User talk:Taestell/Archive 1

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Meelar (talk) 23:17, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

Cincinnati bridges[edit]

I took some pics of the bridges around Cincy today and posted them to Commons. Find 'em here: commons:category:Cincinnati, Ohio.

Thanks a lot. --taestell 07:11, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

I got a better shot of the Taylor-Southgate the other day from across the river. --Tysto 04:51, 2005 August 14 (UTC)

List of albums[edit]

Thank you for adding to wikipedia however I must point out that EPs are not considered albums and should not be added to that list. Also some longtime editors like Tuf-KAT are pretty much strict on what can be added to the list and periodically delete entries that are not formatted and do not have info boxes. Megan1967 04:33, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I will go ahead and remove all of the EPs from the list. The articles themselves were just created, and hopefully will grow to eventually contain info boxes. taestell 19:42, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

Systm pre-VFD[edit]

I saved the old Systm article, including the revision history, via Special:Export before it was deleted. I'm not sure how you saved it (if at all), but if you're interested I can send the file (xml) to you. —Mar ka ci 2005-06-22 T 17:54 Z

Mozilla Application Suite[edit]

Thanks man! I don't know why they pruned the revision history so that I can't revert to previous revision. Maybe because the one who did that is an admin? Anyway, thanks for fixing the article. --minghong 02:17, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User:Tony Sidaway merged the article with Mozilla, eliminating its history. I understand that there was some sort of GNU FDL issue, but I still think it was a bad idea to undo all of the work everyone had put into that article. Oh well, it'll get fixed. --taestell 03:21, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Revision 3[edit]

Looks like there's plenty of consensus without me. siafu 00:09, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've added my Keep vote to the page. — Peter McGinley 08:41, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. --taestell 13:07, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

f2g.net[edit]

It seems that the server is down. I can't visit my website, can't login the FTP or web interface. Just to see if you encounter the same problem too. :-/ --minghong 16:20, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've experienced a lot of problems with f2g.net, especially general slowness. I just moved my main blog to a different free host, cjb.cc. It's very similar to f2g, except that they give more space and bandwidth, and allow some PHP and .htaccess. The guy running it hand-approves all of the applications, so it hopefully will not ever become as slow and unreliable as f2g. --taestell 23:59, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

It seems that the DoS attacks had finished. At least I can access my website now. :-) --minghong 12:55, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Baltic States[edit]

Hi, surely the Baltic States are commonly understood in English as Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia and the article Baltic States should primarily deal with that? The article as it is is 95% about them as it is, and this conception of 'Baltic Countries' while valid (e.g. http://www.cbss.st ?) is somewhat secondary to the existing meaning. Disclaimer: I have no specific knowledge on this, only snooping around because I'm off to Riga next week! -- Blorg 23:39, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not an expert on the topic, and I merged the three or four articles on the subject per requests from other users. I organized the sections (Baltic Sea countries, Balticum, Baltic states) in the most logical way that I knew how. However, if you know more on the topic than I do, I'm sure the article would benefit greatly from your contributions and reorganization. Thanks, --taestell 05:23, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning EP[edit]

I noticed you changed it from a redirect to European Parliament to a disambiguation page. However, we are currently seeking consensus on what to do with EP on its talk page. Please read the talk page, and possibly add in your two cents. (You don't have to undo your changes though.) To give you a little background, it was originally a disambiguation page, but then I argued that it should redirect to extended play, to which a few people agreed (and no one disagreed). Then, someone changed it to redirect to European Parliament, and we have to start all over again. My arguments against it being a disambiguation page are on the EP talk page. —EdGl 23:10, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Milford Parkway[edit]

I reverted your edit; please read WP:USSH. --NE2 20:32, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Chris(topher) Wood[edit]

Thank you for your good work here. I see that you're continuing to clear up the mess. When you get tired or too bored, don't push yourself but instead just stop: I have to disconnect myself from the net for a couple of hours now, but after that I'll continue the disambiguation. -- Hoary 00:53, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help on this. Unfortunately, I don't know a lot about the artists named Christopher Wood and it is hard to tell on some pages which one is being talked about.

For now, I'm just leaving several of them how they are; hopefully you or someone else knows more about them than I do. --taestell 01:08, 21 October 2006 (UTC) Done. (Aside from more or less automatically generated pages, archives, and a user page.) There's something slightly fishy about the Scots artist, however. This pair of edits was of course indefensible, but thought provoking all the same. -- Hoary[reply]

dab assistance[edit]

Thanks for the help with the William Wrigley dabs. I am wondering how I should dab the Category:Busch family. Many of them seem like they should have August Busch dab headers. However, it may be more appropriate for the whole family to have Busch dab headers. What do you think? TonyTheTiger 16:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Supremes albums[edit]

Category:The Supremes albums is a subset of Category:Motown albums (all Supremes LP releases were issued on Motown). Therefore, each Supremes album should not be included individually in the Motown albums category. --FuriousFreddy 03:49, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(no title)[edit]

Who told you can you edit anything on my page...this is the second time I had to confront someone today about this....STAY THE FUCK OFF MY USER PAGE!!!! --ShawnHill 18:59, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See User talk:ShawnHill#User page edit. --taestell 19:17, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First off, I want to apologize for my outburst, the tone in which I came at you was out of line...you showed respect when you responed back, so, I must do so in kind. My frustrations wasn't totally directed towards per se, but towards the site in general, and some of our fellow Wikipedians and the way this site is used. I won't bore you with my feelings about the site, but I understand why you did what did, and again my apologies to you.ShawnHill 22:05, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Radio station moves[edit]

Hi Taestell. Could you point me towards the radio station naming conventions before I perform your requested move? Thanks. —Mets501 (talk) 02:22, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested page moves[edit]

The guidelines for tv/radio station article names are posted at Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio Stations#Redirects/disambiguation articles. Thanks, —taestell 02:28, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! —Mets501 (talk) 03:10, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew Michael Smith[edit]

Just wondering what was wrong with the previous name for this article (Mike Smith (Gloucestershire cricketer)). It doesn't particularly matter since the redirect from the latter still exists, but given that he's always called Mike it seems strange to change the article title to a form of his name that I don't think I've ever seen used! Loganberry (Talk) 23:35, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

LoPbN Cat[edit]

Checking for Cat'n of LoPbN pages by scanning their source is an erroneous procedure. Their renderings show the Cat that they "inherit" by design thru a template.
--Jerzy•t 20:40, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Shams3bw.jpg[edit]

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Crosby, Stills and Nash[edit]

Could you explain somebody would make edits like this? I might point a couple things out to you:

The link points to the same article before and after your edit.
You made no change which is visible to the reader, not even changing "and" to "&", as you may have intended, if indeed the ampersand is the more correct form.
Needlessly adding piped links on a large scale makes paragraph text more verbose and difficult for article editors to sift through.

Please consider leaving the harmless redirects alone. On the other hand, there are likely thousands of pages that link to misspelled redirects. "Fixing" these "wikified typoes" (by doing a full replacement of the bracketed text) would be of significantly greater benefit (you will probably find other spelling errors to fix while you're there, even) than changing a link that's not broken, and piping one that needs not be disambiguated. —freak(talk) 21:32, Nov. 9, 2006 (UTC)

TV/radio station moves[edit]

Hi! Just want to let you know that I think you've misinterpreted the naming conventions. Per WP:NAME:

All full-power Canadian FM and commercial TV stations have a (-FM or -TV) suffix... most U.S. and many Mexican stations, do not.

A quick search of the FCC FM Query for, say, WUSB shows that the correct call sign is simply "WUSB"; compare to the results for WCBS (which lists the station as "WCBS-FM").

Some parts of the guidelines refer to what to do if there are multiple stations with the same base callsign. It doesn't mean that all FM/TV stations should have titles with the "-FM"/"-TV" suffices, because many do not.

It's a common mistake, but the distinction is important. Happy editing! — stickguy (:^›)— || talk || 22:08, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of idioms in the English language[edit]

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re: Category:Date of birth missing[edit]

Good evening. Per the discussion about privacy concerns expressed at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Privacy of birthdays, date of birth should generally not be added to the biographies of living non-public or semi-public figures. So far, that policy has been interpreted fairly strictly with a pretty high bar being set for the definition of "public figures" who are assumed to have given up their rights to privacy.

By the same token, we should not be adding Category:Date of birth missing to articles unless we have made the case that the person meets the "public figures" threshold. Otherwise, we're just baiting new users into adding content even though the community has already said that we shouldn't include that particular data point. Category:Year of birth missing is okay but the exact date is often not. Thanks for your help. Rossami (talk) 06:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Double Redirect[edit]

Oops, it looks like I created a double redirect in the article Extended stay hotel to Apartment Hotel. I appreciate you fixing it. Thanks Navou ^talk 20:20, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TaeBot[edit]

Are you still interested in running this bot? —Mets501 (talk) 21:11, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I am. Let us proceed here. —taestell 18:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm nominating "Nerd (disambig)" for deletion[edit]

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Greatest Hits[edit]

Yeah, that occurred to me just after I finished. Sorry for not thinking it through fully beforehand. Feel free to change the appropriate redirects back, or I will get to it myself eventually. Thanks, InnocuousPseudonym 19:16, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for changing them back. InnocuousPseudonym 21:19, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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