User talk:Macduffman

Welcome![edit]

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Your name[edit]

Is amazing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.54.10.136 (talk) 21:53, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Columbus Blue Jackets[edit]

Great work with that page! It's great to see people working on some of the teams that have less editors on here who are fans. I have a feeling you guys are going to have a break out year next year. -Djsasso (talk) 16:06, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if anyone ever mentioned it to you but there is a task force for that particular team. Not the most active of task forces but I am sure they would be happy to have you. Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Columbus Blue Jackets task force. -Djsasso (talk) 22:24, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neil Gaiman[edit]

Thank you for notifying me of a possible mistake, but my assessment was for WikiProject Children's literature, not WikiProject Comics. I apologise for writing a confusing edit summary. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 10:48, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Blue Jackets[edit]

Yeah, I've had people give articles I've worked on dinky reviews too. Once you take care of all of those, I'll look over it again; I probably missed something, but I like to be picky sometimes. Plus, it can help the people who work on it gain experience for future team articles, most of which are pretty lacking right now. Thanks! Black ngold29 20:15, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I have three questions[edit]

I made an edit today--one edit--to the article Carrie Prejean and have not made an edit to the article in days, but yet another editor reversed my ONE edit and then reported me on the 3RR notice board. I find this to be a clear use of Wikipedia to win a debate about article content and direction. Prejean was called a series of negative things by Perez Hilton, most of the words are contemptuous and vile, such as the b-word and c-word. There are editors that believe that each and every one of Hilton's use of those words MUST be included in the article about Prejean. Now, I don't see the need to have an article about Prejean dominated by the words and comments of ONE individual (highly negative words at that) dominate the life story of Prejean. It is tantamount to having the words of Saddam Hussein concerning George W Bush dominate the Wikipedia article about Bush. It violates Wikipedia avowed goal of NPOV and it violates BLP. Now, I know that consensus in Wikipedia editing is one of the goals, but consensus does NOT override other valid Wikipedia ideals such as BLP. There can be a compromise made where the gist of Hilton's highly negative opinion is included in the article, but at the same time it does NOT dominate the life story of Prejean. Prejean is notable for many, many reasons, not just her public fight with Hilton. She is notable for being a successful model; she is notable for participating in Deal or No Deal; she is notable for being the current Miss California USA; and she is now notable for being a TV personality. My first question is: Can you at least review the article and see if the second, third, fourth, and fifth repetitions of the b-word and c-word violates BLP? I believe that it does. And my second question is: Is it appropriate to make a report on an editor for violating 3RR even though that editor has only made one edit? And my third question is: Is misusing 3RR to win a debate on the proper interpretation of BLP appropriate? I don't think so.--InaMaka (talk) 15:59, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Article Rescue Squadron Newsletter (September 2009)[edit]

Article Rescue Squadron Newsletter[edit]

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Armageddon theology WritersCramp (talk) 13:28, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest[edit]

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:57, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
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