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Hello to all fellow Wikipedians. GoodDay 22:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC).

This user has been on Misplaced Pages for 19 years, 1 month and 23 days.

You may be wondering why my archives only start at August 2007. The reason: I didn't archive my pages before that date, I merely deleted them (as I didn't know how to archive). Therefore, if anyone wishes to see material before August 2007? check out this talkpage's 'history'.

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Notice of Neutral point of view noticeboard discussion

Hello, GoodDay. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

I was right all along,. HA!!!!

Long live canada!

Re: WP:BOXING

I don't foresee there being much interest in the UK/E/S/W/NI flags issue except from British/Commonwealth editors, or those who actually invested time in getting involved with the RfC. Likely we'll only need a smaller-scale Y/N consensus and be done with it. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 15:11, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Hope you're right. GoodDay (talk) 15:24, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

ARCA request archived

A recent clarification request regarding yourself has been declined and archived. For the Arbitration Committee, Mdann52 (talk) 07:10, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

User: Miesianiacal

Hello, You seem to Have Had Trouble with the same guy as me. This Guy seems to be Serially Stalking Just about any edit I Make Involving a Canadian Personality off and on for maybe 18 Months - 24 Months - In My Cases Mostly Governors General of Canada. Just Today I Added Information About Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis Receiving the Freedom of the City of London - His Excuse for Deleting it was that My Reference for it was a News Reel clip of Him Getting it in 1946 - "youtube is not a valid source" and He Thinks My Citations Have Errors, but rather than fixing the citation errors He Just Deletes the Edit. I Also Added a Section on the Honorary Degrees Alexander Received using sources from the universities concerned. Again deleted I Have No Wish to Get into any kind of edit wars with Him. Like I Said this is a Long Standing situation with this guy and It seems He does this to Several People. I Choose Not to Have Direct Correspondence with Him as He seems incapable of seeing the point of view of others.

He Has Already Dragged Me Into Some Sort of Misplaced Pages High Court of Editing Justice in August 2015 and Long Story Short the Administrators sitting on the bench sided with Me and Basically told Him to Grow up.

He Seem to be continuing His Campaign of Trolling People and Deleting any edit He does not think is 100% perfect or was not made by him.

My Question for you is I don't know How to Make this Idiot Grow up and Realize that He is Not the only editor of Misplaced Pages. So I'm Looking For Advice as to What to Do and Who to Contact to Get What is necessary to stop Him Serially Trolling People Done.

Thank you Michael Drew (talk) 23:02, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Firstly, if you have a problem with me, please approach me, rather than go to others "behind my back", so to speak.

Secondly, you were politely asked on more than one occasion last year to fill out your references, keeping in line with WP:BAREURLS. You proceeded to completely ignore them and all subsequent requests and queries. In fact, this is the closest you've ever come to addressing the issue; if only there were better ways to get your attention. Rather than learn or change your habits in any way, you've continued to dump bare urls into articles, as well as to not pay attention to formatting or organisation; just being inconsiderate and uncooperative in general. So, please don't cry when people become fed up of cleaning up after you, as I've just been doing, yet again.

If you need assistance, just ask or say so. People originally approached you without malice. --₪ MIESIANIACAL 23:09, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

I'd rather not get involved. GoodDay (talk) 23:25, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Jeremy Corbyn

I recommend you avoid involvement in UK-related articles. Going on past experience, it will only end in tears. Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:49, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

It won't end up in tears. GoodDay (talk) 22:06, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

BTW Ghmyrtle, no matter what the outcome of that Rfc, I'll be content. If it's to be United Kingdom? no prob as that's Corbyn's birth-country. However, if it's to be England? again no prob, as many Canadian & American bio infoboxes, use only locations like Edmonton, Alberta or Dallas, Texas, for example. The Canadian bio infoboxes tend to use city-province/territory & the American bio infoboxes tend to use city-state. It's not an overly big deal when British bio infoboxes use city-constituent country. GoodDay (talk) 17:10, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

MDY: comma after year

I've reverted your recent edit to Tanya Cook, in which you removed a comma after the date "November 9, 1964". According to MOS:COMMA, dates written in MDY format require a comma after the year, unless it's followed by other punctuation instead. If you've removed other such commas recently, could you please go back and revert your removals? Thanks. — Ammodramus (talk) 03:13, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I've been removing overusage of commas on a lot of articles, for years. I doubt I can go back & undo. GoodDay (talk) 03:53, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

This isn't removing overusage of commas; this is removing commas that're called for by MOS.

Note that I raised this issue on your talk page in July 2015 (User_talk:GoodDay/Archive_37#Comma_after_year), at which time you said that there was no way you could go back and reverse so many changes. In view of that, could I urge you to go back and restore the commas after MDY dates that you've removed since last July? Thanks. — Ammodramus (talk) 04:09, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I gnome edit randomly. You're free to revert any such edits that I may have made since July 2015. GoodDay (talk) 04:11, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Is there a name in Wikitaxonomy for editors who follow gnomes around and fix their problem edits? Metagnomes? Gnomognomes? What would the userbox look like? — Ammodramus (talk) 04:17, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I don't know, but I'm alright with you fixing up any of my gnome edits. GoodDay (talk) 04:18, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Cool. But seriously, isn't making minor improvements the essence of gnomery? Edits that violate MOS can hardly be called "improvements", even if the minor-edit box is checked. Removing necessary commas after MDY dates isn't gnomery, but its opposite, however well-intentioned. — Ammodramus (talk) 04:28, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I've had conflicting advise in the past, concerning the MOS-in-question. You're free to 'fix up' any of my edits that you see as being erroneous. GoodDay (talk) 04:32, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Checked your talk-page archive for "comma", and found some of that "conflicting advice": in User_talk:GoodDay/Archive_34#Desist_meaningless_mucking_about, Isaacl says that "I think I recall that Misplaced Pages's manual of style specifies" no comma after a date in MDY format.

Unless the guideline has been changed since 2013, Isaacl recalled wrong. The MOS seems fairly unambiguous about it, both in the table at MOS:YEAR and in the correct-incorrect example pair at MOS:COMMA. I'd suggest that unless and until another editor can point to a specific passage in the MOS that supports no-comma-after-MDY, we take comma-after-MDY as required. — Ammodramus (talk) 14:27, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I believe I was thinking of a different scenario in trying to explain why some different advice may have been received previously. I did not clarify further in that discussion since the topic under discussion was regarding listing birth and death dates.

GoodDay, I suggest that it would be helpful for you to take into account the appropriate style guidance in your edits from here on? isaacl (talk) 17:33, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm just going to try to avoid it all together & concentrate on fixing the dashs between the dates. PS: My cutting down the commas, looks better though. GoodDay (talk) 17:52, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Is there a version of Poe's law for punctuation? — Ammodramus (talk) 21:37, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Not sure. GoodDay (talk) 21:41, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

David Souter

I apologize! So it is typical for this type of article to read as "appointed by the president" - which would be the process of nominating and confirming? Steve Lux, Jr. (talk) 16:56, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

As I understand it, the president nominates the person for judgeship or the Supreme Court & the nominee has to be confirmed by the US Senate, before he/she can assume that post. It's due to seperation of powers. I had to fix up the few SC bios that had appointed in them, as the rest used nominated. BTW, if you want, we could ask Misplaced Pages:WikiProject United States courts and judges what would be best for all the Chief Justices & associate justices to have in their infoboxes. GoodDay (talk) 17:00, 19 January 2016 (UTC)