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Contents 1 Category:People from Czechoslovakia 2 The Apprentice UK 3 Your edit to the Messianic Judaism template 4 1984 Olympics 5 Thanks Alot! 6 Outward Bound 7 Smile! 8 Redirects 9 Otley School link 10 GARY OAK 11 Thanks 12 Username 13 Portal RfD 14 Username 15 AWB 16 just noticing all your great work! 17 List of The Wire episodes 18 Welcome to VandalProof! 19 Article on Krishnamurthy Perumal 20 Signature 21 I wont stop 21.1 Is that so? 21.2 Contra Series Test 21.3 Will you look at that? 22 DEFAULTSORT 22.1 more DEFAULTSORT

[edit] Category:People from Czechoslovakia

I'm thinking we ought to let it live, as a redirect. If you disagree, just let me know, and I'll proceed with the already-scheduled execution. -- Prove It ^(talk)

I don't mind, although if it's left people might still use it. If it's deleted and it keeps getting recreated it can be made into a redirect at a later date. If you want to delete it I'll watch it and see how it goes. Thanks, mattbr 15:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Apprentice UK

Hello, Mattbr and thank you for your contributions on articles related to The Apprentice UK. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject The Apprentice UK, a WikiProject aiming to improve coverage of The Apprentice UK and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to help out and participate, please come over and visit us here for more information. Thanks! Dalejenkins 08:56, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, but I have only made one edit to the The Apprentice (UK) article (a reversion) and I'm not active on those pages. mattbr 08:32, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to the Messianic Judaism template

I have reverted it for the following reasons:

-You edited out Talmud under the premise that "only exclusively Messianic" links be used. This is strange considering that other religions use both the Hebrew Bible and the "New Testament". Please see the discussion page for the template for multiple citations that establish that a sizable amount of Messianics find it important to study the Talmud.

-Similarly, you removed both the topics in Judaism and Christianity. If you had watched the TfD discussion it was agreed upon (concensus) that both Judaism and Christianity subjects be included in the template but with hide/show buttons. As a matter of fact that's the only reason you see the hide/show buttons on the template.

-The "Old Testament" (a name that Messianics generally despise) is the same as the Hebrew Tanakh with minor differences in organization of the texts. Messianics generally use the Tanakh according to the Masoretic text. You listed more or less the same book on the template twice.

-You removed the Wikiproject link...

For all of these reasons your edit to the template was without merit. Noogster 00:45, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello Noogster, please note that the only edits I have made to the template have been to remove the WikiProject link (this was my latest edit), so your comments on my talk page are misplaced, apart from the WikiProject link, which I have discussed previously at Template talk:Messianic Judaism/Exclusive MJ. Please do try to discuss the content of the template on the talk page rather than reverting, as edit warring doesn't achieve any productive results (it is also worse on templates as every time you edit it a change has to be made in every page using the template). You are much more likely to get your points across by discussing them with other editors and reaching a consensus. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, mattbr 08:17, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1984 Olympics

Re {{prod}}, aha, that article was originally tagged as {{Disambig}} and the other ones are tagged as {{numberdis}}, which is why I thought it was the only one around. Thanks. — MrDolomite • Talk 01:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks Alot!

Hey, thank you so much for fixing that Tru Calling ep template! :) Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 22:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! You're lucky I still had it on my watchlist! Drop me a note if you ever need help in the future and I'll see what I can do. Thanks, mattbr 22:53, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, sounds good :) .. Have a nice day! Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 22:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Outward Bound

Are you the same Mattbr that changed the title? Don't worry I'm not annoyed, I stuck the TM on by mistake in instead of ®. But no probs if its not the done thing.--Pandaplodder 16:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Smile!

Saber girl08 16:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects

Hi WJB, could you just look over these two CNRs:

• Background articles for ongoing events (hist) ⇒ Portal:Current events – Disjointed history between that, Current events and Portal:Current events
• List of dog topics (hist) ⇒ Portal:Dogs – List of misc dog topics that didn't fit into any other category. This was whittled down to zero and redirected to the portal.

Do you think either of these be deleted if consensus was to do so due to their edit histories? I just wanted another opinion before (re–)nominating them for deletion. Thanks, mattbr 20:23, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't like either of those regardless of their history. The titles give the reader no idea that they're going to end up at a portal. They seem totally unnecessary. I guess the only problem is whether the history was originally encorporated into the portals. If the content was merged in, there is a GDFL problem with not keeping them. Do you have any idea whether the redirecting just selected the best target or whether content was transfered to the portals in question? I think they should be nominated anyway, but it may be a struggle to get them deleted if this question can't be answered. WjBscribe 22:32, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I think the dogs list was used as a list of uncategorised articles which were eventually categorised and the pages effectively blanked before the redirect. I'm not quite sure what happened with the other. The history ends in 2003, and the histories of Current events and Portal:Current events don't start until 2006. As far as I can tell the content wasn't incorporated, but the page was redirected about three years before the target (Current events) appears to have existed?! mattbr 22:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

In that case it seems safe to nominate them. Others may not even raise the GDFL issue. In any event the titles seem harmful enough (in that they could be encyclopedic content) to justify the deletions. No harm in giving the RfC a try. WjBscribe 22:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Cheers :) mattbr 23:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Otley School link

Hi Matt

Forgive me if you are not the correct person for this message, I just looked at the page history for Otley.

I would like to include a link to our Primary School Website in the Otley Page, but it seems to have been removed. The Page History suggests you have removed it. Just wondered if you could explain if I am doing something wrong?

Many thanks

Regards

Phil Robertson <email removed to prevent spam> —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.13.185.245 (talk) 23:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC).

No worries, you have the right person! External links on pages should be related to the subject of the article, so on Otley, links would be appropriate to pages that are about Otley in general and which would be informative to the reader about Otley. In-directly related topics about things in Otley such as schools, clubs and societies shouldn't be included (I removed several of these in this edit) as these don't provide further information on the topic of the article (Otley). So a link would be appropriate to the school on a page about the school, as it provides further, relevant information on the topic, although primary schools are generally not considered notable enough for inclusion on the site. There is more on external links at Wikipedia:External links. I hope that explains why I removed the link, but please ask if you have any other questions. Thanks, mattbr 23:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GARY OAK

Sorry about the edit, my little brother must have gone under my account, I'm automatically logged in. Again my apologies.

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your help, but someone else answered it first... ;) --Cremepuff222 (talk, review me!) 01:20, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Username

Thank you for expressing your concern about my username, I like recieving advice, because it means that I can act apon this and learn better.

My username was chosen to be SwissRe, because the SwissRe Tower, in London is my favourite building, thus, I did not mean to create any issues with any large Corporations.

If nessecary, I will happily change my name to "Gherkin Building", or any other suggestion that you may have.

Once again, thank you for letting me know of your concerns. SwissRe 10:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

It's OK, it takes a little time to get used to all the different things around here! You can change your user name to whatever you like (as long as it complies with Wikipedia:Username). A suggestion of maybe Gherkin30 (combining the building nickname and the address)? Anyway, whatever you choose, just fill out a request at Wikipedia:Changing username when you're ready and a bureaucrat will change it for you (they're usually pretty quick). Let me know if you have any questions in the future and I'll see what I can do! Happy editing, mattbr 10:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal RfD

Hi, I closed the rfd you had for the various portal redirects as no consensus and I now need to remove the tags. Before I go and roll them back, I wanted to see if you had used a script, bot or other means that would make this a lot easier. John Reaves (talk) 00:13, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow, thanks a lot that's tremendous time saver. John Reaves (talk) 00:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Username

It has been changed, --Gherkin30 14:40, 25 March 2007 (UTC) (SwissRe)

[edit] AWB

Thanks for the heads up; I will most certainly adjust accordingly. Regards, Keesiewonder ^talk 23:40, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] just noticing all your great work!

Thanks! mattbr 15:09, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of The Wire episodes

Noting that you edited List of The Wire episodes within the last few months I wonder if you have an opinion about the use of screenshots in this article and would welcome your opinion here if you have time.--Opark 77 22:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Mattbr! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page.

As you may have noticed, we are experiencing some problems with the moderation tool. While we are working as quickly as possible to correct these issues, delays do happen. Thanks again for your patience. Ale_Jrb^talk 21:33, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article on Krishnamurthy Perumal

Hi Matt, This is concerning the article on My Krishnamurthy Perumal. I've added a couple of references for this article, as it has been tagged as unreferenced. The references are to official Government of India and Government of Tamilnadu website. I've also included a reference to a reliable website on Indian hockey (BharatiyaHockey.com). I hope this is sufficient to remove the tag on this article. If not, please let me know if more references are necessary.

I am new to Wikipedia, so kindly bear with me. Regards, Ganesh —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ganeshkrish18 (talk • contribs) 18:51, 4 April 2007 (UTC).

Hi Ganeshkrish18, the first two references you have included are good for the verification of the specific facts in the article, but it would be good if another reference or two could be provided that cover more information in the article, such as birth information. These references may also help you to expand the article further. Have you had a look at other articles of similar people, as there may be references on those that might be able to provide some information. I would be tempted to leave the referencing tag on until additional references are found, after which it can be removed. Plus this might help to find someone who may have a reference that would be of use. You might also find Wikipedia:Citing sources of use. Hope that helps, mattbr 22:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Signature

Hi there! I noticed you replied to a question at the help desk and signed it and I noticed that your signature was displaying the colour codes instead of the actual output effect (if you get what I mean!), I thought It would be the best thing to tell you so you can sort it out, I'd be hapy to help with this, should this be necessary.Tellyaddict 11:19, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Tellyaddict, I'm not sure what you mean. My raw signature code is '[[User:Mattbr|matt]][[User talk:Mattbr|br]]' and has no colour information in it. I think you have me confused with someone else! mattbr 11:26, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Its just I saw it after you kindly answered a new users question at the help desk and it was just displaying the code as you have written above, maybe it was just me? Thanks - Tellyaddict 11:30, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Can't see a problem, and it's not happened before. Maybe it is? mattbr 11:36, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I wont stop

I wont stop editing Contra (series). I will keep going in favor of all the information I've put up here just so they can be deleted. If you want me to stop, assure me that my information (which is true, by the way) will not be deleted.

Do you understand? It will keep going until I get justice. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.156.9.43 (talk • contribs) 15:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

Continuation of your current editing will result in you being blocked and/or the page being protected from editing, so I suggest you stop. Other editors must feel that the information you are adding is not suitable or relevant for the article and are removing it and should tell you why in the edit summary. I suggest you leave a message on their talk page or leave a message on the article talk page about your additions and they should tell you why the information is being removed and what is needed to leave it in the article. You might also want to read Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not which might inform you further. mattbr 16:13, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is that so?

Well let me just tell you what I added to the article so someone will know. The discussion page is always ignored. All I did was add more information by adding more ports that exist for Contra. There are quite a few ports that I added that some people removed, claiming they don't exist. Well, if they researched it, they'd find it. It's not like I need to source everything I write. It's easily findable. Next, I included a section that informed people about the pirate-type NES Contra games made and they deleted that. I don't know what's wrong with that section. It isn't wrong and many other game articles, like Mega Man, have information on pirate versions. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.156.9.43 (talk • contribs) 16:57, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

If there are reliable sources for the material you are adding, then I suggest that you add them when you add the content to provide evidence, and then the material won't be deleted because there is no source or because it can't be proved (although it could be for another reason). You say the evidence is easily findable, but others may not be able to find it and it is up to you to back up your additions. mattbr 18:56, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contra Series Test

Watch: I'm going to make a section regarding the special unique pirate versions and we'll see how long it can last without being entirely removed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.156.11.108 (talk • contribs) 01:04, 9 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Will you look at that?

You happy now? I just added a section regarding the pirate games of Contra with sources, and it gets deleted in less than an hour. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.94.149.111 (talk • contribs) 14:34, 9 April 2007 (UTC).

From what I can see, the information you added to Contra (series)#Pirate Versions is still in the article since its addition. Please also sign you post to talk pages with ~~~~. Thanks, mattbr 13:54, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DEFAULTSORT

Thanks! :-) I think I've fixed them all now, but is there some way I can find out for sure? I want to avoid possible cut-and-paste errors down the line. Flatterworld 17:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

You could check Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:DEFAULTSORT and see if you have edited any of the articles. This list is a lot shorter than it was so it should be relatively easy! Thanks, mattbr 19:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] more DEFAULTSORT

I went ahead and fixed the rest of the ones I could figure out, but I'm confused about the bot ones at the bottom. Flatterworld 20:08, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, you didn't have to fix them all! I have nowiki'd the bot logs and left a note on the plugin page to ask for them to be nowiki 'd in future. Thanks again, mattbr 22:12, 8 April 2007 (UTC)