User talk:MikeAllen

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Issue with article Brazil

Good night, Mike (well, its late in here, anyway)! I'm having a little trouble on article Brazil and I would like to know if I could make a few questions to you so I could get your opinion on it. Regards, --Lecen (talk) 05:04, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for answering, Mike. Well, you don't need to be an expert on Brazilian subjects to see that the article is huge and too slow to load because it's full of pictures and of unimportant and overdetailed text. There is another editor who is not letting anyone make any edit into the article and unless other editors make it clear that it can not stay the way it is nothing will change. Regards, --Lecen (talk) 11:37, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have downsized the article to 111kb long (from its original 185kb). My last edit was this one. It was originally like this. Please, tell which one you support in the article's talk page. Thank you very much. --Lecen (talk) 20:09, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year!

Hey just thought I'd wish you a happy new year. enjoy 2010!!! GroundZ3R0 002 (talk) 23:43, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Films December 2009 Newsletter

The December 2009 issue of the Films 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. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 01:54, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

[Harley Quinn]

The teaser trailer is up at www.arkhamhasmoved.com; I have no idea how the heck to reference that sort of source, though. rdfox 76 (talk) 23:31, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It said "2010" in the trailer, and Sorkin's voice can be clearly heard in it, since Harley has one of the two "foreground" lines. rdfox 76 (talk) 01:53, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Box office reports at A Single Man (film)

Two points:

When I changed the source from The Numbers to BOM, I did check that the reported gross in the article matched what BOM was reporting, and it matched. I believe that BOM updated the reported gross, to include Monday's receipts, shortly after I edited the article. I am unfortunately unable to perpetually monitor BOM in order to ensure that the article is updated the instant BOM reports each day's new total; you are welcome to do so yourself but please do not take it as an invitation to deride others for failing to take the initative.

Here's what's wrong with the page at The Numbers: when I saw that a user had changed the gross reported in the article from $8 million to $1 million, I visited the Numbers site to verify the actual gross. I have absolutely no idea what that $8 million number is doing in the middle of the "Weekend Chart Record" table, under the heading "Total Gross". I don't know if it's an error, I don't know if it's a completely irrelevant and incomprehensible statistic -- it doesn't seem to have anything to do with this movie. I can't recall ever visiting a page at BOM and finding a number that I couldn't explain, hence my comment about BOM being a better, more helpful source. Propaniac (talk) 21:21, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not launching some kind of vendetta against The Numbers. If it can report a film's grosses without including numbers that are obviously wrong and make no sense, by all means use it as a source for that film, which is apparently not A Single Man. But when one site has wrong information and one site has right information, I would think we could agree the latter should be used. Propaniac (talk) 21:54, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there

Hey I just wanted to ask you if those edits I made to your Saw VII page made sense? I was trying to find good sources for Bell and since he keeps talking about filming and all that it guarantees his appearance but no media seems to find it important enough to flat out tell us he is coming back, esp since he was only signed up for I-VI. Also, isnt the filming section looking pretty good? I bet this is almost better quality than any other Saw film article's production section due to the volume of new and unique info being released. Ground Z3R0 002 03:32, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Theres no definition as to what entitles that tag, its more of how you feel you contributed to the article. Since you both edited the article very well and contributed to the GA review page, I would say you should put that tag up yeah. Ground Z3R0 002 00:50, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah no prob :) ahaha thats funny i thought the same thing but i kept looking and those were the only ones that stood out well on a talk page lol Ground Z3R0 002 01:04, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SAW FAC

I'm not really sure how to apply for FAC. I've never done it myself. --Teancum (talk) 06:01, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Saw award

		The Saw Award
		For your tireless efforts on getting the Saw (video game) article up to GA status during January 2010, I award you the first ever Saw star! Ground Z3R0 002 00:32, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And my first ever award. Thank you. —Mike Allen 00:45, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I created it with your efforts in mind :) yeah im getting the special edition one with all the extras and the original saw film on it the day it comes out, cant wait. its got some great bands music vids on there too so thatl b fun. Ground Z3R0 002 05:31, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What?

Whats with the edit summary tag? Which edit do you mean? Ground Z3R0 002 01:03, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

lol its all good i was just worried you got spammed by bots or something lol yeah i used to on every edit but now i only leave one on articles and only with big or semi controversial changes. But ill try and renew my habit. Yeah i love gears and army of two. gears2 is my favorite because i have no online so bots are fun. Ground Z3R0 002 01:22, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What is wrong with edits to Up In The Air?

You posted on my talk page that the edits I posted to Up In The Air(film) were propaganda? There is a whole section dedicated to film reviews. All I did was put up another film review by a very old and very well known film review website similar to Rotten Tomatoes and, quite frankly, one that has been around LONGER than Rotten Tomatoes. These film critic websites are referenced frequently all over every major movie listing in Wiki. I am not sure why my edit would be considered "propaganda?" Please advise. Pharaway (talk) 01:17, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rotten Tomatoes is all over every single Wiki movie listing so I can't use that one as a reference. EInsiders is actually older and has an extensive obit listing so it is the best reference to use. I also use IMDB. For the stuff that I edit, it is the best source. From what I have been told, several of the major newspapers verify obit facts with EInsiders first when there is a question on a celebrity death -there have been a lot of internet hoaxes. I hope that my use of the best reference out there often does not get me in trouble with Wiki. I also think someone else is deleting my edits which is why I'm coming across a bit irritated, sorry. Is there any way to find out? Pharaway (talk) 04:19, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

M.A.

What deleting, is Michael Ausiello talking about? TH43 (talk) 23:51, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]