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:Because the "witnesses" don't even know for certain what type of planes they are, per your source. - ] (]) 19:54, 22 February 2016 (UTC) :Because the "witnesses" don't even know for certain what type of planes they are, per your source. - ] (]) 19:54, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

== List of Jamaican films ==

Can you explain your (yet another) revert, in this case to the Jamaica Films section? I'm getting the feeling that you just like to revert for the sake of reverting since you don't discuss, nor do you offer any explanation for deleting simple, orderly edits. I've also observed that you'll delete discussion on your Talk Page in an apparent effort to hide your activities. Are you well enough to discuss? ] (]) 09:19, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

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Flag of Canada

Thanks for noticing that one. I've decided to do a bit of cleaning up of bits of OR on various national pages (probably related to User:Mintytingy and various other socks). Meters (talk) 19:45, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

No problem. I'm not opposed to listing similar flags, when appropriate, but a bi-color triband flag isn't that unique, and there are only so many colors that make sense on flags. - BilCat (talk) 20:52, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the thanks...

...but for spectacle, you can't beat the skinning alive of a Misplaced Pages editor, now playing at AN/I. (Sorry, I, forgot to add, the proper number, of, commas.) BMK (talk) 01:02, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

It's certainly awkward in American English, but most MOS warriors treat US English as automatically incorrect. Probably a losing battle, and that's too bad. - BilCat (talk) 01:20, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
Well, it looks like I was wrong, per my 1980s copy of The Little, Brown Handbook. It still seems awkward to me, especially at the beginning of a sentence. - BilCat (talk) 01:38, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
The much newer Merriam-Webster's Guide to Pronunciation and Style agrees, but does mention a case when the second comma sometimes isn't used: "We visited their Enid, Oklahoma plant." - BilCat (talk) 01:52, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
What is their rationale for omitting the comma in that case? Why not "We visited their Enid Oklahoma plant" so it at least stays balanced? Dicklyon (talk) 06:58, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
They didn't give a rationale for either way. - BilCat (talk) 19:36, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Just a question...

Hey Bill, I see you do a lot of work fixing vandalism (good work, btw), but I was just wondering why you don't template the vandals? Cheers - WOLFchild 20:29, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

I do warn them many times, in fact I just did one here about 10 minutes before you posted. It just depends on the vandalism, how many vandalism edits the user has made, etc. I have to warn manually, so sometimes it isn't worth the physical effort. - BilCat (talk) 20:35, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
You don't have Twinkle? - WOLFchild 20:36, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
No. I used IE 8 for years, and Twinkle doesn't work with it. I now mostly edit from 2 Fire tablets, but I haven't checked to see if it works or not. I used to have a script for warning vandalism, but it quit working a while back after WP made some changes to the wiki-software. - BilCat (talk) 20:44, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
Ah, I see. Maybe you can copy some templates onto a notepad, then use them when you need them. Anyway... Happy Editing. - WOLFchild 20:53, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
I just tried Twinkle from my tablet, and the interface does work. I'll try it out over the next few days and see how it does. Thanks for the suggestion. - ~~
Cool Beans! Look out vandals... - WOLFchild 20:57, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

@Thewolfchild: Is there a way that the Rollback-Vandal option can label its reverts as Reverting Vandalism in the edit summaries? Or do I have to use the Rollback option to add text? Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 03:50, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I honestly don't know. I'm basically just a straight Twinkle user. I have played around in Preferences a bit to add some custom templates, but that's about it. You could check there, or the Twinkle help page, or failing that, ask someone who knows more about it. Sorry. - WOLFchild 04:44, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
No problem, I was just making sure I hadn't missed an easy setting. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 05:11, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you

You might wish to take a look at this. BMK (talk) 06:45, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

You're welcome. I already looked at it, but I usually stay out of ANI. You're actions certainly aren't vandalism, and the community should recognize that. I'll try to keep an eye on it though. - BilCat (talk) 07:03, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

SORRY BilCat

BilCat, buddy I wuz just foolin with u. Sorry bout DAT. #uhavswag. BreatherOfTruth (talk) 02:14, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

First flight on Amca

Hello I am the same person from the reference section of amca talk page. First flights section in the info box recently had been effected by edit war as the user Aryan Indian tried to put entry date around 2030 that looks like uncronstive, he is trying helping editing any helping Amca article but need guidance and look like he is not fimilar with the[REDACTED] rule. It's better to leave trust flight reference out if info box, but should be in other part of article with reference as it helps to understand programme development, But it be kept out of infobox as it look like speculative as you has already mentioned.

1.39.10.42 (talk) 03:55, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, I saw your comment on the article's talk page. And wouldn't it be easier to use a registered name? That way you wouldn't have to keep saying "I am the same person from the reference section of amca talk page." - BilCat (talk) 03:57, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

FYI

You might want to read this as you were involved and now mentioned. Cheers - WOLFchild 05:19, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Aeritalia

Ciao, please if you have time to look this:

I think indicate Fiat Aviazione is not correct because it was a branch of Fiat active only for motors. Thank you--Fernando.tassone (talk) 14:20, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Robert Conrad page

Not sure if this is where I need to leave this or not, but I had attempted to change the last name and heritage of Mr. Conrad's father twice and it was changed back both times. I do not have a way to cite this, as Mr. Conrad is a personal friend and had asked me to help him get this changed. Thanks Ekvannoy (talk) 05:18, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

The best thing to do is to raise the issue on the article's talk page so that other users can contribute. We can't just take your word that this at Mr. Conrad's request, as anyone can claim to be anyone. But we can discuss options available on the talk page. - BilCat (talk) 05:23, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
After reviewing the sources, I've gone ahead and removed all the information on Mr. Conrad's ancestry, as the sources are questionable to begin with, and this is per WP's policies on biographies of living people. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 05:36, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

ISIS

why isn't isis count as MiG-21 operator? Naytz (talk) 19:51, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Because the "witnesses" don't even know for certain what type of planes they are, per your source. - BilCat (talk) 19:54, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
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