User talk:Realist2

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Hello, if you are here it is most likely that you want to complain about me or my edits. If you are a friend, welcome to my world, how can I help you? I'm incoherent when it comes to my messaging pattern, sometimes I reply here, sometimes at your talk page or sometimes at both. I archive my talk page manually, when it reaches about 40-50 thousand bytes and I start to burn calories while scrolling.

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This talk page is not a battle ground

NJR pinging necessary

Please view the talkpage when you have the time. :) CarpetCrawler (talk) 06:00, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. — R ² 15:28, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still doing work (All I need to do now is add the authors to the citations missing authors,) but MAN is it a painstaking process fixing citations. :( Did you have this much trouble with Thriller? CarpetCrawler (talk) 23:10, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just had to fix the citations on Michael Jackson the other day. It was so time consuming I asked someone to help me via a bot lol. Citations can be a nightmare at FAC, after MoS and prose that is. You also need to fix the dating on your references remember. So that they read "24 March 1995" instead of "24-03-95". This should be done for both the publishing and retrieve dates. — R ² 23:29, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PHEW! I've finished it all up. How does it look, now? Feel free to take a look when you have free time. :) Have a good one! CarpetCrawler (talk) 23:38, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Arrrrgghhh. :( Damnit, that stinks. People really nitpick about THAT?! Oh well... I'll do it tomorrow, because if I do that now I'll be seeing citation templates in my sleep! Have a good one. :) CarpetCrawler (talk) 23:54, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Like I said on the NJR talk page just a moment ago. User:Gary King might be able to help with a bot. — R ² 23:59, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, I'll do it myself tomorrow. :) So how has your day been? CarpetCrawler (talk) 02:13, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's been OK, I've been doing some studying, and reverting the usual idiots that appear on my watchlist lol. I surprisingly do much less article building these days. I mostly hand out my advise and patrol my watchlist of 115 high traffic articles. :/ That said, I do have one article at GAN. I nearly finished it back in December but then forgot about it. The other day I spent an hour or so on it before sending to GAN. — R ² 03:12, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I saw it. :) I was tempted to review it, but decided to work on articles older than it, not counting "Beat It", which I wanted to review, because, well... it's "Beat It"!!! :) Right now I'm in the beginning of my spring break, so I'm enjoying the extra relaxation time. I've got to soon get ready for Fall registration, though, so that's causing me a little bit of stress. Too much stress! :( And I'm guessing you're burnt out from all of that incredible work you've done. :P A bunch of us have been working on song articles. Legolas and Frcm are helping me out in my sandbox with a Cyndi Lauper song, "All Through the Night", and I've been helping them out with their Madonna articles. I got my second DYK that's on the mainpage right now, so I'm so happy about that. :) Hope all is well, and I'll get to work on NJR tomorrow! CarpetCrawler (talk) 05:50, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about the delay, today has been hectic, and I haven't had the time to sit down for more than a half an hour on the computer. I'll get the ref formatting done as soon as possible! CarpetCrawler (talk) 01:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I did it for all of the retrieved dates. I have a question, when you say publishing dates, do you mean the dates that are formatted like this? "Gillespie, Mary (1988-09-18)" CarpetCrawler (talk) 02:07, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the date the piece was written/published/released to the public. Be it a year (for a book), or a more specific date for a weblink. — R ² 02:22, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I've finished it now (I hope!) Are there any other issues that you feel need to be addressed? Have a good day or night. :) CarpetCrawler (talk) 03:00, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look at the referencing soon, it will be time consuming, I intend to check each weblink individually and check the formatting. I'm busy in real life today, so I don't think I'll be able to look at it until tomorrow. — R ² 03:13, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, don't worry about it, and take as much time as you need! I myself have been busy the past few days. My Uncle came out of the hospital today, so I had to help him carry his belongings, as well as other hectic situations in the past few days. Have a nice and hectic-free day tonight and tomorrow! :) CarpetCrawler (talk) 03:15, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment, as you were involved in discussion

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Song_articles_incidents - Thanks! - eo (talk) 18:39, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Names

I know most people see someone's former name as their real name. Technically speaking, when legally changed, it becomes their real name. Many States and Provinces issue a new birth certificate that reflects the name change. The new name becomes their birth name, when you think of it. In those cases, could Previous name be used instead of Born? Just a suggestion for Wikipedia.

A couple of people have posted comments that's really wrong here. Jason, Lahaina said that Alice Cooper became a christian in the 80's, but he has always been one. He's dad was a priest. And Alice Cooper's real name isn't Vincent Furnier. He was given the name when he was born, but he changed it legally to Alice Cooper in 1974, so that's his real name now. - Michael, Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.artistfacts.com/detail.php?id=20 http://www.zazzle.co.uk/alicecooper/about Israell (talk) 06:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, what is this about. I can't remember speaking to you recently? — R ² 14:54, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted your opinion on it since you're one of the main editors. Israell (talk) 20:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your best idea would be to mention it at the WP:PUMP. I don't really have a strong opinion on the matter. Personnel I find peoples obsession with names, nationalities, races etc rather odd. — R ² 20:53, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information! I witnessed edit wars over the matter on WikiPedia and realized articles don't always follow the same guidelines. Thought there's a need for a concensus. Israell (talk) 19:53, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tarheelz and Lady Gaga

He did a copy-paste move. The article history is at Lady Gaga, which is also the consensus title. So, Lady GaGa was changed back to a redirect for that. (Which you'd done, then self-reverted.) —C.Fred (talk) 02:39, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reliable Sources

Girls Aloud discography, a featured article that used Digital Spy as a source many times. 12bigbrother12 11:17, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Page move

Do you know of an admin that's good with page moves? I need to move Michael Jackson filmography to Michael Jackson videography, per the discussion on the FLC page. I think you have to delete/merge the history of the videography page first. Afterwards I'll have it peer reviewed, and then submit it again. I'll wait for this to close first. Pyrrhus16 14:48, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Will get someone to take a look. — R ² 18:03, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. Pyrrhus16 18:05, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. BTW I emailed you the other night, but didn't get a response. Can I confirm you received it? Wasn't anything bad. :) — R ² 18:07, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Responded. I don't check emails that often. :) Pyrrhus16 18:24, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. :) — R ² 18:32, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you seek Amy edits

The article is bloated and full of unnecessary information and accusing me of not knowing what I am doing is asinine and not a little insulting. --86.41.134.221 (talk) 21:41, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't remove sourced content without using the talk page to gain consensus. The article is not bloated, we are not a paper encyclopedia. — R ² 21:43, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am trying to reason with you but instead you persist in accusing me of incompetence. If you are not careful I will report you to the mods. I know wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia. I look at my screen and this is quite obvious. Please do not patronize me. Irrelevant information is irrelevant to the article. --86.41.134.221 (talk) 21:47, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Where did I accuse you of incompetence? By informing you that we don't follow the same principles as a paper encyclopedia? Your easily offended. Since your edit history showed you had made only 5 edits I assumed you would not know that particular policy and was just letting you know. Chill. — R ² 22:01, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Discography

Have a question. Is it necessary to list all the country certifications in a discography page or only the major markets? I just listed the major countries and their certifications for the Gaga discography page and volaaaa.... hate mails started pouring from the fans in the talk page. I think its correct only to list only the major music markets like Aus, UK, US or maybe Canada for certi. Don't you think? Reply back. --Legolas ^(talk2me) 04:20, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, I believe smaller countries certifications should be left on the page of the relevant single/album. — R ² 16:49, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Just expanded this and submitted it at DYK. We might get a picture of MJ on the main page. :) Pyrrhus16 13:29, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well done :) — R ² 16:49, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thought

Apparently (from this thread on Lara's talk) the next issue of WikiVoices is going to have a feature on "expanding the role of female volunteers". If you're still after a female voice to do the spoken versions of Michael & Janet, you might want to lurk there and see if there's anyone who sounds like they might be interested (or ask whoever runs the thing to put a specific request in – someone might think it sounds interesting). With July approaching, the pages might start getting significantly increased usage fairly soon. Speaking of which – can't remember if I already mentioned this to you – you may want to start thinking about WP:TFAR; with "never had an article on the main page" (1 pt), listed on Vital articles/Expanded (2 pts) and "date significant to subject" (1 pt), I make that 4 points, which should be enough to get it on the main page if you're willing to take the flood of vandals. – iridescent 19:35, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll think it over. I don't think any good with come of having the article on the main page. — R ² 20:30, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

kk, whenever i need help with something i guess i'll talk to you. (i don't really need help right now so.... ya) Writergirlrocks talk 23:10, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem :) — R ² 23:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

oh wait i do have a question: how do you make a list? i used to know how but i haven't been on so long i forgot :)Writergirlrocks talk 23:13, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What would you like to make a list of? How would you like it to look? — R ² 23:16, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i'm making a list on my user page of all the pages i have contributed to and i just want it to be straight down with bullets.Writergirlrocks talk 23:20, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Try something like this;

Pages I have contributed to...

A
B
C

What you think? — R ² 23:23, 8 April 2009 (UTC) oh ok. i see. ya that works. thanks :P Writergirlrocks talk 23:38, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]