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Pop Ivy

That is a great looking Infobox. In fact, one of the best I have seen. You have mastered the parameters.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 20:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my userpage so quickly. Much appreciated. Davidovic 09:43, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Baseball Newsletter

The Baseball WikiProject Newsletter
Issue I – July 2008
"A home opener is always exciting,
no matter if it's home or on the road."
- Yogi Berra
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This month's newsletter was designed and written by Wizardman, jj137, and Blackngold29. If you would like to contribute to future newsletters, please contact the Baseball WP outreach dept.

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From the Editors

Baseball has a history unlike any other sport. It has been played in countless countries throughout the decades, and it will undoubtedly continue play for many more. On this eve, some the finest players the sport has to offer will take the field at the Yankee Stadium. Four popes spoke there, Pelé scored goals there, "The Greatest [football] Game Ever Played" was battled out there, John Philip Sousa lead a band there, George Costanza worked there; but what do all these events have in common? They fail to reach the level of greatness that the baseball that was played there did.

In 1923, a man named Babe Ruth decided to build a new house, and over the years, that house was a home to some of the greatest baseball ever played. If I were to list out all of these great moments, it would be longer than the bill for the New Yankee Stadium. So I'll sum it up by saying that we can remember these great moments by adding them to this place we've gathered at for future generations to read about, to learn about, to dream about; but more importantly we can watch tonight and we can remember how baseball is unlike anything else that we will encounter in our lives. — Blackngold29

--  jj137 (talk) 03:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Invite to Join WP Mariners

 Please accept this invite to join the Mariners WikiProject, a WikiProject dedicated to improving all articles associated with the Seattle Mariners. Simply click here to accept!

Meisfunny Gab 18:53, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hi, I noticed you've really been tearing up the bonus list of late. Thanks for helping out; it's very appreciated. Hope to keep seeing you around! Cheers, --JaGatalk 05:31, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Atan

Thanks for sorting the out the Atan link on Ramruma and others. I will take care not make this mistake in future. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 12:53, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello. I'm puzzled. In this edit you changed a link to Bendel and made it go to a redirect page that redirects to Bendel. Are you following some obscure bit of the MOS that I haven't discovered yet, or was it a mistake? Just curious, that's all. — Hebrides (talk) 09:35, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

From WP:FURTHERDAB:
How to link to a disambiguation page
To link to a disambiguation page (rather than to a page whose topic is a specific meaning), link to the title that includes the text "(disambiguation)", even if that's a redirect—for example, link to the redirect America (disambiguation) rather than the target page at "America". (If the redirect does not yet exist, create it and tag it with {{R to disambiguation page}}.) This helps distinguish accidental links to the disambiguation page from intentional ones. (For use in navboxes, see the {{D'}} template.) There is nothing wrong with linking to a redirect instead of linking directly to the disambiguation page; redirects are cheap and are basically transparent to the reader.
The link to a page with "{disambiguation)" lets everyone know that the link to the disambiguation page is intentional. In addition to letting the reader know that the link definitely goes to a disambiguation page, it also lets those of us on the disambiguation project know that the link does not need to be fixed, as a link to the disambiguation page from the middle of an article might, where an editor just linked, in this case, Bendel, and didn't check to see if the link went to the Bendel that they were referring to.

Thanks for explaining this. Is it just disambiguation pages, or are there similar regulations for pages containing the templates {{surname}}, {{given name}}, {{SIA}}, or other set indexes? — Hebrides (talk) 21:24, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

As far as I know, it's just disambiguation pages, but I'm not 100% sure about that. Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 07:59, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

...is no disambiguation at all :) In this edit, you removed two ambiguous links rather than actually making them unambiguous. Numerous toponyms may be linked, but not all have articles, so if you encounter more, please leave them so they appear in Special:Whatlinkshere output of the disambiguation page, thereby providing an indication of whether an article is necessary. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 13:16, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

I can absolutely redlink any articles instead of just removing the link. I guess for toponyms that makes more sense than removing the link, as the town/village/etc. might get an article at some point. I will take care to do that going forward. :) Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:14, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

List-defined references

In the course of fixing a link to a dab page at Pike-Pawnee Village Site, you also changed the footnotes away from list-defined references. I'd like to ask that you not do this without first seeking consensus, which is what I did before changing to LDR in the first place.

The only reasonable way to restore LDR was to revert your edit. I then fixed the dab link to "calumet", which you specified in the edit summary. However, I don't know if you made any other changes of substance; if so, I've inadvertently reverted them in the course of fixing the footnotes. Ammodramus (talk) 16:33, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Ok. After I saved the changes and left my computer, I thought about how I hadn't checked to see if that caused any issues, which I should have done. I've checked the page again and there are no DAB issues. Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 08:53, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. I assume you were using some kind of tool that didn't like the LDR syntax, and that automatically changed it. The change quickly aroused my ire, since I really like LDR: it makes it a lot easier to read and edit the text in the edit window, without constantly having to preview. It's just too hard to try to read a long block of text when you've got to keep walking around citations, especially if they're Google Books citations with three lines of jumbled alphanumeric characters. Glad you caught the "calumet" link; I could've sworn that I checked all my Wikilinks as I inserted them, but I must've missed that one. Ammodramus (talk) 12:29, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Template with Unicode control characters

Hello, I have undone this, maybe its a bug in WPCleaner that its try to correct iw? Christian75 (talk) 22:05, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

It must be. In WCW, when a page is loaded with a template that has Unicode characters, it automatically changes it (although I bet there is a setting to turn it off), so I didn't even look to see what it changed.
Correct link: http://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%A2%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%8C%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%98%E2%80%8B_%E1%9E%9B%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%98%E1%9E%94%E1%9E%BA%E1%9E%8F
Bad link: http://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%A2%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%8C%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%98_%E1%9E%9B%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%98%E1%9E%94%E1%9E%BA%E1%9E%8F
I'm not sure why it removed the three characters (in bold), but I'll ping the WCW group to see what I can find out. Thanks! Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 22:19, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Okey fine :-) I just noticed because I had run AWB on the page the same day, and I always checks if somebody change the articles afterwards... :-) Christian75 (talk) 13:25, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Question for you

I've noticed the mass of bonus list links you've fixed for the disam contest. And also that you use WikiCleaner. Do you have a secret? :) I can use WikiCleaner to fix those links but I'm not able to get a list of the pages on the bonus list or anything like that. Have you figured out how to do that? Thanks. :) --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 09:48, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Well that part I knew :) Was just wondering how the heck you were getting so many fixed. :) But having it setup that way would help. Thanks. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 09:56, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Yeah I gotcha. One of the more amusing parts about being a disammer is getting notices about such and such a page being up for deletion or whatever and I have no recollection of touching that particular page. And I go to the page and I still don't know. :) But yes, disamming has led to reading lots and lots of pages I wouldn't have known about otherwise. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 10:02, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

List of shipwrecks in September 1940

Just a note to let you know that I edit conflicted with you whilst expanding and correcting the list over the period 1-15 September. I appreciate the good that people such as yourself do in making these minor corrections, but unfortunately I had to overwrite your edit. I intend to expand and correct the list for the rest of September, and will then copyedit each individual day's entry, as I have done with the lists from January to August 1940. Mjroots (talk) 08:41, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Wow!

I knew you were leading the Bonus List, but by looking at the Hall of Fame, I just realized how much you've smashed through all the previous records. Congrats, Nicey! PhnomPencil talk contribs 16:28, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thank you for your contributions to the Friedrich von Wieser page! You've earned a beer! Dave (djkernen)|Talk to me|Please help! 21:53, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Birmingham Small Arms Company

Hi, your edit destroyed the article lay-out. I am not claiming that edit was technically incorrect. I am asking for a discussion so we may arrive at an acceptable solution. Please may we discuss it now and here? Eddaido (talk) 09:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

I've modified the edit to make the structure correct (namely, the table of contents is similar, but correct - the last four items (See Also, Notes, References, External Links) are on their own lines now). I hope it is satisfactory now. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 10:39, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Now I learn what is meant by 'a discussion' in Seattle!
The last 4 items not worth getting on my high horse about. Eddaido (talk) 20:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Heh. I'll be glad to discuss anything else, I just figured I'd make the edit that I should have made in the first place to see if that was good. If not, then I'd be happy to discuss it. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 23:14, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Now, That's a nicer guy! Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 23:20, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Oasis

Could you do me a favor and watchlist it? Dealing with a user who insists on moving it because "equal weight needs to be given". I've tried a few methods to get them to understand primary topic but it hasn't worked. And I don't want to keep reverting him constantly all by himself. :) Thanks. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 07:26, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Will do. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 07:45, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
I asked this on R'n'B's page too but just in case you don't see that. What do you use to count inbound links? I.e. how do you know that X amount of links are for Oasis the band and X amount for Oasis the geographic term? I'm sure it's right in front of my face. :) But it'd be great to know. Thanks. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 12:18, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Actually, I just went to 'What links here' and set the page view to 500. It's possible that the 750 to Oasis is anywhere from 650-900, but it just looked about half the size of the first page of 500. If there's a tool that give the full stats on a page about inbound links (with details on which space they come from), I don't know about it, but I'd love to see it. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 22:39, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Passchendaele

Thanks for taking an interest. I'm a beginner at the technical aspects of structuring a page so your help is appreciated. Are there any advice pages you would recommend? ThanksKeith-264 (talk) 08:04, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Most kind ;O) There's still a lot to do with the structure of the page. When I started there wasn't a separate page for each battle so I stuck it all on the main page. Now I'm trying to get advice on a model or rule of thumb on reducing those bits to summaries, moving the bulk of the material to the 'battle page' and linking. It occurred this morning that I could do that reciprocally by linking the prelude-background-aftermath sections on the battle pages to the main page and I think I've worked that bit out. Once I feel confident about what to shift in each direction I'll do it.

I spent a lot of time this week-end trying to work out how to do abbrevated footnotes to a reference but failed due to not finding a way to make different footnotes to different pages of the same reference, hence the laborious removal of all the ibids and Op. Cit.s by substituting book titles. It occurred that there ought to be an entry in the reference section to refer to so I added a lot of bibliography (like so much else with computer programmes it's a doddle once you know how but a headache when you don't). Thanks again.Keith-264 (talk) 09:03, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Cailifo

Thank you for your interest. I understand the desire to standardize the headings, however, in this particular case, the heading changed was actually intentionally set due to its relationship to the subject and much undocumented information attributed to the historic figure. I am reverting the edit but do appreciate your taking the time to enhance it. If there is another reason for the edit that I should be aware of, please do not hesitate to bring me up to speed. Clftruthseeking (talk) 03:35, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Raphaël Onana

Hello !

You can see a picture in the french page but there is no picture in english page... Can you install the french picture in the english page ? http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:OnanaRapha%C3%ABl.jpg or http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Rapha%C3%ABl_Onana_Soldat_FFL.JPG Help me. I do not know what to do in the English version .... it's complicated! Please...! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Warinhari (talk • contribs) 17:02, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh ! Thank you !!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Warinhari (talk • contribs) 16:25, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Francis Bacon

Thank you for perfecting/fixing the references in the Francis Bacon article!

Danilloclm (talk) 02:40, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Hi! Thanks for fixing the page break on the Neofinetia page I've been working on. Actually - I wanted to show the the hybrids listed before the break were of two species, while the second part listed those of three or more combinations. Obviously, the a break didn't convey that information :)

I'm pretty new here, and don't really have full command of the tools - could you suggest a good way to do that?

Thanks again, & Cheers!

Cypella Cypella (talk) 08:16, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

use of WPCleaner on Billah (etc?)

Hi. In this edit your "fix" has twice reversed the order of two Arabic words. It may be that this is happening elsewhere too, so it might be advisable if you investigate other possible cases and check before doing any more like that. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 11:06, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
Keep up the good work! Nataev (talk) 14:19, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Susan Rice

I see that you have worked on this article. Would you kindly take a look at this diff and see if any of these changes were made as a result of old vandalism?: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_Rice&action=historysubmit&diff=477477840&oldid=473225728 Thanks very much! -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I wasn't confident enough to do it. Best regards! -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:50, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

bot issues

Your bot seems to be applying minor syntax corrections to blatant vandalism, which complicates the process of reverting the vandalism (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Restitution&action=historysubmit&diff=476968174&oldid=461425705) 108.38.59.218 (talk) 08:03, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits!

Thanks for your edits on the SS Northerner citations. You inspired me to clean up the references on that page entirely by putting them inline, instead of all floating at the end. Perhaps you could help me figure something out on that page? There is an info box, with a lot more information in it, if you look at it in edit mode. Reading it in final mode, quite a bit of that Infobox doesn't print. Do you have any idea why? Thank you for helping!! Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:39, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Oh the flag you added is great!! Is there anyway to make "Masts 3" show up in the infobox? Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:05, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks from WP:DACIA!

Thanks for cleaning up articles like Rubobostes‎ and List of rulers of Thrace and Dacia‎. Best regards. --Codrin.B (talk) 22:32, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Symphonies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Thanks for your efforts to streamline the footnotes in this article, which I appreciate. However, please do not use WP Cleaner in doing this. The program does not distinguish between different books by the same author nor when a book is quoting Tchaikovsky (the reason for "As cited by") or the author himself. Because of this over-generalization, it takes more work to correct these problems than to do a general undo and fix each one individually. Since I did not know whether you were aware of this situation and might wonder why I reverted your edit, I thought an explanation might be warranted and perhaps appreciated. Jonyungk (talk) 14:28, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Your edits on the M1000e enclosure

Hi, I see you changed the Indented list in that article to a 'normal' list. Although I have no problem at all with this change there are sometimes situations where I do use an 'indented list' on purpose. Is this in general a 'big nono' in Wikipedia or did you remove it specifically here because it didn't (seem to) have any real purpose. If you do have a reference where the policy on this is explained it would be much appreciated. Cheers, Tonkie (talk) 18:28, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Devon ke Dev

Was wondering if you remember changing all the headings so that they do not have their own sections. (IE, level 3 to level 4). Please provide some insight into why you changed that. Thanks - Rich --RichardMills65 (talk) 22:10, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Syntax error after edit to Environmental economics

Hi, your edit to Environmental economics introduced a syntax error ("Error: no valid link was found at the end of line 7") in a diagram definition due to the removal of a link from the article to itself. The syntax of this kind of diagram appears to require links, even though this one is redundant. Not a big deal, but seeing that this issue stayed live for more than a month, it may be worth reporting. --Chealer (talk) 05:26, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Error 48

Hello, Niceguyedc. You have new messages at User talk:NicoV/Wikipedia Cleaner/Documentation.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--NicoV (talk) 21:41, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

disambig EOF/EOM

Hello Niceguydc, I'm not sure I understand this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=End_of_message&diff=516959609&oldid=516023142. Both EOF and EOM are actual pages (which are disambigs), EOF (disambiguation) and EOM (disambiguation) are redirects to those pages. Isn't it better to link to pages directly rather than redirects? Did you want to just make it obvious that those pages were disambiguations...? Thanks, -- stillnotelf is invisible 13:41, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Per WP:INTDABLINK, whenever intentionally linking to a disambiguation page, it is best to link to the page with the (disambiguation) identifier. This lets editors know that the link is intentional, and it lets those of us who fix disambiguation links (and the bots that look for links to fix) know that the link to the disambiguation page is intentional. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 18:47, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Got it. I fixed the page to have explicit disambig where appropriate and a link to the real target in the other case. Thanks! -- stillnotelf is invisible 18:57, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

I cannot fathom why you thought it was a good idea here to disambiguate a link by piping it to wiktionary. This can sometimes be useful for a definition of a technical term when Wikipedia does not have an article (but nearly always better to define in-article) but in this case we have gone from a dab page with multiple articles to a dictionary page with multiple meanings. The reader is no better off as far as disambiguation is concerned and we are now worse off because we have taken the reader off-site. SpinningSpark 10:24, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

There is no problem with linking off site, but in this case, I agree that the disambiguation page is probably a better choice. I'll leave it alone, even though I don't think linking to object (philosophy) is any better either. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 15:14, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
That is indeed the "thing" in no thing. What thing did you think it was? SpinningSpark 15:56, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Nothing is mostly a philosophy article - linking to object (philosophy) is probably best, so you're right. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 17:56, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Guilt

I see that you have disambiguated a long series of instances of the link guilt, but often wrongly giving the meaning as guilt (emotion) instead of culpability. The first such error seems to be that in Absolution: it is not an emotion that is forgiven! But there are others. Must I or someone else go through them all to make the necessary corrections? Esoglou (talk) 09:25, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

I can go over them again. Before the change, guilt (emotion) was at guilt, so every single one of those links went to the article now at guilt (emotion). I'd say roughly 25% of them were supposed to be pointing to guilt (law). I don't know how many should go to culpability instead of guilt (emotion), so I guess I'll just have to check each one. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 09:38, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. I already changed Baptism in early Christianity, which was the disambiguation that came unsought to my notice. Esoglou (talk) 10:45, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Equilibrium chemistry / Octanol

The disambiguation page that you have created is not helpful.

  1. The correct (IUPAC) name for the terminally substitued isomer is octan-1-ol. See, for example, propanol
  2. Disambiguation is inappropriate as there are no ambiguous pages.
  3. All isomers should be treated in the article on octanol, as the properties of the isomers are not that different from each other, unlike the propanol case. See, for example, butanol
  4. Octane has 24 stereo isomers so the number of mono hydroxy substituted isomers is huge.

Incidentally, octanol is used very widely in testing pharmaceuticals and is always referred to as octanol

Please undo all the changes that you have made. Petergans (talk) 11:43, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

(From Usertalk):petergans. Just so I'm clear, are you saying that every time just 'octanol' is mentioned, that it should not got to 1-Octanol, but to the disambiguation page as the reference could be to any of the other octanols? I want to be sure before I undo the changes. Also, until 3 days ago, every 'octanol' link went to 1-Octanol. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 17:24, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
I apologise for saying that you were the auther of the disambiguation page, but the earlier edits did not show up on my watch-list. The page move by user:Dcirovic was wrong. The page for octanol should revert to the name "Octanol". Remove the disambiguation page and repair the links that presently go to "1-octanol". Dcirovic may have been well-meaning but that user was misguided. (reply here, please) Petergans (talk) 18:06, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Ah, now that I can do (well, almost all of it - I'll need to go to WP:RM to get the page move reverted). I will get the page moved back, and then revert all of the changes to the links. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 18:53, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 Done The page has been moved back and the links have been undone. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 22:25, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks. I've cleaned up the lead for octanol which was very badly written. Petergans (talk) 08:50, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Colgate and Holy Cross

Yeah, it is right, I have just done it for November, because yesterday, someone else then edited it to the end so that I could take care of other teams not having a page for their upcoming season right now. Catgamer (talk) 10:30, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Regards for your sports interests, I am also a Seattlite.

Would you be interested to help me on this project? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Economic_Map

I am trying to duplicate this economic report for all 196 countries. Would you be willing to contribute by duplicating this model for another country?

United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_the_United_States

China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/sandbox

Mcnabber091 (talk) 05:37, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

...for your help disambiguing Public Law. Littledogboy (talk) 22:34, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the burger! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 01:50, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for repairing the many wikilinks which incorrectly linked to the newly-created disambiguation pages WCLV and WHK – the same links which now correctly direct to WCLV (FM) and WHK (AM). I created the disambiguation pages, and so I was planning to deal with the misdirected wlinks at my first opportunity... but you beat me to it! Please let me know if there is something I can assist you with in the future. Thanks again. Levdr1lostpassword / talk 12:17, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Kevin Moore move request

Hi. Thanks. You are right. I actually realized long after I had left the library that I made a mistake doing the math. Someone born in 1958 is 55 years old this year. I don't know what happened. For some reason I couldn't do the math right. Maybe since I was born in 1964, it's too close for comfort!!

Yours, Quis separabit? 18:27, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

No problem at all. :) -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 20:26, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Liege move

The move is now being discussed at Talk:Liege (disambiguation)#Requested move. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 05:26, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. I have replied there. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 06:03, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Evil eye

Well thanks for fixing my mistake on the page, Something old. but aren't I supposed to get some kind of automatic notice from the system when I make that kind of mistake? I thought I did before, at least. DeistCosmos (talk) 15:33, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Normally, the DPL bot would let you know, but at the time you made that link, Evil Eye redirected to Evil eye, so your link was OK. The redirect for Evil Eye was then subsequently changed to the disambiguation page Evil eye (disambiguation), so the link needed to be fixed. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 20:55, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Weird, bro. It'd be nice tho if I could still be pinged when such a link as I've made becomes a bad link like that. Could such a thing as that possibly be set up? DeistCosmos (talk) 21:09, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Well, it would probably thought of as spam if that happened. When the Evil Eye redirect got changed, 27 links were wrong, but sometimes it's a bunch more - when Heer got changed a couple days ago, over 1200 links were broken. When redirects get changed like that, they do show up on a list (where they stay for a week if they're not fixed), and there are quite a few of us over at the disambiguation project who work on fixing those links. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:47, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Well, you guys over at the DPL deserve medals! I noticed that you just used the WPCleaner to catch the Willi Hennig article and disambiguate the taxonomy link. When I checked Taxonomy in March it was still a redirect to the Taxonomy (biology) article, and there were about 3600 pages on the What links here list. That taxonomy page was recently inhabited by Taxonomy (disambiguation). Today's count on the What links here list is less than 1000. Evidently, you and your pals managed to disambiguate links on about 2600 pages after the page move, and it looks like you just caught the only remaining Mainspace page on that list. Kilokudos to all of you!

And now a question... there are still several Portal: and Book: links on the Taxonomy What links here list. Will those be disambiguated? or are they to remain as they are? Just curious. – PAINE ELLSWORTH CLIMAX! 01:39, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, Taxonomy was a mess. I don't think I did many on that one, though. As for Portal and Book, I usually try to get those when I hit a page, but I can't speak for everyone. It looks like there's about 70 Portal links and 4 Book links. I'll probably hit those tonight. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 01:49, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Oh, and we do get medals (see here). :) -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 01:49, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
You guys 'n gals definitely deserve 'em! I'll never worry about turning a redirect into a disambiguation page again. I almost moved Taxonomy back to Taxonomy (disambiguation), because there was nothing in the most recent move discussion about what to do about all those What links here links. Good thing I checked the Wlh page first before making that move. – PAINE ELLSWORTH CLIMAX! 01:57, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Getting back to the op, I wouldn't have thought of it as spam at all had I been notified that the link had become erroneous. I would have thought that I need to fix it. I can see perhaps where somebody who has made a thousand links to taxonomy would freak at getting a thousand messages about them but in this one case I'd made only the one link. I really would like such a message in the future if the mechanism can be established to automate its delivery. DeistCosmos (talk) 15:31, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

I don't know if it is possible, but I can certainly ask. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 20:48, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

1985 IIHF worlds

the source is on the page, not cited inline, I will fix that. I am also fix the Russian players name (Gimayev). Tim Thomas was a minor pro defenseman, listed at hockeydb.com and listed in the IIHF encyclopedia. Played for the Olympic team in 1984 as well, but not at the Olympics themselves for some reason.18abruce (talk) 02:44, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Mirza Muhammad Ismail

Dear Niceguy, I am so thankful for your kindly edits on the Article Mirza Muhammad Ismail. Thank you very much. Sincerely, --ڈاکٹر محمد علی (talk) 07:57, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 08:00, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks mate! Odigma (talk) 06:49, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the star! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 11:20, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

your dab fix member of the House of Assembly

has placed Australian politicians in a Canadian provincial parliament, e.g., Rob Kerin, I have fixed a number, not sure of others. Paul foord (talk) 08:16, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

It looks like there were 6 or 7 others. I've fixed the ones that you didn't already fix. Thanks for letting me know. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 08:32, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

฿ (disambiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion

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Los Angeles Harbor edits

All those edits you made concerning the Los Angeles Harbor region, or area, should have gone to Los Angeles Harbor Region, not Port of Los Angeles. I wonder if you could change them accordingly. Thank you, GeorgeLouis (talk) 05:51, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Should they really go to Los Angeles Harbor Region? I would agree that some of them could go there, but most of them could go to Port of Los Angeles as well, and that's where Los Angeles Harbor redirected to for over 8 years. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 08:58, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
I am no longer so sure. I think it depends on the context. So if you have better things to do, just go on and do them. Thanks for listening. GeorgeLouis (talk) 14:08, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Nanjing Road

Please see Talk:Nanjing Road (Shanghai)#Discussion. The move you recommend shouldn't be carried out until that finishes. Feel free to give your opinion in the discussion. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 12:28, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

I did the move os the The Engineer as you recommended. But see Talk:The Engineer for an old move discussion in which someone argued that The Engineer (magazine) was actually the primary topic. If you are impressed by this argument you might propose a further move. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 12:39, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
I agree with both of your decisions. With Engineer (comics) moving to The Engineer (comics), there is some question as to which one is primary. As for Nanjing Road (Shanghai), I'll throw in my support for the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC argument. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:04, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Regarding Koreanosaurus, see my post at FunkMonk's talk. He is the last person to move one of the Koreanosaurus pages. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 15:16, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Ok. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 20:32, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Viper's Drag

I put the album in because it did not come up. The link went Red. Spelling is the same. So how does this happen? Please feel free to integrate whatever is different and usable, or point out how I can do that and I'll get to it. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theclevertwit (talk • contribs) 15:18, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you're mentioning. I just disambiguated a few links. If you're talking about the tags ({{orphan}}, {{Expand section}}, etc.), those were placed by bots, not me. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 18:28, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
And now, looking at your talk page, I've figured it out. You created two pages for the same topic. The only difference was the apostrophe. In the one that's still there, the apostrophe is ('), in the one that was deleted, it was (’). They look similar, but are different characters. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 18:56, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

The Wiki search seriously can't resolve the difference between a PC apostrophe and the standard Mac code? That sounds like something that needs to be addressed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theclevertwit (talk • contribs) 01:22, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

The search code can figure it out (if you put Viper’s Drag into the search box, Viper's Drag is the first result), but the exact title is not a page, so it's a red link. To make navigation easier (even though, as you suggest, it shouldn't be necessary), the page Viper’s Drag can be created as a redirect to Viper's Drag, which will make sure that either apostrophe will get to the same article. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 01:28, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Piping

You're doing a great job - I don't wish to discourage you, and I'm not complaining - but, I'm puzzled about your use of piping. There have been several examples, but [this one in particular] is particularly puzzling me. When you have a spare moment, could I bother you to explain your rationale to me? No hurry, and thanks in advance. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:34, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

The reason for that edit is because that link is an intentional link to a disambiguation page. What adding (disambiguation) does is lets everyone know that the link is intentional (per WP:INTDABLINK), which lets me (and everyone else) know that it doesn't need to be fixed. The bots that compile the lists of links to be disambiguated ignore those links as well. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 18:24, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, I understand that bit. It's the piping bit I was asking about - i.e. You went to the effort of "lets everyone know", then you hide it away from humans by piping it. I'm guessing the answer is, "it's not hidden very deeply"? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 17:00, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
'Lets everyone know' is referring to all of us at WP:DPL who go about fixing disambiguation links. There are definitely times where we keep (disambiguation) visible (usually in See Also lists), but most of the time its piped. The reader sees in the link the page that they actually go to. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 20:32, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Ah ha! Now I understand. Thanks, Pdfpdf (talk) 14:56, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for all the copy edits, disambiguations and other improvements that you make to our encyclopedia! All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:27, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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Well done for fixing 2188 ambiguous links over May 2013. Sir Rcsprinter, Bt (babble) @ 18:38, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Be careful

Hello, Niceguyedc! I'm not intending to disturb you now, but be careful when editing, especially when using automated tools such as WPCleaner. In this edit you intended to link to Hammarby IF (disambiguation), but you forgot the last parenthesis. As a result, the link did not work. Make sure that you check your edits before submitting them, although such kinds of mistakes aren't rare.

Cheers, HeyMid (contribs) 23:11, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Oops. That is an unusual typo for me. I've now linked the page properly to the disambiguation page, as there is no actual article on the sports club as a whole. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 23:30, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Not sure if all your good faith contributions to List of football stadiums in Norway were optimal. I spent a lot of time creating links that backed up every figure, but you replaced several of them with references that, in essence, provide no direct reference. Narssarssuaq (talk) 23:59, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
I didn't actually add or remove any references. A bunch of the references were identical, So they were consolidated into a single references in the list, with multiple appearances of each named reference. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 00:40, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
OK, I see. Narssarssuaq (talk) 01:52, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Chess WC disambiguation pages

What's the purpose of World Chess Championship 2000 (disambiguation) and World Chess Championship 2004 (disambiguation)? We already had World Chess Championship 2000 and World Chess Championship 2004 which were the disambiguation pages. Nothing links to your new pages and no one will ever look them up under those names. They seem pointless. Quale (talk) 02:43, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

The purpose of those links (along with the link to Steinitz Variation (disambiguation)) is because the links are intentional links to disambiguation pages. When intentionally linking to a disambiguation page, the link should be piped through the (disambiguation) page per WP:INTDABLINK/WP:HOWTODAB. This is done so that the link to the disambiguation page is known to be intentional, and does not need to be fixed. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 02:47, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply, that's actually a very good idea. Those disambiguation pages should not replace the actual pages in Index of chess articles. That page is used as a shared watchlist and it must point to the article pages that we actually edit rather than the disambiguation pages or else Special:RecentChangesLinked won't work. It is a reasonable question about whether the chess project should try to watch chess disambig pages as well. Currently we don't but for a very few exceptions. I don't think anyone has found it worth the effort to set up. Quale (talk) 03:15, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Well, those (disambiguation) pages are just going to be redirects, so there's no reason to watch those. But you're right about Special:RecentChangesLinked, so linking to the disambiguation page won't work for that. To be honest, I'm not sure that the Index articles of this type (and there are tons of them) should be in mainspace. They could all be in Wikipedia space and perform the exact same function. It doesn't bother me enough to propose anything anywhere, but if I ever see it come up somewhere I'll probably chime in. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 03:21, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the help

Thanks for the help on the pages for Timothy Kadavy and Donald Burdick. I keep meaning to figure out how to correctly configure duplicate references/footnotes, but I keep putting it off. I'll probably use those two pages as "go bys" to help me figure it out. Billmckern (talk) 15:01, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of ฿ (disambiguation)

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  • disambiguates no (zero) extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title.

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When it was created, there was a disambiguation page at ฿. Since that is not the case anymore, I have no objection to the deletion. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 04:26, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation via redirects

I'm afraid I don't understand your edits at Amory (name), where you changed the link, to take just one, from [[Amaury]] to [[Amaury (disambiguation)|Amaury]], given that the disambiguation page is in fact at [[Amaury]]? I notice that you've made similar changes elsewhere - could you explain? Jsmith1000 (talk) 11:09, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Sure. When intentionally linking to the disambiguation page, piping the link through the (disambiguation) page (per WP:INTDABLINK) lets those of us who fix disambiguation links (and the bots that compile the lists of disambiguation links) know that the link is intentional, and does not need to be fixed. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 17:11, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
OK - I've not come across that before - thanks for making it clear. Jsmith1000 (talk) 10:40, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

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Fixed. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:31, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks BD! I must have been typing a little too fast and put the (disambiguation) on that redirect. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:11, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

disambiguation in dab headers

I have been following your lead with dab headers. example
How does / should one respond to this: "(Undid revision 559379628 by Pdfpdf (talk) See WP:NAMB)"? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 00:22, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Hatnotes aren't needed on articles that the reader can't get to without knowing where they are going {per WP:NAMB). Anyone going to the Laplace Island (Antarctica) article knows that they are at an article about an island in the Antarctic. If the Laplace Island (Antarctica) was actually at Laplace Island (as, for example, Australia is), then a hatnote going to the disambiguation page (for other uses) would be appropriate.
I know that you've done quite a bit of work moving articles around, but I would suggest making the article on the Western Australia island before making the disambiguation page and moving the non-WA island article, as it would not surprise me if other editors moved to delete the disambiguation page and put the non-WA island back where it was, because the disambiguation page only has one blue link on it. I won't do it, but I don't want you to be surprised if some of the work you've been doing gets undone.
Thanks for the warning and suggestion. I will review my modus operandi. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 01:21, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
As for a response to the revert. There is no need for a response. That revert is valid per WP:NAMB. The hatnote is unnecessary. I haven't been adding hatnotes; I've just been changing the link on hatnotes that already exist to pipe through the (disambiguation) page. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 00:49, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Oh. I guess I mis-understood this edit (and some others I've seen). So I'm guessing the hatnote on that page should be removed? Pdfpdf (talk) 01:21, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, that hatnote can be removed. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 01:37, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Lists of islands of Western Australia

Re: this edit, there are literally dozens of such situations on the pages:

For your information: I have created the page Sortable list of islands of Western Australia and am working my way through it - I have already identified, and "fixed" many such situations on that page. When I have completed that page, I will copy the correct data to the above pages. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:33, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Ok. I can leave those pages alone in the near future. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 17:06, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Howdy. Thanks for your help. Please don't pipe links on Sortable list of islands of Western Australia - it makes it a lot more difficult to determine what has been disambiguated, and what needs to be disambiguated. Thanks in advance, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:18, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

P.S. There are a lot more to fix than just Prince Island. In fact, 90% of the blue links that haven't been fixed seem to point to islands in the Antarctic, or the Canadian Artic. Pdfpdf (talk) 11:22, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Ok. I agree that most of the blue links go to Arctic/Antarctic islands. I'll ignore the Sortable list page altogether from now on. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 11:24, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Oh no! Please don't do that. That would require me to duplicate your effort to get the same results that you have already achieved. As I said, your help is appreciated. I'm simply asking that you don't pipe the results of your discoveries. Cheers, and thanks for your efforts, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:31, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Ah. I see what you mean. You just want me to replace them so the link looks like Prince Island (Western Australia) to the reader. I can do that. Incidentally, you have two Prince Island entries on your lists, but only one at the disambiguation page. That's why one of them is still pointing to the disambiguation page. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 11:38, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. (Sorry to be ambiguous.) And thanks on the Prince Island issue, too. Pdfpdf (talk) 12:13, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

List of mountains and hills of the Harz

Hi nice guy. Thanks for helping to clean up the Harz mountains article. It's such a big table (translated from de.wiki) that it was getting hard to see the wood for the trees! Bermicourt (talk) 16:47, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

No problem. There are still quite a few ambiguous links on that page, but if the table is on de.wiki, I might have a look over there to see what those links are supposed to point to. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 20:36, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

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Jendresen disambiguation fixes.

Thanks for the attention, but since the adaptations he is presently writing are from the original novels, the links should be to said novels, not to previous adaptations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loomings (talk • contribs) 23:50, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, those two links can go to the novel. That paragraph probably needs to be rewritten, as there are links to the novel, followed by mentions of the directors of the film adaptations. Links to the film adaptations would be helpful to the reader (at least they would when those links are blue). -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 23:56, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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Heh. That was a redirect that was created after I moved the page to In Vain (band), but then I must have disambiguated the link on the old page, saving over the top of the redirect. Delete away. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 08:59, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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Nickelodeon

Can link the pages of the words "national anthems, flag" on Nickelodeon (Israel), Nick Jr. (Greece), Nick Jr. (Turkey), Nickelodeon (Portugal) & Nickelodeon (Greece) 69.157.164.52 (talk) 23:13, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you want each of the national anthem links to instead link the the proper nation's national anthem? And I don't think I see any flags on those articles. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 06:47, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

He wants them to be link into the proper nation's national anthem and check the articles out? 174.95.189.251 (talk) 17:52, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Ok. I've checked the articles for disambiguation links (there were only a couple) and linked national anthem to the article for the correct national anthem for that article. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 18:04, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Also link the flag and anthem Denmark, Montenegro, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Russia & Turkmenistan 174.91.69.179 (talk) 22:20, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

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