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Many thanks

You've been great, many thanks for making John's wiki profile look great. I'll get some more information and update when I get the chance. Once again, thanks. :o) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stegboy (talk • contribs) 13:30, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for being such a goof

I thank you for correcting the errors I made. I now know how to correctly insert the links. I returned to the sites as you suggested and made new links correctly, but they also were promptly deleted. I will contact the person who deleted them and go from there. Thank you for your patience. Frankolive (talk —Preceding comment was added at 11:10, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Help Please :o)

Looking to link in John Chapmans profile in wiki and any relevant star wars pages. He played Red 12 Drifter in the original star wars film and is a friend of mine. Many thanks for your help so far - I'm new to Wiki! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stegboy (talk • contribs) 10:14, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

St. Louis Article

Talk:St. Louis, Missouri I posted a request for review and possible addition in the external links section to the article talk page. Thank you again for your patience. Frankolive (talk) 13:56, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Jeanenawhitney/Archive 1

Reports at WP:AIV

Hi there, I've noticed you reported to users to WP:AIV in the past few minutes who haven't been issued a single warning? I've issued them both with a {{uw-test4}} but one has already been indef blocked by another administrator. Can I ask you in future to provide each vandal with at least a last warning before reporting them at WP:AIV? Cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 14:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi, regarding my SA-MP article.

Hey, it's not advertising. It is a programme which you can play GTA: San Andreas online. the game isn't based online, and therefore this client helps you to play online. I am not advertising it, people may want to know about the game when searching.

I can promise that it isn't advertising. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danny1hbsxhuyg (talk • contribs) 18:46, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

re: infobox and imdb

Hi - thanks for the update. I was only wondering the other day of what possible use it was of including someone's height in the infobox! I've had a read of that persondata script page, and I've been giving it a go on the last 3 articles I've created. Hopefully I've got the hang of it! Lugnuts (talk) 20:45, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Test article

Just to let you know you accidentally created an article at Jeanenawhitney/sandbox5 rather than at User:Jeanenawhitney/sandbox5. I've moved the information over for you, and marked Jeanenawhitney/sandbox5 with the speedy deletion tag for a test page. Giles Bennett ^{(Talk, Contribs)} 21:29, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Discography tables

Please do not revert discography cleanup efforts, as you did a few times to Vanessa L. Williams. Tables should not be filled with unnecessary colors, boldfacing, etc. in order to decorate them or make them look "prettier". I fixed these tables per WP:CHARTS, WP:MoS and WP:NPOV. Please do not change them back again. Thanks. - eo (talk) 01:30, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

You also boldfaced fonts and added color to the table. There's no need to do that. - eo (talk) 01:45, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

You reverted it again at Vanessa L. Williams discography - added colors and changed formatting to your preferred version. Please stop - continued disruptive edits are considered vandalism. There are countless other discography tables in Wikipedia; there is no reason why Vanessa L. Williams' needs to be specially formatted. - eo (talk) 12:31, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Moving the tables to a separate discography article is fine; that occurs all the time. However, moving your preferred version (with the colors, etc.) into a new article, after it was already corrected, is the issue. I cleaned up the tables first, then you placed the collapsible versions there (which were reverted) then you placed a different table with the blue headers, etc., which I changed back. Too many "extras" make it look like a fanpage. - eo (talk) 13:40, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

P.S. "I also see you have this same problem with other editors" ← Not true. I (and other editors) have cleaned up a large number of discography tables to keep some type of standard (without boldfacing, colors, over-wikilinking, flag icons, bells & whistles, etc.) and I've run into very, very few problems in comparison to the total number of articles I've edited. - eo (talk) 13:40, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFA

Hi. I notice you've put in serial oppose comments at current RFA's. In general an oppose should be backed up with a rationale, to give it more weight with the closing bureacrat. Also, serial comments may indicate that you have not reviewed the candidates contributions fully, due to the time between each comment. Could you explain your position on some of these opposes in more depth? Pedro :  Chat  14:36, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

RFA opposition

Hey, you've just opposed four candidates at Requests for adminship without giving a rationale. Many consider it courteous to leave a rationale when opposing someone's candidacy (and when supporting, too). This permits an opportunity for the candidate to address and/or learn from whatever your criticism happens to be. If you would be so kind as to add a reason for your opposition, I'm sure those four candidates would appreciate it. Regards,chaser - t 14:37, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Scott5114's RFA

Thank you for taking the time to participate in my recent RFA nomination. I have withdrawn the nom early at 17/13/3. I am presently going to undergo admin coaching in preparation for a second candidacy somewhere down the line. I hope to see your potential support in the future. Regards, —Scott5114↗ 07:47, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Dear Jeanenawhitney, Thank you for participating in my recent RfA. Words nor pictures can express my heartfelt appreciation at the confidence the community has shown me. I am both heartened and humbled by this confidence. I will carry the lessons learned from the constructive criticism I have received with me as I edit Wikipedia, and heed those lessons. Special thanks to Pedro and Henrik as nominators. Special thanks to Rudget who wanted to. A very special thanks to Moonriddengirl for her eloquence. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 17:12, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

WP:ANI notification

FYI, an anonymous user who you seemed to have annoyed is complaining at WP:ANI. Personally, you did a good job, so I'd just ignore it and let it get archived. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 03:12, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

RE RfA

That's fair enough, and you're correct that I did make that promise. Accordingly, I will undergo a reconfirmation RfA as you suggest, as I don't want to regain adminship unless I can be sure that the community has full confidence in me. Walton^One 11:06, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

User:Cleander

Hi, I noticed you reopened Cleander's talk page. He was particularly abusive on his talk page with multiple personal attacks and threats. I was just curious why you undid the redirect. Thanks. Ronnotel 14:07, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Your RfA Standards

Hi. I've noticed that you have recently become involved in the RfA process and would like to thank you for your contributions there. However, looking through your votes, I do not see a support among them. As such, I was wondering what your standards for adminship are? While you are definitely entitled to whatever standards you want, if they are strict having them in public forum will be useful for future candidates. Cheers. SorryGuy 01:55, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Flag Icons

Who made you the official editor of Wikipedia? Can we put this flag icon BS to bed? You will never convince me there there is anything wrong with placing a flag in an info box, regardless of what is stated in the "official rules". I'm not getting into an editing war with anyone. Do me a favor and leave my edits alone and leave my flag icons alone as well. Jbossbarr 08:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your comment on my talk page, see here. You asked me a question, so I will answer you here. First let me quote your message to me here:

Who made you the official editor of Wikipedia? Can we put this flag icon BS to bed? You will never convince me there there is anything wrong with placing a flag in an info box, regardless of what is stated in the "official rules". I'm not getting into an editing war with anyone. Do me a favor and leave my edits alone and leave my flag icons alone as well. Jbossbarr 08:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

In answer to your question; No one has made me the official editor of Wikipedia. I simply saw your edits as an anonymous user see here, and as editor once pointed out to me, I in turn simply pointed it out to you as Wikipedia:Manual of Style (flags), which is a part of Wikipedia:Manual of Style.

Your statement “Do me a favor and leave my edits alone and leave my flag icons alone as well.” Editors do not own those edits, see WP:OWN.

As an editor of wikipedia, which you decided to when you began making edits, is expected to follow the rules and to be civil when communicating with other editors. See Wikipedia:Etiquette and Wikipedia:Civility.

Finally, you signed your message to me as Jbossbarr (see here), yet your edits that I responded to were under the anonymous user 71.232.12.119 (see here). So I will be responding to both accounts. Cheers

Robert Cliche

This article is actually about a person whose surname was Cliche without an é on it; it wasn't a misspelling for "cliché". If there's a list of common misspellings on Wikipedia that you're working from, could you add this article to the list of exclusions? Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 01:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your vote on my RfA

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a vote of 41/0/1. Please accept a slice of panettone as an expression of my gratitude. Feel free to help yourself to some chocolate zabaglione as well. I am humbled by the trust placed in me to use the tools wisely. Cheers, Rkitko (talk) 21:32, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Dancing with the Stars

I think you misunderstood. You say the twist section should be deleted because it is people writing what they see on screen, so are the the score chart and so on... It was mostly a rethorical question,. I agree with you on the fact that some of it does not belong in an encyclopedia, yet Wikipedia is different from any other encyclopedia anyway. No encyclopedia would do any article about Dancing with the stars and stuff like that. What I mean is that this section gave some notable informations on the show, like for instance the Jane Seymour and Marie Osmond troubles, which were integral parts of the show, since it helped them get votes. It also highlighted the fact that there were often disagreements between the judges and the audience. I don't think the section should be deleted. However I think it should be rewritten, just like I constantly rewrite Pussycat Dolls presents, some One Tree Hill characters one year and a half ago and so on because they were looking like fan sites. It's ok that you have a different point of view on the subject yet you don't have to patronize me. I think we can debate like adults, can't we ? Siemgi (talk • contribs) 21:23, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Jenna Jameson "cleanup"

Your cleanup removed over 1000 characters of important comments, several put in as editing compromises.[1] Please be careful not to do that. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 16:40, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Rosie O'Donnell not quite dead

Please restore the Living people category to her bio. Benjiboi 02:03, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Benjiboi also raised this at WP:AN, for some reason. The category was in the article twice; there is no problem with your edit. Chick Bowen 04:50, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, I was concerned when I looked at your history that the category was being removed systematically, I should have checked more fully and seen that it was a duplicate you were removing. Please accept my apologies. Benjiboi 11:12, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

About Rick's References

Hello. Thank your for your feedback on the Rick Saucedo article. I had originally added two references to where a lot of information comes from. There are not many more. Some of that information comes from what Rick has told me himself and from what I know myself. Is there a way to cite that? 15:17, 04 December 2007

Thank you for the advice. I will begin a revision considering points of view. Hopefully the POV article, combined with my college writing skill, can better help me to make the article more neutral. I will make my attempt soon. Reactionary89 18:20, 04 December 2007

I have gone through the article and removed statements and added additional references as well as quotes from a newspaper. I've done as much as I could do neutrally having interacted with Rick before. Any additional revisions of the article can use some fresh eyes. Any advice would be appreciated and maybe you could come up with something. Thank you. Reactionary89 19:24, 04 December 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reactionary89 (talk • contribs)

Changing born to b. in numerous biographies

The use of the abbreviation b. instead of born is not sanctioned in any manual of style (e.g. WP:NAMES or WP:DATE) that I have seen. Nor is it an established practice. As you have made this conspicuous change in a number of biographical articles using the AutoWikiBrowser, I suggest you undo these changes. __meco (talk) 08:06, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

The guidelines can be found at Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Dates_of_birth_and_death. If the subject is alive the word born should be in full and not abbreviated. Sorry. Pedro :  Chat  08:41, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

My mistake, edits are being corrected. Jeanenawhitney (talk) 11:05, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks very much. Pedro :  Chat  12:47, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I have also noticed your changes from born to b. and it is not clear to me as to why you are doing this. In my opinion, it decreases the readability of the text. As already pointed out, your actions are against the guidelines. So I guess, you really owe some explanation here. For my part, I would highly appreciate, if you reverted these changes. Tomeasy (talk) 09:19, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Mary Pickford disambiguation

Why did you remove the disambiguation from the top of the Mary Pickford page?[2] --Hera1187 (talk) 11:53, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Because as I could see, it had nothing to do Mary Pickford. --Jeanenawhitney (talk) 11:55, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

• Mary Pickford is the name of the song. --Hera1187 (talk) 12:06, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Your edit

Hi, please could you check your edit here as something seems to have messed up at the beginning of the Early life section? Thanks Gustav von Humpelschmumpel (talk) 14:58, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Fixed Jeanenawhitney (talk) 15:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Re:Find and replace again

Thanks, that seems to work. However, it only works for letters; if I use punctuation mark\b, it doesn't work. Reywas92^Talk 21:12, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

United States Department of Homeland Security

There have only been ~3 vandal edits the entire month, not nearly enough to be protected. And don't worry, it isn't really a mistake, because it depends on the situation of how much vandalism. The point is, if there has been plenty of vandalism recently on an article, don't hesitate to report it. You won't get in trouble if it is declined.   jj137 ^♠ 01:41, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Stop Now

Please stop defacing my talk page. Are you wikistalking me for reverting you on Betty White? —Nricardo (talk) 02:10, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Jennifer Gambatese

Hey I don't mind you taking out stuff that is copyright violation on Jennifer Gambatese because I did not put it in. But I do mind that you took out the external links. Please put them back along with the {{references}} {{cleanup}} {{wikify}}. Thanks --Jeanenawhitney (talk) 20:56, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Oops. Sorry I missed adding back the additional material taken out in the revert. I've fixed it up. -- Whpq (talk) 12:33, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

actor to actress

Hi, I saw you changed many times [[actor|acress]] to [[actress]] . Why? Since actress redirects to actor you now have added a redirect while before it was linking directly to the article. Garion96 (talk) 10:27, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

I read WP:R2D and it stated:

If the linked term is printworthy and presents no other problems to the prose, there is no reason not to just link the term as is. There should almost never be a reason to replace [[redirect]] with [[target|redirect]]. This kind of change is almost never an improvement, and it can actually be detrimental.

So hence, I replaced [[actor|actress]] to [[actress]]. Explain to me why am I wrong? --Jeanenawhitney (talk) 16:46, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Have to admit, that was new to me. Still, the reason behind that (from reading that discussion page) seems to me to keep linking to redirects that can be later changed into on article. I doubt that an actress article will be created. The impression from that discussion page also seems to be "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" Garion96 (talk) 19:58, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry, but I have just scanned about 300 actor and actress articles. It is running at about 50/50 on [[actor|actress]] and [[actress]]. And this might just be the exception where actress may well someday be turned into a article. Not like some of the other redirects.--Jeanenawhitney (talk) 15:58, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

I thought I already mentioned it before but I guess I forgot. To be sure I asked for a second opinion at Wikipedia talk:Redirect#link to redirect Garion96 (talk) 20:29, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

See the discussion there. At least I would stop changing [[United States|U.S.]] to [[U.S.]] which really does not improve the article. Garion96 (talk) 20:34, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

---

First let me state when you came to me and made the query into the actor/actress I stopped making those changes. You never brought up to me about the United States/U.S. changes. Then today you inform me of the following:

See the discussion there. At least I would stop changing U.S. to U.S. which really does not improve the article.

You point me to the discussion that, you started. Further down in the discussion you then tell the group the following:

Is really neither better? I can understand that perhaps actress will be changed later into an article. But U.S. will always be a redirect. A redirect right now linked more and more since the editor is quite busy working on changing U.S. to U.S. right now. Along with other fixes of course. The editor is not only editing the article to change that.

Because of your wording you made it sound like that I am going out and aggressively targeting those changes. Which I am not (and by the way today is the first time you mentioned it to me). You took this to an outside group without first asking me about the U.S.

When I come across an article I look at it and make the decision. If U.S. is not in the article then I add it. If you look at most of edits with the U.S., they are added. I generally add them to the infobox. And I always look at the article as I am a foreign visitor reading it.

I think that when you came across my edits that it some how rubbed you the wrong way. Especially when I replied to you with the following:

I read WP:R2D and it stated:

If the linked term is printworthy and presents no other problems to the prose, there is no reason not to just link the term as is. There should almost never be a reason to replace redirect with redirect. This kind of change is almost never an improvement, and it can actually be detrimental.

I would like to know why you are targeting me? --Jeanenawhitney (talk) 21:31, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

I was not trying to talk behind your back (that's why I linked to the discussion above) and if I sounded too harsh, I apologise since that is/was not my intent. I also am not targeting you, you just do a lot of AWB edits so you just happen to pop up a lot on my watchlist. Since I linked to the discussion I assumed you read about the U.S. United States question. I simply asked for a second opinion there because I am not expert enough at redirects, I assume they are. The quote which I said on the discussion "with other fixes of course. The editor is not only editing the article to change that" was stated there specifically to tell that you are not an editor who edits with "the sole purpose of changing an otherwise functional link" I do agree with the sentence you replied. "never be a reason to replace redirect with redirect." but the united states example is changing a direct link to a redirect. Garion96 (talk) 21:45, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Milena Lukich for Afd

I wanted to let you know that now BlueAzure has been skipping boards and placing multiple tags on a group of articles, one of which you helped to edit. The Milena Lukich article is among that group affected and is now facing Afd. If you have anything to add, I think it is important to disallow a single editor from continuing this kind of harassment.HollywoodFan1 (talk) 19:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Tables

Hi. I noticed that when you are going through working on CFD, that on some articles, you've changed the color of the background of the heading row on the filmography/etc. tables to match the background of the table itself. I'm wondering if there is a policy somewhere that I've overlooked, or the Wikipedia:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers has overlooked that forbids color in that heading. Thanks. Wildhartlivie (talk) 12:56, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

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Edit of John Durang

Did you really edit this page just to put spaces after the leading asterisks? How pathetic! I mean, I started that article and now watch over it to see how it might be improved by other editors, so I felt I had to see why you added four whole bytes of "information" to it, and thus wasted ten seconds of my precious life, which I regret I will never get back.--BillFlis (talk) 02:16, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment. There was nothing wrong with my edit.

I take your comment as a personal attack on me. See Wikipedia:No personal attacks WP:PA, especially in your edit comment of “get a life”. I did nothing to you but yet you felt you had to attack me. I think you should read up on Wikipedia:Etiquette WP:EQ before sending messages in the future.

Thank you and have a Happy new Year. --Jeanenawhitney (talk) 13:39, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Please be more careful using AWB

It seems that you use AWB for the majority of your edits. Its important to preview work even when its done with automated tools; for example see this diff [3]. Your edits duplicated a section heading and broke an external link. Shell ^babelfish 15:05, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Also, I glanced through your talk page history since you don't keep archives and its a bit scary that you've been warned about this more than once before. People have lost access to these sort of tools when continued problems crop up and aren't addressed. Shell ^babelfish 15:08, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Errors that I made were pointed out to me and I corrected them. And as far as the Maude Adams, this is the first time someone pointed it out to me. If someone had I would have corrected it immediately. --Jeanenawhitney (talk) 10:21, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Please be more careful when editing broadly used templates

Your change of the parameter image-name to image in Template:Infobox Playboy Playmate may have been a stylistic improvement, but broke the display of the image in every article that used that template with an image - and there were a fair number. I think I fixed it so it works either way now, but for next time, please, make sure you are actually improving rather than breaking things. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 17:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I was aware that my change broke it for some articles. But you got to the fix before I did. I had every intention on fixing it. Also I have changed almost all prior entries to image. And I also know that is not fix, as there are editors out there that do not know about the change, so the image-size still has to be in the template. That is why I took the image-size out of what is displayed. And made it image. This way new editors will use the image instead of image-size.--Jeanenawhitney (talk) 10:28, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I have just completed the conversion from image-size to image. Look for a better template with documentation --Jeanenawhitney (talk) 23:36, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Help?

I've found User:CBDunkerson to be extremely helpful. If he's not available, try someone from Category:User template coder-4 or Category:User template coder-5. Good luck! Λυδαcιτγ 04:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

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Actor infobox instructions not quite fixed yet

Hello Jeanenawhitney. Thanks for your efforts in getting the LO awards section of the actor infoboxes to work. Unfortunately they aren't quite fixed yet. Please take a look at this page [4] and you will see what I am talking about when I made this post here [5]. I know that you can't edit the template page, but, anything else that you can do to get these fixed will be appreciated and thanks for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 22:54, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello again. Thanks for your message and thanks for all of your work setting up the various examples in your sandbox. Both boxes that show the award look okay to me. My computer skills are so limited that I am afraid that I am not being very helpful, but, what I am trying to avoid is having the infobox look like this [6] where you have {{{laurenceolivierawards}}} show up where the name of the play should be. One of the other editors that has tried to help with this points out that other actor infoboxes have the Olivier awards show up just fine as long as there is some other award listed, ie Acadamy, Emmy, Golden Globe etc. The problem only seems to occur if the only award listed is an Olivier one. This message from [7] CBM makes me wonder if it is something that might not be fixable. If that is the case I think that it would be preferable to just leave the item out of the infobox entirely. Once again I do appreciate your efforts to get this straightened out. Take care and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 20:52, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I just checked them one more time to be sure and they both look fine. The info in both of them reads the way that it should as far as I can see. Thanks for double checking. MarnetteD | Talk 21:32, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I wanted to present "The Left Half of the Half Barnstar" to say many thanks for working with CBM to fix the actor infobox anomoly that I discovered. You both put in time and effort to fix a small problem that may not have affected many pages, thus, I doubly appreciate your efforts. MarnetteD Talk 22:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

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Revert you made with Twinkle

Hi. Can you tell me what this was for, also the edit summary you left doesn't really make any sense. - Rjd0060 (talk) 15:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Nope. --Jeanenawhitney (talk) 16:06, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay, then I've went ahead and removed the warning that you inappropriately left at User talk:75.89.237.184. - Rjd0060 (talk) 16:35, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, I am just confused. This warning that you left was for not adding a source. This is what you reverted. The user did not add any content there, just added an empty space in between the sections. I assume it was a mistake, which is why I removed the warning that you left. Hope you understand. - Rjd0060 (talk) 00:31, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

AWB Manual Update/Cleanup

Thanks, looking much better!

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Image Licensing

Hey, Good idea with the images. As one of the dev's, i have no problem with you doing it, just the license you are using is wrong.

As the programs copyrighted (although under GPL), {{GPL-2}} would be the correct license to use =)

Keep up with the good work!

I did have some images under that on here... But then they were moved to commons... And have been deleted on quite a few occasions... So hence the lack of images.. Look at the history for what the CommonsDelinkerBot removed

Give me a shout if you need a hand!

—Reedy Boy 23:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

You dont need to put the images on commons, i was pointing out past actions. Probably easier if you dont - Then we dont get the same deletionism! Just use the GPL-2 license tag for any more you upload =) Guts of AWB - C#, Time, Sweat & Tears —Reedy Boy 23:48, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Night. I'll be going very shortly too! —Reedy Boy 00:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Sorry

Yeah, feel free to call me Sam. Im not bothered.. Nice idea with the name tribute =)

Kingboyk was making some minor changes and such, so dont worry about that too much.

Right, i'll and explain.

AWB is written in C# (C Sharp) via the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008. It runs on the Microsoft .NET Framework v2. In the sourcecode, we do write and use Regex's to manipulate data and look for pattersn and such.

The framework would have been what you installed to use AWB, and contains a wide library of classes and functions that we use.

It provides functionality that can be used with Visual Basic and Visual C++

Hope that makes sense!

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AWB regex

Thanks. I don't really understand the rule business and how I'm supposed to create one and where I do that etc. But I did run the following regex based on what you provided

find: (.*?)(\d+).*?

replace with: $1[[:Category:$2 in cricket|$2]]

and it nearly worked, but not quite - see [8] (the 3rd change shouldn't have happened). I presume it needs a minor tweak to look for the asterisk prefix before the year. —Moondyne 13:53, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Got it.

find: (.*?)\*(\d+).*?

replace with: $1*[[:Category:$2 in cricket|$2]]

Thanks for your help. —Moondyne 14:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

User:ScottAHudson

Please see Wikipedia:User page, specifically Wikipedia:User page#What may I not have on my user page?. Scott has a history of using Wikipedia for what appears to be merely personal content, and not making good on his promises to ensure that his numerous subpages contribute to the project. --Maxamegalon2000 00:50, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

AWB possible bug.

You said you ran the "current version" of the Devil article through AWB. As noted in the bug report page, User:Magioladitis went off and changed it himself to not use the style I referred. Would it be possible to check against the older version? Thanks. SnowFire (talk) 01:59, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Yup, looks like it's a false alarm. Thanks a lot for investigating the matter; this is the third time I've seen it happen, but I guess it was just a coincidence here. Thanks.

As for getting AWB myself... AWB is IE only, right? I use Firefox and Konqueror, so that's probably a no go. Not really interested in doing automated edits, in any case, but thanks for the reminder. SnowFire (talk) 18:37, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

I am a student there!

I will find a source just to put there, but please don't revert my edits to WNYO in Oswego. I am a student at the school and a member of both the tv and radio stations. I am a PRIMARY source! But I will try and find something to put there. But please don't delete it. -FancyMustard (talk) 21:16, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Why are you picking on a little station in Oswego, NY? Don't you guys have better things to do? Plus I would know more about the subject being a student there and a competitor in these events. I wouldn't edit things I don't know about. So please leave mine alone. Have you ever been to Oswego? I thought wikipedia was a collective effort by anyone who has things to add. I find it to be a bunch of bullies who feel they can run it and do as they please. Wikipedia is far from a good source to use for anything! It's a site with broad information on anything. I don't know anyone who uses it for acedemic papers or anything. And if they do, they would be stupid to site it. Professors hate it. Plus most of the citations people use on wikipedia are non-credited internet sites. I can go create a webpage explaining all about the pitcher and then cite myself? But the Golden Pitcher is a big thing between the two sports depts. Call the WNYO station at 315-312-2101 for information on the golden pitcher contests. -FancyMustard (talk) 03:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Replied at Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#WNYO_.28FM.29. User:Dorftrottel 13:53, February 5, 2008

Answer my question! Have either of you been to Oswego? Why the bullying? Wikipedia is a public site anyone can edit, I don't get why two people who feel they know everything have to be so anal about this. Wikipedia wouldn't exist if the public didn't have a chance to add/edit different things. Again all this comes down to is for me to create a third party site and then site myself. Or better yet I can have somebody write an article. And who would they come to to interview? Me or someone who plays in the games. Why? Cause I am a PRIMARY source! I suggest listening to all Chris and Jay and Romes and Malones podcasts and call the 315-312-2101. No one is vandalizing here. I'm just adding a section on a game that exists between the two stations. Again I don't edit things I don't know about, nor do I delete your additions. Please leave me alone. Tell me right now everything on wiki is backed by an official, teacher approved source. It is common knowledge on campus that I am a PRIMARY source for. You call yourself barely active, but yet you are getting very worked up over a station in Oswego that transmits only over an 8mile radius. -FancyMustard (talk) 17:52, 5 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by FancyMustard (talk • contribs)

Read the talk page of the henchman you had to get. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSkrEcWvH68 Enjoy that, if you actually spent the time looking through everything on the site you would have found that. Don't blindly judge! -FancyMustard (talk) 18:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Pete, maybe explaining is a better course of action than issuing final warnings. There is a source, and at least some of the info can be backed with it. Let me give it a shot first at working it out with the editor. We can WP:ARV later if it turns out a futile exercise. User:Dorftrottel 18:29, February 5, 2008

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Which template are you talking about? I haven't done any apparent changes to any template anyway. On one I did it in the editor experimenting sandbox and on the others I just requested it in the discussion page. Please specify what the problem is. -RayLast (talk) 15:22, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

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RE: Big Brother 9 (U.S.) Neil's leaving

This is due to several conversations HouseGuests had with Sharon and Joshuah on the live feeds/After Dark (and because Sharon was back when she wasn't supposed to be). Neil had to leave for some reason and Josh mentioned he chose her out of her and Jacob as potential replacements. According to a statement Sharon said that she and Jacob was in sequester until their eviction show. Since we do have a current consensus on the nature of Big Brother seasons we will post information as it happens. Neil's reason for leaving is unclear at this moment. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 18:24, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

A consensus was reached on how to approach Neil's departure for now. While the reason Neil is no longer in the House is unknown he will be classed as "Walked" for the time being. At this time classifying him "Evicted" or "Expelled" would provide potential false information as to why he left. "Walked" is more open and doesn't carry a stigma of he did something bad to leave the House. (Generally "Expelled" is used for HouseGuests that could threaten the well being of the other HouseGuests. Remember Justin from BB2 and Scott from BB4.) ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 03:01, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Since it was clearly stated on both Big Brother: After Dark and the live Internet feeds that Joshuah was given the choice to bring either Sharon or Jacob back in the House as a replacement for Neil then that can be included in the main article in the HouseGuests section since it was clearly stated. If you have any disagreements with this please start a discussion on the talk page before removing content. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 03:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

RE: Changing my edits Talk:Big Brother 9 (U.S.)

Pete, I did not mean to delete a comment you made that was an accident on my part and it wasn't my intention to censor you in any way. The reason I moved your recent edits to the bottom was because they were hard to find plus from my understanding about Wikipedia's talk pages you are supposed to add comments at the bottom of a discussion not in the middle. I will add back the deleted portion. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 23:31, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

I replied to your message on my talk page. And at the top of my talk page I have

I will reply to messages left here on your talk page.

That is the way I reply to my messages and I do it by habit. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 00:31, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

RE: Talk:Big Brother 9 (U.S.)

I think you read it wrong, but I've replied there. - Rjd0060 (talk) 18:09, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

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AWB illustrations

Hello. I am just translating Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual into jawp. I'd like to use your AWB illustrations. So, would you move the image to the commons? thanks.--Knua (talk) 09:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Image placeholder

Regarding your edit to Daniel Woodrell here, which included removing the image placeholder Replace this image male.svg, has the use of that placeholder been deprecated? Is there another one to use, or are all uses discouraged? Just curious --ShelfSkewed Talk 20:40, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Disambiguating links

I notice that you have been adding "nationality = [[American]]" to many articles' infoboxes. You may wish to note that American is a disambiguation page, and readers will have to follow additional links to find relevant information. You probably should be using "nationality = [[United States|American]]" instead. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! --Russ (talk) 13:33, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

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Nobel prize image

hello pete?...just thought you might be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Infoboxes#Nobel prize image. cheers! --emerson7 18:17, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikilinked dates

I saw [9] an edit you made, where you changed [[24 January]] to [[January 24]]. Wikilinked dates like that are reformatted, so your edit didn't change the page at all. For example, look at the source of each of these dates:

• 24 January, 1986
• January 24, 1986
• 1986-01-24

Mediawiki formats them exactly the same, even though the date is given three different ways. You can change how it displays them in Special:Preferences.

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Request

Thanks for all your work on infobox writer. I have a request. When you are making changes to many articles, could you switch off the general clean-up feature on AWB. These features are not always reliable (for example they unspace en-dashes, which are sometimes spaced) and multiple changes to the article obscure the nature of your main edit. Also, your edit summary refers to a "re-categorisation per WP:CFD". It would be helpful to link the actual discussion (or at least the CFD date for the discussion). After perusing your many edits, I have still not been able to work out what the CFD was about. Could you enlighten me? Thanks, Geometry guy 20:06, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

You are also replacing html en-dash by unicode em-dash, which is creating a mess on multiple pages. Geometry guy 21:07, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeats

Hi Jeane. Sorry should you let you know of the revert. An infobox was considered and rejected by the main authors, all the info is there already in the lead, it looks poor; just don't see how its necessary. See also here. Ceoil (talk) 01:28, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Rabindranath Tagore

I have undone my change of adding back Nobel Prize image to infobox. I checked the new template, but I could not understand why Noble Prize image had to be removed; is there any issue in use of that image? It looked really nice. I removed my changes because I checked other Nobel Laureates' pages, any all of them are now changed and look similar. BTW, I really liked the hint on whether someone is alive or dead: the color (green/gray) of the bar contain the name.GDibyendu (talk) 09:40, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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Retired?

Evidently you returned. Welcome back! :) Aleta ^Sing 17:11, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

THX

Thanks for the clean up on the Gary Forrester article - much appreciated! Cheers from New Zealand, --Georgette.mccallum (talk) 20:12, 6 April 2008 (UTC)