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Donald Burgy

I'm not quite sure how to do this but i would like to understand what i can do to get donald burgy's page to stay up. you are asking for more references but there are many at the end of his page. what kind of references are you looking for exactly?? thank you. and where should I look for your response? I think i just fixed it - i removed the list of exhibtions. but then where would that info go? it is encyclopedic, no? Nita nomad (talk) 3 March 2015

Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur

Please move Draft:Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur to Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur - Thanks. --Captain Assassin! 03:32, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Captain Assassin!, sorry for not getting to this. I've been off wiki for awhile. Bgwhite (talk) 04:55, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

You're still my favorite one B, even you don't do my requests quick. :-p Just kidding. It's alright, I asked another admin for the move. Thanks. --Captain Assassin! 11:23, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Request for input on talk page

I would like your input on an edit that is currently being discussed. Specifically, the Proposed formatting change for the article List of Presidents of the United States. Since you have edited numerous lists of officeholders, I thought you could share insights and information that may be pertinent to this discussion. The edit that is being discussed is this. Thank you. Mitchumch (talk) 10:45, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	I still remain a great admirer of your work.   Bfpage |leave a message  19:27, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Bfpage. It's nice to get a complement rather than a complaint for a change. Bgwhite (talk) 04:54, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

untitled

This is the first time I have used Wiki Talkpage, apologies for format/technique. I believe Bgwhite edited this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/Ben_K._Green On this line: "...according to records from the Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners." When I click the link to the letter "1", the letter I posted previously is not presented; the letter is 'gone'. Would there be any way to replace it please? 2. There was also a similar letter from University of Cornell but I see no reference to it, nor the letter itself. Kind regards Dave Taylor WestTexasDave (talk) 02:15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

WestTexasDave Sorry for taking so long, I haven't been on Wiki for several days. The problem with the letters you posted is that there is no source to back them up. Essentially, I can't tell if they are valid emails or made up. Sources need to be verifiable. Someone else added the "citation needed" tag and that is the best that can be done for now. Bgwhite (talk) 04:53, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-12

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• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
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Regarding your punctuation before reference fix on At Freddie's

This was actually a mistake on your part, and I reverted it. See explanation on User talk:Magioladitis#Mistaken fix to reference after punctuation in At Freddie's where Yobot made the exact same mistake. The colon involved is not punctuation, although it looks like punctuation, but instead it is wiki markup. Following Magioladitis's fix (fool the bot) I introduced a comment even, so that not even humans will make that mistake! Oh, well. Thanks for your good try. Choor monster (talk) 22:09, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Choor monster It was not a mistake on my part. I put the note at the end where it belongs. Bgwhite (talk) 22:20, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Says who? A warning should be placed as close as possible to the relevant text. Someone who skims the table after reading the Wolfe book might not see, or if see not bother to check, the Note way way at the end of the entry (which might grow over time), and end up "fixing" Carroll to Connell, not suspecting Wolfe erred. Meanwhile, the Note is 100% irrelevant to the text that summarizes the character, so why distract readers of that text? Choor monster (talk) 22:28, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

• FYI: I raised this issue at Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style#MOS:REFPUNC clarification. I believe my position is dead-obvious (note that had I been using a visual editor, I might not have been able to even comprehend what you meant by "ref after punc" in your edit summary) but I'm a little surprised at the editors there saying that MOS clearly supports my position as is. The "Style" in MOS is all about what readers see, not what editors see. Choor monster (talk) 18:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Precious again

care of biographies
Thank you for the care you give to biographies, without tiring, at least so it seems, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:57, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Three years ago, you were the 65th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:11, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Gerda. As I mentioned before, that was a really big deal for me three years ago. I really appreciate receiving it again. Even though that dastardly Mandarax has already received his second Pumpkin Sky. Bgwhite (talk) 18:23, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

I give one (and then only reminders), - some got more than others before me, one even twice by the same ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:27, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'#Consensus check

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'#Consensus check. Thanks. - MrX 22:45, 20 March 2015 (UTC)Template:Z48

Hwee-Boon Yar

Back in 2012 you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider AfD. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 14:49, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-13

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
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A Tsuki hyaku shi

Hafspajen (talk) 21:21, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

• Maybe - series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon  ?

Hafspajen (talk) 08:01, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Re : Email

My email was unrelated with his blocks. It was about something else. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 22:16, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

OccultZone, ok. It probably wasn't wise to do that as it appears to be upto no good. I've edited the Rape in India page to make changes. Please tell your opinion on the talk page. Bgwhite (talk) 22:30, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

You can also check your email for more details. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 22:45, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Paul Steinhardt

Hi there - I'm trying to improve the Paul Steinhardt page so it meets wiki standards. I've reviewed the wiki style page (again) and made some changes to clean up the layout, which I hope you will see are an improvement. Perhaps I've been trying to be too cryptic because the subject is so complicated. Maybe that's why it seemed too much like a CV, which is not my intent. I'm just trying to chronicle his scientific contributions. Is it the inclusion of dates that are a problem? The date are especially important in the inflation section. They're relevant in the other sections as well, but I could work them into the copy if you think that would be better. I'm just trying to organize the information in a readable format.

I don't know Dr. Steinhardt, I'm just a fan. So I can't write the story of how he came up with all these unbelievably complicated equations and insights. But I CAN track his contribution to science through his work, and I really believe that is something that will be of great use to Misplaced Pages readers. I worked very hard on this page and very much want to make it work. Just like you, I have the best of intentions. Is there something specific I can do better?Sleepy Geek (talk) 22:52, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Sleepy Geek Thank you for contacting me.

One can be just a fan and not be neutral. This is especially true for articles on actors, musicians or sport teams.

My main concern is the article is just a list of bullet points, just like a CV. Articles are usually paragraphs. Not all of it needs to be mentioned.

Let's take the "Discovery of Natural Quasicrystals" section...

1. Doesn't need to be bullet points... paragraphs.
2. The "By coincidence" sentence doesn't need to be there. Doesn't add anything.
3. ref #43 in that section leads nowhere.
4. You mention the exact same thing for steinhardtite in the geoscience section and Quasicrystals sections
5. (see Geoscience section)... no, the geoscience section and Quasicrystals section need to be combined, especially with icosahedrite in both sections. Reader shouldn't go back and forth.
6. There is no wikilinks. What is a icosahedrite? It is wikilinked at the beginning, but needs one link here too. Add more that seem appropriate.
7. It seems every sentence as Steinhardt. Steinhardt may have led or organized expeditions, but it is a group effort. No need to mention Steinhardt specifically (or his son).

Bgwhite (talk) 23:47, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi again- I've now made all the fixes you suggested, along many similar fixes in other places, as well. Your suggestion to combine Natural Quasicrystals and Geoscience was especially good, and a big improvement. What do you think now? Also: I've been going through and manually adding wiki-links...do more experienced users have a more efficient (automated) way of doing that? Thanks again for your very helpful advice. Sleepy Geek (talk) 19:16, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Sleepy Geek, much better. You went a little overboard with the wikilinks. You don't need to have the same wikilink in the same paragraph or section. I went thru and removed the duplicates.

I couldn't find the following ref: Vaas, R., ed. (2011). Beyond the Big Bang. Springer-Verlag. Bgwhite (talk) 17:54, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi there - Thanks so much for all this help, your advice really helped me improve the page in short order. I replaced the problematic footnote (#16 on the list), with a link to the relevant paper on his website. Nice to have another pair of eyes.Sleepy Geek (talk) 19:40, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

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Greetings

Hi Bgwhite - Thank you for your help in editing the entry for my great-grandfather, Charles Aubrey Eaton. Please feel free to contact me with any other suggestions, etc. BTW I cannot use an AWB editor because I own a Mac. (I believe AWB is only compatible with Windows, correct?) - All good wishes, Nathaniel Albert Eaton — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nathaniel Albert Eaton (talk • contribs) 23:53, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

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My revert

I saw that you undid my revert. To clarify my point, I should tell you that my aim was not to oppose your edits and I wanted to keep the article in a good shape but I did not want to concentrate on finding the missing code! So, I undid it so that the article got in shape once again. Now, I see no problem with that because an IP, I think, fixed them. Btw, thanks for your efforts. Mhhossein (talk) 05:34, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Re: M-63

Whatever you're "fixing" on M-63 (Michigan highway)‎‎, no one can tell what it is in the sea of other changes. Your edit shifted all sorts of text all around, without any effect other than to obscure whatever it is you're attempting to fix. Please isolate whatever change it is you wish to affect, without moving things willy nilly, so that others can see the specific fix. We can't learn whatever the issue is to attempt to avoid it if we can't find whatever the actual fix is! Imzadi 1979 → 22:07, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Imzadi1979, search for { and } in the article, not in edit mode. Bgwhite (talk) 22:42, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Gravine Island Fix

Thank you for trying to cleanup the article at Gravine Island. I had to revert the fix however because the fix removed the proper map in the article. The diff of the change is here. Your edit summary sais it fixed error #34. Thanks for trying. JodyB _talk 11:38, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Request to Re-Protect Rape in India

Sorry to bother you, could you reprotect the Rape in India page, or at lease semi protect it? To force discussion there? The IP editing there, in light of what the fracas between OccultZone and me, seems to me like a sick attempt to frame me. Even if its a coincidence, OccultZone will just use it against me. I know this 2 are selfish reasons. But more importantly, forcing discussion to talk was the best thing to happen to the page in a while. Seek your understanding on this, thanks. Zhanzhao (talk) 02:53, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Zhanzhao, OccultZone has caused or has been part of many fracases. Don't worry about it. I think I'll report you as a sock of OccultZone. That would be fun to watch. :) Bgwhite (talk) 06:28, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

I hope that was humor on your part, Bgwhite, but please don't. I just want to drop by one in a while here and help out however little I can, and be left in peace while doing so. See that the page has been protected. Thanks, the active editors there will appreciate it. I never realised that article was a such a landmine. Zhanzhao (talk) 07:54, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Zhanzhao Would better said as an "attempt" at humor. Stop by or ask a question any time. Bgwhite (talk) 07:57, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't understand why have the page been set to high protection level? I've posted statements on the talk page, but nobody is responding to them, so I assume it would be okay to edit? Bargolus (talk) 10:01, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

I've submitted a complaint under There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. now Bargolus (talk) 11:41, 29 March 2015 (UTC)