User talk:G1076

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[edit] Roller coaster infobox

Feel free to edit the infobox, I think it's a great idea, but I'm not sure how you'd like it to be? --Snailwalker | talk 14:54, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, G1076, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] "'Will It Go Round In Circles' is a remake."

"'Will It Go Round In Circles' is a remake." is what you said on the That's So Raven too! page. You need to source who it is originally by or it will be taken off. Tcatron565

[edit] U.S. Congress COTW

Thank you very much for taking the time to update our collaboration and project pages for this project (As a matter of fact, I was just beginning to look at these items when you were finishing up). I have been incredibly busy at work lately with a new position and moving to a new facility, and haven't had the time to keep as focused on these efforts. I'm glad someone else is paying attention, and that you stepped up to keep things moving. I should be able to get back into the swing of things wiki-wise now, but it's nice to know the project won't be derailed if I should falter. Cheers! ~ Ross (ElCharismo) 14:44, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

You're Welcome! I will be in your shoes starting this weekend; as I am returning home from a long-term temporary worksite only to move my whole family 200 miles to take up a new permanent work location and position. I may be away for a little while until the dust settles. --G1076 22:52, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] North America in topic

Thanks for fixing the links and leaving me a note; it all looks good now. Warofdreams talk 23:38, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arkansas congressional districts speedy deletions

I noticed that you speedied this series of articles after I tagged them with {{tl:hangon}}. Here is the text of my comment on the talk page that I was not able to post due to your deletion:

As a part of WikiProject Congress, the project participants are constructing a compreshensive set of articles to cover all congressional districts in the US. The current activity involves standardizing and renaming all congressional district articles in a consistent manner and creating the appropriate redirects from the old articles. In some cases, the original article had not yet been created and so this new article is currently 'empty'. However, as a part of the WikiProject, all these articles will eventually be created.
As to the possibilty of setting up these 'empty articles' as redirects until they are created: due to the recent activity in mass renaming and moving articles within the project, a slew of double redirects have been created without properly being addressed--having them point to an article that is going to be renamed in the near future is just asking for trouble.
WikiProject Congress is methodically populating and improving all the articles within its scope (including this one) and therefore should not be deleted.

First, I really don't appreciate not having the oppportunity to give a reason prior to the deletion. Secondly, could you give me some information as to the salient points of the process that I apparently do not understand, given my reasoning stated above.

Thanks. --G1076 14:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

While I support standardization by a WikiProject, articles cannot be created in the main namespace until they are ready to have content. From the Criteria for Speedy Deletion
3. No content whatsoever. Any article consisting only of links elsewhere (including hyperlinks, category tags and "see also" sections), a rephrasing of the title, and/or attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title. This does not include disambiguation pages.
You may want to create these pages in your user space, or maybe in the WikiProject subpages. If you do create them not in the main article space, make sure when tranferring them do NOT do cut and paste moves, instead use the "move" tag to preserve history. —Mets501 (talk) 14:35, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your detailed response to my second point. I appreciate the advice and I understand the basis for the deletion. However, to expand on my first point, had the warning in {{hangon}} been heeded, we could have had this conversation, I could have remedied the articles, and the whole create article--delete article--recreate article process could have been avoided. Take care. --G1076 21:53, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
As far as {{hangon}}, the administrator isn't going to wait forever for a reason to not delete the article. I had waited 25 minutes since you had added the {{hangon}} tag to delete the article. Plus, it was really uncontestable, because it was completely empty except for a template. —Mets501 (talk) 00:36, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Magic time"...

OK, I've made some tweaks to the US congress template and category, nothing major. The bot's running now, should be finished in about half an hour. Obviously if you notice anything that shouldn't have been on the list, after the fact, please revert the bot-edit. Alai 04:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

  • There were a number of odd-looking edits on that template (after mine, that is!), one of which seems to have introduced that problem, due to giving all the articles the same sortkey. Markles (re-)fixed that, but I've put the coding back to more or less the way it was, without the duplicate links to redirects, the unnecessary use of noinclude, and the ever-growing image size. Alai 16:18, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of all obsolete districts

Was this supposed to be a short-lived temporary article?—Markles 10:33, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

  • Yes. Thanks for the reminder. I think I have one or two more to go then I will speedy.--G1076 21:13, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Glen Browder

Roger that on Browder. I thought only an Admin could move an article that way. Now I know. Thanks! --Daysleeper47 15:11, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COTW

Could you please start the actual article before adding a COTW tag. Seeing how it's a COTW I'm sure the articles will be written soon, but I'm deleting the articles consisting of only a tag for now. Thank you -Obli (Talk)? 23:18, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub type list

Thanks for updating some of the figures on the stub type list... but it's not really necessary - the update is done by bot every month or so anyway. So thanks, but well, I'd hate to see your work wasted! Grutness...wha? 06:04, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the advice. Sometimes it's just hard to resist making known progress on a stub type, especially when it goes below alert level.--G1076 17:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Style guide

Wow, cool! Nice to see that my work is appreciated (and that there are other politician-bio-freaks out there.) Good work, I'll do what I can to assist further! Paul 06:50, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of United States Representatives from Foo

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States Representatives from Minnesota. It is about to get deleted (any day now) and I think that would be a shame. —Markles 21:00, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Project Congress template

Look at {{WikiProject New York}}. What do you think about adding these fields for {{Project Congress}}? Continue the discussion here. —Markles 19:35, 4 March 2007 (UTC)