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Why did you send me a message if you had nothing to say? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goldrawer7 (talk • contribs) 18:04, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Same with me! Ticked off? I have no idea who you are! Digifiend (talk) 19:44, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy delete noms

Hi DudeWithAFeud! Thank you for your contributions here in Wikipedia. Anyway, I would like to inform you that I have removed the speedy deletion notice you add at the Rock Bottom (SpongeBob SquarePants) article. If you think that wasn't right, please open another deletion discussion at WP:AFD.

Also, regarding your speedy deletion noms, I learned that you wanted to delete the Extreme Spots article with a reason saying "a single episode of SpongeBob really wouldn't constitute encyclopedia-worthy material." So what do you think the criteria for a SpongeBob episode to have an article? That reason you presented was not right since it cited some important details about it like its plot, production details, releases and critical response from various media critics. Not to mention that the article you tagged is a Good article. Please refrain from doing such (but I'm not telling you to stop on tagging some article you think is deletion-worthy, just think about it). For further information about this concern, you can visit WP:CSD or WP:DEL. Thanks and have a nice day. Mediran (t • c) 10:17, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. DudeWithAFeud (talk) 19:29, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject State Highways

Hello, roadfan! There is WP:WikiProject U.S. Roads (USRD) which already covers all state highways in every state and territory of the US. Additionally, there is WP:USRD/LA, the Louisiana task force of USRD. There's no need to duplicate efforts, and we'd like to welcome you to the project. (You may want to tag this other project page for deletion.) Imzadi 1979 → 02:24, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. DudeWithAFeud (talk) 02:35, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You may want to add {{db-g7}} to the top of that page you created so an administrator can delete it. Welcome to USRD! Imzadi 1979 → 02:42, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Using AARoads as a source

Hey, there! Just so you know, when creating articles for highways in Louisiana, or anywhere else for that matter, try to avoid using the AARoads website as a source. AARoads is a self-published source and is not considered reliable. Also, since you haven't been using inline citations, it's kind of hard to tell what you're using AARoads to cite. T C N7JM 20:55, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OK then. BTW I was using AARoads to find the length of the roads, as well as where they begin and end at. DudeWithAFeud (talk) 22:24, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A good map from LaDOTD or another source can be used for that. In the Wikipedia sense, we don't allow self-published sources (SPSs) other than some that meet certain exceptions. They aren't classified as "reliable sources", even if they're reliable to the general world, because there is no one exercising "editorial oversight". At a standard book publisher, someone fact-checks the manuscripts before printing. At a newspaper or magazine, editors review all of the articles before they're published. With a website like AARoads, there isn't a reputation for such activities, so we have to exclude it as a source we can use. Imzadi 1979 → 22:42, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh okay then. Thanks! DudeWithAFeud (talk) 22:43, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Current route lengths to two decimal places are available as part of La DOTD's GIS data which can be downloaded from their website. You just have to be careful to factor in any concurrencies, which are usually listed under the data for the lowest-numbered route only. Britinvasion64 (talk) 03:13, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Alrighty then. Thanks, I should talk to you more. DudeWithAFeud (talk) 03:18, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Some quick & dirty USRD article tips

There's a good page you should look over at WP:USRD/NEW. It's out "New user orientation", and it covers the different parts of a good highway article along with other stuff related to the project.

Just looking over Louisiana Highway 156, one of the articles you recently created that I tagged for the project, I have the following suggestions to make.

Would it hurt if I asked that you tried to write a paragraph on each highway when you create the article? Ideally, a reader should get a bit more context than "Louisiana Highway 156 is a state highway in Goldonna, Louisiana, in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana." The infobox has different information, yet it should be a summary of the article. You could at least put the length of the road and the locations of the termini into that paragraph, so there's three sentences already, four if each terminus is listed separately.
We almost always write highway articles in the US in west-to-east or south-to-north order. There are exceptions and oddities, of course.
You can "pipe" a link to alter is displayed output using the pipe character, "|". For example, since Louisiana is mentioned at the start of the sentence, it gets repetitive and boring to repeat it twice more. You could type out [[Goldonna, Louisiana|Goldonna]] and the link will display as: Goldonna. (Note that with links containing a comma like that, the servers will automatically drop the content after the comma so [[Goldonna, Louisiana|]] would do the same thing.)
In the infobox, we use |direction_a= to indicate the cardinal direction of the |terminus_a= entry. So in other words, if this is an east–west highway, you can say add |direction_a=West to say it's the western terminus. Ditto |direction_b=East and |terminus_b=.
Also in the infobox, I would list locations for the junctions. Does it intersect LA 9 right in Goldonna? If so, say so! If you repeat a city in the infobox though, it only needs to be linked the first time.
Last one for today, but you should be citing your sources in these articles. We can help you learn how to do that, but the short primer is to list your source in between <ref> ... </ref> tags. Try to list as much information about your source (author, publisher, date/year it was published, date it was accessed if it's online) as you can. Put the ref tags for the footnote at the end of the sentence it is citing, and insert a References section with {{reflist}} toward the bottom of the article. Wherever {{reflist}} is located is where the server will insert the list of references.

Yeah, I know this is probably a bit to digest, but writing articles isn't easy. USRD as a project is focusing on improving the articles we have already, rather than pushing to create all of the missing redlinks. Sometimes, a one-sentence stub article is actually less useful to our reader than no article; at least without an article the reader will go looking elsewhere in their Google search for information. If they come to Wikipedia and get only a single sentence that doesn't answer their question, we've just wasted their time and frustrated them. Imzadi 1979 → 17:45, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Alright then. DudeWithAFeud (talk) 17:46, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Your contribution to article Gay

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Please provide sources to accompany your contributions, especially when the added information is clearly questionable and/or controversial. It may be true, but how do I know it's not just the misguided musings of an otherwise intelligent person going out on an unstable limb? ● Thane — formerly Guðsþegn 23:23, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have been adding more information to the articles, look at this one. DudeWithAFeud (talk) 23:25, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

On the 1st of September you messaged me `Hi' If I recall. Now it is the end of the month so I say to you good sir `Hi' as well. P.S. I'm not some old man I'm pretty young and I'm doing an impersonation