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Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! Saw your question about the actor--I'm not sure what to do here either, but the place to go with questions is Wikipedia:Help desk. Good luck, and if there's anything else I can do, let me know on my talk page. Yours, Meelar 04:36, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
User:Roylee
Regarding Roylee, thanks for your response, and pretend nothing happened :-) He is just particularly troublesome to clean up after, and now edits from anon IPs. Wizzy…☎ 08:31, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
Nobility stubs
Dear Robert: You may not be aware that it is possible (and desirable) to sub-categorize nobility stubs. May I take the liberty of drawing your attention to the following?:
Category:Nobility stubs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. To add an article to this category, use {{Noble-stub}} instead of {{stub}}.
Please use a more specific template if possible:
British peer or noble, use {{UK-noble-stub}}
European nobility, use {{euro-noble-stub}}
French nobility, use {{France-noble-stub}}
Fijian nobility, use {{Ratu-stub}}
Royalty, use {{royal-stub}}
Best wishes, Staffelde 14:41, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Re: Roylee
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Hi, Robert. I'm terribly sorry for getting back to you this late. This is concerning your clarification over at User talk:Mark Dingemanse/Roylee#rpyle731. I never meant to drag you into it; I merely noted that one of the edits made through an IP usually used by Roylee was to your userpage. I have now removed your userpage from the 'suspect edits' list, since I want to avoid conveying the impression that you have anything to do with this person. Please accept my apologies; you're obviously doing great work here. Enjoy the sunflower and keep it up! Kind regards, — mark ✎ 17:36, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks, Mark. Not a problem. --Rpyle731talk 07:50, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
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Thanks and Happy New Year
Firstly, let me wish you a very happy New Year and thank you for all your help in the Milhist Tag & Assess 2007 drive.
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Secondly, although the Tag & Assess 2007 drive is now officially closed, you are very welcome to continue tagging and assessing until 31 January 2008. Any articles you tag and assess during this time will be credited fully to your tagging tally for further award purposes.
Thirdly, if you can find the time, it would be good to have your feedback/comments on the drive at the Tag & Assess workshop
Thanks again for your help, --ROGER DAVIES talk 11:13, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- You're very welcome. Just trying to be useful and gnomish. rpyle731talk 05:15, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
New! BCAD drive from Milhist
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Confirmation
I wish to abandon my current Rpyle731 account on Wiktionary, as I have lost the password and don't have access to the email associated with it.
Pipeline bombings and the current event template
I removed {{Current}} again, because Yellowdesk noted in edit summary that it's intended for articles edited by many on the same day. See Template:Current#Guidelines. Galatee (talk) 12:50, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Radio
Did you have an opinion as to weather the article "List of most-listened-to radio programs" should stay or go? You opinion would be helpful. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:22, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Bedugul
Bit confused why a cities tag goes on a small balinese town - cripes for consistency you have about a 1,000 more in Indonesia - I would have a very careful think if you really want to do that :) - cheers SatuSuro 00:27, 5 February 2009 (UTC) Thats cool - just if you want to do the 1,000 + indonesian towns and cities :) - cheers SatuSuro 09:54, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Re: Stub Sorting
Thanks, I made a few articles and there was always this stub sorting thing. I will try to do it next time I make an article. Acebulf (talk) 02:20, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- I tried to stub sort at my new Joshua Milne article. Is this good? Acebulf (talk) 19:45, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rpyle, thanks for catching my typos, and for this necessary job of stub-sorting! I think, actually, I'm ready to remove the stub-template, though on my talk page I found a speedy deletion notification for that article--that's funny, but the joker didn't place it on the article. Anyway, I really appreciate the help, and keep up the good work! Drmies (talk) 05:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
Question about addition of Wikiproject US banner-North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve
Should I add this banner to all the other articles I have done as well? My list is here. Sincerely, Marcia Wright (talk) 15:31, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
Michael Murphy (footballer)
Hi, with regard to this edit, I've reverted as you had the wrong sport: he is not a soccer player. Just to let you know, the correct one for Gaelic football is [this]. Tameamseo (talk) 12:39, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
California Ranchos
Thanks for your tag and assess work here. Emargie (talk) 18:07, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Chantilly Forest
{{helpme}} I was trying to write a stub on a sub page of my User page, and goofed when trying to move it to article space. Instead of continuing to try fixing it further myself and completely snarling things, I did the wise thing and put in the template to request a page move. I hope that whoever fixes it can follow the spaghetti.
- I found the article's talk page, but I'm not sure where the article itself is. Please change the helpme tag back if you need more help.-- fetchcomms☛ 01:52, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, for the help, Fetchcomms. I am following up with JPG-GR. --Rpyle731talk 03:37, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
- No problem. If you experience more issues, just ask.-- fetchcomms☛ 03:26, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, for the help, Fetchcomms. I am following up with JPG-GR. --Rpyle731talk 03:37, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
- I cleaned up the mainspace "spaghetti" before I even noticed this. Feel free to attempt your move again. JPG-GR (talk) 01:55, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, JPG-GR. -- Rpyle731talk 03:37, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help. Could you check this article? I don't known english very well and sometimes do mistakes. Zacharyjos (talk) 22:45, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot :) Zacharyjos (talk) 22:56, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Iain McNciol/McNicol
{{helpme}} We have 2 copies of the same stub article, one with a misspelled title. I'm not sure how to merge/move to correct this.
- Done. I have redirected from Iain McNciol to the correct spelling. Chzz ► 20:33, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
AfD
AfD nomination of Moyle horse
An article that you have been involved in editing, Moyle horse, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moyle horse. Thank you.
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Robert N. Hall page
I would like to add information to the Wikipedia page for Robert N. Hall and I saw that you were the most recent editor. Robert N. Hall recently was featured in a series of interviews around the 50th anniversary of the Laser on the blog "Edison's Desk". He is a retiree of GE Global Research (retired in 1987) and Edison's Desk is the GE Global Research blog. I think that adding links to the YouTube videos of Robert N. Hall speaking and looking back on his accomplishments to the laser technology industry would be a useful add to his page.
Here is the initial YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B1P9ERCaxg
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Waldemar de Brito
{{help}}I am trying to add a listas= clause to the WPBio on this subject's talk page. Not sure what the correct sorting would be. There is no DEFAULTSORT on the article, and other similar articles have varying sorts, either by the 'de' part, or by the Brito. Is there any consensus on this? On further reading, I think I have the answer, if I read correctly it would be sorted in the B's. You can leave a comment if you have further information.
- Reading that same guideline I come up with "Brito, Waldemar De".--Commander Keane (talk) 05:34, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, thank you. That was the article I was working on, and I went ahead and added the Defaultsort, as well as the listas to the talk page. Rpyle731talk 05:40, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
- Well I came to the same conclusion as Rpyle731. Perhaps a trip to the talk page is in order? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 05:35, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
- I found a 1989 newspaper article (Chicago Sun-Times) refer to his family as just "de Brito".--Commander Keane (talk) 05:42, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Assessment
You have rated many articles without any references or sources as start class articles. Those articles falls into stub category. 'Start' class article should satisfy fundamental content policies such as notability and BLP, and provide enough sources to establish verifiability. --> Gggh talk/contribs 20:15, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry. Thanks for the heads up. Rpyle731talk 20:48, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey doesn't assessing an article with AWB kindof defeat the point of assessment. When people assess articles, they get a chance to make minor changes on articles and make sure the article is categorized correctly according to the standard practice for their project. IMHO it is better to have the backlog (which I am aware is about 400,000 articles) than to just arbitrarily assess articles automatically with no indication that the article was assess through an automatic process. Sadads (talk) 08:09, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
- My concern is more that you are missing opportunities to clean up articles, including proper formatting and categorization, by pushing through the unnassessed articles with AWB. Generally, I make at least 3 clean up edits or tags for certain quality issues for every 3-4 articles I assess (if not more). The use of the semi-automated editor lessons the time you spend actually interacting with the page, and thus the liklihood of being able to actual make these clean up edits (which help move pages through backlogs and into backlogs so that they get more eyes on them). Sadads (talk) 04:48, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Balingian
Hello Robert. I'm puzzled as to why you added {{coord missing|Malaysia}} to the Balingian article. Do you really want me to duplicate the coordinate data from the infobox into a separate coord statement? — Hebrides (talk) 06:55, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, I didn't see the coordinate data was already there. I will remove the "missing" tag if it is still there. Rpyle731talk 05:27, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Stubsensor
Thanks for helping out at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stubsensor/20100826, keep up the good work and leave a message on the talk page if you have any questions :) JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 17:38, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
I saw you rated this article as start class. I agree: it is a bit more than a stub but not a lot. I quite often start "Who's Who" entries like this giving a basic biographical outline of someone who has some level of notability. It seems to me that a subject may often deserve a cursory article that just gives the basic facts. Rating an article as "start" - or as "stub" for that matter - somehow implies that more should be added. Maybe there should be some sort of rating that implies "good enough". The article on a person, book, movie, place, whatever, gives adequate coverage given the relative importance of the subject. Thoughts? Aymatth2 (talk) 01:39, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for stub sorting EDC
Thanks for sorting the stub EDC Everyday carry I hope the article is comprehensive enough to survive deletion. EDC is not new but the acronym sure is........... thanks for the sort while I worked on the article. --Neoking (talk) 07:00, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
SFOBBESR
Greetings:
I reverted your edits, which destroyed the major sections of the article (Design proposals, History, Design and construction), carefully crafted by User:Giggett to form a proper outline and context for the contents. If you feel that your edit was appropriate, I suggest that you discuss this with that editor in particular.
Best wishes,
Leonard G. (talk) 06:26, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Great catch
How on earth did you correct my stupidity here? In any case, thanks very much. --John (talk) 18:28, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
- You're welcome, John. Just doing my WikiGnome thing. Rpyle731talk 05:24, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Stub templates
Thanks for your work on fixing stubs. It's not often that I don't find the right one, but after 2 or 3 tries I give up! --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:24, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
- You're welcome Rpyle731talk 05:43, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you
Thanks for your help in Wikifying my first entry in Wikipedia in honour of my friend who died today. Altadel (talk) 06:14, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're very welcome. Just doing my part. So sorry for your loss. Rpyle731talk 01:45, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
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- Thanks and you're welcome. Rpyle731talk 01:48, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
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Do the Wikipedia rules accept Variety.com as a valid source for a fact about a performer? Just doing a bit of cleanup on the above article, which was unreferenced. Thanks. Rpyle731talk 02:08, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, the source is reliable and independent. I found the article personally interesting, as well. Best regards, Cind.amuse (Cindy) 02:22, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, Cindy. Rpyle731talk 08:15, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
San Francisco meetup at WMF headquarters
Hi Rpyle731,
I just wanted to give you a heads-up about the next wiki-meetup happening in SF. It'll be located at our very own Wikimedia Foundation offices, and we'd love it if some local editors who are new to the meetup scene came and got some free lunch with us :) Please sign up on the meetup page if you're interested in attending, and I hope to see you soon! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 23:50, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
LibraryThing-o en Esperanto
Kara amiko! La tradukado de LibraryThing-o al Esperanto bone progresis. Dankegon al "Annix"! Vidu http://epo.librarything.com/zeitgeist/language/epo paĝon pri la ĝis nun plej ofte aldonitaj verkoj kaj aŭtoroj. Tamen necesas pligrandigi la bazon de la esperantlingvaj kunlaborantoj, de la esperantlingvaj libroemuloj. Bv. sekvi (provizorajn) klarigojn haveblajn ĉe http://epo.librarything.com/topic/134789 . Antaŭdankon! ·לערי ריינהארט·T·m:Th·T·email me· 21:35, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
listas
FYI... the listas value for David McMullan is: listas=McMullan, David (not Macmullan).
Almost all the articles you did recently from the category "Biography articles without listas parameter" had serious problems from the same creating editor. Wrong birth dates, birthplaces, death dates and almost every Defaultsort... it is a mess. So, I've been trying to go thru them with a fine tooth comb. For new articles like these, I normally go thru them with a closer inspection, but these are in a whole new ballpark. Almost all the articles in the listas category are new articles, so best to keep a more watchful eye on these. Bgwhite (talk) 05:19, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
- Oh... the Biography banner is always the first banner. Bgwhite (talk) 05:20, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
- Double oh. NO spaces in listas or defaultsort. Should be: listas=Bowyer, Sam Not listas= Bowyer, Sam or listas=Bowyer , Sam or listas=Bowyer,Sam
- Mediawiki software uses the space (or lack of one) as a sortvalue. Bowyer,Sam will be the first Bowyer listed because the software thinks that is one word. listas=Bowyer , Sam will be the last Bowyer listed because the software uses the space as a letter. Bowyer,Sam problem is rampant in Asian names for some reason. Bgwhite (talk) 05:43, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry about the Mc... listas error. I missed that Wikipedia had changed how those were handled. Thanks for the information. Rpyle731talk 05:55, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
- Amen to that. The day I finally remember how to do something, the Wikipedia policy gets changed. I don't mind that because instead of my normal stupid, dumb mistakes, I get to blame a mistake on something else. Bgwhite (talk) 06:50, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry about the Mc... listas error. I missed that Wikipedia had changed how those were handled. Thanks for the information. Rpyle731talk 05:55, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Bugging you again
I haven't bugged you in a while, so hey, might as well give you a hard time. At least I'm not my wife... her definition of giving me a hard time is knocks with a "hard" baseball bat for a period of "time".
I've noticed you have been giving singers or composers a&e-work-group. They should have musician-work-group. Sometimes it is difficult because they maybe in more than one area. If their primary area is music, then go with the musician-work-group. I don't think it was you, but somebody else, that was using a&e instead of filmbio.
I keep seeing you name plastered in article's history, so keep up the good work. Bgwhite (talk) 05:29, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Madre Grande Monastery
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The external link on this article (http://www.madregrande.org) is being blocked by my browser as an attack page. Should I mark it as a bad link, or remove it to the talk page until we can be sure the link is ok? Or do nothing? Or some other option? Thanks Rpyle731talk 00:22, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
- If it's something marked with malware, it should be removed (as I'll do in a moment) until that's clarified. --joe deckertalk to me 00:39, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
- Got help on irc. Link has been removed. Thanks, Cat in the Hat and joe decker. Rpyle731talk 00:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
musician-work-group=yes
FYI... I've seen this before and per Talk:Emily Pulley. Singers and musicians should be under |musician-work-group=yes
and not |a&e-work-group=yes
. Bgwhite (talk) 00:54, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
AWB request
I note that some time ago you did some assessment of California redirect talk pages as redirects, e.g. Talk:Interstate 880 (Sacramento, California). Could you set up AWB to go through my contributions from 17 November 2012 and mark as redirect all the talk pages of redirects that I edited today? This would involve pages such as Talk:Gale Ranch middle school, Talk:Will Rogers Middle School (Lawndale), and Talk:Gonsalves Elementary School, which are currently marked as stubs. Nyttend (talk) 12:34, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
- I would be glad to help, but it has been some time since I used AWB, and I was never an expert when I did use it. I'm not sure I would be able to make AWB do what you want it to. I can look into it further, and maybe I could cobble something together. A more proficient editor might be able to help you better. Rpyle731talk 01:42, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
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