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[edit] Dottie West Page
Why did you delete all that information on the Dottie West page. It contained a lot of important highlights of her career. Chrzcline1961 22:07, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] DOTTIE WEST
I am curious as to why you would think Dottie West's article needs to be cleaned up. I have noticed that it keeps changing to become a smaller article. I don't believe this is necessary. A lot of important points have been left out on West's career that you have deleted in the past. If you need to clean the grammar mistakes up, then clean it up yourself. I wouldn't just complain about it to everyone else when something can be done about it. I miss the much-bigger article and thank the user who made it so lovely. LovePatsyCline 23:55, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Category:People diagnosed with clinical depression
I pulled the speedy tag since it is a populated category. You can use CfD to delete this category. Vegaswikian 02:47, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dottie West Article
If you wish to fix the grammar mistakes, then by all means do so. It will improve the article greatly. I was not the one who reverted the information on her page. Frankly, I was only being rude to you because I thought you were insulting the Dottie West article, when you said, it is such a poor article. I would like if you fixed the grammar mistakes, but please, don't delete any info. Thanks for listening!! LovePatsyCline 17:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] John Travolta
Good work on the John Travolta article! Welcome to WP!--Lwieise -=- Talk to Me 03:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Category Anti-semitic people
I appreciate your comments to the user that supports the category "Anti-semitic people". I agree with your concerns, and I would add that the category violates two Wikipedia policies WP:NPOV and WP:NOR in that it makes Wikipedia make judgments as to whether or not people are anti-semites. That is biased and original research. Drboisclair 19:11, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hi
Good work on the Robert Byrd article. One point, however, is that years are only wikilinked when part of an exact date. For example, January 4, 1887, but not 1923. Cheers. youngamerican (talk) 23:21, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Category:Anti-heroes
You are probably not aware, but that category was deleted per consensus at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 May 13#Category:Anti-heroes. WP:CAT notes that "Unless it is self-evident and uncontroversial that something belongs in a category, it should not be put into a category." It was felt that this category was too ambiguous to exist. I have therefore deleted it again, and protected the category against accidental re-creation. If you believe this is incorrect, feel free to discuss the issue with me or see Deletion review. Steve block Talk 21:39, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
- To my mind, if you are looking at moving to list such qualities and then characters that exhibit such qualities, you are probably best off starting a list. However, note that comparing characters against a standard created by wikipedia editors amounts to original research and as such is proscribed against. You would need to provide citations as to where and why the character has been noted as an anti-hero, and allow citations offering opinion that the character is not an anti-hero. Thus, this area is better treated as a list in the article space rather than a category, and so I suggest List of anti-heroes in fiction as the best place to create such a list, although further discussion might be better held at Talk:Anti-hero, and to pre-empt that I've copied and amended my comments there appropriately. Steve block Talk 10:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding Darth Vader
I'm not sure if you're aware, but several editors, myself included, are trying to focus this already overlarge article on Darth Vader instead of Anakin Skywalker (because the latter has its own article), and you're undoing that work without discussion, including putting the prequel trilogy first, adding mentions to Jake Lloyd, and other, similar edits. Before reverting again, could you please comment on Talk:Darth Vader? Thank you. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 02:06, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of fictional anti-heroes
Just a few things. Please use edit summaries, it lets others know what changes you've made, without having to compare revisions. Second, please review past edit summaries to see what changes were made, and sometimes specific reasons for them. For the third time you've used answers.com as a source for the Shadow even though I've explained it's invalid since it's simply a Wikipedia mirror, a copy of the Wikipedia article, which doesn't cite a source for the anti-hero claim either. Third, some, but not all, of the sources you're citing are unreliable, like blogs and other things that basically anyone can write. You can check out Wikipedia:Reliable Sources on your own, but the most important line from there is: "Posts to bulletin boards, Usenet, and wikis, or messages left on blogs, should not be used as primary or secondary sources. This is in part because we have no way of knowing who has written or posted them, and in part because there is no editorial oversight or third-party fact-checking". By making sure the list is top shape, follows guidelines and avoids the reasons it was deleted in the past, it will hopefully last a while. Thanks. --TM 12:20, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
- Why do you keep using answers.com as a source? --TM 00:28, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your edit to List of ancient Jedi
It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed content from List of ancient Jedi. Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the edit summary or on the article's talk page. Thank you. Baseball,Baby! balls•strikes 09:33, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- It looks like you're not actually removing it, but creating articles with unintuitive titles, putting "{Star Wars)" after their names. Why are you doing this? In the very least you should make sure the redirects go to your new articles, as it is they are impossible to find.--Cúchullain t/c 20:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your edits to Tolkien images
I don't want to start a fight, but would you kindly stop removing the image tables for characters? I'm trying to give equal treatment to all adaptations here; there's no real reason why the Jackson versions should be featured first, except their current popularity level, which is by no means permanent. I know the "biography" sections look better with images in them, but see here: Wikipedia_talk:Fair_use/Archive_6#Screenshot_fair_use_criteria, which basically says that screenshots of characters from different adaptations should ideally be in their respective section. Uthanc 00:34, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
- I see your point, but I don't want to give any adaptation "priority" or "supremacy", as might be implied by using the Jackson images first. How about getting illustrations? The problem of copyright violation comes up... well, putting credited, low-resolution copies of artworks on Wikipedia isn't commercial, so it would probably fall under fair use. Uthanc 09:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your edits to Palpatine
Several editors are attempting to bring this article into conformity with WP:WAF; your edits so far are not helpful.
Please refrain from removing content from Wikipedia, as you did to Palpatine. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Dmoon1 02:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
- What your doing is not helpful. Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Dmoon1 04:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
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- No one is making threats. These are standard templates created by Wikipedia to warn people who make detrimental edits to articles. This is how a fictional character's article is supposed to be written. Please see WP:WAF and the two Star Wars FACs, Jabba the Hutt and Padmé Amidala. These are what the Wikipedia community has determined that a fictional character article should look like.
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- Quotes from films and books are needed for context and are normally requested by reviewers during peer review and FAC. The information about McDiarmid is also required because he (and Lucas and other authors) essentially made the character what he is. This article is not supposed to read like a Wookieepedia article, which covers Palpatine's biography as if he were a real person. The article is not as long as it appears, a large portion of KBs are taken up by the images and notes.
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- Your style of editing is not bad, but it's not exactly helpful either. Judging from the other messages on your talk page you need to review Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes. Believe it or not, but there are editors out there grumpier than myself who have the power to block your account. Don't be perturbed; I made similar mistakes when I first came here. Dmoon1 04:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
This article is currently under review, if you have suggestions for improvement please make them here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Palpatine/archive3. You are removing and changing content that has been somewhat agreed upon by consensus. Dmoon1 20:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hey Treybien
I think you might be reverting edits that were meant to remove a category (political critics of George Bush) that has been nominated and accepted for deletion. I might be confused on the whole issue but searching back through categories for deletion has convinced me of the validity of the category removal. Check the archives on 2006 Aug 15. Also, feel free to delete this comment at anytime.Thanks. Jasper23 06:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Did you see the discussion page? I think it was a succesful nomination for deletion. I think the justification is that almost everyone has been a critic of George Bush at one time or another so the category is not encyclopedia material. But it really doesnt matter to me as I have not been following the discussion and am unaware of the resulting wikipedia policy implications. I just wanted to make sure that you were aware of the previous discussion and werent reverting pages on false assumptions. Also, you accidently posted your comment on my user page. Could you move it to talk or delete it. Either way. Thanks Jasper23 06:47, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I would like to nominate the categogory Supporters of George W Bush for deletion. To have one (supporters) and not the other (critics) is NPOV. Wandering Star 15:14, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Recreation of deleted material
Hi Treybien. You have recently created the following categories: Category:Critics of George W. Bush, Category:Journalist Critics of George W. Bush, Category:Hollywood Critics of George W. Bush and Category:Musical Critics of George W. Bush.
These were deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policies. Please do not re-create these categories: if you disagree with the categories deletion, you may ask for a review at Wikipedia:Deletion review. Thanks. Korg (talk) 02:08, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Protection
You placed the {{protect}} template on Category:Political Critics of George W. Bush. This is misleading because the page was not actually protected. Only an admin can protect a page.
From the comments above, it seems that this category has previously been deleted. I was going to flag it for deletion myself, but instead I'll await your response to what's been said on the point. My reason for deletion is that, as has been stated, almost every politician has criticized Bush over something or other. John McCain and Bill Frist belong in the category, just to mention a couple prominent examples. JamesMLane t c 10:59, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Politician categories
I note you've been adding a lot of categories to articles on politicians. Two points:
a) When you add them, can you use [[Category:Whatever|Surname, Name]] rather than just [[Category:Whatever]]? This'll make them sort properly in the categories, so John Smith comes under S not J.
b) You've added quite a few "Supporters of capital punishment" etc. categories - before adding these, can you check that the claim is already made in the article? These seem to be being slapped on with no sources given either in the edit summary or with reference to the text of the article, which isn't good... categories should reflect the content, not be an addition to it. Shimgray | talk | 10:18, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but "there's a source somewhere in the external links" isn't sufficient for something contentious, especially when (as with Tim Kaine) the text of the article seems to contradict your interpretation of the source.
- If their stance on capital punishment (or whatever) is significant, it should be mentioned and cited in the article - if it isn't significant enough to be there, it shouldn't be in the categories. Please consider expanding the content as well as just "tagging" Shimgray | talk | 10:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hollywood supporters of the Dems/Reps
I trust you've seen my responses to your comments on the talk pages of those categories? Dismas|(talk) 05:19, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] V for Vendetta
Hi. I noticed that you did a lot of edits to the characters from V for Vendetta. Could you possibly add images of the characters who do not have images yet (Etheridge, Heyer, Valarie, etc.)? I already posted links on their pages.- JustPhil 12:58, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] W supporters category
Thanks for your understanding to delete this category. Also, incidentally there is a Category:Wikipedians in Oregon for residents of your state. GilliamJF 01:06, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] OCD
Hi. I see you categorized Woody Allen as suffering from OCD. While I don't deny that this seems plausible, I remember that this was debated a few months ago and we could find no credible source that established this. Same goes for a number of other actors. In particular there were a few names given in a Daily Mail column about Beckham but that was pretty much a gossip column. For these kinds of things, it's particularly important to have multiple reliable sources before you start spreading dubious information. Pascal.Tesson 12:58, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, same goes for Winona Ryder (also reverted). Please check the discussion we had a while back on the talk page of obsessive compulsive disorder. We need to avoid transforming Wikipedia into a gossip column. If you have credible sources then by all means do bring this up. Until then I will continue reverting these edits. Thanks. Pascal.Tesson 13:12, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding edits made during September 19, 2006 (UTC) to Nikki Grahame
Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. J Ditalk 03:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, somebody's just pointed out to me that there wasn't any vandalism on this article, but this edit made me think you were vandalising. I'm sorry about that, I'm going to revert it back and correct it. I hope I haven't put you off editing Wikipedia, and I'm sorry for this mistake. J Ditalk 09:51, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jessica Alba
Your recent edit to Jessica Alba was not supported by the article itself and has been reverted. In the future, please remember to provide a reliable citation for all such edits. Thanks. --Yamla 20:20, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Actors who have played gay characters
Cheers for starting this category. I actually contributed a lot when it was a list (which somehow got deleted). In the future tho, please use the break and type last name, First name after all categories. I've fixed all of the entries in the category as of now. -FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed 12:45, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What is the criteria for your anti-gay rights category?
Is it something measurable or just who seems to be against gay rights? You should have the criteria listed on the category page. Thanks Jasper23 23:12, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Category:Fictional intellectuals
User:Treybien: Uh ... what's up with this category you just created? I stumbled across your change to Lisa Simpson, and was about to add the other members of Springfield Mensa from The Simpsons, but when I hit Comic Book Guy, I discovered Category:Fictional geniuses with 96 entries, including Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantis, who I was also going to add.
If creating a duplicate category was a mistake on your part (see Category:Fictional characters by nature), then I suggest that you zap the nine references it currently has, and delete this category before it attracts other editors. BTW, some of those nine, like Sherlock Holmes, are already in the "Fictional Geniuses" category ... looks like only the Crane Brothers and the Griffins would be left out of that list, but why have a category that's so small, or else is just grows to become a duplicate of a much larger one?
Anyway, I found all of the members of Springfield Mensa in Category:Fictional geniuses except for Lindsay Naegle, but that's only because Lisa Simpson, Professor Frink, Dr. Hibbert, Comic Book Guy, and Seymour Skinner all have their own articles ... so I think that this is a POV fork and it should be deleted. —141.156.240.102 (talk|contribs) 12:27, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Frank Miller
For future reference, Frank Miller is a disambiguation page. You should be using Frank Miller (comics). Cheers. -- Robocoder (t|c) 21:34, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Victor E. Marsden
Superb job of changing that article from a laughable mess. Now it's mostly an article about someone who probably doesn't merit an article at all -- it's really yet another of Ludvikus' articles about the history of the Protocols, and someday we'll figure out a way to collate his obviously extensive research into something more suited to Wikipedia. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 15:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Middle-earth universe"
Hi again. Look at this: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Middle-earth#Terminology
Blanket phrase: "In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium"
Breakdown of geography of Tolkien's legendarium:
- Fictional universe: Eä (Universe or Milky Way)
- Fictional world: Arda (Earth)*
- Fictional continents:
- Middle-earth (Africa-Eurasia)
- Aman a.k.a. The Undying Lands (?)
- Númenor (Atlantis)
- Fictional continents:
- Fictional world: Arda (Earth)*
Blanket phrases | Specific phrases |
...fictional universe of Middle-earth... | ...fictional universe of Eä... |
...fictional world of Middle-earth... | ...fictional world of Arda... |
...fictional world/universe of Middle-earth... | ...fictional continent of Middle-earth... |
...fictional world/universe of Middle-earth | ...fictional continent of Aman... |
Also, LOTR's not a trilogy; see trilogy which explains it well.
And could you please put edit summaries? Uthanc 04:25, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- We know, and we're working on that. Uthanc 07:57, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Saddam's Execution
Thanks for all your help keeping vandals, etc at bay with that page! Viperphantom 05:47, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding your edits concerning the Rejects being sociopaths
A sociopath is someone who can't feel and has no emotion for anyone and is usually cold and calculating. The Rejects, while being psychotic, do feel emotion for each other. They might represent some qualities of a sociopath but overall psychopath is a more fitting category.--CyberGhostface 05:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
- Is it possible you might, I don't know, actually reply instead of blindly reverting my edits? Because if you have any proof to support that the Rejects are sociopaths incapable of feeling emotion, I'd be happy to know of it.--CyberGhostface 00:11, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
- My apologies as well for losing my temper. I've been having a pretty bad week.--CyberGhostface 04:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Catch-22 Film info
Hi Treybien,
I moved or put back all the film info of the various Catch-22 characters back to the bottom on the page. I have done this as it in the format of the templates used by Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels, and if you disagree either bring it up on that the Wikiproject or here Talk:Catch-22#Expanding_Characters_and_Merging. Keep up the good work, Cheers Lethaniol 10:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Lyrics
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the Gollum's Song article, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.
Feel free to re-submit a new version of the article. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.
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You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page. Nationalparks 15:10, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks for reinforcing my change -
- to Craig Sweeney (as a child molester, not a pedophile).
Not what I would expect from a journalist, though. All I can say is 'keep it up'. --Jim Burton 01:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Homophobic people
I don't get it. Are you trying to make a point? Homophobic people will suffer the same problems as Anti-Semitic people. I think your first inclination, to delete Category:Anti-Semitic people was the correct impulse, and your apparent reaction, creating Category:Homophobic people is not. -- Samuel Wantman 00:36, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- I've been watching what happened at Category:Anti-Semitic people. I have proposed the category for deletion in the past. Your reaction, though is a WP:POINT violation, and is counter productive to your own goals. Here's why: when you next call for the deletion of Category:Anti-Semitic people, your own credibility will be hurt by having created a similarly flawed category. If everyone reacts to difficulties like this, and reacts by trying to make a point, things get much worse instead of improving. Keep working to do what you believe, not what you don't believe. -- Samuel Wantman 00:48, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to delete Category:Homophobic people. With your OK, it can be speedily deleted. Let me know. If not, I'll nominate it for deletion at WP:CFD. -- Samuel Wantman 01:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, you are right, but if everyone reacts to something they think is wrong here by creating things just as bad, the project will degenerate into something that nobody likes. I hope you have read WP:POINT. It really is a very important guideline for making things better.
- As it turns out, someone else has nominated the new category for deletion, so it will be discussed at WP:CFD --Samuel Wantman 06:09, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Invitation to join WP:LGBT
Hi! Thought you might be interested in joining the LGBT WikiProject. Take a look around, and if you are interested, sign up? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 19:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome!
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[edit] Queer as folk
Sorry for the rushed revert - even as I was doing it I realized too late you were not just another anon. However, please realize that the show included a pederastic relationship - with the fifteen year old. Haiduc 22:04, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Re: Chewbacca
- I've reviewed the edit, and I can see how it can be a valid edit. So, I have removed my own warning and wish you the best. Regards, -- danntm T C 21:30, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dark Tower edits
Hey there - thanks for your edits to various Dark Tower articles. In case you are interested, there is a WikiProject organized to work on such articles. We are fairly new, but I thought it was a good idea considering the condition of most of the Dark Tower related articles. Is it at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Dark Tower. Add your name to the participant list if you'd like to collaborate with us. --Mus Musculus (talk) 01:46, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WP:MOSDATE
Per WP:MOSDATE, please stop delinking dates in Alan Johnston. – Chacor 08:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your edits to Justin Berry
Not having an edit summary to go by has made it more difficult to figure out the changes you made in these edits: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7].
Overall, you've improved the article, catching misspellings, cleaning up imprecise or excessively wordy text, making the article better. However, I wanted to point out a couple of things to help improve your editing.
Looking at the edits individually, I need to point out a couple of places where your edits seem to have introduced problems rather than improvements. First, there's the issue of dates. The Manual of Style on dates explains that dates are automatically rendered in the reader's preferred style as long as they're wikilinked, so it's inappropriate to change dates from one format to another.
Also, in a few places, you changed Federal to federal. The upper-case version is correct, as the word is being used as a proper noun referring to the Federal government of the United States. The lower-case version is used when referring to federal as a concept, such as when discussing the federal system of government. --Ssbohio 15:44, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Keith Olbermann
I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for your cleanup on Keith Olbermann. Nice job. I'm sure someone will yell at you for the lack of edit summaries, but it won't be me. --BigScaryMike (Talk/Contrib) 03:22, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Category: Fictional child molestation victims
I started deleting titles of books, movies, etc. in this category that were unaccompanied by a name of a character identified as a victim of child molestation. I did so for the obvious reason that a book or movie cannot itself be a "victim" of "child molestation".
Listing a work without specifying name(s) of victim(s) therein creates an enormous problem of accuracy checking. In at least a few cases, it was far from obvious which character in the fiction might justify inclusion of that fiction in this category.
I fear that this category will quickly be seen to have serious difficulties with Wikipedia rules against original research and non-objective POV. (See discussion page at the category.) But for "Fictional child molestation victims" to have any chance at legitimacy at all, surely each entry must specify a character (the categorical victim) that the editor is claiming qualifies the fiction for inclusion.
Bottom line: I've desisted, for the moment, from further deletions of this tag, but I will resume if the category continues to display titles of fictions with no character identified as fitting the stated category.
People adding to this category will need to follow WIkipedia rules and document how each character fits the category -- by citing passages in the work itself that make clear that the author intends a character to be perceived as a victim, or by citing published secondary sources that objectively discuss the character in this way. SocJan 06:06, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
- MIKE! Glad to know we are on the same page, here. Sorry if the posting above seems inappropriate on your page; I found my way to you probably by misreading the history of the fictional victims of child molestation category. I now realize that you were cleaning up well-intentioned but muddled work by Cgingold and Tony. For which we all owe you thanks! SocJan 22:12, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
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- Update: I've tagged the "Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in fiction" page, questioning its neutral POV and pointing out its extensive violation of No Original Research. You may wish to have another look at this and related pages. SocJan 04:31, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Little context in American alternative hip hop groups
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[edit] Joseph Goebbels
Hi. Could you possibly remove this bad category you have added (twice)? Goebbels did not kill his children, his wife did, according to everything I've read on the subject. Thanks in advance. --John 03:03, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re-creation of deleted categories
You created Category:Survivors of sexual abuse which is a rehash of 2 deleetd categories, see [8] and [9] so have aput a sp3eedy deletion tag on it. Thanks, SqueakBox 20:43, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Please be careful with your article reorganizations
Howdy Treybein, just a friendly reminder to PLEASE be careful when you are making lots of edits at once. I can see that you're taking on big tasks and I think everyone appreciates that... and I know it can be hard to keep track of stuff when all the names and dates start to blur together, but losing even one or two important points can significantly change an article - and on articles that aren't the most popular, it might take a huge period of time before someone notices the error. Thanks! —Mrand T-C 01:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Andy Dick
The Andy Dick article received heavy editing today by new/unregistered users, which I noticed at WikiRage.com. The article may benefit from a good review. According to Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. -- Jreferee (Talk) 05:46, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WP:Lead section
Please stop removing text from the opening paragraphs of articles (i.e. Jodie Foster, James Franco). See Wikipedia:Lead section: "The lead should be capable of standing alone as a concise overview of the article, establishing context, summarizing the most important points, explaining why the subject is interesting or notable, and briefly describing its notable controversies, if there are any. The emphasis given to material in the lead should roughly reflect its importance to the topic according to reliable, published sources. The lead should not "tease" the reader by hinting at but not explaining important facts that will appear later in the article. It should contain up to four paragraphs, should be carefully sourced as appropriate, and should be written in a clear, accessible style so as to invite a reading of the full article." Hope that helps, All Hallow's Wraith 06:54, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Michael Savage
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Michael Savage (commentator), is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. This is especially important when dealing with biographies of living people. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are already familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add your original reference to the article. Thank you. You added the phrase: Savage characterizes himself as a Universalist, but you have no citation for this information. Please cite a reliable source for this information or expect that it will be deleted shortly. Ursasapien (talk) 08:32, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Draco Malfoy
Your recent edit to Draco Malfoy does not constitute vandalism, but it involved removal of content from the introduction for no apparent reason and has been reverted. Beemer69 (talk) 03:12, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Good cleanup
Good job on cleaning up Politics of Bill O'Reilly. Some of the editors have a less-than-pristine grasp of formal diction and tone; I've been meaning to work on it but have been without net access for a hot minute. Thanks! /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 20:37, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Category:Sexual assault survivors
A tag has been placed on Category:Sexual assault survivors, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 July 23#Category:Rape victims. If you can indicate how Category:Sexual assault survivors is different from the previously posted material, or if you can indicate why this article should not be deleted, I advise you to place the template {{hangon}} underneath the other template on the article, and also put a note on Talk:Category:Sexual assault survivors saying why this article should stay. An admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 4 under General criteria. If you believe the original discussion was unjustified, please feel free to use deletion review, but do not continue to repost the article if it is deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. We welcome your help in trying to improve Wikipedia, and we request you to follow these instructions. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 00:55, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Claude Rains
Hi, I recently noticed you removed a paragraph from Claude Rains in October. If you think a paragraph with relevent content does not belong, you should have mentioned it in the article's talk page. I have restored the paragraph - if you disagree, it can be debated in the talk page. Trenwith (talk) 20:02, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi - you justify your edit under style rules- can you direct me to this please? thanks Trenwith (talk) 19:25, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Barbara Gordon
You should really explain on the article's talk page why you removed sourced, relevant material with this edit, or it's likely to be reverted. Pairadox (talk) 00:03, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Vince Neil
Nice work on the Vince Neil article. I had noticed that it needed some attention but hadn't got around to it. Jonesy (talk) 02:24, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Sith edits
Can you trim down the article? I've noticed you've added a lot, and quite a bit of it uncited material as well. I don't want to unnecessarily undo your efforts, so perhaps you can go back through the article and provide appropriate citations where necessary and trim that which is not necessary. I'll wait a bit before acting on my own to trim down the article. - Arcayne (cast a spell) 09:17, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Your edits on 9/11 Truth Movement
I rolled back the changes you made to 9/11 Truth Movement, because you removed quite a lot of data from the article, failed to provide an edit summary and did not discuss the major clean-up on the article's talk page. Please note that the neutrality of the article is disputed, and next time you plan to make major changes to the contents of the article, discuss it first on the talk page. Best wishes, DJFishlips (talk) 13:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Poison Ivy edits
Thuran was correct and I was wrong. Your edits were helpful; I had been looking at the wrong version when i reverted your changes. I apologize for the inconvenience. - Arcayne (cast a spell) 06:06, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Amy Winehouse
I'm mostly curious as to why you went through the article and changed the dating formats throughout the article. If you will look at WP:ENGVAR, it discusses options regarding the usage of variations of English, and the sections regarding maintaining a consistent style as well as retaining the existing variety, there was no point in making these changes. The section indicates the usages of a specific style when a subject has strong national ties. Winehouse is decidedly British, and the guidelines indicate this style should be used. As far as how wikilinked dates are displayed to a given user, that will be determined by user set preferences for registered users, as I'm sure you know. However, anonymous readers will see the dates you fixed. In any case, I am going to change these dates back, since the British variety would be the preferred one. Wildhartlivie (talk) 06:52, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Date formatting
Hi. There is no need to edit date formats in Wikipedia in the way that you have done, for example, with Neil Aspinall: from [[13 October]] to [[October 13]]. The date format is automatically taken care of by your user preferences for all styles of Wikilinked dates. For instance, both the above formats display exactly the same way to me, as my user preferences is set to "13 October" style – 13 October and October 13. Your user preference may be set differently! I hope this information is useful. -- MightyWarrior (talk) 21:07, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- I'm afraid this information is not quite correct. Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia "anyone can edit". Normal readers or editors with no username/not logged in do not have any preferences set (neither do I). In this case, Treybien, please do not change dates for articles about British people to the American date format. Thanks and happy editing. TINYMARK 21:14, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Edits to McCain articles
Please be more careful with your edits to John McCain and Early life and military career of John McCain. These articles are both in preparation for FAC. Some of your changes, such as repeated wikilinking and wikilinking of normal English terms, will get them rejected at FAC due to how the reviewers there view the MoS. Similarly, in the Early life and military career of John McCain article we are making a planned decision to use written-out numbers rather than numerals in many cases, which your edits are messing up. Thanks. Wasted Time R (talk) 02:39, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Your last edit to Lord Voldemort
In your last edit to the Lord Voldemort article, you messed up a reference by inserting text in the middle of a cite web template. Please be careful when modifying and article that you do not mess up control sequences in this manner. Also, please remember to use edit summaries for your changes. Magidin (talk) 18:01, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Quantum of Solace
In a recent edit, you changed one or more words from one international variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.
For subjects exclusively related to Britain (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to other English-speaking countries, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the appropriate variety of English used there. If it is an international topic, use the same form of English the original author used.
In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to the other, even if you don't normally use the version the article is written in. Respect other people's versions of English. They in turn should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. If you have any queries about all this, you can ask me on my talk page or you can visit the help desk. Thank you. Alientraveller (talk) 09:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Wikilinks
In your recent edit to Gabrielle Union, you added links to an article which did not add content or meaning, repeating the same link several times throughout the article. Please see Wikipedia's guideline on links to avoid overlinking. Also please note that it is incorrect to make a wikilink as [[Denzel Washington|Denzel [Washington]]]. It should be [[Denzel Washington]]. Ward3001 (talk) 00:58, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
- "I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Every link in there follows wikipedia rules.": Again, please read Wikipedia's guideline on links. Once a blue link has been made in the text of an article, it should not be repeated. Here you wikilinked Kirsten Dunst after it had already been linked in the article. An in the same edit, you made this link: [[Denzel Washington|Denzel [Washington]]], which ends up looking like this: Denzel [Washington]. Denzel Washington does not spell his name with brackets. Ward3001 (talk) 01:13, 4 May 2008 (UTC)