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Clausen

That thing was an accident about Buffalo, I know that, it was an accident, I was watching the Draft on the internet and I was in a rush, so I apologize and it was an accident, but once he's pick it will be changed. --Talladega87 (talk) 01:05, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

There's no need to be in a rush. Just wait until he's is picked. This isn't a race. --bender235 (talk) 01:08, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm trying to make a name for my self, like a featured article and try not to be hold against. --User:Talladega87 (User talk:Talladega87) 01:19, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Are you sure you've understood what Misplaced Pages is about? --bender235 (talk) 01:21, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes but it doesn't matter anyways, I logged out after the 20th pick and watch it on TV and he wasn't picked. --User:Talladega87 (User talk:Talladega87) Talladega87 (talk) 17:59, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Sebastian-haffner book-cover.jpg

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User:Obamafan70

You know how he keeps adding College Football Performance Awards to the article of Dennis Pitta? Well he is also doing it to Dez Bryant. Just thought I would tell you since you also believe it shouldnt be in the intro.--Yankees10 22:05, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

See Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject College football#College Football Performance Awards, Part II for further discussion. --bender235 (talk) 22:20, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Your messages

I'm busy right now, so I apologize if I get back to you late. I'll send you another message when I respond on my talk page. Eagles 24/7 (C) 23:21, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

No problem. --bender235 (talk) 23:26, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Replied. Eagles 24/7 (C) 02:33, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Kyle Calloway

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Kyle Calloway. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Misplaced Pages:Notability and "What Misplaced Pages is not").

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Per Enflo

Hello Bender 235! I don't understand why you removed the music box on Per Enflo. He has 3-4 records with others (as noted on the Misplaced Pages project on musicians), and his piano playinig is discussed at the end of the article. Is there a rule against having two boxes? Thanks! Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 22:49, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure if there is any rule (probably not), but two infoboxes in one article looks just awful. Even though Enflo might be a great musician, the scientist infobox should be enough. Compare with Angela Merkel, who is politician, of course, and a renowned physicist. Yet the article does not have two infoboxes. --bender235 (talk) 22:53, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

In retrospect, I agree with your aesthetic judgment. I knew that she was a quantum chemist/physicist, but becuase of your tip I now know that she has a number of publications. Thanks! Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 23:03, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Okay, good to hear. Cheers. --bender235 (talk) 23:48, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

{{reflist|colwidth}}

Can you explain to me the details of the "colwidth" parameter in {{reflist}}? I noticed you changed TFA today to include it, but I ended up reverting that change because on my browser it was causing half the content to literally disappear (as if there was a white box on top of it). If you tell me what it's supposed to do maybe I could look at the template code and correct it. Thanks, Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 15:06, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

What browser do you use?

colwidth sets the maximum width of a column in the reference section. That means that your browser decides how many columns should be displayed, depending on the size of your screen (if you're browsing Misplaced Pages on a sub-notebook, there'll be only one column. If you're browser on a desktop PC with a 23" screen--like I do--, you'll see four columns).

The parameter is also explained on Template:Reflist. --bender235 (talk) 15:09, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

I just realized you were refering to this edit. It's essentially the same, but 60em results in one column on most screens, and two columns on screens larger than 21 inches (1360×768). --bender235 (talk) 19:16, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm using Google Chrome 4.1.249.1064 on a 15.5" widescreen laptop. Naturally I expect it to only be one column, as you stated, however for some reason half of the names are being cut off on the left side, as if there were a white box on top of them. I'm not sure what's causing it or if it's a problem outside of Chrome/Webkit. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 20:07, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, I'm not sure either. But there have been some problems with WebKit-based browsers, see Template:Reflist#Browser support for columns. I reported your problem on Template talk:Refbegin, but I guess you should add a description of it, too. --bender235 (talk) 20:14, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

On a related note, do you think you could set just the number of columns, instead of specifying a width? 30em is pretty small, it sort of disrupts readability when I'm constantly shifting my eyes to the next row, and then over. This is why I set {{Reflist|2}} on pages like HTML5 video.
--Gyrobo (talk) 14:40, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Actually the fixed colwidth was meant to limit the variability of column size. I don't know what screen solution you're working with, 1680x1050 it is hard to read a footnote that spans half the screen. "colwidth=30em" produces 4 columns on my screen, which IMO is perfectly readable. --bender235 (talk) 16:03, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Then perhaps a width of 50 or 60em? 30em really condenses the refs to the point where one sentence can easily span four rows.
--Gyrobo (talk) 19:26, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Sure, why not? 30em is just a recommendation that is, by the way, currently discussed. I guess you should leave a comment there as well. --bender235 (talk) 19:45, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, that seems like the ideal place to talk about that.
--Gyrobo (talk) 19:54, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Terrence Cody

The article Terrence Cody you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Terrence Cody for things which need to be addressed. –Grondemar 04:10, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Were you still working on this? It's been several days. Let me know. –Grondemar 15:40, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes, but I was waiting for your response regarding this question. --bender235 (talk) 18:27, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I missed your reply here and didn't realize that you had already addressed most of what I was looking for. I made a couple more copyedits and passed GA. Good work! –Grondemar 04:04, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Gustavo Marín

Hello Bender235 !

I have just seen the "orphan" label you added to the Gustavo Marín article, and I am afraid I am a bit stumped. I did add two more references from other articles, where he is mentioned, but that may not be enough. I had previously done a lot of reference work on this article, so I'm afraid I need your help to point me in the right direction. When I clicked on "suggestions are available" (in the tag), I got a page displaying "O results". Can you give me an example of what I need to do to improve this article and remove the "orphan" tag? I would be very grateful. Thank you in advance.Vedah Eulalia (talk) 14:56, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Like {{Orphan}} says, an orphan tag means that "few or no other articles link to" the respective article. As you can see here, there are only two links from the article namespace to Gustavo Marín. You can un-orphan the article by introducing links to Gustavo Marín from related articles. --bender235 (talk) 16:24, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Work in progress you may be interested in

Based on your work on other articles,
I thought I would suggest you might help finish this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Explodicle/Planetary_human_habitability
09:50, 21 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.78.178.147 (talk)

Removed Reference

Hi there. I see you removed references from the article on My Cassette Player, calling them "promo links" or "spam", when indeed they were references for the release dates of the songs Love Me and Bee. For the time being, said release dates are unsourced. I invite you to provide another source for them or restore the old ones. Thanks for your attention. Janfrie1988 (talk) 02:29, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I know what you mean. But on the other hand it's somewhat problematic to link to online stores, whether be Amazon or some else. I'll try find some other sources for that fact. If I can't find one, I'll restore the old links. --bender235 (talk) 12:55, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your constructive input. Janfrie1988 (talk) 22:06, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Don't mention. And I think we both hätten Deutsch schreiben können. ;-) --bender235 (talk) 22:14, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Top500

Hello, would you liek to update the TOP500 with new list? Fine job with the last list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.69.62.120 (talk) 16:14, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Someone else was quicker. I only did some minor fixes afterwards. --bender235 (talk) 12:06, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/2009 College Football All-America Team/archive1

Since you were involved in the page, I thought I should let you know that I overhauled it and nominated it at Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/2009 College Football All-America Team/archive1.-TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:26, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. --bender235 (talk) 12:05, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

CRFS

There was nothing rv vandalism by wilee , I wished they were still coding but the are not, if you are unhappy with the tone of the inclusion that is one thing, but these are the facts and I do not work on ceph. I have been in the open software movement since 1992.

The code looks dead at this point 5/20/2010, If one is looking for a network Btrfs file system look at ceph a network file system from UC Santa Cruse. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wilee (talk • contribs) 15:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

First of all the tone was encyclopedic at all. And further, if you add something to Misplaced Pages you need to name your sources. No self-drawn conclusions, please. --bender235 (talk) 15:34, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Volley

I have seen that you edited some volleyball articles. Some players articles, most of them looks outdated. I would like to improve players by country. Could you please choose a country to contribute with? Please take a look on Yekaterina Gamova, Hélia Souza, Serena Ortolani and Kenia Carcaces for a model to follow. Please can you please improve some volleyball players with infobox and some addons? References are very important. Let me know. Oscar987 21:56, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I'm actually not familiar with volleyball, let alone some of the players. I probably only made some ref or typo fixing. --bender235 (talk) 11:31, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

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