User talk:SchreiberBike

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Cheers, ChzzBot IV (talk) 12:11, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Best, ChzzBot IV (talk) 12:11, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 21:49, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tula

You are welcome. The disambiguation guidelines are annoyingly obtuse these days, especially if you are new at doing these kind of tasks. Thanks for expanding that page though. While not all entries you added belonged there, you still found quite a few that did, and that's the important part :) Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 6, 2012; 15:53 (UTC)

Willeborg von Wertheim is a self redirect

Are you sure you wanted to link to this? -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 17:30, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

What I really wanted was to make the link to Willeborg von Wertheim in the article Gottfried von Hohenlohe into a red link as there is no Wikipedia article on Willeborg von Wertheim. As it was before it redirected to Wertheim and that is a disambiguation page. What I really wanted to do is get rid of the redirect at Willeborg von Wertheim. I thought what I tried might work. If you know how to get rid of a redirect or have another suggestion, I'd love to know. Thank you. SchreiberBike (talk) 19:11, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect can be deleted or a stub article can be created. I do not know anything about the topic though. Redirecting the page to itself is just confusing to the reader though. -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 12:25, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hey, you've really been shooting up the charts over at WP:DPL! I don't think I've seen you around before, so I wanted to welcome you to the project. I also saw your comments on your user page; if you have any questions, feel free to drop me a line.

By the way, in the spirit of providing feedback, I reviewed some of your edits. I did run into one problem; there appears to be another Indian actress named Meena who was active as early as 1972, so she must be different from Meena Durairaj, born in 1977. Marmaram, for instance, probably shouldn't link to Meena Durairaj, but instead to a redlink for this other Meena. Problem is, I can't find enough information about her to name the redlink properly! I want something like Meena (actress born 19XX); I'll look more into it. --JaGa^talk 17:57, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback. I don't know if I'll be able to maintain this pace, but I'm having fun.

I really appreciate you looking over my edits. I had worried that there might be two Meenas, but I guess I didn't use enough logic to see that one was producing movies before the other was born. I'm trying to be careful but I see that I need to be more careful. IMDb references quite a few Meenas. I'll look into that to see if I can make some sense of it. I'll also go back to the edits I made and revert any that go to the wrong one.

I'm copying this to your talk page. I don't know if that's considered good practice, but another Wikipedian had done that and it made sense to me. I don't want to sound like a lost puppy, but I'd appreciate it if I could ask questions to someone involved in the disambiguation project. Would it be OK if I asked you?

Thank you.SchreiberBike (talk) 21:33, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, an offer and an advice

Hi SchreiberBike,

thank you for pointing out the ambiguous link in the "Eugenio Elia Levi" entry: I've already disambiguated it, as you can check. Also, I saw on your user page that you seek help from more experienced editors: I do not know if I can be considered so, but I have some experience in citing sources, therefore if you need some help on this matter, contact me at my user page. At last, if you would like to know more about the standard structure of an article, maybe you'll be glad to have a look at the MOS:APPENDIX page. Daniele.tampieri (talk) 12:23, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Middle-earth/Pages

Please don't remove the link to Maia on the above page again. It's a deliberate link. GimliDotNet (talk) 21:56, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at rule 4 on the How to help, you're only suppose to fix links in article and template namespaces. Portal:Middle-earth/Pages is a help page for managing the project and there is no need to fix links on these pages GimliDotNet (talk) 22:02, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feedback. When I did that twice I thought I must have made a mistake the first time. I didn't see your comment on the reversion. SchreiberBike (talk) 04:37, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar awarded!

		The Disambiguator's Barnstar
		The Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who are prolific disambiguators. You're doing an excellent job, keep it up. :) œ ^™ 09:57, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feedback. It's great to get recognition.

Congratulations

On winning this month's contest! I was really surprised at your strong showing - it was over a year before I managed to win it myself. I don't think I've ever seen anyone develop so far so quickly. Cheers, --JaGa^talk 17:44, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feedback. I'm having fun with National Geographic already. I focused on disambiguating this month in hopes of winning the contest. I plan to spread out a little this month. SchreiberBike (talk) 21:55, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Articulated

Hello, SchreiberBike;

You're welcome! I'm not sure an entire article could be written for the topic at this time, but it could probably be a section in Taphonomy or a related article. Something about the process of a skeleton falling apart, the environmental conditions that affect the skeleton, what comes apart first, and so on, perhaps. J. Spencer (talk) 23:48, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats!

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		Awarded to SchreiberBike for his work on making links, and therefore articles in general, clearer. Your great work is appreciated! PhnomPencil ^{talk contribs} 03:51, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feedback. It means a lot. SchreiberBike (talk) 14:29, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In recognition of your hard work

	The Hard Worker's Barnstar
	A totally unambiguous barnstar for you, recognition of the mundane but highly-important disambiguation work that you are doing with great diligence, and for being the first person to help improve an article I created!. Well-rested ^Talk 04:03, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback and congratulations on your new article. SchreiberBike (talk) 04:14, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Help Survey

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the wub (talk) 18:19, 14 June 2012 (UTC) (Delivered using Global message delivery)[reply]

A belated barnstar for you!

		The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar
		The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to the winners of the Disambiguation pages with links monthly challenge, who have gone above and beyond to remove ambiguous links. Your achievment will be recorded at the Hall of Fame. This award is presented to SchreiberBike, for successfully fixing 3677 links in the challenge of February, 2012. In addition, this award recognizes you for an almost-complete lack of complaining about its lateness. :) Nick Number (talk) 13:55, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. SchreiberBike (talk) 22:36, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Emptying categories

Re: this edit This is no the appropriate way to handle empty categories. You can use {{db-catempty}} or nominate them for deletion through WP:CFD, but please don't just remove their parent categories and leave the empty one sitting there. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:53, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not real familiar with categories and I was trying to take the easiest route. I see that you had originally created the category. Is there a reason for it being there? If not, I'll go to WP:CFD to take care of it. Thanks, SchreiberBike (talk) 17:01, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Disambig removal on Unitarian Universalism

Hi - I wanted to mention this to you personally rather than having you find it later and be like "What the hell?!?" I noticed that this edit of yours removed entirely a wikilink that gave its sentence greater context, but rightly got rid of a link to a disambiguation page (Divine Intervention). I regret the edit summary that I used when applying the actual disambiguated link to Miracle (which I only found because, as I later discovered, you yourself had entered it on that same disambig page afterwards). I apologize for the cavalier attitude I took toward the actual work you'd done; I made the edit before looking at the disambig page history and realizing that there hadn't been any better page listed there to focus the existing link to. So, I'm sorry. I hope your other edits are better received. ☯.Zen Swashbuckler.☠ 13:51, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note above. The edit summary did surprise me but I appreciate your comments and the followup edit summary. No question, you've got class. SchreiberBike (talk) 20:39, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

July 2012 Study of authors of health-related Wikipedia pages

Dear Author/SchreiberBike

My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at the University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address edited an article on MASA syndrome. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article and or other health-related articles. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please reply via my talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance.Hydra Rain (talk) 16:35, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello SchreiberBike, can you please e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk and I will send you more info and instructions. Thank you for you interest! Nuša Hydra Rain (talk) 14:53, 18 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for your work in disambiguation. Your pair of eyes are priceless to this project's clarity and usefulness. Jplvnv (talk) 10:08, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. It feels great to get feedback. SchreiberBike (talk) 14:41, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CENTURY

I have reverted this edit. WP:CENTURY does not extend to changing the titles of sources cited. These are like quotes. Savidan 04:07, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback. Generally I agree about titles of sources, but in this case I followed the link and found that there it said "15th Century (1394-1503)", so I changed it. Do you disagree? SchreiberBike (talk) 04:11, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake. I assumed from your edit summary that you based your edit on the policy instead of the source. I have reverted myself. Apologies. Savidan 04:40, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Beg khan

thank you for help.. 12:11, 31 Aug 2012 (BeyPeople) (talk)

Thanks for the feedback and congratulations on your new article. It is coming along nicely. SchreiberBike (talk) 12:52, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Centuries

Which part of WP:CENTURY do you think justifies changing XII to 12th? I can't see anything relevant. Styles should be consistent within an article, although it doesn't even say that, but no one style is mandated or favoured. Johnbod (talk) 13:07, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Johnbod, Here's my thinking -

In the Wikipedia MOS, all the examples use Arabic numerals none use Roman numerals.
WP:ORDINAL says "Centuries are given in figures or words . . ."
The Wikipedia article Century uses Arabic numerals and no mention is made of Roman numerals.
The century articles, like 12th century use Arabic numerals. Though they do have redirects from XIIth century.
The use of Roman numerals for centuries is very rare in Wikipedia. For example, "XIIth" century is used only about 11 times (not in titles and quotes), out of the 4,000,000 plus articles.
In Wikipedia talk pages about the style for centuries, there is extensive discussion of the use of Arabic numerals or spelled out numbers, but I found no one advocating Roman numerals.
Chicago Manual of Style specifies spelled out numbers for centuries.
AP Stylebook specifies spelled out numbers for centuries less than the 10th and Arabic numerals for centuries over 10. It also specifies not to use Roman numerals except in names and titles.
Yahoo Style Guide specifies Arabic numerals for all centuries.

The MOS at WP:CENTURY is not as clear as it could be. You've inspired me to start a discussion there about making it more clear. Do you see some advantage to using Roman numerals? Thanks, SchreiberBike (talk) 17:12, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the edit on "Bach no Senritsu o Yoru ni Kiita Sei Desu." !

I very much appreciate your fixing of the misleading link in the article Bach no Senritsu o Yoru ni Kiita Sei Desu. and plus the optimized edit. Thank you! :) --Worst regards, Greek Fellows". Visit ma talk page and ma contributions. 02:55, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]