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Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:03, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Abbey Road edits

I just reverted your edits to the Abbey Road (album) page, because you seemed to make a number of major changes without providing an explanation for them, except the word 'Infobox' in your edit summary. Can you provide any references for the changes? Flowerparty■ 21:02, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Looking more closely, it seems you've accidentally edited an out of date version of the page, so your changes were just undoing a load of other people's chabges. Sorry about that - I was worried you were up to some insidious new form of vandalism, I'm afraid. If you edit an old version of a page there should be a big pink warning bar at the top of the edit box, so you might want to look out for that in future. Ok then, keep up the good work. :) Flowerparty■ 02:00, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of video game consoles (seventh generation)‎

In regards to your recent edits to the artcle, please refer to Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria #8, which specifically states that fair-use images may not be used in lists or galleries. Just64helpin 17:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Freeze (exhibition)

Please note this is a UK subject and therefore uses UK spelling per WP:MOS. Tyrenius 07:55, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NBA Street move

A tag has been placed on NBA Street, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Moved NBA Street to NBA Street (series), and so I am requesting to delete this page in order to move NBA Street (video game) here.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet very basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. 18:48, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summaries

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. This is so people can see what changes you have made to an article easily. Thank you. Camaron1 | Chris 19:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your move of Command & Conquer (video game)

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. However, articles should not be moved, as you did to Command & Conquer (video game), without good reason. They need to have a name that is both accurate and intuitive. We have some guidelines in place to help with this. Generally, a page should only be moved to a new title if the current name doesn't follow these guidelines. Also, if a page move is being discussed, consensus needs to be reached before anybody moves the page. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. First, I want to point out that you moved the page back afterwards, so I guess you understand your mistake. Nevertheless, the move was wrong to make in the first place. If you had looked at the talk page you would have seen a discussion about this. If you feel that a previous move was wrong, especially if it already has a attached discussion, discuss it on the talk page bofore reverting the move. Thank you. --MrStalker talk 16:57, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Polo tecnologico

Just to give you a heads up, when there's an article that's written in another language, the tag to use is actually {{db-notenglish}}. Just so you know. :) -WarthogDemon 03:36, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Red cabbage

I was making a translation and by mistake I pasted the translated contents to English page. When I realized the mistake I tried taking the change back but you were quicker than me. Thanks BillyGee

[edit] Edit summaries

Hello, I have noticed that you often edit without an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! Tualha (Talk) 00:33, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Sdornan! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Daniel 04:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Out of Sight (TV series)

I have removed your speedy request and fleshed out a stub page. If you still object to the page add it to AfD and let me know. Cheers Dmanning 14:46, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Category:British health organisations

My bad, was working to fast and didn't even relize it was a category, sorry about the level 1 warn! I took it off your talk page. Tiptoety 05:02, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

GA Review

Dear Sdornan, I am delighted to inform you that I have seen fit to pass Gears of War for GA status, as I believe that it qualifies the criteria that is commonly accepted by the community. Further details of the articles passing, and possible further improvements to the article can be found on the articles talk page. If you have any questions about the review, please leave them on my talk page. Regards,


-- Anonymous DissidentTalk 09:26, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Once again, congrats. I couldn't help but notcie you are using two of my templates on your page - the date and your age. I like it when I see other users using my userboxen :) Cheers, -- Anonymous DissidentTalk 09:26, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] For your work on Call of Duty 2

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Great work!

[edit] Ann Coulter

About this - don't let Oleg Alexandrov see that, he'll have a moan at you.  — MapsMan [ talk | cont ] — 20:07, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Warcraft universe and more

Hey, I just wanted to say good work on revising the Warcraft universe page, it's looking a lot better now, and also good work on the other pages you've done. I think cleanup like that is the way to go, and if you'd like to discuss your plans and thoughts, I'd be glad to work with you. And hopefully we can get some people from the WP:Warcraft active again. It'll be a tough road to handle, since it has to walk the balance between so many standards. But hey, good job on starting the work off. FrozenPurpleCube 01:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Harry and the Potters

Thank you for your comments. They are good and useful. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 04:17, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Development of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Hey, Sdornan! I really appreciated your perceptive review of the last article I brought to VGPR, and I was wondering if you would care to provide some commentary or a good copy-edit of my current project, the Development of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion article. Any help you could provide would be great. Thanks again! Geuiwogbil 18:44, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Good job! Thank you so much for going through it; it must be quite a pain. Let me know if there is anything you're conflicted about, or if there's any wording too confused to work out. Shouldn't be too much of a problem, though, since the all the sources are web-sources. Thanks again. Geuiwogbil 15:38, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Madden 97 Cover.jpg

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[edit] CSD on Dick Lane

I do not believe that this article will ever meet WP:AFD let alone WP:CSD, so if you want to consider it for deletion, you might want to try the AFD process. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  20:48, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

I moved the Dick Lane page to Dick Lane (American football) for disambiguation, decided to keep articles title as they were, with the football player located at Dick Lane, and created Dick Lane (disambiguation) as the disambiguation page since the football player is the most notable of the people named Dick Lane. Please don't removed my CSD. Thanks. Sdornan 20:49, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

  • CSD will be removed. It sounds like this is not a deletion issue but a disambig issue, so we should focus on that aspect of the information. I do not think they were in the best interest and per my reading of WP:D, it looks like we should forward Dick Lane to Dick Lane (American football) and then deal with the disambig page there. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  20:52, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

What I am trying to do is simply revert the pages back to how they were. Dick Lane was the original title of the article, not Dick Lane (American football). I made the Dick Lane (American football) article myself to made Dick Lane a disambiguation page. Then I realized that Dick Lane should remain where he was, (without American football disambiguation), as it is the primary use of the word, per WP:D#Primary topic. As you can see here, Special:Whatlinkshere/Dick Lane (American football), many pages that link to Dick Lane are being redirected. All I am trying to do is reverse what I did, and put the page back like it was. As you can see at Special:Movepage/Dick Lane, I made the move myself and merely want to reverse this move. Sdornan 21:06, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Let's try and keep this at one place. We need to discuss this on the article talk page. Not here and not on my talk page. I have posted there the "issue" as i see it. No CSD for now. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  21:09, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dick Lane (American football)

Hey. I'm coming here to you because I see you have made a lot of edits to this page. I made an edit to the page which Jmfangio mostly reverted because we've had some recent history. He reverted my changes because I didn't discuss them and because of the recent history between us. I made the change again, and I ask you: do you think there's anything wrong with this edit ([1])? Ksy92003(talk) 23:22, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jan Stenerud

The links to the data are there. Are you saying that the simple act of adding and dividing the numbers makes it unreferenced? I can post the whole damn spreadsheet if you want. My point is that, compared with modern-day kickers, Stenerud's stats look below average, and that's all a lot of younger fans know.

[edit] New Wave (music)

I've proposed moving New Wave (music) back to New Wave music. Since you originally moved it, I thought you might want to comment at the discussion. 17Drew 00:35, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Redirect of A place to bury strangers

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:NFL_Quarterback_Club_98.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:NBA Live 08 Coverart.jpg

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[edit] Mozart edits

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Billion dollar babies cover.jpg)

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[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Dancing on Ice participants

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:LostKingdomsII.jpg

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Two Worlds.jpg

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:NBA Street Homecourt.jpg

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[edit] Image:Halfsmilesofthedecomposed.jpg

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[edit] FAR listing

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[edit] Image:NBA_Street_Homecourt.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:AlienLanes.jpg

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[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Two_Worlds.jpg

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