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List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe
Hello. Can you please explain this edit? I'm not questioning whether it is correct, I just don't understand what changed. I can see that you fixed a couple of links to disambiguation pages but other bits of text are apparently different, according to the diff, but they seem to be exactly the same.
- My apologies for not signing my comment. I'll sign now otherwise the comment won't get automatically archived. McLerristarr | Mclay1 14:22, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Template:Infobox college has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 00:10, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
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Your bot made a mistake
- It changes Native Americans to Indigenous peoples of the Americas[1] instead of Native Americans in the United States. Any bot that just grabs the first link at the top of a disambiguation pages, is going to have plenty of errors. The bot can find links to all disambiguation pages, and perhaps you can put that somewhere, and then people can look through and find the proper links when necessary. Dream Focus 09:17, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
- [2] It changed precursor to to the nonexistent word of precursorto. Dream Focus 09:21, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Tatyana Shaposhnikova
Hi woohookitty, and thank you for finding out a wrong link in the "Tatyana Shaposhnikova" entry. I saw you removed it, but I instead fixed it: please check if the result of my correction is acceptable. Thank you again! Daniele.tampieri (talk) 11:56, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
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I'm not so certain about an e-mail somebody sent.
From what was just identified as "Bunguman", I received an e-mail (copy/pasted with some modifications).
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Iberians
In 11 c. it was a Byzantine Theme of Iberia (as California in USA). The Bachkovo Monastery was Byzantine Iberian monastery. The Byzantine Theme of Iberia was populated mostly by Armenians. Some modern authors do not correctly identify Iberian monks (11 c.) with Georgian monks. I advise you to read the article of Edouard Selian quoted in the article “Bachkovo Monastery”. Simba22 (talk) 06:23, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Jayapura/Hollandia
Nice work on updating all those articles about Navy ships that visited there during WWII. I worked on 15-20 of those articles a couple of years ago, and learned how really hard it is to deal with place names in that part of the world. Your work improves a lot of it. Lou Sander (talk) 13:20, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
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Biographical wikipage for Jerry Roberts
I am the son of Jerry Roberts (Code breaker Bletchley Park WW2) and I am wondering who keeps saying he was a cryptographer. He wasn't, he was a codebreaker thus making him a cryptanalyst. On top of this, someone keeps saying he was 89 in 2010 when he was 90 in 2010. Could you fill me in please? Ian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biggles26 (talk • contribs) 19:13, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for your contribution to Climate change mitigation of human impact on the environment. 99.109.127.27 (talk) 03:14, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for all your help correcting my Lebanese, archaeology and mythology articles Woohookitty. Your help is much appreciated, hope you like the kitty and Wisconsin treats you well. Regards. Px
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Super Disambiguator's Barnstar
Congradulations! It looks like you won it again!
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The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to the winners of the Disambiguation Pages With Links monthly challenge, who have gone above and beyond to remove ambiguous links. This award is presented to Woohookitty, for successfully fixing 4233 links in the challenge of July, 2011. Quinxorin (talk) 05:31, 1 August 2011 (UTC) |
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can you add more details in this article.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ksanthosh89 (talk • contribs) 11:15, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
Bad dabs: garage
Hi Kitty - re this edit - the garages in question are not those of a house, but are either or both of Automobile repair shop or Filling station. The Morrisons one I'm pretty sure should be Filling station, because they don't do repairs; but I'm not sure about the Grimsbury one. It definitely did motor repairs, but I don't know if they also sold fuel (it's a supermarket now, so I can't really check even though I'm going to Banbury very soon). --Redrose64 (talk) 11:35, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Malaclemys terrapin maximus
A page you edited, Malaclemys terrapin maximus has been nominated for deletion. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 12:31, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Repaired link to disambiguation page - Kurzeme
Hello. Appreciate your work on fixing links to disambiguation pages, but most of the fixes you did on Kurzeme unfortunately are wrong. As the disambiguation page says, the word Kurzeme means Courland, and now most of the articles you fixed, links to articles with other historical and territorial geography than intended by using the word Kurzeme in the articles. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 19:55, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
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I see that a new IP editor has removed the multiple issues template.
Accusativen hos Olsson (talk) 16:44, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
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Canvas
Your take on DAB is invited at Talk:Spirit (disambiguation)#Spirit vs Spirited as a fourth opinion. --Lexein (talk) 11:52, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Please review and comment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_J1_(Y-DNA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Haplogroup_J1_(Y-DNA)
JohnLloydScharf (talk) 00:26, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
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Coffelt
Would you please clean up the article on Jon Coffelt. The banner says it needs to be formalized and I dont know what it needs. thank you 11:56, 24 August 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Artintegrated (talk • contribs)
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Hello
Hey fag, how's life man? Hope it ain't being a bitch to ya muddafucka :) See ya! Jamiebijania (talk) 14:41, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
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EWS
Hello. I see you just fixed a lot of disambig links from EWS replacing with DB Schenker Rail UK. The article actually has the potential for a future split, (eg Talk:DB_Schenker_Rail_(UK)#Separate_page) and there are suitable more specific pages that redirect there eg English Welsh and Scottish Railway.
I was wondering if it was easy with your admin tools to change those redirects you just fixed to English Welsh and Scottish Railway in case of a future split. If it's too much trouble and is all 'manual' then no problem.Imgaril (talk) 10:53, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! Imgaril (talk) 10:59, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hi! You seem to have disambiguated a fair number of EMEA links to Europe, the Middle East and Africa, while the correct target should be European Medicines Agency (EMA, formerly EMEA). Could you review your edits please? Otherwise, I'm really impressed with your work here! Cheers, ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 14:24, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 14:59, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
I agree that there should be discussion, but discussion has dragged off and on for years. The page is already close to being formatted as a disambiguation page; every section has a header to a "more information" page. Energy focused on that page would be better spent on any of those subordinate pages. Darker Dreams (talk) 16:38, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
- It has been discussed, at least twice, the first time in 2007. There was consensus that it should change, though not to what and no action was ever taken. The reasoning has not changed. I agree that there were an inordinately large number of links to that page, but my last survey, however unscientific it may have been, suggested that many if not most of those links should have gone to more specific existing pages rather than the Kansas City page to start with, and they are still wrong if they link to the disambig page. (Not saying that's what you did, I didn't check and I assume from what I see you're better then that.) I've reinstated the change based on previous discussions (as well as a dose of personal judgement and arrogance). Darker Dreams (talk) 04:41, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
- γνῶθι σεαυτόν, glad you enjoyed that. Normally I wouldn't have made a change that drastic without more discussion, but in this case it's obviously a disambig page that's striving for more at the expense of other pages and in spite of consensus to the contrary. I actually went back in the history and found that it had been a redirect page before, over which there were some disagreements regarding where it should point, and someone decided that making it a real page again was the answer. Darker Dreams (talk) 05:35, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
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Lennon/McCartney or Lennon–McCartney
There is a discussion here where we could use your input. Thanks. CuriousEric 00:03, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
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Israeli artists pages
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Pinnace
Hi Woohookitty, I see that you have replaced pinnace in many articles about Napoleonic era ships with Full rigged pinnace. However, my reading of the texts, and the sources, suggests that Pinnace (ship's boat) would in almost all cases be the correct disambiguation. How can we do the switch? Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 12:47, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
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Quadrangle disambiguation
In situations like this, where it's used in reference to the USGS maps, you want quadrangle (geography), not quadrangle (architecture). Daniel Case (talk) 05:30, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Where should Mormon redirect?
Hi. We're having a discussion at Talk:Mormon regarding where this redirect page should point to; the main candidate targets appear to be Mormons and Mormonism. Last March, you reverted a change which had made Mormon point to Mormon (disambiguation) — giving as your edit summary "creates alot of disam issues. More discussion probably advised. 3rd party here...". What, exactly, did you mean by this? Would you be willing to come over to Talk:Mormon and explain in more detail what you saw as the problem then? If Mormon were to be changed again now to be a redirect to the disambiguation page — or if (roughly equivalently?) the disambiguation page were to be renamed "Mormon" — would you still be inclined to object to this change now, as you did back in March? Apologies if there's some issue regarding disambiguation pages that I'm missing here. Thanks for your input. Richwales (talk) 20:29, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
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Adding typo
Please, don't make the changes like this. There are no nation "krainians". --Movses (talk) 18:07, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Misuse of cleaner
It appears that you have been using the cleaner to change [[consumers]] to [[comsumer|consumers]]. Thereby you have introduced a misspelling "comsumer" instead of "consumer". Please fix this. JRSpriggs (talk) 12:49, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for fixing this. JRSpriggs (talk) 07:28, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Vandalism
Please help us on page about Ukrainians: anonimus user is deleting all important data - clear act of vandalism for sime time, war editing. Thanks!--SeikoEn (talk) 05:51, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Interview with Wikimedia Foundation
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- Hi Woohookitty, I realized I didn't sign this message properly. Sorry! Matthew (WMF) 19:23, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Cinema of andhra pradesh
User secret of success is removing crucial info in the article, please have an eye on him. Linguistics had a major role in telugu film has no meaning,info about lyricicst can be included. (Ramajogayyasastry (talk) 10:55, 31 October 2011 (UTC)).
HeadleyDown has returned to NeuroLinguisticProgramming
Now under the usernames Snowded and Lam Kin Keung
Note the typical behavior we've seen before at Talk:Neuro-linguistic_programming — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.243.106.37 (talk) 16:55, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nazo unleashed trilogy
COME QUICK! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.71.62.59 (talk) 23:56, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
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Signpost report on the disambiguation project
I got this today, thought you would be interested. Cheers! bd2412 T 23:27, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
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- Feel free to participate in the interview. The more the merrier. -Mabeenot (talk) 02:01, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who are prolific disambiguators. For repairing all of those disambiguation pages. Thank you and happy editing! pluma Ø 00:43, 14 November 2011 (UTC) |
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cityrail coaches
CityRail doesn't operate coaches, however its sister corporation CountryLink does. I think the intention with Coach was this kind of coach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coach_%28vehicle%29 as CityRail utilises CountryLink's coach vehicles on certain lines not covered by train.
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Peter Katona
Peter Katona has Hungarian ethnicity? Katona is about Hungarian surname but it is Slovak from Prešov.
Siege of Geoktepe
Hi, can you please check the edits [[4]][[5]] made on the page Siege of Geoktepe by User:Takabeg, he adds behind the sentence Siege of Geoktepe [citation needed], he claims there is no source, The article has sources but he only uses a certain search engine, I did not talk to him on the talkpage, because, I suspect he just wants to edit the articles I edit, because a time ago we had a discussion on a subject and after that he seems to control all my edits and edit them just to be annoying.§
And an answer for you :)
The bonus list is at [6]. There's a link to it in the text right above the leader board at WP:DAB. I have it up all the time on one screen while I use WikiCleaner on the other. :) -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 09:54, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
- Well, a good portion are pretty simple, and I enjoy the bonus list because I get to look at a wide variety of articles, although I know way more about voivodeships that I have any right to, not ever having been to Poland. :)-Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 10:00, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
November 2011
Please do not add original research ornovel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Aleksey Maratovich Orlov. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Abhijay Let's have a chat, my friend. 02:20, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
- Tsk tsk Woohookitty... please remember, Wikipedia is not a free speech zone. Next time, think about gettingconsensus before making such drastic changes. Related.PhnomPencil (talk) 09:01, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
- LOL. Now that makes me laugh. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 09:11, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed. I never knew you were such a radical. Seriously, changing English to English language without adding several references? For shame! I believe he is actually a specialist in English muffins. --JaGatalk 14:13, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
- LOL. Now that makes me laugh. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 09:11, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
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Just to say you thank you for "cleaning" my article Ehsan Mehmood Khan. Best regards.--JC Bills (talk) 05:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
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Automatric disambiguation corrections
Your changes of "Girl Scout" to "Girl Scouts of the USA" was good work but at least 8 of them, which I have corrected, were totally inappropriate and the context had no connection with the Girl Scouts of the USA. Ingrid of Sweden, for example, needed a link to the Danish Girl Guides and Kim's Game is international. Many of course were US oriented, but some were not. I hope I have caught all of them. --Bduke (Discussion) 22:08, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- In support of the above, may I draw your attention to [7], which I have now fixed. I suggest, somewhat diffidently, that a little more care is needed. Philip Trueman (talk) 08:00, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Dick Schreder
I have family-taken photos of the HP-8, 10 and 11 side by side at Harris Hill, NY in 1963 at the US Soaring Championships. If you'd like to use them to support your article contact me. Won't cost anything. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dudley0415 (talk • contribs) 21:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
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Thank You for Fixing the Autoblog Links!
Hi,
Thanks so much for fixing the Autoblog.com links. I was going to do it manually when I have a chance, but was dreading the prospect of all that tedious work. Seeing what you did, I downloaded WPCleaner and will try to figure out how to use it ASAP. Any guidance would be much appreciated. Cheers, Ebikeguy (talk) 16:47, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
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FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:47, 25 December 2011 (UTC).
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Opinion
It would mean a lot to me if you would review this section of the talk page.
It's not a big deal, and I'm not looking for intervention. But a little neutral feedback from someone highly knowledgeable about Wikipedia would really mean a lot to me.--Encyclotadd (talk) 06:27, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
South Indian Film Industry
Please check this forwarded message at User talk:MThekkumthala
- 1. POV, Each indian film industry is individual in its own terms and have individual articles in wikipedia.
- 2. There is no single south indian film industry, Hindi film is also a part of revenue generation.
- 3. The gross revenues of each Indian film industry varies each year, Hindi Film Revenue in 2011 is higher.
- 4. There is no notability for this article, Instead it creates confusion and it not feasible to shift all the references and information from Cinema of India article.
- 5. Please obey the three revert rule.
- 6. The information in south indian film industry article is already provided in cinema of india article, please check it.
(GarylawyerNFA (talk) 10:10, 1 January 2012 (UTC)).
Errors in dab page fixes
In your fixes to links to Scandinavians there were a couple of mistakes, i.e. this and this, which I've fixed.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 10:11, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
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Incorrect disambiguation
In Cable & Wireless Worldwide you disambiguated NTL to NTL Ireland using WPCleaner [8]. This was mentioned as the company that bought C&W's cable operations in 2000. However, that was NTL Incorporated, not its Irish subsidiary. Hairy Dude (talk) 01:54, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Can you please review the company article
Hello Woohookitty
I am in process of adding an article for a company. Can you please review and help adding the page for the same: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Navdeeptrivedi/Flora_Consult I would be highly grateful to your comments/feedback. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Navdeeptrivedi (talk • contribs) 11:24, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Attempt to disambiguate link appears to have eliminated it
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Jordan&curid=20455&diff=470390413&oldid=469807859 Was this an error? NYCRuss ☎ 16:08, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
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User:Blackmetalbaz, again
- Hello, over a year ago I advised you of an issue involving the above user, and you intervened. Notwithstanding your feedback to him about using talk pages (and not edit summaries) to voice disputes, he apparently ignored your advice, as he continues to genre war with other editors over metal subgenres. The current case (Alastis article) is highly unusual for the fact that he's involving himself in an issue that is long settled, and even he previously agreed to it.
- In my December 2010 message on your talkpage, I also mentioned the intuition that Blackmetalbaz is the long-banned editor Leyasu. I don't say this as a slur but the fact both are from the UK and both have the same style of editing: metal genre wars (particularly gothic-related), sarcastic and abusive edit summaries, excessive cherry picking of external references, and Wikilawyering. As I had said in December 2010, SSP was unable to run an IP check because too much time had elapsed between Leyasu's banning and Blackmetalbaz's account creation (both in 2006). But I'm still 99.99% sure that they're both the same person. Can anything more be done about him? Thanks, --Danteferno (talk) 22:02, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
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Undecidable
You've created a number of links to ndecidable problem (missing U). --Zundark (talk) 09:44, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
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Lexington-class carrier templates
These templates are no longer used in the relevant articles; I've started a discussion to delete them and their category at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_February_11#Lexington-class_carrier_templates.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 19:23, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
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MSU Interview
Dear Woohookitty,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
- Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
- Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
- All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
- All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
- The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at [email protected] (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at [email protected]. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC) Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 22:10, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Nomination of List of films considered the best for deletion
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overenthusiastic cleaning
Hi I appreciate that that it is helpful to sort out links to dab pages, but this only applies if it is done correctly. Alerted by a particular case I had a look at your contribs for 09:41, 20 February 2012, examining Punjab, and found the following, all done within that one minute
- this one should rather be to Punjab Province (British India)
- this is wrong
- this is botched
- this should again be to Punjab Province (British India).
I hope you don't mind my pointing this out. We all get tired sometimes, but then we should rest. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 11:42, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Franco-Provençal
In one of your editions of List of multilingual countries and regions, you wrongly assumed that Franco-Provençal and Provençal refer to the same language. While Provençal is a dialect of Occitan, Franco-Provençal is a different language. Regards, Jotamar (talk) 14:22, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
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is HD back?
Hello woohookity,
I am enemesis. I am not sure if you remember me I was I think called JustinFA about 6-7 years ago when the Headleydown incident took place on the Neuro Linguistic Programming page. I took a small role in trying to defend the article against Headleydown. Of which he was found to be a sock master with multiple socks. Upon reading the Neuro Linguistic Programming article recently I felt compelled to come on board and defend it again. The content and themes are very similar to what they were back then. Although you may not remember me could you please peruse my pages and related articles and look at the Irvine22 SPI case to see that the information I have given is correct to your knowledge regarding a sock of headleydown. Snowded is currently putting together an ANI after being proved that I am not a sockpuppet, if strong enough he could display an article pertaining to meat puppets and reduce his opposition on the article considerably. I think also on NLP talk you may notice similarities in style of strategy to headleydown. I know you have had some rough experiences however, To help clear this matter up it might be of some comfort for other editors and the good of the article to do so. -Thank you-
and regards of course...
Enemesis (talk) 07:07, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Massilia dabs
Hi, I just saw you were disambiguating links to Massilia. Just for your information, I have actually turned that back into a redirect to the primary topic and moved the dab page to Massilia (disambiguation), so the old links might be left now. Seemed like a pretty clear instance of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC to me. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:43, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
afd Carmel School Giridih
Your comments are needed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carmel School Giridih. Please note that you are being notified as you are one of the editors of this page , Thank youÐℬigXЯaɣ 19:08, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Woohookitty,
I noticed that you have made several edits on Wisconsin related articles, so I was hoping you could help me out. The UW-Eau Claire article has been the subject of a couple of controversies these past few weeks. The article was recently accused of engaging in "academic boosterism." I took this accusation to the dispute resolution noticeboard, and I worked out an amicable solution. (I removed some problematic sentences and used more third-party sources). Recently, a user has given the article the Conflict of Interest tag. I assume the user is refering to my edits, as I am by far the most active editor on the UW-Eau Claire article. I know that admins do not engage in "dispute resolution," but I was still hoping you would be kind enough to closely look over the article, not to "pick sides" but to help make useful edits and give constructive advice to all parties involved. Whatever the case, I feel it has been too long since an experienced administrator has worked on the article. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
88guy88 (talk) 20:07, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
SkyCable
Hi, I would like to seek your help regarding the article SkyCable. User Webwires who I think the long-term editor and maintainer of the article is insisting that the page is for the cable TV brand. But don't you think it is better [for Wikipedia] if we relegate the article into the company ones and for all? Instead of the cable TV brand, we could assign it to the company and moved skycable, skybroadband, etc... into sub articles. Also a concern of mine is the tone of the page. Obviously Wikipedia is not a directory nor a place to advertise a cable service, don't you think we should make the article more encyclopedic? Thank you. I hope we could make Wikipedia a better place. -My Page (Contact me) 13:02, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you.
The National Geographic Barnstar | |
For excellent work in the field of disambiguating links to National Geographic. bd2412 T 20:43, 2 March 2012 (UTC) |
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Be careful when disambiguating
The fix here was incorrect. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 23:10, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1998
Who do I go to about getting that page set up? I noticed that all the pages up to 1999 are set up. Is 1998 going to be set up? I just think that it should have been set up since all other years have been set up. And I know that you have done work on some of these pages, so I was wondering if you were interested in helping. Arjoccolenty (talk) 23:11, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
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A "See also" section....
Thanks for taking an interest in List of professional cyclists who died during a race. I was wondering, though, why you removed the entire "See also" section. Removing "Race Across America" makes sense - per WP:MOS it shouldn't have even been there, but I am wondering about some of the others. For instance, Motor-paced racing had many cycling deaths (both pacemakers and cyclists) in its early days (and the link does not appear within the text), Liste von tödlich verunglückten Radrennfahrern - List of fatally injured cyclists (German Wikipedia) provides a link to a related - but not identical - article in the German Wikipedia, Madonna del Ghisallo is the patroness of cyclists and so on. Would appreciate any insight. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 13:13, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Disambiguator-in-Chief
I hereby award you the "Disambiguator-in-Chief" award for disambiguation above and beyond the call of duty. Please accept this stack of gold pipes to use in your good work, and as a token of my admiration. -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:29, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
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Andromeda Galaxy
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that this edit made via WPCleaner broke the <imagemap> on the page, but it's fixed now! — Tom.Reding t
c 20:48, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
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Arms, titles, honours and styles of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Arms, titles, honours and styles of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington I reverted your edit to the page because Wellington was a statesman before he was a politician and was still an serving as an active field marshal. -- PBS (talk) 16:06, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
- Statesman is tough... wish it had remained an article. PhnomPencil talk contribs 03:45, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
- Yep. Statesman is a disambiguation article now, PBS. That's why I changed the link. We need to decide if statesman means public figure or politician or diplomat. It is indeed tough. I switched most of the links to politician as that's where the article used to indirectly point to. But I respect any of the choices really. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 04:10, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
A little help
Hi Woohookitty,
I'm a frequent contributor of the Spanish Wikipedia.
I translate the article Muisca raft from Spanish.
Can you please read that little article and correct all possible mistakes?
Thanks a lot in advance, have a nice day. --Baiji (talk) 14:50, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Please don't redirect the link from Statesman (disambiguation) to Politician. The disambiguation page expounds on the term at the top and also because the term politician has negative connotations. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Object404 (talk • contribs)
- Since this person is not an automobile or a periodical, or many of the other possible meanings of "statesman", linking to the disambiguation page Statesman is inappropriate, even if done intentionally; the fix implemented by Woohookitty was correct. However, to avoid further handwringing over this, I am resolving the issue by linking directly to the wiktionary definition. bd2412 T 19:36, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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Request for article review in sandbox
Hi, I've just written a new stub article and would appreciate your review before I make it public. I found you because you edited this page American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and I used that page as a template for an article on a similar organization. Could you tell me if this is good to go as a stub, or is there anything I need to edit/fix/adjust? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BigFields/sandbox
Thank you for any assistance,(BigFields (talk) 14:04, 5 April 2012 (UTC))
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Userpage
This seems to be an almost exact copy of your userpage; the stuff about being an admin a userbox or two have been removed, but otherwise it is the same. Clearly it was taken from here. The user is no longer active, but I wondered if you had any connection? Cheers, Rcsprinter (shout) 19:17, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- Hey, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... Still though, WTF? PhnomPencil talk contribs 21:42, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
a priori
This is one of the stupidest edits I've seen in a while, and I found a bunch of other links to a priori (statistics) that were as absurd as this or more. As far as I know, "a priori" is used in statistics only by confused outsiders where "prior" is appropriate. Obviously when "a priori" is used in the usual epistemological sense, it is not about prior information in statistics. We have an article on that: a priori and a posteriori. And if we didn't have such an article, a red link would be appropriate rather than a like to an article about trunks of trees when elephants' trunks are the apporpriate topic. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:50, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
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Cleaning B class WLP article
Thanks so much woohoo; I appreciate your edit to section head {{Matthew Landy Steen]]. Don't know where I should be saying this -- on your talk page or in teahouse or in my usertalk??? Etiquette?? Please clue me in, as I need to acknowledge numerous anonymous editors, bureaucrats and all.Weathervane13 (talk) 04:26, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
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Howdy; something weird with some of your (automated?) edits I'm afraid. This bunch of weird red links were all added to articles by yourself on 21st March. I'll happily fix 'em in a few weeks if you've not - wanted to leave them intact in case they're useful debugging data. - TB (talk) 20:50, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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Deletion request
Hi, please delete User talk:NGC 2736/common.js, User:NGC 2736/common.js, User talk:NGC 2736/huggle.css, User:NGC 2736/huggle.css, User:NGC 2736/vector.js, User:NGC 2736/monobook.js, User:NGC 2736/twinkleoptions.js. Asking you because the CSD tag does not work in these pages. Thanks! --NGC 2736 (talk) 07:10, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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Edit on Wateen Telecom
Hey there!
I saw you left an edit on an article I edited namely "Wateen Telecom. I'm novel on editing and still in the process of learning. However, I'd appreciate if you help me out in cleaning up my edited article.
Thanks for having a look! Will be waiting for your reply! :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samia BR (talk • contribs) 10:21, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Rautaruukki
Hi there! And just wow - you are making amazing work here, keep up the good work. I noticed you had corrected something on an article I was editing and now that I translated parts from the Finnish article I am inviting you to check it again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rautaruukki . --Jjanhone (talk) 04:53, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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