emdashes and endashes to html form. Thanks again. --Efe (talk) 10:48, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Whoops, my mistake, I guess I didn't recognize that's what they were. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 10:57, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Its fine. Don't change it. I just reminded you so that you will not give so much effort in changing them. --Efe (talk) 11:56, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

minuscule v miniscule

"Concise Oxford Dictionary," Ninth Edition (1995) , as well as other dictionaries, lists "miniscule" as a "variant" spelling. That to me makes this equivalent to British v American spelling. Is the copy edit template solely because of the miniscule spelling?Dejvid (talk) 09:01, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

"Minuscule" is derived from the word "minus". Anyway, as for that template, could you please specify which article you mean. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 21:15, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Svetozar Marković. I agree with your etymology. However there is little connection between meaning of the modern English words. Hence the it is a natural development for miniscule to become associated with mini.Dejvid (talk) 00:30, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Singletary

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Thanks

Thanks for the copy edit on Varanus indicus.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 17:34, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

History of Piedmont College

Thanks for doing your copy-edits on History of Piedmont College. It definitely makes the article look better. I wish I had had more time to go through it. Thanks again!

Remember to Be Bold! -- RandorXeus 04:09, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Paulo Francis

Thank you very much for checking the spellling of the article on Paulo Francis. I intend to have it expanded, so plese keep a watch on it - your corrections are very welcome for a non-native English speakerCerme (talk) 13:47, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

"otherworldly" clarification

Hi. I changed a sentence at Pale Fire that you marked as unclear. It now reads, "Canto 1 includes his early encounters with death and glimpses of what he takes to be the supernatural." Does that help? —JerryFriedman (Talk) 05:11, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that seems to make more sense now. Initially I thought perhaps a word or two had been accidentally edited out after "otherwordly", but going back through the article history I couldn't find anything, so I marked it hoping someone more familiar with the book would fix it. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 06:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For all of your hard work cleaning up grammatical and spelling errors, I hereby award you the Working Man's barnstar. Your efforts are appreciated! Royalbroil 12:56, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't know how you found the article about the Theatre of Pompey.....but

I'm glad you did. Thank you for the copy edit and corrections. Learned a little more about the correct way to write articles by that edit. Also nice just to see someone else's name beside mine editing there! LOL! (I don't know why I am so obsessed with this structure. Maybe I was Pompey Magnus in another life!)

Thanks, but I have to admit it was more or less by chance. Typically what happens is that I'll be reading an article somewhere and notice a typo that looks like it might be a common one (in this case it was apparently "infront"). Then I use the Wikipedia search box to find other articles with the same typo and correct them. I come across some very interesting (and sometimes strange) stuff this way.

It's too bad there isn't more of the Theatre still left standing; it looks like it was quite an achievement considering when it was built. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 13:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Port River Expressway

Hi. As "Port River Expressway" is an Australian article, it is my understanding that it should employ Australian spelling. In Australian, when you add a suffix to a noun, you double the final consonant before the vowel. Hence, the route is "labelled". Also, the label is associated with freeways and expressways. Further, in Australia we "proofread" written work, which is probably a less logical name, because we don't just read the proof, we edit it too. (But nobody ever said English was particularly logical ... ) Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 13:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh dear. Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything. You did considerably more good than harm. Pdfpdf (talk) 14:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem. I was actually familiar with the double consonant part from seeing other words like "travelling", so the fact that I missed that one made me realize that it was a hasty edit which I should revisit later. But then when I did, I noticed it was already fixed, so all's well that ends well. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 08:26, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Purdue AFROTC

I have an article you contributed to for deletion. Feel free to join in on the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Purdue AFROTC Detachment 220. Mjf3719 (talk) 19:58, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. It looks like it was successfully deleted. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 18:58, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning up my mess

Sorry about that. I was in too much of a hurry with too many pages open. Thanks. ChildofMidnight (talk) 23:58, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

And thanks for helping out on Wikipedia with so much copy-editing (this time it wasn't my copy that needed work, but it might be next time...) and other upkeep. ChildofMidnight (talk) 20:37, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

My talk page

Curious as to why you keep restoring the message I am blanking from my Talk page. The message was left by what can be best described as a troll that has defaced an article I created. I have read his message and anyone else who wants to can simply view the Talk page history. Wikipedia's own Talk Page Guidelines even state: "On your own user talk page, you may remove others' comments, although archiving is generally preferred." If you do decide to restore the comments again, please at least leave your own comment explaining your reasons. Junon (talk) 17:02, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

your username

is great. Made me smile :) -- phoebe / (talk to me) 06:07, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Dodge Polara

Hey Mild Bill Hiccup, thanks for Dodge Polara corrections, it's really appreciated, regards, Moebiusuibeom-en (talk) 01:35, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome Moeb; I'm glad I could help. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 01:46, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Darwin Medal

Thanks for the typo correction; the error was in a quote, and as such shouldn't be changed (maybe [sic]'d though. I'll do that now, actually). Ironholds (talk) 18:38, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Love your user name, mate!

That's all I wanted to say ;-) - Happy editing - Ingolfson (talk) 09:11, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Pile-on here. 17,000 edits and I've never seen that before? One of the best yet - LMAO and it's going in the notebook. :) Franamax (talk) 11:24, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

First time I noticed you, and I have to agree with the above! LessHeard vanU (talk) 12:47, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Philipe Enjambement

I think you're right, it's a hoax - there's no such player in the Olympique Lyonnais squad. The IP author has no other edits. Probably intended as a joke-cum-personal attack, which would account for all the IP vandalism. I've tagged it db-g3. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 12:25, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for checking it out. I'm not very familiar with the sport, but the tone and the history of the article made it seem a bit suspicious. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 22:13, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Vladimir N. Beneshevich

I am looking for somebody, who can copyedit the article Vladimir N. Beneshevich. Usually I do not write articles like this. I have decided to translate it from ru-wiki because his life is interesting for me and I think it will interesting for readers from en-wiki.With regards. Ps. you corrected some of my articles. Leszek Jańczuk (talk) 00:21, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Greetings. I checked it over today. It didn't really need too much editing, but I did notice there is one external link that has gone "dead". Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 18:38, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Copy edit

Oh, I love seeing picky little edits like this, especially on a rather obscure articles. Thanks for taking the time. --KP Botany (talk) 03:40, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I think you have the wrong name

I never edited the wording in any of the sections to the Hell's Kitchen (Season 5) page. I only worked on the color scheme for the table. If you look at the previous version before you undid it, It says Luigilos made those changes. Try to be a little more careful with the names you throw out there please Andrew097 (talk) 19:49, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Please look again at your edits to Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 5) on 2009-03-12T19:32:22 Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 10:48, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

External Links on Flowerhorn

I added to the discussion why I added the links that were on there but you removed them as well revert the article to have no useful/accurate information. I had reverted the edit and removed all external linxks except for a link to the original link which was the source of the wiki. Inkpassion

Please sign your posts by using four tildes.

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Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 23:04, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Hello. Thanks for correcting my typos for Hatta II Cabinet‎ and People's Consultative Assembly‎. I'm working hard to fill in the gaps in Wikipedia:WikiProject Indonesia and I appreciate your efforts that improve the articles. Davidelit (talk) 18:41, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome; keep up the good work. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 18:47, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks from me too for corrections at African American. Pknkly (talk) 06:14, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Solar System

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Script

Hi. I am in the process of developing a script to automatically correct common misspellings in articles. The initial goal is for users to have a button at the top of the article which will open an edit window and do a search/replace to correct common misspellings. When the script completes, it then shows the changes and allows the editor to decide if the changes were correct. The goal is to have as few falsely corrected entries, so some of the entries on WP:LCM wouldn't be added. If you are interested in trying it out, let me know. My initial prototype only has entries from the "A" page. There are probably some minor bugs in there as well, but it won't commit any changes without approval. The script is at User:Symplectic Map/spell.js and you just have to include it in your monobook.js file, e.g., User:Symplectic Map/monobook.js. If you are using something other than the standard theme, it would have to be included there instead. It should work on Firefox and Google Chrome. I haven't tested Internet Explorer. If you know of another script for doing this sort of thing, please let me know, so I don't unnecessarily waste any time. Thanks! Symplectic Map (talk) 20:50, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Copy edit on Bill Pearce

Bill, I love the copyedit you did! Just one question, in the discography section, it looks like you made the title of the first item in the discography italicised. Was that what you meant to do, because it looks out of kilter with the rest of the disco. in normal print? (DOn't worry, I didn't change it! )
_{Naluboutes, Nalubotes} ^{Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris} 16:25, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that was deliberate. The Wiki style is to put names of songs in "quotes" and titles of albums (as well as books, movies, and radio or TV shows) in italics. I started to do that with the list, but then realized I couldn't do it accurately since I wasn't familiar with his material. So hopefully someone better acquainted can pick it up from there. (I also hope that first one is indeed an album title!) Cheers, Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 17:45, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Great edits

Thanks for all your great spelling corrections. Every little helps. Have you ever tried AWB? --John (talk) 06:26, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

No, but thanks for the reminder. I finally got around to registering for AWB yesterday and I've downloaded it, so I'll give it a try soon. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 14:08, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Spelling

This is not a complaint, so don't be annoyed. But your change of "miniscule" to "minuscule" in Organisms in A Series of Unfortunate Events was unnecessary, since both are correct spellings (as can be seen here). — The Man in Question (gesprec) · (forðung) 03:07, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

On the other hand (since this is a Wiki project), see also miniscule. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 15:41, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

I think "minuscule" is far better. --John (talk) 15:45, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Saint Mary's Convent School

Hi Mild Bill Hiccup! An article you have been involved with has been tagged by its parent project as needing either a little attention to style, updating, copypasting, or further development. If you can help with these minor issues please see Talk:Saint Mary's Convent School, and leave any comments there.--Kudpung (talk) 06:30, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Edit war at Hedo_Türkoğlu

Please see Talk:Hedo_Türkoğlu#Current_dispute. Thanks. Mfield (Oi!) 18:11, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks; maybe now some of these gun-jumpers will wait a few more days until things are official. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 21:54, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Repost of Pentalogy

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IP address

I suggest you leave me the fuck alone asap or I'll report your ass for harassment. 141.152.28.4 (talk)

Please sign your messages. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 07:24, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Word Wars?

Does this qualify as a Freudian slip? ;-) Pdfpdf (talk) 08:14, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but it certainly occurs more often than I would have thought. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 08:53, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

thanks

for fixing the table on the BMW article that I was editing, I didn't know how to fix it, so I thought better to remove it than keep it.

119.173.81.176 (talk) 14:36, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm still not sure exactly what the cause of that was. There seems to be an interaction of some sort between tables and certain templates. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 14:51, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Australian rock

I have seen your edits on the Australian rock page and do not feel that information on hip hop/rap music and electronic music should be in this article because the rock music, electronic and rap are all different. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Australian_rock

Maybe it should be in timeline of trends in Australian music or Music of Australia. Please write back.114.73.43.232 (talk) 07:43, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I think you might be confusing me with another contributor. My one edit to this article consisted of some minor changes in spelling and formatting (with a net difference of only +27 bytes). Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 13:29, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I just thought, what if you went back to [[this[1] version of the article and started again. That version was pretty good, you know. 114.73.43.232 (talk) 07:46, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting my spelling!

		The Minor Barnstar
		I hereby award this barnstar to Mild Bill Hiccup for his most valuable Gnomish edits. FeydHuxtable (talk) 09:23, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Small question

Are you related to user Badbilltucker? Simply south (talk) 16:37, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

As far as I know, no. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 17:03, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh, an error

I wanted to mean "pick up", I write very fast.--Raniero Supremo (talk) 22:38, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks! Pdfpdf (talk) 14:07, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

nba roster page

Still got problems with Portland and Utah.-DANO- (talk) 19:19, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

I just now tried to edit it again and I noticed the page belongs to a special hidden category – "Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded". I think the problem is with Wikipedia:Template limits, but I'm not sure where to go from here. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 19:51, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Tom Dixon (industrial designer)

Hi Mild Bill Hiccup! A biography which you have either created, contributed to, or edited, is completely unreferenced and carries a possible promotional tone (see: COI). All articles, especially biographies, must be neutral and adequately sourced to avoid being deleted. If you can help with these issues, please visit Talk:Tom Dixon (industrial designer), and improve the article. --Kudpung (talk) 23:28, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm totally unfamiliar with the subject so I can't help with this one. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 19:45, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Big Four

Was this just a massive error? Your edit summary claimed you were undoing the last edit (which doesn't make sense to begin with, because the last five edits were just adding and tweaking a single entry) but what you actually did was remove half the content, from different sections of the page, with no apparent rationale. I assume it wasn't your intention to hack out half the page while hiding it behind a false edit summary? Propaniac (talk) 14:47, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

As I recall, I originally hit undo just to remove the "grunge" entry. Then I noticed the hidden comment at the top about people making up various groups of four things that don't link to any specific article and deleted those as well, but neglected to correct the edit summary.Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 19:41, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

There doesn't need to be an actual article called Big Four (X), just an article that says "these things are called the big four." For example, thrash metal says such-and-such bands are considered the Big Four of thrash metal. I went through every single entry when I cleaned up the page a couple months ago, so unless the linked article has been edited since then to remove the "Big Four" reference, I think all the entries are good. Propaniac (talk) 13:15, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Juan M Clouzet

It would be really helpful if you would rewrite this is prose format. DGG ( talk ) 03:01, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Thanks for getting involved in the editorial work for Jay Pritzker Pavilion. The article is currently at WP:PR. Feel free to come by and make comments on the concerns there.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:15, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks....

....for your help with the article caveman. Chrisrus (talk) 13:20, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

User_talk:69.113.203.59

thanks for reverting some of this IP user's recent vandal edits. what is the procedure I can follow to seek an IP block? this IP is consistently messing with census numbers and such in articles, which is very annoying.--Neighborhoodpalmreader (talk) 15:28, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I think administrators are supposed to impose a block after a certain number of vandalism edits, but for some reason it doesn't always happen. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 06:52, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Re this edit

…and this one. Perhaps they will have taught me to spell the word diminutive. Thanks! Ian Spackman (talk) 17:53, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Wilson Rawls

Easiest thing to do in those situations is to go back to the last named account, especially if the named account's edit is a vandalism reversion. That way you're not constantly tidying up. You might accidentally revert a couple of legit edits, but more likely than not, you'll lose nothing of value. HalfShadow 22:29, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Copy edit request

Hi there! I notice that you've recently done some copy editing and typo fixing on the Younger Than Yesterday article. Thank you for cleaning up some of my silly mistakes. All good writers need a good editor, right? :-) Anyway, I appreciate your help and would like to ask you to have a look at The Notorious Byrd Brothers article as well. I'm tentatively preparing this article for WP:GAN but I'm sure that it needs a good going through like Younger Than Yesterday did.

That sounds good. I'll look at it this weekend.Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 22:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

While I have your attention, I also have a couple of general copy editing questions. In the first sentence of the YTY article, is there any reason to have the word "see" in the parenthesis italicised? Another copy editing Wikipedian formatted it like this and I've tended to follow suit on other articles but I don't really understand why this word needs to be italicised.

I don't understand it either; it seems to make that one word stand out for no particular reason. Looking through some articles dealing with albums by other artists (David Crosby's solo albums, for instance), it appears more common to leave off the italics or to simply eliminate the parenthesized phrase by linking the year of release to the corresponding "year in music" article; something such as "was released in February 1967".Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 22:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for taking a first look at this article - it's very helpful of you. I assume that you’re going to take a look at the “Release” and “Legacy” sections at a later time? Since leaving my above message I've learned from the copy editing Wikipedian in question that the italicizing of "see" or "see also" comes from a particular style book and there's also examples of it here, here, here and here. Oh, and just so you know, I’ve reinstated the parenthesized 1968 in music because that's the correct way to format such links in music articles - piped links are discouraged under the music article style guidelines - see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music/MUSTARD#Internal_links. Thanks again for your help. --Kohoutek1138 (talk) 14:55, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the additional info and the pointer to the guidelines; I'll have to look through those to see :-) if I missed anything else. But overall I think this article looks pretty good so far. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 00:07, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

My second question again relates to the first sentence of the article: should "The Byrds" have a comma before and after it, like - "Younger Than Yesterday is the fourth album by the American rock band, The Byrds, and was released in February 1967 on Columbia Records." Or is it fine as it is? Many thanks. --Kohoutek1138 (talk) 11:59, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

The comma before the name shouldn't be used because it would separate the name from the words being used to describe it and would make it sound like The Byrds were the only American rock band. The comma after the name is probably more a matter of style, similar to the serial comma debate.Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 22:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

User talk:76.176.165.99

How many "last warnings" do you think they should receive? Two seems so... inadequate. 76.102.12.35 (talk) 06:48, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, I have seen cases where there were a lot more than two "last warnings", since the warning templates max out at level four. After that, I suppose it becomes a matter of how many more edits the vandal is willing and able to make before the final "final warner" is an administrator. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Trip on the Road

Hello Mild Bill Hiccup. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Trip on the Road, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a test page. Thank you. Olaf Davis (talk) 17:19, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism?

Not sure what passes for your definition of vandalism. The changes I made to Greek and Latin roots in English article were simply for easier reading. No information was changed. At one time, there was a description on the page that said all the Greek roots were in a blue, the Latin ones were normal background color. Not sure why this was ever done. The page itself has a column listing either Greek or Latin, so there is no reason for some background color to identify the root language. Besides that, the blue is more distracting than pleasing, and is out of the ordinary compared to other Wikipedia glossaries that I have seen.

Over two years ago, I made a number of additions from A to C in this article, and was going to try and complete much of the missing information. I never really had time to get back to it. The article is largely completed now, but the blue background that remains is really a relic of the article when it was still being developed. For that reason there is no reason to keep it, and notice the article now does not even state why the Greek roots are all in blue. The blue to me is a rather un-necessary attempt to jazz up the visual appearance. I like color, but I think it is not needed in this type of article. WordsExpert (talk) 07:14, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. You may want to add this information to the article's talk page as well. I'm not sure what happened to that text that someone had put in there explaining the meaning of the blue background; it was part of the intro section at one time, but I notice it's now gone along with most of the intro.Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 08:52, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Mild Bill, thank you for the reversion. WordsExpert (talk) 01:59, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

NDISWrapper

Hi,

I modified this afternoon the page of NDISWrapper on three items, the date for the last release which was incorrect, one link to Wolf Mountain group and added a text about the unavailability of the Mountain group site. You reversed the text addition. The problem is that the current text which states that the Mountain group -- one person in fact-- made more recent and releases more often than the official NDISWrapper team in simply false. He simply made a copy of NDISWrapper 1.55 made on his Mountain group web site and there never was any more recent versions. In addition currently and since months this web site is unavailable. The Mountain group is in fact one person used to huge controversies, for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7291382.stm . I can't see how it has value and meaningfulness to include him in a page about NDISWrapper. NDISWrapper was written by three persons, well known and nobody else can claim ownership on this project. He could perfectly have forked the project and if there was several releases and an impact on people then it could make sense to create another Wikipedia page. I hope things are clear now.

Best,

Jean-Pierre —Preceding unsigned comment added by JPLeRouzic (talk • contribs) 22:55, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Username

Just saw your username for the first time, and wanted to say...cool name :) --Hammersoft (talk) 15:12, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Your input is requested

As you have recently edited Andy Martin (American politician), I am writing to request your input at the article talk page, sections Vexed and disputed are the ones which outline the current issue. Many thanks in advance for your time. KillerChihuahua^?!?Advice 21:30, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

The Principle of Principal

I must be getting dyslexic! Thanks for spotting this. Ron B. Thomson (talk) 20:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

In your recent edits to various articles (Nesanel Quinn, Jan Wyck, Shmuel Rozovsky, Department of Computer Systems and Networking, SLIIT) you confused "principle" and "principal". "Principal" is the leader of a school, while "principle" means the main. Therefore, one can correctly be called a "principle student" of another if he is that other's main student, but it is grammatically incorrect to call someone a "principal student" which simply doesn't make any sense. Please fix your recent edits to reflect the proper usage of these two commonly confused words. Thank you. רח"ק | Talk | Contribs 07:27, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

You have it backwards. The word "principal" can be a noun or an adjective. The word "principle" is a noun with a different meaning. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 19:19, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, you're right. רח"ק | Talk | Contribs 19:43, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

jones creek

Thanks for fixing some spelling there. Bull Market 05:06, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Hiatt Speedcuffs

Vandalize? How was it vandalism? I gave my source. Tormenting prisoners may not (or may) be an intended use, but either way it's a common one.

Sorry, forgot to provide an address to reply to, in case my IP isn't easily accessable now (talk)