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[edit] Revert on two stub sorts

Hi Mellery. Just wanted to let you know I reverted back your stub sorts of cue ball and Billiards table. What you are doing is a valuable contribution, but in these two cases the stub isn't quite right. Snooker is one of a number of very specific games that fall under the overarching category of cuesports described as "billiards" (and in fact many player's would look strangely at you if you were describing snooker as billiards, because billiards is used by many people to refer to the specific game played on a carom table). As I stated in one of the revert summaries, it would be sort of like classifying the article bird under something specific like {{eagle-stub}} (if such a stub existed). While it works in the other direction, i.e., an article on a type of eagle would fit under a generic {{bird-stub}}, the contrapositive fails. It may be that we need a new stub type—something like {{cuesport-stub}} which would format to: "this pool, billiards or snooker related article is a stub..."--Fuhghettaboutit 22:24, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing up what snooker is! The catagory says "Billiards, snooker and pool stubs", and the description is "This category is for stub articles relating to cue sports of the Billiards family." Since snooker-stub is small, think it should be renamed to cuesport-stub to fit its description better? Mike 00:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Ah--I just took a look at Category:Billiards, snooker and pool stubs. That needs work. Looks like the category was created to house more stub types but only snooker was created. Yes, a generic stub they would all fit under should work—{{cuesport-stub}}—To do it otherwise would require at least four distinct stubs: the existing snooker-stub for all the games played on a snooker table--snooker, golf, english billiards etc., one for pocket billiards (pool) games, such as eight ball, nine ball, one pocket, bank pool, straight pool etc.—({{pool-stub}})—and one for the carom games such as Three cushion billiards, Carambole (Straight Rail), artistic billiards and the balkline games—({{carom-stub}} and one for things like cue ball that are used in all the sports. It might be too complicated to make each a separate stub; very few people have the knowledge in the area to even make the call of which stub type would fit. I'll go be bold and create the generic stub.--Fuhghettaboutit 02:07, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I created the stub type, but then realized it neede to be approved first--here's the proposal Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals#Cuesport-stub--Fuhghettaboutit 03:30, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Hey, I see you're attempting to add categories and do some stub sorting. Bravo! But, I'd ask that you try to find the most specific category available and not just pick the first thing you find. For example, Nuvein Magazine was marked with {{mag-stub}} and {{uncat}} meaning a more specific cat should be added - but you added Category:Magazines. That's actually technically less specific than mag-stub. By also removing the uncat tag, the request that a more specific category is also lost meaning it's a step backwards as far as cleanup goes. I'm going through marking a zillion articles as uncat as a signal to the author that they forgot the step of categorizing as specifically as possible. If other folks come through and try to assist, that's great, but keeping the category so general and removing the uncat tag is actually a bit of a hindrance. See my last edits to Xorsix Records, Dword (Album), Neighborhoods of Indianapolis and Mooreville, New South Wales. Let me know if you want to discuss (tomorrow - I'm done with WP for tonight). —Wknight94 (talk) 04:24, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub sorting

Hello. Good job on the sub sorting as you moved many players into the baseball-pitcher category. I had to revert a couple (Joe Randa & Coco Crisp) who are not pitchers. Keep up the good work. -- No Guru 15:56, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to expand some oriole's stubs when I have the time. This was my first real trial of using auto wiki browser, guess it picked up some false positives that I missed. mellery 23:21, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
And the {{musician-stub}} sorting looks terrific. Conscious 18:52, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AMMRC

Whatever the centre is it is not a NSW govt statutory authority Albatross2147 04:36, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

To be fair, the author of the article shouldn't be complaining about the category someone else attaches to it. That is something you were supposed to do. —Wknight94 (talk) 10:16, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/To do

Do a diff on your last edit to Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/To do. A whole bunch of things got screwed up pretty bad. The templates for oversized categories went crazy like with user pages inserted, etc. I completely reverted so you might want to try again. —Wknight94 (talk) 11:04, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, theres something wrong with the script that makes that table. They are talking about it over at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/To_do mellery 23:17, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hermeticism

Thanks for the reference format help.

KV 18:08, 12 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Geoid

Thanks from me too for the reference format help! MFago 03:21, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crime against humanity footnotes

FYI when you converted the Crime against humanity you broke the first footnote which involved multiple numbered references[1]. Please take note this problem in any future conversion you do. --Philip Baird Shearer

[edit] reference "fixing"

I realize you think you're doing a good thing, but you're messing things up. While [2] may look all well and good to you, please look more closely at the numbering problem your "fix" has incurred in the notes/references section. I don't mind you going through and changing everything according to what you think is the "best" way of referencing things, but please be more careful to make sure that what you're doing actually works. 1,000 crappy edits are worth less than 1 good one. Tomertalk 09:57, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] reference "fixing" for Steve Fossett

Nice that you looked up these references which I have read many times. You need to be more accurate though. You referenced information that was written for a different flight as reference #3. Fossett made 3 round the world flights in 13 months in the Global Flyer. So it is easy to get things mixed up. Please fix it!

[edit] Jules Duchon Stub Revert

I have reverted you change to Jules Duchon where you changed {{Fict-char-stub}} to {{Comics-char-stub}}. The character appeared in two comic novels, Fat White Vampire Blues and Bride of the Fat White Vampire, but never in any comics (at least, to my knowledge).

If you want to change it back (or if you can think of a better stub category to use), please let me know why so I won't step on your toes.

Thanks,

--KNHaw 00:28, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, what the heck. As long as I'm here...

Thanks! :) I thought comic novel meant graphic novel, like Sin City, but the reverts fine with me
Actually, both books are regular, run of the mill non-graphic novels.
I'd smile again, but my cheeks are hurting. --KNHaw 05:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sound System Massive

Did you remove the notability tag I placed on the Sound System Massive article? If so, I would like to know why. --Charles 03:07, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

No, it looks like User:Paco650 did mellery 03:11, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
see his edit with the little frown face as a comment mellery 03:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I apologize for jumping to the conclusion that you had done it. He deleted my notability prod twice, so I have now listed the page for afd. --Charles 03:39, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting the Nitcentral article

Can you chime in with your vote? It's here.

? mellery 04:16, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The Nitcentral article was nominated for deletion. Since you contributed edits to the article (on May 13, for example), I thought you might have an opinion on it. Could you please vote? Nightscream 17:20, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Salem_seatmap.gif listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Salem_seatmap.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. ccwaters 03:03, 28 October 2006 (UTC) -- ccwaters 03:03, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ref conv

Sorry for the downtime. References converter is now back up and running. About a week ago the hard drive in my server crashed. Luckily it stayed together long enough to allow me to pull all the data off onto a new hard drive, but I still had to go through the process of installing Linux on the new hard drive, installing all the necessary programs, and loading in all of the old data from the server. I got all of my essential services up within two days (CVS, Apache, Wiki), but I kind of forgot about web scripts, which I finally got around to fixing today. Everything should be fully functional again. If you see any bugs, just send me a message. You are receiving this message because you are on the spamlist. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, simply remove your name. --Cyde Weys 19:13, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please use edit summaries

Hello. Please be courteous to other editors and use edit summaries when updating articles. The Mathbot tool shows your usage of edit summaries to be nearly nonexistent:

Edit summary usage for Mellery: 0% for major edits and 58% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 24 minor edits in the article namespace.

Using edit summaries helps other editors quickly understand your edits, which is especially useful when you make changes to articles that are on others' watchlists. Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 13:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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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. — Chris53516 (Talk) 14:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your help on Assessment with editing the references! — Chris53516 (Talk) 14:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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