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Category:Albums produced by Jim Stewart (music)

Category:Albums produced by Jim Stewart (music), which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. ♫GoP♫TCN 16:05, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Albums produced by David Porter (musician)

Category:Albums produced by David Porter (musician), which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. ♫GoP♫TCN 16:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Albums produced by Mark Clarke (musician)

Category:Albums produced by Mark Clarke (musician), which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. ♫GoP♫TCN 16:18, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer

Hi. I see you added Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter back to this article's "See Also" section. Despite your explanation, I'm not seeing how this book is related to the show. "See Also" sections should attempt to list topics that are directly related to the subject. As far as I can tell, the only thing the show has in common with this book is that both are fictional topics about Lincoln. By that logic, all fictional portrayals, etc. should be listed in the section. Unless I'm missing something, I still don't believe this book should be listed. I'll be happy to open an RfC on the matter to get more community input though. Pinkadelica 22:43, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello again. Thank you for your detailed explanation. I'll leave the content as is. Happy editing. Pinkadelica 06:36, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

The reason was "Invalid FUR". The deleting admin took a second look and judged to FUR as being okay; I'm still rather green when it comes to images and media work, would you mind letting me know what your concerns were with the FUR? For the record, here's how it was at the time of the nom. The intent behind this is to learn, not to accuse or anything of the sort. Thanks in advance! :) (Oh, and please respond here.) Salvidrim! 08:59, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

FUR Thank you for asking. I thought that this picture isn't really necessary--what is it adding that the text can't accomplish? Since it's non-free media, you really have to justify its inclusion. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 09:38, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Okay, so it's not as much a problem with the FUR itself than concerns that the image may be unnessecary and could be adequately replaced by prose? As in, the problem did not lie with the way the FUR was done, but more with compliance with whether a screenshot is really needed or not. Thanks for the clarification. I'm asking because the nom seemed to imply the FUR itself was the problem (and I believe this is how the closing admin understood it also). :) Salvidrim! 09:51, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Exactly I think this ambiguity is entirely my fault. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 09:52, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
*shrugs No probs, thanks for explaining. :) Salvidrim! 10:09, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Editing {{Rating}}

Re User talk:Richardguk#Editing .7B.7BRating.7D.7D and Wikipedia:VPT##Suggested edit to template and creation of tracking category: See Template talk:Rating#New template code, where User:Bility says that he has made the changes to the /sandbox and will flag them with an {{editrequest}} "in a few days" so that an admin can amend the edit-protected template. — Richardguk (talk) 13:11, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

List of pre-Stonewall riots LGBT actions in the United States

I'm confused by that title - "pre-Stonewall riots LGBT actions"? Is it pre-Stonewall riots? Or pre-Stonewall LGBT actions? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 17:13, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

It's about LGBT actions in the US that happened before the Stonewall riots, if I understand the title correctly. Salvidrim! 17:14, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Exactly It's about things prior to the Stonewall riots (June 28, 1969 and following) since that is an event, rather than the Stonewall Inn itself, which is a location. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 06:38, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
IMO, when referring to anything LGBT, "Stonewall" refers to "Stonewall riots", without needing disambiguation. But if it needs to be changed, the current one is confusing, at least to me. Could we change it to something like "pre-1969 LGBT actions in the United States"? Or "LGBT actions in the United States that occurred before the Stonewall riots"? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 15:48, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Vernacular It may be common amongst persons who use this terminology, but most persons wouldn't know what "Stonewall" is (and they may confuse it with the UK group), but if you're ignorant about the event, at least knowing that there was a riot will mark some kind of important shift. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 04:25, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Try something unambiguous such as "List of LGBT actions in the United States prior to the Stonewall riots". Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:10, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Lolz - if they confuse it with the Stonewall group in the UK, then they know what Stonewall is :) I do very much like the one Beyond My Ken suggested. Would you (koavf) be okay with that title? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 16:24, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Sure I think that's a very fine, unambiguous title. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 18:42, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

You recently changed the title of the above article. I have reverted to the original; by common usage Monteverdi belongs to that category of composers identified by surname. If you think there is a case for changing the article's title, please raise this as a thread on the talkpage, together with reasons. Brianboulton (talk) 09:24, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Justin, there appears to be a long-standing consensus in place about the common use and recognition of last names in Classical music article titles. Hopefully you will familiarize yourself with the conventions and obtain consensus before making further moves of this type, since editors have to seek an administrator to undo each of them. --Laser brain (talk) 16:00, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Renaming of Song categories

Koavf, we chatted a while ago about you managing to get the Album categories renamed. You mentioned that you were going to do the songs. Any timeline? I don't mean to sound pushy (actually I do! lol), but the name discrepancies are driving me to drink. I'm working on the Canadian Albums and songs. I haven't set any new song cats up yet. I'm putting it off as long as possible. Please advise on my talk page. Argolin (talk) 14:38, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Make the Foo the same for Songs as Albums. The Category:Folk rock albums by Canadian artists was renamed from Category:Canadian Folk rock albums here. You don't remember doing all this Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 May 23? I remember not being a big fan of the new naming structure. I could tell you put a lot of time and thought into this rename. You answered by questions quickly. I didn't want to be the one to stop it when more experienced editors were cheering the new names. I figured that I didn't know enough about the categorisation of Albums to oppose and would have to live with it. Today, yes it's great, rationale, and works well with Hotcat. Argolin (talk) 04:56, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:Songs of the Canadian people, Really? :) LOL! That's almost as bad as album articles I've read with statements like artist X's album reached #1 in the US, but in their "native homeland" only reached ... and other verbage. And Nickelback? I know what cat they belong to and there are bad language rules against it (LOL)!
There is a Category:Canadian patriotic songs and yes of course Quebec has one but not as you/me would think Category:Quebec patriotic songs but as Category:Quebecois patriotic songs. AAAA! I'll delve into the song categories more. I am assuming that the "Canadian songs" categories are a big ol spaghetti dinner w xtra meatballs much like the album cats before I stuck my finger in. You may want to check out the history of Category:Rock albums by Canadian artists. It had subcats which were included in the parent genere cat. I solved this my moving anything XXX rock album ... to their new parent Category:Canadian rock music. See also Category:Canadian styles of music‎.
Another way to explain, is to look at Category:Albums by Canadian artists by genre. If you select any genre under this parent, you will get just what the name says Canadian band/musican albums. Full stop: no category links to other related categories. Let me know and I'll untangle the songs by moving stuff around a little. Argolin (talk) 08:46, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Shakespeare's Life move

Can you tell me the reason why you moved Shakespeare's Life to [[William Shakespeare's life]? It's not as if anybody would be confused as to which Shakespeare the article is about. Tom Reedy (talk) 03:54, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Shakespeare is commonly and universally referred to by his surname. The page William Shakespeare is the gateway page for a host of Wikipedia articles listed on several templates, many of which begin with "Shakespeare's". Wikipedia reflects real world usage, not some artificial agenda. The move was made without discussion as "uncontroversial", and if you had any experience with the Shakespeare articles, you would know that nothing is uncontroversial concerning Shakespeare.
I tried to restore it last night and as a result of several mistakes on my part, the talk page has now been deleted. I would appreciate if you would do what you can to restore both the talk page and the original name of the article. Tom Reedy (talk) 13:58, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
I have successfully restored the main page. Now I need to have the talk page restored. Tom Reedy (talk) 14:02, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

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Frasier episodes to consider creating

I have been spending a lot of time lately creating and modifying templates for critically acclaimed episode articles. You have already created "Space Quest (Frasier)". It has come to my attention that two of the most critically acclaimed episodes in television history are Frasier episodes entitled "The Matchmaker (Frasier)" and "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz that need to be created. They both appear on {{WritersGuildofAmericaEpisodicComedyScreenplay 1995–2009}}. The former apperas on {{EmmyAward ComedyDirector 1976–2000}}, while the latter appears on {{EmmyAward ComedyWriting 1976–2000}}. You may also note several other critically acclaimed Frasier episodes at Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay - Episodic Comedy and Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series that were either nominees or winners. You may want to consider creating some of those as well.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:08, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Upon further inspection, I see you created a redirect. Sorry.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:42, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

The article Kathy Simms has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non notable character, completely non notable, needs no more than an entry on a list of The Office characters I'm sure exists. Article is synthesized original research and retelling of plot, a lot of which isn't even to do with her. Request delete as not even a viable search term but redirect would be acceptable.

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Nomination of Kathy Simms for deletion

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National Geographic

Just an FYI -- I couldn't understand this comment: Suggested move Template:Subt:Move Presently a redirect to the Society. Why? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:18, 13 February 2012 (UTC) -- Jo3sampl (talk) 20:13, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Call Me Burroughs

This might be a bit outside your bailiwick, but as you have done quite a bit of album article work, I was hoping you might take a look at the article I have been writing, Call Me Burroughs, and tell me if you notice any glaring omissions. I know that the article is not finished, but I feel it is close to the point that it can actually be published, and then continue improving it from there. Maybe generate a DYK along the way, and even push it to GA status. At any rate, your thoughts would be appreciated. Cheers! ---RepublicanJacobiteTheFortyFive 22:00, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the great work! All of those changes made perfect sense. The only question I have is about your capitalization of compact disc. Is that common practice? It is a minor point, either way. Thanks for all those links. I have gone through Google Books, and found some good information there, also a lot of hits that were intriguing but did not give enough information to go on because of incomplete previews. The reviews, in particular, though, are helpful. If you can think of anything else the article needs, please add it, but you have done really great work already. Thanks again. Cheers! ---RepublicanJacobiteTheFortyFive 15:48, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Huh. It's interesting that I never noticed that. Can I ask you to help with the picture for the infobox? I have never dealt with that process before, and never understood it. Thanks. ---RepublicanJacobiteTheFortyFive 17:16, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Clear as mud. ---RepublicanJacobiteTheFortyFive 17:21, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
I appreciate the extra information. Thanks! ---RepublicanJacobiteTheFortyFive 17:38, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Songs

Hey Koavf Happy B-day! Do you have any sort of timeline for the big rename of the song categories? It's a big job. I keep stumbling upon other problematic categories like this one Category:Canadian sound artists. It's not linked directly to the Canadian music project. I'll ask Bearcat about it. Maybe I should finish my work on the albums categories? I'm of the opinion that if there's, for example a cat "Tweeenie pop metal fluff albums by Canadian artists", we/I need to make sure that there is a corresponding cat "Canadian pop metal fluff musical groups". Would the end of March 2012 work for you? That's just me picking a date out of the air as I've got a few things on the go now. Let me know, thanks Argolin (talk) 23:51, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

strange behavior of Diff page

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hotel_Paper&curid=843419&diff=478837370&oldid=476783854
Here's one of your revision. Take a look at line 69. What's the difference??? Pagen HD (talk) 07:43, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Template:Sister-links listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Sister-links. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Sister-links redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). MGA73 (talk) 15:58, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

DRV notice

You participated in the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 24#Template:New York cities and mayors of 100.2C000 population. Be advised that I have opened Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 February 27#User:TonyTheTiger/New York cities and mayors of 100,000 population.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:34, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Ebonics external links

I'm not sure where to go with this edit. Do you think you could elaborate your concerns more explicitly in the article's talk page? Thanks. — Ƶ§œš¹ [ãːɱ ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɪ̃ə̃nlɪ] 13:12, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 03:15, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello. I wanted to thank you for placing this notice on my Talk Page, as it allowed me the opportunity to participate in the discussion. Thank you. Thank you also for your efforts to improve Wikipedia. However, in this particular case, I think that your efforts were somewhat misguided. I honestly do not believe that this was an article that merited deletion. Thanks again for sending me this notice. Best, Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:08, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

For album ratings hyphen-to-minus sign updates, please beware false positives

Hi, Koavf. It looks as though you are using AWB on music album articles to convert letter ratings with hyphens to letter ratings with minus signs (A- to A−, say). Please be careful, as you seem to be snagging some false positives. I noticed and corrected these two examples 1, 2. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 03:38, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Category talk:Israeli electricians, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Category talk:Israeli electricians and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Category talk:Israeli electricians during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Geewhiz (talk) 14:46, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

"Template:Rating error"

[1] What kind of error were You talking about? It works just fine. SpiderMum (talk) 15:32, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

null edits

this was a mistake. sorry if it caused a problem. Frietjes (talk) 16:09, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

AWB caution

please watch carefully with editing file names [2] this breaks the link as the file name is 'broke' Skier Dude (talk) 05:20, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Please date your tags

Please add properly dated tags if you tag articles. Otherwise "helpful pixie bot" does it for you, in yet another edit, and causes edit conflicts with those correcting the problems. Better to respond here so the conversation is in one place, please. --Mirokado (talk) 20:52, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Probably not I'm sorry if this comes across as me being a jerk, but this likelihood is so remote that it's just not worth it to me. I've added tags over a hundred thousand times and adding the additional date parameter every time will add up to several man-hours for a pretty marginal benefit. I understand what you're saying, but the amount of effort that I would put into adding "|date=March 2012" over and over again far outweighs the potential for edit conflicts. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 05:54, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Well, you can probably see that saying, by tagging an article, "I think somebody else should tidy this article up" while also saying "but I don't have time to make my own edits properly" is inconsistent at the least. Pretty well any assisting tool will add the date for you, Wikipedia:Twinkle/doc#Tag for example. If you copy and paste from a cheat list you only have to update it once a month. I suppose you might type the tags in by hand every time but that is an awful lot of typing...
I agree that edit conflicts won't be all that common, although it has happened the last two times I responded to a tag. Perhaps more serious is that by forcing over a hundred thousand extra bot edits you are cluttering user watchlists and probably reducing the effectiveness of your tagging (the watchlist message changes from "the article needs more references" or whatever to "somebody added an incomplete tag").
Thanks though for tagging Gaza Flotilla Raid. Most of my edits there have been completing refs, and people had added some more bare links since I last checked, so that did draw my attention. Reflinks was my friend. --Mirokado (talk) 23:31, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Raskulls edits

I don't mean to be direct, but can you explain the removal of the {{ratings}} template for the Gaming Bits review score? WikiProject Video games' standards are that we follow the reception format for the site. In this case, Gaming Bits uses the starts and not numerical representation. Per WP:3RR I won't revert your edits until there's a consensus, but I don't understand why it was changed. --Teancum (talk) 22:15, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Nevermind - I see now that it only works in multiples of 0.5. --Teancum (talk) 22:18, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Contradictions in the Bible that need to be Adressed

You seem like quite the well-educated christian so I thought I'd see if you had an answer to a question of mine. I myself am a Christian and a vegetarian (although I do still consume dairy and egg products). (Mostly because I just dislike the taste of most meats. Also because if I did eat meat I'd always find myself questioning and worrying about whether or not the person that cooked the meat (even if it was myself) cooked it sufficiently thoroughly for all the parasites that may have been present in the animal before it was harvested for meat in question to be destroyed) Recently I've been studying the Bible trying to really find precisely what Jesus original preached and what truly is the Word of God and in the process of studying the Bible I've uncovered some arguments brought together by atheists that in effect are designed to show contradictions in the Bible. I realise atheists tend to go on and on about supposed 'contradictions' that they see that us Christian can pretty easily refute and reason our way out of, but these contradictions are very difficult to argue with.

One of these arguments is that the two genealogies given of Joseph (and it clearly says Joseph) in Matthew and Luke directly contradict each other. Another is the issue of how many times the cock crowed before Peter's third denial of Jesus. In Mark it says twice, whereas in the other Gospels it says once. However I note that some early Greek manuscripts of the Markan reference to how many times the cock crowed in fact omit the Greek equivalent for twice. That is some early manuscripts don't say the cock crowed twice but just say the cock crowed and in which case you're free to assume the amount of times the cock crows that best fits with the other Gospels. However I have one last contradiction that I find very difficult to argue with. In Matthew, Mark and Luke Jesus' crucifixion happens the day after a Passover feast (which is popularly dubbed "the Last Supper") whereas in John it happens the day before (or in Preparation) of the Passover week (However in fairness after where in John it says about the Passover (if this helps you devise a logical reason for this) it says that the day of Jesus' crucifixion was also the day before the Sabbath (I believe if anything I can tell you at this point in time that may help you construct an logical and reasonable argument to reconcile this apparent contradiction, I believe it would be this because I hear when the Passover and Sabbaths occur close to each other the traditions/laws changes).

My talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fuse809 Time of Comment being finalised: 3:52, 3 March 2012 (UTC).


sandra fluke

are you going to stop removing my editions without explanation or do we need further dispute resolution? Paintedxbird (talk) 08:36, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

what do you mean how are you edit warring? you keep removing what my contributions without citing any reasons after i asked for them. Paintedxbird (talk) 08:46, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

why do you think linking a person involved in campaigning for reproductive rights and health and who is notable for it should not be under a category related to that? how is that "overly broad" rather than simply accurate? Paintedxbird (talk) 09:04, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

she's claimed to stand for women's rights and equality many times and has also been described as such by many commentators. that's a synonymous with feminism. she also had her degree from cornell in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality studies http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/03/us-usa-contraception-obama-idUSTRE8211Q120120303 and http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-02/politics/31115859_1_rush-limbaugh-contraception-democratic-women (respectively) Paintedxbird (talk) 09:47, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

i'd like to say so, but it's just a label isn't it. people call themselves things all the time. it's their actions you have to judge. i mean sarah palin calls herself a feminist. not many people agree with her though. Paintedxbird (talk) 09:58, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

yeah, but i wasn't sure you'd agree. Paintedxbird (talk) 09:58, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

why's that if you accept she a feminist? Paintedxbird (talk) 10:01, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

well yeah i'd find a subcategory. what's wrong with the sources? Paintedxbird (talk) 10:08, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

so why have you removed the american feminists category again? it's mentioned in the page now. Paintedxbird (talk) 05:02, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

nevermind. saw it wrong. =) Paintedxbird (talk) 05:02, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

List(s) of mathematics articles/topics

I noticed the page was moved, but I think the that lists of mathematics topics makes things a little confusing, so I opened a discussion here with no prejudice about the move you proposed for list of mathematics articles. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi, can you please look this nomination and about the comments as I am not so good to reply that comment.commons:Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:Magnapop_2010.jpg --Yjenith (talk) 08:12, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Orwell

That's great, I look forward to seeing your contributions.--Skittles the hog (talk) 19:21, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Carlos "Caique" Elias

I believe you have incorrectly marked the Carlos "Caique" Elias page for speedy deletion. I have noted in the talk page why the subject of this page is significant enough to warrant a Wikipedia article. He is one of a very small number of BJJ red and black belts in the world and one of the original students of Helio Gracie. He has placed and competed in the Brazilian nationals. He is one of only a handful (fewer than 5) red and black belts actively teaching in North America and he has spawned a network of over 15 BJJ academies world wide. He is already mentioned in the Gracie Humaitá article as a famous student of this original academy. Cjjusa1 (talk) 06:36, 6 March 2012 (UTC)