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Thanks I commented on the discussion about which you alerted me. Thanks again. I'd like to gently encourage you to consider archiving your talk page, as it's ~150 kb. If you need to respond to me, please do so on my talk. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:44, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

list, anyone?

You will think I'm crazy, and indeed I am because I think a list of all sold-out GD concerts on Wikipedia is a good idea. I've asked myself this question through the years as it seemed like they all were, no exceptions. A totally insane idea-just thought I'd throw it out there anyway. Happy New Year to you Mudwater and all Deadheads around the world! Cheers, Marcia Wright (talk) 08:14, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, maybe a list of concerts that were NOT sold out might be under 200k.Marcia Wright (talk) 08:17, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It might be pretty hard to figure out which Grateful Dead concerts were sold out and which weren't. But, how about a list of all Grateful Dead concerts? There were only about 2,300 of them. Hmmm.... Okay, that might be a pretty big list. Have you ever seen DeadBase? It's a book that was published annually, from the mid '80s to the mid '90s, that was a printed database of GD concerts, including song lists. (It's cited as a reference in some GD related WP articles.) Extremely useful, because it presented the data in several different ways. The information about the concerts from the first few years of the band was somewhat incomplete, but after that they had it nailed. They also have a web site, which apparently hasn't been updated in years, but which can still be used to do online searches of their database. Check it out, by going to http://www.deadbase.com/ and clicking on Search in the upper left. — Mudwater^(Talk) 01:29, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regular computer hyphen dash

Check this out - Singer-songwriter. Here's our answer. Best, --Discographer (talk) 22:50, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The keyboard hyphen is appropriate for the Singer-songwriter article name, but it might not be the best choice for Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005. The reasons are explained, sort of, at the different pages linked to from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums#Dashes in article names. But, seeing that you just renamed the article with hyphens, I'm going to leave it that way for now. I'm also going to comment again at the project page. — Mudwater^(Talk) 23:07, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That was a quick respose! If we must change it to something else, it can be done, I have no problem. Though I hope for the time being might you be okay with this. I am. Best, --Discographer (talk) 23:20, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:Seldom Scene albums

Dude

You're leaving me hanging on this Brady graphic dispute in Gun laws in the United States (by state). Niteshift36 (talk) 23:07, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I've chimed in again, here. I'll try to add more if I have something new or interesting to say. But, to be honest, I've never been very interested in protracted arguments with editors who won't listen to reason, and who seem to be putting a lot of effort into pushing their own agenda. That's why I usually stick to editing articles about neutral topics, as that one has been until now. I do appreciate your excellent contributions to that discussion, so thanks again for that. — Mudwater^(Talk) 01:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Need your advice

Hey stranger.... I am wondering if you think JG's article is good enough to nom to GA? or should I not even bother snymore? I'm pretty much at the point regarding WP of being, as you said, "disenchanted". I'd like to work together with you on an article but I'm also thinking of closing out my account and leaving. *typical felmale whine omitted" Maybe I'm getting cynical in my old age, but WP doesn't seem to have any "there there". I admit, I got TOO emotionally involved with creating J Grinnell. And Greg won't help, he hates WP (The Lost Dutchman Mine article he had a fit over). A penny for your thoughts.... MW ( the bot will sign for me)

I've replied via email. — Mudwater^(Talk) 12:28, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Greg is a footnote on Wikipedia

He's famous, thanks to his newspaper articles 27 years ago. Go figure. See Glen Stewart Godwin, footnote 1. What a shock. Marcia Wright (talk) 02:45, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, that's pretty cool. He's famous, all right. — Mudwater^(Talk) 03:44, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One word answer: ICK!

Just the use of the word "vector" is scary, although bit-mapped vector fonts are great, but this is like walking into the corner market you've been using for years and they have revamped the store, so everything is in a different place, and confusion reigns. I don't know, I have a hard enough time just trying to form a grammically correct(and spelled), active-voice sentence and string them into a paragraph and make all that into some kind of coherent article,AND feed breakfast to husband, and walk the dog, feed the cat and bird, and then get interrupted by a phone call. Did I mention my failing eyesight too? Something called Fuchs Syndrome-foggy eyeballs I call it. I'm close to calling it quits or taking on an easier Wikijob like finding/fixing dead links or something.

I put all I had into JGrinnell. And I don't even like the guy anymore. To say that taking an animal's life in the name of science is okay-even though it may be close to extinction, its not right.

Anyway the "Take Me Back" button is sitting right there.... PS I'm reading For The Thrill Of It by Simon Baatz and am learning a lot about Chicago in the 1920s, Clarance Darrow, Kenwood neighborhood, Hyde Park, UC, Harvard School, etc. A great book, can't put it down. Marcia Wright (talk) 01:39, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Introducing the Great "T-Bird"

As I was driving the long commute home with this new bird, a cockatiel, in a cage next to me, I put in a tape of classical music, and the bird begins singing to burst my eardrums. Our newspaper reporter friend Teya (cool name and wears a bow tie) loves classical music, writes reviews and attends concerts, so I named the new pet after him. I don't have a recording of Monk,so can't tell you what, if any, reaction the bird would have to his music.

Marcia Wright (talk) 04:32, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they are great pets and very intelligent. Our cockateil, however, was never "trained", which is how I got him - he was "unsellable" and a Petsmart employee/friend had taken him home but could not keep him. This was in '96 or '98 so he is getting on in years. I never had the patience to train him, so, though he has mellowed, I would still not recommend putting a hand in his cage unless it holds a spray of millet!

What was your bird's name? (And BTW are we not supposed to discuss non-Wikipedia subjects even on talk pages? Oh and did you read the discussion on "secret" or sekrit" page game going on here on WP?)

Marcia Wright (talk) 04:02, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Secret pages and page views

Here is the link to the discussion on secret pages.

Regarding page views, funny you should mention that, as it is, and has been, a ritual for Greg. He checks Sulphur Bank, Lukens and Grinnell. I was teasing him on the high counts for Grinnell for April, hinting that it is because I'm asking people to peer review it, and the talk page stalkers see the request as well. Works great! ;P

Greg also told me I have been "doing a great community service" by writing for Wikipedia!!! Marcia Wright (talk) 03:33, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment of Speedy deletion of Dogfighter (2010 computer game)

Hi, I posted a reply on the talk page for the above article regarding your review of the speedy deletion. I'd encourage you to reexamine and see if my comments change your mind at all. The article might be better deleted for lack of notability rather than advertising, but that would fall into WP:Snowball. ialsoagree (talk) 23:55, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PS. I'd encourage you to look at the external links as well. ialsoagree (talk) 23:57, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you examine my comments and still disagree with my assessment, please feel free to remove the CSD. Just notify me, as I will add nominate the article for deletion so consensus can be reached. ialsoagree (talk) 00:04, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request for mediation of Gun laws in the United States (by state)

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Thank you, AGK 15:05, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Crosses

I wondered about that. I saw it in another article- this is one I didn't do, so I added it to two articles -that's the extent of it in my case. It's just- I'll recall who it was, but it looked much more effective than writing that crude (deceased) under Josef Zawinul's name on the Weather Report article. I'll stop. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 00:59, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, thanks! Gotcha.. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 01:33, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Panama Red

Thank you SO much for the gift, that was very sweet of you. Our dog is even two-stepping it. And [[1]] here is a thank you gift back at cha! Marcia Wright (talk) 22:55, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! — Mudwater^(Talk) 00:51, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Gun laws in the United States - archiving time

About this: Did you know that this time is defined as "Sections with no replies in 30 days are automatically moved."? Do you still need threads to stay on the talk page for 60 days without any acitivity? --Kslotte (talk) 12:18, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and yes. That talk page has several sections that are closely related to each other, and that involve discussions that have been going on for several months. We need to make sure the various sections stay around for a pretty extended period so that they can be easily referred to from other sections. In fact I'm not convinced that 60 days is enough, the way the discussion's been going. Thanks. — Mudwater^(Talk) 15:19, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK --Kslotte (talk) 15:41, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I saw you increased the archive time to as high as 120 days. I strongly recommend that you use instead a Tmbox or a sticky thread to summary consensus or recurring topics. --Kslotte (talk) 16:46, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As I said in my edit summary, there's a dispute on that talk page that has taken place over the last five months in several different talk page sections, and that most likely is not over yet. But I wasn't aware of the two options you are suggesting, so thanks for pointing that out. Let me think about it for a little while. Maybe I'll try composing a Tmbox with links to all the discussion sections about the contentious topic. — Mudwater^(Talk) 18:23, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Tmbox says that Tmbox is a meta-template, used to build templates. Is it okay to use Tmbox itself to create a talk page message box? — Mudwater^(Talk) 19:42, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Meta-template, I haven't noted that at all. But according to my latest template search, tmbox seems to suits best the purpose. Maybe a question could be put on the template talk page. --Kslotte (talk) 19:52, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I've posed the question at Template talk:Tmbox#Using Tmbox itself as a template.

I like your idea of using {{Tmbox}} to notify editors of the different discussion threads. So I've changed the auto-archiving time back, from 120 days to 60 days. Let's see how that goes. Thanks again for the suggestion. — Mudwater^(Talk) 21:35, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request for mediation rejected

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Okay. Thanks. — Mudwater^(Talk) 00:53, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Greatful Dead chronologies

Please stop Per WP:ALBUM (and the transcluded template instructions), album chronologies only follow studio albums, except in rare cases. If you need to respond, please do so on my talk. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:48, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wow Taking a look again, these chronologies are all messed up and inconsistent. Yeesh. I have only really fixed American Beauty (album), since it's on my watchlist, but someone should go through these studio albums, live albums, and compilations and make separate chronologies. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:55, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from an AWOL Wikipedian

Just me dong a flyby hibye... My last email give you any new ideas? M