User talk:Wizardman

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[edit] Much better

Yes. Careless of me. Navy looks much better on Template:User Penn State. Thanks.
Are you considering attending PSU? -Xanderer 03:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Not really (A little too far from where I live). I just figured that at least the Big Ten schools should have college templates, so I was looking around to see which schools didn't.--Wizardman 03:35, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Brooks (congressman) - verify?

On March 25, you created the article Robert Brooks (congressman), which indicates that Brooks is a congressman from Colorado. I could find no verification that Robert Brooks is in Congress - specifically, he is not listed on the U.S. House of Representatives] website. If this is an error, please request a speedy delete (placing {{db-g7}} on the page) - a request by the author for a page with no further edits. —ERcheck @ 23:26, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

  • AFD is not required since you are the sole author on the article. If you put {{db-g7}} on the page, it will indicate that you, as the author, created the article in error and are requesting deletion. Thanks. —ERcheck @ 23:34, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rikki Lee Travolta

Hi, can you tell me what info you are judging that this person is notable by? (please also read Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Rikki Lee Travolta, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/My Fractured Life. Thankyou Arniep 23:47, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi can you tell me why you unstriked your weak keep for this afd? Arniep 22:28, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of shock sites

Someone has put this up for deletion yet again. Care to cast your vote? Skinmeister 10:36, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Dude, some of those sites are sick as all shit! I mean seriously gross and crap!! Ah, the ups and downs of the internet . . .--64.12.116.13 05:00, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2005 NFL Draft

I see your concern. However, note that I wasn't the one who added the color changes in the first place; it was only added after 2005 NFL Draft went through a FLC (which incidently just got promoted today). I did however think that the change was for the better; it made the list seem more attractive. However, this is a very debatable opinion and I won't press it. However, if your only concern is that all the other pages will need to be changes; well, that can be taken care of. Anyhow, in the future, please use edit summaries, whether your change is major or minor. Also, I see from your user page that you are working on fixing the NFL Draft pages. Since the 2005 Draft page was promoted, that opens the way for other draft pages to be promoted. Per the discussion on the FLC page, there is no problem with 40+ articles being featured lists, as long as they fit the criteria. Since your interested in working on the draft pages (as am I), would you like to work together and try to fix up these draft pages? Pepsidrinka 00:38, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re 2006 NFL Draft players

Im creating stubs for each player into the 3rd round as they are most likely to play for the NFL. After the 3rd round not really. Thanks Jaranda wat's sup 22:59, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Re 2006 NFL Draft players

I'm gonna do it anyway, I'm a NASCAR fan, and I'm just bored because of the rain delay lol.. just using a common template and editing names/teams/colleges.

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[edit] The Parma Witch Hunt

Hey, Wizardman. I saw that you recently prodded the Parma Witch Hunt article, and I thought I'd mention that the anonymous chief contributor to the article has agreed to allow the article to be converted into a redirect back to the main. Unless you object to this, I'm going to go ahead and do that. AmiDaniel (talk) 22:55, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Derekone message

How come you are saying that I'm vandelizing this website, you need to see carefully what I'm doing and then send me a message. that is not nice on your behalf? What are you "writing last warning anyways" if you check carefully in my contributions you see that i'm not here to bandelize. User:Derekone

[edit] Burnt Face Man

Please do not simply remove speedy deletion notices from articles -- if you want to dispute a speedy deletion, then follow the instructions given in the speedy deletion box. This particular article has been deleted a number of times before -- hence the justification for the deletion: Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion, G4, Recreation of deleted material. I put it up for AFD again, but I fully expect it to be speedy deleted anyway. - Motor (talk) 13:38, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ohio Civil War regiments

Thanks for your comments on the 1st Ohio Infantry article. Dyer and Reid are the two main resources to use for information on Ohio regiments, officers, battles, and related subjects. They may have copies of these in the B-W library for you to use as a reference for future articles. If not, then the Cleveland Public Library should have them. Take a look, and have a go at creating more articles. Scott Mingus 12:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC) (a former resident of Lake County, Ohio)

WizardMan - I have also created a page for the 2nd OVI and will continue to add more periodically. Scott Mingus 23:44, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


I don't understand why you deleted the word Regiment from the 155th OVI article -- if you look at the References, External links, the extracts from Dyer's book, and the article itself, it clearly was the 155th Regiment. David 21:03, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

David, the Wiki Military History Project team members have been trying to standardize the format, name, style and other attributes of all Civil War articles (a daunting task, I might add). There is a preferred style guide on User:Hlj page, which we try to follow. The convention is to title articles as XXth State Infantry (e.g. 155th Ohio Infantry). Each state had different "official" names (155th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry), but for consistency from article to article, the administrators and project team decided to use the standard convention. What WizardMan did was in line with the Wiki naming convention. Scott Mingus 23:44, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Catsorting

Hi, I notice you added Category:Living people to Nick Mangold ([1]). Can I suggest that you also add a catsort tag (family name then first name, like this: [[Category:Living people|Mangold, Nick]]) so that it's properly organised in the category? All the best, Ziggurat 21:21, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi again - oo, crikey, hundreds? I normally wander through Category:Living people finding unsorted articles, so if it's too big a job I'm sure it's fine if you leave it for other people to sort out. I was offering more of a suggestion for future categorization than a request to edit all the previous ones! Thanks for the response, Ziggurat 03:08, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Date Links

Hello, I was wondering what the rationale was behind adding date links to articles - it seems we are having a dispute over whether the article Paul Reubens needs them or not. From what I understand from editing many other pages on TV shows, date links are widely considered undesirable on Wikipedia because it does not necessarily link to something important. Your thoughts?

[edit] Stub sorting Barnstar

Greetings. There is a Barnstar for stub-sorting up for proposal here. If you'd like to participate in the discussion, we'd much appreciate it. Thanks, and have a great days. :) SynergeticMaggot 18:20, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

Why did you remove the references that I was trying to instate in Deaths in 2006. I was in the middle of a big job. --Thelb4 06:23, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Parma edits

Hello. Hemto had begun to compromise by eliminating the material on the pet stores from the economy section. The mall is important enough to the city to remain, the demographic information is fact and comes from a recent Almanac (the small decline in safety listing), and the history section concerns THE biggest news story for the city for several years. The rest of us have agreed to concede and compromise on the pet store section and to allow for a greatly reduced economy section of the page, as well as to eliminate the seemingly biased current status and future outlook section, but the other old and new material should not be contested and going along with Mycroft's blanket deletions and reverts will just persist the edit debate. The whole history section has been GREATLY toned down, referenced, ect. from its original versions. Compromises should not be one-sided. Thanks and Happy Halloween! --172.163.102.252 01:12, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

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please delete Virgin Superannuation as Virgin Money Australia does not want the article up there.

[edit] Categorization

Thanks for helping categorize the backlog of uncategorized pages! We have a lot of work and any efforts are much appreciated. Please remember, however, to remove the uncat template from articles you categorized, otherwise they don't show up as done. Thanks again! Crystallina 03:40, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem, that was actually part of my recent pages watching...so unrelated. I just like seeing the backlog dissolve away. Crystallina 03:42, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Olympic medalists in Swimming

Hi Wizardman. I've added in some more narrative to the text, as well as photos. Please have a look. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:32, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My category placing

About my escapade with the categories. I looked right after I did that, which was last night (PST), and saw that. Should have looked into it before I acted. Was not the first time I forgot to look into what I was doing. But thats what having others look over it is for. Thanks for correcting it. Kaiser matias 04:29, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Wizardman, I have seen your comments in deletion discussions. Need your help in restructuring "Mannaraprayil Cor-Episcopa" page. You can go ahead and modify the contents as per Wikipedia standards.--Lijojacob 10:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)LijoJacob

[edit] List of fictional books

Hi Wizardman -- you were kind enough to take the time to respond to the Featured List nomination for List of fictional books. It failed to make the cut pretty resoundingly, so it's been subbed for a peer review. Any detailed comments or suggestions you'd care to offer would be welcome at it's peer review section. Thanks! --Bookgrrl 19:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Geography-stub"

Hi Wizardman - silly question, but is there any reason you're using {{geography-stub}} rather than the far shorter {{geo-stub}} to stub articles? I only ask because, although they do the same job at the moment, it's likely that the geography-stub redirect will get used for something else soon (there's a proposal for a stub type relating to the science of geography). it also seems you're making a little bit more work for yourself with the longer name! Grutness...wha? 00:27, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Home and Away

The Simple fact I keep brevity on a lot of my articles is that I sometimes like to give other people chance to add information themselves.

[edit] JCU userbox.

Wizardman, have at it. Just please replace the userbox on my talk page with the new one. Thanks! --Daysleeper47 04:48, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I need your help!!

Someone has nominated about 20 library articles that I've added for the Libraries in Ohio project to be deleted! I am sick about this. I have spent hours working on these becuase it appears on our project list! Please jump into the discussion here and let them know that this is a Wiki-Ohio project and they should not delete it!!!! delete discussion Thanks!!!!CRKingston 09:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Biography

Hey. Just wondering, i was lookign through the full list of the articles in Wikiproject Biography, and the list keeps breaking up. Every time I try to fix it, another section of notes for someone messes up the table. I them noticed each time that the notes you're putting in when you're discussing your rating choice are apparently messign up the table. Basically, it you look here: Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Biography_articles_by_quality/5 and get to the point where the table stops, you'll see what I'm talking about. My main questions are if you were aware of this, and if not, how could the format be fixed without removing your stuff completely? You seem to put a lot of time in each one so I don't want to remove them, but they're also messing up the numbers of each kind of bio on the main page. --Wizardman 05:37, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I was not aware of this, thanks for pointing it out. Not being much of a programmer, I do not know what in my syntax causes the problem. I was trying to respond to the request to document "present staus" and progress. There is nothing sacred to me about how the information is presented, and if you or others could suggest a better way, I will use it and modify what is out there. stilltim 11:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know

Updated DYK query On 6 December 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Baldwin (founder), which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 22:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK update frequency

Did you know is updated a maximum of once every six hours. It really just depends on whether an admin is around at the right time or not; I've seen the section go for 35 hours without an update before, though it tends to be around 7-8 nowadays. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 15:44, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Žydrūnas Ilgauskas

No problem. I'm still getting used to the assessment criteria, so I appreciate the help. - AdelaMae (t - c - wpn) 05:12, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thames Vallely Request for Deletion

Hi I have left the following comment for you at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Thames_Valley_College. To be clear the disambiguation page is completely unrelated to the page being considered for deletion

The message left was: "Sorry, but you are mistaken. Maybe the comment at the top of the page was a bit too ambiguous, I have therefore changed it. The original article was moved to Thames Valley College (London, Ontario, Canada), by TruthbringerToronto and that has created confusion. Can I please ask that you revise your vote with this new information in mind." -*- u:Chazz/contact/t: 12:00, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Abdul Hafeez (English cricketer) and other cricket bios

Hello. Could you please not change "england" to "England" in external Cricinfo links in cricket-related articles. As you can see by comparing this to this, it does actually make a difference, and the lower-case version is what we've standardised on. Thanks! Loganberry (Talk) 13:13, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply; it's appreciated. It's true that the main statistical part of the page is the same for each version, but what I was referring to was the list of links down the left-hand side - that includes a specific "England" section near the top of the page that the capitalised link does not. Loganberry (Talk) 23:12, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

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wizardman asap. Wizardman can you edit my articles? wizardman could you edit asap i added a couple more. thanks pics07

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