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In this thread you asked me to send you an e-mail, and I will gladly send you one. However, could you please give the address to which you want me to send an e-mail, or would you like me to give my address? Thank you in advance. Name: Ryan Ng 67.220.154.178 (talk) 13:44, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Can you not use the "email this user link" in the left hand column? Beyond My Ken (talk) 13:53, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

There isn't one. Special:EmailUser is not enabled for IP addresses. However, I did create a Misplaced Pages account and can email you using that. 67.220.154.178 (talk) 14:19, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

OK, I look forward to hearing from you. Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:23, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Please expect an e-mail from me shortly. Thanks. Angry rocket bus (talk) 00:12, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Will do. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:16, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks for your response. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:26, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

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Garde Arts Center

I created an article on this building and its architect. Happy Holidays. Candleabracadabra (talk) 15:33, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I've contributed to it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:37, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

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Can't recall offhand what my contribution was, but thanks, and you're welcome. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:19, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

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The Bowery

Hi BMK, I have put a sentence on the Bowery article relating to the Second Avenue Subway tunnels under it. If you want it removed, please notify me. Thank you. Epicgenius (talk) 16:16, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

No, it seems fine to me. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:04, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

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James Bayard

Your position has several problems:

1. The information as presented is not sourced and incorrect, yet you and the other Wikipolice "editors" have challenging my edits on the basis that they are unsourced. I challenge YOU to produce a sorce that disproves anthing I have edited. You can't. I can also report YOU and have the page locked with my edits in place, which, bt the way, are factually correct.

2. It would be silly to cite my dissertation for every edit, or perhaps my chapter in another book I wrote on the Bayard family. There is a historical standard known as common knowledge. Most of what I changed is considered common knowledge for the edits I made. You can find the same information in three different sources and thus does not require a citation. Perhaps you so not know that, but you should, as a distinguished "editor" of an open source website.

3. If Misplaced Pages wishes to maintain standards, perhaps it/ you should focus on the thousands of other articles that have ZERO citations or fraudulent citations rather some minor edits to a small entry. This boils down to nothing more than PRRFan being upset that someone edited "his" work, sloppy and unsourced as it is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.38.134.185 (talk) 02:38, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

None of your arguments counter the fact that all edits which are not supported by a citation from a WP:Reliable source can be deleted on sight. So, if you want to stand on how philosophically correct you are, and not get any of your changes into the article, that's your choice. If you'd rather improve the article to the standards you think are appropriate, you will have to follow our policies. There is no in-between, no compromise where we will say "Oh, but of course, you are the world expert on this person, so you' don't need to provide sources.

The ball's in your court, continue arguing, or improve the article. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:55, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

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The edits in question are simply, Photorealism, photorealist. This is what the MOS guideline appears to be. Like, Communism, communist (unless a Communist Party member). As for the 60 percent, if you are using the Misplaced Pages MOS I have serious doubts about that number. Looking now at your other revisions, those were proper edits according to the MOS. Vice-chair is only to be in upper case when part of a person's name, Vice-Chair Smith, and such. General manager is a job title and should never be capitalized, like lead-hand or foreman. And, by the way, you losing your assumption of good faith is as much my concern as it is my responsibility. Primergrey (talk) 01:23, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

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GWBBS Infobox

What is the point of a non descriptive caption? What is your problem with clarity in the address by spelling abreviations in full? Why do you want a blank line for Coordinates? Why did you revert those without an explanation? What is so special about your photograph? I retained your size, but it should not need to be so large that it stretches the infobox! Secondarywaltz (talk) 00:12, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

• "(2013)" is not "non descriptive" (BTW, you mean "non-descriptive"), it describes the year of the image. Your caption described the corner from which the picture was taken, but it is not s picture of that corner, is it? It's a picture of the bus station taken from that corner. If you wanted to change it to something on the order of "view from the southwest (2013)" that would be acceptable.
• Abbreviations should be spelled in full except where doing so unnecessarily breaks up the information into two lines in a way that makes it more difficult to read. We're supposed to be here to help the reader, not slavishly follow rules like robots.
• Coordinates don't need to be in the infobox when they're at the top of the page, just an inch or less away. The fact that the infobox shows a blank "coordinates" line means that the infobox is badly written and needs to be fixed. (See, for instance, the NRHP infobox)
• What's special about my photography? I don't know, what's special about the nail of the big toe on your left foot? The photo in the infobox, which I indeed took, is the best photo of the three available on Commons. If you want to take and upload a better one, be my guest. I have about 4,500 of my own photos on Commons, and when one of them is better than the others available, I put it into the relevant article. If I find that someone else's image is better, I put it into the article. I'm pretty damn good at it, and extremely impartial, and I resent your tone, and your implication that I'm promoting my image in some way.
• Whatever image is in the infobox needs to be presented at the best size for the image, fuck the width of the infobox, who gives a shit how wide it is, it's just a box with a list of information. The photo is something else, it needs to be shown not too small and not too large. I look at all the possibilities and size it where it needs to be. I'm good at that too, but if I go back and check and I've made it too large (or too small), I change it. The image size is not set in stone, but neither should it be constrained by irrelevancies. 00:31, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Your reversion of my edit to "Avenue B (Manhattan)"

Greetings and felicitations. I noticed that you reverted my edit to Avenue B (Manhattan) without giving a reason or discussing it with me first. I believe my edit was reasonable, as per my edit summary. Would you please be so kind as to explain why you performed that reversion?—DocWatson42 (talk) 20:05, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Things should be located in the code where they will be rendered on the page. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:06, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

How do you suggest that I do that for the Avenue B (Manhattan) article?—DocWatson42 (talk) 05:13, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @DocWatson42: Ah, keep it that way; it's fine and BMK would not want you to mess around with it if it is not broken. Epicgenius (talk) 17:31, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

But as it is, the page is broken, as per the templates' instructions. That's what I tried to fix, and Beyond My Ken reverted.—DocWatson42 (talk) 20:46, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

The page looks fine, and works fine, and therefore is not "broken". Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:14, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

The current placement of the items in the article violates the templates' instructions. Also, again, how do you suggest that they be "located in the code where they will be rendered on the page", and why did you revert the article without contacting me?—DocWatson42 (talk) 05:49, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

The template's instructions are not mandatory, and there is no requirement that I contact another editor before reverting their edit. The article is just peachy as it is. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:07, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

"Bibliography" on New Madrid Seismic Zone Page

Perhaps you could use the article's Talk page to discuss why the links in the "Bibliography" section, most of which are already linked to as references, need to be included as such in the Bibliography? In fact, please explain why the article needs a redundant "Bibliography" when it has a reference section. "That is inaccurate" is not the most helpful justification for undoing an edit. Geogene (talk) 00:47, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Remove any items from the Bibliography that are listed in the notes and leave the rest. In the early days of Misplaced Pages a list of references was often acceptable in place of in-line notes, so its best not to remove items from a Bibliography list as it's likely they were used in writing the article. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:20, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

A vestigial item, eventually to be worked into inline citations. Understood, thank you for the explanation. Geogene (talk) 02:42, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

I removed items that were in the notes, moved one of them to external links (which it clearly was), removed the external link that had been there, because it, too, was used in the notes, and renamed the former "bibliography" as "sources". In-line citations are definitely preferred, but not everyone gets the hang of how to create them, and some sort of references, even just an item in a list, is preferable to nothing at all. If you're interested, and can nail down any specific information that came from those items on the source list, please go ahead and turn them into in-line citations. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:45, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

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I suppose I should not be shocked that you also have a great Monty Python quote at the top of your page. This was a priceless gem: "Like Kosher hot dogs, admins need to answer to a higher standard...." Thanks *very* much for the laugh. :-)   — 74.192.84.101 (talk) 03:33, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Your facts are wrong.

I gave citations. Cooper Union is not going to be free going forward. I invite you to undo your own wrong information. When you decide to replace a correct update with a falsehood, you should at least check the citations. I see no more recent citations in your edit of my edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barbreader (talk • contribs) 03:31, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Barbreader is correct methinks. 2013 NYT cite says: "...annual deficit. The number reflects several factors: expenses that have risen faster than revenues, a growing administrative staff, disappointing fund-raising drives and, most significantly, $10 million a year in payments on a $175 million loan the school took out a few years ago, in part so that it could invest money in the stock market."

  Barbreader summarized this as: "until bad investments and poor alumni support..."

  Suggest instead using the direct quotation, or else a closer paraphrase which includes all four factors: "until rising costs, admin-staff growth, disappointing fund-raising, and borrowings taken out to buy stocks..."

Hope this helps. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 03:46, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

I am less concerned about the wording than the facts. I read but did not cite earlier articles about how they were having trouble raising alumni funds, and had built a new science building first, thinking they could raise the funds to pay for it after it was built. However, I do not have that citation. It might not have been a NYT article. I will add the citation if I can find the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barbreader (talk • contribs) 05:00, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm in the midst of real-life mishegas (moving apartments), so I don't when I'll have time to look at this in detail, but I believe I reverted the edit because of the POV nature of the wording. If you're going to restore anything, please make sure that you use either a direct quote, or summarize the situation using neutral language. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:34, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

About 67.220.154.178's vandalism

I apologize on behalf of one of my friends (I don't know who it was yet) for vandalizing your user page and putting their name on your user and user talk page. Epicgenius (talk) 18:30, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Talk page msgs

In this edit, you said not to remove things from your talk page. However, the sole author of the section that I removed is me, and I was withdrawing my message. But you can keep it, it's fine. Epicgenius (talk) 02:39, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

In general, please don't alter other people's talk pages without having a very good reason to do so, preferably based in policy. Specifically, given our past history, you might want to be a bit more circumspect in your behavior on this page: i.e. you're welcome to post here, and edit your comments soon after posting them – for typos and clarity, for example – but once you've posted something your "authority" over it has ended, and it's not your choice whether the comment stays or goes, it's mine. If there's a need to clarify the message, or render it inoperable, a second message can do that quite nicely. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:38, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

All right. Thanks for clarifying. Epicgenius (talk) 04:08, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Tin Pan Alley page

Hi, About https://en.wikipedia.org/Tin_Pan_Alley and particularly https://en.wikipedia.org/Tin_Pan_Alley#Composers_and_lyricists What about https://en.wikipedia.org/Richard_Rodgers + Lorenz Hart (https://en.wikipedia.org/Rodgers_and_Hart ) + https://en.wikipedia.org/Oscar_Hammerstein_II ? Are they not part of Tin Pan Alley? Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Choubadia (talk • contribs) 18:08, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Who said they weren't? Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:00, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

They Were Expendable

Thanks for the edits on They Were Expendable. Am new to this, and appreciate any help I can get. Simply trying to fill out entries on Misplaced Pages, and add citations when I can. Was wondering how to add multiple references to a single source, thanks for showing me.

No problem, glad to have been of assistance. Thanks for adding the information to the article. Feel free to pop back to ask if you have any other questions. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:14, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Talkback at my page. Also, please self-revert at Mike Smith (American football coach). The whole issue got everyone all confused and I'd hate to get blocked for violating 3RR to remove misinformation. Ishdarian 05:57, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

CFred reverted already. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:58, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Just noticed. Sorry if I sounded snippy. :/ I was just trying to fix it. Ishdarian 06:00, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

As was I, as was MarnetteD. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:00, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for working on this BMK. It has been a long time since I can remember someone spinning us around like this. I hope that the move hasn't beeen too stressful and that you have a nice Merry Merry day tomorrow - oops today your time. Cheers MarnetteD | Talk 06:02, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, the move was pretty stressful, and the unpacking is far from over, but at least I feel like I'm returning to the land of the living somewhat. Hope your holidays have been and will be calm and and enjoyable for you. Best, Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:04, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Well I thought I was going to have to wait until tomorrow to watch this but it has been playing while all this fooforah as been going on. Especially poignant this year with Lou Rawls passing. Regards. MarnetteD | Talk 06:22, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

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Film infoboxes

"Re: Film infoboxes I don't think you should be changing film infoboxes the way you have been. My understanding is that the "writer" field is for when a film has a single writer. If the film is based on a novel or previously published short story, that should appear in the "based on" field with the title of the work the film is based on and the date it was published. This is because putting the writer of the source material in the "writer" field makes it appear that person wrote the film, but that is not the case. It would be good if you would go back and fix those infoboxes you have altered so that they won't give the reader an incorrect impression. Thanks, Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:17, 26 December 2013 (UTC)"

I will adhere to template policy by using the writer under story, which states:

writer Insert the name(s) of the writer(s). This field is primarily used for films where the writer(s) are credited under "Written by". Separate multiple entries using

So you don't care if you're giving the reader the impression that the "writer" actually wrote the film, as opposed to the people who wrote the screenplay? You're perfectly happy to provide inaccurate information? Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:14, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Hey, do you understand what this means:

This field is primarily used for films where the writer(s) are credited under "Written by".

None of the infoboxes you changed credited the writer of the base story as "Written by". So, please stop doing it, read and understanmd the template documentation better than you seem to now, and please fix those infoboxes which you have incorrectly altered. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:17, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

I hear you you, but what is then the difference between: writer; screenplay and story, in the template? Savolya (talk) 05:30, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

• When the film is based on a previously published novel, short story or play, use the "Based on" field, give the name of the previous material, date of publication, type, and the writer:

"Based on ... My Throat is Sore (novel, 1943) by Declan McManus"

• When the film has one writer, whether billed as "Written by", "Story and screenplay by", use the "Writer" field:

"Writer ... Hector Alonzo (story & screenplay)"

or just

"Writer ... Fabian DeJesus"

• When the film is based on a story written specifically for the screeen (not a previously published short story), use "Screenplay" but elaborate what each writer did:

"Screenplay ... Bob Jones (story)<br>Stan Ditto (screenplay)"

or

"Story:<br>Bob Jones<br>Screenplay:<br>Fielding Gray<br>Dan Datsun"

There are several variations on how to do this, the specific formatting is not as important as delineating clearly who did what, according to the screen credits, and not giving the reader an inaccurate impression.

In terms of the "story", if the film is based on a "screen story" the source material is not that important, because the folks who write the screenplay will be changing things left and right. When a film is based on previously published material, sometimes that material can be extremely important, sometimes not. Generally, short stories get altered quite a bit, unless their very well known, but novels are more likely to retain their overall shape, although many particulars wil be changed. (Think of the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings - many minor changes were made, but the filmmakers couldn't change the basic story because the audience wouldn't accept it.) Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:45, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

It's better to have an unclosed div tag?

Hi Beyond My Ken,

The change you reverted here was not merely cosmetic. Using mismatched column templates produces unbalanced "illegal" HTML—and open <div> tag that is never paired with a closing </div> tag—even though it looks the same on most users' computer screens and in most articles.

I don't care which set of column templates gets used in this (or any other) article, but it really needs to be all {{multicol}} templates or all {{col-begin}} templates, not a mismatched set that starts with one and (almost) finishes with another. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:48, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't understand that at all. Why is that? Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:53, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

If I understand what you're saying (and I'm not at all certain that I do), then all columnization within an article should use the same formatting? But I only see one columnization in Union Square, Manhattan, the one in "See also" - so what am I missing? Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Each set of columns needs to be the same format. Separate sets of columns can be different.

IMO the basic problem is that wikitext doesn't have built-in columns (we have built-in bold; you just type three apostrophes. But there's nothing similar to make columns). So several different people have created several different templates that make columns. And they have all used different systems in their templates. Unfortunately, if you mix the templates—use one of Alice's and one of Bob's and maybe one of Chris' templates—then you end up with problems. Sometimes these problems are visible, in which case people go look up the correct template names and fix them. Sometimes these problems aren't visible on most people's computers, in which case we end up with problems like this one.

That's what's going on here. HTML tags like these are supposed to be paired. For every <b> (start bold-face—that's what the first ''' gets turned into), you should have a </b> (stop bold-face). If you don't, then bold-face (or whatever) will run down the rest of the page.

Except that in some instances, on most computers, there are some sanity checks that say "Hey, there was a new section heading, so we should probably pretend this sloppily unclosed tag has actually been closed properly". That's apparently what's happening with these mismatched column templates on most editors' computers. But for some people and in some situations, the failure to properly close the HTML tag (a tag that's invisible to editors, because it's hidden in the template) is a problem.

What you've done over there is fine. It's not that you need to use the multicol templates at all in that article; it's only that if you choose to use multicol, then you need to use only multicol for that one set of columns. You can use 100% multicol for one set of columns and then 100% col-begin for the next set of columns. You just can't start a set of columns with multicol and finish it off with non-multicol templates.

(I hope this explanation makes sense, but even if it doesn't, let me reiterate that your solution at that article is perfectly fine.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:56, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, that does indeed make sense, and I appreciate the explanation. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:47, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Glenn Miller

ok — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamaica55 (talk • contribs) 06:15, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

"Top Hat"

I looked at this again, and do disagree with your reversion. A 'fake' marriage implies some intention; an 'invalid' marriage just one of circumstance. In the plot 'invalid' is more surprising and closer to the truth--it was surprising. 'Invalid' is the better word here than 'fake'. David Spector (talk) 02:35, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

I don't entirely disagree with you, since I don't think either word is actually the best possible to describe the circustances. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:49, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

OK, I couldn't come up with another word, so I altered the sentence to put "scare quotes" around "marriage", to indicate that it wasn't a real marriage, and changed the language to say that it was performed by a "fake clergyman", which I think is accurate and sidesteps the problem of whether "invalid" or "fake" is the best way to describe the marriage. I hope we can both live with this. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:14, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

I should have noticed that The Encyclopedia of New York City was already there in the citations; thank you for merging the footnotes, and for all your other efforts. It's good to be working with someone else who cares about the details and hunts down cites. Let me please wish you a happy holiday season! --Tenebrae (talk) 01:40, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

And the same to you, please have a good New Year! Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:41, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Taking up real estate

Please take this not as a criticism, but in the spirit of play intended: The current hatnote at Making out is 144 bytes larger and contains 17 more words than the version " up so much real estate" earlier. It also fills one more line on my (somewhat narrow) browser screen. I'm just sayin'. Cnilep (talk) 05:01, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Obligatory possibly-helpful comment: What would you think of just directing to Snog (band) and Make out (disambiguation)? All the "making out" titles are there. Cnilep (talk) 05:05, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

The "real estate" remark was about the hatnote using multiple lines, pushing the start of the article down; but, in any case, I like your idea, seems the most succinct to me. Go for it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:12, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Further apologies

I've only just discovered why 'said' article was up for speedy deletion (i.e. spotted on the AN/I board while following up another AN/I). Apologies for being disruptive... although, under the circumstances, I do kinda wish it could be substantiated. Cheers for your patience! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 06:00, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

I didn't think you were particularly disruptive, but thanks for the note anyway. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:16, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

I was feeling embarrassed after your having to deal with the nominator at the AN/I. It must have been a 'big sigh (not another one)' moment. Kudos to you for being able to maintain a courteous disposition. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 09:28, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Another country heard from

Hey asshole, why don't you fuck yourself and shut the hell up?!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.83.135.251 (talk) 10:03, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Please have a very Happy New Year yourself!! Beyond My Ken (talk) 15:07, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Hey asshole, why don't you fuck yourself and shut the hell up?!!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.83.135.251 (talk) 10:57, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Gee, after I so sweetly gave you Season's Greetings, too. Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:14, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

You motherfucker!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.83.135.251 (talk) 12:45, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Ah good! For a moment there I was afraid you were stuck in a rut!! Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:52, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

ANI/Kafkasmurat

I'm gonna go out a leg on something that might tread on a few toes here, what you said about Vandals giving up their privacy rights on ANI at the 'Kafkasmurat' section I agree with on the level of linking an account to an IP. It isn't really that worrying as the Geolocaters aren't right about the town/city half of the time anyway. Given it thought my former college was somewhere 20 Miles away it's a safe bet no? Aaaanyway, just giving you a small award to say that it seems like a pretty good idea (well, to me anyway) that you've put out there. Good work. MM (Report findings) 23:40, 28 December 2013 (UTC)