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Please explain

Why did you do this?—WAvegetarian (talk) 13:35, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I figured as much.—WAvegetarian (talk) 14:19, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Images needed

as i slowly trawl the nsw station stubs and others it is expected that each needs a photo? if so I will add it to the menagerie SatuSuro 13:09, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Athinai

Hi Mr. Boyles,

I have re-established the SS Athinai (1908) page, in greater context. I had inadvertantly posted the version of the page that you saw while in the midst of typing it, having inadvertently pressed "Save Page" instead of "Show Preview". I hope that the revised version meets your specifications.

Antidespotic 03:26, 2 July 2007 (UTC) revised 04:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Skaggs Family

Hi, back on 30 April you deleted an image I had provided, named <Mb and store.jpg>, that sat at the beginning of an article on the above subject. I can't find the deleted image to learn why you did it but a glimpse of a header somewhere indicated that it had some license problem. I have been working hard for over a year through more than one lawyer at Safeway to get that image cleared for open use. I got that release a few days before posting it and, to my surprise and regret, in one day it was deleted. Being unfamiliar with the Wiki world, I may have not used the correct designator for the image. I have notification by the Safeway law office that it is okay for unrestricted or open use. Does that fact help in trying to reinstate the image at the opening of the article? I thought the image and its title helped convey what the article would be about and certainly dressed it up a bit. Can you help me reinstated it? Thanks, Don Nielson Don Nielson 05:31, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Dementor Prisoner of Azkaban.jpg)

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Template:Current

Template:Current looks really messed up after your last edit on it. Shouldn't it be at least centered and have a border around it? That would differentiate it from article content, because it looks like part of the article on certain pages where I've seen this. --Gary King 21:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

The Simpsons WikiProject membership update

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F3 Comment on Fikri Page

I dont know whether Fikri replied to and i know its been 7 months since you put the post about the fact that the distance sign on the F3 stated Newcastle and Maitland as 3km apart, but just to make sure. If you already know, delete this now. The route of the F3 ends at a point halfway between Newcastle and Maitland which is why the distances are so close. Im sure you know.Roadrunnerz45 08:28, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

ESR - sorry.

There was no intention to remove your edits - feel free to put them back. What I was going to do was revert completely but put your edits in - but I decided there were only two changes worth reverting (which were in a quote) so I attempted to work off the existing page; something must have gone wrong and I deleted your good work. I'm sorry - please put it back - it was a good edit. JRG 06:52, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Oz votes

Looking at this diff, when you wikilink dates, it would be helpful if you put them in the correct format for the subject. --Pete 02:51, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

For what it's worth, as long as the date is wikilinked, it will display in the format that the user selects in their preferences. --Ssbohio (talk) 04:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD on Westroads Mall massacre

Concerning the edit you made to my comment while closing the AfD, I think it helped matters. Thanks. --Ssbohio (talk) 04:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Good call on that AfD closure, by the way :D DEVS EX MACINA _pray 06:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Very good call on Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Westroads Mall shooting. Bearian'sBooties (talk) 03:13, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, indeed. I was just perusing the latest batch of AfD closures, and ran across this. Well done - I think you handled a sticky close very well, and wanted to stop by and tell you so. Pastordavid (talk) 00:57, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

why?

Why did you delete our page about the holy Robbin Wall. We were not attacking him, in fact, he is the leader of our religion. THIS IS GARFUNKEL! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.117.144.106 (talk) 18:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

See here. Harryboyles 02:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Habitation

Hello, I just noticed that you redirected Habitation to Habitat (disambiguation) last April. I disagree with this and would like to reopen the discussion. The Habitation at Port-Royal is referred to simply as "the Habitation" in many historical texts, whereas I don't think any of the Habitat (disambiguation) items are normally referred to as "Habitation". The Port-Royal historical site comes in at the top of a google search for "Habitation". What do you think?--Yannick (talk) 01:33, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

First Edit

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Harryboyles! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! ~~~~

• FROM YOUR FRIEND:

--  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 01:02, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

	HAPPY FIRST EDIT DAY!	from the BIRTHDAYCOMMITTEE
	Wishing Harryboyles a very Happy First Edit Day! Have a fantastic day! From the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee --  Idontknow610  (WANNA SIGN??) 14:23, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Empire of Japan (foreign commerce and shipping)

Just an FYI - in this change you selected the newer date when cleaning up after smackbot. I changed the date back to the older date of June 2006. No big deal, just wanted to let you know. I will drop Rich a note to see why smackbot did that to the date. Jeepday (talk) 03:28, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Creating a username

Thanks for your message, but I will remain to be identified by my IP address because in the past, there has been some issues with my username and some other admin. people on here were treating me unfairly and accusing me of being a sockpuppet, which resulted in getting blocked.

Cheers,

--122.106.27.175 (talk) 10:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

You keep on sending me messages saying that I am disruptive, I am not sure what I have done, could you please explain that, and in advance if I have done anything wrong- sorry.

--122.106.27.175 (talk) 10:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Reverting

Quick question: I can't seem to figure out how to revert someone's edits when they blank a page or vandalize in some other manner. I'm not referring to the (undo) button, but when it says "Reverted edits by 123.456.789 (talk) to last version by John Doe" The reason I ask is because someone was removing a section (with references) from the UP Sigma Rho article and when i tried to undo it, it didn't work right. I'm trying to revert it to the original version before the edit war. Thanks for your help. --AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 02:26, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

The feature you're referring to is the "rollback" function. This is only available to admins and selected users. It makes reverting simple vandalism edits easier because the revert is done entirely on the server (no data is transferred to the client). As for UP Sigma Rho, I've semi-protected the page. Harryboyles 02:57, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

	Happy Birthday	from the Birthday Committee
	Wishing Harryboyles a very happy birthday on behalf of the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!

--Nadir D Steinmetz 00:01, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Dated tags

Good work on fixing these, and the new cat. There are a lot of templates that use the date parameter though. Rich Farmbrough, 11:34 14 February 2008 (GMT).

Semicolon in JS

Hi there. Please note that, as far as I know, this semicolon did not "fix" anything, it simply makes no difference. —AlexSm 03:22, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

DAB Page API

Hihi

working on DABs and stumbled on API (disambiguation) and saw your comment on the talk page from many years ago ] Did that redirect ever happen? I'd like to do the same thing...several hundred links and more than 10 of them refer to something else, I'd be surprised :) Legotech (talk) 05:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

It did happen, but it's been changed back. There was discussion on Talk:API with (what little there is) debate on whether the interface article is dominant enough to warrant the redirect. I've given up on the issue. Harryboyles 12:07, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

March cats

Thanks for creating these. Rich Farmbrough, 23:20 2 March 2008 (GMT).

Adminship

Wishing Harryboyles a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 00:43, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

	Happy Adminship	from the Birthday Committee
	Wishing Harryboyles a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! -- SMS 05:01, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Wishing Harryboyles a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! ~~~~

--Nadir D Steinmetz 19:02, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Wishing Harryboyles a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 23:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Help with creating a template

I have been trying to figure out how to create templates, and I have been having a lot of difficulty. I have been using Sandbox, but have not succeeded in making it work out.

In particular, I have been having trouble with making a page-top template. I want to make one called "Template:Barenotability" that can be placed on the top of an article that seems to barely meet notability requirements. I want it to say something like the following:

This page seems to just barely meet Misplaced Pages's notability requirements. This notability may be disputed, and it is possible this article may be proposed for deletion. Please help by adding references, or if no more can be found, merging this article.

The purpose of this template would be to motivate the improvement of existing articles that are minimally referenced.

I have also been trying to figure out how to create the templates that appear at the bottom of many pages that list many article within a category, but I think I have nearly mastered that. These have become popular, and I would like to create some myself.Hellno2 (talk) 04:33, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Jack Kemp

I noticed you edited Jack Kemp this week. Your opinion on this article would be welcome at Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Jack Kemp.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 20:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Netsys

Oops. :) Thanks!

Mike

floating sidebar

Please commment on meta:Help_talk:User_style/floating_quickbar#Does_not_degrade_gracefully_in_IE7 — Omegatron (talk) 17:36, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Take a look at this

Userpage User:LB1011 Its basically a resume, is that allowed? Thanks Roadrunnerz45 03:57, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I've blanked the page to protect the user's privacy, and left an explanation on their talk page. It isn't the place to be putting that kind of information, so I've advised him to do a search for sites which do that sort of thing. Harryboyles 04:30, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Invalid date

If you can, have a look at Drainage in New Orleans, it shouldn't be in the category, but I don't have time to figure out why it is. Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 10:23 4 June 2008 (GMT).

Hmm looks like cats aren't gettign updated properly either, but... Rich Farmbrough, 10:33 4 June 2008 (GMT).

Please implement your solution in the meta-template {{fix}}. — Dispenser 14:49, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Done. See talk page of {{fix}}. Harryboyles 15:46, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for catching this. Cheers, Gwen Gale (talk) 15:15, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

{{fix}}

It appears that your last change to fix template has apparently broken something - see e.g. Anarchism#The_First_International. GregorB (talk) 15:51, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Edit request has just been made... GregorB (talk) 15:53, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out. Harryboyles 15:55, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I was just about to roll back your previous change, but you're right, that last change seems to have fixed it. -- The Anome (talk) 15:57, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

More template issues

You might want to double-check some of your June 28th template edits; this edit also broke some pages. I've fixed it. - dcljr (talk) 21:36, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Nope, it's still not right. Slightly better than before, but still causing line-break/preformatted-text issues. See, e.g., Billiard Congress of America. - dcljr (talk) 21:42, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Now that the code is redundant to that in {{fix}}, it's been removed. Harryboyles 06:05, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Eric Skys

Ejaculation article

You have commented in the past either for or against a video or image on the ejaculation article. There is currently a survey discussing this topic if you care to offer your opinion. Atom (talk) 13:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Request unprotection

You indef-protected {{Tag}} a while ago. Given of the nature of the vandalism (only one day by a single user) and the use of this template (trancluded only 50 times or so) I think an indef-protect is overkill. Can you please unprotect it? Han-Kwang (t) 09:31, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, Harryboyles, from the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Harryboyles, from the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Harryboyles a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! Willking1979 (talk) 15:31, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Harryboyles! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 13 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

1. Martin Henriksson - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 19:18, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:FPArchiveBarJune2006

Template:FPArchiveBarJune2006 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Mhiji 22:43, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Harryboyles, from the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! Have a nice day! Logan Talk 00:19, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Happy adminship anniversary

Goad maps and Charles Goad

Hullo

I understand you deleted some of this in 2007.

Can you please send me copies of what you deleted?

Thanks

Aa42john (talk) 17:56, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

There's not much I'm afraid. The page was deleted because it was blank. The only content ever in the article was an invalid link. The talk page had a verbatim copy of the biography at , but I suspect that's not the Charles Goad you are looking for. Harryboyles 04:30, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

sockpuppet editing

There is an open WP:SPI case looking at sockpuppet editing primarily on the Johann Hari/ Talk page. As you edited the Johann Hari/Talk page between 2004 and 2011, your input is welcomed. Yonmei (talk) 22:29, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Sydney meetup

Hi, I got your name from this list, and thought you might be interested in a meetup in Sydney at the Alexandria Hotel tomorrow. I hope you can join us. Sorry for the late notice. --99of9 (talk) 11:38, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedians to the Games

I'd like to invite you to participate Wikimedians to the Games :) It is a great opportunity to help improve Australian related content, and potentially to travel to attend the second biggest sporting event of the year. As you're an existing Wikipedian editor, you should have some advantage because you should know how to contribute and improve articles already. :) If you get to a certain point threshold, there is also a possiblity to travel to Canberra to attend a workshop at the Australian Institute of Sport. --LauraHale (talk) 10:09, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Harryboyles,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Misplaced Pages administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
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• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 01:14, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary

Typoscan is working again

Just in case you haven't been following Misplaced Pages:WikiProject TypoScan, Reedy got this working again. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 01:49, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

ygm

Happy Birthday!

Hey, Harryboyles. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! Have a great day! AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 02:49, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Article Feedback deployment

Hey Harryboyles; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:41, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Baseball color

Hi, User:Harryboyles. I have a color problem at the infobox of Kim Kyung-Moon because of your edit. Fix the problem Template talk:Baseball alternative secondary color#NC Dinos. And add some requests Template talk:Baseball primary color, Template talk:Baseball secondary color, Template talk:Baseball alternative primary color, etc. Thanks. Sawol (talk) 06:51, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Module:Sandbox/Harryboyles/Article history

I noticed you created the above module to replace (and simplify) Template:Article history. Is the module ready to be used yet, or are you planning further work on it? -- Ypnypn (talk) 16:45, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Just a brownie to say thanks

Just to say thanks for getting User:Matticusmadness/Old RFCBot Requests. Kindness creates happy contributors yes? Have a good one. MIVP (I Can Help? ◕‿◕) - 13:44, 16 May 2013 (UTC)