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Changing merge templates

Please see Template talk:mergewith#Merge template changes before changing more merge templates. - Omegatron 12:43, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

Gang

Wouldn't it make more sense to leave the article on the overwhelmingly common meaning of "gang" at Gang and put the disambiguation at Gang (disambiguation)? Anyway, if you really insist on doing it this way, are you planning to do something about the roughly 200 articles that you've now left pointing at a disambiguation page? -- Jmabel | Talk 06:04, May 3, 2005 (UTC)

Caucasian Albania

Hi,

Just wanted to thank you for your involvement in this page. I have reported his actions to Admin noticeboard. However, I do not believe this person can be stopped by mere arbitrary actions. In my view, the only way to stop him is to have several editors standing against him and neutralizing all his POV edits and vandalism/trolling. Only then, I believe, this person will realize the whole senselessness of his actions and will retreat. Therefore, I am grateful to you and to User:Codex Sinaiticus for not leaving me alone to combat Rovoam's POV and vandalism. Please, keep it up. --Tabib 05:04, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for picking up on the immature prank, apparently played by one of the other eating clubs, by creating an extremely insulting entry for Princeton Tower Club. I've put some work into the entry, it may lack a bit of neutrality but it's much better than what you found.

Brackets in IPA transliterations

Hi, please don't remove square brackets from IPA transliterations. They are necessary! Thanks! --Angr/_comhrá 19:52, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Abbott & Costello

Who is the Wikipedian that this user talk page belongs to?? Georgia guy 14:45, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

{{Image-stub}}

I feel I have explained everything on my test page for this stub.

Hi Who (hi who, it's off to work...)... erm... This isn't really a stub-type operation. Stub is simply a way of saying that an article is incomplete, not why it is incomplete. In any case, there are already templates used for just that purpose - you've created an alternative form of Template:Reqimage. I must admit it looks better that Reqimage, but I'd suggest proposing a change to that template (to make it more like your one) on the Reqimage talk page rather than to WP:WSS. Otherwise, as the duplicate of an existing template, it's likely to eventually turn up on Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion. Please don't call it "stub", though, whatever you do - an article without an image is still a valid article, not a stub! Grutness...wha? 01:46, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Article on twins

Hi, Who. I'm sorry, but I had to revert your edits in the articles partaining to the Olsen twins. I stated my reasons in the edit summary, but I figured I'd drop you a message to explain it better. I see you've been with us for little more than a month. That being the case, I thought you might not yet be completely familiarized with some of our procedings. In cases like this one, we prefer to put the topic up for discussion on the article's talk page before implementing the change. There, we try to reach a consensus, which basicaly means that we get a reasonable number of editors to agree on a line of action, which is the one that shall be taken in the article itself (how many people may have to agree to form consensus is subjective, it depends on how many people are interested and contribute for any particular article, or just how many opinions happen to have been given to the issue at hand). In the case of the issue of whether to split the article on the Olsen sisters in two, you will notice that this has been discussed before (as a matter of fact, it was brought up by someone who thought that the article should be broken in two), but the train of thought that prevailed was in favor of keeping the status quo for that article. That is why I reverted your edits. I must say that, personally, I too think that it should be kept in only one article — read the comments in the article's talk page for more details (but you will notice that I did not participate in that discussion myself). In any event, the consensus was to keep the joint article. I apologize if I might have erased some new data that you may have inserted in the separated articles. If that happened, I would ask you to integrate them in the MK&A article. Cheers, Redux 02:44, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad to be of assistance. Your points about the twins are theoretically valid, but let me sum up what was discussed on that regard (also in other similar instances): It may well be that the two of them go their separate ways and end up doing noteworthy deeds each on their own, but that has not happened thus far. Certainly there are facts about each of them that are different, but Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia, and most of these facts are not suited for it. So, when it comes down to what is encyclopedic enough about the Olsen twins, we'd end up with two articles that would essentially repeat the same contents. In these cases, one of Misplaced Pages's main features comes in handy: it can be updated constantly. Biographies of living people are always about "current events", so you could say that separating the articles is something that is "on hold" right now, to be done if and when the situation warrants it. Right now, the twins' encyclopedic information (and that adjective is key here) is virtually the same ("more than 95%", as one user put it), so we have no basis for two articles on them. Regards, Redux 03:04, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

stubs

Hi, again. I totally forgot about the Australia and Sweden stubs, or I would have posted them on the discussion page as well. Unfortunately I created the France actor stub before I knew about the discussion page. You can be assured that it wont happen again. Thanks for your understanding.

That's OK - just make sure it doesn't (sternly wags finger) :) Grutness...wha? 01:45, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

re: vandalism on Caucasian Albania

See User:Rovoam. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 20:28, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

Image speedy deletions

I'm sorry, but the images you are tagging as candidates for speedy deletion aren't meeting any of the criteria for speedy deletion for images. -- Cyrius|✎ 04:47, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

"Redundant" has a very specific meaning in this case, it means the images are identical (except for scale), not just of the same subject. As image deletion cannot be undone, it's best to be careful with deleting them. Cleaning up unused images is a good thing, but you'll need to list them on Misplaced Pages:Images and media for deletion to help avoid irreversible mistakes. -- Cyrius|✎ 05:01, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Ed, Edd n Eddy

Go ahead and merge them. I tried to make a start on them but there are 26 episodes to bind together, and that is actually a lot more than it seems like. Sjakkalle 06:04, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

• Nice job with the merger! Sjakkalle 07:36, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• As the one who closed that VfD, I'd like to add my thanks for taking on the dirty work. :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 11:51, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Albertofan

Not a problem. I checked the edit history of the Cynthia Vargas article and that led me to his edit history, and all of the articles he was writing. He was also seeding his fantasies into other articles, which I think I've cleaned up. Shadows2005 has been blocked for repeated deletion of the VfD header and of Talk page discussions. RickK 05:34, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Felix the Cat

Are you sure that IMDB didn't get it wrong? I note that both the TV episode list fan page, as well as the only online review IMDB has listed, both call it "Twisted Tales". Not only that, if you look at the cover art at both IMDB and the review page, the cover art gives the title as "Twisted Tales"! (I did check, and all the episodes listed on the thing listed on the review page are from the 95-96 season.) Now, perhaps the "Twisted Tales" variant was selected for the video re-release, and it's the cover art for that which we are seeing, but I would certainly want to make sure. (I'm not a Felix fan, I just did the article when it was listed on RfD.) Noel (talk) 14:20, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I don't think we have to be in any hurry to act; there's a redirect at the alternative title, so anyone looking up (or linking to) "Twisted Tales" is going to find the article. I'd rather take our time and get the definitive data. Have you tried e.g. contacting Film Roman and seeing what they say? Given all the stuff you've found, I can easily believe that both have been officially used; e.g. maybe it was "Adventures" back when it was on first-run TV, and "Tales" for the video re-release? (I'll copy the relevant posts to the article Talk: page, maybe someone else can help.) Noel (talk) 23:56, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Your User page

That's one of the advantages of being an admin -- you can protect your User page so that only you (and other admins) can edit it. RickK 23:54, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

DuctapeDaredevil VfD

I didn't write it, and I have no notable works. I can barely get more reviews than I have chapters. DuctapeDaredevil 02:07, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

reqimgbox

Hi there! I like your new template for requesting images; however, it is commonly agreed upon that there shouldn't be two templates for the same purpose (since the redundancy tends to confuse people). Thus, might I suggest that you edit the existing template:reqimg, rather than creating your own? Yours, Radiant_* 07:14, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

• Sounds like a good solution. Btw the Wiki error you're referring to is probably server overload. But they're installing new servers in Amsterdam next month. Radiant_>|< 07:40, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
  • Sorry - didn't realise that you had changed the text too - feel free to edit away. -- ALoan (Talk) 16:48, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)