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[edit] Part of interwikitmp-grp

Hi! re: Tfd: W2c... This is part of the nascent Wikipedia:WikiProject template sharing, and another two we've never quite dignified with a name or formal write up yet. This is quite useful for refering to commons locations in documentation or templates that need work on all sisters, no matter which sister such is copied too. Such work is too time intensive as it is.

   Unlike most sister projects the commons does NOT have an abbreviation which works on itself like [[W:whatever ]]. Ral315 discovered 'W2' is much the same nightmare, and for similar reasons, this one best not be messed with... not to mention all the templates it will break. No reason to create work. Suggest you unnominate it ASAP. Thanks. Best regards. // FrankB 05:07, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay... but Ral315 has voted to delete W2c. In any event, the reason I nominated it was that the only textual content was "To be deleted." This, combined with the cryptic name, suggested that the whole thing was an abandoned newbie experiment. I now know this isn't the case, but the discussion that's happening is at least getting your nascent project some popularity; it spurred you to put some documentation and removed the confusing "To be deleted" bit; and the TfD discussion may well generate new ideas.
Given the lively and not one-sided debate that has emerged, I think I'll decline to unnominate the template. I am sorry, though, if I've inconvenienced your project. --zenohockey 23:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BKSP

Hi, I saw you marked [1] as ambigious. Why? --Soman 10:27, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

It actually wasn't that link I was concerned about: it was the link to SDAP, which is a disambig. to four different SDAPs. My initial edit probably made that clearer, but I switched the order of the superscript and the disambig tag because I thought it looked better. I'll go change the order back to clarify the situation. --zenohockey 17:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Ok, no problem. --Soman 17:27, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help populate novel list?

I'm soliciting assistance in populating the page List of novels by point of view. Would you consider pitching in? Thank you! --TheEditrix2 15:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

When I get the chance, sure, I'll help. (As an aside, this looks like the sort of article that needs strict length guidelines right off the bat [e.g., 10 highly recognizable novels per POV], lest people add their favorite novels willy-nilly, like a "Quotes" section in a Simpsons episode article...) --zenohockey 22:21, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bush v. Gore

I provided some additional information and a link that may interest you in response to your question at the reference desk. Regards, Newyorkbrad 14:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good catch

Thanks for fixing these.[2][3] Postdlf 21:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hitler

Should I add full information for all the cites for that book, or just the first one? That appears to be the model set with Joseph Goebbels. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 03:27, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I think having the information in the first cite suffices. One of the footnotes is an "op cit." with just the author's name; that would work too. --zenohockey 04:05, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] South Africa

Why did you do this? Picaroon (Talk) 21:09, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Because the first item in that list did not display with the namespace, I figured the WikiProject SA one shouldn't either. There's no reason for one to display it and the other not to. --zenohockey 23:22, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Probably because I was looking at the first item in that list, which was in fact South America, while typing... As it went a week without anyone noticing, hopefully it didn't confuse anyone. --zenohockey 23:26, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Covais IPA

For [z] or [s], it's really dependent on the person. I normally lenghthen to a [z] after diphthongs, but I sometimes use [s]. It doesn't really matter which is used considering that they're allophones. Geoking66 03:27, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] McReynolds copyediting

Thank you for the copyediting on the McReynolds article; I know how annoying those little edits can be. For what it is worth, I was always told that in citations, "pp" stood for "printed page" or "printed pages", to distinguish from numbering of pages in manuscripts or other works. In any case, thank you. Magidin 15:27, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Huh. The American Heritage Dictionary says it's "pages", so I'm definitely not making it up... But anyway, you're welcome. I live for those little edits. :) --zenohockey 17:51, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
I know you're not making it up. I checked myself, and you were right; now I know better. In fact, I went through and made the change also in the few that you missed. Magidin 18:18, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Image:EricHarris-DylanKlebold.jpg

I think the source of this image can just go on the image page. If you want to respond, please do so on my talk page. -- SilvaStorm

[edit] Regarding edits to Looking glass self

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, Zenohockey! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the link you added, matching rule host\.com\/.+, is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. Please read Wikipedia's external links guidelines for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! Shadowbot 06:42, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Addressed. --zenohockey 04:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Lethal Imagination.jpg

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Addressed. --zenohockey 04:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Year books

thanks--I need to check, the years are wrong. DGG 07:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:M 685833 200.jpg)

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The article it used to be in was deleted. (I know you won't read this, bot; just so I know this message has been assiduously glanced at). --zenohockey 05:10, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DC Meetup notice

Greetings. There is going to be a Washington DC Wikipedia meetup on next Saturday, July 21st at 5pm in DC. Since you are listed in Category:Wikipedians_in_Maryland, I thought I'd invite you to come. I'm sorry about the short notice for the meeting. Hopefully we'll do somewhat better in that regard next time. If you can't come but want to make sure that you are informed of future meetings be sure to list yourself under "but let me know about future events", and if you don't want to get any future direct notices \(like this one\), you can list yourself under "I'm not interested in attending any others either" on the DC meetup page.--Gmaxwell 00:26, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Addressed. --zenohockey 04:55, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List_of_songs_about_masturbation is in it's 5th AfD

List_of_songs_about_masturbation is up for it's fifth AfD. You participated in an earlier one. If you wish to participate again, please go to Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_songs_about_masturbation_(5th_nomination) Lentower 03:20, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

(Rolls eyes (not at Lentower).) Thanks. --zenohockey 05:40, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Library websites"

LibraryThing doesn't take data from library *websites*. Websites are built in HTML. We grab stuff from library databases available by Z39.50. It's different. It's like saying that AIM and outlook are websites. Yes, they're part of the INTERNET, but they're not "websites." 24.198.80.98 00:13, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Point taken. I think I cringed when I saw the terribly nonspecific word "sources." Is this satisfactory? --zenohockey 00:45, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] en dash change

Hi, thanks for clean-up at MOSNUM. Brings up a question I've had for some time: is there any practical difference between using the HTML code for en dashes (if that's what it is, with the &...) and the plain old en dash symbol on my keyboard (–). Seems like a lot of trouble to key in all of those characters and gum up the edit box (esp. for newbies) unless there's a clear advantage. Tony 02:17, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

You have an en-dash on your keyboard? I don't think I've ever seen a keyboard with one. Re your question, I'm no expert on HTML/Unicode issues, but I've never heard a complaint—and seeing as how wikEd (which I use) turns &...s into the actual character with one mouse click, there would be some if it were a problem. --zenohockey 06:18, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dan Savage

Hey. In one of your Sept 6 edits of the Dan Savage article, you trashed a sentence. Go to the article and find the sentence that includes the string "Tim Keck", in the first section (entitled "Savage Love"). I'd just revert that change of yours, to restore grammaticality, but you obviously had something useful to contribute, so I'll let you figure out how you want to write that. --216.113.208.132 18:22, 11 September 2007 (UTC) (actually a not-logged-in JHolman)

Fixed. Thanks for catching that. --zenohockey 04:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use disputed for Image:Hounddog poster.JPG

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Fixed; template removed from image page. --zenohockey 21:30, 16 September 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Columbine

Just wanted to say that your clean-up on the page looks good. I've had converting the Block references on my long list of things to do, but just could never get my head around doing it. Thanks for doing that!! Wildhartlivie 02:18, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. I used User:cacycle/wikEd for the Block stuff, so it wasn't too taxing. --zenohockey 02:30, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] ISBN

Could you explain what you had in mind here? I'm still not sure what the issue is, and the text you added to the article isn't clear. Was there actually a 10-digit SBN code? If so, it would help if you have a reference for it. The fact that a single publisher believed he could correctly apply a 10-digit code to books doesn't say much beyond the practices of that particular publisher, who could have been mistaken. 22:04, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] De Anza article at AfD

Hello. This is a courtesy notice that I have nominated for deletion an article you have created or edited, 2007 De Anza baseball players rape case. The deletion discussion may be found here. Thanks, Wikidemo (talk) 11:25, 12 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Google images

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[edit] Removal of category from your userpage

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[edit] Fix for broken ISBNs

For the broken ISBN redirection script, Franamax (talk · contribs) suggested changing "isbn=" to "Special:Booksources" in the script, and then reloading. It worked for me, so I thought I'd pass it along. — Bellhalla (talk) 03:19, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia meetup

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[edit] Harris and Klebold

I've been through SO many pages of evidence and interviews, and I have never found a reason for the date change anywhere. I think the absence of the reason is the source of so much speculation about their motives and beliefs, including that incessant Hitler's birthday rumor. It would be great if you found something, but I doubt it's out there. Cheers. Wildhartlivie (talk) 04:34, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Interesting...I'll keep an eye out. In the meantime, I've removed the apparently baseless speculation in that sentence. --zenohockey (talk) 04:54, 1 June 2008 (UTC)