User talk:Pawl Kennedy

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[edit] How to deal with vandalism

(Copied from Lupo's talk page) Thanks for taking action on Muttermuschi. I am still very new to wikipedia, and was still trying to trace through that user's history, then trying to figure out how to request some action, when I saw that you had already placed a block. Again, thanks for taking action. Pawl Kennedy 14:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Vandalism and Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism. Egregious cases can be placed on WP:AIV. Lupo 14:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Auburn-Tulane game summary

(Copied from AUTigers's talk page) I read your edit of the Auburn-Tulane game summary on 2006 Auburn Tigers football team, ending with "...after entering the game with Carnell Williams." I don't want to edit your words, not being certain what you intended, but did you mean "...after entering tied the game with Carnell Williams."? Pawl 19:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that Pawl; yes, it should be "entered the game tied with Carnell..." AUTiger ʃ talk/work 21:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
BTW, welcome to Wikipedia! While it definitely has its problems (vandalism from anon. editors is the worst IMHO), it is generally a tremendously valuable resource and editing here can be a worthwhile effort. I would not have minded you editing the summary without asking and I encourage you to be bold! If you had misinterpretted what I meant, I simply would have come along later and fixed it if I had an issue. One of the trade-offs of editing here is understanding that your writing might get edited (sometimes for the worse) and you cannot be overly protective about your exact words; facts are another issue entirely. The places you might be hesitant about being Bold are certain controversial topics and high-traffic pages where there are watchful regular editors or potential content wars over the contentious parts.
Mike Shula doesn't appear to have any regular registered editors (mostly anons), so I'd encourage you to do what you feel appropriate. Look to the other SEC coaches' articles to try to conform to consistent style, though that might mean bringing some of those in line with what you do at Shula. Also, join the College Football Wikiproject (linked from Shula's talk) and propose a template for coaches there if you like; if the you and the other project participants interested in coaches come to a consensus, it will be applied generally and the supported by the Project for those articles in the future. Good luck and feel free to hit me up with any questions you might have. AUTiger ʃ talk/work 22:13, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I guess I dont understand,

(Copied from other user's talk page) The edits that you made to several pages, including Trees and Rainforest, could be seen as self-promotion. Please take a look at the guidelines for what wikipedia is not, and then we can discuss integrating this link into appropriate place(s) in appropriate article(s). Thank you, and welcome to wikipedia! --Pawl 15:16, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Pawl, I am new to Wikipedia. Thank you for your scrupulous editing and concern for portraying the truth in these pages. I see that you removed all of my posting in external links. I guess I dont understand what external links are. Most of the other links for example in reforestation are reforestation projects similar to mine, and I wonder what particularly caught your eye to delete mine. I believe that our website (fincaproject.com) has valuable information about reforestation and opportunities for students interested in reforestation to study and learn more about the subject. Many of the other external sites for this subject are mereley asking for contributions, while we are active educators. In this way I dont understand how my action has gone against the Wikipedia Code. If you can please tell me more about why and how you are thinking (or thought) about this, please do so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fincaproject (talk • contribs)
(Placed also on other user's page) Fincaproject, I am afraid that I was guilty of not assuming good faith. I saw the addition first on Rainforest (where it may well belong), and checked your other edits, and saw that you had put the same link in several places (including Tree, where it seemed to me that it did not belong), and saw that these were the only edits that you had made. It looked to me like linkspamming, and, again, I failed to assume good faith. After you have reviewed the wikipedia guidelines for the use of external links (which you may have already), if you choose to add that link back where you think appropriate, I will not object or revert. I apologize for what was hasty behavior. Again, as I said before, welcome to wikipedia, and happy editing. Pawl 16:28, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gaydar

(Copied from other user's talk page) Just so you are aware, I changed the text slightly in your addition to Gaydar. The link to Yu-Gi-Oh! seemed inappropriate, since your addition was really about YouTube (and a particular "program" on the site), so I linked to that instead. --Pawl 04:53, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Ah, didn't realise that the Yugioh Abridged refference should link to YouTube instead of Yugioh...
Now I do. Thanks. J'onn J'onzz 22:38, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Starship Troopers

(copied from other user's talk page) Hi, Hjal. Just to give you a heads-up, I removed the external bio link to Rodger Young that you placed on the Starship Troopers page. Links to other wikipedia pages are preferred, and since this page already links to Rodger Young at the first mention of Rico's transport, this didn't seem appropriate. If the bio link is appropriate, I suggest that you put it on Young's page. Cheers, and happy editing! -- Pawl 18:39, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for catching my superfluous Rodger Young link. I had checked for links on the page and for an article and hadn't found them--I must have searched for "Roger" instead of "Rodger," like I did on Google. I think that it would be good to link "PFC Rodger Young" to the article from the "TFTC Rodger Young" sub-section, since that's a likely point for a new reader to decide to look for more information about the ship's namesake, rather than its first occurance in the Plot Summary. Style is for one link unless there's a good reason for two, and this seems like a good enough reason. "Corvette and "Ypres" should probably be linked to articles as well. --Hjal 21:25, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
(also placed on other user's page) First, yes, I agree that the link to Rodger Young that you added is reasonable. Second, I'm not so sure sure about linking to the USS Valley Forge is smart - someone clicking through should be expecting to go to something about this ship "Valley Forge", not its namesake. (Well, actually, according to the naming convention that Heinlein cited, iirc, ships of that class were named after locations that "mudfeet made their names shine", not previous ships.) Similarly, the link to Ypres might be confusing to someone not familiar with the story, but I'm hoping that no one thinks that a ship collided with a city while "over Klendathu" - but perhaps I need to go in & rephrase that part in the article. (Lastly, now that I think about it, I don't think that Valley Forge or Ypres were of the ship class called "corvette", but I need to go back and read the story again.) -- Pawl 00:42, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your comment on my edit of the Organization article

In response to Pawls comment: Pawl, I can understand you reversion, given the additional articles on Matrix Management, but I still believe that the matrix section on the Organization page could need some improvement. The text is superficial. --Kai a simon 15:00, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

I suggest a minor edit of the matrix section on the Organization page to make it a little more "...pedia"-like and a merge of my extension into the Matrix Management article, which, by the way, really should be merged with the Matrix management one, maybe under the name of Matrix organization (which currently redirects to Organization with a redirect from both other terms. --Kai a simon 16:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:mason34

Heh, no problem. Keep up the good work. :) Lambertman 02:22, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help Me

Can You Help Me Become an Administrator--Mason34 19:18, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ZNOthing

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[edit] Interstate 65

I removed those categories because the state-detail pages - Interstate 65 in Alabama and Interstate 65 in Tennessee - are in them. --NE2 22:07, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Message to User:TBL Al Capwn

I hate to second-guess a more experienced wikipedian, but I thought that your third-level warning to User:TBL Al Capwn was a little harsh, considering that it was for an edit that was self-reverted a minute later. That editor has not contributed anything useful yet, but I was trying to be gentle (perhaps too gentle) in admonishment, hoping that they could still become a useful contributor. I just wanted to get your thoughts. Do you feel that I treaded too gently? -- Pawl 14:53, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

  • It's hard to argue that the edit was constructive, even with the self revert. Perhaps a level 2 would have been appropriate. The amount of time needed to cleanup vandalism can be staggering and I may have overwarned in this case; a middle ground may have been a better idea. Thanks for the thought, and I will be more attuned to the issue in the future. Alansohn 15:00, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by RHolecko (talk • contribs) 20:52, 22 November 2007 (UTC)