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Typeface listing collaboration invite

Requesting editors' help

There is currently an oppened collaboration which aims in improving articles related to typefaces and font categorization. If you´re interested in this subject, please visit the collaboration page, add your self and see how you can help.

I hope you can contribute in this section if you find time. Happy editings! - Woglinde 02 (talk) 07:18, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Purge?

Hi, I can't seem to execute the purge function properly on my userpage. Could you help? Thanks.-122.106.248.171 (talk) 11:36, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Georgia disambiguation (in Atlanta, Georgia)

Thanks for the catch on the Winter Olympics articles. I have copied your edits into my "master" so that when I add the same list to the Summer Olympics articles (I will be doing another pass at the See Also and References sections at some point) it will be correct.Donlammers (talk) 12:49, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Category:Tennis career biographies

Hello, will you please fix this?BLUEDOGTN 03:18, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Recent revert by Johnfos

Hello. If you dont mind, would you be the third person and try to help solve this issue? Thanks and regards. Rehman(+) 10:09, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Looks like SoWhy (talk · contribs) solved the issue. Thanks anyway. Regards.Rehman(+) 13:46, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Alpha Phi Omega (Philippines) Chapters and Alumni Associations change

In regards to your fix of Washington State to Washington State University. Washington State is not a disambiguation page, it is a redirect. Washington State is what was intended the Alumni Associations of Alpha Phi Omega of the Philippines in the United States (and elsewhere outside the Philippines) are geographical and that one does cover Washington State.Naraht (talk) 13:30, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Whoops. Washington state is a redirect page to Washington, Washington State (with a capital S) is the redirect page. I think the most appropriate change is to change it from Washington State to Washington state (small s). In this case, I think linking to the redirect is most appropriate for the audience.Naraht (talk) 16:09, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Cool. Thanx for the help.Naraht (talk) 17:34, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Disambiguation of 'diver'

Just a quick heads-up that disambiguation of diver is not really suitable for an automated task. The article Diving describes the sport of high-board diving, etc. – so is not a good destination for uses of the word 'diver' in scuba or similar articles. Although the mental images of diver down flags around a springboard, and a commercial diver operating hyperbaric welding equipment while performing a triple-backward somersault raised a chuckle. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 17:57, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

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Cyprus edit "Britain"

Hi

You edited the page from "Britain" to "United Kingdom". These are different geographical entities, with the United Kindom including Northern Ireland and other outlying islands such as Scotlands and Britain not including it as it is merely the one land mass, and so it has changed the context of the information as the figures we have from the Cyprus gov seem to state Britain and not UK

Can you please elaborate on why that disambiguation link change was made so that I can re-edit it and not fall foul of the problem again

I think perhaps it should have been changed to Great Britain|Britain but not sure until you can help me understand what the problem was. Technically I cant see how this can be correct as Great Britain does not include islands such as the outer hebrides etc and so the Cyprus gov figures must be incorrect as I am sure someone from outer hebrides would put GB or UK but we have no way of knowing exactly what they used in their info compared to their choice "Britain" which would have excluded any OuterH residents

many thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 07:41, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Sorry - was still editing it after you replied lol Chaosdruid (talk) 07:50, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
K - seems like delinking is the best option as its too OR for me to do anything else - as for your speed, yup !
Keep up the good anti vandal work !
Chaosdruid (talk) 07:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Doubt!!!

If the same singer has released two albums with the same name, which should be the name of each album's article in the general rules? I hope your answer.*FranklinG* (talk) 18:53, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, makes perfect sense thanks.*FranklinG* (talk) 20:41, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Another question!

Sorry to bother again, but I have another question and wanted to clarify it: If a tour has no name, what is the name of the article should be created for this tour? I hope your answer.*FranklinG* 20:52, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Understood. Thanks again for your help and I know what I do.*FranklinG* (talk) 22:33, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Repairing link to disambiguation page Re: James M. Masters, Sr.

I moved my first article, James M. Masters, Sr., from my userspace yesterday, 11 January. Today (12 Jan 2010 - 7:22 AM) I received the 'Repairing link...' notification. The notification also included the 'You can help' message. I'm not sure how to proceed. Can you advise please. (I'm at GMT+2 Time Zone near Izmir Turkey.)

Man on the Roof 12:16, 12 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Champmasters (talk • contribs)

OK, thanks woohookitty!

--Man on the Roof 09:49, 13 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Champmasters (talk • contribs)

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Abuse template

i have added my case for keeping, but it occurs to me that you were probably not aware that the old abuse template was a different type of beast to the new one - a prominent non-collapsible side template, much more prominent than the current collapsible footer abuse template. --Penbat (talk) 16:27, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for editing Bill Seddon's page. My great-uncle :) —Precedingunsigned comment added by 92.2.164.170 (talk) 20:19, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Darts

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Darts. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs.03:28, 18 January 2010 (UTC) (Using {{Please see}})

Linking

Can you be a little more careful repairing dab page links: you just linked House Sparrow to Balochistan (Afghanistan), wheras most links, including this one, to Baluchistan refer to Balochistan (region). —innotata(Talk • Contribs) 16:11, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

I'll try fixing Baluchistan links. —innotata (Talk •Contribs) 15:56, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

The Baluchistan mis-links? I've looked through the various what links here pages, and I've found dozens of mislinked pages, though it is a bit hard, with all the navboxes each page links to. —innotata (Talk •Contribs) 00:44, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

I can't help with this. The best thing to do is just to fix links for ones for which it is hard to tell which page is correct, the Balochistan pages for example. —innotata (Talk •Contribs) 01:06, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

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Single Login

Hey. You are the admin that I know, so I am coming to you. I was futzing around with my preferences today, and found something called "single login" or maybe "unified login". It is a very good idea. I followed the steps to unify my accounts on the EN, NL, Wikibooks and Commons, and I think it worked (but I'm not sure). I went to see if there was a username "Zweifel" on the German wikipedia, and indeed there wasn't. I tried to register it, but it said there was already a user "Z.weifel", and that the names were too similar. Is there any way to get that username on the German Wikipedia? And could you check to see if my accounts are unified? I'm sorry if I am just giving you work to do, and by all means just point me in the right direction to do it myself if you wish. Zweifel (talk) 02:05, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Abuse relisting

I am extremely shocked that User:Plastikspork has relisted ‎ Abuse. It has been a major nightmare for me having to waste my time on this - now the ordeal goes on for another week. I dont think User:Plastikspork looked at this properly, all those who wanted deletion have now withdrawn or moved to a neutral stance (User:Apoc2400 for example. There isnt any compromise to be reached as the view is now unanimously a Keep. There has been far too much discussion already. I am likely to have a heart attack at this rate.--Penbat (talk) 18:42, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Abuse TFD looks like a complete mess

see User_talk:Plastikspork#Please_tell_where_i_have_voted_twice_in_the_new_discussion_.3F

It looks like administrators just count bits of emboldened text and ignore the fact that opinions may change as the result of discussion. This is the whole point of discussions. 3 of the editors in the 1st TFD effectively changed from delete to neutral butUser:Plastikspork looks to have ignored that and just gone by their initial postions. If he had picked up their later views there would have been no justification for relisting the TFD and wasting everybodies time all over again. --Penbat (talk) 17:36, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

The whole thing is a nightmare and stressing me out incredibly. Is there anything you can do ?--Penbat (talk) 17:42, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
It is the straw that breaks the camels back for me and I will exit Wikipedia for good if I lose this TFD. I have done tons of work on Wikipedia and it is just futile carrying on if i have my work ripped apart largely by people who dont understand the subject or dont follow the correct procedure. The work was hard enough as it was.--Penbat (talk) 17:58, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
I have explained about 5 times that as far as i am concerned, deleting the Abuse template completely undermines the abuse article that i have spent ages working on. Also it sounds like if i spent the next 7 days successfully changing the mind of those opposed in the new TFD (like i did with the 1st TFD) it will be ignored anyway. The whole thing is completely futile and pointless.--Penbat (talk) 18:27, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

My guess is that you meant to write "That doesn't mean I no longer want the article template deleted.", so I thought I'd leave a note. –Black Falcon (talk) 21:39, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Courtesy notice

See this thread.Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:02, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Travertine flooring

An article that you have been involved in editing, Travertine flooring, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Travertine flooring. Thank you.

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Battle of Spion Kop

Hi. What was this edit about? Has WikiCleaner got a bug? You undid the edit, but then re-did it again with the edit summary "(I'm hot. ;-) Yikes". I have changed it to [[United Kingdom|British]]. Department of "not many people know that": among those present at the battle was the young Mahatma Gandhi, serving as a stretcher-bearer. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:02, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

You did a whole string of [[United States|British]] from 19:04 to 19:09 last night - it looks as though you moved on from doing [[United States|American]] without, as it were, changing gear. In the interests of Anglo-American relations I have fixed the ones in that block that others hadn't already caught, but perhaps you should do some spot checks back over your other WikiCleans in case there are any more. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 11:54, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Help

Sorry but please help me, vandalism here http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Shannon_%28singer%29 —Precedingunsigned comment added by Yukimura10 (talk •contribs) 13:28, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

It's always good to see Woohookitty: WikiCleaner 0.98 - Repairing link to disambiguation page in action. Sir Floyd(talk) 08:28, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Disambiguation Is Pretty Cool, I Must Say...

Hello, Woohookitty! I've just started getting into this project, and I wish I had known about it sooner! Not only is fixing the links (and correctly determining which link to provide) rewarding, but each disambiguation job is like a small tour of WP articles. From two sentence stubs to quality articles with a gazillion references - this takes you everywhere. I'm a Mac user, so I can't get AWB (grrrr...), but I find it interesting to do it manually. Until I get back to work in a few weeks, I'll be working away on these (I've already done James Moody, Geffen, Steamer, Prodigy, Chrome, Corn, Charm, and Bacchus). I'd say I'm hooked. Just wanted to let you know you've got a dedicated new project member! Cheers :> Doc9871 (talk) 02:04, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

WikiCleaner works! My computer didn't "trust" the source, but I downloaded it anyway. Now I've got to read up carefully how to properly use it. Thanks, Woohookitty! :> Doc9871 (talk) 05:52, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Britain is not in the United States

Your edit to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure piped the word Britain to United States for some reason. Doceirias(talk) 00:17, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

And now the USA apparently fought in the Boer war too according to the January 23 article. Phildav76 (talk) 09:10, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I noticed another one of these, at Appleseed Project, made at about the same time. I'm wondering if the use ofWikiCleaner contributed to the frequency of errors. ENeville (talk) 02:55, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Afghanistan article needs attention

I've done a basic cleaning up of the article[1] but something is troubeling danieldis47 who keeps reverting my work because he/she doesn't agree on something which he/she failed to point out. thank you. I removed some statements from the intoduction of the page such as "The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) did not authorize the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)."--Jrkso (talk) 21:16, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

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Wow

I dont know if any of us from the Indonesian project has said thanks at any stage - just in case we havent - wow! Amazing workSatuSuro 23:40, 3 February 2010 (UTC) Well hope you get stars or barns or something combining the both for the work - its enough to want to investigate the cleaner app more closely SatuSuro 06:40, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Ms. Woohookitty, I saw your edit count on the DAB leader board, just wanted to say you're really fast. I got into the DAB challenge because of the userbox on your main page, I got more involved with the community because of it and just wanted to say thanks. Its been harder and harder to fix disambiguation links, how do you do it?.--Theo10011 (talk) 23:44, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips, I'll keep that in mind next time. Happy editing.--Theo10011 (talk) 16:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Changing the unreviewed tag

Hi, Woohookitty ! In the wikipage "Kapil Bora" - about a leading Assamese cine star, despite 4 people having edited it, it is still on the list of unreviewed articles. Cam u help to put this straight?

Clankalita (talk) 02:18, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

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CfD nomination of Category:Lists of major league baseball Opening Day starting baseball pitchers

I have nominated Category:Lists of major league baseball Opening Day starting baseball pitchers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Lists of Major League Baseball Opening Day starting baseball pitchers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Mm40 (talk) 00:59, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Proliferation

The link from Jane's Intelligence Review to proliferation gave readers who followed it a pretty good idea of what "weapons proliferation" means. Therefore, the link seemed useful to me even if it pointed to a dab page. Are you positive thatremoving the link is an improvement?Rl (talk) 09:06, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

In general, I agree with you (and I think you are doing important work). I am just wary of words like "never" and "always". I think a link to a dab page is justified if it is useful and there is no better alternative. In this case, the Wiktionary article is more generic and less helpful than the dab page. Anyway, I just wanted to understand your reasoning and make sure I hadn't overlooked something important or missed a memo or something. Thanks for your explanations. Rl (talk) 09:38, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

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CfD nomination of Category:WWE championship navbox templates

I have nominated Category:WWE championship navbox templates (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:World Wrestling Entertainment championship navbox templates (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments atthe discussion page. Thank you.—Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:19, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Normandy Campaign → Operation Overlord

Hi WK,
You just did a disam for me.
But I do not agree with this page move. There is no prior discussion that I can see. And I can't find who made the page move.
Do you know where that information is?
Thanks, Varlaam (talk) 14:20, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

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Is it possible for you to go back through the same pages you just hit for that link repair? In the case of wargames, 'strategy' is talking about military strategy, not strategic gameplay. --Rindis (talk) 17:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:MGM shorts

I have nominated Category:MGM shorts (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Scam of readers via wikipedia content

Please read and help Free Wikipedia articles are on sale as printed books for 50 dollars each in Amazon.com with no prior warning Kasaalan (talk) 14:06, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

The Minor Barnstar
Thanks for all your little cleanups to the articles on my watchlist.Amandajm (talk) 14:13, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Disambiguating musicals

The consensus is to reverse the recent moves of musicals: West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Dreamgirls, etc. are going back to the old names, since the musical is the WP:primary topic. See the discussion at WP:MUSICALS. Best regards, --Ssilvers (talk) 15:26, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

bad token

Hi,

I think I have found a fix for the 'bad token' in WikiCleaner. You shouldn't have it anymore in v0.99. I still believe the problem is in the MediaWiki API, I am currently trapping the error, asking for an other token and submitting the page again. --NicoV (talk) 19:54, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

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Dab of Forest Griffin

Please be careful when disambiguating re this diff. Thanks--Natet/c 17:35, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:MGM shorts

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Thanks!

I can't say I work as hard as you do (at anything) but your recent repair on one of my watchlisted pages did propel me into repairing some disams here and there, just to return the karma. Just wanted you to know it's appreciated. Mr.choppers (talk) 07:07, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

I don't know if you were involved, but my username is now active on the German, Dutch, and now French and Italian Wikipedias. This is good. Zweifel (talk) 19:46, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks

For helping with Don E. Branker. Mlpearc MESSAGE 20:14, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

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Your input is requested

As you have recently edited Andy Martin (American politician), I am writing to request your input at the article talk page, sections Vexed and disputed are the ones which outline the current issue. Many thanks in advance for your time. KillerChihuahua?!?Advice 21:36, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

dePRODing of articles

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Thanks so much!!!

Really appreciate your feedback and help with the HIAS entry. Will work on citations to make it better as well. Thanks again!

Happy Holidays

J04n(talk page) is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Xmas, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hannukah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec09}} to your friends' talk pages.

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Odd error

 Done 0.99 "An error occured: Login unsuccessful: Unknown error". Huh? :) --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 05:13, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

At least an other user has the same problem on fr. I haven't changed anything in the login process, I suspect a problem with MediaWiki API. I hope I will have time this evening to investigate. --NicoV (talk) 06:47, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
The explanation is here. This is a MediaWiki issue, they have changed the login process (including for those using the API), and I'm not even sure they warned about it before :( --NicoV (talk) 07:24, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

BTW, I see that you are also participating in the Check Wiki project. I have done quite a lot of work in WikiCleaner to work with Check Wiki. What do you think of the new capabilities for this project ? (accessible in demo mode until I change my code to work with the new login system). --NicoV (talk) 07:31, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I have modified WikiCleaner to take into account the new mechanism for login. --NicoV (talk) 20:47, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Maya

Hi. On the article Sant Mat, you just changed a wikilink from [[Maya]], which leads to a disambiguation page, to [[Mayan civilization|Maya]]. Unfortunately, the article was alluding to the Hindu concept of [[Maya (illusion)]]. I just wanted to bring this to your attention. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:33, 9 April 2010 (UTC)


IUPAC

I am looking for reviews for the IUPAC page. If you have any time, could you look at at the page and give me some tips on how to make it better? Thanks. Salamakajakawaka (talk) 21:26, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

International Morphological Terminology

Thank you very much for your contribution. --Giselle Chamorro (talk) 22:39, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Some of the links you just repaired actually broke. You linked to real estate developers, which is a non-existent article. The correct link should be [real estate development]]. I fixed the one at Camborne because it is on my watchlist but a quick look shows you broke some other articles too. --Simple Bob (talk) 09:01, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Another broken link?

Thanks for helping to fix the Georgia link on Shlomo Sawilowsky, but for some reason, although it appears what you did is correct, the link doesn't work now. Can you give it another look?Edstat (talk) 13:00, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Bad dab

(yes, it's a palindrome) Please be careful, such as these: LB&SCR B2 class; London, Brighton and South Coast Railway which should both have been to Turntable (rail) since the articles are on railway topics and not about recorded music. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:38, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

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Harness disambig

Hi WHK, just wanted to let you know about the range of possible disambiguation fixes for the horse harness articles. We lump a lot of different things under the general term "harness" using it as a noun, a verb and an adjective! (maybe even an adverb! LOL! But so you know, we have horse harness about the equipment, driving (horse) which is about the general range of activities (and a good catch-all if you don't know where else to link), harness racing for the racing sport, but then articles on some of the other specific harness events, notably the International-level combined driving, fine harness, pleasure driving, roadster (horse) and of course dozens of links to various horse-drawn vehicles. Hope this helps! If you run into a situation that has you scratching your head wondering what to link to, feel free to give me a shout! Montanabw(talk) 16:12, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

linkfix: crater in Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Hi, you replaced the ambiguous link to "crater" with "impact crater" in the above mentioned article. Do you see, why I address this? please be more careful. I repaired the link to "volcanic crater" now. greetings --h-stt !? 07:28, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of ice hockey players of Asian descent

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Flynn Remedios

Hi, I am trying to edit -- yet again -- Flynn Remedios's dishonest Wikipedia page, only to find that it keeps getting termed as vandalism. I keep adding links from Indian newspapers to prove that he has constantly been engaged in criminal behaviour. Could you please let me know how the page can be kept truthful, without having my edits taken down?

Thanks, Joe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.242.117.30 (talk) 10:50, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Recent Empire Test Pilots' School edit using Wikicleaner

Your recent Wikicleaner replacement of Captain by Captain (land) is incorrect, since the officer concerned is a member of the Swedish Air Force. Is there any way to stop this happening? I have removed the wikilink for now, since this mistake has been made twice recently and it is better to have no wikilink than a wrong one. --TraceyR (talk) 11:18, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

I have changed the link for Captain to Kapten - I'm not sure that 'Kapten' should be a stand-alone article, but that's another story. It's there now and is appropriate. --TraceyR (talk) 11:09, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks for thge link repair! Bruinfan12 (talk) 04:04, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

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Bad dab: steam loco types

I have fixed this bad dab - in the context of steam locomotives, "Baltic" refers to the 4-6-4 wheel arrangement; similarly in the same sentence, "Pacific" refers to 4-6-2. I have fixed the former and dabbed the latter too. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:41, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Ah ok. Sorry about that. :) Nice catch. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 05:41, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Disambiguation of Québécois

Hello. I noticed that on June 5, 2009, you disambiguated a number of articles linking to Québécois. In so doing, you overwhelmingly favoured the interpretation French-speaking Quebecer. As you know, the word Québécois can have that meaning, but it can also have the meaning "from Quebec".

The fact is, in most cases, it would have been impossible to tell, strictly speaking, whether what was meant was "Quebec", as in "Quebec artist", or instead "French-speaking Quebec artist", which is the interpretation you generally chose. The choice of French-speaking Quebecer imparts an ethnic/cultural meaning which is not necessarily intended.

For example, it might in many cases be preferable to identify an artist in terms of his geographical origin ("Quebec artist" or "American artist") rather than his language (or ethnicity) and geographical origin ("French-speaking Quebec artist", "French-Canadian artist", "English-Canadian artist" or "Italian-American artist"). In fact, it is uncommon for English-Canadian figures to be identified this way on Wikipedia (they are usually simply termed "Canadian"), and it is not equitable for French-Canadian ones to have their ethnicity consistently specified rather than simply their geographical origin.

I would therefore suggest that in cases of doubt (where there is no clear reason to invoke language or ethnicity), it might have been advisable to make the assumption that ethnicity was not intended, and to link to Quebec. It might even have been preferable to replace Québécois with Quebec in such cases.

For example, a Google Books search turns up 104 results for "Québécois artist" and 715 for "Quebec artist." Even for "singer" and "author", which might have been presumed to be intimately related to language, "Quebec" is respectively four and ten times likelier than "Québécois" on Google Books. I would suggest that the frequent use of "Québécois" by Wikipedia editors may not be the best practice, as it can carry unwarranted ethnic overtones.

Personally, I do not express a preference between "Canadian" and "Quebec" in these cases. But I do feel that ethnicity should not be mentioned when it is not specifically relevant. In most of the cases you addressed, a non-ethnic interpretation of Québécois was available. 82.124.231.13 (talk) 04:42, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Rights of way (transportation)

I noticed that you'd made a number of changes to links using Wikicleaner which have had the effect of re-directing various links formerly directed at 'public footpath' (or similar) to 'Right-of-way (transportation)' which is a disambiguation page. This has not proved useful. I have changed three to 'Rights of way in England and Wales' which is more appropriate to the article.

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Deleted page mentioning you

Please see deleted contents of Wiki, The musical.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:12, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

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Help this historic Artist

thank you for you help! Sorry (MA3ARG (talk) 16:15, 26 May 2010 (UTC))

Howdy. Did you intend to "Repair.. link to disambiguation page" by deleting the link with this edit? It possibly could have been changed to Film director unless there is something I'm missing.--Rockfang (talk) 10:36, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the comment on my talk page.--Rockfang (talk) 11:53, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

American Idol (season 9) table

Someone changed the season 6 table based on your compromise just changing the colors to the shades of blue and then used that article as justification for changing the season 9's Bottom 3's to Bottom 2's. Since you argued against this in the talk page, I commented on that, but I would appreciate your input there as well. Aspects (talk) 21:20, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Carl Frei

FYI, the WikiCleaner edit to Carl Frei was applied about six text lines away from where intended. The article has been corrected. Thanks. Jim (talk) 04:05, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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Trade unions in Tanzania

Hi, I'd just like to make you aware that your recent edit of the Trade unions in Tanzania article was wrong. The article was not referring to the American Department of Labor but the Tanzanian. Assuming that every article that mentions a Department of Labor is referring to the American institution might be a bad idea.--Carabinieri (talk) 04:00, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

WikiCleaner

FYI This has worked differently from this. Neither is about people. Was this a Woohookitty decision or a WikiCleaner ‘decision’? Just curious. Mannafredo (talk) 12:30, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

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Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology (FICAT)

Hello. I would appreciate reading the article. I welcome your comments. Thank you very much.--Giselle Chamorro (talk) 19:45, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

WikiCleaner

is broken. See [2]. ----Nricardo (talk) 16:16, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, I was trying to be diplomatic, but if you insist: you screwed up the above edit, sir.  :-P --Nricardo (talk) 15:31, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
LOL. Yeah I wish it was WikiCleaner's fault! --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 00:16, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

My talk page

If you get a chance, please visit my talk page and join in a discussion about an uploaded file purporting to show that John Moore has power of attorney for Houston McCoy. I remember you were involved in this situation a few years back, and can probably help me bring newer editors up to speed on what is going on here.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 13:54, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II on the PC

The reliable source is here. And on Wookieepedia they tell that the PC version will be developed by Aspyr. 84.86.199.99 (talk) 14:45, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar awarded

The Disambiguator's Barnstar
The Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who are prolific disambiguators.
You deserve about 50 of these :) œ™ 21:10, 17 June 2010 (UTC)


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Fictional history of Spider-Man

Following three attempts at having this page deleted, a number of editors collaborated on bringing this multiply-tagged article up to to policy and guideline standards of Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction). Comments were solicited at Talk:Fictional history of Spider-Man#Rewrite since May 26, and a final draft, created over a month of editorial input, was completed and put up for final comment at Talk:Fictional history of Spider-Man#Rewrite and replacement on June 25. On June 30, this consensus version, which confirms to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction), will replace the current page Fictional history of Spider-Man. As you have contributed to that page, we wanted to alert you to the opportunity for final comments. Thanks, --Tenebrae (talk) 17:38, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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RE: Ehistory

Hola,

I need help with user Ehistory (talk · contribs).

He doesn't seem to want to respond to me at all.

I am starting to get the feeling that he is one of these stubborn guys that just want to do it his way and not work with others.

I want him to add references and his English is bad, examples:

During Xinhai Revolution, When...

Need references:

- the largest single loss of life for Naval Special Warfare since World War II.

He just removed my notes from his talk page. He has no desire to work with me and by the WP norms. Maybe you can get through to him.

> Best O Fortuna (talk) 18:05, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Look at his English:

"In 1946, Ted Lyons, former Chicago White Sox teammates with Moe Berg (1926-1930), was the new manager of the White Sox, offered Berg a coaching position. Berg declined. Boston Red Sox owner Thomas Yawkey, who was much closer to Moe Berg when Berg played for Boston Red Sox, offered same as Lyons' offer, but Berg still turned them down. Berg did not apply for a teaching position, join a law firm." from Moe Berg.

Ugh! > Best O Fortuna (talk) 18:10, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Alternative musicians templates

Category:Alternative musicians templates, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:01, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Alternative musical groups templates

Category:Alternative musical groups templates, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:03, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:American alternative musical groups templates

Category:American alternative musical groups templates, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:03, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Australian alternative musical groups templates

Category:Australian alternative musical groups templates, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:03, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

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Category:Canadian alternative musical groups templates, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:04, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:European alternative musical groups templates

Category:European alternative musical groups templates, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:04, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:British alternative musical groups templates

Category:British alternative musical groups templates, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:05, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Scottish alternative musical groups templates

Category:Scottish alternative musical groups templates, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:06, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

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The right anoxia

The right anoxia for Permian–Triassic extinction event is Hypoxia (environmental), not your choice. --Philcha (talk) 13:28, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Wow

Wow, I looked at your edit count the other day and my jaw dropped. Since we first crossed paths, you've gone on to become a real workhorse. I hope you still find some time to relax! Take care. MarmadukePercy (talk) 06:28, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Why

Why you changed "Punjab" to "Punkab" ? There is nothing like that what are you upto Jon Ascton  (talk) 07:59, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Resolved

OK.Regards

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When you make a Book page

When we make a article about a book, for instance a novel what are the most absolutely essential references,please ?  Jon Ascton  (talk) 02:51, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

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Hi there. I've noticed you linked the parameter value "Public" in the "fundingtype" field with state school in a number of articles that use the {{Infobox education in Canada}} template, for example Burford District Elementary School. The change is not necessary, but points to another change that could be made to resolve the redirect issue you've identified. The Infobox template automatically generates a link to Public school (government funded) when the parameter "Public" is given. If that article is now redirected to state school, a request to change the template to generate the new direct link should be made. Would be a lot simpler than having to clean up articles, and a lot easier on WP resources too. :-) Does that make sense? Would be happy to help make and/or second such a request on the Template talk:Infobox education in Canada page. --papageno (talk) 14:21, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I went ahead and made the change to the template code directly, tested it, and it seems to be working. Don't suppose you have an easy way of rolling back the changes you made to various articles so that the parameter is back to the straight value "Public" without any wikilinking? --papageno (talk) 15:27, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for editing Stolen Sunshine. I see you have made the link to "Public School" as State School. But there is no such thing in India (the article is about India)  Jon Ascton  (talk) 02:54, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for your help on Peter Wust. Drmies (talk) 15:06, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

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Epidermis

In this edit you linked information about plant epidermis to the page on animal epidermis. I have reverted the change, since it was incorrect. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:49, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Removal of content by WikiCleaner

I'm not sure what went wrong here, but you may want to watch out for such when reviewing WC edits. Deor (talk) 11:21, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

I need help with my password

Hey. You're the administrator I come to. I recently got a new computer and I'm trying to move everything onto it, including my passwords. I don't know my password on Wikipedia. Could you email it to me (rosswmartin AT gmail DOT com)? I don't know how to do this by myself.

I'd also like to thank you for the help you've given me over the past five years. Zweifel (talk) 19:29, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Zweifel (talk) 10:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Request

Hello! I admire the amount of work that you have done, in repairing links to disambiguation pages. But when you are done fixing an ambiguous term, could you please take the time to remove the entry from the To do list, and add it to the bottom of the Done list? It makes it easier to see how we are progressing, and prevents people from trying to fix a page that has already been fixed. Thanks, and keep up the good work! Fortdj33 (talk) 16:27, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

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Suspect stub

Looks like an indonesian kid giving themselves the name of a genuine real life character - right box seems to suggest so - maybe its a delete on the spot item!!! SatuSuro 12:48, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

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Thankyou

... for your fantastic efforts making WP great(er) - May you be blessed! :) Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 21:25, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Help!

Hi! If you are still on line, please block this user. S/he seems to be a vandal only account. Thank you, Oda Mari (talk) 07:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for blocking the user. Happy editing! Oda Mari (talk) 08:50, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

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DAB challenge

I think it would be interesting to see what happens if you and I did not fix any of the DAB Challenge links for, say, the first 10 days of September. Would anyone else step up in our "absence"? Would anyone even notice? Based on past performance, we could both get started on the 11th and fix nearly as many links as we would have anyway. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:03, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Prelude to a Dream

Despite what the vendors choose to call it [different website vendors call is easy listening, pop, classical]; it is not a classical album. All 14 tracks that I downloaded from Amazon have the genre Pop in them which I do not feel is correct but may be more accurate than classical. Everytime is a cover of a pop song by Brittany Spears, another is a cover of a song by Billy Joel, etc.1archie99 (talk) 16:03, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

desist from your antiscientific blocks

pls desist from blocking expression on WP of genuine scientific opinion in place of your crazy protection of pseudoscientific crapula such as on the "precognition" page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.16.170.124 (talk) 10:44, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

De Música Ligera

Hello. I wanted to ask you for help because I just make a mistake with a page. The page is De Música Ligera. It was called "De Música Ligera (song)" and I wanted to just "De Musica Ligera" because there is no other site that appears in the name. accidentally by a trip I put the wrong name and I can not return it to where it was before. Now stuck with this ridiculous name "De Musica igera" .If you could re-let as before or better name it what you wanted to give him would be greatly appreciated. And if you can't do, ask someone who can please. sorry if not well understood what I write, is because i don't know very well English, I used the google translator it is sometimes very bad. JGabriel ar (talk) 02:10, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

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Invitation for objective participation in discussion

As a trusted editor on WP, you're invited to look at the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Cagney, Jr. and comment. Thank you. Monkeyzpop (talk) 21:08, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Repairing link to disambiguation page (Shahriyar)

Shahryarfan (talk) 06:53, 31 August 2010 (UTC)Hello.I've looked at the "What links here" part for the article "Shahryar Rumi".The disambiguation page related to my article is not "Shahriyar" which is the main page.I prefer changing the title of my article to "Shahryar (singer)". Is it possible to change the title in a way that as a result of typing only "Shahryar" in the search engines such as Google, it gives this page to requesters? I mean, in that case there will be no need to type "Shahryar Rumi" or even "Shahryar(singer)" in the search query. Thanks indeed.Shahryarfan (talk) 06:53, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

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September

I guess you decided not to take a few days off, after all? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Stubsensor

As a previous volunteer at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stubsensor I though you might like to know there is a new set available for work at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stubsensor/20100826. Hope to see you there. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 10:51, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

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