Brad Halls

College Marching Bands

Hey Brad, great job on the band skeleton. I've just broken the category:marching bands into university and will soon add high school bands. I've noticed that school bands done with your skeleton won't let me replace the category:marching bands with category:university marching bands. This leaves them appearing in both the parent and child. Can you tell me how to fix this, or would you change this for me? My dad was an MSU alumni, not in the band, but all of his kids were in band and grandkids are in drum corps as well. Thanks. CRKingston 11:33, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Category on userpage

I was sorting categories, and I noticed your band skeleton page showed up in Category:University marching bands. User pages should not show up in categories for articles. I didn't fix it, since I'm not sure how you use that page. Would you please remove it from the category? Either comment out the text with arrows (<!-- text --->) or put a colon in the link, like I did in this paragraph. Thank you. -Freekee 06:36, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

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Drag (percussion) and Diddle rewrites.

I've changed the rewrites (Talk:Drag (percussion)/proposed rewrite and Talk:Diddle/proposed rewrite) according to your comments, and request that you look them over again. Also, feel free to make changes directly. Though I wrote it, wikipedia articles have no owner, even the rewrites. --Evan Seeds (talk)(contrib.) 07:59, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Also.....a barnstar!

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WikiProject Percussion

EvanSeeds said on my talk page that you might be one of the editors interested in the percussion WikiProject, which we just set up today (still in my userspace, but if there is enough interest, we could move it into the Wikipedia namespace). If you are interested, just let me or him know. Thanks, Kakofonous (talk) 22:54, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey, if you're still interested, we now have five members, counting you, and are planning to move it into actual project space soon. If you are still interested, add yourself to the member list at User:Kakofonous/WikiProject Percussion and check the talk page for discussion on what needs to be done before moving it to project space. Thanks, Evan ¤ Seeds 02:02, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Combined rudiment page

As something I know you're interested in, User:Kakofonous and I have start a proposed rewrite of Rudiment in his user space. Please comment there on what you think about the idea and contribute to the article. --Evan ¤ Seeds 00:01, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject Drum corps userbox move

Hi, Brad. I have moved the userbox that I created for WP:WDC out of my userspace into template space at {{User WikiProject WDC}} As you are/were transcluding it, I took the liberty of updating the link on your userpage. Just wanted to give you a heads up for when you see that in your page's history. Happy editing. --Gwguffey (talk) 18:56, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect Revert

I just accidently rollbacked one of your edits to Talk:Interactive_visualization, I didn't see it was in the Talk: namespace. Sorry, it's been fixed now. Message from XENU^{u, t} 17:52, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

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Third person

Hi Brad -- a Wikipedian once deleted my user page for using the third person. Happened upon your page and noticed you're using third person. Just thought I'd let you know. Not sure why they are doing this, maybe it's not universally enforced? Jeromewiley (talk) 17:31, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

>>>> Jeromewiley, thanks didn't know that was a thing. Fixed. Brad Halls (talk) 17:46, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

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