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Hi Koavf. Just to explain my edit re the above—"Korea" was a unified country until the Korean War. People died of cancer in "Korea" prior to the division of it into North and South. So it's entirely apporpriate for it to be a subcategory of Category:Cancer deaths by country. The same principle explains how we can have Category:Cancer deaths in the Soviet Union as a subcategory of the same. Thanks. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:01, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Justin, since you've been active on Wikitravel in the past, I wondered whether you might care to comment on my proposal for a regions hierarchy for Indiana . I'd appreciate any insight you could give! --Peter Talk 05:59, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
As you may have noticed from the map, FAC is in the wild seas east of Trollmark in the area marked "Here be manual of style dragons." Em-dashes and en-dashes are vittles to them horrible critters. Come with plenty in the article, in place of hyphens. Hamlet, Prince of Trollmark (talk) 23:18, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
A page that you have been involved with. The page ends up being a redirect to a song title on an album of covers by a lesser known artist, who was not the original songwriter. I have eliminated the redirect but don't know what the process is for getting a page deleted.
Dreadarthur (talk) 16:20, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
I went through some of the other song titles on his page and he has done the same thing--reference a song with which he has no connection, either as the songwriter or as the original performer, and then tagged (Geraint Watkins Song) with a redirect. Plus, you will see that Geraint Watkins shows up in all sorts of other redirects. Fortunately, it seems that he is a real person, but quite marginal in terms of notability, from what I can see. How to address this apparent abuse of the Wikipedia redirect function? Could you please discuss with fellow editors or refer to same? I don't know who to talk to about this.
Dreadarthur (talk) 16:27, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, this is just a friendly note with a friendly suggestion. You might want to slow down your nominations of songs and spread them out over the course of a few days, as AfD is already pretty busy and adding 50+ discussions all at once is sort of clogging things up in my opinion. I assume you have actually checked that each song is not notable and are nominating them all in good faith, but mass nominations with very short rationale aren't as helpful as if you were to say "This song is not notable because _________there are no Google hits, no significant coverage in Gnews, the song has not charted etc (along with links to prove it)____________". Just a friendly suggestion. :) — LinguistAtLarge • Talk 23:30, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Just wanted to congratulate you on the stuff you've been doing - now that I see it in context it confirms my original feeling that yours was actually the best solution and that and that, despite my initial misgivings (based on, if you remember, the lack of consensus-seeking*), it added greatly to the subject matter. It's been well worth the wait! Looking forward to seeing the results of other articles you decide to take on :) *I realise now that the process of waiting for the desirable consensus can be mind-bogglingly slow and that "being bold" is probably the best way to go... Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 23:38, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
For all the songs you prodded, I think it is reasonable to just be bold and redirect them. smooth0707 (talk) 00:49, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Would be happy to do a style review. Let me know when you have finished your major edit and I'll jump in. – ukexpat (talk) 14:05, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Koavf! You recently moved several Lists of National Treasures, for instance: "List of National Treasures of Japan (Shrines)" to List of National Treasures of Japan shrines.I think the original name is more readable and in line with common usage on wikipedia. This was also noted in the peer review of one of the lists. What was the reason for this move? bamse (talk) 01:08, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey, just wanted to make you aware if you weren't already of our speedy renaming process. A few of your recent CFD nominations can be handled through this process, rather than having to go through a full five-day discussion. Otto4711 (talk) 23:21, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on The World's Greatest College Weekend, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to a nonexistent page.
If you can fix this redirect to point to an existing Wikipedia page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you also fix the redirect. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. R'n'B (call me Russ) 01:38, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
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For LPs on WP:ALBUM the track listing is split by sides for the track listings. From WP:ALBUM: "Albums originally released primarily on vinyl or cassette should similarly list the tracks of each side separately under sub-headings named "Side one" and "Side two"." Please do not remove Side one and Side two titles. JoeD80 (talk) 23:25, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Warped (Star Trek), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:
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Hello, Please can i ask that in the interest of courtesy and for ease of understanding when making edits like you have done to Fantasy Ride can you provide an WP:edit summary. this helps other editors identify what changes have been made to articles. I know myself that sometimes i forget to do so, but it does make things easier for other users if you can provide a brief summary of the additions/deletions or changes you have made to an article. (Lil-unique1 (talk) 11:01, 10 May 2009 (UTC))
You keep changing the date formatting in album infoboxes to fit the "start date" template, but there's nothing at WP:ALBUMS] that says it's mandatory. Really, it's just so much easier to type it out, and autoformatted dates are discouraged these days anyway. WesleyDodds (talk) 07:13, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Koavf, after moving articles you have asked for the redirect to be deleted. Please fix all the inbound links to the new redirect. In some cases there is a double redirect, but a robot won't fix it if it's gone. Once the inbound links are gone, then please propose for speedy delete! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:22, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
I removed the link to John Nau because I didn't think it was likely that he would ever have an article. I couldn't find a single source for a musician by this name at all, so he shouldn't be red linked if he's unlikely to have an article, ever. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Many otters • One hammer • HELP) 01:23, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Regarding your recent edit to the article, please keep in mind that "(transition)" only refers to the latter song name in each track. Moving the quote marks creates the impression that all of the song names in each track make up a transition, which is misleading. Feel free to contact me if you have any concerns. just64helpin (talk) 00:53, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Before changing them, make sure that it works well (currently it doesn't). Alefbe (talk) 06:39, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
See for example. Currently, it doesn't show the link to the Persian language. Alefbe (talk) 06:44, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
I understand you frustration at the lack of improvement of these, but they are not exactly empty" by the cCSD standard, so to avoid problems I changed them to "proposed deletion". You really should have notified the author, but i took care of that just now. I suppose it is possible to add at least some information to all of them, and if so, it would be reasonable of him to remove the tag. If not, they will probably be deleted unless someone else does. Ideally, it's everyone responsibility, per WP:BEFORE, but I admit that I myselfam not likely to havethe chance to do it. DGG (talk) 04:23, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your feedback, but "compact disc" is not capitalized. Here are five style guides saying so (search for "compact disc").
Also, if you read up on proper nouns you will see that it is clearly a class of things (a common noun) rather than a unique thing (a proper noun). Have a nice day. Careful Cowboy (talk) 14:54, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Professional reviews in infoboxes are supposed to be cited, not linked. Take a look at Template:Infobox Album. Also, as quoted on the WP:Album page, "Do not add reviews without a citation (see Wikipedia:Citing sources). In most cases, this means a properly formatted footnote providing the author, date, and source, along with an external link if available. For example: Allmusic [1] Do not use an embedded link with no information (e.g. link) as this promotes link rot and is inconsistent with Wikipedia's policy on embedded links. If you must use an embedded link, be sure to manually provide a full citation in the article's References section per Wikipedia:Citing sources."-5- (talk) 09:35, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey. I'm glad someone's finally combinging the two, it's needed to be done for a long time. Unfortunately, the way you're doing it is creating to Wikiproject Baseball templates on one talk page. Can you fix this please? Wizardman 19:42, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the massive cleanup on the horse breeds task force template. I have never been able to figure out AWB, your work is appreciated. Montanabw(talk) 04:24, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I think you have incorrectly changed the name of the article HSL–Zuid. The hyphen does not indicate a trajectory between HSL and Zuid, but a subdivision, the South (Zuid) part, of the High Speed Line (HSL). Rubenescio (talk) 19:54, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. Just commenting to point out a mistake you made when using WP:AWB: in this edit, by automatically replacing the string 'perb' with 'lang-fa', you 'corrected' the word 'superblock' to the nonsensical 'sulang-falock'. These are the dangers of automatic search-and-replace! :) I've corrected it back, but just wanted to let you know; in order to avoid making such mistakes in future, always check just exactly what it is you're replacing with what! Robofish (talk) 01:58, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
I see you replace the category "georgian people"with öPeople From georgia". I try to kindly remind you that these two are two different concepts. Georgian people refer to Georgian ethnic groups in all countries. Georgians are native to georgia, Turkey and republic of Azerbaijan and in addition live for centuries in Iran. These can be seen as indigenous Georgians but not from Georgia. Especially georgians from Turkey (Sunni Muslims), and Iran (Shiite Muslim) are very different in identity with those in Georgia (predominantly Orthodox Christians. On the other hand there are peoples of Georgia, which are not ethnic Georgians, there are also Ossetians, Abkhazians, Armenians, Chechens etc... in Georgia. So one category is about the Georgian ethnic group and the other about the citizens of Georgia.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 20:36, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello again. I will archive my talk page after I clean it somehow. Hower in the disambig. page I still cannot see the category of Georgian people as an ethnic group. Georgians from Georgia as well as other ethnic groups from Georgia can be included in that category "people from Georgia (country)" but Georgians from Iran and Turkey cannot be included in that. I propose to make a category named "Georgian people (ethnic group)"--Babakexorramdin (talk) 08:31, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey Justin,
I noticed you've been updating a lot of album articles to make the numbering on vinyl versions continuous instead of restarting on each side. What's the motivation behind this change? At any rate, every vinyl record I own, including some whose articles you've changed, has tracks numbers that restart on each side. So I'll change them back and ask that you only make such changes if you know it's an accurate reflection of the original. Thanks! —Zeagler (talk) 10:11, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
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I've just nominated an article you've worked on, Make It to the Sun for deletion.Borock (talk) 15:03, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Why did you move this to The Limited Series (album)? It's a box set, not an album. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 17:07, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
You recently moved The Misfits (box set) to The Misfits (album). Why? It's not an album, it's a box set, so the dab is now incorrect. Albums and box sets are 2 entirely different types of releases, just as EPs and singles are (which is why we have different infobox codings for each as well). You wouldn't move an article dab'd as "(EP)" to "(album)"...that'd be incorrect, just as it's incorrect to move a box set to "(album)". In the Misfits case this is especially so, since the box set contains 6 albums within it. It's not an album unto itself. In any case I think that The Misfits (album) ought to redirect to Misfits (Misfits album) (a nearly identically titled release by the same band) or to Misfits (disambiguation) as there are other albums by the title "Misfits" as well. I've tried to reverse the redirect you created in order to fix these issues but the speedy was denied. I'd like to hear your reasoning on the issue, since you did not leave an explanation in your edit summary as to why you felt that the dab "(box set)" was incorrect (your edit summary merely said "dab"). Bottom line: albums and box sets are 2 different items and it is incorrect to dab them identically. --IllaZilla (talk) 08:09, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
I notice you have again edited several Led Zeppelin pages in order to categorise Coda as a compilation album rather than a studio album, but you have not provided any additional evidence or reasoning for these edits on the discussion pages of these articles. Before editing these pages again, please provide a rationale for your edits on the discussion pages:
My rationale for categorising the album as a studio album is clearly explained on each of these discussion pages. Unless you can demonstrate that my rationale is flawed or incorrect, the categorisation of the album as a studio album should remain. Edelmand (talk) 07:29, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Plip!
. "Not notable" isn't a good deletion nomination rationale. See WP:JNN. Fences and windows (talk) 22:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
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Yes sir you indeed appear to be correct that was an inappropriate tag on my part. My apologies, you brought the matter up with tact and class for which I thank you as well. A helpful fyi you shouldn't remove the templates yourself. (unless you are reviewing admin, in which case hey you got a job to do) Again though The manner you broached the subject was very commendable! Hell in a Bucket (talk) 03:24, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Albums by red link artists can be tagged for speedy deletion via A9. Just letting you know, since *cough* I'm the user who created A9 in the first place. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 03:04, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi justin - I'd wondered about that, so I checked the WP article on it - Buddhahood - which tends to use "Buddha" rather than "buddha" throughout. Perhaps that article needs some judicious editing? Grutness...wha? 04:05, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I got all of The Endless ones, but not Rolo, as Rolo's article is still around. Why didn't you tag these yourself? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 17:17, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
I only follow the guidelines as much as necessary, because they are just guidelines. My main concern when editing an article is how well it adheres to the Featured Article/Good Article criteria and general editing policies. If a guideline doesn't make sense, no one is obligated to follow it. Guidelines aren't inflexible, and that's something you should be more open too. In contrast, it's not like I don't ever change my mind. If you have a sound rationale for reverting a particular edit I'm totally open to it. WesleyDodds (talk) 21:12, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
You were involved with this page at one point. I came across the page in going through Doug Fieger. To me, there are issues of self-promotion and notability, at least in relation to his post-Knack activities. I am wondering if the page is appropriate for Wikipedia in its current form.
Many thanks in advance for your sentiments and actions, if considered necessary.
Dreadarthur (talk) 00:05, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks for taking the time to edit here. A much more reasonable presentation, in my view.
Dreadarthur (talk) 15:47, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Howdy, I noticed that some months ago you added that Bill Nye is Jewish . Someone recently posted a request for a source for that, and I have to admit I am coming up short (mind you, using only Google). Any chance you remember the source off the top of your head? Many thanks, --TeaDrinker (talk) 04:36, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
There's no sources for the release history. For instance, I'm having people help me look for reliable sources on the Mobile Fidelity Sound Recording release, but that's tough going so far, and I have access to tons of sources on R.E.M. Even then, prose is perferred over tables. Currently all the relevant information is included in the prose of the article. WesleyDodds (talk) 01:29, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums#Language to see if we can get some sort of a consensus on this. --JD554 (talk) 08:21, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. Please forgive this slightly odd request; I was seeking an active Wikipedian in the Indianapolis area; reason being, the spotlight team are working on the article Marco Polo sheep, and we're struggling for pics. I wondered if there might be someone who could pop down to the zoo with a camera. Even better would be a sound clip of a 'baa'. Let me know if you can help; cheers, Chzz ► 17:39, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Koavf, I've reverted your edits that have added language=English to album infoboxes per this discussion. I'm sure you know about Wikipedia's policy on WP:CONSENSUS. --JD554 (talk) 07:18, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Instead of crapping [citation needed] all over every single Who album and Who single chart information on every single Who page, how about if you provide the actual citations? The citations are Billboard and the UK charts. 74.73.110.46 (talk) 03:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
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You renamed "Dirty thirty (Guantanamo)" to "Dirty thirty (Guantanamo Bay Naval Base)" with the edit summary "per main".
I don't know what "per main" means in this context.
Could you please return to the talk page to discuss choosing the best name for the article? Geo Swan (talk) 19:00, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
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You are correct about my ndash error: I entered as a modifier key+hyphen from my keyboard; I corrected it by entering the actual code.
"London, United Kingdom" is not correct: the correct format for cities and constituent countries of the UK is, eg, "London, England, UK", although in the case of a highly recognisable city like London, adding "United Kingdom" is not necessary. Radiopathy •talk• 17:09, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
There are no non-breaking spaces in my edit; take a look for yourself.
Templates are tools, not guidelines; one does not need to fill in every space. Sometimes it's just a matter of using common sense. In the UK there are no states; places in England are generally broken down into municipality, county, country, eg, Blackpool, Lancashire, England. By your reasoning, if there were a template for England (town, city, state, et cetera, indicates a US bias), one would fill in the ward or parish, town or city, county, constituent country, sovereign state, eg, Wardley, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom - a bit much, don't you think? And since Greater London (but not the City of London) is in London county, well...
I've reverted your edit at George Orwell. Radiopathy •talk• 02:33, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on George Orwell. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. Radiopathy •talk• 02:47, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
Your edits to George Orwell have quickly gone from good faith to disruptive. Please do not make any further changes to the place of death section of the infobox without first gaining consensus on the article's talk page. Thank you. Radiopathy •talk• 19:32, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Please do not move pages without first getting consensus on the article's talk page. Your move included a non-standard symbol (em dash) in the article's title. Radiopathy •talk• 19:54, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
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