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Okay, joke's over on Muppet Wiki

You've had your fun, now it's time to stop being silly and lift this silly indefintie block you have on me over on the Muppet Wiki, what makes it silly is the reason "'.". I can tell why you're not a school principal, you'd probably expel every student for a reason like that. Now before you deny it stating that I'd just post nonsense, or unrelated information there, I won't, in fact when I discoveed the block I was just about to post a related bit of information on the Monty Python page, I'm not telling you what it is you'll have to wait and see. --AKR619 (talk) 06:57, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

You seem familar?

• Do you have Cloverfield wikia site? cause you looke very familar.  Demon Hunter Rules  (—|—) 17:01, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Benedict Cumberbatch lead

Hello! I have just an immediate concern about Cumberbatch's page. Its leading paragraphs were changed and it indicated that "his parents were actors". I am just alarmed by this sentence as his parents are not dead nor are they retired from acting. There are a lot of sources to support this. I also think that the first paragraph is poorly written and the previous version is better as it lists everything from theatre to radio that made him notable and worthy of a Misplaced Pages page. I do think that's the purpose of the lead paragraph so that's why I am sending you this request. Thank you very much and I hope you can make changes immediately to lessen misinformation. Thank you again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.67.82.39 (talk) 19:44, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Why Toughpigs?

Hello,

I just noticed your edit on the Make America Great Again (MAGA) article. I like pigs a lot! I was wondering if you do too, since your user name is Toughpigs. If you have a chance, please tell me why your user name is Toughpigs? Thank you for your work for Wikimedia Foundation. OINK!--FeralOink (talk) 03:32, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi FeralOink: My user name is based on ToughPigs, a Muppet fan website that I created back in 2001; the "pigs" refers to Miss Piggy. :) -- -- Danny (talk) 16:49, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Why is there something? article ; Keep or Delete?

Hi Danny please could you review Why is there something rather than nothing?, and give a 'Keep' or otherwise view? All best User:JCJC777

Thanks for the clarification on Jimbo re: Turkey

Hi Mr. Pig,

Yes, it's probably best to say Jimbo doesn't really have the authority to 'censor' us Wikipedians for Turkey's sake, and thank God for that. Still, most non-Wikipedians probably would prefer to exist in the "blissful fiction" that Jimbo would have such an authority. Obviously the Turkey article is no place to be explaining that small "administrative detail" to the public.

Still, most Wikipedians live in the "blissful fiction" that our little "encyclopedia editors paradise" is somehow ultimately self-supporting. In reality, it only exists due to much difficult, careful, and costly legal, technical, and social engineering work done by people like Jimbo behind the scenes. All of the many forces that have fortunately aligned themselves to enable you and I to talk about this here, are mind-boggling. I count myself very privileged to be a part of what was originally just Jimbo's little experiment here. If you go way way back to some of the very earliest versions of Misplaced Pages, you will see Jimbo patiently encouraging custom bead sales people, of all things, to please give us articles describing their wonderful homemade custom beads, in Misplaced Pages! No shit!!

I see you've been around since '05, and I salute you for your sticktuitiveness for all of these years!

I came in '04 and things have changed much since then, I'm sure you'll agree.

Don't know why I went off on this tangent, thanks for your edits.

Scott P. (talk) 22:04, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Ha, I'd never heard about the custom beads before; that's funny. So many things have changed since then... :) Thanks for your note. -- -- Danny (talk) 23:20, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Your signature

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Anomalocaris, thank you for the helpful message! I updated my signature. -- Danny (talk) 18:24, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:52, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

It's Only a Game

Toughpigs!

Kindly review the post I just made on Talk:It's Only a Game, and consider adjusting your recent edit appropriately. Thanks! --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:22, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Disney comics

Hello Toughpigs!

I would like to say that your many new additions to all kind of different Disney topics have been splendid, very good work! I just skimmed through the one about the Silly Symphony (comic strip), I did at one point in time start writing on the same topic, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/Draft:Silly_Symphonies_(comic_strip) However one thing I noticed is the title of your new article about the matter, it currently is "Silly Symphony (comic strip)" but it ought to be "Silly Symphonies (comic strip)", in plural. Would you be able to make that correction? I am not that good at more advanced wiki stuff yet so I would not know how that would be done. Reference for the title: https://inducks.org/comp.php?mode=6&c=ZS+

Also I do have another article draft started with some sources for the Brer rabbit strip with some refs I found, just so you could use these if you feel inclined and already had been thinking of writing that artcle. https://en.wikipedia.org/Draft:Uncle_Remus_and_His_Tales_of_Br%27er_Rabbit_(comic_strip)

At last and which can not be stated enough, great additions of yours to Disney comic wiki, it has certainly filled an important gap in the encyclopedia!

Oh, thank you! I've been annoyed by the Disney comics coverage for a long time, and I finally decided I should do something about it. :) I see that you've added a lot about the reprint collections, thank you for that too! And thanks for the Uncle Remus sources, I'm planning to work on that today.

For the Silly Symphony title -- the strip started out as Silly Symphonies on January 10, 1932, but the title changed to Silly Symphony a month later, on February 18, and it stayed that way for the rest of the run. You can see the new title here, on a 1934 strip: https://inducks.org/story.php?c=ZS+3404

Thanks, I'm glad to be working with you on Misplaced Pages. :) -- Toughpigs (talk) 15:44, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Big thanks especially for the clarification (and/or reminder) of the title that I did mix up, I guess since there are many subordinate titles to the Silly Symphony run I have always considered the whole strip as Silly Symphonies due to it including several titles under it main name. But as you just refered to and what is correct, the major part of the run it was titled Silly Symphony. Maybe a note on that would be in place in the article, that the strip started out as Silly Symphonies to later be retitled just Silly Symphony. What do you think?

It's already there, look at the third paragraph. :) -- Toughpigs (talk) 17:29, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Check my new edit, it shows what I was thinking of; stated already in the first paragraph in order to convey to readers that the both title names are indeed the same one, as fast as possible. Even better when catering to readers looking up the topic I think, do you agree? :)

Oh, good idea, well done. -- Toughpigs (talk) 17:58, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Copying within Misplaced Pages

Hi Toughpigs! Please remember to provide attribution when copying content between Misplaced Pages articles (as in from Uncle Scrooge). Thanks! Crow 17:19, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Crow: Thanks for the reminder. I'm embarrassed to say that I don't actually know the convention for that. Should it be in the edit summary? -- Toughpigs (talk) 17:22, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Yep that is the minimal (and easiest) way. See the null edit I made to Disney comics. When adding the content, a summary like Content copied from ], which see for attribution is generally sufficient. I do see that some of the copying was content you originally created in the other article. In those cases technically you don't have to attribute, but it would still be appreciated by we who track down the bot reports, as it would speed up the analysis. Thanks! Crow 17:25, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Crow: Great, thanks for the explanation! I'll do that from now on. I appreciate the heads up. -- Toughpigs (talk) 18:08, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Re:Thingmaker

Here's the web sources for that banned and recalled Mattel toy: & . Luigi1090 (talk) 20:04, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Comics

I see you're adding the same reference to multiple articles. Since this is unusual, might I ask what connection you may have to this book?

Also, Misplaced Pages Manual of Style states we place no footnotes in the lead for things that can be cited elsewhere. In this case (please see the example at Bee-Man), your additions should not be as lead footnotes but as a bullet item under "Further reading".--Tenebrae (talk) 14:50, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

No connection, I just own the book and realized it was a good reference for some articles that don't have any. If that's unusual, then that's a shame; it's a good way to increase the number of references on Misplaced Pages. :) Thanks for telling me about footnotes in the lead -- I'll check out my recent contributions and follow that guideline in future. -- Toughpigs (talk) 14:53, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

All good. If you could just place the cite under "FR," that would be great. Except for List of Quality Comics characters and Tootsie Roll, where it does indeed belong as a footnote. --Tenebrae (talk) 14:55, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Quick style note: Per MOS, we spell out state names in all cases. If you could, please change the field from "location=Philadelphia, PA" to "location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania". Thanks — it'll save other editors work fixing it. --Tenebrae (talk) 15:44, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Okay, done. Thanks! -- Toughpigs (talk) 15:56, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Article titles

RE: My reverting the article to its status quo, Black Owl: You might not have realized that per Manual of Style we don't include the indefinite article "The" in character names. Thus, it's Joker (character), not "The Joker", and Hulk, not "The Hulk." Also, unless it's purely a technical change, we don't move articles without gaining consensus on the talk page first. --Tenebrae (talk) 01:51, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Tenebrae: Okay, thanks for the correction. -- Toughpigs (talk) 02:20, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Your deprods of The Avengers characters

Please note that a source about the show is not sufficient to keep a character. Of course, we can go to AfD. I invite you to present any in depth source about the first in the series that we may need to discuss, Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Father (The Avengers). TIA. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 20:20, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Sure, I can start with Tara King. The Complete Avengers has a chapter on her, starting on page 158. Film Fatales has real-world discussion of her character. Also see Avengerworld. The British Film Institute's The Avengers is a 185-page book that analyzes every character. Father is actually the weakest one; that character only appeared in one episode and you can delete that article if you like. The others are all backed up with in-depth real-world sources, with The Complete Avengers and the BFI's The Avengers as the best book-length RS. If you want to bring them to AfD, then I can post the sources for each character individually, or just look on Google Books & Internet Archive through the above links. -- Toughpigs (talk) 20:32, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

@Piotrus: I've added some real-world sourced info to the other five Avengers character pages that you proposed for deletion. Let me know if you have any further questions about The Avengers, or about how to find good reliable sources for articles about fiction. -- Toughpigs (talk) 04:03, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

I expect that some like Tara will therefore be notable as stand alone, and I encourage you to copy said sentence to the reception section of her. PS. I see you have done this for most of those chatterers, thank you very much for rescuing them (despite what some say, I do prefer rescue to deletion :D). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:09, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	For adding Disney to the family of deletion sorting categories. ミラP 01:58, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Nice work. Now if you can look at Draft:Amir Talai. Article was deleted at AFD as non-notable, but I've taken over an abandoned draft to fix that. ミラP 20:56, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Please don't tell others what to do (or don't)

I appreciate your efforts to rescue the articles. But please don't tell others what do do (or don't). TIA. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:58, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Piotrus: You're right, I apologize. You have the right to prod or nominate what you want; if I disagree, then it's up to me to demonstrate notability. -- Toughpigs (talk) 08:17, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for understanding. I don't mid deprods or people disagreeing with me at AfD. All I do is to raise possible issues with notability and such for review. Sometimes the review ends up with deletion of content, sometimes with merger, sometimes with retaining it. This is just routine version of WP:BRD. We are here to improve Misplaced Pages, which sometimes involves discussions about what may need to be deleted. That's all. Please keep up the good job of saving articles, and if I ever do not reply to a good keep argument at AfD or such, please don't hesitate to ping me to re-review the situation. A rescued article is always better than a deleted one. It is just that sometimes someone has to clean our wiki house a little bit. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:49, 28 February 2020 (UTC)