User talk:Phydend/Archive 1
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Disambig fixes for Legion
You do know that you can do internal links to Wiktionary like so: [[wikt:Legion|Legion]], right? --maru (talk) contribs 00:27, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Unspecified source for Image:Hindsight2.jpg
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- Wiki's are not legitimate source and the image is unsourced at the other Wiki. -Nv8200p talk 20:32, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request
This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I may have found your page based on your contributions or your link repair user box on your user page. If you are not a member, please consider including your name on the project page. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 23:14, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Halloween Horror Nights Split
First, I want to thank you (and User:Dan Harkless) for helping me with this. I am not the greatest at things and don't want to screw this up. I created three subpages for us to split the article. Then, when we feel that it is complete, put them into the new articles and put in a disambiguation page. We'll have to monitor for any other changes (but now that the event is over, it will be easier) put in by other users. Thank you again for your help!--Farquaadhnchmn(Dungeon) 21:39, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
User:Farquaadhnchmn/HHNsubpage User:Farquaadhnchmn/HHNF User:Farquaadhnchmn/HHNH
- I went through with the split and created the pages and what not. Just go to Halloween Horror Nights now and see for yourself. I did it now because there were a couple of decent edits made to HHN and I felt that it should be public domain. I'll keep my project pages for about a week and then speedy delete them. Thanks again for your help.--Farquaadhnchmn(Dungeon) 05:40, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Notre Dame
How is it vandalism? Atlantabraves 19:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC) Okay sorry bout that. by the way, go braves! If you haven't checked out www.braves-nation.com, you should. If you would like a Braves forum it rocks!Atlantabraves 00:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Halloween Horror Nights Peer Review
I put the Orlando page up for user review. Just letting you know in case you want to contribute. --Farquaadhnchmn(Dungeon) 23:44, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Brady Quinn Article
Hi Phydend,
I just wanted to keep you in the loop regarding some thoughts on this article. See my comments bolded below. I think that there is a lot that we can improve.
Let me know, please.
Larry
Hi KelleyCook,
I certainly can understand your misunderstanding, but the section you deleted (regarding Brady Quinn's record) was not the work of an anonymous serial vandal.
Per the article History, User: Phydend had corrected the last of that anonymous vandalism at 1545hrs. Your edit at 1603hrs simply deleted a section that I had marked as "unreferenced" yesterday. It probably has some opinion therein, but it should not have been deleted pending someone determining that statements were factual or not.
Could you please revert it to the last version by User: Phydend or my last version User:Lmcelhiney as I'd rather not be blocked on the "3-revert rule."
Thanks for taking the time to correct this.
Take care,
Larry
Lmcelhiney 21:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- The reworked section is of course now fine, but it originally was added by this edit here [1]. This is a repeat vandal from a random Southeast Mich DSL account who pretty much only posts exaggerated claims about University of Michigan and negative things about Notre Dame. His account is routinely blocked soon afterwards. As usual, it was highly biased and the same things he always does (lowers Notre Dames law school/business rating, changes its location to South Bend, raise Michigan to #1, etc.). I just reverted all of his stuff. -- KelleyCook 15:21, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for the added information. I missed the originator and thought that you were suggesting that I was the serial vandal, sorry. My original point was that there probably were facts therein and we've collectively managed to attribute all of that into a worthwhile portion of the article. I'd like to help contribute to this article to allow it to move up the review scale on the WikiProject College football as indicated on the article talk page. To that point, I believe that the Vince Young article can offer us a template to improve this article. Any thoughts? Lmcelhiney 16:25, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
The Green Goblin's Last Stand
Thanks for pointing out that AfD page; I was unaware of it. —tregoweth (talk) 01:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
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Nice cleanup on revenge of the mummy
Nice work cleaning up the Florida article and getting rid of all the California references. Had been meaning to get to doing that for a while now and never got around to it. Nice to see someone else did. Rmkf1982 | Talk 17:29, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Notable stuff on Dorms
It's funny how you're so harsh on Fisher's "non-notable" content but then reference Dillon's page. According to Wikipedia's definition of "notable," most of the stuff on there is non-notable, particularly the Princess Javelina story. DrBravo2 | Talk 21:54, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
unintended change of maliboomer technical data?
I suspect that in your change to the Maliboomer page to add the Disney infobox, you did not intend to change the "G-force" minimum from -1 to 1.
If my suspicion is correct, then you should probably put it back to -1 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maliboomer&diff=103660268&oldid=103657962 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.176.132.202 (talk) 18:39, 8 March 2007 (UTC).
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WDW infobox
About the color... Disneyland's is blue and Disneyland Paris has a purple one, so that leaves a lot of colors. I'd put up a topic on the talk page, but I doubt anyone will reply... So feel free to change the color. Just remember to change all the WDW-related infoboxes with it... - SergioGeorgini 15:29, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
removal of ToT sim?
re: your RV of my addition. why would a website that simulates the ToT control panel not be valid as an example of how the Tower works? From an encyclopedic viewpoint, it gives a good overview of the tower layout and the guest flow process. SpikeJones 14:13, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for taking a 2nd look. I certainly understand your stance (nay, fully support your stance) regarding keeping WP free of linkspam and useless info. SpikeJones 14:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
the historic PD cut-off date
Hello. The cut-off date for what is historic PD is January 1, 1923. So as you correctly decided, the ND Victory March isn't in the PD. USC's song was composed in 1922, so it just barely slides in (so I restored it). That applies to pictures too. --Bobak 14:12, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
- no problem, we all learn from somewhere. --Bobak 15:27, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
You're right that "musicians aren't necessarily notable b/c of the bands they are in" but listing of multiple notable bands a person is/was a member of is an assertion of notability, which is all an article needs to avoid speedy deletion. Whether or not he is notable because of that membership is debatable, which is why I suggest you take this article to WP:AFD if you believe he is not notable (if you do, I would suggest citing to standards at WP:BAND and WP:BIO).--Fuhghettaboutit 04:32, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
- You're welcome:-)--Fuhghettaboutit 04:52, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Phydend. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:HHN10poster.gif) was found at the following location: User:Phydend/Pictures. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 07:41, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Disney attraction templates
Do you think the various templates (like Template: DAK) can be converted to using this template: Template:Navigation? It would make it easier to access and edit it. Template:Zoos is an example of it in action. --blm07 19:52, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
- I have no idea how to do it, I tried messing with it, but I don't know what I'm doing. --blm07 20:23, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Brethren Court References
Thank you so much for doing that! I had seen it on other pages, but didn't know how to do it, and it was looking really messy, which bodes bad for the people trying to save the page from deletion. Could you please add a comment on the deletion page's entry? Therequiembellishere 05:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Season pages
Currently, I'm working on a new format in my sandbox. There are many reasons why both the Simpson format and the Smallville format don't work. For the Simpsons, it would trouble to try and cram any production informatin into the little boxes in the table they have. For Smallville, we'd have a overly huge table of contents if we had subheadings for production under every episodes. Plus, there is the problem of images. It's still a list, and that makes the use of an image per episode trouble. I've kind of got a combination thing going. I have a table for the plots, directors, writers, airdates, episode number set up. I did it this way because that is really the stuff that does major changing per episode, and so it will keep plot summaries from becoming overly long. Then I have a section for 'production'. Subsections may be necessary for some shows (as I have an "effects" section for Smallville). The reason I keep that together is because for most shows, if not all, the generally keep all their production stuff. There are usually only minor changes here and there, and it keep a consistent prose it is better to have them together then have bullet points within the current season format. I'm hoping to have it completed soon so that I can show it off for criticism and tweaking. I have to smooth the prose out because right now it's all jumbled. But, I wanted to let you know that we are trying to devise some good examples of how you can incorporate real world content, for every episodes (if it exists), but do so on a larger scale. Currently, I know I'm going to have at least two episodes split off because I have so much information, but the rest really isn't that much. It only looks like more because you deal with so many episodes in a season. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 15:20, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- You're more than happy to look at it. User:Bignole/Smallville seasons. It's really chaotic and right now just contains bullet points about each episode. I've left notes in places informing anyone that reads what will not be in the finished product. One note that isn't there, is that all the subheadings that have the names of the episodes is just for my assistance. Let's me keep track of what goes where while I don't have a name in there yet. They'll most likely be large scale versions of this. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 15:45, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. Yeah, I work in chaos, it's sometimes easier. If you look at my user page, I have a bunch of projects that I'm working on. You should have seen how chaotic the Jason Voorhees article (in my sandbox) was. I've recently turned much of that into prose. Once I get a good pop culture section I'm going to merge it into the mainspace. The reason the Smallville page is taking so long was because I just recently watched the two commentaries on the DVD (for the pilot and for "Metamorphosis), and I haven't seen how much relevant stuff from "Metamorphosis" there will be to include. I don't like trying to fit things into an already existent prose. It's easier to have the bullets and then rearrange as your are working into a prose format. Once I get the rest of that, I'll go ahead and work everything into prose, because all that is left is the last 3 episodes, and they'll come at the end of the sections anyway. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 16:28, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- Trying to get some feedback. How do you think this section of my new season format reads? It's only a section, but it was the easiest to go ahead and convert to prose. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 16:55, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you added a plot tag to the article. I'm not sure what the official recommendation but on Simpsons articles, we try to make them about as long as the summary in Cape Feare, which is an FA. -- Scorpion0422 23:31, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
"Plot Summary"
Re The Judas Window -- I actually agree with your comment but according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/ArticleTemplate, this is the way the Novel Project wants to standardize entries about novels -- my apologies for reverting you. Accounting4Taste 16:10, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes
Thanks for tagging them and bringing attention to what's needed, i'll see what i can do to improve them. Any recommendations? Lucky number 49 19:23, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
charlie weiss
i do not understand why you are changing my edits to the charlie weiss page, i have added factual information about his trial, and his record against teams in the top 25. i know you love notre dame, but that should not keep people from know the truth about their coach. i put up the article about him losing 90 pounds and still being overweight, so please leave my changes alone, because if you did the research yourself you will see that everything i am writing is 100% factual. by the way the only team beaten by weiss at nd to finish in the top 25 was the 2006 penn state team, if you don't believe me please look it up. i will then expect an appology from you for changing my factual changes to the charlie weiss page. thank you and i can't wait for september 8 in happy valley :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.154.137.254 (talk • contribs)
Your last comment at WT:CFB
I noticed you inserted a comment into the middle of the discussion. Per WP:TPG, it would seem most appropriate if you would move that comment to the end of the "thread". This will keep the thoughts consistent within the section. I'm not a fan of refractoring other's comments, so i felt this was the best way to communicate with you. I will respond once it's tacked on to the end. Jmfangio| ►Chat 14:34, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
- I was trying to keep everything of the same discussion at the same point (that I believe is why we have indentations to keep discussions together) but I removed the comment when I added a reply anyway. It says the same thing and it actually explains my position better I think. Phydend 14:48, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
- I did copy your comments here to keep this "easy to follow". I'll mark this page for watching if you want to chat some more about this. That aside, I understand completely and it's something I used to do until I read up on the talk page guidelines. When people respond on talk pages, they can only comment on what has already been said. Thus, when someone comes back to read the discussion (for whatever reason), inserted text will often confuse people. Yes there are time stamps, but that doesn't usually help when you have long discussions broken up with inserted comments. I didn't want you to remove the comments, only refractor them. Jmfangio| ►Chat 15:00, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
- I wasn't sure if you'd have seen if I had replied here (I know that it is preferred to keep the discussions in the same place, but I know a lot of people don't) and thanks for the heads up about the talk page guidelines, I'll read up on those again. Phydend 15:10, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Your last comment regarding Quinn vs. Agent
Legally, the opinion of an agent IS the opinion of the principal. Thus the opinion of Quinn is the same as the agent (unless Quinn denounces the agent). Quinn has not done that, so the opinion is one of the same. Your edit is more direct, but I disagree with your view that Quinn's opinion cannot be read to be the same. --tortdog 12:55, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
King of the hill episodes re:Notability
What changes, exactly, can you tell me that you're looking for in the King of the Hill episode articles to remove the notability tag and therefore remove the threat of deletion? Since you seem to have painted them with the same wide paintbrush (most (if not all) of the episodes have been tagged by you, as though you went straight down the list) you must see some pretty glaring faults that are easily explained. I've already looked at the notability requirements of Wikipedia. What is the problem here - do you need proof that these episodes exist? I'm not sure how "critical reception" makes the episode more notable - most of the articles for individual episodes in most series do not have a link to "critical reception." (And, besides, the topic is the episode itself, not how critics received it.) What changes should be made to ensure you and others no longer add tags to the articles that will make then in danger of being deleted? Thanks. 24.99.231.40 06:43, 5 August 2007 (UTC) I didn't know if Wikipedia would alert you, but I responded to the message you sent to me on my talk page by editing the page and adding my own comments. Your input would be extremely helpful. 24.99.231.40 22:26, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Re: Image question
Nominate for IFD with that reason or just put "no source" (which can also mean insufficient source) on the image. If you do the latter and they remove it (which they shouldn't), just put it up for IFD explaining everything. I didn't look into it at all beyond your description, so I don't think speedy delete is appropriate, even if it's likely to be deleted in the long run. MECU≈talk 12:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
An intial GAN review has been made on the2005 USC Trojans football team talk page with a few points offered. It has been moved from stub class to B class, with a little tweaking I believe GA and possibly FA are not far away. I have requested a second opinion to make sure the sports aspects are totally covered and not just the MoS aspects. Good luck on your article, it has come a long way! SriMesh | talk 20:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
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