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the content of much of what I edit. The procedures for deletion, copyright protection, blah-blah-blah is stuff I leave for people who are worried about those sort of thing. I know my place in the Wiki-world. I have no desire to be part of any edit war or huge philosophical discussions about how articles should be written or what they should contain. I do some mindless editing that the previous contributors missed. The one thing I noticed is that whenever I touch an article, someone is VERY LIKELY to take a look at it. That is, there are a LOT of people paying attention to "RECENT CHANGES" watching for vandalism and such. I figure if someone objects to the actual content, then it will be dealt with at that time. I often find things that needed to be dealt with long ago. Apparently you stumbled across my edit after three hours. Hurray for the good guys?

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about 800 different articles at this point. I have cut back on this activity after some unnecessarily virulent and unproductive discussions ensued on talk pages. If people want to change ratings i feel they should do so by posting rationales. Some editors seem to enjoy just criticising ratings without constructive edits of their own, (which is fine if the criticism is rational and to the point). In any case i appreciate your encouragement, since I am aware of your strong contributions as an editor, and perhaps this will stimulate me to do more ratings once again. Best regards.

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someone could come up with a better method. I can also tell by looking at a broad stub category. If I find a a name out of order, then I can be sure there is no DEFAULTSORT. If I look at non-stub categories, then it is possible that there was just a syntax error in the cat directive, so I fix those errors. Hope this helps!

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Sorry for the delay in responding! I took a wikibreak and then got covered up :-) I think your instincts are correct re:IMDB, plus outside of the basic facts, it's not reliable since they'll include any fact a user submits (rumors, et al). Best place to get any clarification on things like that would

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When I first started editing articles I borrowed heavily from IMDb, but then I realized that wasn't fair to IMDb (not to mention copyright issues). My feeling is that "Filmographies" should be limited (mostly) to wikilinks to articles that already exist. Lists of movies with dates and character names

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Excellent point, but frankly I DO NOT read every article that I edit. That is, the level of editing that I do is simply mechanical. I see the need for spacing and I put in spacing. I see a misspelled word and I correct it (within a sentence's context). I do not feel qualified to pass judgement on

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Hey- It's quite possible I used the template incorrectly. I'm not very good at coding things, and that's been the only way I've figured out to make the category lists show up. I don't know any other/better methods, of which there probably are some, so I've just gone with it as a stopgap solution.

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Hi Schmiteye, I didn't mean to revert your changes, just to restore some of the categories that had been taken out by previous edits. I didn't use popups, so I guess I must have been working from a version before your changes. Sorry about that--I've tried to put your edits back in, let me know if I

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Regarding the sorting you have been seeing, I don't know why people would sort like that, especially for a birth category; it might just be someone who is not familiar with the syntax for including categories and confusing it for that used for links. Some categories are sorted differently, but that

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Hello, Thanks for your message. Don't be put off by him. Every now and then a group of editors champion some pointless cause trying to tell other people not to use one editing technique or other. Sooner or later it is always "discovered" that it didn't make any difference whatsoever. In fact issues

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Unless a criteria was created that I missed, I don't believe the Films Wikiproject tage needs to be added to articles where a film is mentioned in passing, otherwise there are probably thousands of articles where this could be done. If there wasn't already an I Spy film article the I'd agree to put

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I noticed you've done a lot of work on adding the DEFAULTSORT magic word to biographical articles. I was wondering if you are working from a list, or just adding it as you go along? Also, do you have a script or AWB-type tool for doing this sort of thing (cleaning up the category pipes at the same

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Hello: A few years back you deleted an article about me here on Knowledge a friend had created about me, granted I was not notable then. SInce then I have become a published author with three book titles to my name. You said to make a note on your Talk page if I needed help (2 years ago) and I was

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Thanks for your positive feedback on the evaluations. Yes, i think there needs to be more evaluation and more posting of rationales for evaluations. I spend most of my evaluation efforts (about 97 percent of it) on evaluations of articles that I have had no editing involvement. I have evaluated

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Hi! Thanks for using the Tibetan language template that I designed. It looks like it worked fine, although I usually like to enclose the result in parentheses. By the way, I have it set up now to where, for almost everything, you can just use the simpler {{bo}} template instead of {{bo-tw}}, etc.,

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I thought I would wait until editing slowed a bit, I found a few minor nits, and then it got hammered again. I believe an article has to be relatively stable to be a featured article and so I think it fails that test. I've seen a couple of articles like this that are just way too controversial to

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or sleazy X-rated garbage that is created every day? Where does the line get drawn? When do we censor articles? Only when it involves libel? How many one-song bands, incidentally are loaded with grammatical, spelling and standardization errors, should I simply delete as unimportant? You don't

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No problem! I'm not positive about this, but I think that the user doesn't get the handy "new messages" box if the comment isn't on their talk page. My user page was vandalised recently, and I don't recall getting a notice of any kind. (Fortunately some kind editors had fixed it for me anyway!)

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Howdy, I have taken some time away from editing and just now saw your message. Basically I find articles without DEFAULTSORT by finding errors in categories. There are several common errors that I find that I "fix" by adding DEFAULTSORT and then cleaning up the cats. That would be great if

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Howdy, just so you know, I merely formatted what was in this article. I didn't add any additional information. I think I did remove one line that seemed out-of-place. Even though I don't particularly care for the topic, I treated it as objectively as I could. Most of my edits are made for

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Your solution sounds like a good one, however, it will create two external links (the first one being the name of the article) instead of one external and one internal link. This doesn't sound like a problem, and if someone doesn't like it they can easily change it back, and your comment on

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Absolutely no fixing necessary. I have a bot that goes around and does that for the people that forget. I just saw your name a few times while ZsinjBot was making its rounds and felt like dropping a friendly reminder, like I've had given to me about 3 times, lol.

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article. (I remembered that from a previous edit.) Sometimes finding things in Knowledge can be very challenging! :-) Also, I'm from the immediate area (lived in Burlingame, went to high school in Millbrae) and keep track of all the local stuff.

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to overflowing External links sections. Surprisingly, I've receieved very few complaints about my link deletions (and even those few complaints are odd ones—such as 'why can't I have a link to my Spanish-language website on a Japanese poet?').

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Hmm, well from my experience I thought this was a pretty good article. Usually the articles I copyedit are in pretty bad shape and so anything I do is (usually) an improvement. I will read the article again, but I doubt that I can improve it.

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Hi - thanks for your message on my talk page. I just happened to notice the Millbrae link on the SFO page and thought, hey, isn't there an article on the actual BART station? So I went looking for it, and it does appear in the article

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with the archives and alumni and I had talked to Charlie once or twice, when he was visiting. There are some interesting items about Charlie in the archives. I started the Dierkop article, before, I registered with Knowledge. Many

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and not a template, and the correct construction is {{DEFAULTSORT:Sortkey}} rather than {{DEFAULTSORT|Sortkey}}, using ":" instead of "|". The template was created to prevent confusion and shouldn't be used if possible. Thanks,

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For external links, the Knowledge is not doing a good job of staying on top of the abuse. On the other hand, all that I usually do is deleting single bad links that show up on my watchlist, and take the occasional

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Aloha. IMO, most notable television series have episode articles, so I don't think there's a need for a merge or deletion, although I'm sure you can find someone who will disagree. What the page(s)

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The only thing that would be 'harmful' is if you fixed ] automatically and created ]. That would be clearly stupid and is the only case I can think of where fixing redirects would be 'bad'.

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to the active section. I hope you will find the redesigned project pages helpful, and I wanted to welcome you back to the project. If you want you can take a look at the newly redesigned:

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was empty (I was looking at the wrong link), but it's got a bunch of appropriate articles in it, so I guess it's legitimate. Most cities are not subcats, but I guess this is a good case.

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Hello. Can you read and correct the article concerning Dominique Enon please? Thank you for your help. I am not a good translator and may be there are some mystakes. Thanks a lot. Pascal

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one in with TV show article, but there is. Same goes for Mission Impossible - we don't need a Film tag on the TV series article as there are separate articles on the three films. Cheers.

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from a direct link or a search or the disambiguation page. If they came from the disambiguation page they can use the "Back" button on their browser, no need for the extraneous hatnote.

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Subject does not seem to be notable, article has only around a dozen edits since its creation in February 2007, and was an orphan until it was linked to from the article on the recent

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While I agree with the rest of your edit, I just thought I'd point out that by changing ] to simply ] you caused the link to go to a redirect instead of directly to the page for

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Thanks for rewriting the Gypsy Moths article, I was meaning to do it but things just kept getting in the way. I have cleaned up a few remaining minor errors that remained. Best,

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You (probably inadvertently) removed the AfD tag, which shouldn't really be done till the AfD discussion is over. It is now, but the article was voted for delete anyhow. Best,

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I think Knowledge style is to wikilink the first mention of anything and then leave it plain elsewhere, but like everything else around here it's not set in stone. Best, --

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was created so people didn't see the red link and get confused, and the template just calls the magic word. There's more on this and why the template shouldn't be used on

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says to use the ] format and I'm nto seeing anything in the MoS against it. Please don't change these. Topical links are much more useful than the general year.

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I neglected to mention that the stub articles in question should be sorted, possibly with {{Tv-episode-stub}} and some other stub. You may want to bookmark

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hoping you could still help me out. I know you are not supposed to create your own page. If you could get in contact with me, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. -

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tag in the section, so hopefully someone else who knows more about the area can give a more thorough cleaning. If that someone is you, then by all means,

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if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see

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It looks like we're not the only ones to find this nonsense a pointless distraction. Let's hope in future he puts his time to better use. Kind regards,

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you made that concerned me. The whole paragraph appears to be strong defamation. Just a heads up to read articles critically and to take a look at

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to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template.

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is rare and would be consistent across most of the pages in the category, and in this case, I think it would be safe to change it. Hope that helps,

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These are from my deleted edits file. All of these are errors on my part made while I was patrolling for vandalism. Because of nice message sent by

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Thanks for the heads up. I didn't look up the page because I saw it done this way elsewhere and it worked. Will use the efficient version now. --

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By the way, I see people adding DEFAULTSORT and then doing odd things to the cats like: and I do not understand why they would do so a thing.

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Thank you for your quick reply! Is there anyone who you can point me to...to get the article written. One of the Inclusionists? -SebastianProoth

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Hi Schmiteye, I have noticed you have been adding the DEFAULTSORT template to articles recently. Just to let you know that this feature is a

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I don't really like working on categories, so I'm glad to see anyone doing some categorization of some of the California-based articles. ;-)

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Non notable voice actor with no evidence of substantial secondary sources. Sourced inappropriately using just IMDB for more than a decade.

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Thanks! There were some complaints about lack of copyediting, but I can't see what's wrong, so your input would be really appreciated.

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provides a record of your decision to make the change which is always a great idea, so it sounds like you're on the right path. As for

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Hi, Thanks for helping out with WP Bio tagging and assessing. May I gently request that you use priority= instead of importance=?

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from Knowledge. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company,

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Usually all I do for categorization is delete 'parent' categories if I see there is also a more specific 'daughter' category.

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FYI, since you've contributed to the SF visitor attractions, thought your comments positive or negative would be helpful...

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I see that you've been interested in the Justin Guarini page. Do you think that the AI template should be used on the page?

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That is a pretty clear copyright violation, and I've thus reverted the addition of the material. Good work spotting this. -

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Just to let you know about the 9ers in RWC. Your information is correct. I will try to get some citation to confirm that.

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I have been taking them off for almost all living people whenever I find them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I thought about that after I made the change, but never got back to it. I hope that was the only one I did that way.

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She may not be the most notable person on Knowledge but she fits the notability criteria from the Knowledge guideline

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Thanks, I really needed an objective view from someone who is not involved in this. Can you post your opinion on

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I am not trying to be critical of your edits, which I think are valuable. But if a person's name is linked to a

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Dawson, No problemo. I don't write many articles so spell checking is the least I can do. Thanks for noticing.

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No worries; the change (seems it was in the works for a long time) is pretty much spreading by word of mouth.

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Tex, my pleasure. One of those movies I saw too long ago and should see again. Thanks for making the tweaks.

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As long as I am ranting, how much "critical reading" do I put in when it is loaded with inane information on

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to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on

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Hi, I had a look at the article you mentioned on my talk page, and did some editing. I'm not sure if it was

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Where you the one who wrote that that Tran Van Chong was ambassoder of the united states.That is wrong.

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at least notify another editor to check into it. I felt like I stumbled into a land mine. Thank you,

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article. The article has been put up for deletion. I would like your unbiased input on the article at

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spelling, formatting, punctuation, and such. Personally I think the whole article should be deleted.

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Sigh, it turns out that date separators (commas) are affected when the year is piped in this way.

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belong on users' talk pages, not on their main user page. Thanks for your patroling, in any case!

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Hi, Schmiteye, nice to meet you. Thanks for catching and correcting all those misspellings! --

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Hi, Schmiteye. Just sayin howdy. Glad you're helping with the assault on that article, too.

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was one of them ? If so, have you any detailed references ? Thanks a lot beforehand, t.y.

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Given the privacy discussion about birthdates which led the the privacy requirement in

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On further testing I find that this formatting does NOT break the date functionality.

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Thanks for clarifying that. I have been using it with a pipe for separator. Thanks!

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Nope, it wasn't me. I just corrected the spelling of the word "president" in the

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I figure that if there's a better way to do it, someone will fix it for me!

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Actually I only edited the existing information. But thanks for checking!

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article. I do volunteer work at my alma mater Aquinas High School in

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On the other hand, I came across an article yesterday that was in

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Hi, I noticed that you made an edit to bypass a redirect at

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The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007

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Hello Schmiteye! Thank you for your contributions. I am a

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I changed all the DEFAULTSORT templates as you indicated.

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D'oh! After the rewrite I forgot to run a spell check!

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