User talk:Clipper471

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1 Welcome
2 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Pan American World Airways1.jpg)
3 Use of commas in dates
4 Trinity Pic
5 Boston-Maine Airways‎/Northeast Airlines‎ Articles
6 Pan Am Railways / Pan Am Systems
7 Kohl's
8 Erick Barkley
9 Igor Rakočević‎
10 John Salmons
11 Barry Sumpter
12 WikiProject Dallas
13 professional basketball players
14 3RR
15 A few comments
16 Thanks
17 Alamo Bowl
18 Edit summary
19 Lord & Taylor

[edit] Welcome

Hello, Clipper471, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Newcomers help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! --FloNight ^talk 04:36, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Pan American World Airways1.jpg)

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Thanks for uploading Image:Pan American World Airways1.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that your image can be used under a fair use license. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If your image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why your image was deleted. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. —Bkell (talk) 23:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Use of commas in dates

I don't see anywhere else in Wikipedia where this system is being implimented. And in case you didn't read this website's Manual of Style, it isn't necessary to put commas after dates. I know you're a copy editor, but this book doesn't define Wikipedia style and some of it's "rules" that are in it, but not on wikipedia, shouldn't be followed. Even the wikipedia article you showed me said that the book had only a limited number of followers. --NcSchu 15:15, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Will do! Thank you for your knowledge - It has been absorbed. --NcSchu 17:38, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trinity Pic

I was just wondering why you deleted the Trinity pic from the San Antonio colleges gallery. The pic was never erased from wikipedia. Dknights411 20:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

It's OK. I'm just kinda proud of that picture because I took it ;-) Anyway, the Trinity pic come out just fine on my computer. If it's at all possibe, you might want to check a second computer just to make sure if everything's all right. Dknights411 03:34, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Boston-Maine Airways‎/Northeast Airlines‎ Articles

Clipper, Thanks for fixing up my edits to the Boston-Maine Airways‎ and Northeast Airlines‎ articles... —Cliffb 04:23, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pan Am Railways / Pan Am Systems

Hello,

Thank you for redirecting the Guilford Rail System and Guilford Transportation Industries pages to new pages for Pan Am Railways and Pan Am Systems, respectively. I've been wanting to do that, but I'm still a newbie and wasn't sure how.

Is there a "Wikipedia For Dummies" book available? ;-) That's what I need!

BMRR 15:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kohl's

Thanks for the help. I, too, wish there was a "Wikiediting for Dummies" book, or at least a pdf --Orange Mike 00:14, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Erick Barkley

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.--Downwards 03:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

No. It wasn't an experiment. It was a removal of a category that does not apply to the player. The template you used does not apply. Clipper471 21:57, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Igor Rakočević‎

No. It wasn't an experiment. It was a removal of a category that does not apply to the player. The template you used does not apply. Clipper471 21:57, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Salmons

No. It wasn't an experiment. It was a removal of a category that does not apply to the player. The template you used does not apply. Clipper471 21:59, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Please stop your edit war with Downwards. Anyone who takes the time to check online (as I did, I know nothing about basketball) can see that Salmons was associated with the Spurs, but is no longer a team member. The two of you are the only ones editing this article, so please decide how to deal witht this argument. --Iriseyes 05:26, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. This was a case where I reacted negatively to Downwards personal attacks. A review of his Talk page shows he frequently does this to other editors. Clipper471 21:59, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barry Sumpter

No. It wasn't an experiment. It was a removal of a category that does not apply to the player. The template you used does not apply. Clipper471 21:59, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Dallas

I noticed you uploaded some images of Dallas.. you may be interested in joining WikiProject Dallas. Cheers! drumguy8800 C T 07:47, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] professional basketball players

Don't have to playing in the United States to be considered professionals. Please stop removing the word professional from the Igor Rakočević article. Thank you. // Laughing Man 15:10, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. The edit has been restored. The removal was accidently made during other reversions. (See above.) Clipper471 22:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR

You are in danger of violating the three-revert rule. Please cease further reverts or you may be blocked from editing. // Laughing Man 04:20, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three revert rule in regard to the article Igor Rakočević. Other users in violation have also been blocked. The timing of this block is coincidental, and does not represent an endorsement of the current article revision. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future on the article's talk page (Talk:Igor Rakočević).

Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:16, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, for the massiveness of this all, I'm extending the block to 48h. Please see [1]. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:55, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. This was warranted. I reacted negatively to Downwards personal attacks, particularly his Christ give this guy a brain comment he made in an edit summary in my first interaction with him. Will keep my cool. Clipper471 22:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A few comments

Hi Clipper471. We may or may not have interacted in the past, but whenever I see your name on an NBA or San Antonio Spurs related edit, I never have to check it, because I know you are very knowledgable in those subjects, and always have great edits to improve the encyclopedia. However, your recent edit wars with Downwards have been very disconcerting. I understand that you feel he has violated a few Wikipedia guidelines, including NPA and 3RR, but I remind you that it takes at least two to edit war. In the future, I hope the two of you can work out your differences on the article talk pages, or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Basketball Association. Edit wars are unproductive for many reasons, including that they cloud page histories, create bad feelings between editors, and take up huge amounts of time from otherwise very productive editors. Thanks for your understanding, and I hope you and Downwards can get along better in the future; having you blocked is a major detriment to the quality of the encyclopedia. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. Cheers, EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 22:28, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes. I reacted negatively to Downwards personal attacks. I let him get the better of me. Clipper471 22:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

{{unblock-auto|2=Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "Clipper471". The reason given for Clipper471's block is: "revert-warring".|3=Future Perfect at Sunrise}}

Try again, should be working now. There was an autoblock, triggered some time last evening. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Clipper471 22:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Please do not involve shared company IP addresses when you are involved with disputes with others here at Wikipedia. You're going to affect more than just yourself when you do. -- 12.106.111.10 18:00, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you so much for your help with Willowbrook Mall. Postoak 22:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Looks great, no question about notability. Do you think that a new category "Retail in Houston" would be appropriate for malls, shopping districts and Houston stores (if any exist)? Thanks Postoak 20:26, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

You are invited to participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject Houston, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about Houston and related areas.
Currently, we are discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated!

[edit] Alamo Bowl

I was looking at your edits to Alamo Bowl, and I was very impressed. However, what concerns me is that all other bowl game articles are listed by Winning Team/Losing Team, and without ranks. I was wondering if you were planning to do this for other bowls. If so, great, but if not, I'll have to revert your for consistency's sake. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 00:14, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. --Geniac 16:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lord & Taylor

Hello. I'm very sorry that your edits to Lord & Taylor became collateral damage in the huge revert I had to do the other day. I was aware that some likely legitimate edits would be undone; but unfortunately another well intentioned editor, in an attempt to get the article to a version before the vandalism started, reverted all the citations and manual of style changes I had put into the Current stores section. Since there are no citations for the Former stores section, I really have no way to tell what's fact and what's fiction anyway so I have no real basis to pick and choose which edits to keep or delete down there. If you have a reference for the former stores section, could you please cite it, or -if it's online- share it with me and I'll cite it myself? Thanks so much for helping out on the article, and again please accept my apologies for deleting your edits along with the rest the other day. --Elipongo ^{(Talk|contribs)} 15:55, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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