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Welcome!

Hello, BrokenSphere, 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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Contents

Slam Dunk manga page

Good work on the new images and edits. The character bios I wrote when I removed the player resemblances were quite basic, so I'm delighted to see them expanded. Cheers. Bhamv 11:57, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I've been getting more as I find them; I think the page has the potential to expand and include many other characters who have so far been left out. I plan to write up some of these when I get the chance to reread the relevant portions of the manga. --BrokenSphere 18:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:China help

Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for your continued help in finding and adding articles to WP:China. There are so many articles and subarticles about China, I could never find them all, but I will keep reviewing them as long as you keep reeling them in.--Danaman5 23:06, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I'll keep adding the WP tag and/or history tag to articles as I find em. --BrokenSphere 23:21, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Copyedit Request

Hi there! I saw your name in a list of the League of Copyeditors. I'm about to send Same-sex marriage in Spain to FAC for the first time. Would you terribly mind copyediting it before I do? Peer review revealed prose issues that needed addressing by a good copyeditor, which is why I'm here asking for your help. Pretty please? :) I'd be willing to help you in exchange with anything you might need. I've seen you have an interest in anime, so do I. Maybe I can help with one of your articles? Cheers and thanks for your time Raystorm 22:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

If you don't mind waiting, I'll give it a look when I have the time; ATM I am involved with a time-sensitive project at work that should clear up after Wednesday, so by then I should be able to give it more attention. --BrokenSphere 01:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your help. Looks great! I've followed your advice and added a mini-preface to that paragraph. I'll be sending the article to FAC now. Thanks again, and anything you need, please drop me a line. :) Cheers Raystorm 12:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Singing Priests of Tagbilaran

Thank you for your edit/s. I really appreciate the big help. Maybe you can also do the same honors for Chorus Paulinus, Arnold Zamora and Loboc Children's Choir? Thank you... --Ate Pinay (talk•email) 00:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem, glad to make imrpovements to Philippines-related articles. --BrokenSphere 00:06, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Chorus Paulinus

Yes, there are already specific pages for each album...on-going, but we are getting there. --Ate Pinay (talk•email) 00:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Please refer here
v • d • e
Albums by Chorus Paulinus
. --Ate Pinay (talk•email) 00:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
I was thinking it might be better to link to those instead of having them reppear in other articles, like Chopa. --BrokenSphere 00:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Please expound further. Thanks. --Ate Pinay (talk•email) 02:38, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Taking Chopa as an example, in the Discography section the album information for each of their 3 albums is pretty much the same thing that can be found on each individual album's page. The albums are already linked to. So what I am suggesting is removing what is duplicative and migrating anything that does not appear for each individual album onto that respective album's article page. In the end, you would be left with a Discography section listing all 3 albums.
I also noticed the Notes on selected pieces section; this section be taken out of the Chopa article and appear in the pages for all 3 albums containing only those notes relevant for that particular album. As it appears right now, the reader cannot tell where a song appears unless he/she scrolls up and searches. It would be more relevant to have the specific information pertaining to songs appearing on particular albums on the respective album's pages. --BrokenSphere 03:08, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors participation drive!

Dear League member,

We've started a participation drive for the remainder of February. If you can, please help clear the backlog by adopting the following goals each week:

Thanks for your help! BuddingJournalist 01:48, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject ships

A big list of potential ships is at List of world's largest wooden ships. Many of these articles are new.--Filll 02:21, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

More to tag for you guys, thanks. --BrokenSphere 02:22, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Feel free to assess any of the articles that you are tagging for WPMILHIST.--Looper5920 04:58, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Article handling

I find it's always a good idea to move non-notable pages to the creator's user space, as a lot of the articles have had a lot of effort put into them, and personally I think that an unfriendly speedy deletion notice followed by the removal of the page is kind of WP:BITE ^_^ Mathematician triathlon I don't think is speedy deletion material - it's not really that it doesn't "assert the importance or significance" of the band, but that they're just not notable at all. Personally I'd be more inclined to PROD or AFD it. ShakingSpirittalk 05:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

name etymology

Strike-through text

A really good site for name etymologys (if etymology is what you meant instead of the study of insects, entymology) is behindthename.com. You should check it out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Athena is hott (talk • contribs) 22:21, 1 April 2007 (UTC).

The study of insects is entomology, not entymology. grendel|khan 14:46, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Can get confusing, can't it... --BrokenSphere 14:50, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

All Saints Academy

Hi, i just deleted the entire entry on all saints academy on the behalf of the all saints administration. it would be best if a wikipedia mod could delete the page altogether....

User box creator with template

I noticed you made a userbox here are two useful userbox creators you might be interested in

Java7837 20:04, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Your userboxes

hi, I edited one of your userbox pages User:BrokenSphere/Userboxes/Sharpe because it was messing up the Wikipedia:Userboxes/Media/Books page. Please let me know if I did something wrong. Thanks. TwoOars (T | C) 23:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Shinobuden Userboxes

Thanks for letting me know about that- I didn't realise, and I'll delete the offending userboxes right away. Leemorrison 15:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh! I think I will make some new legal userboxes then :) Thanks. Leemorrison 15:30, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Eva characters

I did catch that, thanks for replying. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 01:55, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

New Ranma section pages

Given that you have some experience with this, could you help me out in setting up the 'Battle recods', and more importantly 'Chapter by chapter characteristics reference' pages in a few days? Some of them (Ranma & Akane) are turning extremely (8 page+) long, but they really need to get out, to clean up the entire fandom mess, in that people can swiftly browse and check for themselves. I could send them over and let you edit out irrelevant information if you'd like? Dave 15:42, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Just an update. Apparently it wasn't ok to add the battle records page to Wikipedia, so I screwed up, but quickly cleaned up my mess, but I learned that it was ok to create Wikifarms and then add closing links to them at the end, so it worked out all right. Better than intended in fact, since I could set up and link to the profile references as well. Feel free to use them at will. :) Dave 19:32, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Imperial Units

Hi User:BrokenSphere,

Why did you remove my comment from the talk page on Imperial Unit?.

Can you indicate what is non factual in my comment on the definition of the 'pound' vis a vis mass and force? When has it become acceptable to remove the submissions of individuals from an article's talk page?

What do you mean by "refactoring"?

Tayana 00:54, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

List of Marmalade Boy Characters

I see that you brought back the sub-header for each character. The reason why I removed them is because it states in WikiProject Anime and manga's guidelines, under sections, number 4, first bullet it states "Character sections should not be divided into numerous sub-sections, as this makes the table of contents unnecessarily long." The table of contents is now long since you changed it back. (Duane543 04:06, 29 May 2007 (UTC))

I see your point, but I think to guideline could still apply. As of now the table of contents takes over a whole screen page (or at least for me). That seem like a lot of wasted space. Most other manga and anime character list have moved way from having sub-header for each character. (see Category:Anime and manga characters by series). I'm just pointing out what other articles have done and making suggestions. (Duane543 15:46, 29 May 2007 (UTC))

dude why do u keep changing the CSA thing . You are not telling the truth about what actually happened its all political

User:Ctwink

This guy isn't stopping, and I can't change the page back because of 3RR - could you deal with? Astrovega 22:22, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

About Battle Angel Alita

Could you please contact me at hertzahaeon@nerdshack.com? I have a question I don't want to ask here. Thank you. HertzaHaeon 23:32, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Ranma article

If you can tell me what it is you'd like to do with it, I can likely help you. If you'd just like it for your own personal reference, I can email it to you. If you want to use material from it elsewhere, you would also need the page history for GFDL compliance, and I can put it temporarily in your userspace. (Of course, if you plan to just repost it exactly or substantially as it was, this would not go over well.) Seraphimblade Talk to me 18:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Would allowing him to keep it in his user space until it's sufficiently modified in terms of thorough references and concise length, and then reposting it be acceptable/satisfactory? Dave 18:38, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I can't honestly answer your question, Dave, unless I were to see such a new version. If the reworked version could substantially address the problems brought up at AfD, then yes.
As to using it for a move to Wikia, that's certainly fine. I can restore the text and history to your userspace, though of course the fair-use images could not be included. (The image links wouldn't work anywhere but here anyway, so that shouldn't cause you substantial difficulty in a transwiki.) Would you like to do that? Seraphimblade Talk to me 19:31, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm not honestly sure of what Wikia's policies are on fair-use images, or whether each one sets its own policies. My advice there would be to ask in the community discussion area of the one you plan to transwiki to, or see if they already have a fair-use policy written up. You can find a copy of the article and history at User:BrokenSphere/Items in Ranma ½. When you're done with it, let me know. Seraphimblade Talk to me 19:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
A suggestion would be to merge the items article with the one for locations, in case the former doesn't qualify well enough on its own. Dave 19:28, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
You really think so? The thought of a locations and items article...Not sure about that... --BrokenSphere 19:34, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, it's considerably better than none at all, and I think you're short on time if you don't want to get the old images deleted before that. Dave 23:46, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I would rather this be done right than rushing into it and encountering problems down the road because of the mixed content. If there's precedent for combining such apparently dissimilar subjects in one article, then that lends more strength to your suggestion (so we need to find one or some). Re. the images, I already got all the orphaned images off Wiki ({{db-author}}) so I don't keep getting bothered with orphaned image notices, so that's not an issue anymore; I still have backups anyway so I can reupload them whenever an items page in some form gets resurrected. --BrokenSphere 14:33, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, I was hoping that "Seraphimblade" was keeping track of this discussion, so he could give a comment about the validity. Dave 16:26, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Doesn't look like it and I wouldn't count on it; admins have other things to do and the backup page minus the images is still in my user space ATM, which I have an offline text copy of as well (including the image coding). --BrokenSphere 16:29, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Ok, no hurry then. It was just intended as a helpful failsafe notion.
Btw: Could you give me a small hand with the Ryoga Hibiki article? My school computer apparently edited away a few "offensive" words again, and I'm going on a vacation to Egypt in a few hours, with no home access in-between, so I can't re-adjust the page. It's just 1-2 minutes of work, by searching for double-spaces (" ") and reinserting the missing word. Thanks a lot. Dave 16:34, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
OK. Of course I'll make other edits where I see fit too.  ;) --BrokenSphere 17:10, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

About character infobox

I would like to thank you for offering an infobox template so that I could possibly create a separate article for Irene "Rally" Vincent of Gunsmith Cats. Unfortunately, the template didn't work, despite the modifications I had made. I was wondering if you can supply a general anime character infobox template instead of one for a particular series (that was a Ramna infobox, with too many entiries.

If you like, here's how I modified the infobox (this is for a Gunsmith Cats character, by the way, I removed the brackets so that it can be seen and not shown as a broken link):

Infobox GSC Character

| name =

| image =

| alias =

| gender =

| age =

| residence =

| occupation =

| seiyu =

| voiceactor =

| manga =

| anime =


I was wondering if this could be submitted as an offical wiki template. Elwin Blaine Coldiron 23:21, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

  • They would mean the manga and anime the character appears in. It could be used in either the manga or anime versions of Gunsmith Cats or Gunsmith Cats BURST. Elwin Blaine Coldiron 15:29, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
    • Good. If you find one I can use, could you send it to me? Elwin Blaine Coldiron 15:38, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
      • I think the one I suggested would work - but in a general context. Elwin Blaine Coldiron 17:56, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Award

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This award is presented to BrokenSphere for your many edits and for having a very complex userpage. I'm surprised you don't have a barnstar yet! ;-)  Penubag  21:39, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Award 2

Hey BrokenSphere!
Congratulations on finding my hidden you-know-what. Here is your reward; you've earned it!

The Hidden Link Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to BrokenSphere for finding the super secret hidden link on Selfworm's page!
Good job!

Good job! Selfworm 04:50, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Award: Episode 3

Well I hope you will enjoy thailand again. Chiang Mai was really cool when I went there. Drop me a line again when you are closer to going back. Ohh and here is your barnstar! •Felix• T 14:36, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

The Geography Barnstar
For all your edits to Bangkok in response to my post on the reward board. Your work is wonderful and of high-quiality. •Felix• T 14:36, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

living history...

Hi, please fix all the WPBiography banners again, where you classified medieval personalities as living. Thanks! --Latebird 20:01, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

That's what I get for not fully paying attention to what the assessment script puts in. Sorry about that!  :x --BrokenSphere 20:11, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Ranma Images

Hi again. Is everything ok? I'm leaving another request from the hotel computer. In any case I've had serious trouble with fitting the various images symmetrically to the columns besides them, since they seem to be displayed very differently depending on the computer. Is this something you'd be interested in helping me to fix at the various character & fighting techniques pages? (That is, if you have an idea about how to do it properly) Thanks in advance. Dave 09:34, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

How about using the thumb function for the images so that captions can be inserted to clarify what's being illustrated? --BrokenSphere 20:00, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm already using that when it's appropriate, but skips it when it just winds up being silly or patronizing, and takes unnecessary space (the fighting techniques in particular usually have a great shortage in this regard). I'm thinking more about adjusting the image sizes properly for almost every viewer. They can currently either look almost perfectly lined or horribly asynchronous, depending on the viewer/browser settings. Dave 17:29, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
I am not aware of a function that enables the individual user to custom size an image that they're looking at; there is some coding that I've seen used for tables and templates that allows portions to be hidden or unhidden, but this is likely to be troublesome to insert for each individual image. Some of the images are so small already that it's hard to make out the techniques they're meant to illustrate. Another thing is that there may be too many being used; as we discussed in the talk page of the fighting techniques, it isn't necessary to illustrate all the techniques. If you still want to keep them all in though, a possible solution is to have each technique appear as a subheader, this will insure that the images are properly matched to the techniques in question. Of course it will blow up the TOC. --BrokenSphere 17:37, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey there....

I saw your userbox [[1]] and I just want to know how do you make the short code, and you make nice userboxes yourself. 202.8.230.90 09:49, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Edit: Uh-oh, forgot to sign in.......Bad-Gy 10:38, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much! :)

A toast on your honor now! Drinks are on me! :)
A toast on your honor now! Drinks are on me! :)

Dear Broken Sphere, thank you so much for your kind words, although they are totally undeserved! ;) And for letting me know of that fact, which I completely ignored, I swear... between you and me, tho I absolutely love to be gifted a beautiful star (who doesn't? ;) I keep forgetting to add them to my userpage, mostly because I cherish the gesture, and the warm words that accompany it far more than the gift itself. Which is also the reason why your lovely visit to my talk page will remain as one of my favorite moments of my wiki-life, and I don't have to tell you, the toast you so kindly dedicated me has also sealed a new friendship. It is only fair that I retribute it with another toast on your honor - only this time, I've brought the beverage myself! ;) Tho I have to tell you, you'll have to drink alone, I'm afraid... alcohol and babies don't mix too well :( Promise to visit me again with more wine in a few weeks, will you, sweetie? ;) Love you, Phaedriel - 22:47, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Service Award thanks

I don't know what I did to deserve the service award, but thank you. ludahai 魯大海 23:50, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Well...

I actually did have this on my user page once. I decided however, that I really didn't need to have a medal on my page saying I'm a novice ;). When I qualify for the next level of award I'll put it on my user page. Thanks anyways though. Psychless 00:27, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the unexpected Service award, I appreciate it! --KenWalker | Talk 01:23, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Same here! ^^ ZOUAVMAN LE ZOUAVE 14:40, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks also

Thank you for the editor award; much appreciated. I am doing what I can to improve Wikipedia thru proofreading and editing. Again, thanks.--FeanorStar7 23:35, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Image:WikiThanks.pngThank you for the barnstar! It's nice to be appreciated. Herostratus 08:07, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism Problems

Hi. Sorry about bothering you again, but I have problems with a particularly unreasonable and relentless vandal, who reverts any additions I make to a page, no matter how factual and well-referenced, without ever adding anything of value himself. It's impossible to reason with him, and he resorts to crude !!!!!-style insults when intelligence fails him. Given that you're very well-versed in all the features of Wikipedia, do you know some ways to directly report him or the page to an editor to make the silliness stop? Dave 12:20, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Well for vandals, I usually issue warnings first; if that doesn't stop them, I report them. Admins are more likely to block if a final warning was issued and the vandal ignored it. However, they also check to see if the issue is a content dispute vs. vandalism; in the case of the former, discussion on the subject's talk page over the disputed content I think is seen as better than edit warring. --BrokenSphere 14:58, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

That guy was completely unreasonable and strictly stuck to bratty insults instead of argument, but it seems to have worked out now (by putting a "POV" tag on top?), since an editor came and banned the vandal for a day, but thanks for the reply. I'll bookmark the links. :) Dave 15:01, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

School Rumble

Hi, I've seen all of the School Rumble anime, both series and all the OVAs. I like the series a lot and will be working on the articles again once I'm finished with Azumanga. --Squilibob 01:39, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

star

Thanks, I appreciate it! Glad you like it. –Outriggr § 03:50, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the migration

I feel better already Carptrash 17:51, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

You have just been declared to be

a mood altering drug. And this has earned you the seldom coveted Thumbs Up Award Carptrash 18:16, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Kent FAC

Hi. I'm sorry to bother you, but as a LoCE member, I just wondered if you would be willing to have a look through the Kent article. It is currently a Featured Article Candidate and needs a copy-edit for grammar by someone who hasn't yet seen it. Any other ways to improve the article would also be welcome. Thank you very much, if you can. Epbr123 20:58, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

My user page and lack thereof

I have a much easier time finding my own edits if my name appears as a red link. Not being able to express my interests seems an appropriate trade-off. The five times it has been created has been someone who is not me, and three of those times were by the same person who failed to get the picture after it was deleted the first time. My hope is that someday it will be the most deleted page across all of the en.wikipedia name spaces, though my lack of getting on peoples' nerves as of late has caused this dream to stall. ~SnapperTo 19:41, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Congrats!

Congrats on finding my first secret page! Have you look for the second?  hmwith  talk 09:34, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Possible shot at a DYK with Thomas J. Higgins (or not)

Now that you mention it, I think Thomas J. Higgins would have a good shot at DYK. You could definitely make a good hook out of it, something like "Did you know that, during the American Civil War, Union Army colorbearer Thomas J. Higgins' advance at the Battle of Vicksburg so impressed the enemy soldiers that they stopped firing and cheered him on?" The article is a bit on the short side, adding some background on the battle should put it over the top. I also have a reprint of Vol. 1 of Deeds of Valor, I'll try to add a bit myself. jwillbur 20:27, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Bio Assessment Drive

I will keep going as long as I have time. I will be busy the next month or so, so my pace will unfortunately slow. ludahai 魯大海 10:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Updated DYK query On July 17, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Thomas J. Higgins, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:44, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations on the DYK! I tried to find something to add from the Deeds of Valor book, but you had it all covered. Happy editing, jwillbur 18:00, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Congrats! :)

A high five on your excellent work! :)
A high five on your excellent work! :)

Congratulations on that excellent article, dear Sphere! :) Writing DYKs is fun, and an excellent way of producing interesting and good articles; and I see you have a talent for that. Let me tell you I've had a great time reading Thomas J. Higgins, and I know a lot of people will too. I had no idea you're interested in the American Civil War, so this is a good chance to share a small project I've had on hold for quite some time. Perhaps you've heard of John "RIP" Ford, the Confederate commander at the Battle of Palmito Ranch, the last battle of the War - if you haven't, let me tell you he had quite an interesting life. It's been a stub for over a year; this qualifies it for DYK, if we expand it significantly ourselves. Would you be interested in the challenge? ;) Again, congrats, and have a beautiful day! Love, Phaedriel - 22:46, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Anime OSTs

I believe it deals more with personal preference, but consolidation does help with organization since all of the music can be found in one, two, or three articles rather than 10+, such as with List of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni soundtracks. And then the Haruhi albums were split into two: List of Haruhi Suzumiya albums and List of Haruhi Suzumiya character song albums. I personally like having all, or the majority of the albums together for a specific series for easier organizational purposes, but no, there isn't any set guideline for it.--十八 02:14, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I would have to say that the album lists I have worked on have all been of albums I have previously downloaded and just inputed the track lengths and album lengths manually that way. There are some exceptions, like I don't have all of the albums listed at List of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni soundtracks, but others like for List of Clannad soundtracks I have every album on the list, so it was easy. The only other place I've found track lengths and album lengths is at this website though I only use it every once and a while, and I rarely use CD Japan anyway. So my main resourse when researching albums would be the Japanese Amazon website, and everything else I gain from actually downloading the albums myself.--十八 15:33, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

How to fix it

To keep your monobook.js out of Category:Unassessed biography articles replace:

assessmentMyTemplateCode = ["{{WPBiography|class=|importance=}}"];

with:

assessmentMyTemplateCode = ["{"+"{WPBiography|class=|importance=}}"];

Hope this helped; for any questions drop a note on my talk page. Psychless 16:55, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Smile

Connell66 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Why thank you! That did put a smile on my face.  :-D Willbyr (talk | contribs) 19:28, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

help

Is there a way to CLC the title? How? For example, I started "Rogelio ordoñez" (the surname is in small case) and I want to CLC the "ordoñez."

Also, I want people to be redirected to "Rogelio Ordoñez" article ( which I have already made) in case they type small caps "rogelio ordoñez," "rogelio ordonez" or "Rogelio ordoñez"

Please show me how... thanks and more power

Thank You

Image:CopyeditorStar7.PNG The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Be it known to all members of Wikipedia that BrokenSphere has corrected my god-awful spelling on the pages listed under the "articles that I have created section" on my user page, and in doing so has made an important and very significant contribution to the Wikipedia community, thereby earning this Copyeditor's Barnstar and my deepest thanks. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 04:43, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

?

You can understand that mongolians came to Russia in 1236-1240? But first reference to this word "Moscow" dates from 1147! What it means? What do you think? It means that this "theory" ebout "mongolian" derives of word Moscow is bull shit! Totaly bull shit! Word "Moscow" can't have mongolian sourse. It is imposible. In 1147 nobody in Rus don't know ebout mongolians nothings! In 1147 mongolians are in very-vety east part of modern Russia - where is lake Baykal - NOT IN EUROPEAN PART OF MODERN RUSSIA! From what crazy books do you take this "datums" - like this "mongolian theory"? Take off this books - cose they are crazy! 83.217.61.76 21:18, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Why are you telling me this... --BrokenSphere 21:27, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

blasfemme

i am newbie at wikipedia, so sorry if i make something wrong.. will learn all

and i think that article about blasfemme should not be deleted..

what do you think, and if you can help me somehow will be appreciated —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aljehin (talk • contribs) 21:44, August 9, 2007

? part 2?

I talk ebout page Moscow. I think that we must change this part: " The most reliable[citation needed] theory is that the name derives from Mongolian Moshkha" cose it is absolutely bull shit. Sorry for this words, but this "datums" is not true. It is very stupide "thory". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.149.87.66 (talk • contribs) 13:18, August 12, 2007

For anti-vandalism work

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For beating me to vandalism quite a bit! Cheers, JetLover (talk) 05:01, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your comment on my usertalk. I'm a new user and it was my first time reverting vandalism, so I was basically making it up as I went along :-) I see that the IP is already blocked now - oh to have had the satisfaction of doing that myself :-) By the way, am I right to add this to your usertalk page rather than creating a thread on my own? (would you have seen this if I wrote it on my own page?) Thanks! Alfa 16:52, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Commons link

How did you get your link to your Commons page to show up where it did? I copied the exact coding from your page to mine but it didn't show up in the same place. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 17:29, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Whoops...shoulda been more specific. I meant the one in the top right corner of your user page. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 18:14, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I had just tried to copy the image and link coding from your page earlier; when I put in the other code, I forgot the </div> at the end and it screwed my entire page. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 19:03, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thank you for the Barnstar. As for where to put it, for the time being it will remain on my talk page. If I get a second something I would like to showcase, perhaps I will need to look into creating a secret user subpage for myself where I can display it. Thanks again. ~SnapperTo 22:45, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

tide

I happened to see your question about Haining which happened to be my hometown. Copy is showed below:

"spectacular tide in the QianTang River." What does this mean? --BrokenSphere 04:52, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

The tide in the QianTang River, also named Zhengjiang Tide or Haining Tide or Qianjiang Tide,is formed due to the gravitation of the moon. The tide comes twice a day while on August 18th of Chinese calendar, there is the biggest one. From 1994 on,there has been a International Tide-Viewing Day in Yanguan Haining China.

Its periodicity and power make itself a marvelous wonder.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ozziexv"

Berkeley Brethren!

Howdy howdy! CZ stands for "Casa Zimbabwe," right? My memory is a bit foggy as I was kicked out of the USCA in 1989 or 1990 and I've metabolized so many chemicals since then... Well - you went to Berkeley - you probably know what I mean!

Nearly everything you've heard about Barrington was true. It was an amazing place to be during an amazing time. Now that I am the parent of a college-bound teenager, I can't say that I would want her living there, but I have few regrets about having lived through the experience myself. One of the most fascinating long-term aspects of having lived at Barrington is that for so many of us the friendships we forged there have been lifelong, even as we've all slowly spread out across the country and beyond.

So what did you study at Cal? When were you there? What do you do now? You can email me if you prefer. --AStanhope 17:22, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

The main Ranma ½ article

It was recently semi-butchered to a format without any character images, due to previously missing fair use rationales. I think I've pasted acceptable versions into all of them except Taro (due to a weird filter at this particular computer), but can't currently revert it without risking missing words for the very same reason. So is there any chance you could restore the version before Seraphimblade revisions, along with cutting a pasting one of the (virtually identical) justification texts in into the Taro image? Thanks for the help. Dave 19:57, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Updated DYK query On 12 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Matthias W. Day, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

---- Anonymous DissidentTalk 01:32, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

uh

wut da heck u quit bein mean al;jasdjf yo yo ma Lilnepatiz 20:23, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

uh da number 2

wut da heck dat mean yo u insult sufi i live where i want live Lilnepatiz 20:26, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

uh da number 3

u insult sufi again wut da heck yo yo ma amazing soul.
u think i not sufi watch this video it me in pink shirt fighting for sufi. video of me . wut da heck. Lilnepatiz 20:43, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

The 123 of virtual tours and renderings

Hi, I'm going to decline your speedy delete request on The 123 of virtual tours and renderings; it has substantially changed since you tagged it. If you still think it has problems, please flag them or take the article to WP:AFD. Thanks for keeping WP clean! Carlossuarez46 20:56, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

insult

u insult this video of me dont make fun it mean [2]sufi amazing 69.115.13.5 20:59, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your note on my talk page! The glass of Wuerzburger Hofbraue was well received. I cannot be sure as to who is the most prolific article creator on Wikipedia, and I am unable to check recent statistics on those I consider to be high-profile article editors/creators as Interiot's tool is currently down (in a manner of speaking..)

Now that I think about it, I have two further articles to add to that list which I previously had not. I think I might wait until I have authored more before I do so.

Meanwhile, at the last count, I believe I have also, sadly, had two articles deleted. (Another one, Rolando Bianchi, has since been re-entered into Wikipedia). All the best. Bobo. 20:40, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Summit Rock

I left almost all the speedy tags you put on. I removed the one for the President, who it seems to me is clearly notable for previous work quite independently of the present company--check his bio. The Chief Investment officer might possibly be, if the company has enough funds under management. The others, more dubious. The VP's--certainly not. I also left a strong piece of advice for their PR guy to supplement the excellent notice you left him. My feeling is the company could be established. The copyvios maybe, or he wrote them afresh. he may even have published them here first--in which case they might be covered under GFDL. --I think the outfit is very new, but if they have enough money they are notable, and the president is a very senior figure who I suspect would not have started it otherwise. I suggest you wait a day or two and see if the article for the company gets added, and then if you think fit nom the others--except the president--I really think his prev. career is notable enough to be defended--possibly even notable enough to be worth stubbifying re the copyvio. DGG (talk) 16:57, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

User:202.172.238.216 vandalism

I have found two more incidents of his vandalism. I cant block users, so will you do the honors?Qwazywabbit 04:00, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Redwall

Hey! I noticed that you're a fan of the Redwall series. Would you like to come join our Redwall WikiProject? If you're interested, add your name to the Participants list. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions! GlassCobra 00:33, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Features and Plot on the Ranma page

I think that Features should go before Plot on the Ranma page since the Plot section is larger (and I was trying to expand it by adding a bit about how the TV series diverges). Moreover the features section gives more of an overview and the page (as do pages in general) moves from the general to the specific. Also, I think you made some changes to the Plot section, but I can't analyze them because they were incorporated with the other change. I can see I agree with some of them but I can't make a good comparison.Jaydubayubee 23:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for earlier, I didn't know there was a side-by-side comparison, that would allow me to look at the edits as well. Though I have been writing semi-professionally for awhile, I'm new to Wikipedia editing (I only jumped in earlier when I spied the magical girlfriend entry, I took exception to treatingOh My Goddess! as the exact template for the genre). Jaydubayubee 23:27, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I think I might be missing something, I use the compare selected versions tab. But this simply shows me that the features section has been moved and the Plot section is moved up, everything is now in red, rather than just your very fine changes to the Plot section, as I can clearly see now. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jaydubayubee (talk • contribs) 23:43, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

Oh I see, I knew that already. I thought you were talking about a way to do a comparison with your specific changes to the plot section, but this is impossible if you also move the plot section at the same time to another place at the page. Jaydubayubee 00:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Grimlock

Ay, another fan of the conflicted Autobot. Here's hoping he's in Transformers 2! Alientraveller 16:00, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to the Military history WikiProject!

Hi, and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.

A few features that you might find helpful:

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the project coordinators, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Carom 03:12, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Why?

Please verify my mistake--Angel David 00:38, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Okay

Ohhhhhhhhhh, now I understand. It wasn't valid. Okay. If I make the same mistake again please note me.--Angel David 21:29, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Fair use elimination

I agree that images should be kept to a minimum, but I don't agree with the "if it's not important enough for an article it's not important enough to get an image" stance. List of major Konoha teams features a number of recurring characters in the series, and each team was restricted to group shots to avoid fair use abuse. While the image count was still fairly high, it was considerably better than most of the other articles and multiple times better than what it could have been. Likewise, I'd prefer someone who is actually familiar with the series decide what is and is not important enough for an image; not someone who merely sees 5 images and deems that 6 too many. ~SnapperTo 22:01, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

This is definitely a touchy subject...I'd gotten hints before but really hadn't realized how sensitive it was until today. I'm really loathe to let the images go, but if they have to, then I plan on putting their source URLs into the articles as links. There's no sense in not providing people reading the articles a way to find an image if Wikipedia is the first stop they make. Also, this policy seems directed more at episode lists as opposed to character lists; I think a much stronger argument can be made for the latter. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 18:59, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Heh...thanks for pointing that out, I glossed over that part of the discussion. I posted a question on Rockstar's discussion page about the "links vs. pics" question; hopefully, I'll hear something soon. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 19:15, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Den (Battle Angel Alita)

Updated DYK query On 26 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Den (Battle Angel Alita), which you created or substantially expanded. 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) • 13:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Re:BWP assessment drive

Hi BrokenSphere,

It's just that I'm really bored right now. Even if it ends on September 1st, better something then nothing. Cheers, --Hirohisat Kiwi 02:01, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for noticing my labors on the DYKs. It sometimes feels like I'm toiling away into oblivion, and its good to know that someone - anyone - notices. Thanks! – Freechild (¡!¡!¡!¡) 10:47, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Updated DYK query On 30 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Thomas J. Ryan (admiral), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Peta 23:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)