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ListWould you like to help me on a brand new list, List of Cleveland Indians managers? I started it, but it needs major cleanup. I found out there's about 35 managers in the history. So, it should take a little longer. My main goal is to eventually get it to FL. If it is improved to the level of candidate, you could co-nominate with me. So, what do you say?--LAAFan 17:16, 13 July 2008 (UTC) RevertIn the future, please wait at least 60 seconds after an action before resorting to placing something on the users talk page about it. By the time your comment was added, I had already explained myself on the other user's talk page. Thank you. tj9991 (talk) 14:33, 14 July 2008 (UTC) List of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim managersHey MFC, just a quick word to warn you that in a couple of days I'll be archiving List of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim managers's FLC as it's got no support right now. Go get 'em! The Rambling Man (talk) 16:35, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
FLCHa, I fixed that. Thanks.SRX 18:53, 14 July 2008 (UTC) FLCYou've probably seen it already, but the List of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's FL nom. is going well. I have addressed the rest of the concerns, and have sent notices to The Rambling Man and Gary King asking them to review the page as their concerns have been addressed. --LAAFan 20:46, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Re: NewsletterAlright, I'll check around! Thanks! Blackngold29 01:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC) Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. When the bot flag is set it will show up in this log. Please make sure that each edit is manually checked. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 19:33, 15 July 2008 (UTC) Bot problemHi, just noticed a problem with your bot replacing <references/> with {{Reflist}} is failing to remove the <div> code that may surround the references tag as per this edit. The bot should also take the number of columns from the code and pass it to the reflist template. Keith D (talk) 20:35, 15 July 2008 (UTC) All Star Game tonightTonight at 7:00 PM ET at Yankee Stadium. Joe Buck was on Conan last night and told Conan that he might say "BUDDY BOY" like James Cagney. So PAY EXTRA ATTENTION!!!! HPJoker Leave me a message 23:27, 15 July 2008 (UTC) I'll post in your editors review m8 FLC
WikiProject Baseball Newsletter
-- jj137 (talk) 03:15, 16 July 2008 (UTC) So do you want to co-nominate with me? Annoyomous24 00:36, 17 July 2008 (UTC) Thanks for your helpAre those tags part of the automated uploading options, or do we just have to look them up whenever we need them? If they're not part of the process, why aren't they, as that would seem to make uploader's lives a bit easier? Thanks again for your help and advice. S. Dean Jameson 19:45, 17 July 2008 (UTC) Hi! This image is a featured picture, but I think the sky needs cleaned up - it's creating really odd artefacting at thumbnail sizes. A little basic cleanup would move this from good, but flawed, to fantastic =) Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 01:42, 18 July 2008 (UTC) Re: List of Linkin Park awardsOkay sounds good. Nom it when it's ready. Gary King (talk) 02:41, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Status of Newsletterbot?Hi `cookie, What's the status of Newsletterbot? One of the users on WP:BARD tried to have it deliver a newsletter to the project's members, but it doesn't look like Newsletterbot has even put it on its queue yet, much less delivered it. Is the bot running? Currently borked? Checking its edit logs suggests it hasn't been active much lately. --Xover (talk) 18:03, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
CheckYou have e-mail. RedThunder 16:22, 20 July 2008 (UTC) Bot questionAre you sure your bot should be making changes like this one (only the first change in that) -- this is just an example, but the article is about the Reds' 1919 season, so wouldn't it be appropriate to bold the "1919 season" part as well (and I'm pretty sure the apostrophe should stay after the word "Reds" too). Then again, I'm not sure, just asking what your opinion on this is. jj137 (talk) 20:46, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Is newsletter bot no longer working, or were you just too busy to perform that action? Either way, thanks for letting me know; I'm happy to have my bot make deliveries when you can't. - Diligent Terrier (and friends) 20:50, 20 July 2008 (UTC) Logo
Typo'sWatchlistI get the feeling you're watching out for those lists! Cool. Do me a favour and review/support/oppose the other current lists which interest you? I'd appreciate it. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:01, 21 July 2008 (UTC) RFAAnd the inevitable pile ons begin. Don't you just love being under the microscope? Wisdom89 (T / C) 04:25, 22 July 2008 (UTC) a questionHello, Milk's Favorite Cookie. I'm Soccer5525 and I need some of your help. At the top of this page, it says your user name with it's reflection and a picutre of an Oreo coookie. I would like to add something like that to my page, except with my user signature and an image of a soccerball. Is there a way you could help me? Thanks. --Soccer5525 (Tk • Ctrb) 21:10, 21 July 2008 (UTC) POTD notificationHi MFC, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Bnf 20070218.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 26, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-07-26. howcheng {chat} 00:22, 22 July 2008 (UTC) Your RFABest of luck for your RFA -- Tinu Cherian - 07:22, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
your feeling about the removal of date-autoformattingHi Milk, I see autoformatting in a co-nomination of an FLC of yours. Can you let me know whether you object to the running of my script through it? Here's my usual paste-in. Dear contributors MOSNUM no longer encourages date autoformatting, having evolved over the past year or so from the mandatory to the optional after much discussion there and elsewhere of the disadvantages of the system. Related to this, MOSNUM prescribes rules for the raw formatting, irrespective of whether a date is autoformatted or not). MOSLINK and CONTEXT are consistent with this. There are at least six disadvantages in using date-autoformatting, which I've capped here: Disadvantages of date-autoformatting
Removal has generally been met with positive responses by editors. If anyone objects to my proposal to free the dates of autoformatting in the main text in a day or two on a trial basis, please say so below. The original input formatting would be seen by all WPians, not just the huge number of visitors; it would be plain, unobtrusive text, which would give greater prominence to the high-value links. Critically, since I’m an FLC reviewer, I want to state in unequivocal terms that whether or not contributors object to this proposal will have absolutely no bearing on my review or declaration at FAC. I’m proposing the action because FAC is an influential process, not because nominators might feel under obligation—they shouldn’t. Tony (talk) 15:58, 22 July 2008 (UTC) RfA, question 12Hi MFC, just wanted to drop you a line regarding Sandstein's question. I left him a note saying that I'm not at all happy with the accusatory tone of his question, and that he should consider changing or striking it. However, that being said, your DYK list could be seen as misleading. I did a little digging in Category:Wikipedia Did you know, and came across {{UpdatedDYKNom}}; perhaps you could update your DYK page to a more accurate description? Best of luck to you. GlassCobra 03:47, 23 July 2008 (UTC) Hi MFC, this FLC is coming to an end but you have said you'd like some more time to do a little bit more work on it. Can you let me know what you think? Cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:01, 23 July 2008 (UTC) Question regarding your RFAI'm honestly having a really hard time deciding what to do in this case. I think, in some ways, you've been handed a raw deal, and I'm a supporter of yours. But the oppose brought up by anetode and seconded by WJBscribe are very disturbing to me, and I'm pretty easy-going. It is quite obvious that you didn't take that picture (as an admin, I can still see it). Are you going to go on the record here and continue to claim, as you did in Anetode's link from February, that you created it? If you can show me either proof that you created it (the three "images" that you said you created this image from would be proof), or you can show me where in your diffs you either apologied or atoned for your "misunderstanding" with Anetode, I will remain in support. I realize you're having a stressful week, sorry to pile on here. I still think you are a very good editor, I've always been impressed with your contribs. Keeper ǀ 76 15:28, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
(crossposted from my talk to be sure you see this) Milk, Pedro and Shereth [on my talk] are very correct here. You need to stop. That link proves that that photo existed before you were even a Wikipedian. Stop lying, stop trying to rationalize and cover your tracks. Own up. I also strongly strongly strongly suggest you go back through your other image uploads, and write out a list of other images with questionable attributes. Two were found during your RfA. I'm going to be a bit mean here and surmise that there are probably more. Type one of two things here on my talk. 1) there are no other copyright problems with my uploads, or 2) here is the list of my other questionable uploads. You need to understand how serious a problem this is, so very very far beyond stupid DYK stuff. Those are copyrighted, Milk. Do you understand what that means and what can happen to Wikimedia if not curbed? If you type sentence #1, that you have no other image problems, and it is found out later that there are other egregious image problems, I will have no other recourse than to block you to prevent you from uploading what you do not understand. Please understand the seriousness of this issue. I will crosspost this at your talkpage. Keeper ǀ 76 20:58, 23 July 2008 (UTC) Your userpageHey, I just wanted to let you know that I really like your userpage; in fact, I kind of appropriated a little bit of your formatting for your list of major contributions. Hope you don't mind, I just really like the little icon pictures that denote article class. Have a good one! KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 17:31, 23 July 2008 (UTC) Copyright problems![]() If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:
However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:25, 23 July 2008 (UTC) Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year AwardIt appears that there may be some missing entries on this list - maclean has objected to its promotion based in its incompleteness. Can you sort it out quickly, or should I archive the nomination, allowing you to work on it offline and renominate in the near future? Cheers! The Rambling Man (talk) 09:05, 24 July 2008 (UTC) WikiCup
Rfa thanksHelloI have'nt much to say, but I just wante to tell you I absolutely LOVE your user and talk pages! They are super, and I was wondering if you could show me a little about how to fix up my page to look sort of like that. Cheers, IM.-- Your RfASorry about the result. Bad luck really. I would say "try again in a few months!" but look where that got you... oh well, hopefully see you back at RfA, but not for a long time yet. Happy editing, my chocolate covered friend. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 20:39, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
MFC, I'm sorry for the rude awakening. Integrity is essential when making difficult decisions, I hope that you understand why this instance had to be brought up and I hope you will work on your approach to dealing with difficult situations and owning up to mistakes. Regards, ˉˉanetode╦╩ 21:30, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I would love an explanation on the Aston Martin image, with the photographer now identified and the source now clearly identified as Auto Express. Why do you persist in maintaining that the image is yours ? You do realise that is theft, and making false claims of ownership of an image is something that gets people blocked from Wikipedia, not promoted to an administrator. What's your reasoning behind stealing the image ? Nick (talk) 22:16, 23 July 2008 (UTC) Erm, it would seem that I missed a lot in my one-day pseudo-break. What exactly happened in the RfA? Nousernamesleft (talk) 00:07, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
My condolences to you, MFC. As someone who's also been putting up with abuse, I can feel your pain. Maybe in another 6 months you can try again.--Bedford Pray 02:35, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
You received a lot of criticism in that RfA, not all of it I personally think was fair. The best advice I can give is not to loose faith in yourself, resolve the copyright issue, and contribute in the ways you want too, as your services are clearly of great value to Wikipedia. Camaron | Chris (talk) 10:03, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Can you go back and clean up all those mistakes it made? –xeno (talk) 20:47, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I have blocked your bot as it seems that you're not correspondingly timely to concerns. I'll unblock it when the issues are fixed. Fixing Xeno's and other's concerns can be reverting every edit, or manually sorting the good edits from the bad, which may take time. Maxim(talk) 22:47, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Basketball!![]() Userpage layoutHi! Are you aware that the layout you have chosen for your talk pages makes the site mostly unusable should one use the modern skin? It so happens that I enjoy this clean and otherwise usable style and it's gained quite a popularity. Unfortunately, the floating image tricks completely obscure the action buttons (not to mention that it looks plain ugly) - you don't even have a link for posting a new message. You really gave me a hard time navigating through your archives to fix them. Please be more considerate of other users. Thanks, Миша13 18:21, 25 July 2008 (UTC) Quick requestI noticed that one of your bots converts year in baseball links to templated versions. Could you please have the bot give New York Yankees seasons a run-through? I'm starting to build this up in hopes of bringing it to FLC in the future. Oh, and sorry about tonight and the next two days. :-) Giants2008 (17-14) 02:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC) Signpost updated for July 14 and 21, 2008.
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot (talk) 05:53, 27 July 2008 (UTC) Wikipedia WeeklyHello there! New: Episode 58: Wikimania 2008, Jimbo and Reflections. Have a listen. Also, if you haven't heard, all of the other Wikimania episodes are up and accessible through the homepage at http://wikipediaweekly.org. Peace. WODUPbot 09:05, 28 July 2008 (UTC) You're receiving this because you're listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly/delivery. If you'd like to stop receiving these messages, please remove yourself from that list. MLB ROTY FLCHi MFC. Hope you're ok, you haven't been around for a while. Because of this, and because of a few outstanding comments on the FLC, I've archived it until such a time you're able to address the outstanding concerns and renominate it. Feel free to get in touch with me if you'd like to talk this over more. All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 09:27, 28 July 2008 (UTC) POTD notification![]() Hi MFC, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Bucephala-albeola-010.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 3, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-08-03. howcheng {chat} 00:03, 29 July 2008 (UTC) Long time, no see...Hi MFC, Here's an update of what we've been up to on the WikiProject Lists of basic topics... We've created a page for every country of the world! They're not complete, and most of them aren't even in the main namespace yet, but... A team of editors has been working on them, and the pages have come a long way. We're about to run a competition, called "Around the World", in which participants will compete in the completion of specific data items across all of these country lists. For example, one task would be adding the population figure on each page. The awards images are almost done, and the pages themselves need a couple sections completed before they can be moved to the article namespace and the competition can begin. We could sure use your help getting these pages ready... Tracking down the administrative divisions types for each countryThe first task is on the "Administrative divisions of" sections. In each of these sections, there's an initial hierarchical list of the division types in that country, followed by subheadings for each of the types. Unfortunately, the types listed are those from the template I used to create these pages, and they aren't accurate for many countries. The defaults that I used were: (Where "x" is the name of each country). For each country, change the links to the names of the administrative divisions for that country, adding more links if there are more than 3 division types. Those that are subdivisions of another type are indented under the parent type. In most cases, you would leave municipalities in place, because that's a generic name for "city". We'll blue-link those later. (Blue-linking is creating a redirect so that a link turns blue - that way, the link remains standardized on all the pages in the set). Also change the subheadings in the same section to match the initial list, including the "main article" links presented just below each subheading. To find out what the administrative divisions are for a country so you can add them, try looking on the government of x or politics of x pages for that country, and on the country's main article as well. Adding the administrative divisions to their respective subsectionsFor each country, we need to find the list of administrative division for each type, and add them under that type's subheading. For example, copy and paste the provinces listed at Provinces of Angola under the "Provinces of Angola" subheading on that country's list page. See the countries listed at Lists of basic topics for examples of how this has been done for those. If there's a map showing the administrative divisions, grab it too. Generally do not add towns and cities to the municipalities section, as there are usually way too many of them (and will unnecessarily bloat the page). Instead, provide links to the various pages (Cities of x, [[[Towns of x]], Villages of x, etc. Completing the "Government of x" sectionThis section also has temporary data, and needs to be corrected/completed. The titles of the head of state and head of government of each country need to be corrected, and the specific office holders added. The branches of government subheadings need to be corrected/filled in. Etc. The above tasks are fun, because it's interesting to see how other countries operate. I've completed about 25 of the country pages so far, and I've been intrigued and even amazed at some of the approaches different countries follow. The U.S. is definitely behind in many respects. Please help out as much as you can, and help us get Around the World started! Sincerely, The Transhumanist 17:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC) TSQUAD collaborationHey, I noticed that you worked on List of films receiving six or more Academy Awards for the FLC contest, and wondered whether you would want to collaborate on it for WP:TSQUAD. See the discussion here. Cheers, sephiroth bcr (converse) 01:24, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
VandalismThis IP computer/account has never edited Wikipedia. How could this be? 116.240.191.42 (talk) 08:56, 30 July 2008 (UTC) Image copyrightAre we ever going to receive a full explanation regarding the uploading of the Aston Martin image as mentioned at your RfA, archiving a considerable number of unanswered comments relating to this issue seems rather improper. Given that some of us do take image copyright very seriously, can you at least admit that you stole the image, that you understand this and the resulting refusal to admit to stealing the image was very wrong and wholly incompatible with continued editing of Wikipedia. Can you also please identify any further uploads that require deletion for similar reasons or confirm that all your other uploads are wholly compliant with the relevant copyright and fair use policies (as and where appropriate). Nick (talk) 09:23, 30 July 2008 (UTC) NYY seasonsI wouldn't want it to be similar to Boston Red Sox seasons. :-) Seriously, thanks for the help. This is my first attempt to bring something to featured status, and every bit of editing helps. Giants2008 (17-14) 19:44, 30 July 2008 (UTC) (I bet you didn't think this was ugly six months ago! :-)) I've made some comments on the talk page - care to take a look? Thank you. Howdoyouturnthison (talk) 11:03, 31 July 2008 (UTC) WikiProject Arkanasas newsletter, updated for August
--Chet B. LongTalk/ARK 04:02, 1 August 2008 (UTC) Thank youFor this. Pre-transclusion comments are often viewed in low regard by the community. Good to see you back editing! Pedro : Chat 06:54, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
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HopefullyHello, sorry to bother you but I noticied you make a lot of good logos for user pages. I was wondering if you could make me a quick one for: EricV89 - I would appreciate it very much and would be eternally grateful if you could. Thanks. --eric (mailbox) 17:27, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Re: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/WilliamHEh, close enough. :P I was only one vote away... Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 18:22, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Hurricane FelixHey, I have some time to look over this. I noticed you haven't nominated it for GA, but I can review and copyedit it for that purpose. Is that alright? Howdoyouturnthison (talk) 21:57, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
List of NBA championsThe main reason I oppose the merge is really an issue of consistency. If you look at other sports, for example football. Vince Lombardi Trophy and List of Super Bowl champions are seperate. So do World Series Trophy and List of World Series, Stanley Cup and List of Stanley Cup champions. Now I understand that all other NBA awards page have the list on the award pages. But since other sports seperate the championship trophy from the list of champions, I think we should follow the same arrangement for the NBA as well.
New FA-Team mission needs your help!Félix Houphouët-Boigny needs to be copyedited and peer reviewed. We would appreciate any and all help from the crack members of the FA-Team! Sign up here. Merci! Awadewit (talk) 12:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC) Question regarding AwardsHi, just saw your brief discussion over at the List of Pearl Jam awards regarding whether "Rockonthenet.com" is a reliable source. Just wanting confirmation on whether it is in fact unreliable as I was planning on submitting List of The White Stripes awards for Featured List and as you can see, it uses Rockonthenet.com a lot. Red157(talk • contribs) 13:10, 3 August 2008 (UTC) WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Added some comments and improvements, maybe add some more when you're done. I'm actually contacting you because it's a little annoying that some basic things didn't get picked up at the GA review - still as long as the improvements are made then there's no harm done. (update: just noticed the GA conversation about a first reviewer; I'll help them notice more things in future). Thanks. Sillyfolkboy (talk) 02:02, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Los Angeles Lakers Newsletter for August 3, 2008
UserpageLOL at this (both edits). I never noticed that before :) jj137 (talk) 20:39, 5 August 2008 (UTC) |