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Dear Tedickey, I made a small edit to the Geography section, with inline references, which was removed by another editor with a totally unreferenced edit. I do not wish this to expand in any way. Would you please look at what I did? I think it was a quite sound and appropriate edit, and I am a little shocked to have it so cavalierly reversed by another editor. Thanks. Dubyavee ( talk) 02:59, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the observation on xterm blue color. I changed (after finding a newer xterm that had the lighter blue colors). It is taking long in making its way to all computers though. I tried brand new version of Cygwin and a version on a cluster we bought one year ago, and both had the old xterm versions. The change was: (0,0,205) --> (0,0,238) for normal blue and (0,0,255) --> (92,92,255) for bright blue. Kristjan.Jonasson, 13 April 2010.
Tedickey
Earlier today you reverted a change to Paine's Date of Birth
(Not that this made any difference, as the anonymous IP had changed it wrongly, so it still showed the same on the actual page)
At
Talk:Thomas_Paine#Date_of_Birth I have set out my understanding that "to comply with MoS, Paine was born on 29 January 1737"
This is unchallenged since 20 February, and on 20 March I gave people a last chance to object before I changed it - but no-one has.
Having left this on the talk page for so long, and had no disagreements, I trust there will be no objections when I change it? ( ! ! ! )
Arjayay (
talk) 17:19, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Could you please tell me how my external link was link spam? thank you. Margo&Gladys ( talk) 22:42, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
The words "state" and "city" are not capitalized in U.S. geographic names, unless the word is an intrinsic part of the name itself. For example: Bullhead City, Arizona; Kansas City, Kansas. One does not write: Bullhead City, State of Arizona.
See the Wikipedia styleguide for further clarification.
Hi Tedickey,
I would like to ask you the criteria you have used to delete some external links I've inserted in Reservoir and Hydropower pages.
It is important to notice that those links were related to a freeware software with a important reservoir and hydro plants database. Also, papers and manuals about the mathematical and simulation model were accessible in HydroByte software.
Thank you for your attention.
Marcelo.
I corrected the list of metropolitan areas to be accurate. The current list is a mix of some MSA populations and some CSA populations, which makes it inaccurate. Using the CSA gave, for example, Raleigh, a much higher standing than if the MSA population had been used. I was going for consistency and I think mine made more sense. -- Conk 9 ( talk) 23:33, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Did I insult you, anglo-saxon civilization and all The Western World by telling the fact: The legal act based on Corpus Iuris Civilis (Civil part) and Ecumenical Councils (Canonical part) that regulated all spheres of social life was more develpoed than piece of paper whose only purpose was to restrain the tyranny of the king John Lockland?! I made links to the original article which is full of information. I've put the references to the documents made by masters of law. What is dubious?! What is disputable?! Didn't I give enough arguments?! Do you want me to remove the part of the text where I make comparison between Zakonopravilo and Magna Carta? Or you just can't believe that once there was more developed nation in East Europe? Is your behaviour motivated with discrimination to the other nation? Пера ложач ( talk) 21:37, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Problem is that the translation from old Serbian to modern Serbian is in progress. The whole document is about 1500 pages. The translator is the only one professor - the enthusiast! He has finished the volume one, after 20 years of work. He published it recently, and announced the volume two soon. Than, his assistants will translate it in english and put it somewhere on the internet. Why nobody did it in the past. Because Serbia was under Turkish domination (Ottoman empire) from 1459 to 1878. Than two World wars, than 50 years of communism, than 3 civil wars on the territory of former Yugoslavia. Sorry, we were just a little bussy. ;) Please, pardon my hard language in the previous message. Try to understand me. We, the Serbs, are rising from the dead. We try to tell the World that we are alive. We had very noble and glorious past, and we still some documents, monuments and giants, such as Novak Djoković and Jelena Janković! ;) Yes, I am a big fan of tennis. Anyway, let's go back to the subject. Direct citation from St. Sava's Nomocanon in English would be the best proof for my statement. Since I cannot provide it, I'll remove my sentence about comparison with Magna Carta. Are we cool now? By the way, if it's not a secret where are you from? Greetings! Пера ложач ( talk) 22:13, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Is this fine for the Wikipedia standards? Пера ложач ( talk) 22:24, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I'll try to improve them. Пера ложач ( talk) 22:39, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Noticing you reverted some edit of this article, I'd like to ask you, what do you think about this edit. That IP keeps adding that link to this article in spite of the fact that it contains few information (two scripts and three book reviews). I've already removed it three times and gave that IP two spam warnings. Regards, -- Tomaxer ( talk) 22:04, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
... this edit? Paul August ☎ 17:46, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Can you explain this edit, please? I thought citation request applies to existence of confusing and this fact is confirmed there in a first sentence ("Many people believe [..]"). Maybe it will be best just to take off citation request? 985D83E8 ( talk) 08:34, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
constructive?? The entry isnt constructive, is false and is slanderous. Does this mean that anyone can write anything about anyone and it stays? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolpat222 ( talk • contribs) 23:44, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Dear Tedickey
I believe you placeed a tag about this article needing some work, and I would not disagree with that general assessment. As the most recent editor of that article I may take some responsibility. Yet having worked on it for awhile, I would like to balance that article's need against my need to move on to other things. That probably means fixing problems I caused this weekend, and then maybe some (but not necessarily all) of the other problems as well.
When I came upon this article it seemed to read like an outline with 2/3 of the planned sections unwritten. And it had been that way for at least months and maybe a year. So I provided text for another 1/3 of the planned sections, and then collapsed the other unwritten sections into small sections so we no longer have repetitive 1-sentence sections.
Could you take a look and compare current version with last week before I started editing, to let me know about which problems I have added that need to be corrected? No need to do this today because there are a few things I was going to fix anyway tonight. Also, if you see some problems that antedate my contribution, could you venture your opinion regarding the relative importance of fixing them? (Footnotes with no text, just a link was the main thing I noticed.)
Also, it had been given a "B" grade previously. With these fixes, how close is this to a B+ or A- or whatever is better than that B.
Warmest regards, Bsansvsage ( talk) 14:05, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
I have been working on Reservoir for the past few days and would value your comments and suggestions on the current version as you have also done much work on the article in the past. Regards Velela Velela Talk 19:18, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that you reverted some updates from 208.101.175.212 by saying "not a novel." Although I agree that this guy went a little over the top on Battle of Antietam, I'm not sure that that judgment is justified for Cedar Mountain. I have been spending some time reverting or cleaning up this guy's work because he does not pay attention to citations, but since Cedar Mountain is generally citation-free, I did not revert his work on this article. Hal Jespersen ( talk) 15:17, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
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You reverted my addition of Salisbury receiving the All-America City award for 2010, stating "lets not go there again" Care to tell me why? David ( talk)
Tedickey - I'm a bit new to Wikipedia editing, but I did read the external link guidelines and was wondering why you removed some of mine. I'm adding the links to the CCEL because I work here and have been assigned to add links to wiki pages so that more people will know about and use the CCEL. It's a great and credible resource. Please let me know what rules I've broken. Thanks! Abbyzwart ( talk) 20:00, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Could you please stop undoing them? Thank you. 93.182.133.74 ( talk) 15:23, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you please stop deleting the pop culture reference I listed for the Grapes of Wrath? The Boy Meets World episode "Me and Mrs. Joad" specifically is about that book, Cory and Shawn do a "strike" inspired by the book, without realizing the price one must pay to do what you think is right. This reflects the book's overall plot and moral perfectly and there's no good reason why it should not be included. If the source I did cite was not acceptable, then what would be one? 75.81.204.244 ( talk) 17:07, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting the problem on the Indian Head page. -- Phoon ( talk) 08:32, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
I made some additional changes to the SecureCRT article, including following your suggestion on the talk page. Could you please review the updated article and remove the tag you added if satisfied? Thanks! Stian ( talk) 06:35, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, i´d like to know why are you constantly removing all information i put in your scm comparison about Plastic SCM. don´t we have the right to show there our information as the rest of users? Alejandro66 ( talk) 08:39, 10 September 2010 (UTC) 08:39, 10 September 2010 (UTC) Alejandro66 ( talk)
why should we be advertising our product, if we just fill the available fields with the same information about our product that the rest of the products in the page? This is called comparison, not advertising; and a comparison to be real, must have all the existing products to compare. so, what´s the problem? Alejandro66 ( talk) 08:57, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
OK, i just didn´t know i could do that; You mean external links and references? No problem, i´ll include some of them.. Alejandro66 ( talk) 09:31, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
I´ve included some external references..If it´s ok for you i´ll include some more in the future. Thanks. Alejandro66 ( talk) 10:32, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
You recently reversed an edit that I made to this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
I added our product to the Application Support table and you reversed it because "rm advert for product w/o notable topic". I don't understand the reasoning, the table is a list of applications that support PowerShell and our product is clearly an application that supports PowerShell. How is the addition that I made different than any other entry in the list?
If I try to look at this from the perspective of a PowerShell user, I would want that list to be a complete list of products that support PowerShell. What is the criteria for being included in that table?
JVottero ( talk) 15:55, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, it looks like you put a "remove-section" template on Mason–Dixon Line but didn't explain why on the talk page. If it was you, would you? Thanks. Pfly ( talk) 19:33, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I ´ve just noticed you deleted our "Plastic SCM" wikipedia´s definition again. I´ve just edited again, including ( as you advised) some external notes and references. All these external references don´t belong to Plastic, are just independent publications regarding Plastic. Since you complained about our aim of advertising ourselves through wikipedia, i want to point out the previously mentioned aspect. Please, before deleting (what is pretty likely), just tell me WHAT aspects in our page are wrong respect the wikipedia policy. I´ve just seen some other pages from similar products to ours, and they all have, at least, the same or more material likely to be considered as advertisement. Please just let me know if our Plastic SCM wikipedia page it´s properly.
Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alejandro66 ( talk • contribs) 10:52, 5 October 2010 (UTC) Alejandro66 ( talk) 11:28, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello Tedickey! I reverted your edit to Chicago_Executive_Airport, the reference to OpenNav that you deleted was not spam, it is a legitimate source of information, albeit from a commercial source that does sell advertising. Thanks! N9jig ( talk) 20:44, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
1) Linux doesn't have a console - it is a kernel.
2) If by chance you mean the Terminal Emulators that happen to be compiled as a Linux binary, what about FreeBSD or other unix-like OSes that don't use Linux kernel?
3) There exist Terminal Emulators for Windows and Mac based computers as well.
Pardon me for asking this but who says that a program is non notable simply because it doesn't operate within the windows environment? This is in reference to your undoing my posting of "multi-threaded newswatcher" in the page "List of Usenet newsreaders". I always thought that this was to provide accurate information to the readers but if we exclude some because somebody thinks it's not notable, we're becoming inaccurate. When I need information, one of the first places I go is to wikipedia and I expect it to have accurate information for me to base my decisions on without somebody deciding that something is too small to note.
Hi, can you help me and take a short look at tkWWW article? Either I or User:Pmedema is not familiar with the wp rules. THX mabdul 19:20, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Not sure. I've never spent much time there. Toddst1 ( talk) 16:19, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thanks TEDickey ( talk) 16:26, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
I think we got off on the wrong foot. I respect you. I want to get along. Does that work for you? Msnicki ( talk) 20:06, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Greetings, Tedickey. You deleted an addition of a Controversy section on the Ashburn, VA article and validated your actions by stating "Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your information". Sources cited are WUSA9 (Channel 9 News in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area) and MSNBC.com so please clarify. Although publicly documented via news articles, it is to be expected that there are some who would have this information censured - hence, the Controversy headline. Zephyriah ( talk) 18:10, 29 December 2010 (UTC)Zephyriah
... When "restoring sources". The source in question related only to a piece of text removed for inaccuracy. The source did not support the assertion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.73.79.107 ( talk) 00:33, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
For taking care of that spam-linkage. I came across it earlier today as well - the difficulty in figuring out the ownership of the referring website was an issue for me. Shearonink ( talk) 23:03, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
I found the website online and it provided everything in one spot. I am confused how this is spam by any means? Please do not remove helpful links. - ironmanxsl
If somebody has done the research and found a legitimately helpful resource, do not remove the link. In the future, any links to legitimate resources I post, I would appreciate it if you do not remove. And please review the website first, it is NOT an advertisement, NOT a soapbox, or anything of that nature. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ironmanxsl ( talk • contribs) 23:16, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
You sent me a message asking not to add promotional material. I simply added data to table, how can that be advertising? All the other products there have similar entries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cascm ( talk • contribs) 02:21, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
PonchoChet ( talk) 09:59, 5 January 2011 (UTC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.96.233.238 ( talk)
My colleague and I recently edited the Fairfax County page to reflect the official population estimate of the county. We noticed that you reversed some of our previous edits and wanted to explain that the population estimates we cited are not propaganda for the Weldon Cooper Center, nor are they merely derivatives.
The Weldon Cooper Center has been producing the official population estimates for Virginia since 1968. State Code 15.2-4202 defines population as “annual estimate of population prepared by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the University of Virginia”.
Weldon Cooper Center county and city population estimates are also considered more accurate by the Census Bureau, this in large part due to the Center using a methodology more applicable to Virginia’s unique County and City government structure: http://www.coopercenter.org/demographics/publications/evaluation-housing-unit-based-population-estimates-virginia
Colleenwolfe ( talk) 16:47, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
I think providing a book for blind people might be an advertisement is stretching it , is not the goal of wikipedia to provide information to all peoples not mater their ability ? As librivox is a Free_and_open_source_software like project where be the harm in empowering people to have information in more then one way ? As this could be useful to people that did not know of librivox to have books for their commute, exercise , etc, to experienced the classics .
This caught my attention when a seeming SPA tried inserting an external link to this as the very first external link on the C shell article. Someone else has already hatted the page, but look at the history: all SPAs. I downloaded and played with the product, it is real, but I could not find any references to it anywhere on web or much indication anyone else knows about them. Maybe I didn't look hard enough. What's your take? You are way more experienced. Msnicki ( talk) 21:50, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Would appreciate if you'd care to weigh in on the talk page re: Grandscribe's insertion of some material from the GNU site. I gave citations to WP policy for why I objected but he's not persuaded. The right thing to do is get a consensus. Msnicki ( talk) 22:17, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS, Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion. Chuser ( talk) 03:20, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
I notice you occasionally use that remark in your edit summaries. I understand simple stuff like r and c. What does awai stand for? Msnicki ( talk) 21:54, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Why are you removing interwiki links from lots of article with no explanation? Please stop! – Henning Makholm ( talk) 08:31, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Would you mind weighing in on this topic here? Thanks. Bdc101 ( talk) 00:16, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Greetings - Your message was received. However, I am here to assure you that I have nothing to do with Odyssey and do not even know what it means aside from its conventional definiens. This is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened: someone is using something to generate my IP address. Is there no way for you to check this? I may be something of an oaf, but I am no vandal! And I am not doing anything at Oddysey. 76.195.81.212 ( talk) 00:52, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Yes, that is it no doubt. I posted at the talk page: "Jumping back in because I think I see what is occurring. My internet provider fluctuates my IP address - I can check what my IP address presents, but I have no control over it. I see a lot of vandalism has been perpetrated here by a similar IP range to mine, in at least two cases it seems my present IP address caused trouble. My recommendation is you monitor carefully IP addresses starting with 75. and 76. But as I asked before, do you have no way of checking these out any further? I am not causing any trouble here and think the article is doing well from what little I've read today.76.195.81.212 (talk) 01:01, 2 April 2011 (UTC) Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Odyssey"
Thanks and please alert me if you see this sort of IP range messing about there again: I'd like to catch them myself as well. 76.195.81.212 ( talk) 01:05, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that you've reverted that attempt by an IP-identified editor to add an external link a couple times. I agree it's not that great a link, so I'm not questioning the reverts, but I think you may have been a little harsh in labeling it vandalism in your edit summary. I looked at the site and it appears to be genuine and intended to offer a helpful summary of vi. Unless there's something I missed, I'd be inclined to assume good faith. Thoughts? Msnicki ( talk) 16:40, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
The Ch interpreter article has been listed for deletion review. Msnicki ( talk) 14:37, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I notice you reverted my last edit to Roanoke colony, which added an external link. Would you mind explaining why? No doubt you had a good reason. Thanks in advance Asteuartw ( talk) 21:36, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Why are you issuing repeated warnings to User:Chuser for editing talk page posts? I cannot find the problem in the user's edit history. Care to provide a few diffs? SpinningSpark 08:18, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
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Virginia is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. The state population is over eight million. Its geography and climate are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which are home to much of its flora and fauna. The area's history begins with indigenous settlements and the founding of the Virginia Colony in May 1607 by the London Company as the first permanent New World English colony. Virginia was one of the Thirteen Colonies involved in the American Revolution. During the American Civil War, Virginia joined the Confederate States of America, which named Richmond its capital, and the state of West Virginia separated. The state government is home to the oldest legislature in the Americas, and is unique in how it prohibits its Governors from serving consecutive terms. Virginia's economy has many sectors: agriculture in places like the Shenandoah Valley, federal agencies in Northern Virginia, and military facilities in Hampton Roads. The growth of the media and technology sectors have made computer chips the leading export, with the industry based on the strength of Virginia's public schools and universities. ( more...)
I notice that you put ncurses into the category of Software programmed in Ada. If I understand it right, ncurses is almost entirely written in C, and the only part that is written in Ada is the binding portion. So IMHO characterizing ncurses as an Ada program doesn't look right. But it could be reasonably considered as an Ada library. Thoughts? Thanks! -- TheBlueWizard ( talk) 17:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Tedickey. You participated in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 April 13#Ch interpreter. Originally closed as "[n]o consensus = no change to the status quo", the DRV close has amended by the closer to relist. If you would like to participate in the AfD, please comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ch interpreter (2nd nomination). Cunard ( talk) 07:49, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello Tedickey, There has been a
discussion concerning a blog that you removed this morning
here (which was subsequently reverted). I made mention of it although I didn't mention you by name but I did link to your removal. As is custom on Wiki, I'm notifying you as a courtesy...my apologies for not remembering to do this sooner.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► (
(⊕)) 21:44, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you removed my edit. You really think that it is irrelevant to note that James Joyce created a modern day re-telling of this epic? Especially considering it is #1 on the modern libraries list of top 100 novels (as well as appearing on any given top list you can find)
It also seems odd that you think Joyce's achievement and relevance to the Odyssey should be listed BELOW the likes of this:
"Some of the tales of Sinbad the Sailor from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights were taken from the Odyssey"
... seriously?
-- 24.187.8.149 ( talk) 01:18, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Okay, fair enough with part b.. as for part a, is it because the "cultural impact" is of less importance (to mainstream culture) due to his work being mostly unrecognized outside academia and scholars?
At the very least I feel the an entire re-telling should be more relevant (listed above) than the borrowing of a few characters though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.187.8.149 ( talk) 19:08, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
"Ulysses is derived from Ulixes, the Latin name for Odysseus" .. the hero of Odyssey. Can we at least include something like that? -- 24.187.8.149 ( talk) 20:11, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed you removed my edit in the article on the Amish. I had included, in the section on population, a mention (a sentence, in fact) of the substantial Amish population in west central Wisconsin. Why did you undo it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DaleWatt ( talk • contribs) 03:17, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Will the New York Times do? If not, change it back. Thanks for letting me know; I've been a wikipedia user for years, but never a member till now. - DaleWatt — Preceding unsigned comment added by DaleWatt ( talk • contribs) 22:30, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
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You introduced a claim related to RCS that is completely unproven and in addition was published by the author of RCS. Please do not start edit wars but rather follow the WP rules and use the article discussions where we did already pointed out that RCS is not faster than SCCS. -- Schily ( talk) 11:49, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You appear to be involved in an edit war on List of revision control software. While the three-revert rule is hard and fast, please be aware that you can be blocked for edit warring without making 3 reverts to an article in 24 hours. You are not entitled to 3 reverts and are expected to cooperatively engage other editors on talk pages rather than reverting their edits. Note that posting your thoughts on the talk page alone is not a license to continue reverting. You must reach consensus. Continued edit warring may cause you to be blocked. Toddst1 ( talk) 21:29, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
FYI, I moved the text about the PDP-1 price from the DEC article to the PDP-1 article, along with some other details on the production history. Maybe the price should be in both places, but let's agree on what it is first. When I did the look up of $120,000 in 1961 dollars converted to 2011 dollars, I got $906,878.93. What am I missing? -- agr ( talk) 15:28, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I tried to improve Wikipedia by adding my knowledge to the article concerning ANSI art text editors: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_text_editors#ASCII_and_ANSI_art
I added a small open-source editor (open-source like wikipedia is), called tundradraw.
I was really surprised to discover my entry was deleted. The reasons were not directly explicit: WP:EL/WP:WTAF After following the links, I learnt "external links" were not cool in the body of the encyclopedie, and that it was better to "write the article first".
I removed the link and made the entry poorer, so it wouldn't be an horrid red or external link. It was deleted again, and you told me: "However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages".
How could I "promote" something I'm not even a part or a member of? I needed an ANSI editor, and discovered the links on wikipedia to ACiDDraw (an obsolete DOS editor, the program isn't even available on the editor's website), to PabloDraw (a windows only program, and quite old), and to TheDraw (an old DOS program). They didn't suit my needs. I found Tundradraw which looked better for me (usable on Linux), so I thought it could be interesting to share it on wikipedia as well.
I remembered Wikipedia deletes Articles about "non-notable" programs, for example Schism Tracker, a good program used by hundreds of people: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Schism_Tracker
Strange enough, this program is visible on this page, in an external link: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_audio_trackers
But it can't be marked as WP:WTAF because it's not allowed to create the article first!
Do I really want to spend 1/2 hour writing an entry for tundradraw, and see it immediately deleted by someone who isn't aware of what ANSI art is for example? Therefore I thought quickly adding a link to the wikipedia page was enough. I was wrong.
Wikipedia rules are too complicated for normal people. Even for geeks like me, I find this way too hardcore to understand or endorse. It's not really surprising that less and less people are interested in contributing to wikipedia.
You may wonder why I spent 1/4 to write this, instead of creating my article for tundradraw, and then link to it afterwards: the reason is I hate working for nothing (i.e. make a decent and honest work on something, which will be deleted for arbitrary reasons). So I prefer to clarify the situation, and it helps me to remember why I will probably never get the motivation to contribute again to wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.252.56.221 ( talk) 11:29, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
Reintroducing a dead link (no longer available content) on Dulles Technology Corridor is seen as vandalism and spamming. The first time you introduced this URL could be seen as accident because you did not validate the link. The second time cannot be seen as an accident anymore. -- Schily ( talk) 10:55, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
I added citations which point to the facts about both features, which are quite uncontroversial claims. Don't add {{cn}} tags just because you want to win an argument. Steven Walling • talk 08:27, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm new here to wiki and a little unfamiliar with the rules. I wrote the original "web based usenet" which has been modified some and definitely acceptable but, it is my understanding that if the external links provide substance to the article they are justified and acceptable. Of course I added my link and other web based sites followed. I definitely included google groups - the largest web based site. The history shows that someone - not logged in - deleted the external links and you came back and "undo" them, then another person, not logged in came back and removed them again. Of course I would like my link there but, now it says I must edit them by hand. I have no problem doing this and I have no problem replacing the links of the other sites that added their link later. I just don't want to do something that will get me banned or in trouble. Could you please advise me that it is OK to put the external links back in. I will leave them off it is incorrect or a violation of the rules.
thanks Grggfks ( talk) 16:05, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Tedickey. Someone recently edited Mid-Atlantic States to remove Virginia from the category. I was going to restore it to the last "Revision as of 22:30, 7 July 2011 (edit)Rivertorch (talk | contribs)" but I have no idea how to do it with multiple edits in between. If this is something you agree with, would you do it, I haven't a clue as to how it's done. Thanks, Dubyavee ( talk) 05:41, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
Aviateur ( talk) 19:42, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi:
A recent external link, which I added was removed. After reading the rules and guidelines associated with 'External Links', I suspect it was due to the advertisements which appear at the www.docstoc.com site where the subject PDF document, which I wish to make available, is located. Would the following link be more acceptable?
http://members.cox.net/lab1215/~Tools/Lewis%20Carrolls%201887%20Weekday%20Rule.pdf
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Cheers, Lawrence Baker (username Aviateur)
70.162.132.75 ( talk) 00:47, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
This is a white paper that I authored which provides comprehensive insight into the 'weekday solving' method developed by Lewis Carroll in 1887, pure and simple. There is nothing self-serving about it other than my academic desire to share the information and interact with others on the topic. So, may I put this link in 'External Links'? http://members.cox.net/lab1215/~Tools/Lewis%20Carrolls%201887%20Weekday%20Rule.pdf
Lawrence
Thanks for the heads up. See Talk:Plagiarism detection. -- Lexein ( talk) 14:11, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
I added a new book on Patrick Henry which you deleted because you said it qualified as advertising. Is this because the book has not yet been published? (It has an ISBN number, a pub. date, etc.) Kiddts ( talk) 23:51, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
hi i'm prashantgonarkar ( talk · contribs). i have added a block called Dynamic memory allocation on page Dynamic memory allocation with correct information. But u removed it totally. i think that block edit was correct. then what is the reason of removing it can you explain me? I have been working on Wikipedia India Education Program ( Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Data Structures and Algorithms) and editing a page Dynamic memory allocation.so plz let me know why you removed my edit.
Tried to establish notability and added some external refs. Is it fine now? -- Tom Jenkins (reply) 19:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Would you mind commenting there about the embedded list of tools, now that sourcing has been completed, and unsourced items deleted? --
Lexein (
talk) 13:51, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
hello sir, can you please tell me the reason why you have deleted my article? i have read all that you have given to me but don't you think that "Types of Shell" should be included in this topic ?Also i have provided two reference links but you still have deleted my article? please give me some concrete reason — Preceding unsigned comment added by NNKarnani ( talk • contribs) 05:16, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
REPLY: yes it was written from some blog but that blog was of an authors blog.you think that it was redundant but why?? is it not necessary to know the types of shell scripting??i don't think that it was of no use under the heading of shell scripting.NIKUNJ KARNANI 11:54, 12 September 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by NNKarnani ( talk • contribs)