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Forgive me for the "ranting edits". I don't know how to use Wikipedia, and even figuring out how to respond to you is a headache in and of itself. The original Orlando article stated that Orlando was the 26th most populous metropolitan area. That statistic was linked tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_metropolitan_areas. If you click that link, you discover that Orlando is not in fact the 26th most populous metro area, it is actually the 20th most populous. I change the Orlando article so that it accurately reflected the source it was already citing. There's no new source for me to cite, it's the same exact source. All you have to do is click the source to double check to see if I'm accurate. MrX is citing a source that ranks cities according to Core Base Statistical Errors, which is NOT the same as Metropolitan. Also, that's not even the reference that the Orlando article was even citing to.
Bottom line is there was an error, and I, acting as a layperson, decided to correct it. Sorry if I'm coming across as a jerk, but really, I don't know anything about Wikipedia's protocol, terminology, fields, coding, etc etc. Wikipedia is obviously not very user-friendly to new users (I didn't even know I could leave this message for you until a few moments ago - hell, I didn't even know that YOU left a message for me until minutes before that). I've learned a valuable lesson though: don't take anything on Wikipedia for face value and don't even bother correcting anything if you're not one of the elite users. — Preceding unsignedcomment added by 142.196.167.196 ( talk) 01:10, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Okay, np. Other users should then not do that to my red links too. I'll see what happens. Thanks. Daniellagreen ( talk) 03:02, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
I'm glad to see that there a few wiki editors who see the value of school articles. I have had several removed (mostly redirected0 and lost several hours of hard research. I try very hard to show consistancy in what I write from article to article. (I mostly do Texas High School). My question to you is how can I make reference to historically African-American schools who have who titles and who advanced to the title game/match. Unfortunately, there is really so little available about these schools and what I have used has only recently been released. Please help me with creating good articles and keeping them from being unnecessarily redirected to the school district they are a part of. Indyjrg1762 ( talk) 06:27, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hi! For Lanier Middle School (Houston) I added a new source. I added new sources for Pershing too. WhisperToMe ( talk) 02:57, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Congrats on your user name change! It's good to know you, John. :-) Daniellagreen ( talk) 17:05, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
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Recently I have begun to edit this article. Could you check it out and tell me what you think. I'm not crazy about the long list of clubs but not sure of what to do. Thanks, John. ``` Buster Seven Talk 15:57, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Now the fun starts. You will have to watch it to remove the frequent insertion of girlfriends names, obscenities, etc. Welcome to the wonderful world of school articles! John from Idegon ( talk) 18:25, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
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My daughter is a Montessori teacher in Toledo, Ohio. Due to the help and guidance you provided above, I have started to create an article for her school @ User:Buster7/Sandbox- Westside Montessori, Toledo. I have emailed some administrators of the school for history, info, etc. I mention this in the hopes that you can look over my shoulder every now and then and keep me headed in the right direction. No rush...it's most likely a long-range project. Thanks. ``` Buster Seven Talk 18:31, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
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By co-incidence, I asked a question @ the TH [1]just after yours. But as you state in your thread, mine also went to the end of the line. Will they be seen by anyone? `` Buster Seven Talk 07:40, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for straightening out the edits at Carmel High School. I should have followed up on that when I removed the one bad edit using Stiki. It just slipped my mind. Thanks for cleaning up after me. Best! — Keithbob • Talk • 03:32, 13 November 2013 (UTC) |
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Hiya John from Idegon, If the issue is who has been most helpful to User:Kathrynklos, well we can simply ask her. I feel that I am qualified to contribute as I am not currently blocked or banned; furthermore I have the ability to see see the wood for the trees. Under the Creative Commons Deed You are free: to Share—to copy. But I am open to an examination of where a specific violation has occurred in this instance. Tommy Pinball ( talk) 11:44, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
What is the reason for [2]? If a question has no answers yet then it seems reasonable that the poster can remove it if they no longer want help. Now I spent time investigating the question before discovering the poster didn't want it. PrimeHunter ( talk) 19:59, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
I see you posted at User talk:Olliechick#In regard your recent posting at Teahouse but I don't see a point in keeping a random question when the problem has already been fixed to the poster's satisfaction. I wasted time trying to guess why the poster might not be seeing the timed text before realising that they do see it now, and there is nothing wrong with the page linked in the question. This is the first time at Wikipedia I have ever seen an objection to removing your own post when there are no replies. WP:REDACT only talks against removing it when there are replies. PrimeHunter ( talk) 20:12, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
No worries. I don't feel we got off on the wrong foot at all. I'll add repling to my question to my to-do list. :) Olliechick ( talk) 03:40, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
No worries. I don't feel we got off on the wrong foot at all. I'd already added my answer to the question. :) Olliechick( talk) 03:51, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi there! I noticed you removed the individual state champions listing for Parkway West High School. I had included this information because although not "team" championships, they are state championships in accordance with the state activities association. Some activities (e.g. wrestling, debate, track) frequently or solely award individual-type championships. Your edit summary said that individual achievements were not encyclopedic in the context of a high school article; can you clarify and expanding upon your reasoning for this?
Thanks, poroubalous ( talk) 23:33, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
John from Idegon ( talk) 02:09, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear John, I noticed your recent edit in which you told me "Adding a crummy picture that does not illustrate any of the text does not help." I believe that image was located right next to list of attractions in the city, including the Rodeo of the Ozarks, which is hosted in the facility pictured. I have never been to the Rodeo and thus I have not been able to take a photo of the live action, but I have driven by the stadium and thought an illustration of the facility may be able to show readers the type of facility mentioned in the list.
However, your edit inspired me to find a freely available photo on flickr from the rodeo (at right). Please feel free to peruse these other free photographs to see if you find a suitable alternative. If not, I will add the new photo as part of a major edit I am currently undertaking for Springdale in a few minutes. Cheers! Brandonrush Woo pig soooooooie! 02:39, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Appreciate your public comments in reverts, Gtw. Will look good in the script. All the Best Taram ( talk)
Member of the Redwood Alumni Avenue of the Giants and the Redwood Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame are both elected through annual nominations and a juried selection committee, as can be seen by the web pages describing their processes. They are not self-references and are not casual awards. You are not being consistent if you remove the AOG and leave the AHOF. I would ask you to keep both, or remove both. BerdanII( talk) 06:18, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
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I'm sorry I reverted your edits, but I don't appreciate unnecessary section blanking. One of the reasons editors are fleeing Wikipedia is due to the constant deletion of their contributions. I'm sorry, I wasn't always great with references in the past. But if there's an issue, please take it to the talk page first, rather than deleting massive parts of the article. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. I still have yet to see anywhere that a school making it to state or having a history of strong programs is somehow "unencyclopedic". I realize now that some things in there were unencyclopedic and have made changes accordingly, but the vast majority of it is relevant, objective, and worthy of inclusion. I have now cited the sections at issue and remove things that are not encyclopedic. Please try to talk it out before deleting next time. Thanks. Abog ( talk) 22:59, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I restored Preston Hollow Elementary School as its own article and added book sources (sources from Google Books) to show notability WhisperToMe ( talk) 07:58, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
John from Mark Powell:
This answers your posting on my talk page, just seen.
Goodness are you silly -- and another example of why Wiki doesn't and perhaps can't really thrive.
I, being concerned with and focused on hard factual corrections (of history geography, science and math primarily; also of spelling, grammar, etc.) in major media and academe (as contrasting Wiki, though I correct almost every substantive Wiki page I see, and doubt anyone has made as many hard, unassailable factual corrections in Wiki as have I) and sometimes mere improvements in sense, organization and/or logic (as in the Michigan case that has you so exercised), am so unfamiliar with talk pages (and all mechanical and attached aspect of Wiki beyond simple text editing) that this is my first attempt to write on anyone's. I haven't even read all of my my own page (made wholly by others). My only communications have been in the explain-edit block presented with each text edit. All this is in heavy contrast to your obvious obsession --obvious now, that I had reason to glance, at just that, a glance; and obvious as being exercised in practically real time -- with your posted edits and the personal Wiki functions such as talk pages.
I don't intend to engage a running debate with you, or a ridiculous "duel" of correction/improvement and undoing of same. Please let this statement, however distasteful to you, stand as my communication with you -- and please consider the Michigan matter, i.e. size rather than alpha listing of states whose combined area roughly matches the UP's, resolved and not needing change-back from sensible to less sensible and misleading.
Several things speak for themselves, including but not limited to:
1) Your assertion that things that stand unchanged for much time gain credibility from that fact is perfectly ludicrous. I constantly correct howling, obvious hard factual errors, including on what must be heavily trafficked pages, that apparently just stood there for quite some time. And as I often note in dismay, a great deal of the time, I'd even say a majority of it, information directly contradicting the error is immediately available
2) While listing the states in alpha order is not a factual error, listing them in size order is obviously better, since (hel-*lo*) geographic size is there the issue. I think many readers, given the context, have assumed or at least suspected, when the text is "your way," that you are listing the states in size order. Of course it's too bad anyone could be so fundamentally ignorant of U.S. political geography to think that, but reality is most people are. Perhaps you've heard how geo-ignorant (as well as just-about-anything-ignorant) are most Americans. And all those news blips about what Ivy Leaguers don't know. Most recent one I happened to see is on Harvard students (very many of whom, past surveys have shown, are clueless of such utter civic basics as who are their U.S. senators) clueless what's the capital of Canada. **So,** responsible Wiki editors must EDUCATE, without talking too far or unnecessarily down to people (proper insults can be reserved for the explain-edit block, which is not visible to those who don't go looking for it), but **acting to preclude confusion and/or misunderstanding, given the general state of knowledge,** as I do in that spot.
3) With all the uncounted hundreds of hard factual corrections I've made -- again, very many being obvious in need (in one place or another) **even to zero topic knowledge,** simply by present contradiction; this is one reason I use some hard but well-rated words such as "stupid" --it's laughable I'm engaging this my first Wiki "debate" over something as comparatively unimportant as the rubric for listing those states.
4) While I am much farther than you from the knowledge of Wiki mechanics needed to actually count such things, I say again that it's highly unlikely anyone -- though very many people apparently spend **far** more time in Wiki than I (and that's without even taking the issue "under the text" to talk pages, associated functions) -- has made as many hard-factual, unchallenged and unchallengeable corrections as I. Since you're so supposedly aware of my activity, maybe you should avail yourself of my full corrections record (however that can be obtained/viewed; I have literally no idea), and thus mute yourself if you don't have comparable record.
5) People like you help doom Wiki in "quest" to become what it could/should/would be, a generally credible outlet in comparison to "leading" news/academic outlets -- themselves desperately, often violently factually errant; this reality being far better documented, with many thousands of examples, in my files than apparently anywhere else, at least in English in the West. People might be upset by my honesty in justified criticism in my explain-edit blocks, but Wiki needs me, needs my probably unique ability to make and actual making of **factual corrections**. If people like you drive me from Wiki -- i.e. just pester, badmouth and talk-page-load me, not to mention childishly "revert" valid corrections or mere improvements because you don't like being corrected or improved -- Wiki will be much the poorer. My fault or failure with Wiki is that I read "only" the "few" pieces I do. Again, I factually correct most substantive pages I see. If you care at all about Wiki, and can put **facts and the educational mission** before your own ego, you should value that (and thus, yes, me), however you think you feel about me from this glancing electronic "contact."
Of course this attack on you would be immediately better-based had I busted you reversing a factual correction rather than simply disagreeing about a sense-stylistic ordering of (as you called them) nouns. But with regret I consider very likely that even little time spent examining "your" Wiki content -- time I don't intend to dedicate, though I probably should learn how to do such -- would produce multiple such cases of your attacking factual corrections of your work precisely and only because they are upon your work.
That's all. I doubt you'll let this attack go unanswered, but one can hope. And even now it's unlikely I'll see your reply in anything like the apparently electronically cued real-time in which you engage activity in "your" Wiki spaces. I refuse to divert much if any more time than I have here, to this aspect of Wiki. I chose you, despite the fact that we contest only a style-sense matter rather than facts -- my bailiwick --because, in finally reading most of my (made-by-others) talk page, I saw you directly request communication from me, yea even in superficially reasonable terms; and because after several years it's time I got at least such as the above off my chest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markwpowell64 ( talk • contribs) 08:24, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
((Friendly stalker)) I suggest using Hawaii and Maryland. ``` Buster Seven Talk13:16, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback! It's National Register-listed, so I photographed it as part of getting National Register of Historic Places listings in Lake County, Indiana up to fully-illustrated status. It's far away from me in Bloomington, but it was important to get the fully-illustrated status for Lake County; see File:NRHP Illustrated Counties.svg. Nyttend ( talk) 03:13, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
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While doing some "random article" editing I stumbled upon the above. The Lead was extremely top heavy, so I redistributed some of the info around a bit. If you get a chance can you give it a look and critique my edits. Again, no rush. ``` Buster Seven Talk16:29, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Oops! Sorry for submitting it twice. I think I clicked something a bit over-enthusiastically. I'll do some work on it then try again.-- FergusM1970 Let's play Freckles 00:47, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
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