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[edit] Thanks for joining Wikipedia, Sportman2

Hi, I'm Xiong_Chiamiov, another user at Wikipedia. If you ever need some help, please drop a message on my talk page (User_talk:Xiong_Chiamiov). If you're wondering how to edit a page, going to Wikipedia:How to edit a page may be useful. Below are some tips which many come in handy sometime:

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[edit] Your splitting of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

I see you are in the middle of splitting the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen article into separate Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen articles.

They have been a single article all this time because they are notable as a duo. Sometimes there may be a reason to create individual articles for members of a group, but they should be notable as individuals before it makes sense to do so, and the article for the group as a whole should remain regardless.

For example, we have an article for The Beatles as well as separate articles for John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. This is because they have all embarked on solo projects as well as being the members of the group. On the other hand, it would make no sense to maintain all the information about the Beatles as a group separately on four pages. On the other hand, I'm not aware that MK&A have done much separately from each other that's notable enough to be mentioned in an encyclopedia, and so unless there's something I don't know about, they shouldn't have separate articles. Even if they had, the individual articles should be about what makes them notable as individuals, rather than being personalised editions of the article about the group.

Unless you can convince me otherwise or somebody else gets there first, I will revert your changes. -- Smjg 16:49, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:Bearcat.jpg

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[edit] Rick Carlisle‎

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.--Downwards 03:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Preview

You can help other Wikipedia contributors by using the Preview button instead of the Save button when you are making many changes to an article, such as your edits to Paul Brown Stadium. When you are finished and you are satisfied with all of your changes, then use the Save button. This will help future editors in reviewing the edit history when necessary, because making many changes and saving each one clutters up the edit history of an article and makes it difficult for editors to review the history. Thank you. ●DanMS 02:28, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The American Cornhole Association

Welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as The American Cornhole Association) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. - Jhinman 22:37, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

You actually created an article "The American Cornhole Association" as indicated by deletion logs. I have looked at the website for the organization, and I sse that the Cornhole(game) article has refrences from three newspaper articles. If you can provide a reference specifically for the "American Cornhole Association" and not just the game itself, then it would be more difficult for editors to remove the article. A possible reference could be a newspaper, magazine, or journal article from a publisher other than the organization itself. This would verify the notability of the organization and hence, hopefully, that it is not nonsense. You can also discuss the article before creating it on the Wikipedia Drawing Board. --cgilbert 19:15, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Also, possibly consider renaming the article "American Cornhole Association" rather than "The American Cornhole Association". --cgilbert 19:15, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:ACA.gif

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[edit] License tagging for Image:ACA2.gif

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[edit] New contributors' help page

I moved your message to the bottom of the page so that it will be easier for other editors to notice it - PeaceNT (Talk | contribs) 04:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


Welcome!

Hello, Sportman2, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Bearcat.jpg

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[edit] Unspecified source for Image:SullivanArena.gif

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[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:ACA2.gif)

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[edit] Reply

The situation seems fine for now, if they vandalize again, use {{test4}}, and if they do it again (within a few hours) report them to WP:AIV. The reason the link takes you to the edit page is because the page hasn't been created yet (similar to yours). You can use {{ipuser|24.145.235.244}}, which displays 24.145.235.244 (talk • contribs • WHOIS). I think I answered all of your questions, let me know if you have more. John Reaves (talk) 02:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

User:24.145.235.244
User talk:24.145.235.244
Special:Contribution/24.145.235.244
These are the correct formats for each of the links you tried, hopefully this will help you. John Reaves (talk) 02:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:Cheeseconey.jpg

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[edit] Your edits to Cincinnati, Ohio

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from Cincinnati, Ohio. Please be more careful when editing articles and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 03:04, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Please do not delete content from articles on Wikipedia, as you did to Cincinnati, Ohio. If you continue to do so, it may be considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 03:04, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

The race riots is a notable event and isn't breaching WP:NPOV. In fact, removing it from the historical aspect (which was debated a while back) would be considered not presenting all sides of the story. It is also an article directly relating to Cincinnati as a city, therefore it should remain hyperlinked from the main page. Unexplained content removals, especially ones with such assertions that the user can claim rights over editing, is considered vandalism and was appropriately dealt with. As such, there is no ownership of articles. IF you want to debate this further, you can set up a request for comments, but I consider this case closed and will continue to deal out vandalism warnings before going to WP:ANI.

[edit] UC and DAAP

Hi there! I understand that DAAP is a highly-selective school, and I'm fine mentioning that or any other accolades it rightly deserves. However, I am not fine with what the anonymous user had put in (that it was THE most selective of UC's programs), especially as it had no references for the claim. Although you changed the wording a bit (the wording on the DAAP page itself was not changed, so I removed it as well there), it still strikes as unwarranted elitism. A simple look at the admission standards for the DAAP architecture program reveal that they are in fact lower than the Connections dual admissions medical program which only admits at most 12 students a year compared to the 60 or so architecture students according to UC's own institutional research Wangry 00:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply to user:Seicer

Now, if you bothered to read over the prior histories, you would have learned that I cite all sources using the MLA-Harvard format, using the footnotes system. Per WP:CITE and WP:CITET, there is no set standard, and that consensus must be reached before a changeover in reference system is established. I didn't say citations were a wasted space; I stated that using the citation style he was using was wasting space, because it adds a considerable amount of text to a relatively short article, thereby increasing file sizes. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 02:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem :) Sorry if I sounded obtuse, I've grown tired of users who just bicker over the most minor issues. It's the content that counts, right? Anyhow, I think a rough consensus (for now) was reached on the race relations issue for Cincinnati - a unreferenced tag. I applied it to the parent article a while back but no one has went in a corrected it, but there are some serious issues with it. Besides a lack of sources (or appropriated sources), it is not from a neutral-point-of-view. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 03:54, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
I initiated a discussion at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/Citing sources since it is appearant that user:Stevietheman will be resorting to editing to prove a point per comment left at Talk:Louisville Museum Plaza. You are more than welcome to comment! Cheers Seicer (talk) (contribs) 02:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Southern Ohio Patriots

Actually, I was in error in placing the speedy delete tag on that article. I saw from here that the article had been deleted before, but it seems that it was blank at the time and this does not constitute a re-posting of the same material. I've removed the speedy delete tag. However, I'm still unconvinced of the notability of this subject. Is it the subject of "multiple, non-trivial published works from sources that are reliable and independent of the subject itself and each other?" If you could provide reliable sources indicating its notability, that would certainly strengthen the article and ensure its survival. -Elmer Clark 22:01, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Food Photos

Sadly, the copyright rules aren't very forgiving. The reason most photo uploads are the work of the uploader is because they are usually the only person who can fully release the rights to the photo. Putting a photo up on Wikipedia requires VERY liberal licensing. You say that you do have permission to use the photo. Unfortunatly, Wikipedia demands a bit more than that. The creator has to release the image under a Creative Commons or other open license. I'm, personally, not too familiar with it. You might Start Here or ask around at Wikipedia Help Desk. Sorry! --Mdwyer 04:29, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bots

I'm sorry, I haven't the slightest idea how to work with bots. Have you tried to contact the user who created the bot? There should be contact information on the bot's userpage. 23skidoo 03:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bad Bots

Hi! I just wanted to warn you that MetsBot has been messing with pages. The bot most recently screwed up my user page by playing with my user boxes. The bot can be turned off, but, only by administrators or the person who created the bot. That is why I am turning to you. Please Help!--Sportman2 03:47, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry, the bot is doing it's job :-) The templates are being moved out of the Template: namespace into the userspace per the Userbox migration, and the bot was just fixing your user page to reflect the change. —METS501 (talk) 03:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
I saw in the bot's contributions that he (or she ?) moved many templates to other templates. First off, why did they need to be moved? Second, did the moves work because when I tried the new templates I was told thy weren't existent. However, the old templates worked. Please Help!--Sportman2 04:06, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
It's just userfying userboxes. There were HUGE problems in the past with userboxes, and it is an absolute necessity that userboxes be userfied. —METS501 (talk) 04:11, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
But, the new user boxes do not work!!!--Sportman2 04:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Can you give me an example of a userbox that doesn't work? They should all work. —METS501 (talk) 04:14, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Now they do. But, before they didn't.--Sportman2 04:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your help!--Sportman2 04:21, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
No problem :-) —METS501 (talk) 04:22, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Super14.JPG

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[edit] Your edits to Skyline

Hi, thanks for your interest in the article about Skylines. Unfortunately, you have reverted to a completely unsourced and blatanly POV version of the page - I didn't delete all that stuff to be vindictive, but rather because the page is in flagrant disregard of numerous wikipedia policies, including use of reliable sources, avoidance of indiscriminate lists and weasel words, and so on. If you'd like to discuss these changes in greater detail please do so on the talk page, where I laid out my reasoning. For now, I am going to revert back to the shorter article.-Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 03:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Q clearance

Please do not remove information from articles without an acceptable reason. Image:Q-clearance badge.jpg is properly licenced, and is perfectly acceptable to use in this article, as far as I know. If you know of a valid reason to remove it, please bring it up on the article's talk page. Prodego talk 22:21, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

You are in danger of violating the three-revert rule. Please cease further reverts or you may be blocked from editing. Gamaliel 00:29, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure if you're pretending to be ridiculous or if it is genuine, but just having a Q clearance card will not get you access to anything. Security is a little tighter than that around the labs. A "terrorist" could not just waltz into Los Alamos with a fake badge they printed off from a blurry copy on Wikipedia. And in any case a Q clearance does not give you access to weapons themselves, it means you are authorized look at certain types of classified information on a need-to-know basis. --Fastfission 16:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Re: your comments on my talk page...

I know what's going on with this article - I'm the person who identified the anonymous IP address editors as being at the DOE and National Nuclear Security Administration. I'm also the person who kicked it up to the wikien-l list for wider discussion.

I also have a really good idea of what the various DOE clearances are all about.

I have a keen appreciation for keeping nuclear-related secrets, where it's really secret. But random, widespread secrecy is actively harmful. Keeping something that the head of the NNSA paraded in front of press cameras over and over and over again secret is a lost cause, and doesn't help the DOE, NNSA, National Security, or society as a whole.

If there is a real security issue here, the DoE or NNSA can contact the Foundation via Brad Patrick, and deal with it. Georgewilliamherbert 22:19, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Sorry if I didn't understand that you were on the same page now.
Happy editing. Georgewilliamherbert 23:01, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

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BJBot has only tagged this image once and it was because it was unused at the current time. BJTalk 16:50, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
BJBot is not orphan bot... BJTalk 18:26, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
BJBot tags images that are fair use and are orphaned. It does nothing relating to not having a copyright tag. BJTalk 18:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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