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Hey Parsec. I don't suppose I could interest you in doing a GA Review at the backlog here, could I? *Charming Smile* I'm trying to get the backlog down to a more managable level, and I figure if I can get a few people to do one each, then it could get done quite quickly. Thanks! Skinny87 ( talk) 22:25, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
In general, I avoid contributing to articles which are likely to be endlessly controversial -- like Pacific War; although, of course, I do recognized that the subject, and the disputes it inspires, are inescapably significant. Nevertheless, the article is on my watchlist; and your recent edit summary caught my attention. In that context, I wonder if it might be helpful to ponder this -- just another tidbit of information which could be worth adding to what you already know. -- Tenmei ( talk) 13:54, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey! Just to let you know, I've nominated Operation Varsity for an FAC, and any comments would be welcome at the nomination page. Skinny87 ( talk) 17:15, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Many thanks for you comments and suggestions on the above article that is now a Featured Article. Your assistance during the review process was much appreciated and helped make the article what it is today.-- Jackyd101 ( talk) 20:14, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for explaining it in detail. Otolemur crassicaudatus ( talk) 16:13, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Chumly didn't seem to understand what final warning meant. He vandalized the William Shatner BLP. How long does he go bye-bye for? - Arcayne (cast a spell) 17:47, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Can do, thanks for the concern per Varsity. I don't think the bloody thing'll pass - apparently it has a lot of MoS issues, and the only supporter I've got is Cam, who as he noted is an editor of the article as well. Casting an eye over the article or the FAC would be appreciated. Cheers! Skinny87 ( talk) 22:10, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick pick-up, Parsecboy! Your explanation was most helpful, and certainly that there's a mainspace page (with no fewer than 11 interwikis!) to which the article had no internal link! I'm adding that right away, and I'll see about rewriting that passage at my next opportunity, based on the content you've provided. -- Cheers, Deborahjay ( talk) 14:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
I looked through the edit history of the article and saw the altercation you had there with the User:The High Commander. You were quite correct, of course, that having homophobic views is not a valid reason for removing well sourced material related to gay people and their lives. However, I do think that the reference to wedding in the article needs to be fixed. The current text says "On 15 April 2008, they revealed in an OK! Magazine exclusive, that they were recently secretly married and that they honeymooned in Nevis in the Caribbean." I looked up the OK!Magazine site and could not find the said story/interview there, even after a bit of searching [1]. Do you know if the reference to the OK!Magazine is correct? I did find alternative verifiable references to their marriage and wedding, such as this story [2] in the Daily Record and also this article [3] in CanadianPress. I think that unless the reference to the OK!Magazine story can be verified, it is better to replace it in the text with these (or other) verifiable references. Nsk92 ( talk) 13:01, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
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To Parsecboy, for helping me above and beyond the call of duty in dragging Operation Varsity kicking and screaming to FA-Class Skinny87 ( talk) 23:06, 5 July 2008 (UTC) |
The latest revert you did at the DMB article wasnt actually vandalism. Moore really did puncture a lung. Thats not mentioned in the cite, granted... but it was a good faith edit. I dont care if that particular addition is in the article or no, but I just wanted to point it out to ya! Happy editing! Qb | your 2 cents 01:31, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
And not to spam your talk page, but perhaps you should see this. Qb | your 2 cents 01:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
While I applaud the revert, "no rational person" was a bit over the top. I'd be willing to believe it's simple ignorance, seeing it's been deleted a few times before. TREKphiler 04:31, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
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Parsecboy, it is my honor to report that thanks in part to your support my third request for adminship passed (80/18/2). I appreciate the trust you and the WP community have in me, and I will endeovour to put my newly acquired mop and bucket to work for the community as a whole. Yours sincerly and respectfuly, TomStar81 ( Talk) 02:51, 9 July 2008 (UTC) |
If OPFOR is referenced in the article, fine. But the refimprove tag clutters space - when it is more proactive and worthy to spend time on improving the article rather than throwing tags around and going elsewhere. I never understand that - someone reads an article (or, like you and I, share a valid interest in it) and just throws a tag without actually trying to contribute positively. If that is the primary reason of failure, spend all efforts in improving rather than a tag. And it is quite arbitrary to throw a tag if a ref is missing in one section or two - rather than the entire article itself. So I disagree with you - and challenge to spend time, along with me, to find the reference(s) to help the section(s). Deal? Rarelibra ( talk) 19:15, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I thought this morning I should have added some examples but you got there first. Sandpiper ( talk) 07:32, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
hello parsecboy. thank you very much for you work on fixed the details, grammar, and whatnot on the Korean War page. by the way, OSU? i used to be at kent state before moving to Pitt. Hongkyongnae ( talk) 02:44, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Because you had commented in one or more of the WP:CFD discussions for Category:Royal Thai Navy ships ( discussion here), Category:Imperial Russian Navy ships ( discussion here), and Category:Royal New Zealand Navy ships ( discussion here), I wanted to let you know that they have been closed, and consolidated into a new discussion with several similar proposed category renames. Please take a look at the new proposal. All comments are welcome. — Bellhalla ( talk) 14:27, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Hey Parsec. I was wondering if you'd like to look at the A-Class Review for 11th Airborne Division and help me improve the article, since you were a real help with Operation Varsity. It's this link: [4], but I can't figure out how to link it smart-like. Cheers! Skinny87 ( talk) 16:32, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
when you have a moment, have a look at what I just put on the talk page. cheers Johncmullen1960 ( talk) 20:53, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I don't know if you remember, but you helped undo a unilateral move of Grand Place. The same user, Westermarck then moved it again, against consensus, and you put it in its proper place.
Westermarck just moved a whole bunch more pages unilaterally, and they can't be reverted by a non-admin. Westermarck has a history of unilateral, contentious page moves, so I request that you revert all the moves, so a consensus can be arrived at (or at the very least, a title without technical problems) can be arrived at. Thanks! - Oreo Priest talk 23:09, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the education about how such page reshufflings are accomplished. I've linked to WP:MDP from my userpage so I'll be able to use the information when I find another annoying page like Orthodox. Trilobitealive ( talk) 01:20, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Nathan/Parsecboy. Thanks for the quick work on the malplaced dabs, and welcome to the dab project. I see that you're in Columbus; I'm just down the road in Dayton. Go Bucks! -- JHunterJ ( talk) 12:53, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello!
I may be doing something wrong but I seem to be having a hard time figuring out exactly what that is so just bear with me while I try to reason this out and please let me know where my logic is faltering.
In your message to me you suggested that I always use to " move" button at the top of the page to move pages. I am familiar with the move button and have used it many times in the past. But as far as I was aware, since I am not an administrator, I would be unable to do so if I'm trying to move a page to a destination that already exists, ie moving over an existing page. Both Nascent and Nascent (disambiguation) existed at that time so, if I wanted to move one to the other or vice versa, I would have been unable to do so.
It may be hard to deduce from the merged history of the two pages but the main edit that I had made at that time was to undo this edit by restoring the page according to what I thought was the best name for a disambiguation page after consulting with Special:WhatLinksHere/Nascent. James-Chin ( talk · contribs) seems to have had created a duplicate disambiguation page and made one of them a redirect to the other. All I did was to reverse that edit/redirect.
So my two question for you would be:
Thanks! SWik78 ( talk • contribs) 19:26, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello Parsecboy. Thank you for the note, I will be more watchful.-- Nil Blau ( talk) 15:42, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
That was NOT content dispute, that was clear disruption that was not to be overlooked and discarded with a link to dispute resolution. Now I'll have to take it to WP:ANI. Jooooy. :-P Regards, Hús ö nd 18:49, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your moving Huang Hua (disambiguation) to Huang Hua. Please also move Talk:Huang Hua (disambiguation) to Talk:Huang Hua and close the move request discussion there. Thanks. -- Neo-Jay ( talk) 13:44, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm just pinging you to make sure you were aware about some more proposed changes at Talk:Hyūga class helicopter destroyer, since you were involved in the last discussion to make sure you didn't have anything to add on this latest round. Also since you mentioned nationalism on your userpage I thought you might like comic Doug Stanhope's bit about it [5]. - Optigan13 ( talk) 03:56, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Sorry, this is probably not the correct place to bring it up, but I wasn't sure where I could say something. Being a stickler for misspellings, I noticed that you misspelled "misattributed" on your User Page:
Quotes and such that I like
* "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -misattibuted to Voltaire.
You may or may not have heard this before, but supposedly, the quote actually comes from The Friends of Voltaire by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, considered something of an epitome to Voltaire's attitude. Just thought you should know! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.19.41.38 ( talk) 16:52, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Hey, Psb, I was wondering if you could advise on my notion to protect or semi-protect the disambiguation page "Faget." It seems an irresistable temptation to juvenile humor to add the names and supposed sexual transgressions of random people to that page. If editing on it were limited to people who were registered or signed in, I think most of the problem would vanish. Is there a way to do this and, if it is, is it worth doing? Roregan ( talk) 17:07, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for this mistake. Wikimedia Commons' version uses small letters at the end (png vs. PNG). I'll fix it. Anyways, You should not worry, because MetsBot is reviewing all tagged images before any admin action. Thank you for noting.-- O sama K 16:26, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Hey Parsec. Was wondering if you could swing by and take a look at 11th Airborne Division (United States)'s FAC; I forget how to link to it. It's already had one reviewer, who rather rudely stated that it needs a complete prose rewrite. Understandably that's dampened my mood somewhat, but any help you could give would be greatly appreciated. Skinny87 ( talk) 17:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Yeah i know, i meant to click on 'Undo' but instead went onto 'Rollback VANDAL'. I didn't mean to, but i couldn't really stop it lol. In any case those genres shoudn't be listed there since they're not reliable. Jakisbak ( talk) 20:28, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
There was consensus that no-one uses the term 'Audience Wave' so I moved it to 'Mexican Wave' which is the most well-known international term. -- The High Commander ( talk) 18:57, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
I will do so, and by the way I have watched Triumph des Willens at least 30 or 40 times and Der Sieg des Glaubens 10 or 15 times. I fail to see where the propaganda is, they are simply a snapshot of what happened during the NSDAP's party congress. -- The High Commander ( talk) 19:46, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Sorry it took so long to respond. I only noticed your message as I scanned my talk to see if it could be archived. (I watch my Wikisource talk much more closely)
I have roughly answered on s: Parsecboy user talk, and I am notified via email if your Wikisource talk page changes -- so, if you need more info, ask there to avoid fragmentation and being lost in the madness. :-) -- John Vandenberg ( chat) 13:11, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
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By order of the coordinators, for your good work tagging and assessing military history articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Service Award. -- ROGER DAVIES talk 09:55, 1 August 2008 (UTC) |
Thank you very much indeed for your help with and commitment to the drive. May I please trouble you to comment at the post-drive workshop? Your feedback will help us to improve the next drive. Thanks in advance, -- ROGER DAVIES talk 09:55, 1 August 2008 (UTC)