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Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions

Please take a look at Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions. Thanks! jareha 06:41, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Expand

The correct syntax is {{expand}}. utcursch | talk 06:18, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

College football on television

I did quite a bit of copyedit/cleanup work on the college football on television article and you simply reverted it. If there is actual content to add, please add it. But creating empty sections and linking non-existent articles does not improve Misplaced Pages. jareha 05:25, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Legal drinking age

Your edits here weren't really appropriate since your additions weren't actually 'loopholes' so much as ways of breaking the law and getting away with it, which isn't really relevant to the article. --InShaneee 20:27, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

As I said, that info doesn't belong in the article. Please refrain from re-adding it. --InShaneee 21:10, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Games Broadcast by Keith Jackson

I've merged that into the page on Keith Jackson; his bio article is not particularly large, so there doens't seem to be any need for a seperate page. If you disagree, please drop me a note on my talk page, so we can discuss it. Thanks for adding that info, though; it's nice to have. (and the mention of your souces is good, too.) JesseW, the juggling janitor 09:30, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Groupings

Will you please refrain from adding these inappropriate grouping to articles. Your ones on Michael Jordan have now been reverted at least twice. Smaller articles do not need this kind of grouping and larger ones like the Jordan article, do not need that much subgrouping. In the end you are only ruining the flow of many articles and in the cases of smaller ones, they have become unreadable. -Thebdj 16:10, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

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Hi Levineps, Sometimes you can have too many section headings. We don't need a separate header for every paragraph - this is why I've removed the headers you added to Bill Clinton. Please try to section articles into broad topics, as opposed to individual paragraphs. Thank you. Rhobite 02:00, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Discuss edits

If you're making major edits to an article, such as Bill Clinton, it's always better to discuss your edits beforehand on the talk page. Could you please post a message on Talk:Bill Clinton explaining why you are trying to split the article? I'm not sure that this needs to be done, and I don't think "Bill Clinton's Post-Presidency" and "Clinton's Foreign Policy" are the best names for these pages. Rhobite 03:13, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Saturday Night Live

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List of Fake Facebook profiles

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Reaction to Officiating in Super Bowl XL

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Please don't vandalise

In particular, this edit. Wikibofh_(talk) 14:32, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

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United States election night television coverage

Good work. About a week ago, I was going to tag it for speedy deletion. Now it looks great. Basketball 110 _{vandalise me} 16:11, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I've got the page United States election night television coverage‎ on my watchlist, and noticed your edit summary of one of your edits "no anon is going to delete this." I don't think it matters who deletes it. I think it's not a bad page, and disagree with his/her take on it. I've put a notice on his/her talk page, but he/she has not responded. Regards, Basketball 110 _{vandalise me} 22:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Did you delete the prod template? Basketball 110 05:16, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Are you at all making plans to show me that you are alive? Basketball 110 _{proof that this user is crazy} 23:29, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Great work on the page. Basketball 110 _{what famous people say} 19:22, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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List of 2008 United States Democratic Party superdelegates by endorsement

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Speedy deletion of College Basketball on Television

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This subject is best covered in the individual netowrk and/or conference aticles. It does not merit its own article. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 18:18, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

List of NFL Draft Broadcasters

Hey, I just wanted to tell you what a nice job you have done fixing up the article recently. All of your info has sources and I find it interesting to know the broadcasters of the draft. Great job! Tigersfan1992 20:13, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

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Template Dates

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Double spaces again

Please be advised again that double spaces after periods are in some articles intentionally, to aid in editing, and are permitted by the MoS. Our readers see no difference in the actual article they view. Your changing these to single spaces just makes for editing churn for no benefit. Wasted Time R (talk) 20:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Vermont

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Spacing after headings, etc.

Please stop with the trivial edits, especially those that squeeze out the spaces that make it easier to edit articles. Dicklyon (talk) 00:09, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

United States presidential election debates, 2008

Please do not add a blow-by-blow of tonight's debate to this article. Everything we add needs to be reliably sourced and not our own accounting of what we ourselves saw on TV (which would be original research). Thank you! --guyzero | talk 02:04, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Double spaces, part III.

See above. I actually dropped this on your talk page earlier (as you may have noticed from the spurious "new messages"), but I backed up because I misinterpreted one of your edits as not doing this. But now I look again and see that you are still doing this. This task is pointless. Double spaces in articles are for the editors' benefit, since readers see no difference. If the main editors to an article prefer to use double spaces (such as myself), let them; by going around changing the style, you're only annoying editors. This would be a really lame thing to go to administrators over, so please just stop. SnowFire (talk) 08:19, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

I see that you continue to remove double spaces completely pointlessly, nor respond. For the last time: both styles are allowed by the MOS. It's just like British vs. American English. This is about the lamest reason to be blocked ever, but repeated and constant breach of the MOS has gotten people blocked before for those who spent all their time changing British->American or vice versa. Spacing is an even sillier issue than that. I'd recommend some kind of dispute resolution, except that there is no dispute; editors are not allowed to unilaterally switch optional style points in every article like reference styles, dialects, or spacing. Are you at all interested in responding? If you continue to make these utterly pointless and actually counterproductive edits, then I'll bring the issue up on the Administrator's noticeboard next. Which would be ridiculous for such a minor issue. Please stop. SnowFire (talk) 19:52, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. What's more, many of your other spacing edits, such as ones in "External links" sections that change "*

Just wanted to echo what these other editors were saying. I spent a good 5 minutes looking at Coach (baseball) trying to figure out what you "cleaned up" until I realized that it was just spacing changes that made no visual impact on the web site... I'm not sure what the point was. I whole heartedly welcome anyone who can write better than me or who has better information than me to come in and edit artciles I put a fair ammount of work into, especially to fix my typos. But just changing non-end user spacing? Twice? I don't get it buddy... Coastalsteve984 (talk) 12:25, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

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Punctuation in McCain

Hi. You got this punctuation fixes wrong in John McCain:

...to describe McCain as "conservative" but not "a conservative," meaning that while McCain usually...

The might be more cases like that. --Apoc2400 (talk) 14:36, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, please study WP:PUNCT. Not all punctuation goes inside quotes! Only when the sense of the punctuation was part of the original quotation. Wasted Time R (talk) 23:39, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

History of the Philadelphia Phillies

Regarding your change to a section heading in the above article, please read WP:NOTCENSORED and WP:PROFANITY. Thank you! KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 00:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Recommended move of Bear Bryant to "Paul Bryant"

I have recommended moving (renaming) the Bear Bryant article to Paul Bryant, since this is an encyclopedic site it seems to me that Coach Bryant's real name would be more appropriate. I would appreciate it though, since you are a regular editor of the article, to include your opinion in the (discussion) of the pending move. Thanks! Rtr10 (talk) 23:03, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		In appreciation of the outstanding cleanup work you've done on countless articles. Well done! JayJasper (talk) 21:08, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Some non-redundant material

I ran across this edit of yours, which resulted in deleting relevant, referenced material which was not previously included in Presidency of Gerald Ford. I have re-inserted a portion. This move also necessitated corrections of other articles that had linked to it. I also note from a cursory check, that other sections in the former are similarly not now included in the latter (e.g. #Accession).

No offense intended, but since this seems to be something you are working on recently, I would like to suggest that you take additional care to prevent loss of material that has met consensus prior to the page move. Regards, CasualObserver'48 (talk) 06:10, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

2008 NCAA FB season

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Please weigh in on the talk page. Restoring the section violates WP:OR. I'm willing to add some games, but not without some sort of standard or external source. — X96lee15 (talk) 06:20, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

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Hoda Kotb

I'm not sure what the meaning of this edit is, but this is completely incorrect for a few reasons. What Misplaced Pages policy are you attempting to follow here?

There are no references, so the section is completely blank. What's the point?--Levineps (talk) 18:27, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

We add references to biographies of living people. They're required. That is the point. E_dog95' 18:49, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Maybe a few references might be nice, so it's not just there for decorations--Levineps (talk) 18:53, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Democratic National Convention on Television

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Don't unlink names on the World Series broadcasters page

I've been noticing that you've been doing that type of stuff to a lot of articles concerning lists of sports event broadcasters. The World Series has been on television since the 1940s and on the radio since the 1920s. It would be awfully impractical and neglectful (in my estimation) to simply do a "one and done" format with the editing. Many, many announcers have covered the World Series multiple times (e.g. Curt Gowdy, Vin Scully, Tim McCarver, Joe Garagiola, Mel Allen, etc.). Tim McCarver for instance, has called World Series games for three different networks (ABC, CBS, and FOX) since 1985. So by your logic, Tim McCarver's name should only be linked for the 1985 series. TMC1982 (talk) 12:11 a.m., 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Headings in Ann Dunham

I've reverted your heading changes as you made almost all the headings in the entire article subheads of a single head. Seems pointless and confusing. Was there a reason? Happy Chanukah Bellagio99 (talk) 19:57, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup

Hi. Thanks for cleaning up my additions to "United States presidential election, 2008" (popular votes for 3rd parties). I'd like to understand what needed cleanup, and how I can improve future additions. Unfortunately, the "differences" page (http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=United_States_presidential_election,_2008&curid=406859&diff=260998847&oldid=260988541 ) is not very enlightening; it shows seemingly-similar text, but with different coloring (which might be an irrelevant artifact of the display), but leaves me ignorant of what I should have done differently. e.g.

Alan Keyes (America's Independent Party) received 47,768 votes. He was listed in three states: Colorado and Florida, plus California (listed as "American Independent"), and also had write-in status in Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, and Utah

Alan Keyes (America's Independent Party) received 47,768 votes. He was listed in three states: Colorado and Florida, plus California (listed as "American Independent"), and also had write-in status in Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, and Utah.

Aside from the space after the asterisk and some spaces between lines (as well as a few rewordings), I cannot tell what the differences are.

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Appointed by then-President George W. Bush?

This looks to me to be an unnecessary edit to make, generally former presidents are referred as president even after they are out of office especially when talking about administrative actions taken when they were still in office, just look at the Stephen Breyer article for an example where it reads that he was Appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton it would be awkward for it to read the then-President Bill Clinton, I realized that President Bush is very unpopular and pointing out that he is no longer the president is a joy to those who despise him and his presidency however it doesn't seem like it should be something used in an encyclopedia.68.115.186.143 (talk) 01:50, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Agree with this poster, you've made a slew of bad edits in this regard. In historical writing, it's always assumed that the position given for someone is their position at the time being described, not the time the reader is reading it. The "then-" form is not needed. Nobody writes, "In 1862, then-President Lincoln freed the slaves." They just write, "In 1862, President Lincoln freed the slaves." It's equally unnecessary to write, as you did here, "In 2007, then-President George W. Bush appointed Dole ..." In at least one case, you've made things even worse: this edit adding a "former" ended up saying "in August 2004 ... He described former President Bush's policy regarding ..." This makes it sound like Bush 41 is being referenced, when it's really Bush 43. Please consider going back and undoing all of these inappropriate usages. Thank you. Wasted Time R (talk) 04:57, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Date delinking

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Georgia

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Stub headers

Hi, Lev. Hey, looking at this edit, I wanted to ask you, do you really think that a section header in a stub of this length is necessary? I actually don't mind it; it just seems superfluous. I don't care, either way, and will not be reverting it. I just sometimes can't help writing down my random thoughts, and this one ended up on your talk page. Un school 17:52, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

In addition, the whole article is a biography so adding a "Biography" heading is redundant, IMHO. – ukexpat (talk) 15:53, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Vick

As a user who is apparently new to our efforts on this article, you have apparently unilaterally opted to move almost all of the legal and financial troubles content, including the portions which are current events and ongoing, into a sub-article. I feel that move is inappropriate. I would agree that some of the many details could be moved if we don't lose the big picture in the primary article, but what has been done as of now is unacceptable. I will wait a few hours to see comments on the article talk page and give you a chance to respond and/or cleanup and restore the main points before proceeding to work on it myself. Vaoverland (talk) 20:58, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Size reduction of Kentucky

I think you and I are thinking the same thing with regard to Kentucky. A while back, I tried to go back and source the information that was there to get the article up to GA, but this just resulted in a mammoth article that was still nowhere near GA. At the time, my motivation was to make Kentucky the first GA state article. Well, we've missed that, but the benefit is that we now have several models to follow (FAs: Minnesota and Oklahoma; GAs: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Dakota, and Texas). The more I think about it, the more I believe getting this article to GA or FA is going to require creating an alternate version (at say, User:Levineps/Kentucky or User:Acdixon/Kentucky), then trying to get a consensus to replace the existing article with the new one. If you're up for trying this, I could probably pull myself away from improving Kentucky governor articles long enough to give it a shot. Let me know what you think. Acdixon 20:03, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Energy section removal in California

You recently created the Energy usage in California, most likely by moving the "Energy" section from the California page to that one (perhaps adding a little more information). Do you really think it is wise to leave a blank section in the California page? All it says right now is the templated "See the main article in Energy usage in California" or something similar. Killiondude (talk) 06:26, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Legacy of Harvey Milk

Hi there,

I see you created a new article by copying out the "Legacy" section of Harvey Milk to a new page. The new page needs some cleanup: some of the refs in the text you copied used <refname> tags, and the references to which they referred haven't been copied into the new article. The article also needs a lead section. And the original Harvey Milk page should have some reference to his legacy, not just a link to the new article. Some of what you moved should probably be summarized there. Could you look into these? Gonzonoir (talk) 15:03, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to chime in to say that this was an extraordinary exhibit of poor judgment that on first five glances appears to be malevolent vandalism. Harvey Milk's article is an WP:FA and I worked my ass off writing that article, getting it through FA, and maintaining it since then. I have replaced the information you gutted, and nominated Legacy of Harvey Milk for deletion. There is nothing different in Legacy of Harvey Milk from what you copied and pasted, from the main Harvey Milk article. In one fell swoop you managed to get on every nerve I have: copying work originally written somewhere else, removing a huge chunk of information from a Featured Article, absolutely no discussion or communication that might indicate a different article is warranted, pasting the information I carefully put together over months but caring so little about the content that you leave it messy, shoddy, with borked reference tags, no lead, no coherence to any larger idea, no bibliography or notes section...

Someone works on these articles. Please have or develop some respect for the editors who spend a lot of time on this. --Moni3 (talk) 16:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I would like to add to the voice of concern here; chopping an entire section out of a Featured article, with no prior discussion (and without following Merge guidelines) may not be the best approach. Similarly, I recently saw you created a "controversy" section at another BLP article, when controversy sections are discouraged. Considering I've now encountered two such edits within less than a week, I'd like to encourage you to be more cautious and aware of policy and guideline and talk page consensus when approaching BLPs. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:41, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

If you take a look at the thread above this, he did something similar it appears. Of course, California isn't a FA article, but I think it was detrimental nonetheless. Levineps, this appears to be a pattern of vandalism. Would you care to explain these edits? Killiondude (talk) 20:02, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Following on from the Harvey Milk article, and looking at the disastrous edit to the California article, I too would like to see an explanation. It seems like vandalism at the moment. Skinny87 (talk) 21:51, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Levineps does this a lot; if you want two other examples, see this gutting of GA article Joe McCarthy and this unnecessary removal from FA article Bill Russell, both done with no prior discussion, no edit summary, nothing. Wasted Time R (talk) 00:05, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Please add to the list his creation of Alan Dershowitz views on Israeli policy and Early political career of Jesse Jackson, Jr.; as wll as cutting huge chunks from Mississippi, Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, American Idol and others: all with no discussion. T L Miles (talk) 21:14, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Levineps. I'm not sure why you think all these articles are too long, since you haven't apparently explained it anywhere; even so, your actions require advance consensus and attempts to create a fait accompli by transferring content to child articles are likely to be undone. You should reconsider your strategy - if you continue on this path, a block is guaranteed. Avruch 23:50, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

I see this is a common problem; I noticed it with Culture of Buffalo, New York being split from its main article contary to Misplaced Pages:Splitting guidelines. Powers 15:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of American Idol rules

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WP:NOT a how-to guide, and this is probably some sort of copyright violation.

Endashes

Just a heads up. For this edit, all of them were already endashes except one. Endashes can be inserted without using the long coding. →Wordbuilder (talk) 23:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Championship Week

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John Beilein

Can you show me other coaches who have forked career records or a category with coaching records?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Also, you have messed up a lot of links. Please check your work.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 01:52, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Culture of Buffalo, New York

An article that you have been involved in editing, Culture of Buffalo, New York, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Culture of Buffalo, New York. Thank you.

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Misplaced Pages:Splitting

Several people have complained about your splitting of articles. Please read Misplaced Pages:Splitting and follow the proper procedure. Discuss things before you do it and make sure you leave an adequate summary in the parent article as well as the link pointing to the split content. - Mgm| 12:12, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I have noticed you do a lot of constructive editorial work. However, you repeatedly split articles unnecessarily and leave them in unfinished split state. I have contacted you to discuss you split of John Beilein, but you have not returned my communication. Baseball player career statistics are not normally split like you have split Barry Bonds. Coaching careers are not normally split either.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:37, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Seconded; I've seen a couple you have split without any need; you haven't lengthened them, they aren't long enough to justify their own article and you've just copy-pasted the text without any thought. Please stop doing it. Ironholds (talk) 13:13, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

ESPN College Basketball

Sorry I don't care about basketball. I like football and baseball though (well the Detroit / Michigan teams).TomCat4680 (talk) 05:28, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

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afd International reaction to the Inauguration of Barack Obama

The article you created International reaction to the Inauguration of Barack Obama has been nominated for deletion. Please see the discussion about unwanted splitting at Talk:Inauguration_of_Barack_Obama#New_articles.3F and Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Log/2009 March 9. Thanks. Aaron charles (talk) 23:20, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Coaching record of John Beilein

AfD nomination of Coaching record of John Beilein

I have nominated Coaching record of John Beilein, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Coaching record of John Beilein. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

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Bobbi Miller-Moro

Is up for deletion. --Tom 17:35, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Date delinking - 2

I know what the MOS says, but (as someone has already told you) date delinking is currently the subject of a temporary injunction, see Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking#Temporary injunction. The injunction basically means "don't do it". You should stop. Mr Stephen (talk) 07:56, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Splitting revisited

I see this isn't a new problem to this page. Your splitting out of the filmography portion of Leonardo DiCaprio was done without even an edit summary in explanation, much less first broaching it on the talk page to gauge editor opinion on doing so. The article was 38kb prior to this and the filmography took up only 6kb. The article is not long enough to warrant splitting part of it off. Also, splitting it in that manner removes the history for the contributions leading to the filmography, a great deal of which I added. This is done without consensus and is not, as you've been told multiple times over last couple of months, being done without benefit of editor input. Please stop splitting article content outside of process and consensus. Wildhartlivie (talk) 17:02, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Additionally, your re-addition of the == Biography == heading to this article was contrary to guidelines, and your filmography was mis-spelled, and I have had to delete it as an implausible redirect. All in all, you seem to plough your own furrow here regardless of policy, guidelines, or the input of other editors, and do not communicate effectively. You create work for others, especially Admins, who have to clean up after you. This must stop as it is too disruptive. If it does not, I'm afraid your editing days here are over, and you make take this as a final warning. Thanks. --Rodhull andemu 17:27, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

There is precedence for a seperate page, Robert Redford filmography. Sorry for the misspelling though.--Levineps (talk) 18:29, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Agreed, but the difference is that Robert Redford's article is long enough to justify separating the filmography; Leonardo DiCaprio's isn't, yet. When it is, it can be split following a proposal on the Talk page. --Rodhull andemu 18:32, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually that article would have been shorter, but good try.--Levineps (talk) 18:38, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Do you understand that you have been warned for the last time, and if you split an article without consulting the talk page you will be blocked? --Moni3 (talk) 18:41, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Ok, is that a threat?--Levineps (talk) 18:44, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

It seems more like a promise. Killiondude (talk) 18:47, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

No, it's a question. I cannot tell if you understand that you will be blocked if you split another article without consulting the talk page first. Avruch warned you several threads up there, and Rodhullemu made it fairly clear as I read it, but your lack of response, then type of response to this makes me think you may not be able to understand what is being said to you. --Moni3 (talk) 18:48, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

I guess I don't take wikipedia as seriously as some of you, I guess I must have more of a life. But anyways, I think I have made many productive contributions to wikipedia, so I would hate to be blocked, but I would not shed a tear over it.--Levineps (talk) 18:52, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

It's quite simple. Please continue to contribute to articles. Do not split articles without consulting their talk pages or you will be blocked. --Moni3 (talk) 18:57, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

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John Beilein GA

This user helped promote John Beilein to good article status.

Thanks for your efforts that helped John Beilein become a WP:GA.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 17:06, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

April 2009

Thank you for your contributions to Misplaced Pages. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, as you forgot on your recent edit to District of Columbia voting rights. Thank you. What did your edit do? SMP0328. (talk) 23:50, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Logos and uniforms

Why did you revert all of my merges? As is shown above, you have a history of inappropriately splitting articles without discussion or even leaving an edit summary! There is no reason to be splitting every single football team's logos and uniforms section. You just split and then do nothing to the new articles, leaving them without references, etc. And really, the logos and uniforms do not have any notability on their own. You may claim that the main articles were getting too long, but that is false: Tennessee Titans was only 12kb, and Cincinnati Bengals was only 16kb, not nearly long enough to require another split. Since you have continued this inappropriate behavior without any discussion or comment to your reasoning, I have notified you back to User:Moni3. Reywas92 21:29, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

You are blocked

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Reason: Splitting articles without consulting talk pages. 1 week. --Moni3 (talk) 21:49, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Wow! Blocked with no AFDs? And no discussions on WP:NFL? And for one week? Sheesh! I wish admins were this hard on actual vandals! THis is as much a content dispute as anything, and should be dealt with at WP:NFL to get broader input from the relevant project. - BillCJ (talk) 22:46, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Read further up, please. This is a pattern with Levineps that has not started or centered on NFL articles. --Moni3 (talk) 22:51, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Just because this guy has a habit of splitting without discussion doesn't mean the splits are a bad idea in and of themselves. The NFL project has been notified now. Hopefully we'll get a broader consensus on the issue related to the team pages. I'm sorry for my over-reactions, but there should have been some notice somewhere that these discussions were going on here. From the reverts on the Titans' page, it honestly looked like a regular revert war.- BillCJ (talk) 23:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

well 1 week sounds harsh to me especially considering how constructive my edits are. Can we lower this to a day for a first time block?--Levineps (talk) 04:54, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

To be fair, I'm not sure that they were constructive. You split up a featured article which resulted in a chunk of it being deleted by AfD - not the most helpful thing... ╟─Treasury Tag►contribs─╢ 07:50, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

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Levineps (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

too harsh

Decline reason:

Not if you aren't apologetic about the headaches you are causing. I think it's clear that the extra work for others caused by Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Legacy of Harvey Milk sort of outweighs a lot of your other edits. Ricky81682 (talk) 07:49, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

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Well I am sorry, I made some mistakes but i still don't believe that a week is a appropriate for a first time, maybe more like a day or two, or even three.

Levineps (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I am very remorseful

Decline reason:

Your request to be unblocked is declined because it does not address the reason for your block or because it is inadequate for other reasons. To be unblocked, you must convince administrators either (a) that the block was made in error or (b) that the block is no longer necessary because you understand what you are blocked for and you will not repeat that behavior or otherwise disrupt Misplaced Pages again and you will make productive contributions instead. Please read our guide to appealing blocks for more information. Toddst1 (talk) 14:38, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Levineps (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

no longer necessary

Decline reason:

Inadequate request, as above. You do not address the reason for your block. Sandstein 21:48, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

I have major regrets what I have done and I feel I have learned from them. I don't know what else I have to do, but whatever it is, I will do it.--Levineps (talk) 21:29, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Levineps (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I regret not consulting the talk pages before "spliting" articles. I feel that I have learned my lesson.

Decline reason:

This is a good block, and as noted in the 3 other declined requests, you have not addressed what should be covered in a proper request. As you have not heeded warnings again, you are no longer able to edit your talk page for the duration of the block. This is to prevent further disruption and abuse of the unblock process. You are advised to heed warnings in the future, otherwise you'll find yourself blocked frequently. Nja 08:37, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

3RR warning

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Tennessee Titans. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. BillCJ (talk) 22:22, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Logos and uniforms of the Tennessee Titans. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. BillCJ (talk) 22:22, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

David Amber

Thank you for your highly informative article on Mr. Amber. It was so informative, it left me wanting more! Postcard Cathy (talk) 22:58, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Your block has been extended

Since a lot of people have the NFL team articles on they're watch lists, it is very easy to see someone trying to evade a block on those articles. And don't even try to deny that you are not 69.140.49.76, because this four-year veteran admin can tell, especially, based on the comments above, you have tried to do it before.

Please calm down and take a break from Misplaced Pages for the next couple of weeks. It is not the end of the world or anything like that because consensus can change. My advice it to just be civil and persistent and patient, and maybe in the future more people will feel that there will be more verifiable cited content to warrant separate articles on those logos and uniforms again. Regards. Zzyzx11 (talk) 05:08, 6 May 2009 (UTC)