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Hi there. I did most of the original work on the "Big Dig" article, and was surprised to find that the guy who "wrote the book" on the project used that term ... which I for one had ever heard only in reference to Fenway Park's more famous "Green Monster". I put it in the article in deference to his
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Advice: first, put the {{hangon}} tag on the top of the article page - don't remove the CSD tag, just put this tag on top of that one, and do it right now if you haven't already. Next, find reliable, published sources and reference them in the article. Deletionists love sources, and the more of them
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Hi - thanks for the message. I can't delete the tag - I promise you, if I hadn't tagged it, someone else would have. Reread the above message for how to proceed. If you think the group is notable, by all means submit the info necessary to keep the article. On its face, however, it doesn't quite meet
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That particular vandal used a considerable number of sockpuppets to vandalize Knowledge. He spammed his "revolution manifesto" all over, over a number of days... not merely to user talk pages, but overwriting quite a few Knowledge articles with it. I blocked and blanket reverted. --
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I noticed that you mentioned in the edit summary that you were the grandson of both of these individuals. Is it possible for you to upload two individual pictures of these individuals in order to improve the article? If you need licensing help, I can assist. Thank you!
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expertise. I imagine you found the reference confusing for the same reason. We'll let it stand as you left it. BTW, as if it's not weird enough for a guy from Montana going to school in SoCal, you had to go read up on the East Coast too!
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Yes, there's an explanation. As a result of being tired (having done RC patrol all day), I saw an anon IP address and the vandalism, and immediately clicked revert. You'll see that I immediately saw my mistake, and reverted myself back
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Matthew, refutations are summed on the Talk page. Thanks. PS sorry about the earlier confusion. I thought AIW was about text inclusions, I have been corrected that it's about article inclusion/deletion.
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page that I have been working on enhancing. Despite your hatred, I hope that you can provide some information on your home state. Any additions/corrections would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks for the coffee! The Kinspiracy Tumblr is hilarious - I found a link to it elsewhere yesterday, but it entertained me all over again today. More work to do there - onwards!
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Thank you Matthew, for your input. I appreciate your recommendation to Jayjg to take a break and let those not so personally involved make educated decisions about neutrality.
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Are you an inclusionist? Can you take a look at the Talk on apartheid? There is a editor Jayjg that keeps trying to delete a factual 2-Word Inclusion. Thanks.
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if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Knowledge (see
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is "vandalism", really. Is the phrase "biting, complex" POV? Yeah, probably. But it's not like writing "booger" all over the article. The series of "yeah"s
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to Knowledge. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Knowledge constitutes fair use. Please go to
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is a deletionist proposla that seeks to officially introduce notabiltiy for the first time. Make sure this is defeated! --
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is in progress to define the role of notability in articles. Please help us make this successful! Also note the proposal
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Because you're a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians, I'm notifying you that the inclusionist proposa
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describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to
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Not wanting to clog the FPC page with discussion (more than I already am doing)... I was surprised to find that Adams
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I had already blocked him again before you even asked. This time for longer. Thanks for letting me know, though.
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I just got a high-res version, and the image is public domain. Please support the high-res version. --
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linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check
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for it)? It shouldn't be an article yet until it is used to replace the text in the article
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to the page, and then immediately add such an assertion. It is also a very good idea to add
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I like your changes. I read over them and added some text. You may wish to add yourself to
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the better. Finally, format the article like other articles about bands are formatted; see
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Greetings! Your user page hasn't been vandalized :-) --it was updated to use the new
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Did you notice his recommendation that you do the same? Let's both take a break, ok?
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Hi, you might want to join the mediation on this article. There was a slight revert
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Don't fear, there's no edit war on the cards. I look forwards to the new version!
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That every article it is used on is linked to from its description page.
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Thanks for your understanding; I'm probably going to get some rest now.
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scheme. I have categorized your User Page as a Wikipedian in Montana (
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the level of notability. I've been wrong before, though, so go for it!
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within 5 seconds. I then proceeded to block the offender for 24 hours
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is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Knowledge
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do some later work in color, although this book of the results
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going on and we're going to try and solve it :) See
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