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Fair use rationale for File:Dotron.png
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Hi,
I notice you usually do cleanup and repair links for disambiguation pages. I just need someone whose a more experienced Wikipedia editor and take a look at a page of an artist that I've recently created. The artist is notable but I just need someone to double check it to see if it's "wikipedia worthy"? The artist is Money (singer). Thanks Garry says OK (talk) 14:18, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
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Two articles of the same person
Hi, I'm Pablo Zeta form Argentina, I'm the one who's rebuilding White Argentine. A few weeks ago, I created by mistake two articles of the same person: Sergio Denis (an Argentine singer of Volga German descent). They are almost identical, but one is named that way "Segio Denis" with capital letters on both name and surname, and the other is named "Sergio denis" without capital letter in the surname. The wrong one is the second, but I don't know how delete it. Please, if you know how -or know someone who knows how- could you solve that problem for me? Thanks for your attention.--Pablozeta (talk) 11:16, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Fixed one for you, but beware...(Grin)
Careful with fixing links on Andalusian. You fixed a horse article to go to Andalusian people instead of Andalusian horse. Just an FYI that you could run into dozens of links to the horse breed and so heads up! ;-) Montanabw(talk) 21:09, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Nomination of Kriss Sheridan for deletion
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/* Rajesh khanna filmography */
We need your help in filling up the column of directors - which you can get from http://www.citwf.com/person241842.htm in the article rajesh khanna filmography in wikipedia.As you seen to be interested in working in wikipedia articles we would be gald if you contribute in filling up the DIRECTORS cloumn and in the NOTES column fill up the awards won and nominations won by khanna against a particular film.Shrik88music (talk) 14:37, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
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Help please
Thanks for your help cleaning up a couple of my contributions. I could use a little more assistance. I created a page forCasmirianum that should more appropriately be titled "Casimirianum Neustadt". We also need a Casimirianum disambiguation page such as they have in the German wikipedia with the current Casimirianum renamed/moved to "Casimirianum Coburg". The disambiguation page should read:
Casimirianum is the name employed by a couple of schools, respectively the following institutions:
Another article I have worked on Guilielmus Xylander should be moved to "Wilhelm Xylander" (thus losing the Latinate "Guiliemus" for his original German "Wilhelm"). Can you help with these administration issues? Is this the best way to go about this? Gamonetus (talk) 02:32, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Erm...maybe not...
You sure about this one? Why would a book about a bridge in Hamilton, New Zealand be published in Hamilton, Ontario? Grutness...wha? 12:43, 24 September 2010 (UTC) (PS-don't worry, I fixed it ;)
SNCB Class 77 , inline engine problems
Hi. You changed the link from inline engine to inline engine (aviation), it was the other type: straight engine.
I had a quick look at links going to inline engine (aviation) and found that quite a few were wrong. eg Avions Fairey Junior, Wolseley Viper, Honda X4, Mercedes D.IVa, Subaru 1500, Land Rover engines which I've corrected.
the link in Electronic Diesel Control was a bad link.
I noticed you made some of these changes, but not all. I think I've got all the ones that matter.Sf5xeplus(talk) 11:01, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
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Disambiguation?
Hi, Do you really think this is better? Jefford, [Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)|Wing Commander] C.G instead of Jefford, [Wing Commander (rank)|W/Cdr.] C.G Not every Wing Commander has a DSC, and Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom) is not shorthand for Wing Commander. Dirk P Broer (talk) 10:23, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Help
Hi, could you delete this article? Can't find the relevant CSD. It's a duplicate ofKnowledge Centered Support. -Regancy42 (talk) 09:41, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Article about Hans Ek, conductor
Dear Woohookitty
My name is Per Sjöberg I created the article on Hans Ek. I have worked with him as an arranger and a conductor. I would very much like to see that this warning on his page disappeared.
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.
* It needs additional references or sources for verification. Tagged since September 2010. * The notability of this article's subject is in question. If notability cannot be established, it may be listed for deletion or removed.
The same information about Hans is on the Swedish Wikipedia. And it has two sources.
Best regards —Preceding unsigned comment added byLaddarn (talk • contribs) 06:14, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
WikiCleaner error?
Hi, this edit seems to be an error - wasit just a human glitch, or is there something wrong with the tool?--Kotniski (talk) 06:49, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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Thank You For You Good Contributions On My First Article.Kumpayada (talk) 12:29, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Help with Template:Infobox MMA event
Hello. I was looking at that template and it seems to be set up with the assumption that the image will be a poster and that no caption will be needed. That's dumber than a sack full of hammers when many articles using could/do/will have free pics. Any chance you could change that to include an optional caption parameter? It's a bit beyond my template-fu. Angus McLellan (Talk) 20:43, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
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Disambiguating Preston
Although it's admirable that you wish to disambiguate links to Preston, you should first find out what the correct link should be instead of just guessing. You seem to have used City of Preston, Lancashire for every edit, whereas in fact the correct link ought to have been Preston, Lancashire for probably 95% of the links. The difference is that "Preston" refers to the urban settlement (i.e. former town) whereas the "City of Preston" refers to a larger local government district (formerly the Borough of Preston), of which the settlement is only a part. I would be grateful if you could undo your edits and replace them with the correct ones. I've undone a few myself but I don't have time to check all of them. Thanks! -- Dr Greg talk 17:57, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
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Dabbing English
Re Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, you dabbed English to English language, but when talking about people and nationalities, English people is the correct dab. Mjroots (talk) 10:08, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
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Template:Treehouse of Horror
Please weigh in on Template talk:Treehouse of Horror#Inclusion of episode segments, so we can generate a consensus. Thanks, Fixblor (talk) 08:54, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Big finish
Good job; you won by a nose! Well, you won't have me chasing you next month.... --R'n'B (call me Russ) 00:08, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
- Who needs March Madness with you two? That was fun to watch. And fixing the Freedom (philosophy) redirect with 7 minutes remaining for the win was brilliant. --JaGatalk 00:53, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
De Montfort University Edit
Hello - thanks for the clean-up on this article. Feel free to revisit it if you think there are any other disambiguations; I am currently adding quite large amounts of content, and so I wouldn't be surprised if a few errors got past me! Jack Jack.OSull (talk) 10:22, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hello. On 22 October 2010, you changed the direction of the redirect page Also known as from Aka to Pseudonym with the edit summary "WikiCleaner 0.99 - Repairing link to disambiguation page - (You can help)". Redirecting pages to disambiguation pages is perfectly acceptable. If you had a reason to change the direction of the page, you should give your reasoning in the edit summary. I have reverted your edit because, in my opinion, aka is the better target for the page. Do you agree? Thank you. McLerristarr | Mclay1 09:52, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
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Error
For your notice, a small error in cleanup here. Thank you for your tirelees tireless cleanup work. AshLin (talk) 10:56, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Jyotirlinga's template
Please do not change the Vaidyanath link as disambig is necessary since the location is disputed. --Redtigerxyz Talk 05:22, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
- Wow. When I was writing on your talk, you were writing on mine. --Redtigerxyz Talk 05:24, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Master of Arts disambiguation
This edit was the wrong disambiguation. An Oxbridge MA is essentially a primary degree, not postgrad. See Master of Arts. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:51, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Folk etymology: Your input requested
Hi, WHK-- I am looking for people with interests in folklore (editors I’ve encountered on folklore/mythology articles as well as elsewhere) to visit talk:Folk etymology, where there is an ongoing edit dispute. One view (three people) holds that the term is exclusive to linguistics, and another (just me) finds that the term has been formally defined within folklore, and used in academic journals in that sense for more than a century. The page is currently locked. I ask your input ‘’’not in support of either view,’’’ but because discussion seems to have come to a standstill, it seems to be a page few stumble across, and needs fresh viewpoints to get unstuck. Thanks! DavidOaks (talk) 17:56, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
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Thnak You!
A big THANK YOU for fixing links to disambiguation pages. I almost always check links I put into articles, but thought Burmese people had to be o.k. and put it into a string of articles. You caught them all and fixed them! For a reader, clicking on a link and getting a disambiguation is just plain annoying. What you are doing is incredibly useful. Thank you again. Aymatth2 (talk) 03:32, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Disambiguating 'jackaroo'
Hello, I discovered you when you added 'Italian cuisine' to a page I had edited O'Connor, Australian Capital Territory.
I am contacting you to raise the issue of disamming 'jackaroo', because I see that you specialise in this work and are an administrator. Also I believe you are working right now! But at your convenience, please!
- As a newbie I began to edit the page and got my knuckles rapped. The page is back to what it was and I have begun to work on an alternative in my own workspace (User:Jack Greenmaven/Jackaroo Draft). Perhaps you could cast your eye over it.
- Having looked at a few disam pages, I note that they generally contain nothing but a one line entry per disam possibility.
- I the case of 'jackaroo' there is information about an SUV and a light aircraft. Both no longer in production and certainly not the prime topic as defined in WP:DISAMBIG.
- This information should, in my opinion, be given a page of its own, such as Jackaroo (vehicles)
- Jackaroo (trainee) is in fact the prime topic. It has a verifiable history for over 150 years and there are numerous books and, from memory over 2400 reports in newspapers which confirm it as the overwhelmingly primary usage of this word. I have lived in Australia for 49 years and I can assure you that this word is still used in the sense that it acquired in the nineteenth century. People still work as jackaroos today.
- The current presence of the vehicle information on the disam page causes this info to be reflected in all sorts of web search processes, and seems almost like subtle advertising, which is surely not the intention of WP.
- I would appreciate you seeing that I am intending to write an article superior to what exists already under Jackaroo (trainee), which currently just goes into an obscure and inaccurate section under Station (Australian agriculture)
- 'Jackaroo' is not a synonym of 'stockman', although they are related terms, and could bear cross-referencing.
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- Friendly talk page stalker here: I think that when your new article on Jackaroo (trainee) is completed and reviewed by other editors, it would be reasonable for you to propose to move it to the title Jackaroo and to move the current Jackaroo to Jackaroo (disambiguation). You certainly have plausible reasons why the trainee meaning is the primary topic, although I don't know enough about the subject area to reach a conclusion about whether this will achieve a consensus.
- Except for possibly re-ordering the entries if there is a primary topic, the content of the disambiguation page looks good to me in its current form. There is no need for a separate Jackaroo (vehicles) page; that would be an example of incomplete disambiguation. In other words, if a title is ambiguous, it makes sense to combine all uses of that title on a single disambiguation page instead of splitting them among several.
- R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:56, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks Russ. I only just discovered you had posted the above message. I am still getting the hang of the etiquette around communicating via talk pages. Thanks also to WooHooKitty. I think WP is a wonderful and amazing example of international cooperation. Greenmaven (talk) 19:14, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- No problem. :) We're glad to help. :) --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 04:09, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Jeff Ragsdale
Hi Woohookitty. You worked on Jeff Ragsdale's page at one time. Ragsdale is currently being harassed by IP number 71.190.77.101. This person, whom we have identified through correct legal means, is a fellow actor and he started his attack on Ragsdale by submitting a fake resume regarding Ragsdale on craigslist. Then said person started a commentary regarding Jeff Ragsdale's Wikipedia "notability". This whole issue has now snowballed into a "notability" issue on Wikipedia because of IP number 71.190.77.101's false claims regarding Ragsdale. My question to you is can you leave a message on Theda's page about your sentiments regarding Ragsdale's notability? Theda has since reinserted the notability tag on Ragsdale's Wikipedia page. Ragsdale is clearly a notable person. One would just have to look at the rich sources, and all of his television and film credits, as well as his international activism. Or could you possibly point me in other directions? Richard Peterson 11-20-10 —Preceding unsigned comment added by RichardPeterson44 (talk • contribs) 03:11, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Please disam with care
Hi,
I do realize that you are performing a valuable service to the community.
But my unscientific feeling is that when you disam a page I have written, I get an error 30-40% of the time.
I don't know what your working method is, but it appears to me that you assign an item on the disam page to the link on the page to be disambiguated. So far, so good.
But if there is nothing appropriate, then you go and assign something anyway, from the limited choices already available.
Rather than adding a fresh item to the disam page and linking to that.
I have also seen link errors which strike me as being in your style on pages I didn't write as well.
My recommendation would be:
If it's clear cut, fix away as usual.
If it's less than clear cut, please stick a {{disam needed}} post-it on it, and let the page author fret over it.
Then your corrections are 100% on the money, and the sloppy lazy page authors take over part of your workload.
That's a win-win situation. Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 09:06, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi there. We're having a content dispute at the article above - the list of empires has a large 216 entries, and currently the article sees fit to repeat this list 6 times! Clearly a waste of storage and bandwidth. A better solution (saving at least 30% and making it much easier to read and use) would be a table with a column for each attribute, sortable, as used in many other articles (see the discussion). However, a silent editor keeps reverting attempts to clean up the article, without explanation. Please see the discussion (currently nobody disagrees). Your comments would be welcome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.18.207 (talk) 21:19, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Bad choice
I found this edit to be a little awkward. I have replaced it by a better choice. Debresser (talk) 16:04, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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Dablink "mill"
When discussing windmills or watermills, Mill (factory) is not the intended meaning of "mill". In these cases, it may be better to just unlink the word, as I did at [Messing Maypole Mill]. It should be clear from the subject of the article what is meant by the word. Mjroots (talk) 08:45, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
General Surena
I would like to thank you for editing this page. I also want to improve this article to be one of the Geography and places good articles. Could you help, please ? *** in fact *** (contact) 12:35, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
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Banned user User:Leyasu back as "User:Blackmetalbaz"?
Hello, several years ago (e.g. early 2006) you administered blocks on User:Leyasu, who was involved in edit wars with MANY users on Wikipedia and eventually his behavior earned him a permanent ban. Shortly after Leyasu's sockpuppet IPs subsided, another user from the UK, User:Blackmetalbaz, appeared on Wikipedia, and eventhough there's been a HUUUGE gap in time, his edits are almost identical to Leyasu's - constant edit wars over metal genres, illegitimately uses Wikipedia policy to WP:Wikilawyer other users and yet he blanks sourced information that doesn't suit his POV. If Leyasu and Blackmetalbaz were two different people it would be a very bad coincidence. Unfortunately, because it's been so long, a Wiki inquiry needed more evidence for a SSP check. What can be done at this point? This user keeps on trolling my legit edits and as you will see from his contribution history, he seems to be provoking others on here, too! Please advise, I would appreciate your assistance! Thanks, Danteferno (talk) 16:12, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
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WOO HOO
I love your username :D Feast on my Soul (talk) 08:42, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
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Merge discussion for Republic of South Moluccas
An article that you have been involved in editing, Republic of South Moluccas , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Sutematsu (talk) 07:35, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I see you reverted my edit without acknowledging as such. The reason I made that initial edit was to point the links into more relevant ones and those that actually had articles, unless we plan to create each of those articles that do not have one and leave all those ugly red links out on the pages that contain this template in the meantime. I also added a few links to the world views, and their removal does not constitute a disambiguation effort. Thanks. ~AH1(TCU) 16:21, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
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Bad Dab: South Eastern Railway
Re this pair of edits - the dab for both should have been to South Eastern Railway, UK. The second dab produced a redlink, but was in fact redundant, and a de-wikilink would have been better. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:21, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
- I've fixed that, plus three others, one of which was wrongly dabbed the other way - this should have been to South Eastern Railway Zone, India. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:44, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Merge
I've suggested merging Farangi (which you worked on) into Franks. I think this is better by WP policy and more useful to the readers. Jaque Hammer (talk) 20:52, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello
I'm contacting you because you are an admin. Can you please delete User:LibertarianWarrior/vector.js and User:Neptune 123/vector.js. Requesting you because the speedy deletion tags do not work in these pages. Thanks! --Neptune 123 (talk) 12:04, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Egg in dab introduced by WikiCleaner
Hi. I just noticed this change of yours, which created an easter egg link in a dab page. I'm not familiar with the WikiCleaner tool. Would it be possible to have that tool make an exception for dab pages, and handle these appropriately? --Mepolypse (talk) 12:34, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- All edits are made by me. Its not a bot or an automated tool. Thanks for the catch. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 12:48, 7 January 2011 (UTC) (The preceding comment was moved from User talk:Mepolypse.)
- Skimming the documentation (such as this), it seems to at least be semi-automated. My point was that I thought the tool could catch changes to links on dab pages and prompt the user if it appeared that the link was improperly piped. The rule could be that all piped links at the start of a bulleted list item must have the same thing on both sides of the pipe, except for certain exceptions (possible quotation marks around everything but the dab text, or possible
''coding anywhere). --Mepolypse (talk) 13:32, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- Skimming the documentation (such as this), it seems to at least be semi-automated. My point was that I thought the tool could catch changes to links on dab pages and prompt the user if it appeared that the link was improperly piped. The rule could be that all piped links at the start of a bulleted list item must have the same thing on both sides of the pipe, except for certain exceptions (possible quotation marks around everything but the dab text, or possible
- The semi-automated part is how it pulls the pages. The edits themselves are not automated in any way. And if there is a way to make them more automated, I don't use the function. All mistakes are due to my fingers. :) Basically, you put in the thing you want to disam (like American). You will then get the list of pages that link to American. You then double click on whatever page you want to disam. It comes up...make whatever changes you want to and click save. But the changes themselves are made by me. Actually everything is outside of the page list that it brings up. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 16:10, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- I see. Never mind then. (I thought it was more like AWB.)--Mepolypse (talk) 18:30, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- Sometimes I wish it was. :) --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 19:47, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
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Jungle Music link
Hi. I noticed that you added a second link to the "Drum and bass" line on the Jungle Music dab page here. I previously removed this since WP:DDD states "Don’t put more than one blue link in an entry." Am I misinterpreting the guideline? Nick Number (talk) 14:50, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hello! Brazilian people love U.S. citizens. Many flights from TX, CA, FL, NY, and GE to Brazil exists. You are very welcome. In FEBRUARY, in the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil will be aproved the *SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN BRAZIL* ([1]), and the pages LGBT rights in Brazil and Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil need of you. Because will generate a heavy traffic on these pages, and we need you to help in the English spelling of these pages, you understand me? Please help me. Hentzer (talk) 23:00, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Template:Theology
Greetings. You recently removed a link from {{Theology}} to Jewish theology on the grounds that the target is a disambiguation page. However, it is a non-standard disambiguation page which defines the term "Jewish theology" in terms of the links it contains. While it remains in this non-standard form it seems a reasonable target for the link. -Arb. (talk) 01:29, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
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Greetings!
I was about to created a page for "Phanes of Halicarnassus" when I saw that it said that you have perviously deleted a page of this title, and that it said "continue to create the page if the content is different but avoid old content and if you are not sure, contact the person who deleted the page first aka you!" So I was wondering if you can let me know a bit about this page, and why it was originally deleted. The page that I will create will focus on basically the available historical data from Herodotus and literary textbooks or symposiums. So do I have an OK to proceed and what exactly led to the last page being deleted? Please respond here if you do not mind and leave a talk back on my page, or respond here and I will check it later. Thank you! Dr. Persi (talk) 20:04, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks you so much for your work in Women Ice Hockey.
- Just a little error: Forward in Ice Hockey is so different of Forward in Football (soccer). Your link was no correct see history Danijela Rundqvist thanks and pass a good week-end with your family. --Geneviève (talk) 15:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
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Myra Taylor
I've created a page for a Kansas City based Jazz singer also named Myra Taylor. She is now 94 and has had an 80 year career in music, including number 1 songs. At the moment, she is at Myra Taylor (Jazz singer) and would like to move her to Myra Taylor, and move Myra Taylor to Myra Taylor (screenwriter), if that is OK. This one has been challenged for notability since 2007. Please let me know if you have any objections. Thanks. K8 fan (talk) 19:06, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
User:TimeOfDai
Hello Woohookitty, I was going through user Categories and I came across User:TimeOfDai, they claimed to be a admin but when I checked their usergroups they were not in the administrator user group. I then checked their contributions page and they only had 5 edits, all in userspace. The other page they created was User:TimeOfDai/Awards. Using the timestamps on the awards, I determined the you were the actual owner of the awards. It appears that both pages created by this user were copy-pasted from your Userpage, and award page. Thoughts? Alpha Quadrant talk 22:06, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
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Boy Scouts
This edit of yours wasn't entirely helpful. If you want to disambiguate, point it straight to the target rather than a redirect. --Deryck C. 20:17, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed there's nothing wrong about linking to a redirect. Redirects are cheap. I just feel a bit strange that a link was piped to a redirect for the sake of disambiguation. In my opinion, the only situation in which it'd be appropriate to pipe a link to a redirect is when the target of the redirect is a superset topic, for example I might want to pipe "Dundas Street" to Dundas Street, Hong Kong (to separate it from other Dundas Streets on the planet) which in turn redirects to Mong Kok (the district where the street is located). In any other case, I believe that piped links should point straight to the final target. --Deryck C. 22:51, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks :D --Deryck C. 00:57, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Your edits with WPCleaner
Hi. I noticed that your edits to Hindu temples and Hinduism in the United Kingdom both changed Sai Baba to Sai Baba of Shirdi when they referred to Sathya Sai Baba. The latter is probably going to be more common in articles on contemporary Hinduism. I thought I would let you know in case other pages are effected. -- Q Chris (talk) 14:01, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
I have just reversed a couple more but dodn't have time to fix the lot. -- Q Chris (talk) 14:07, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Questionable link DAB edits
On 1 Jan 2011, you disambiguated a number of links from Chinese Revolution to Chinese Revolution (1949). However, many of these links did not refer to the 1949 revolution but to other Chinese revolutions, which was obvious from the text of the articles. (E.g., here, here, or here). I'm not sure why you would assume that all links to a DAB page should necessarily refer to only only one of the constituent pages. Going through and correcting these will be time consuming whereas just leaving the link to the DAB allows the user to choose the correct page. — AjaxSmack 02:06, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
- Please assume good faith. I wasn't assuming anything...it was a simple mistake. It happens. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 02:59, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, I did sound quite brusque. I think they're all fixed now so all's well. — AjaxSmack 03:02, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
- Its OK. I was being overly defensive. That happens too :) --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 04:17, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, I did sound quite brusque. I think they're all fixed now so all's well. — AjaxSmack 03:02, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
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Wikicleaner
Can anyone use it or does it require certain user rights? Inka888 08:21, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Hi Woohoo, It's been a while. I just dropped by to ask if you would remove the banners on Price-Anderson and Nuclear (etc...) I believe that whatever justice or injustice they signify, we can both agree they have expired? Thanks. Benjamin Gatti (talk) 16:17, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
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Four Horsemen
Thank you for trying to assist the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse article. However, your edit was not necessary. The term "conquest" has multiple meanings and there's no clear cut answer to which meaning is meant in the Bible. I've taken to linking the wiktionary article itself when the word comes up in this article. Otherwise, I feel like it becomes a POV issue. Ace Class Shadow; My talk. 21:30, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
- No problem. Thanks anyway. Ace Class Shadow; My talk. 17:48, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
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National Liberal Party
Hi, thanks for helping disambiguating National Liberal Party (UK). Can I just ask you to take a little more care when choosing between the 1922 and the 1931 parties in future, as I've just corrected a fair few mistakes. But thanks anyway. Zangar (talk) 13:47, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Error
See [2]. Frietjes (talk) 17:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
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University article
Hi there Woohookitty. You deleted this article Akaki Tsereteli State University back in 2007. May I ask why? I am willing to re-create it using sources. Please let me know if this is OK with you. Tuscumbia (talk) 17:49, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
- I restored the article. It must have lacked inline citations. Now everything is sourced to the university website. Please let me know if anything is wrong. Tuscumbia (talk) 18:49, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks again :) I appreciate your response. Tuscumbia (talk) 19:48, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Disambiguating links - please take care
Please don't disambiguate links unless you are really sure which of the articles on the dab page is the right one. I've just been cleaning up Leslie Bonnet and here you made two mistakes: as his undergraduate degree was at Cambridge and there is no mention of any postgrad work, I think we can assume his MA is Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin) - ie no postgrad work, just wait a year and pay a fee - and as the Liberal Democrats were not invented until 1988 he stood in the 1920s for the Liberal Party (UK). A link to a dab page is better than a link to the wrong article, so please take more care. Thanks. PamD (talk) 18:02, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
- I'll echo this concern. You've just made duplicated links in a whole host of featured and soon-to-be-featured content when you fixed dablinks in the Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster series of lists. I understand that you are trying to help - we all are - but just please be careful. Thanks. — KV5 • Talk • 11:11, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
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thanks...
for fix the bug. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Guido_Pietroni&diff=425123558&oldid=425008386 Enjoy your day, Asher --Davidasher (talk) 09:32, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
University Work of Wikipedia
Hello Woohookitty, My name is Jonathan Medeiros, I’m a graduate student and I’m doing a university work about Wikipedia. My work is about mass production of information in peer, and I'm using Wikipedia as an object of study. We developed a field research and wonder if you could answer.
1) Please list below in order of priority what else motivates you to contribute to Wikipedia.
( ) prestige in the community
( ) Contribution in the Science
( ) Recreation
( ) Self-realization
( ) Social Valuation
( ) Keep interconnectivity with other collaborators
( ) Strengthening staff - (The amount that the contributor gains acceptance or approvalof other members, strengthen social status in the community)
( ) Awards Archives (Ex: Barnstar)
( ) Increase the prestige of the world to Wikipedia
( ) Sense that all can share the benefits generated
( ) Other: _____________________________
2) List 1 to 5, where 1 is highest and 5 is lowest of important that you consider the following values for Wikipedia. In the end, please explain what you consider most important.
a) AUTONOMY ( )
b) INDEPENDENCE ( )
c) LIBERATION ( )
d) CREATIVITY ( )
e) PRODUCTIVITY ( )
f) INDUSTRY ( )
g) BENEVOLENCE, CHARITY, GENEROSITY, ALTRUISM ( )
h) SOCIABILITY ( )
I) CAMARADERIE/FRIENDSHIP ( )
L) COOPERATION ( )
k) CIVIC VIRTUE ( )
Below is an explanation of each item:
AUTONOMY
Collaborators are free to act according to the targets set for them. They can feel free.
INDEPENDENCE
Collaborators will have independence and freedom of spirit.
LIBERATION
Collaborators have the freedom to work as and when they want, they can decide by themselves.
CREATIVITY
Collaborators has more freedom to explore creativity, because he does not have to follow orders that they are imposed.
PRODUCTIVITY
Collaborators are always pursuing excellence in their contributions.
INDUSTRY
The mass production of information opens new doors to creativity and the creation of productive practices, when compared to the industrially organized market
BENEVOLENCE, CHARITY, GENEROSITY, ALTRUISM
Collaborator does not want financial rewards, he assists in helping the communitythinking, the only reward is the reputation that he get with the collaborations they do.
SOCIABILITY
Make contributions with an open heart, thinking of the common good, which is for the community as a whole.
CAMARADERIE / FRIENDSHIP,
Collaborator help themselves to build something of value to everyone.
COOPERATION
Collaborators help themselves to build something of value to everyone.
CIVIC VIRTUE
Collaborators are arranged volunteers with common goals and promote cooperation between them.
Thank you very much for your attention, Can you send me a email with this answers? my email address is jhoumedeiros@gmail.com
Thanks very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.64.241.23 (talk) 03:07, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
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Flag icon identifying summit host
As you may recall, the edit history of Template:Infobox summit includes your name. This causes me to guess that you may be willing to help resolve a small problem.
According to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons)#Avoid flag icons in infoboxes, the construction of this template is slightly flawed. In the resulting infoboxes, identification of the host country mirrors {{flagicon}}.
Despite MOS conventions, is there a arguable reason why host country flags should be incorporated in the infoboxes of summits? Can it be said to aid in navigation in the same way that {{flagicon}} is useful in the tables at G8 and G-20 major economies?
Please share your thoughts at Template talk:Infobox summit. IMO, this should be a non-issue; but I did notice that it was the subject of an edit war at BRICS.
If consensus develops for removing the flag, I don't understand how to modify the template. --Tenmei (talk) 15:09, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
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Moving a section into an NLP article
Hi, I just noticed that Neuro-linguistic programming articles have "active sanctions" and back in 2006, you were an administrative mentor. Recently, I partially reverted an edit by an IP contributor who elaborated with a “final clarification” on Double bind#Neuro-linguistic programming. They're hoping “the NLP section can continue to exist in its own context without being judged by a definition which does not apply” without editor's “observations that it might not be a real DB”. They'd posted in a 2007 thread, so I moved it to a new one, NLP not the same thing, and suggested that the NLP section should be moved to a NLP page or new article, if it's so very different from the academic meaning: a form of traumatic long-term manipulation, proposed by anthropologist Gregory Bateson as a cause of schizophrenia.
Apparently in NLP, it's just an innocuous assumption, like "cash or charge?" Superficially, the description sounds similar in the article: “Grinder and Bandler (both of whom had personal contact with Bateson) asserted that a message could be constructed with multiple messages, whereby the recipient of the message is given the impression of choice - although both options have the same outcome at a higher level of intention.” I'm guessing Grinder and Bandler invented NLP... but the personal contact and "assertion" are tenuous at best.
I'd rather not find out what NLP is or why it's on probation. It always struck me as absurdly awkward in the context of an article about callously driving people crazy... what kind of Machiavellian “applications in both sales and therapy” might those be? The IP hasn't responded and I need some help, I have no idea where it should go.—Machine Elf 1735 20:53, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Conducting-conductor (article Pino Presti)
Hi Woohookitty, I think that - Conductor (music)|conductor - (redirect to Conducting) could be better. Do you agree? Thanks --CoolJazz5 (talk) 21:53, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
You did this a while ago, February 7th, I think. But thanks for repairing the disambiguation page link. Appreciate it. MetaCow (talk) 02:33, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for repairing the disambiguation page links. It's encouraged me to look at a similar problem on another page I've been working on - Kew - and I've now repaired it myself. Best wishes Headhitter (talk) 08:55, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank You-
Woohookitty, thanks for disamming some of the page links in my edits on the World War 3 Illustrated page (I forgot to double check those.) I further redirected the name Heavy Metal to "Heavy_Metal_(magazine)" instead of the music page for "Heavy Metal," the music genre. -I wouldn't have seen it if you hadn't dug in to the other terms. Thanks again for the assist, I've been trying to build out and solidify this particular article (and those on related comic book artists) for a couple of years, I had a lot of help from Karen Green's online blog, she's a librarian at Columbia U in charge of the graphic novel and comic book collection acquisitions.(Sintauro (talk) 15:56, 9 May 2011 (UTC))
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LGBT articles of Brazil
Hello! I am Brazilian and I need of you to correct my translation edits, because you are from an english speaking-country, please help me in the Same-sex adoption in Brazil, Changing legal gender assignment in Brazil, LGBT rights in Brazil,Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil, Age of consent in Brazil, Prejudice in the Brazilian LGBT community, andCriminalization of homophobia in Brazil. 23 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hello! I saw your editing of the panel game article and would really appreciate it if you could briefly pop into a discussion on the Hollywood Squares article on whether it is a panel game (there are cited descriptions if you're unfamiliar with the show). Here's the discussion. Thank you so much! 76.105.176.44 (talk) 22:43, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you
Thank you, Woohookitty, for your recent helpful edit to the article I created, Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist. Much appreciated. ;) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 16:01, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi there. Your talk page has a different format than I am used to and so I hope I'm doing this right... In any event, I just wanted to report an error made by the WP cleaner which I assume is some sort of bot (I'm not terribly knowledgeable about bots and such.) Apparently the link to Royal Military Academy that was originally on the article for Cyril Holland pointed to a dab page and yet although the article states that Holland attended the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, for some reason the bot changed that link to point to the article for Royal Military College, Sandhurst. I have since changed the link to point to the article for Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. FYI. Marchije•speak/peek 21:09, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
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Nike
Oh, I see the problem!
I wear Rockports, myself! Their design was born on some rocky islet in the North Sea ....... or have I got it wrong again? Amandajm (talk) 05:51, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Maybe I mean Rockfort, or is that something different again? Amandajm (talk) 05:52, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
- That thing that's got nothing to do with joggers! Amandajm (talk) 06:53, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
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Transformers universes
Why did you move Transformers universes back to Transformers? Transformers Universe seems much more appropriate. Pliigi (talk) 11:52, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
- Never mind. Didn't realize how many articles linked to it. Not sure why there are so many links to an article that's always been a redirect, but there are. Sorry for bothering you. Pliigi (talk) 11:59, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
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Disambiguation Pages With Links Monthly Challenge Winner
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| The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to the winners of the Disambiguation Pages With Links monthly challenge, who have gone above and beyond to remove ambiguous links. This award is presented to Woohookitty, for successfully fixing 3528 links in the challenge of June, 2011. This user is also recognized for his past first-place finishes in January, March, and May 2011; In January, February, March, May, June, July, October, and November 2010; and in July, September, October, November, and December 2009. Quinxorin (talk) 08:33, 1 July 2011 (UTC) |