User talk:Peaceray/archive/2012

Disambiguation link notification for March 9

Hi. When you recently edited Matteo Visconti, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Lodi and Crema (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:34, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

List of Bible translations by language

This message being sent to the three editors who suggested listifying. Done. Took 3 days but the final remaining languages moved out to area articles or stubs. Please give input or edit on format of what remains. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:52, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Great American Wiknic for Oahu in June

It would be great if you could get Wikipedia:Meetup/Oahu/1 started with whatever preliminary details!--Pharos (talk) 21:15, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I am out of town and not planning to attend. Have lots of fun!!! Esb (talk) 07:09, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Have fun on Saturday! Even though you're starting small, this could ge the beginning of something!--Pharos (talk) 17:23, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Tropical Families and tropical genera, I thank you your collaboration.

Hi, I thank you your help in tropical flora. I hope your help again in the future. Best regards Curritocurrito (talk) 09:32, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Great American Wiknic Barnstar

Great American Wiknic Barnstar You are awarded this mighty Great American Wiknic Barnstar for your valorous efforts in helping to organize the 2012 Great American Wiknic in the great city of Honolulu. -—Pharos (talk) 21:36, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Mahalo! Peaceray (talk) 07:57, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Welcome message at User talk:211.11.134.217

HI, PeaceRay, i dont know if you can support the arguement that if a person is being forcibly detained by a group of men who want to murder someone, it would take more than a few seconds; or are you saying that the Imperial Secret Service were incompetent and incapable of killing one man in 12 days?

anyway, you probably just deleted it for spite, having read that Obama also easily obtained suspicious documentation from Hawaii... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.11.134.217 (talk) 19:53, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

(Anonymous editor from) 211.11.134.217,

If you check Sun Yat-sen: Revision history, you will see that I did not revert any of your edits, but that others reverted your edits.

I did post a Welcome message on your talk page indicating that someone using the 211.11.134.217 IP address had "made unhelpful edits to the page Sun Yat-sen, which have been reverted."

Regarding the location of Barak Obama's birth, you may subscribe to Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories, and, as a resident of Hawaii and someone whose son was treated at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children where Obama was born, may believe that anyone who believes Obama was born elsewhere is a crackpot, but both your and my beliefs are opinions, and are not properly placed in an an encyclopedic context. What really matters here is the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy. Until there is verifiable documentation that counters Barack Obama's Certification Of Live Birth in Hawaii, I respectfully and wholeheartedly disagree.

Peaceray (talk) 21:45, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Your free 1-year HighBeam Research account is approved!

Good news! You are approved for access to 80 million articles in 6500 publications through HighBeam Research.

• The 1-year, free period begins when you enter the code you were emailed. If you did not receive a code, email wikiocaasi@yahoo.com your Wikipedia username.
• To activate your account: 1) Go to http://www.highbeam.com/prof1
• If you need assistance, email or ask User:Ocaasi. Please, per HighBeam's request, do not call the toll-free number for assistance with registration.
• A quick reminder about using the account: 1) try it out; 2) provide original citation information, in addition to linking to a HighBeam article; 3) avoid bare links to non-free HighBeam pages; 4) note "(subscription required)" in the citation, where appropriate. Examples are at WP:HighBeam/Citations.
• HighBeam would love to hear feedback at WP:HighBeam/Experiences
• Show off your HighBeam access by placing {{User:Ocaasi/highbeam_userbox}} on your userpage
• When the 1-year period is up, check applications page to see if renewal is possible. We hope it will be.

Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi 15:32, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Peaceray (talk) 06:59, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Thanks for the welcome page! Polk1986 (talk) 16:05, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Mahalo! Peaceray (talk) 06:59, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Suleman octuplets

I've gone through and cleaned up all the references for Suleman octuplets; should be a lot easier to navigate them. Some paragraphs still need citations and are a bit wordy. Thanks! AngusWOOF (talk) 18:13, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I was just doing a bit of WP:GNOME work cleaning up {{dead link}} citations. Peaceray (talk) 20:43, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Re: Sun Yat-Sen?

Hello PeaceRay— by any chance is your recent missive to me propelled by your reaction to my edit of the article on Sun Yat-Sen?

Regards,

Chuanist (talk) 23:52, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed that you have been editing since February 2010, but that no one had welcomed you. Peaceray (talk) 00:23, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for September 17

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Sun Yat-sen, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Kula (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:14, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Your free 1-year Questia online library account is approved ready

Good news! You are approved for access to 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, newspaper articles, and encyclopedia entries. Check your Wikipedia email!

1. Go to https://www.questia.com/specialoffer
2. Input your unique Offer ID and Promotional code. Click Continue. (Note that the activation codes are one-time use only and are case-sensitive).
3. Create your account by entering the requested information. (This is private and no one from Wikipedia will see it).
4. You'll then see the welcome page with your Login ID. (The account is now active for 1 year).

If you need help, please first ask Ocaasi at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com and, second, email QuestiaHelp@cengage.com along with your Offer ID and Promotional Code (subject: Wikipedia).

• A quick reminder about using the account: 1) try it out; 2) provide original citation information, in addition to linking to a Questia article; 3) avoid bare links to non-free Questia pages; 4) note "(subscription required)" in the citation, where appropriate. Examples are at WP:Questia/Citations.
• Questia would love to hear feedback at WP:Questia/Experiences
• Show off your Questia access by placing {{User:Ocaasi/Questia_userbox}} on your userpage
• When the 1-year period is up, check the applications page to see if renewal is possible. We hope it will be.

Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi EdwardsBot (talk) 05:11, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Reverting Visconti Coat of Arms back to correct version

Sorry, my mistake. I was not aware that the crown was added in 1395 and not prior to. But concerning the format, its not really common to have a 'thumbnail' with caption within the info-box. That feat. is more for an article like 'Biscione' or 'House of Visconti'. Daufer (talk) 18:42, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Daufer, yes, I know that it is highly unusual to have thumbnail captions. I added it after an editor previous to you swapped out the pre-1395 image & added a post-1395 image with the crown. We see how well the caption prevented the same thing from happening again! Peaceray (talk) 02:22, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for November 25

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Hawaiian monk seal, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Marine Mammal Protection Act (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 12:34, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Mr. bot! Peaceray (talk) 04:22, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Hokulea edit

You removed from the Hokulea article a link [diff] to a resource archived on Webcitation.org. Is there some specific reason you did that? Would you kindly consider replacing the reference to the archived copy to help fight link rot. Thank you.  –Newportm (talk • contribs) 05:54, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Mahalo for catching my mistake. The problem was not so much that I removed the archiveurl; I had put in a replacement URL to a live link. However, I inadvertently left a second URL parameter that pointed to the dead link, & it was this latter URL that the template was using. I removed the second |url= parameter, & now it points to the live link. Peaceray (talk) 07:58, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

This [diff] should take care of it. The specific problem this addresses is link rot. Thanks for your collaboration. –Newportm (talk • contribs) 16:53, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

If you want to proactively avoid WP:LINKROT, please use the |deadurl=no parameter/value. You may find instructions for the use of this parameter at Template:Citation Style documentation/url. Specifically, it states:

deadurl: When the URL is still live, but preemptively archived, then set |deadurl=no. This changes the display order with the title retaining the original link and the archive linked at the end.

You can find examples at Template:Cite web#Examples under the 2nd & 3rd bullets in the Using "archiveurl" and "archivedate" (and optionally "deadurl") for webpages that have been archived section. Peaceray (talk) 03:54, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Ok, fine business. Thanks for sharing the |deadurl=no syntax. That is new to me. Thanks for adding that syntax to the citation. –Newportm (talk • contribs) 05:29, 30 November 2012 (UTC)