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While I certainly appreciate input on my articles, I feel that a few of the format changes you made go against my own article convention that I have used on over a hundred different school articles. I don't mean this to be a tizzy, but I have spent countless hours of research and creation to make each article have some consistancy while trying to make each unique. If I am not following proper Wiki conventions, please let me know. It's enough for me to keep up with 250+ articles, monitoring for obvious vandalism and provide updates when needed. Whew!!!! Indyjrg1762 ( talk) 10:12, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Well, I am certainly not happy with these changes as it makes it hard for me to read the article. I have reworked dozens of articles other than my own so that would make sense. I feel now that I will have to spend several weeks to format each of my school article to fit the Manual of Style. I have done these articles for over three years and strive to make sure they are correct in style and tone. The disambiguation was a mistake on my part in typing. I have pretty serious OCD and everything I create has to be just right. If it is possible, a template showing what has to be done would be appreciated. For now I guess I am done with creating articles - at least 250+ will need revising. I apoligize if I cone across short but this really has me bothered more than any other change that has been made. My main goal is to have a page for each high school in Texas (where I reside) that can be updated when required. Indyjrg1762 ( talk) 10:59, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Why it should be deleted? Because some of disambiguation's articles have not been written yet? I just didn't know about practise, if it is so. Please answer here. ♪ anonim.one ♪ 14:54, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Cindamuse. Just wanted to ask how to go about fixing up my Lana Lane contributions to meet the guidelines needed. I'd actually would like to fix it all up to meet the guidelines needed. P.S., I have been busy, haven't I? LOL!!!
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Tell me, what does one usually do with user talk, which contains from a) test content / spam b) draft of some new article? ♪ anonim.one ♪ 12:33, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Cindamause. Awhile ago I warned of an edit war on the Sword and Sandal page as I have had an unregistered user eliminate a categorisation for the third time when I informed you of it; that person has just done a fourth. Can this person either be prevented from vandalism or coud we have a discussion on the talk page of the article? My impression when I see an unregistered user is that chances are he or she was a person banished from Wikipedia for repeated violations. Thank you. Foofbun ( talk) 21:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I have reviewed your DYK nomination. I suggested a couple of shorter hooks, which you might want to see. Otherwise it looks great. - PKM ( talk) 03:32, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you, Cindamuse, for the clarification regarding vandalizing and the links to help me learn wiki. I'll try the Condorcet page again with your suggestions. When I learn more, I may be getting back to you as an adopter. I didn't understand your contact method options. I hope this response to User talk:Cindamuse doesn't earn me another vandal mark. I am not trying to edit at this time. I am trying to get a definition of Condorcet method. As I understand, the method is a pairing of opponents in a contest with three or more entries. There is a dilemma in that there can be no clear winner if the winners are circular. Circular as in "Rock, Scissors, Paper". Rock beats scissors, scissors cuts paper and paper covers rock. In those cases of no Condorcet winner, perhaps the question should be worded to be more objective. Or another voting method suould be used. Is the two opponent race a special case of Condorcet? For example a proposed site for a new hospital serving three of more cities can be deadlocked. If the question is which city should have the hosptal, there may not be a winner under any voting scheme except pluraltiy. But if the question is which site results in the shortest average distance to all cities, then the question should be worded to "Is the population center of the four cities the best location for a new hospital?" Yes or no. Shortest average distance might be based on a population weighted choice. Or on travel time. The basic question of what voting method to use might best be asked and discussed in a different forum. How would I determine the correct forum? As Stalin said "It isn't who votes it is WHO counts the votes. I'm using Show preview to edit, but when I try show preview again, my recent editing is lost. -- DickBoyd ( talk) 00:27, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Douglas W. Owsley/GA1. There is an unacceptable amount of close paraphrase/ copyvio just in the lede alone. Because of your unwillingness to accept my judgment until you had involved three other editors who supported my view, I see that I can't possibly address the article's problems. Therefore, I've failed the article. You are free to renominate it. Best, MathewTownsend ( talk) 01:04, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Please note that User:Moonriddengirl defended my actions and said I did nothing wrong. [2]; he notes that you called in User:Dcoetzee and says that was a good idea, even though Dcoetzee disagreed with you. Moonriddengirl girl says:
Please don't delete the Talk:Douglas W. Owsley/GA1 from the article history because you don't like the results. That disruptive and undermines the GA review process. You don't own that talk page; it belongs to the community. Now that you understand that, I'm sure you won't do it again. You have been deleting all my comments from your talk page, which you are free to do. However, disrupting the GAN process is another issue. Best, MathewTownsend ( talk) 11:22, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
[redaced explanation. I was wrong. You were right. Sorry!]
I'm very sorry! MathewTownsend ( talk) 13:55, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
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Can you check these pages?and resolve the problem with the title?the problem is about Hyphen (long or not long)... These are the page:
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Is it appropriate to add an interwiki link to not the entire article, but to the section of this article? I. e. in en-wiki Rubeus Hagrid is an article; in ru-wiki Rubeus Hagrid is a redirect to the section of the common list. So may I add interwiki from en-wiki to the section of this list? ♪ anonim.one ♪ 20:11, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
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I trust you are well. Since our last communication I have on several occasions attempted to follow your advice and activate Twinkle, but to no avail. It has now dawned on me that it won't work because I have Internet Explorer 8. I suppose that apart from buying a new computer – which I can't afford (mine's aged 12 years, but I have upgraded to XP02) – there is nothing I can do about it.
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