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Contents 1 J. R. R. Tolkien 2 Your link pruning of Tolkien 3 If you're interested... 4 Editing Bow Tie 5 i dont agree with... 6 flag desceration 7 Monobook tool 8 thanks!

[edit] J. R. R. Tolkien

Hi! My name is Mike, and I wanted to let you know that this article is up for Featured Article Status! It is SOOO CLOSE! And as someone who has worked on this article a lot in the past (having checked the history) I thought you could help me fix the inline citations. As I have none of the books in question, I am out of luck, but thought real enthusiasts might be able to help. So, please help, or get those who you know can to help make Tolkien a featured article! Thanks much! Judgesurreal777 18:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

-- Oh no, I don't take it personally :) Just keep in mind the objections of the citation obsessed! Thanks much, Judgesurreal777 02:39, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your link pruning of Tolkien

Hi,

I noticed that you did link pruning at J. R. R. Tolkien. Great work, thanks!.

You may be interested in my tool for exactly that purpose. Just copy User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to User:Urbane legend/monobook.js (if you know what you are doing, just copy the relevant bits). Then clear the cache by pressing Control-Shift-R (Firefox) or Control-F5 (IE). Then when you edit, you will get another two tabs at the top for date pruning and unit formatting. Caveat emptor.

In addition, I have made a new proposal about date links at: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#linking_of_dates. Feel free to support or oppose it. Regards. bobblewik 19:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your compliment. I have read the controversy about the date-link script in your user page and I've decided not to use it (the page I did implement it on has been reverted). While I agree with your viewpoint that thousands upon thousands of unnecessary links to Wednesday July 29, 1973 and the like are annoying examples of bad style, I can't approve of the use of a tool that does this automatically without better consensus. That said, it is a pet peeve of mine - most datelinks are totally useless and frequently duplicated within articles. Births and deaths, yes - but too often every date/year in an article is a link - irrespective of how trivial. - UrbaneLegend 23:10, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

I entirely understand your caution. I was merely suggesting that if you were wanting to delink a single article, you could use the tool. It has no capability to do multiple articles automatically. I see you tried it out on Stephen Sondheim and then reverted yourself. I fully accept your caution and I am glad that you considered it anyway. Thank you for your supporting vote in the Manual of style proposal too. Hopefully that will move us towards the consensus to which you refer. bobblewik 23:33, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] If you're interested...

Hello, Urbane Legend!

Thank you for your contributions to a Tolkien-related article. If you are interested, feel free to join WikiProject Middle-earth, a WikiProject focused on improving Tolkien-related articles in Wikipedia. We would be glad to have you join in the effort!

Here're some good links and subpages related to the WikiProject.

If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to ask on our talk page.

Thank you for your contributions and have fun editing! —Mirlen 02:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Editing Bow Tie

Thankyou - I fully realize I should use the preview button. It's just that I do quite a bit of recent changes patrolling, and with that you have to do more and smaller edits, in order to decrease the chance of an edit conflict where someone else has begun editing the article without your changes. I suppose it's a habit i've developed from that, but now you've raised it, i'll certainly remember to use preview. Thanks! -- (James McNally)  (talkpage)  11:32, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi there - thanks for the info on my signature. But you say it appears in white - I think that's true, but only the text should be white, with a bright green box for a background. Is that not how it shows up on your screen? That's how I see it, which should make it v prominent indeed. If it's not showing up properly, I'll tweak it. -- (James McNally)  (talkpage)  12:31, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks, I'll see what I can do. -- (James McNally)  (talkpage)  12:46, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry - one last thing - can I check if my signature is more readable now? I've switched from hexadecimal to normal, named colours. Here it is: -- (James McNally)  (talkpage)  12:58, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes - I see below that those posters have confused you with me! Strange. I reverted their edits using VandalProof, so they should have a perfectly good link to me. I'll see what I can do, but they're anonymous IPs. I'd actually agree totally with the first of the two, but I'd like to have seen words to that effect on the talkpage or edit summary - some people use exactly the same word mindlessly, as an insult, and some (including me) would use it correctly. -- (James McNally)  (talkpage)  12:36, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] i dont agree with...

i wasnt vandalising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunters_Point%2C_San_Francisco%2C_California I just changed from "African-American" to Black, because not all Blacks come from Africa, and yet there is white Africans... What would you call a person from Jamaica, South India, or Central/South America with Black skin color?

Kindly refrain from accusing me of accusing you of vandalism. You have confused me with someone else, I'm afraid. Check whose talk page you're writing on, in future. Oh, and always sign your comments. ▫ UrbaneLegend ^talk 09:00, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] flag desceration

it is contreversial...screw you james

You have confused me with someone else. I've never edited Flag desecration or had any correspondence with you, whoever you are. My name isn't even James. Please check who's talk page you are posting on in future, especially when making abusive posts. Do it again and you'll be reported. ▫ UrbaneLegend ^talk 09:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monobook tool

Hi,

I don't know if you are aware of my tool to reduce unnecessary links to solitary months/years.

You only need a single click on a 'dates' tab in edit mode. If you want to use it, simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to User:Urbane legend/monobook.js. Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work.

Please feel free try it out. It also has a 'units' tab. Regards. bobblewik 23:51, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I apologize about my comments about you and I apologize to you about my mistake. Thank you for correcting me. Fg1234567892000 14:47, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks!

Thanks for editing that link on my talkpage - I can't believe I overlooked something that simple! And I hope you don't mind my using your message box - it is all licensed under GFDL, after all; thanks again for the assistance. -- (James McNally)  (talkpage)  13:04, 26 June 2006 (UTC)