User talk:Closeapple

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[edit] Old stuff

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[edit] Newer stuff

Hey, I noticed the Caterpillar thing too. Trying to start some discussion on the talk page. I'm not sure the controversy is a big enough deal to be noteworthy, but it's already been deleted and reverted a bunch of times. Friday 29 June 2005 16:04 (UTC)

About the Illinois State Route 40 article... here's what I posted:

Well, there's the timeline for Upgrade 74 -- they're closing the bridge for 6 months so that they can remove 150 feet of truss. It would probably be impossible to completely replace an entire bridge in 6 months. Also, a mile-long bridge by itself would cost well over $300,000,000 -- the new northern St. Louis bridge has a price tag of well over $1 billion, assuming it gets built. See http://www.newriverbridge.org/faqlist.asp. Add to this the fact that the construction zone is about 6 miles long. ---Rob 03:46, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] buyblue.org

I and a few other people have noticed 12.221.202.125 and some other users adding links to a site called BuyBlue.org and ignoring requests to stop. Since the link seems to be added with a similar description to multiple articles, and the user ignores requests instead of responding, I suspect Wikipedia:Spam or whatever they call swarms of link-adding these days. I intend to remove this link from at least twice as many articles as I see someone spam every time I catch someone doing it, and including the ones I think cause them to get ranked the highest on Google. Helpful links:

Anyone else notice this and/or know what they're up to? The site itself claims to be applying for 501(c)(3) charity status, and it looks like it could be a legitimate site, but the way their followers(?) are adding cookie-cutter links to Wikipedia doesn't look very charitable to me. If they're legitimate, shouldn't there be a template or something?

Um . . . what's wrong with people linking to buyblue.org? LegCircus 17:15, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
It looks like someone has started this up again (or it has never stopped). I'm currently undoing additions made by User:Dave Mott this morning. There still a bunch out there, and in the past it has been added in alphabetical order. I don't think this is just a well-meaning person adding a link they think is interesting now and then. It is methodical and systemic. Mostly I just wanted to say that I'm glad it isn't just me that sees this as a problem. --Straif 19:14, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why is American Coot not American coot instead?

Somewhere on the Wikipedia, and I can't remember where (maybe the Manual of Style or the Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life) it is stated that bird names are capitalized for all words in the name since that is the common standard for ornithologists. BlankVerse 18:14, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Peoria Category

Hi, I just wanted to tell you that your idea of a category for Peoria related articles is great, as are your contributions regarding the subject. I made a tiny collaboration by adding the category to Peoria War, which I recently created and which you may like to review. May I also ask you, if I may, where does your interest for Spain and Argentina comes from? Regards, Phaedriel 23:29, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I think I'll make some sort of Peoria-area category next weekend when I have time and can move items that affect the area as a whole but are currently Category:Peoria County, Illinois, Category:Tazewell County, Illinois, Category:Woodford County, Illinois, or uncategorized. My interest in southern Spain comes from having a friend who lives in Murcia; I've visited there and learned a bit about the area. My interest in Telecom Argentina was sort of side effect: On some article (probably AT&T or MAE-East) I stumbled onto a mislink to Equant that should have been to Equant (France Télécom). While researching that, I noticed that the France Télécom article had a huge section about Telecom Argentina, so I split that off. I'm interested in telecom subjects in general and telephone companies I haven't heard of before, though. --Closeapple 03:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Radio station merge

FYI I've done the WHN → WEPN merge you recommended. Wasted Time R 15:33, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Feedback

Hi Closeapple,

You have removed my posts from the bankruptcy section (and others). Actually, thanks for doing that since it forced me to read the guidlines for adding content to the site more carefully. I assure you I'm not a spammer and will continue to add useful information to the site (if allowed) that meets the guidelines. For example I added two new sections:

Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada) and Superintendent of Bankruptcy

Thanks again for your feedback.

[edit] TV Market Templates

DO NOT add digital channels to TV market templates. It looks extremely sloppy. Take a look at this to see templates that show what the template standard is. --CFIF 17:50, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contradiction in Peoria article

Unfortunately, http://www.peoriatribe.com appears to be down at the moment, but if you look at their history on the google cache it appears that there was indeed a tribe of Peorias in Illinois. http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:B1C7nlGob7UJ:www.peoriatribe.com/history.php+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

The city of peoria homepage http://www.ci.peoria.il.us/ also tends to backup this explaination. Suppafly 04:34, 18 February 2006 (UTC)


  1. Hello Closeapple. One of your recent edits was undone by an automated bot as likely abuse of editing privileges. Our welcome page provides information for new users who would like to contribute. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you feel you have recieved this notice in error, please contact the bot owner. Thank you for your interest in our project. // Tawkerbot2 12:55, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reply re: Tawkerbot2

  • The bot undid a copyvio revert. I put "rv copyvio" in the edit summary but, as per Wikipedia:Copyright problems#Instructions, I didn't add a copyvio tag, since the tag is supposedly only for complete removals where there's nothing legal to revert to.
Perhaps we should add a machine readable hidden copyvio tag or something similar to that, I'll have a look into filtering decisions based on the edit summary, currently the bot doesn't look at the summaries but I'll have a look.
The bot essentially subst's in a warning template, I didn't have it add a new category due to the fact that most of these pages will already have lists of vandalism and wouldn't need a list but I'll see what I can do there.
  • Is there any way for the bot to tell a registered user with an established edit history from the usual vandals? (Not that "established" Wikipedians don't sometimes go rotten suddenly. Hopefully it's rare though.)
In short short of pulling a Wikipedia user's history each time the bot checks, there is no possibility of adding edit history support, the bot whould have to grab various pages from that users history to determine if they were trusted. The bot does have a whitelist, it's powered by pgkbot and we can add users there manually but auto whitelist is a bit of a challenge. If you have any idea as to how it would check, its a problem I haven't managed to find a solution for yet.

Thanks for the insight! --Tawker 17:44, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Radio Station

Hmm...I'd forgotten I asked that lol. Thanks for answering :) — Ilyanep (Talk) 16:19, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] About NRK 3

How did u get any info about NRK 3? I have checked the NRK themselves and they has no plans to air station. The only thing I have about it is an public radio channel (which may be NRK P3, i don't know), but that's the only thing I've got. Please inform me as I live in Norway myself. PS: I'm not an editor/regulator ivers 17:58, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I got the information from the Bokmål Wikipedia entries no:NRK and no:NRK3. I don't know Norweigan, so it could be different and I wouldn't know it. However, http://www.journalisten.no/ seems to have some articles about it, and http://www.nrk.no/programmer/tv/frokost_tv/5485577.html has a related interview video. --Closeapple 18:08, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, youre right. When the digital cable net will be aired the NRK 2 will go over to be an channel designed for children. It will contain news, documentaries and regional programs. It has actually some kind of similarity to SVT24 which is kind of the Swedish channel for this use. ivers 18:16, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Diocese map

Ah, the diocese map. My roommate was amused and horrified when I spent a whole day making that. Your update looks pretty good. The Provinces of Washington and Los Angeles look to be the same color, though, and a few adjacent provinces (Kansas City, Kansas and St. Louis; Omaha and Denver) are probably too close in color. john k 08:05, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British Royalty

British Royalty Closeapple, WikiProject British Royalty wants you!
WikiProject British Royalty is an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to British royalty on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you should visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
DBD 11:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Upper Mississippi Baseball League

I am really curious is this real or not, I noticed that you commented on the Peoria Prarie Dogs talk page about their first game and it would appear that you know what you are talking about.

I really want to believe that this league is legitimate and that this article is true,

DO you know whether it is or not and if so how do you know?? so many people say that it is probably a hoax and also know other site other than Wikipedia has anything regarding this fabled league.

Please tell me if you know if it is real

--MJHankel 03:46, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Hatchie's Bridge state

I have cleaned up the inconsistency between Battle of Hatchie's Bridge and Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1862. Per the National Park Service and the battle description, the battle occured (just barely) within Tennessee. I have not updated your User/To Do list, as it is, well, yours.

Cheers, Mmccalpin 17:42, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted page "Image:WCIC logo.png"

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[edit] Quit Being An Asshole

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.136.156.118 (talk • contribs).

Could you be more specific? --Closeapple 06:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
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