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When posting to my talk page, I have a couple of requests that I would like you to keep in mind:

1. When starting a new discussion, please put it in its own section. The easiest way to do this is the click on the "+" tab at the top of the page and then give the discussion a title.
2. Please be specific. Comments like "Why did you make that edit?" will get us both nowhere. Which edit? To what article?
3. I don't expect you to watch my talk page. I'll leave my response on your talk page unless you tell me otherwise.
4. And finally, please sign your comments. You can do this by putting four tildes at the end of your comments like this: ~~~~

Thanks, Dismas|

For your information...

Not only I've finally discovered for over a month that that per MOS thing was a reference to the mandatory Manual of Style - it would be better if you explained things, people aren't obliged to know every abbreviation, I thought all those corrections were made just for a personal idea of style, as so many other editors insist in removing or readding things more than once without any rule as justification - but I've also corrected some of my previous mistakes, in good time!... If you've read my rant as you should and then you would've reached to that conclusion: that I was just justifying why I've never followed the rules before!... But apparently you have no time for reading, or correcting anything, the same reason why I had to correct some articles personally instead of just waiting for someone else to do it, some of the dits been done today!... PS: If films are "not notable" - as if!... - why do they have pages - not having a page doesn't make it "non notable" per se?... Or you prefer to have everything unlinked?... Actually I read the articles better with more links, and beside SOME common English words I've linked were mostly to illustrate the speech or some character appearance without a page. G.-M. Cupertino (talk) 19:00, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Because I was so sick and tired of seeing edits made by subjective reasons that I just assumed it was the case. Specially when I didn't know of all those rules: since no page had a complete or even an incomplete Filmography I assumed there weren't even rules for something so small in a whole Encyclopedia. And the only time I've seen someone say anything about the Manual of Style that was inteligeable that someone said or I've read on the top of it that it was "guiding lines", which I interpret as being mere abstract preferences, like, it is preferable to put filmographies from the oldest works to the newest ones. The rest, I have no time to talk or read editors' things, I have so many other things to do... You should've said that Dates are mandatorially deprecated by some recent decision and according to the mandatory Manual of Style, instead of that gibberish "date audit script assisted per MOS" (I've only open the link of the script and I assumed it was just a description of the alteration and the program that assisted it and I never read what the MOS was), I would've ran to the Administrators in the first place to know what was going on instead of debating the issue with just another editor!... When someone started taking dates out not only I didn't knew it was some new management's idiossincratic mandatory change, but I saw that it was a stupid one, since most people otherwise wouldn't even know that there are pages for years and for years in music and film and television, which by the way is the only reason I know they exist, because I've read them in some page. If you deprecate them all - and according to the Holy Manual of Style they're not even to be deprecated as I see so many doing - no one will even know they're there. My rant was the one that was here long enough to be read!... I was referring to your comment that I did links to so called non notable films. The rest, on Saturday I've corrected most of the Filmographies, and there are just about 30 left, which I expect to finish soon. G.-M. Cupertino (talk) 12:46, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

IMDb

I've changed the template because it was more simple, when I opened it from Please use a more specific IMDb template. See the documentation for available templates. instead of Dismas at IMDb I got there directly without any redirect, the parte of the name is on "name="!... G.-M. Cupertino (talk) 13:23, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

It's corrected!

The IMDb name things, they're all right now, I've corrected them yesterday!... G.-M. Cupertino (talk) 13:26, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Stingray Sam

The Misplaced Pages article for the upcoming Cory McAbee's film Stingray Sam is nominated for deletion. Please contribute to the discussion.--DrWho42 (talk) 03:22, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Ridge Landing Airpark

Just wanted to let you know that Ridge Landing Airpark doesn't qualify for G4 because it's content is not at all similar to the version that was deleted . imho, it is marginally notable, but if you think otherwise, feel free to list it for deletion again. Regards. Thingg 02:20, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

date style - month/day vs. day-month

You cleaned up the dates in 2005 Southeast Asian Games, but in so doing, converted all from month-day (more or less) to day-month style. Shouldn't you keep the existing style unless the nationality of the article's subject clearly calls for the other style? Chris the speller (talk) 02:59, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

OK. For parts of Southeast Asia, you may be right (Hong Kong, for example). But the Philippines have had much more US influence, so the day-month assumption will often not work there. I also have a script for these conversions. If you see me mess up, or if you have any related questions, or end up in a tight place, please drop something on my talk page. Happy editing! Chris the speller (talk) 04:54, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Priscilla Taylor photo removal

Priscilla Taylor has asked me to remove the photo I posted of her. I removed it twice but it keeps re-appearing. You told me to contact OTR in regards to that. I did 3 days ago. I have not received a reply and her photo is still there. I told here I removed it and don't want here being mad a me because it's still there after i told her I removed it. How can i get it removed permanently?

Glenn Francis (talk) 03:37, 26 November 2008 (UTC) Glenn Francis

Filmography

Putting the last movie on top of the list is just the opposite of IMDB, eventhough Misplaced Pages WP:LOW says otherwise. Looking at the various actors, majority is the opposite. Savolya (talk) 13:48, 28 November 2008 (UTC)SavolyaSavolya (talk) 13:48, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I see the dilema. There must be an easier way of enetering reverse data from IMDB.

Savolya (talk) 14:08, 28 November 2008 (UTC)SavolyaSavolya (talk) 14:08, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

WP:EGG

I saw your comment on the Date linking RFC. Please note that WP:EGG explicitly exempts some piped links: "However, piped links may be useful: in places where compact presentation is important (some tables, infoboxes, and lists)." To hold otherwise would devastate many sports articles. See the infobox on any NFL player to see how many piped links there are to NFL seasons, Pro-Bowl years, and All-Pro years. See Jason Taylor for example.--2008Olympian 10:25, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Help with photographer's page?

Hi-

You were a HUGE help to Mason Marconi on her page with sorting copyright issues, and I was just reading a blog where an artist put out an open cry for help that I thought to pass along to you:

http://www.stevedietgoedde.com/bloggy/

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Wiki Trouble Are there any Misplaced Pages contributors/editors out there? I used to have an entry but it was deleted back in June. Several other colleagues had their profiles removed as well, namely Charles Gatewood and Christophe Mourthé among others.

The page for my entry is still there at http://en.wikipedia.org/Steve_Diet_Goedde

The deletion log says: 06:02, 10 June 2008 ESkog (Talk | contribs) deleted "Steve Diet Goedde" ‎ (G12: Blatant copyright infringement: no revisions had anything that wasn't ripped from the linked page)

I'm not sure what kind of copyright infringement was involved. I don't even understand that last sentence in the above quote. I had approved two of my images for use in the article and followed all their usage rules. That had been done a few years prior to the removal. So I have no idea what happened. So if anyone is interested in restoring my page, please let me know and I'll be happy to provide any biographical information.

(end blog)

Steve's email address is stevedg@gmail.com... I hope that you can help him- he's very nice and an important photographer!!!

99.141.74.72 (talk) 23:10, 5 December 2008 (UTC) Librarian2008

Cupertino

Thanks for letting me know that you've had problems with him in the past. As I'm bringing an arbitration case against him, it helps a lot. I'm not entirely sure how they work, but is it possible to bring you in to comment after I've already submitted it? Thanks again. Rwiggum (/_Contrib) 17:39, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I saw your question on the requests for arbitration page (I'm one of the arbitrators). Any user may offer his or her opinion on whether a request for arbitration should be accepted or not, so feel free to submit a short statement if you think it would help. Your statement will be most helpful if it discusses whether arbitration (as opposed to another means of dispute resolution) is the best dispute-resolution method to use, in addition to any other issues. Hope this helps. Newyorkbrad (talk) 18:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration#Maria Thayer

I've opened a request for arbitration and listed you as a named party. You may wish to make a statement. Best wishes, Rwiggum (/_Contrib) 22:22, 10 December 2008 (UTC)