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I patrolled your page. I went through the enormously-backlogged list of newly-created pages and confirmed that your page was okay: not spam, not an attack page, not a copyright violation, not any of the other reasons for which I would delete someone's page without asking. Then I clicked "patrolled" to remove it from the list of "pages that have not yet been patrolled", and moved on to the next entry. That's all. DS (talk) 13:20, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Teahouse

Hello Old Beeg,

Welcome to Wikipedia, and that's an impressive tower of userboxes you've got going on. I enjoyed scrolling down.

Thanks so much for pitching in at the Teahouse, and I hope that you will keep participating there. One suggestion, pertaining to the question about the infobox, is to explain to the new user how to solve the problem, as well as solving it for them if they are stuck. But that's a minor quibble, and I really want to thank you and welcome you. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 03:57, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

By the way, Carlos Dews is a solid start. I enjoyed reading it. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 04:37, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For your hard work and endurance in making the Reed Farrel Coleman article. Nice work! w.carter-Talk 08:27, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

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While I take your point (and have changed the category to Category:21st-century American poets, I have left the by-century category in place as she has been categorized as a poet as well as a crime fiction writer. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:31, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

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Niven

Fandom wikis are self-published so are generally not considered reliable - see WP:RSP. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:44, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

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?! using logo of HAIKU OS with registered trademark for userbox?!

Hey mate you are using logo of HAIKU OS with registered trademark for userbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Oldbeeg/userboxes/Haiku and that seems like bad practice if not illegal towards Haiku Inc. Zblace (talk) 06:57, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

@Zblace: The image is not copyrighted. Old Beeg ..warble·· 14:57, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

@Oldbeeg: true, but it is registered trademark of a software project - so your banner is missleading. Zblace (talk) 19:49, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

@Zblace: /Intent revealed by/“(poetry)” on bottom line;/The sun still rises./ Old Beeg ..warble·· 02:31, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

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Userbox talk

@Oldbeeg: I'm surprised that you haven't made userboxes for these national parks. Gateway Arch National Park, Indiana Dunes National Park, New River Gorge National Park and Preserve and White Sands National Park. Catfurball (talk) 19:47, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

@Catfurball: Guess I got burned out at the time and have never gotten back to it. Please feel free if you are so inclined! Old Beeg ..warble·· 22:16, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

@Oldbeeg: I went to the ideas page and asked for them to be created, and they were created. Catfurball (talk) 16:39, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

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Hi. Just found the play page yesterday, if it's any good I hope it is revised (three hours long!) and gets to Broadway. Apologies for removing the National Women's HOF navbox, and wanted to ask if I'm missing something (is the WHOF a part of the play?). Love your infobox collection, nice work. Enjoy. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:47, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

The WHOF includes several of the women (characters) in the play, and I saw that as an indicator of their importance. It is not specifically the show, but the women portrayed who are important to history. I still think that is a proper use of that navbox. Old Beeg ..warble·· 00:36, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

I'd love to agree, these people are American heroines (is heroines still okay to say? can't tell from one day to another what's allowed as free speech anymore). But to me, adding the Women's Hall of Fame navbox to the play would be like adding the {{Baseball Hall of Fame members}} navbox to a page on a movie about Babe Ruth. Because someone earns a place in a Hall of Fame doesn't seem to directly translate to the Hall of Fame navbox being placed on a page featuring a character portraying someone in that Hall of Fame, especially since the play itself cannot be included on the template. Make sense? Randy Kryn (talk) 03:42, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Actually, if you're looking at Babe Ruth and you'd like to see who is in the Baseball HoF, having the navbox at the bottom makes sense to me. Likewise, having the WHoF listed at the bottom of the musical's page, gives great follow up possibilities, and also makes sense--and I still think it should be there! Old Beeg ..warble·· 13:19, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

The Babe Ruth film page? Probably would be a good place to try it if you want to toss it on there, to me it's still way too tangential. WP:BIDIRECTIONAL probably applies, I haven't studied it but it was pulled on me when I good faith added the {{Zoos}} template onto over 700 zoo pages, thinking how much common sense that made (maybe I should bring the topic up again and see if people have loosened up a bit). It took over a week and nobody stopped me, and then a wikinemisis came by with that supreme law and after a discussion the navboxes were taken off. I don't know if what you feel is similar in terms of common sense, but yes, maybe add the Baseball Hall of Fame template to the Ruth film to see if it sticks (that test would likely have more viewers than the plays page). [I was wrong, it doesn't have very many views a day, but how about the Iron Jawed Angels page as a test? Wonderful film, and if you haven't seen it, find it somewhere posthaste and enjoy.] Randy Kryn (talk) 15:51, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

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