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Thank you for becoming a participant! Your expertise in the areas you mentioned will surely benefit the project. Please feel free to discuss anything related to the project at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Houston and add/update the collaboration items at Wikipedia:WikiProject Houston. Also, please add the project banner/article assessment template for every new project-related article you create. The templates are found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Houston/Resources. Thanks again, Postoak 02:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
"Keep - I agree that improvements are needed, but the issue is is this article spam, and is this school notable. I don't think the article is spam and I believe the allegation is ridiculous. The school is definitely notable because of the IB degree (only available at this campus in the district), and I can confirm the GRAMMY Signature school recommendation, I live in the area and also know the band director.-MBK004 01:57, 7 August 2007 (UTC)"
The nominator said it was spam because Mercedes spammed the articles. I will punish her if she doesn't stop. WhisperToMe 05:29, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the strike!...I really appreciate the good faith move, it was really cool of you to do!! – Dreadstar † 00:20, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
{{ helpme}}On my userpage, the Novice Editor Service Badge is displayed in a position I don't want it in. I would like it moved to the extreme right of the page at the same position it is in. In other words, on the other side of the contents box at the right side of the page, as an Image would be manipulated if it were not in a gallery. If someone knows how to achieve this (because I don't) I would appreciate it if they would either let me know how to do it or do it themselves. Thanks, MBK004 00:39, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Greetings!! I'd like to welcome you to WikiProject Numismatics. Anything you see that can be improved upon, go for it, anything that is lacking add it, anything that is all together absent, please fill us in. There are quite a few knowledgeable people of both numismatics and Wikipedia, in this little project, so don't hesitate to ask. Please be sure to read through the whole of the project pages, as we have just recently started using some of them. Hope this gets you off and contributing to the little project that makes the world go round. If you need anything don't hesitate to ask either me, or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numismatics. Cheers, -- Chris B • talk • contribs 19:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey, welcome to Wikipdia. I saw you asked if anyone had a 1964 Peace Dollar. I thought you'd get a kick out of the April fools joke I played on my forum members last year. Funny Stuff. Bobby I'm Here, Are You There? 00:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I restored an older version of the article. Is this a version you can work with? Cheers! Into The Fray T/ C 04:59, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for all your hard work on WikiProject Ships' assessment drive! When assigning an importance rating to non-standard articles, you might want to double check the assessment criteria. Specifically I noticed that you have given ( [1], [2]) Mid importance ratings to canceled ships, which we generally assess as Low importance. Also, disambiguation pages should be assessed as NA for both class and importance, rather than Low ( [3], [4]). Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks, -- Kralizec! ( talk) 19:18, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Please stop posting on my talk page, I have been a member of Wikipedia for a long time and I know that I can do whatever I want with my talk page except for some things, please stop, you are harassing me and I do not appreciate it, please stop. General Mannino 20:35, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Can you just please leave me alone, I do not wish to be contacted. General Mannino 23:16, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
.....What do you suppose we do about the "nicknames" section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.222.185.2 ( talk) 17:01, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I am sorry and it will never happen again. I was just having some fun with articles and Wikipedia doesn't have anything to practice or get good at learning all this stuff. You guys don't even have a type of Sandbox to play around with.
I will not do this to Morgan Webb's page or any other page on Wikipedia. I just have one question though. How would you be able to tell I am banned from Wikipedia if I were to hypothetically create a new account? The system just does not work. I mean absolutely no dissrespect by that. I hope to bury the hatchet by forgetting about this and not doing anymore of this behavior.—Preceding unsigned comment added by JoeMonkeyPotato ( talk • contribs) 14:58, 6 October, 2007 (UTC)
Seeing as you are an editor at the Royal Caribbean International article, I'd like to submit www.RoyalCaribbeanFan.com as a possible link to an unofficial web page dedicated to travel on that line. As I'm the creator of the page, I can't do so myself objectively. Could you review, as time allows, the link and provide help decide if it has enough merit to include. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NWLB ( talk • contribs) 00:37, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
What about the edit makes it vandalism? Look at the paragraph, it supports the headline. The battleship is obsolete, and the evidence is that none are left in service. What is there to debate? 204.52.215.107 05:34, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Please do not add unhelpful comments to people's talk pages.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.100.199 ( talk) 18:06, 25 October 2007
(reset)Well, let me digest that...your behavior was at odds because YOU were removing information that was sourced and was properly referenced. If you thought it was wrong, the correct means to have it removed would have been to suggest it on the talk page associated with the individual article and wait for a consensus to be reached. Although being bold is encouraged, removing information that has been properly ascertained and credited goes against the common good. The messages are not unhelpful and that was already covered above with Atari400's comment and these warnings are approved by the community because they are what is loaded into Twinkle. Terse and unhelpful comments I think not. Please excuse me not replying until now, I have been in the hospital over the weekend and thereafter recuperating without computer access.- MBK004 17:20, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
The other day, you enabled the backlog notice on WP:UAA as per this . Unfortunately, the edit broke the automated bot removal of blocked accounts. It's been fixed now. The bots will also automatically add the backlog notice should there really be a backlog (more than 8 outstanding reports for WP:UAA) so you should not manually add the backlog notice. Thanks. -- Gogo Dodo 23:19, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
you are sooooooooo unfashionable because if you knew ANYTHING about classy styles, you'd know what Petit Bateau is. Almost any fashionably sain man would know that Petit Bateau is a multi continent company which soooooo deserves a wikipedia page. Just cause your a lesbian doesnt mean that Petit Bateau doesn't exist.-- Savetheeggs 01:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Oops, sorry, I meant WP:NPA and WP:APR instead of WP:VANDAL. Honest mistake. Please follow the directions on the tag on the page in question to contest a speedy deletion.- MBK004 01:36, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.
A few features that you might find helpful:
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the project coordinators, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Kirill 00:06, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
The TomStar81 Spelling Award | ||
Be it known to all members of Wikipedia that MBK004 has corrected my god-awful spelling on the page Image talk:USS Kentucky (BBG-1) concept artwork.jpg, and in doing so has made an important and very significant contribution to the Wikipedia community, thereby earning this TomStar81 Spelling Award and my deepest thanks. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 ( Talk) 07:33, 8 November 2007 (UTC) |
Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Banten. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. Thank you. MBK004 04:56, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ciserayu"
Hi! Great to have you aboard :) I've read your note about tagging to date and had a look at your contributions. Since end August I reckon you've tagged about 2300 articles for WPSHIPS, and jointly tagged about 1000 for MILHIST, entirely of your own initiative. While your WPSHIPS ones don't count towards the MILHIST drive, because of your exceptional effort I'm delighted to "credit" your tally with 1000 articles for the articles you tagged jointly for MILHIST & SHIPS before joining. One small point; could you remember to strike through with <s> and </s> the articles on the watchlist that aren't Milhist? It makes it easier to see what's happening. Keep up the good work. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. -- ROGER DAVIES TALK 20:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
The WikiChevrons | ||
For great initiative and a great contribution to the Military history WikiProject in tagging over 1,000 maritime military history articles prior to Tag & Assess 2007 commencing, I hereby award you the Military history WikiProject WikiChevrons. -- ROGER DAVIES TALK 20:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC) |
When doing major overhauls like you did to Illinois its generally a good idea to start in a sandbox or add {{ inuse}} to the article page is you plan on working on it out in the open; The latter helps prevent edit conflicts so you don't lose info in-between edits. Thought you might like to know :) TomStar81 ( Talk) 04:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Yep, I am still planning to bring that one up to FA status. Before I do that however I need to bring the class page up to FA status and compile enough material to create a page on the armament of the New York class battleships; in this way, I can help Texas go featured by giving her a strong foundation to launch from. This was a lesson I learned during the updating of Wisconsin and to a lesser extent Missouri; people have an easier time with ship articles if they see that the article is a part of series on the subject. TomStar81 ( Talk) 20:31, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I considered not spamming talk pages but not saying "thanks" just isn't me. The support was remarkable and appreciated. I only hope that I am able to help a little on here. Please let me know if I can help you or equally if you find any of my actions questionable. Thanks & regards -- Herby talk thyme 12:39, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
hey got the mesage ill keep that in mind. i made an update to the award debate on the shipproject,-- ANOMALY-117 ( talk) 03:55, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
psstt.. hey i need your help on creating a new ship article that as far as i know hasn't been documented and i have one source. i won't say anymore because it would be my first article (and im alittle parinoid). if we made the article. so you in?-- ANOMALY-117 ( talk) 19:54, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thanks for supporting me! Please find your thank you card here, should you wish to see it. I'm honored to have received your support. All the best, ~ Eliz 81 (C) 21:50, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
...for helping me navigate the waters of my surprisingly peaceful
RFA, which closed successfully with 85 supports, 1 oppose, and 0 neutral.
I would particularly like to thank Acalamari and Alison, my nominators, and everyone who watched the page and ran the tally.
If there is anything I can do to be of service in the future, please feel free to contact me. (Oh, and if you hate RfA Thankspam, MBK, please forgive me. I promise I won't block you for deleting it ;-))
And forgive me if I need a Wikibreak now and then (like now. I'm exhausted!). You wouldn’t want to see me climbing the Reichstag, now would you?
Off to flail around with my new mop! (what?!)
Thanks for the advice, i'm still finding my feet so I appreciate you taking the time to point me in the right direction :-) Parsival74 ( talk) 04:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Dear MBK004,
Thank you for supporting in my recent RfA. Words nor pictures can express my heartfelt appreciation at the confidence the community has shown me. I am both heartened and humbled by this confidence. I will carry the lessons learned from the constructive criticism I have received with me as I edit Wikipedia, and heed those lessons. Special thanks to Pedro and Henrik as nominators. Special thanks to Rudget who wanted to. A very special thanks to Moonriddengirl for her eloquence and perceptiveness. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 20:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC) |
Note further vandalism of Henry VIII page removed by me.
(Seems to be sex obsessed!)
Keithbowden 23:58, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Excuse me but what was wrong with my edits. Everything in there was full of information. Just because it was not favorable to Rachal Ray lovers and Al Sharpton lovers does not mean it was not true. You need open your mind more.
The parts of rachel ray not tiping can be seen on anthony bourdain's SC No Reservations. I would not make something up relating to anthony bourdain. Her birth date I did make up though. And to quote Mr. Stephen Colbert I actually do think that Wikipedia is an amazing thing. It is the first place I go when I’m looking for knowledge, or when I want to create some" Stephen Colbert is never wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shadygrove95 ( talk • contribs) 00:09, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
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GA on hold — Notes left on talk page. Nehrams2020 04:30, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the review of Amy Dumas' article. I appreciate it. :) Nikki 311 00:00, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I sometimes use edit summaries when I feel that I have to explain my edits and/or I am making an important edit :) WhisperToMe 17:26, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Sorry my comment was a little brusque, adding that history template was good, and you can't be expected to know every move. :) -- Golbez ( talk) 17:00, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Setting new lows in thank-you spam:
Janitor's new tools
Spam must stop -- will
new mop act?
Ooops, .com
blocked
New admin, new tools
Earnest newbie furrows brow
Fare thee well
Main Page
New mess all about
Sorcerer's Apprentice mop
Not supporter's fault
A. B. so grateful
Wikipedia trembles
Watch out
DRV
A. B. wonders why
Copyright always confused
Fair use, farewell, bye
Qatar is
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Shucks those
range blocks are tricky!
Will get it straight soon.
Dear RfA friend,
I will learn, chaos will fade
Thanks so much ...
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MBK004, thanks for your support. [7] -- A. B. (talk) 22:12, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
You seemed like a knowledgable wikidude so I was curious if their was a way to change the name of an article. The article in question is Tony Rey(Musician), however currently this artist is known as Tony Bruno. Is their a way to change this so that those seeking information on Tony Bruno can be directed to this page or have the page renamed.-- Coffeegirlyme ( talk) 08:06, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the advice. Study up and I hope you do well on your exams!-- Coffeegirlyme ( talk) 03:35, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
According to your comment on my RfA, you don't think that I will abuse the tools. If that is true, why not support? Adminship is not about giving users a reward, but rather about giving users extra tools when they can be trusted not to abuse them. An administrator is like a janitor (thus sometimes the term "mop" is substituted for the word "tools"), they clean up and maintain. If you were interviewing a potential janitor for a publishing company, would one of the prerequisites be that they be a prolific writer? Thanks for taking the time to read this. :) -- Cobi( t| c| b| cn) 20:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
With special permission from deputy fac director SandyGeorgia I have recieved permission to relist USS Illinois on the fac page immediately, the second nom has already been filed. We are back on the gun line, but this time we need make our shots count; we shoot to kill, we aim to win. Are you still with me? TomStar81 ( Talk) 22:27, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
The reason I removed the CN tags before is because I don't believe "common sense knowledge" should be tagged with them, as it can make the article look distracting. Also, it takes attention away from CN tags that ARE needed (like if the sentence/paragraph is of a controversial nature or if there's a chance that the sentence/paragraph is just plain wrong). The same goes for all those silly "Trivia sections are discouraged..." labels in articles where a trivia/pop culture section is essential (such as the Simpsons episode articles where pop culture refrences are heavily used in the Simpsons). And since anyone with a black light can see how the stripes in dollar bills glow, I figured that counted as common sense knowledge, not "original research". After all, you don't see the parts about the bills having a matching watermark with the CN label.
Also, if it makes you feel any better, I noticed your own pet peeve and you'll be pleased to know that I have gotten better at using the edit summary more regularly. ;) 76.177.160.69 ( talk) 03:34, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Ships Barnstar | ||
In recognition of your outstanding efforts during the project's assessment drive, I award you the WikiProject Ships Barnstar! You sir, are a regular assessment machine! Keep up the fantastic work! Kralizec! ( talk) 20:06, 17 December 2007 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars. Thanks. Badagnani ( talk) 03:54, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
I wouldn't revert it; the MilHist MoS doesn't openly favor pop culture sections, in fact most are pulled from their articles on the spot. If you wish reinsert the material be my guest; be forwarned though that the MoS for the MILHIST project does explicitly prohibt the addition of in pop culture sections unless the subject matter has a well cited and notable impact on pop culture; readding the material may therefore inadvertently result in the entire section being removed. TomStar81 ( Talk) 22:49, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
MBK, do you have the time to review the list of works by William Monahan that is currently at WP:FAC? Any comments or edits you could provide would be appreciated.- BillDeanCarter ( talk) 13:04, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Just dropping a quick note to say "thank you very much!" for supporting me in my successful RfA. I'm humbled by the support from those who participated, and will ensure that I use the tools with care and for the benefit of the encyclopedia. Thanks again! Tony Fox (arf!) 06:17, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Great success! Thank you for supporting my RfA, which passed with a final tally of 53-3-2. Special thanks goes to Shalom for both the suggestion and the nomination. I'm honored by the trust that the community has shown in me, and will do my very best as an administrator. Thanks again! faithless (speak) 08:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC) |
Thanks for your support in my successful RFA. AliveFreeHappy ( talk) 07:24, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your email and the peer review of dreadnought. I'd left the article for a few weeks as I was waiting to get a few mre sources as Christmas presents - the fruits of which you can see in the revised 'Origins' section. Happy new year! The Land ( talk) 09:39, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
I saw on her Chefography. She herself stated it. -- Alisyn talk 20:06, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the friendly reminder about the edit summary usage! I will definately remember to get the prompt, as it is one of my shortfalls. Thanks again, PeterSymonds | talk 20:21, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't want to create extra work for you as I am doing tagging and assessments on multiple projects. I will be glad to slap on a project shell as I wade through these. I am not certain the threshold though, is it 3 or more banners or what? I am a relative "newbie" so pardon the mess in my tracks, but I think I can handle the shell thing along the way, if thats the wiki thing! Cheers! Jacksinterweb ( talk) 19:53, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Firstly, let me wish you a very happy New Year and thank you for all your help in the Milhist Tag & Assess 2007 drive.
Military history service award | ||
For tagging and assessing 250 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. -- ROGER DAVIES talk 09:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC) |
Military history service award | ||
For tagging and assessing 500 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. -- ROGER DAVIES talk 09:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC) |
Military history service award | ||
For tagging and assessing 1000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. -- ROGER DAVIES talk 09:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC) |
Secondly, although the Tag & Assess 2007 drive is now officially closed, you are very welcome to continue tagging and assessing until 31 January 2008. Any articles you tag and assess during this time will be credited fully to your tagging tally for further award purposes.
Thanks again for your help, -- ROGER DAVIES talk 09:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up. User:Wagonkeys is obviously a sock of hard-banned user:Primetime (confirmed by checkuser), and he was engaged in some mayhem as a response to the discovery and blocking of his other socks. User:Sfacets just returned from a long block and is trying to pick a fight. Janitors? More like playground monitors. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 08:35, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Not trying to pick a fight - a user that reverts all articles to a version by you is suspect. Any New Year's resolutions Will? Sfacets 08:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed nearly unanimously with 46 support, 1 oppose, and 0 neutral. Thanks for supporting me! |
- Djsasso ( talk) 17:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
I saw your changes to Talk:Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District...I hadn't seen a GA on hold listed as a separate milestone before ( Talk:Auburn_High_School, etc), and it doesn't seem to be listed in the documentation at Template:ArticleHistory. It seems like being "on hold" is a step in the process that produces a fail or pass milestone, and therefore wouldn't garner its own milestone...so...are you sure?
Also, you added Template:Talkheader, but its documentation states that the template should only be used when needed...so, same question, are you sure?
Both changes seem plausible but are sticking out in my mind, so I just wanted to double-check and see what the thinking was behind them. :) -- Hebisddave ( talk) 21:28, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
It was nice of you to inform me of that, but I think that we are in the minority here. It seems unlikely that anything we do will change the opinion of those who wish to have the individual ships merged, and they do have valid point: the ships were never built, so the information on them is not likely to grow. TomStar81 ( Talk) 22:06, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
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Oh I'm really sorry, I'll enable the tool in my preferences to remind me to make an edit summary; I know that they help make things easier for recent changes patrollers to seperate constructive fron unconstructive edits. Once again, I apologise -- Hadseys ( talk • contribs) 01:40, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Think no more of it! The Land ( talk) 19:17, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure which images you have in mind - please advise. Regards, Wild Surmise ( talk) 21:10, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up. I hadn't known about these, and they look useful. Stepheng3 ( talk) 04:26, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminder. I usually do create them.-- Parkwells ( talk) 22:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. As you will probably have suspected, I am new to all this.
Regards,
Wild Surmise ( talk) 23:05, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the note re edit summaries. No problem in reminding me about this but I'm too busy to add ones to minor edits (which are almost always grammatical or copy editing). But I've added one to this edit! bigpad ( talk) 10:27, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
It isn't something to debate over. It's a FACT. The United States Navy does not recognize the John F. Kennedy as a Kitty Hawk-class. It is a single-class unit. Neovu79 ( talk) 02:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Bkww01 was up for less than one minute before you tagged it. You may want to consider for future reference that even the fastest typists might need an entire minute to place a fair-use rationale on an image. Otto4711 ( talk) 19:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I haven't had a chance to read over the new edits as much as I would like to, but what I have seen so for looks good, although when editting ship pages stick an all "she/her" format (currently used in the article) or an all "it" format instead of alternating between the two, as it makes the article read ackwardly. Case in point: "When the battleship was presented to the State of Texas, it was commissioned as the flagship of the Texas Navy." TomStar81 ( Talk) 10:56, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
I thank you for your reminder. I will take it ino account.
Ernmuhl (
talk) 20:17, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
I've actually run this by the folks over at WP:BLP/N -- if they tell me I'm wrong, then I'm out of there.-- uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 15:40, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I hope to be in a position to type again within two weeks; its my leg thats giving me the most trouble now. I landed funny on it after the truck hit me, and now it hurts to put weight on it (much less hobble to and from classrooms). TomStar81 ( Talk) 07:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
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