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Wow, you're quick! I was just about to make the switch, and you beat me to it. :)
Indeed, the 125px width should be okay for this particular image (given its aspect ratio and historical/artistic significance) —David Levy 01:13, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, you beat me in uploading a cropped version before I did, after I noticed that the full image would not work too well. :-) Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, the tables have turned. I frequently check the upcoming TFA/OTD images and find that you've already taken care of the cropping. It often seems as though you and I are the only people who care about this. —David Levy 01:30, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Image:Capri pants.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Capri pants.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:
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- Go ahead and delete it, since it is possible to freely take a picture of someone wearing Capri pants. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- P.S. Also Image:Antioch-Bridge.jpg.– Quadell (talk) (random) 19:34, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I realize the information needs to be integrated, and much (though not all) of it is redundant. Especially important (I think) are the references in the NEWLY added material that are lacking in the older material. I am sure it could be done better, but my goal was a) preservation of the material and b) moving it out of the main NFL article. I had not yet thought about how it would work in this article. Thank you for reverting it back; while I agree some of it is redundant, we should work harder on incorporating it. Unfortuinately, my priority now is the main NFL article. Once that gets up to standard, I can work on this one (and the others I have so treated). Or someone else can before I get to it. Just as good. please direct any questions or comments to my talk page. --Jayron32 03:07, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- I understand that NBC will have the tape-delay telecast of the China Bowl (a replay of the live game broadcast) at 8 PM ET/PT, not 8:30 PM ET as per how they handle the Olympics as a "plausably live" event. NoseNuggets 3:12 PM US EST Feb 10 2007
- The plans are for a prime time rebroadcast akin to what ESPN did for the pre-season Japan Bowl games that were played earlier this decade in both the Eastern and Pacific time zones starting at 8 PM in both zones. ESPN just had the rebroadcast airing at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. NoseNuggets 3:27 PM EST Feb 10 2007
- The 8 PM ET/PT airing will be a rebroadcast of the game that day. NoseNuggets 3:46 PM US EST Feb 10 2007.
Census-designated places
Hi,
There has already been much discussion about the labeling of communities as census-designated places and the consensus was that the term is less desirable than "unincorporated community". The term "census-designated place" is used only by the U.S. Census Bureau and has no meaning outside that organization. CDP boundaries do not conform with official community boundaries, which are set by Local Agency Formation Commissions in California and other local agencies in other states. In fact, many CDPs divide official communities into smaller areas for the convenience for the USCB. Please see the article on census-designated places.
Although it is linguistically-correct to use the term "town" for communities the size of Alpine, California, the consensus was not to use the term except for legally incorporated towns. So, Alpine did not conform to the current consensus and you were correct to change it. However, I am changing the article to call Alpine an unincorporated community as that is the current consensus (at least among those of us who passionately argued the point) as to what it should be called. Cheers Rsduhamel 06:18, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
- I think your edit is appropriate since you mention that the area is both an unincorporated community and a CDP. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 06:26, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Anheuser Busch
Thanks for merging. I did not want to blow away the prior template. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs) .
Jonathan Downes photo
I am sorry if I am beiung stupid, but why has this image been deleted TWICE - the second time by you. I am the copyright owner, and the photographer and I have permission from everyone involved to use this picture, and I clearly stated so on the form? Lazarusx 14:53 19th November
a barnstar for Zzyzx11
And special thanks for taking care of the Selected Anniversaries. Have a cookie. 
Keep up the excellent work, my friend. Happy editing.
PFHLai 14:51, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Picture of the day, Nov 26
Not sure if you're invovled in the process of picking the PotD, but since you uploaded it from Commons you might want to check Image talk:Hills south west of Sanandaj near the village of Kilaneh.jpg. ~ trialsanderrors 21:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC) [[Image talk:Hills south west of Sanandaj near the village of Kilaneh.jpg
- As per WP:POTD, the picture of the day is based on recently promoted featured images. Because the image is primarily stored on Commons, all that I did was save a temporary local copy so it could be protected while on the main page here. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for the barnstar! But the credit for those maps belongs with Zondor for developing the amazing label image editor thing. Regards, --Astrokey44 02:51, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, I know.[1] I just wanted to give a barnstar to both of you. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:56, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Why in the hell did you delete this?--Wokid MM 00:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- As you probably read on the deletion log, it was deleted because the image did not have specific information on its source, author, or licence information. All you did was paste "goku looks cool" in the "Summary", and select "I don't know" in the "License". Again, please read the instructions on the upload form. Your file will be deleted unless you provide the detailed information on the instructions. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:34, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Image:Richmond-San-Rafael-Bridge.jpg
Image:Richmond-San-Rafael-Bridge.jpg
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Image copyright problem with Image:Richmond-San-Rafael-Bridge.jpg
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Please specify the copyright information and source on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. —Angr 19:29, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Orphaned fair use image (Image:Richmond-San-Rafael-Bridge.jpg)
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Orphaned fair use image (Image:A1 Steak Sauce.jpg)
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- Deleted and replaced by Image:A1 Steak Sauce.png. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:43, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Main Page protection
Zzyzx11 wrote:
- I noticed my name got into this conversation. I will admit that I missed protecting those templates that the penis vandal got, both the December 15 SA and the December 24 POTD. But Gurch has a valid point that it is essentially the whole community's fault. Because it got to a point where only one user, me, was monitoring the main page protections. That in my opinion is unacceptable for an important page like the main page. Not only was there not another Wikipedian to double check myself, but what could have happened if I got too busy or went on a wikibreak -- and all of the templates and images for a particular day was not protected? So hopefully, more eyes and a new bot will prevent it from ever happening again. Regards, Zzyzx11 (Talk) 06:47, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Indeed the entire community (non-administrators too) should take responsibility for this. When I posted at WP:AN and Talk:Main Page, I assumed there was a group of people that took care of this, and they seemed to be in need of a little motivation. I wasn't aware that it had got to the point that there was only one person having to do it. Obviously you cannot be blamed for such circumstances and I apologize if I gave that impression. I notice the bot is only going to notify administrators that pages need protection; this is all very well, but it's all too easy to get back to the situation where there's only one person doing it, if only one person is monitoring the bot's page. In my opinion, the community's outright rejection of the automation of any administrative process, however benign, is idiotic and misguided, and the project is really beginning to suffer because of it. Sadly it doesn't look like this attitude will change any time soon. – Gurch 12:20, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
- As for a bot that does some automation of any administrative process, the community is very, very reluctant to allow one. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Marudubshinki is one example that makes people hesitant. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:22, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I'm aware of that mishap. On the other hand, Curps ran an unauthorised blocking bot on his own account for months, despite a number of serious errors. Note that neither of them sought approval. There's a big difference between getting a general consensus that something is a good idea, and doing something without consultation. If as a result of one incident of the latter, the former is now impossible, then we're in even more of a mess than I thought – Gurch 12:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
The Images Used In the Linestats_Amfootball Template
I think that you have misinterpreted what is meant by Part 8 of the WP:FUC. The usage in the stats falls under the category of "identify the subject of an article". Note the use of the word "purely" in the FUC. The implication is that fair-use images cannot be used as nonrelevant decor, such as page backgrounds, but can be used as long as they are relevant. You said that you strictly follow rule eight. Since rule eight says "purely", and since this is not purely decorative as the subject matter of the images is relevant to the topic, then the image meets the condition of rule eight.
I should also quote this segment of text from the copyright conditions of the image:
It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of logos to illustrate the corporation, sports team, or organization in question on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.
--Matt72986 12:44, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- I have updated the discussion on my talk page. --Matt72986 03:10, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Protected broken redirects for deletion
User talk:MilkMan and User talk:King MilkMan are both fully protected broken redirects that need to be deleted. Would you please do that for me? Thanks a lot, --Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Contribs) 02:37, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
- David Levy took care of it. --PFHLai 14:54, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Discussion about splitting YYYY in baseball articles...
...is going on at Talk:List of MLB seasons#Split the YYYY in baseball articles?. —Wknight94 (talk) 05:19, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Your Username Named After A Road
How come your username is named after a road, because most wikipedians name their username after their name, and it is unusual on wikipedia for someone to pick a username after a road, because a road is no big deal and you seem to think that roads are the most special thing in America, which is a huge problem?--jsalims80 17:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Protected User talk pages needing deletion
There are lots of user talk pages that are broken redirects that need to be deleted. The problem is that I am not an admin so I cannot do that myself because they are fully protected. If you go to http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/User_talk:Bobabobabo you will find links to these broken redirects that need to be deleted. Thanks so much, --Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Contribs) 03:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
NFL Bracket
Hello, Zzyzx11. Since you started the template NFLBracket, I'd like to ask you if you could make a small change. Previously, the template 4RoundBracket-Byes was used and I would like to see if you could add the numbers in gray background to the new template, to give it a better look. Thanks. Rbb l181 21:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- See my comment on Template talk:NFLBracket for the answer. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Sorry about the fair-use thing. I was playing with learning about templates so that I might be able to contribute some things: 1) Opening up more room in the date/location fields with bottom alignment, so that long venue names don't wrap and cause a team/score box to enlarge in the process, and 2) realigning the WildCard round downward to feed the center line of those games' boxes straight into the winner's position in the next round, (since there is no 'other game' contributing the teams with byes), and getting further away from the look of a generic 16-team, statically-seeded tournament. While I was at it, I was trying for the sort of look that one is likely to see on a newspaper sports page. I thought had read the fair use policy thoroughly enough, but clearly I missed two key points. The Monster 19:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Crazy Canadian
Actually, I am Soxrock. I am only on this "interm" account because there are a few people (no actual accounts, but spies) trying to capture me. So if you look at my user page Soxrock you would see that I am only here under this account interm. Crazy Canadian 23:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
It's people in real life. It's not certain wikipedians. Crazy Canadian 12:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Image:Lorne Calvert.jpg
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- Delete it, as per Jimbo's current policy on fair use images of notable living people. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
A friend did the "" update and I missed it. He said he changed something while I was distracted and I missed that. Thanks for catching it. Autkm 04:36, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Robert E. Lee Bicentennial
Please consider adding this event to the January 19th Selected Anniversaries page. See Talk for January 19th for more details. Thanx and best regards...
--Tex 00:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- I am well aware of what is stated on rule #1 of WP:SA#Criteria for listing items on this set of pages: "births and deaths can only be used on centennials, etc". But to be honest, in general, I am not a big fan of listing any centennial of a birth or death since I have to remove another significant entry. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:34, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, maybe in another hundred years... --Tex 03:32, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
4TeamBracket
Why did you revert? My changes are upwardly compatible to using the tournament seeds, and I manually checked a couple of dozen articles to see the effects (and there were no undesirable renderings). Do you have some specific pages that were broken by my change? You also reverted the change to use "em" spacing instead of fixed pixel widths. This should always be preferable, as that makes the template "scale" according to the browser font size. Andrwsc 06:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- Please take a look at User talk:Andrwsc/4TeamBracket. By using for the seed parameters, you get the desired effect. This is why I think my version is completely compatible with the previous version, yet greatly improved for situations where seeding is not needed and the spaces look awkward. I do not want to use {{Round4}}. I find this template (and it's "brothers") very awkward to use because they use positional parameters instead of named template parameters. (This may be part of the reason they don't work well with template arguments.) Also, there is far too much unnecessary vertical space with that bracket.
- In any case, I feel that you reverted my changes far too quickly, without considering the benefits of this version. As I said, I could not find a single example (yet) of how my version caused any undesirable effects, but I am willing to look at every page that transcludes this template if necessary, and put in the seeds if that is what is wanted. Of course, I did find lots of pages in which the bracket is improved by removing the unused seed boxes... Andrwsc 07:29, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- Whatever... If you want to take a look at all of the bracket templates, be my guest. I will wait to see it in action when it is used on a {{current-sport}}-tagged article when it is in progress. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 07:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- Believe me, I have been looking at that set of templates. I am concerned that variants keep popping up, as I strongly believe that we should be trying to standardize on a smaller set. For example, I count at least 13 templates for 16 teams (4 rounds). It seems to me that with use of parser functions, this could be reduced to maybe 2 or 3 variants, which would be vastly more maintainable and would certainly contribute to more consistency across Wikipedia. Someday I'll put together a proposal for that! Andrwsc 08:06, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- Update - I have looked at every article that transcludes this template and made some edits before changing this template back to having the seeds optional. There were over 250 articles that use the template, but the vast majority specify the seed arguments for all six positions. The results:
- 27 articles on the NIT that needed added each time. It was interesting to see that most of these articles use {{8TeamBracket}} with for unknown seeds, but did not do the same thing for the final four.
- 12 articles that needed fixing or completion
- 6 articles that had blanks for a bye, so I switched usage to {{3TeamBracket}} instead
- 7 articles that had completely empty brackets as placeholders, so these were left alone
- Of the rest, there were 15 articles that benefitted from my changes, as they did not use seeds. There were only 3 articles that assumed 1/2/3/4 in the first round (so I explicitely added them) and only 2 articles that assumed in the second round (which I also updated).
- Thought you'd like to know. Andrwsc 20:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- Update - I have looked at every article that transcludes this template and made some edits before changing this template back to having the seeds optional. There were over 250 articles that use the template, but the vast majority specify the seed arguments for all six positions. The results:
Hello. My name's Zohar and I'm active on the Hebrew Wiki. One of our writers had wrote the Hevrew version of Zimmermann Telegram article based on a book he had about cryptology. Int hat book the date mentioned for the sending of the telegram was Jan 16th, as showed up in your article, until an anonymous user had changed it to Jan 19th ([2]). From there it seems to hadreached all acrose the different Wikis (though the Spanish Wiki still holds Jan 16th).
Since the IP is probably no longer any good in order to make contact with the user who had changed the sending date, I hope that you will be able to help us. Did you changed the January 16, January 19 and the selected anniversaries for those date based on knowledge or because of the anonymous contribution? Can you refer us to a source that states Jan 19? Thanks in advance, Zohar Drookman - Talk - Hebrew Talk 16:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- hi again. Saw your nessage, we're working on it. Thanks, Zohar Drookman - Talk - Hebrew Talk 19:08, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Reversions?
I did not revert your edits to Rogers Centre, Safeco Field, RCA Dome, Ford Field. I simply removed the WrestleMania succession boxes per WP:PW from the merge you performed on the other sports related succession boxes in the artilces. Hope that clears it up -- bulletproof 3:16 03:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- If you want it separated, I understand your reasons based on a context standpoint, but I still think it does not look quite right from a layout standpoint. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 03:37, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Pastor Melissa Scott deletion
Oh? What specifically were the conflicts of interests and non compliance with Wiki guides? Please list, if you will. Doesn't Wikipedia have spam blocks? Thank you, Daniel —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Historian Dan (talk • contribs) 11:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC).
Image:BonnieBernstein.jpg
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- Delete it, as per Jimbo's now-current policy on fair use images of notable living people. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 13:22, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
FYI, I've also tagged Image:Jim rome pic.jpg as replaceable. Mosmof 13:50, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Oops, and thanks
Sorry about that, I don't know how I missed that Image tag...thaught we've had the comet up for long enough though. I'm in 100% agreement that we should avoid FU on the MP, thanks for the quick fix. — xaosflux Talk 01:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
acceptable links
I believe I now have a handle on what is an acceptable link and what is not, but I'm afraid of attempting to add a link one more time and be considered as spam.
There are 2 relevant articles that would apply to the playdate entry as well as articles from other sources that would also be useful.
Please advise on best way to approach.
Thank you.
http://www.funplaydates.com 17:59, 26 January 2007 (UTC) Lori
Image:Cleveland Browns helmet rightface.png
You removed this image from The Cleveland Browns Archive, which is connected to the main article which had gotten too long. It's the same image already uploaded for the Browns main article, and has cleared fair use policy. Besides that, the image directly relates to the article... which is simply an extension of the article that gotten too long. Please explain how this violates Wikipolicy? Thank you. Ryecatcher773 00:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
- Whoops, deleted one image too many. It is Image:Pro Football HoF logo.jpg that violates rule #8 of WP:FUC because it is more decorative. It does not identify the article subject, nor does it address specific points in the text. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Pro Football Hall of Fame
Hey, nice job on the re-write. Looks good. —Wrathchild (talk) 13:58, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks
Brookie here - thanks for fixing the semi protect on my talk page for me - I didn't know that the cascading thing caused problems - sounds like it should be disabled! Brookie :) - a will o' the wisp ! (Whisper...) 15:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
List of Super Bowl champions
I think should get a lock until after the gameSmith03 21:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I suggest this one, so the first line might look like:
February 4: Start of spring (2007) in East Asia, Independence Day in Sri Lanka
Thank you. HELLO, WORLD! 15:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
{{64TeamBracket}}
Can you put some instructions on the 64 team bracket talk page? I tried using the 16 team bracket and I couldn't find how to fix it. Kingjeff 23:59, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion. That's how I just might have to do it until I figure out how to stop repeating brackets. Kingjeff 00:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
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500px high resolution
Ok, my bad, but I have permission with Chris Creamer to use these images, I've emailed him for approval twice. So, the only reason I use these images and upload them is because I've been given express permission. Soxrock 20:53, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I see, but I just thought that permission from Creamer was validity for me to use those images. My bad. Soxrock 21:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
NCAA bowl games
Regarding sponsor names in bowl game names, I agree with you. However, there has been a discussion of this here and it seems to me that most people favor leaving them in. Johntex\talk 16:49, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Super Bowl XLI
Yes, I know that my protection reasoning goes against WP:SEMI. I was well aware of that before I made my decision. Knowing that this page is going to be vandalized heavily, I ignored the rules and semi-protected anyway. If you want to unprotect the page once the game starts, then I'm perfectly fine with that. However, I request the page be protected until at least 0:00 UTC, because undoubtedly most IP edits will be Super Bowl predictions, and such. Thanks. Nishkid64 18:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Fair use reduce
We may want to goto WP:ANI with this right now. I already reverted TheSportsLogoMaster undoing all my work and if this guy is a sockpuppet, we should just go now. I'm not sure about checkuser, if it would be appropriate. I believe I left a message on TheSportsLogoMaster's talk page saying it wasn't appropriate to use high resolution images, so since you did to Soxrox, we'll have enough for an RFC, if they are a sockpuppet. Whatever method you want to go I'm fine with. I'll go revert Soxrox if you haven't already. (I'm not good at figuring out sockpuppets tho). --MECU≈talk 01:22, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
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potd
Hey could you link sunshine on the piture of the day template?--Ioshus(talk) 04:14, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
- I have wiki linked Sunlight, Sunshine is currently a disambiguation page. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:18, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
FYI, it's standard practice for Featured Pictures to replace images with larger resolution versions, assuming they're identical (which in this case they are). So I transferred the FP and POTD templates from Image:Sahara satellite.jpg to the new one and tagged the old version as {{duplicate}} on Commons. For POTD purposes I also protected the big version, just so you know. Regards, howcheng {chat} 07:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 11
Hi.
I want to add anniversary of victory of Islamic revolution(Or Iranian revolution) in this page:[3]
As you see there is written:"Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, and eventually became the Supreme Leader of the Islamic republic." But there should be a link to Islamic revolution(Or Iranian revolution) because Islamic republic established on April 1 of that year.
But this page is fully protected and just admins can do so. --Sa.vakilian 06:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- Fixed. However, since Islamic revolution is currently tagged as {{POV}}, and Ruhollah Khomeini is tagged as {{POV check}}, as a rule of thumb you may not see it visible on the main page throughout that day. Rule #7 of Selected anniversaries editing guidelines: "the selected article (bolded item) must not be a stub and preferably it should be a relatively complete and well-formatted article. In other words, it should be a good example of Wikipedia content." Zzyzx11 (Talk) 10:13, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
- Zzyzx11, I agree with the exclusion. Would bolding the link to Iran (instead of bolding Ruhollah Khomeini or Islamic revolution) be a good idea ? The Iran page seems 'clean' for the time being, but it's s-protected. --PFHLai 15:27, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, I bolded "Iran" for now. Of course, recently Super Bowl XLI was on ITN for several days while s-protected too. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:16, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks alot.--Sa.vakilian 03:35, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
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Is there
A point where someone needs to get checkuser/getting to the baseline with the netsnipe vndl? Or is the usual expectation that they give up eventually - and its not worth it? SatuSuro 13:18, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
- Yes to the second question. What sometimes happens is someone, perhaps a vandal or a person who has repeatedly broken Wikipedia policies, gets upset when his or her account is blocked. This person then retaliates by making a number of vandalism-only accounts with names like "[Blocking admin] is an X". Usually they do it with multiple IPs, which makes checkuser useless. One such account is Zzyzx11 IS A COMMUNIST FROM MAINLAND CHINA (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log). Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:05, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Duh...of course they weren't named the Los Angeles Raiders before they moved there. Thanks for correcting my silly mistake ;-) Cogswobble 16:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
The Kingdome
I know what you're saying, but I've never heard it informally called "Kingdome". I think the article "the" needs to be there because that was the true name, "The" Kingdome, not "Kingdome. Soxrock (Talk) 21:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
The Kingdome is the proper name. You just can't imagine the radio quote after the famous 1995 double as "They are going crazy at Kingdome", can you? "The" Kingdome is the proper name and it also sounds correct grammatically. Soxrock (Talk) 8:14, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Lawrence Taylor
I noticed you are a member of the Wikiproject National Football League, I'd like to ask a favor of you. I've done a lot of work recently to improve the Lawrence Taylor article and recently made a request to have it peer reviewed. Would you mind looking it over and giving me advice on what to do next? The peer review page is here. Thanks in advance. Quadzilla99 13:08, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
- If your ultimate goal is to get it promoted to a featured article, I will have to pass and let those users who are more objective and less bias (and more active on both PR and FAC) look it over. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 13:34, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
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