User talk:Seattlenow

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[edit] Welcome!

Hi Seattlenow, and a warm welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have enjoyed editing as much as I did so far and decide to stay. Unfamiliar with the features and workings of Wikipedia? Don't fret! Be Bold! Here's some good links for your reference and that'll get you started in no time!

Most Wikipedians would prefer to just work on articles of their own interest. But if you have some free time to spare, here are some open tasks that you may want to help out :

  • RC Patrol - Keeping a lookout for vandalism.
  • Cleanup - Help make unreadable articles readable.
  • Requests - Wanted on WP, but hasn't been created.
  • Merge - Combining duplicate articles into one.
  • Wikiprojects - So many to join, so many to choose from...Take your pick!

Oh yes, don't forget to sign when you write on talk pages, simply type four tildes, like this: [[User:Mailer diablo|Mailer Diablo]] 02:02, 12 December 2005 (UTC). This will automatically add your name and the time after your comments. And finally, if you have any questions or doubts, don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Once again, welcome! =)

-  :) Mailer Diablo 02:02, 12 December 2005 (UTC)


This account has been blocked indefinately since apparently it's just a sockpuppet for afd voting. karmafist 20:52, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

This account is NOT a sockpuppet for AfD!!! Didn't anyone notice that it was created about the time that ANON's stopped being able to create "New" articles? I created this account because I can no longer file things on AfD using my normal IP account User:24.17.48.241. Jeez. Regforafd 23:03, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Would somebody that can, please change this username to "Iaminseattle" or "Iaminseattlenow" if the first one is already in use, since the current username has caused problems due to misinterpretation. Regforafd 23:09, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Digital Nitrate Prize

Hello, just because someone deleted this before doesn't mean they are correct. It is a real, legitimate not-for-profit, charitable organization with worldwide supporters.

Please undo your deletion. You are doing serious harm to the efforts of archivists to preserve films.

Thank you.

[edit] Who ruined Wikipedia:Tutorial?

What the hell's going on with Wikipedia:Tutorial?!?! It looks like CRAP using MS-IE, and UNUSABLE CRAP using Firefox. Regforafd 09:00, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Try Wikipedia_talk:Tutorial. Your user talkpage is meant more of messages directed towards you, so use the article/user's talkpage if you need to communicate to the community on any issues. If you have any further questions, let me know on my talkpage! ;) - Mailer Diablo 06:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Username change

Your request has been fulfilled. Regards — Dan | talk 16:50, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ==List of Indiana State Roads==

I was going to take care of the article names in the list shortly. However, this move is not disputed -- I'm not using parens for disambiguation here. the discussion here points out that " If someone wants to move to Routes go ahead though, but we need the caps". This is basd on the erroneous comment that Indiana has "state routes," when they in fact have "State Roads". Hence, I'm only correcting his statement in that "if anyone wants to move to Roads go ahead though". This is not discussed to death. atanamir 23:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Editing pussy

You wrote: "I can't believe I had to log in to make such a trivial edit".

Regrettably, for a long time the pages duck (because of the silly public image of ducks) and pussy (because of the sexual slang sense of "pussy") have been persistently vandalized and at least 90% of their edits wwre vandalism and reverts, so that both had been semiprotected. Anthony Appleyard 06:07, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Really old edits

Man, would've thought they'd be fixed by now. Then again I should be cleaning up my own messes, so I'll get on that. --Wizardman 23:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: James Moody

Move done! Only reason I didn't do it before was that I wasn't sure which was wanted. All cleared up now, hope that works. Cheers, Snoutwood 09:21, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs

Snoutwood's note: I moved this post from your userpage, where I believe it was accidentally posted (diff). Apologies if this was a mistake on my part. Snoutwood 03:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi - you wrote:

I've looked, and so far haven't found it documented anywhere. Since you're one of the most savvy Stub people, I figured I'd as you--shouldn't stub messages be located below the visible article text (often the last external link), and _above_ the cats (and probably above large nav footers as well)?

They go below all nav footers, but whether they go before or after the cats is largely a matter of personal preference. Most stub-sorters put them after them, though, so that the stub category appears last in the category list. The relevant info is here. Not sure why they're putting in so much white space though... Grutness...wha? 04:48, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Bhababhushan Mitra

Hello! While editing, especially adding references and sources, I discover that they do not appear on the body of the article. Can you open its Talk Page and help ? Thanks.--BobClive 08:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Hearty thanks for your prompt intervention. Enjoy your day.--BobClive 07:50, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of links from high school articles

You have started a series of edits removing relevant informational links from high school articles, with an edit summary of "rmv tangential ext links". As these links are directly relevant to the schools, they will be reinserted. If you have any specific reasons as to why they must be removed, please provide the relevant information. Alansohn 05:11, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links should only exist where they are specifically related to the article topic--not a related use

These external links, for example, belong only in the West Deptford Public Schools article, not every article about the individual schools. #13, etc. Seattlenow 01:28, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

  • If you feel that your contribution to Wikipedia is to remove links to school districts from high school articles, I will point out that its clear to me that these links "are specifically related to the article topic", though I will acknowledge that an argument could be made that the links are not necessary. However, the links to the New Jersey School Report Cards and the data from the National Center for Education Statistics are directly relevant to each and every school and there is no valid justification for their removal. Alansohn 01:35, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Less than 1% of my total edits under all accounts have anything to do with schools, let alone their external links. The proper external link for the third one in the list (nces.ed.gov), for example, would be specific to the school, NOT the district-wide one. Following your argument, http://www.usa.gov/ would be 'specifically relevant' to every U.S. city, U.S. county, U.S. state, etc., article on Wikipedia. Other than in-line cites, there is hardly ever a reason for any specific external link to appear in more than one Wikipedia article--only the specific one they are most directly related to. Articles that offer broad coverage of the West Deptford Public Schools district only belong in the West Deptford Public Schools article. Seattlenow 01:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
  • I have no objection to your leaving the links as is or "correcting" them so that only information regarding the specific school is provided. While that certainly could have been done when the link was added, a single click takes the user directly to the data they're looking for. Alansohn 01:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] iWhack

Sorry for that - I just couldn't find anything that seemed to confer notability.--Vox Humana 8' 19:43, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Neptune Towers

Thanks for tightening those two Neptune Towers articles. Every little detail counts, eh? Hermione is a dude 01:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re Cedric G. Boulter and Patricia Neils House (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Hey. Regarding the Ohio-Hamilton-NRHP-struct-stub template, I'm doing a trial run with a bot, so soon there will be about 200 more articles with that template, so it will eventually be its own stub, I was just having it upmerge temporarily until those other articles are created. Regarding your other changes to the article though, I will modify the creation template to incorporate those in to future articles. pw 01:27, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I went back and forth over the disambiguation in the title, the reason I went ahead and did it though was that there are tens of thousands of records in their database, and many of them take the form of "LastName House", so I figured it may be a little easier to pre disambig the data by putting the place in the title. I'm open to others input though, if someone can think of a better way to do it. I just wanted to avoid a lot of moving in the future (since I didn't build that in to the bot yet, haha). About the comma thing, yeah, I hand cleaned a lot of the titles but some I may have misinterpreted, thanks for the catch, I'll have to recheck names with "and" in the title. pw 12:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prima

It was impossible to move PRIMA to Prima. Wikipedia considers them to be one and the same page for the purpose of movement. It is impossible to change capitalization via movement. Thanks. Colchicum 08:42, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peterborough Development Corporation

I have reverted your changes to this article. Can you please tell me why you made them? 163.167.129.124 12:27, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ==Remark moved from userpage==

I would like to THANK YOU FOR DELEATING MY PAGE!

~xorachel44ox~

[edit] Random Edits?

I'm curious as to why you are randomly editing articles that I've started. It's logical to conclude that if you are going to make an actual contribution then you edit the articles systematically, but you aren't. Also, can you reference an MoS on why you are chaning how I write headers? If not, then I don't think there is a problem with how I'm doing it. Hosikawafuzi 04:18, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

That seems reasonable. I couldn't figure out why you were only doing articles that I had just completed. Since it seems that I'm the one doing a lot of work on this particular train line, it seemed odd. I was trying to make all of those article look consistent. I thought if you were really trying to help you would start at the beginning and make the changes all the way through, but if you were just looking at a list of articles, I can see why you didn't do that. I still have more stuff to translate and add to those articles as time goes on, so I or someone else will go through them all and clean stuff up, I'm sure. Hosikawafuzi 09:03, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging of The French Game

I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on The French Game. I do not think that The French Game fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because this is probably not notable, it may be a hoax, but it is not Patent nonsense. I have tagged accordingly. I request that you consider not re-tagging The French Game for speedy deletion without discussing the matter on the appropriate talk page. DES (talk) 02:51, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tj galda

Hi, I have removed the speedy tag you placed on the above article. You mentioned in your edit summary that "assertions don't count", however an assertion of notability is all that the speedy deletion criteria requires. If you believe that assertion is false or not sufficient to establish notability, you may submit the article for PROD or AfD. You also mention in your edit summary WP:AUTO and WP:COI, neither of which is a speedy criteria. Dsmdgold 20:47, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: Emmure

Oh, I made an error in transferring that file, then. Thanks for that information. I'll keep it in mind.

[edit] Freightquote.com

I have declined to speedy delete Freightquote.com, it is more spammy that it should be, but it asserts notability and the spam can be edited out. While it asserts notability, it is not clear that it is really notable, so you may wish to list it at WP:AFD, my guess is that a prod would be opposed by the creator (who may have a COI) in any event. Carlossuarez46 06:48, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re the move tab

In case you aren't aware, that's impossible without sysop. Kthx. --frotht 02:46, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

"Note that the page will not be moved if there is already a page at the new title, unless it is a redirect to the old title and has no past edit history. This means that you can rename a page back to where it was just renamed from if you make a mistake, but you cannot overwrite an existing page." --frotht 04:59, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
conceded. --frotht 05:09, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
By the way, do your research before condescending to little old me --frotht 05:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
My interests in wikipedia have changed- I will no longer become an admin. As such, I don't have much patience for listing a request on some never-read backwater page when I can just do it myself with only a minor breach of protocol and no damage done. I know the rules, I know that page, (I used to be big on policy, look at my % of WP and WP talk edits) so any oversight is intentional --frotht 06:04, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Sorry about this Seattlenow, feel free to just let me know if you need any help in the future. Prodego talk 18:22, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help

Thanks for your recent help in CertGuard and on brain dumps. I do appreciate it! --Mnemnoch 22:04, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sources for mods

Regarding the First Strike article: Can news updates from developers be used as references for upcoming mods? I take it I should also cut down the article so that it is more in line with Wiki policy? That is, not discussing gear, classes, withering fire, and so on, but focusing on what is currently found in the Gameplay, Publicity, and Criticism sections? --Safe-Keeper 01:01, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Roberto Duncanson

I'm not sure what's meant by notability in this case then. If it requires controversy, protests, or major new laws, than most of the hate crimes recorded on Wikipedia under the Hate crimes against LGBT people category and on the Violence against LGBT people page would be disqualified because they didn't engender major protest or new laws, or much media coverage beyond local news.

Looking at the notability guidelines, what I get is this:

  • Significant Coverage - I've included sources that address the subject in detail.
  • Reliable - I've used sources I believe are reliable.
  • Sources - I've used reliable, published secondary sources.
  • Independent - I've used sources that are independent of the subject.

Beyond those basic notability guidelines, I'm not sure where it says that major controversy, new laws, etc., are a requirement for recording hate crimes. Are those specific requirements or subjective? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TerranceDC (talk • contribs) 15:25, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

[edit] AfD nomination of Guys with feelings

An article that you have been involved in editing, Guys with feelings, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guys with feelings. Thank you. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 19:59, 5 January 2008 (UTC)