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Windows

Thanks for your reply. You will probably assure me that it is not possible, but I found the history empty when I asked the question at the help desk. They warned me at the beginning that some critics were mercilessPhil ^talk 12:54, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings! Let me be the first to send you a "non-stock" greeting. :)

Welcome to Wikipedia! Working on stuff here has become one of my favorite hobbies; it's quite a bit of fun and, yes, it can be quite addictive. As you've probably noticed, we are in serious need of a lot of small edits - especially those birthdate/date of death/year pages. I've added literally thousands of them, and there are hundreds of thousands more to do. Currently, I'm going through all the NFL teams and cleaning up those hundreds of player articles and getting their info on the date/year pages as well. Whatever assistance you can provide with any biography articles (or on anything else) is always appreciated. :)

As far as the Vermont Teddy Bear Company article goes, I can't remember what prompted me to create that one - I think I was reading something on the Vermont page, maybe. I just figured that a company like that really needs an article (it truly is a fine company - great products). Feel free to update the article with any additional information you have. (Be bold!) I mostly culled info from the company's web site, so you'll likely have access to more information that I ever will - don't hesitate to update and add more to that article.

So, I hope you enjoy Wikipedia. If you have any questions about anything, feel free to let me know - I'll try and point you in the right direction.

Have fun! RADICALBENDER&#9733; 04:17, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Christopher Robin Milne

No, no! Certainly not. He was intriguing and I thought the encyclopedia merited more about him. I've removed the expansion tag, but it's still a stub - which is nothing to be ashamed of. Most Wikipedia articles right now, I'd reckon, are stubs. It just means there's a good room to grow.

Welcome! Samaritan 08:54, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Soon Deleted Fetish

Could you transfer some knownledge from the book to the fart fetishism page? It seems that my purpose in Wikipedia is to make articles perfect just before they get deleted. ;-) Feel free to remove this message after you've read it. Thanks for your attention. --Easyas12c 17:49, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

IMDb tags

Hiya! Funnily enough, I never remember how to use those tags either, and every time I want to, I end up poking around looking for the instructions again. ;-) But, here they are! See Template talk:Imdb title for the instructions for the tag for movies, and Template talk:Imdb name for the tag for actors and other movie personnel. &mdash;Stormie 08:50, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

Frank Perdue

I heard the "ads weren't shown much in Maryland/Washington D.C." thing last night on NPR's "Marketplace". Guess they were wrong? Maybe I'll do a bit of research on it this weekend... Anyway, just thought I'd mention it. Dismas 20:36, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Not a problem! I commented them out because I clearly remember seeing them on TV growing up in Rockville, Maryland and when i lived in Takoma Park, Maryland. We used to spoof them in school, the "it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken" line became common use. If however you can show statistics that state they were shown less often than elsewhere, I'd agree to putting them back. But it definately should be mentioned they were aired in MD/DC/VA areas. &nbsp;ALKIVAR&trade; 20:48, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Playmates

I put the succession boxes on the Playmates because I felt they should use them. As for creating a page for every Playmate, I might or I might not. Or maybe someone else will eventually. Or maybe they'll stay red just like the succession boxes on the NHL seasons have stayed red... 10qwerty 07:46, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed 10qwerty's wikilinks to all the Playmates on the List of people in Playboy 2000-Present. I had an article on Miss Novemer 2001, Stephanie Heinrich, that was put up for deletion the same day I composed it. (See the VfD discussion here.) Would you be willing to support a vote for undeletion if we are going to wikilink all the Playmates? PedanticallySpeaking 16:43, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Playmate Info Box

Just noticed that you've expanded on the Playmate info box that 10qwerty was putting on Playmate's pages. I thought I might make a suggestion... It might help if you put at the top of the box, or right below the picture, the fact that it's associated with their appearance in Playboy. For instance, Jenny McCarthy's box starts out with "October 1993". Without saying that she was in Playboy in Oct. of '93 it doesn't have any relevance to the average reader. And then the preceded by and succeded by info would have more relevance as well. Just a thought... Dismas 21:16, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your absolutely right so I've changed "Month" to "Playboy Centerfold Appearance". Jester2001 21:31, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thank you for reverting Honorius' edits -- he's been removing the {{Female adult bio}} from about 10 porn star bios so far. I'll send him a kind message to encourage him to discuss any issues he has with the template, instead of just removing the bio and the information contained within. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. 02:56, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Winona Ryder

Sure thing! --Merovingian (t) (c) 14:12, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Italics

Thank you for your comments, I didn't know about the italics, for now on, I'll be sure to do that so you or someone else doesn't have to. --Courtkittie 12:32am, 13 July 2005

coding

I changed the hyphens to dashes (see Wikipedia:Manual of style). The ampersand shows up differently in different language-sets if it's coded as "&". --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:24, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How to Program a Computer (From WP:RD)

Thanks for your thoughtful response. hydnjo talk 01:27, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for a song

The Jamiroquai song you are looking for is "Virtual Insanity", take a look here: http://www.funkin.com/music/music_videos/virtual_insanity/

Learning C on a Mac

Yes, I did take note of your question at the RD and thanks for thinking of me and calling it to my attention. I think that you're pretty far ahead of me as I haven't yet bought any book at all. Good luck with Xcode, it looks to be quite powerful. hydnjo talk 18:29, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Offertory

Great work on offertory, hopefully you'll find some more topics on the list that you fancy working on. Pcb21| Pete 13:29, 7 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Scout ranks

Just wondering if you were going to expand on the Boy Scouts of America rank pages you created. It seems like if you intended them to stay the way they are now, a list would have been better. Why have 6-7 pages when one would do? Dismas 20:22, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, being a scout myself rank insignias and rank itself has deep meaning and requirements. I think they each can be a page as there is enough material. I am trying to write uniform articles. Eagle rank was writtrn before I starte dthis. Currently I am working on images. --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 20:26, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I was a Scout in days past, made Eagle too, so I understand what you mean about the personal meaning. I was just curious if you intended to expand them. I just didn't see the point if they were basically just image placeholders. If you want any help with anything, let me know. Dismas 20:36, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

We can work together to write about the rank isings and ranks. It has been a while I had been a scout. :/ --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 20:44, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Each will not be any longer than the eagle scout page I think (of course the longer the better). --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 20:44, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bales of hay

No, I haven't forgotten about that question - I've been working on other things lately, so I haven't payed as much attention to the reference desk. Thanks for thinking of me though :) I've left another question about hay if you're interested... --HappyCamper 03:59, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As far as your comment at Talk:Happy Bottom Riding Club goes, I've got your answer there. Think "hay ranch." The Spanish speakers always kept things simple. --avnative 04:36, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Redheaded Presidents

You asked if I was interested in adding more occupations to the famous redheads list - I'm really just interested in the presidents - I think it's interesting that there have been so many redheaded US presidents. That's all. CDA 16:49, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jeff Foxworthy

Thanks for the suggestion to contacting Jeff's manager to see how to get an email address, now I need to know how to contact the manager. Is there a web site to do that? I guess I am going to keep at this until I get what I need. Thanks.

Well, I'd try going to his web site first of all. Then scroll all the way down and follow the link for the web designer. Ask them if they have some contact info for J.F.'s management and go from there. Dismas 12:14, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Wikipedia:Help_desk#New_Orleans

Could you let me know when you get an answer? ;-) --GraemeL ^(talk) 18:53, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You'll be the first! :) --Dismas 14:06, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi Dismas,

Please let me know what I should do now?? Shall I re-write the article once again? If yes, give me a weeks time.

Rosicrucian article

Dear user Dismas, as I have seen a edition of yours at the article Rosicrucian, I come to request your support to this article that I have just purposed for nomination at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Rosicrucian. May you may give a look into it? And, if you consider it acceptable, then may you support it? Thank you! :) --GalaazV 02:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re Multiple and over-linking

On Carla Gugino you commented "I'd like to see where it says not to link the film names in two different sections since pretty much every other actor bio I've read here does the same thing". If you refer to Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(links)#Internal_links the third item in the list tells us "An article may be considered overlinked if any of the following is true: * a link is repeated within the same screen" which clearly this was (and now, again). It also makes it more difficult on link changes for an editor to track each one if an article has multiple links to the same other page. Re "every other actor bio", btw, two wrongs do not make a right ! (and if I come across such pages I delete the overlinking there too). Rgds --Vamp:Willow 14:04, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...

...for your help at the new Ralph Lee page. It is nice to see someone jumping in right from the very beginning. Hope you find the subject interesting. Regards, paul klenk 21:59, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Personal insults and attacks do not belong on wikipedia

On two occasions (edit summary[1] and AFD[2]) you've called a baby a "demon baby". Personal insults are a violation of wikipedia's requirement to be WP:CIVIL. I don't think its possible to actually hate a baby you don't know, so I'll assume this was a "joke" (a bad joke), and kindly ask you to not to do it again. --rob 06:35, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilinking dates

Recently, I edited International Talk Like a Pirate Day by removing the wikilink on the second mention of September 19. I see it as over-wikification. You re-wikified it to "allow date preferences to work". You cited Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) as justification. I don't see where it says that every instance of the same date need be linked just to allow for date preferences to work. Could you point out this part of the guideline? Thanks, Dismas|^(talk) 20:54, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My cite was a shorthand explanation of the feature; I hadn't bumped into you before, and didn't know whether you were familiar with it. I was tired when editing and had not noticed that the same date was already linked earlier in the paragraph as well. While there's something to be said for consistency - someone who has his date preference set shouldn't see "19 September" right next to "September 19" - on a second reading, the extra date is redundant and I have removed it. Is this acceptable? —Cryptic (talk) 08:35, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That'll work! Dismas|^(talk) 09:03, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

School listings on AfD

Are you aware that listing schools for deletion is about the most controversial thing one can do on Wikipedia? Are you aware of Wikipedia:Schools, which states that one should refrain from listing schools on AfD, and instead should be bold and merge short stubs. If you object to schools in general please add your comments to Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments, rather than wasting everyone's time with yet another AfD on the subject. - SimonP 13:21, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I was slightly aware of some possible controversy but didn't feel it was a scarlet letter kind of thing. Thanks for the Wikipedia:Schools link. I hadn't seen that one. I'll read it over. Thanks for your opinion. Dismas|^(talk) 13:33, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dismas - be aware the discussion at Wikipedia:Schools is most certainly not an implemented Wikipedia policy, and is not likely to ever be. Proto t c 15:38, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from listing any more schools for Afd until you have seen the reaction to your current bulk nomination. Kappa 13:52, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The large list of schools on AfD is very suspicious. It looks like you may be making a WP:POINT. Several of the schools you've nominated have substantial, well-written articles which describe notable features of those schools. I suggest that you try to work towards a consensus on Wikipedia:Schools instead of pursuing this campaign any further. Pburka 14:01, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The mass nomination of schools, without any consideration, without any reading, with copy/paste reasoning, is totally an abuse of the AFD process. The small time you spent on each school, forces others to spend many times more time, to consider each school, one-at-time. Some respect should be shown for the time of others. I don't like supporting every little elementary stub, but I also don't have the time to read every absurd baseless nomination either, and examine each school individually. Please consider *contributing* to wikipedia. The appropriate thing to do here, is de-list these nominations, and start trying to build a consensus for school inclusion policy. --rob 14:49, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Don't listen to them, Dismas. What you did was awesome, and really needed to be done. Have a barnstar. Proto t c 15:35, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
If by awesome you mean remarkable, then yes, this was quite a remarkable disruption of Wikipedia. Showing a total disregard for historical consensus on settled deletion discussions and copy-paste deletionism is not something that should ever be encouraged. Bahn Mi 21:54, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Violation of consensus

Please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Nautilus Middle School. It was already decided to keep this school, by consenus. Now, are you going to keep make mass-deletion request of the same schols, over-and-over again, and until they are removed? It's bad enough dealing with this once for countless schools, but apparently, it's your intent to keep nominating every school, again and again, until it's gone, regardless of past agreement, and regardless of substantial content. --rob 15:15, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not disrupt Wikipedia in order to make a WP:POINT. Also it would be appreciated if you would withdraw your nomination of Nautilus Middle School from AfD -- it was already decided by strong consensus that this particular article should be kept. Bahn Mi 21:51, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's a bit more complex than that. Until recently, there was a truce – not consensus, that requires agreement of some sort – not to nominate highschools, as those would attract much debate, which would end with no consensus to delete. K-8 schools were considered fair game and often enough ended deleted if the article was too poor.

This changed when a group of editors aggressively tried to keep entries on elementary schools and grade 5-9 schools, on the basis of "it's a school", with quick "improvements" culled from a Google search thrown in. The point has been made successfully, fronts have hardened, reflexive voting is taking place on both sides, and with the mechanics of AfD ("no consensus" defaulting to keep) the contentious entries are kept.

Much would be won if we could get back to judging the quality of the entry, something that I can't see happening. Pilatus 23:41, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Intimidation campaign

I emplore you not to be intimidated by the trolls that live in the school. You are quite right to list cruft for deletion, and only a year ago it would probably have been speedy deleted. Unfortunately this group has managed to intimidate middle of the road users into not voting and organising votes to keep crap. Dunc|☺ 22:43, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Normally I would disagree, however it appears that there is intimidation going on here at this very page. Please refrain from telling him not to list schools for deletion as that could be construed as being against policy.Gateman1997 23:30, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
People are free to edit Wikipedia however they see fit, as long as it is within policy. What you did was within policy, despite what the rather rude fellows trying to browbeat you into being a good little boy may say. Nominating a big bunch of articles for deletion if you believe they are cruft is perfectly acceptable. Not only is it acceptable, it is awesome. Proto t c 08:43, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Schools

As I'm sure you've seen, there are kneejerk reactions on both sides to every school nomination. I personally think that there isn't much merit to documenting the school colors and principal of every brick and mortar node in a school district. However, they rarely get killed on AfD, and there is a better solution: simply merge the school stub into an article on its parent school district. Usually there really won't be much to merge beyond the name and the grades it serves, so the job should go pretty quick, but may require a little research into the basic facts of the district. Further AfDs are going to be futile; appropriate merging does not require a prior discussion and is the best way to deal with such content. Postdlf 06:11, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Playboy covers

The fair use tag for magazine covers state that magazine covers should only be used "to illustrate the publication of the issue of the magazine in question". Also many of the covers fail to be fair use as they are most certainly not "low-resolution". Evil Monkey∴Hello 07:33, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the note I have just left on your talk page as to what I consider to be your error on this point. As for the ones that are not low-resolution, please point these out to me and I would be more than happy to decrease their size. Removing them doesn't accomplish this. Postdlf 07:40, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Miami-Dade County Public Schools

I originally created most of the elementary school articles on this page. I did it before I knew there was such a controversy with school articles and once I found this out I stopped, but since I'm not a sysop I couldn't delete them. The main reason I stopped was because the project to create these articles is so massive I'd rather just not have to do it. Thus, I support your deletion of the elementary school articles though I'm abstaining from voting. I do want to know though if you believe that high school articles should be kept as well? Also, should I create middle schools articles, or just leave them as a list? What about Magnet high Schools, adult education centers, alternative schools, charter schools, etc? I don't really believe these articles are schoolcruft because they are linked to the district's article and are daughter articles of it. Also, I didn't create them out of personal interest, I just didn't want 300+ red links on the district page. I'm not yet done with the high school articles, but I want to know if anyone would object to them or not? I would be against deleting the high school articles as I do think High Schools are notable, but I don't want to deal with 31-39 AfDs one day. What do you think? PRueda29 01:49, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

First off, sorry it's taken so long to get back to you on this. Secondly, I don't have an opinion on magnet schools, adult education centers, etc. I just haven't thought about them. As far as the elementary schools go, I just don't feel that having an article for each school that is going to remain a stub is suitable. To me it's like characters from a popular television show like The Simpsons or movies like Star Wars. The show/movies themselves are notable and should have articles but the minor characters can very easily be summed up in lists. I think that the whole is greater than its parts. The Miami Dade County school system is a worthwhile inclusion but to have an article about every little school in it doesn't seem worthwhile. Take one of the schools at random, you just have a name, school colors, address, enrollment date, and principal's name. To me, that's a yellow pages entry basically. But if you take all those articles and put them into a list a user can see just how vast the school system is by the number of items. The stubs are just too microscopic of a view. As far as high schools are concerned, I know I'm not going to win the fight to limit their articles but again, I'm going to have to say that most are not notable enough to have their own article unless maybe you wanted to include info on their sports teams and the number of state titles they have won in their particular sport. Columbine High School could have an article based on the fact that a major event in the lives of several hundred people took place there. Information could be written about like how the school has changed since the shooting, what new policies were put into place, and the social repurcussions from what happened. But Columbine H.S., to me, is the exception, not the rule. But then I'm just a guy in front of a keyboard. I hope this all made sense and if you'd like to discuss it more, I'd be happy to do that. Dismas|(talk) 03:19, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, this is what I'm planning as of now: I'm going to wait and see what happens with the articles for AfD (thats why I haven't been working much on it lately). Once that's all resolved I'm going to move all the schools into separate articles (ex. List of Elementary Schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida... or smth to that effect). Then, I'm going to make the high schools and magnet high school articles because I believe in them (plus, the one that's up for AfD is surviving pretty well). If the articles survive, I'm just going to leave them there and not bother making any new ones (I'll let others do that). Then, I'm going to update the district page with like all the stuff listed on the todo page on its talk page. It should take me maybe two months. PRueda29 03:38, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Captions

Yes, that last comment was about the captions issue. I just posted it under the wrong heading. - Mgm|^(talk) 16:17, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Dolores Erickson, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

'pub quiz'

Yes, I did notice. As soon as I saw the link go blue, I thought 'Oh my God, what have I done'. Fortunately, it seems to have been cleared up - hooray! ;) Proto t c 13:21, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You didn't have to identify me!

At the help desk, I asked for general info on the stub-adding. You had to mention my article. I never handed that information over to you and I never wanted you to reveal what I wrote. You obviously have no respect for privacy. The question is why? Why are you being so spiteful?--Screwball23 22:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

vermont template

hi, I see you've been adding the Vermont template to the bottom of all the Vermont towns. The template and all the 251 towns it includes seems a bit unwieldy. Since there is already a towns in Vermont page, I was thinking it might be more useful and usable to link to this page rather than include links to all the towns. I'm sort of new here so I'm not sure what the process is for revising temnplates (wasn't sure if it was a good place to be bold or not) and figured I'd run it by you first. Thoughts? (unsigned question posted by User:Jessamyn)

I was really just being bold myself by adding the template. I had some extra time at work and was going in alphabetical order. I saw it on the page for Burlington but not on other town pages. I didn't know why it was on one but not the others and after having checked the template's dicussion page and finding that there wasn't a guideline as to "when to use the template", I decided that I'd just put it on the rest of the town pages. I kind of prefer the template to just a "See also:" section since I think it gives the page a bit more of a grand and/or official feel. In general, I prefer graphs, charts, templates, and infoboxes over just plain text. These are just my thoughts though.

Also, in order to sign your comments on talk pages and such, please put four tildes (e.g. ~~~~) at the end of your comment. This makes it easier for people know who messages are coming from. Dismas|^(talk) 20:14, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

great thanks, I may try to make the template a little tighter, but I agree, having it at the bottom of the town pages is really a great way to bring all the Vermont towns together. Jessamyn 21:06, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Billie Joe Armstrong

So, if Billie is bisexual, then why does the article sound as thought he is bi, but he has never engaged in sexual acts with guy???

I don't quite follow what you mean but I'll answer what I think you meant. A person can be bi or even gay but never have had sexual relations with a person of the same gender as themselves. It's like if you were to ask a boy who had never even kissed a girl in his life if he was straight. If he likes girls and finds them sexually attractive then he would consider himself to be heterosexual or "straight". Would you say that he's not straight since he's never even kissed a girl? So now you're asking me how Billie can be bisexual if he's never had sexual relations (as of the writing of that article at least) with a guy. Do you see my point? So, since he's said, "I think I’ve always been bisexual", the article reflects that. Dismas|^(talk) 22:37, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

.

I noticed that you had been removing some vandalism and you are not a member of Wikipedia:Counter Vandalism Unit You might want to join it. Also there is a bot that finds vandalism but does not search the text of articles (yet anyway) the bot is in #wikipedia-en-vandalism on freenode.net By the way if you join you will be the 100th member --Adam1213 Talk + 07:58, 7 November 2005 (UTC) I put the section thing in the wrong place --Adam1213 Talk + 10:00, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

I was at the village pump and saw your question and I wonder too. Usually try to myself. I was there asking if anyone knew the reason why edits weren't showing up on the page after saving, wouldn't be too surprised if they didn't show up here. Just wanted to ask if you knew your signature links to the article Dismas. Thanks. --Dakota ^t ^e 08:29, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Computer Language

I deleted it, realizing it was answered above after you told me.--Anti-Anonymex2 ^{Come to my page! I've gone caliente loco!} 22:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

the bold print

i apologize for the bold print... this was the first article i have made (i intend to make more), so your corrections are appreciated :D

input request

Would you mind looking in on Talk:Jesus H. Christ#"Bored church attendees"? Thanks for your time. Tom e r ^talk 00:33, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article The Berghoff (restaurant), which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 09:57, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Unilateral Redirect

Our "friend" Voice of All has unilaterally put a redirect on List of sexual slurs to make it redirect to Sexual slang. This was done without any discussion or consensus. He then removed the edit option from the page to undo his vandalism. Can you do anything about this admin/vandal? 155.84.57.253 14:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jeep Wrangler

I have replaced the non-breaking spaces before the "L" for liter in the Jeep Wrangler article. This is a convention for units. I have also added a reference and removed the non-encyclopedic part you labeled with {{fact}}. --SFoskett 17:28, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Berghoff

Did you ever get a chance to get the picture of the Berghoff sign? Just curious. Thanks, Dismas|^(talk) 16:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not yet. I brought my camera down one day last week and went out about 10:00 AM but the sign was not turned on yet (it is not very colorful when off). I'll get to it within the next week, though. -- DS1953 ^talk 16:55, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I took some pictures today and uploaded three of them. See Talk:The Berghoff (restaurant) for my thoughts. -- DS1953 ^talk 04:52, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Plusbox

Dismas has earned a Cernen's Plusbox for finding a rather blatant error on my userpage that's been there the whole time without me even knowing it.

Cernen Xanthine Katrena 10:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Alphabetagamnma

He added more images with misleading copyright information today. I have blocked him for 24 hours. I'll keep an eye on his future contributions. --GraemeL ^(talk) 13:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ronald McDonald

Why did you delete my bit abour ronald mcdonald?!

Do you have a source to back it up with? For one, it came from an anonymous user, 2) it linked to a non-existant article, 3) it was not written in an encyclopedic style, 4) it seems very hard to believe. All those factors combined would make me bet that it was vandalism and therefore you would be a vandal. That's why I deleted it. If you want to supply the encyclopedia with good reliable information, please, go ahead. Dismas|^(talk) 15:22, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for the tips

I was just looking over some of the edit policies, particularly those related to external links and bots. It appears that these mass-created external links could be considered spam. What do you think? Is this sort of addition to the page justifiable?

It seems like an embellishment of an existing page to me, particularly where there is not already an image present, but I don't want to offend... As you noticed, I'm new here :)

I don't consider it spam because you're adding a link to a well known search engine and not to a site that you run which you're hoping to get advertising money from. Although other editors may disagree.

Also, you can sign your comments on talk pages using four tildas (like this:~~~~). Using just three will just leave your name, four will leave your name and the time stamp, and five will leave just a time stamp. Most people use four so that they have signed their comment and also it prints the date/time that the comment was made so that it's easy to see which person said which comment first, last, etc. Dismas|^(talk) 11:46, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'll just let the modifications I've made sit for a few days. I didn't yet complete all the records, as I have the HTML-escaping bug you noticed and need to hand-check the 300-some already done to make sure they're good. If no one gets upset I'll finish off the the rest of the stars and add a bittorrent search link. Menotyou 11:58, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jesus H. Christ!

Why do you continue to revert my edits? Do you believe that anyone, even jokingly, speculates that Jesus's middle initial stands for Haploid? Habeas corpus. Ghosts&empties 20:17, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Choking game

Hello Dismas. I've done rather a big edit on the choking game. Since you started it you may like to look at it. See discussion. I would also appreciate your view on wikipedia and the inclusion of warnings in text where the article may induce unsafe behaviour. I took out a warning on somebody's asking.Ex nihil 05:02, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Katie Holmes

Greetings! You have edited the Katie Holmes page in the past. I've completely reworked the article and have posted it on WP:PR in the hopes of advancing it to WP:FAC. I would be grateful for your comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Katie Holmes. PedanticallySpeaking 18:47, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Substitution

No, that's fine, except for most templates, you substitute them by typing {{subst:test|n}} instead of just {{test|n}}, which places the text from the template directly on the page, rather than having the server load it every time the page is viewed. Usually only speedy deletion templates, or others that contain special code aren't substituted.

Sienna Miller

I don't think I removed any information about her career in my edit, althuogh i was going to return after a little research and add the film layer cake. I think my edit was an improvement in that it broke down the article into Bio/career sections (partcularly important for someone so famous as a socialite) and included up-to-date info on her personal life. Although the old(ie currant) article included references for the statements regarding her relationship with Jude Law, these articles are old and have become obsolete (as gossip is liable to do). So where do you suggest we go from here?

I've reverted my revert. I read what had been changed too quickly. Your edit was fine. My apologies, I'll try to read a bit more closely next time I see an anon edit. Dismas|^(talk) 20:39, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Cormorant (aircraft), which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 03:37, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my User Talk page. Some people have misplaced anger issues and a lot of free time on their hands, apparently. -- eo 08:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rachel Stevens/Sterling

That was just my initial idiocy, which is saved at the bottom in file history. You'll note the current image summary links to Rachel Sterling. Staxringold 01:54, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding my "vandalism"...

So I added playing the trumpet to Jann Lee's list of hobbies. That's not vandalism.

Have you played dead or Alive 4? Jann Lee plays the trumpet in his CG ending. Logical conclusion: it's one of his hobbies.

No need to start threatening with having banned instantly... Jeez

--Arnizipal 03:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

EDIT: Sorry, I got kinda confused. I thought your name was a link to the guy who commented on my supposed vandalism. Excuse my n00bishnes.

playboy covers

There are two problems with the images I removed (incidentally, I haven't deleted them, I've merely proposed them for deletion). One is a legal issue--fair use is only legal if there's a small amount of material used for any given document. Those pages with the images in place were about 70% copyright Playboy magazine, which is, quite simply, illegal. We've been working hard at both educating Wikipedians about fair use and reducing our reliance on fair use, and part of that means reducing the amount used from any particular copyright holder. It would not be permissible for us to reproduce every single Playboy cover ever made, which we were very nearly doing. There's also an issue of principle--Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia, and any page whose content is almost entirely copyrighted is not, by nature, free. You said you posted at a fair use page--which page was that (we have several devoted to fair use). We should continue this conversation in a public place so that others can join in. Chick Bowen 22:06, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The list is fine, information is not copyrightable. It's just the images that were the problem—my 70% figure was referring to the actual space on the page. I understand that a lot of work went into this, by the way, and I'm sorry about that. Incidentally, I think Thivierr's response to your question at Wikipedia talk:Fair use is quite right--because of the ratio of free content to fair use content, it's really hard to imagine a list that could have images for each item. Of course, an article called Playboy Magazine June 1975 issue, or whatever, that had detailed information in prose, could certainly use the image--if you'd like to save a few favorites before they're deleted, that would be the way to go. But lists are no good, and I've been bringing them up whenever I see them. The same thing came up at Coinage of the Federal Republic of Germany, which used to have pictures of each coin, and the consensus was to remove them. Thanks for your understanding. Chick Bowen 02:00, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WOW THANKS

Thanks for helping me out.

    82.37.206.34 15:32, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciation....but not so much

Wiki-star: I really appreciate you enhancing the Joy Of Tournaments Article by fixing some gramatical errors, and removing some overlinks. However, many of the words you removed from wikilinks were irrelivant. Some words that were linked must stay linked! Not everyone is as smart as you or me my friend. If you find this a problem, then we can discuss it right here. Or, if the discussion page is created within the Article, we can take it there. Otherwise, i need you to consult me first before you eliminate valubale words from wikilinks. Thank you for you're thought though. Thats a really nice thing of you!

Thanks! Wiki-star 05:04, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Internal link title exactly the same as the title of the article?

Thanks for your help, Dismas! Sorry about dropping the Wikify tag, but I didn't realize that I should add some links. I will add some very shortly.

One thing I can't seem to find on the help sections: Does the internal link title have to be exactly the same as the title of the article I'm linking to [in the sense that in html, the link title and the link name are separated]?

Cheers, Grapeman 23:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Drew Carey Show Help

Thanks for helping me out. Is there any way you can move the "Miss Right" page to "Miss Right (Drew Carey Show episode)"? It needs to be standardized with the rest. I just clicked the link created by someone else on the List of Drew Carey Show episodes and didn't realize it didn't have it. I fixed all of the other episode titles to have the parenthetical note before they are created. When are users able to move pages? Thanks a bunch -- Mac OS X 20:40, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just an extra note: I have requested the move on Wikipedia:Requested moves yesterday, but there are a lot of requests and there doesn't seem to be too many actually being moved. -- Mac OS X 20:43, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John Steven Lasher afd

Hi, I'd like to ask if you'd perhaps reconsider this AfD on the basis of some new points I've brought up. Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola 16:15, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Combining AfDs

Modify the two individual girls' AfD entries to point to the combined one:

#REDIRECT [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Caitlin_Matewish_%26_Joanne_Fabro]]

Then on the combined entry, modify the header to show all three article names:

===[[Caitlin Matewish & Joanne Fabro]], [[Caitlin Matewish]] and [[Joanne Fabro]]===

Then remove the two individual girls entries from the Articles for Deletion Log. I just learned to do it for three I combined earlier tonight. Fan1967 06:40, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note Glad I could help. I bungled through it by trial and error earlier, and it took me about five tries to get it right. Fan1967 07:27, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Puppy "Hater"

"Be careful with what you say. When I put this up for deletion, the creator of the article vandalized my user page with the non-existant user box "user hatespuppies"."

If only I were so lucky, rofl that is hilarious! --Hetar 09:39, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Hero

I went through the modified Hero article, and changed my vote. Thanks for bringing to my notice the changed article. Keep up the good work. --Soumyasch 04:07, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reference desk

Thank you for responding to that guy who was asking about wikilinking. For some reason, I really didn't want to answer it...seemed like a bother to explain, and then I felt bad about it. Thanks for absolving me of some guilt by providing an answer for the chap :) Isopropyl 00:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments on Thought-Space and Original Research

I believe that my problems with properly using the Talk Page have been part of the reason our communication has been so poor. I have responded twice to comments from Sandstein but have not received any reply. I was confused as to how I was supposed to respond and I apologize for the problems I have presented. The original message from Sandstein were references to articles on the Physics Category. I responded that nothing I have written for Wikipedia has to do with original thoughts on physics. I understand that proper credentials are necessary for this field, and that my degree in Physics does not qualify me to list orignal work in Wikipedia, even if I am credited with 17 patents from the many years I spent in research. I attempted to correct my errors and immediately looked up what was necessary to identify a category and entered it into the articles, thinking that this was sufficient.

As opposed to physics, I believe that philosophy is an argument-based subject that uses factual information for the argumentive premises. I have continually referenced this fact based information in my articles.

Is the information I have written about (Thought-Space, Quantum idealism & Interpretive reality) original? Being original is what gives it value. My initial excitement with being a Wikiite was the chance to test original concepts with other Wiki fans, and to stimulate dialogs on various subjects. I believe that when an orignial concept is presented, whether it be in a recognized publication or preached on a soap box, if it is logically stated, properly follows dielectic principles and has meaningful content, then a publication such as Wikipedia is an ideal and proper place for it. What is the point of having a Free Encyclopedia where others contribute, if it is restricted to the conventional and sometimes boring format of conventional encyclopedias? If articles are strictly limited to already published data, where is the freedom?

I humbly request of you to give me some lattitude on this subject. I have no intent to add more subjects to Wikipedia, but only to improve what I have written. Please, let's give it a chance and see what kind of fallout will result. I am looking forward to comments from those versed in the field. In the final analysis, the content of an article is is the apex of value and not who said it or where it comes from. Donlee 00:03, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have taken the liberty to reply on Donlee's talk page. Sandstein 04:39, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Ref desk/Misc.

Just a little chiding here, re:

   I've made the change for you. Basically you just need to change it so that instead of Richard Armitage, you have Richard Armitage (actor). But this looks funny in a list to have that qualifier in there so you can "pipe" the link by doing something like this, This link is for Richard Armitage, the actor which looks like this, This link is for Richard Armitage, the actor. The pipe character makes it so that anything before the pipe is the link for the article, and anything after the pipe is what text will be displayed.
   Also, questions about how to do things on the Wikipedia are generally asked at the Wikipedia:Help desk. This page is for questions about life outside of Wikipedia.
   And by the way, Welcome! Dismas|(talk) 00:00, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

The link you gave leads back to the page you asked and posted onto. IMHO, the HelpDesk link is overwhemingly confusing to the newbie, and frankly to myself with more than a year under my belt... at least I know what half of those names probably mean. But this message is a result of the failure to navigate back to a help message last night (Morning) which needed an admins powers, and thus, I saw your note. So I'm trying to find the same URL right now that you should have cited then. OK? Good you can help out, but that was a tad sloppy <G>.

Best regards, FrankB 23:26, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate constructive criticism and I thank you for trying to offer same. Although I'm really confused as to what you think I did wrong when I responded to that user's question. I pointed him to the Help desk, I explained how to pipe a link, I explained a bit about the disambiguation between Richard Armitage and Richard Armitage (actor), etc. I don't see where what I said was incorrect or lacking. Could you expand on what you said because right now I have no idea why you're chiding me. Most of all I don't understand your comment of "The link you gave leads back to the page you asked and posted onto" since I wasn't the one asking any questions. Dismas|^(talk) 23:45, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't say it was wrong, just less than efficacious (i.e. superficial) as the direct link to the specific help page would have been much better, with perhaps the one you gave as an aside. I'm currently still on that page helping a lady with fleas. Examin the difference in a bit. btw- your specific advice was excellent, with one similar misgiving. I would have refered him to the source page that contains the pipe trick as well. Consider that your answer may help thousands. Doesn't that make it more important to be focused and targeted? It's just a professionalism thing versus a get it done quickly thing. I prefer the former. NBD, it just jumped out at me as I followed the link back to where I started, hoping instead to navigate to where he should have asked. OK? FrankB 00:10, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interstate 4

If you're going to make a useless edit like this, please try not to screw up any links. You made the I-275 (FL) link into I-275, Florida. --SPUI (T - C - RFC) 13:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User boxes

Hi Dismas, I like your user boxes. Many of those apply to me also. Mind if I use some of yours? Best, Coolmojito 08:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dismas, got your message on my talk page. Thanks. I realize that they don't belong to anyone but since I'm relatively new compared to many people, figured that asking is a good way to go. Everyone I've communicated with here has been very helpful and friendly anyway. Best, Coolmojito 05:42, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

C Margolis

Thanks for deleting that sentence about her breast size. I was questioning the relevance of that line myself.

Alexz Johnson Article

Thanks for the corrections and comments on the Alexz Johnson article. Although I have a background in magazine writing, I'm a total beginner in Wikipedia writing/editing, so I'm still very much in learning mode, especially in matters of formatting (e.g., italics, positioning of images, etc.). I'll refrain from any parenthetical comments like, "Still working on this article."

I'll also learn what I can about Wikipedia style and formatting. Any suggestions and pointers would be most welcome.

In addition to the Alexz Johnson article, I'll be working on articles for Lillix (new CD in June) and Shaye (new CD just being finished, probably for release this summer). I went to a Shaye concert on April 28, and they were great, so I'm motivated to do something there.

Best regards,

JD_Fan Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Shallan Meiers

Please explain to me how my editing is vandalism? IT IS NOT! I am simply adding pictures to the model's pages. its called contribution!!! Lalalulu

How are the pictures not needed? there's no pictures of the models in the pages that i add to, that's why im adding them!!! The girls need to have their pictures put up there so that people researching them can see what they look like, in case someone wants to book them for an event. If the pictures are too big then i will just reduce them to a smaller size so that they fit better.

First of all, none of the photos of the women that i put up are covered in semen, second these pictures do not violate the censorship rules another user told me so, and third, i do not consider the pictures of these nude girls to be porn, they are not engaging in sexual acitviy hence it is not porn, it is just ART and nothing else. Me and many other people consider these nude girls to be art not porn, the pictures are portraying the female human form it its most pure state of beauty not in sexual acts. (Lalalulu 04:25, 4 May 2006 (UTC))[reply]

sentence with an edit

how do you write the reason to edit, so that when people read the history page of the article, they know why you did it? Darkroom Danny 07:28, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The description of your edits on the history pages are called edit summaries. Below the edit box there is a single line text box that says "Edit summary:" next to it. This is the box to fill in to describe your edit and why you did it so that it will appear on the history page of the article. Dismas|^(talk) 07:34, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disappearing letters

Hi Dismas, thanks for responding to Thomas's request. I'm R Davidson the one who made the edit you are referring to. I can swear I did not remove those letters (have love) when I deleted the word "Catholic".

I started working on the Opus Dei article since April 2005 and I've seen the same thing happen, exactly on that I d thing. There must be some kind of internal mechanism that makes that same thing happen. I remember that it also used to happen with the word "gay." The word would disappear, until we decided to place the sentence where it occured in a sub-article. I reiterate Thomas's plea. There is something that occurs in that page that is a mystery. R Davidson 09:01, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Lalalulu

Yes I noticed Your warning, but still I could not be 100% certain it could be the same image. Let's hope he/she learns. feydey 00:36, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Currency MoS?

Hi Dismas. Since you are editing Pink Floyd's U.S. references to be consistent with the MoS, I was wondering if you could tell me was the MoS suggests for currency. Is it US$20, USD$20, U.S.$20... something else? Thanks :). ~MDD 46 96 04:00, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It should be US$20. For reference, see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (currency)#Currency. Dismas|^(talk) 04:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pink Floyd

Hmm... strange, I only set it to replace US, not UK. I think it was the edit conflict; I conflicted with another user, and pasted over them, effectively reverting their changes. Most likely U.K. was one of them. Thanks for correcting me though! Cheers, Mopper ^Speak! 04:13, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. For the text of the guideline, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Acronyms and abbreviations. Dismas|^(talk) 04:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Len

I don't understand what you find wrong with the Len page. The reason why there's so many quotes is because the lead singer Marc Costanzo is telling us about the developments of the new album, and it's not my fault that he has bad spelling and gramma errors. I just quoted what he has said on his myspace site. Darkroom Danny 10:02, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, I don't see the point in using so many quotes when they could simply be summarized. There are 8 months worth of "not yet but soon" type quotes and all of it takes up roughly half of the article. And it's just one album that's not even out!

Second, there's the tone. The line "7 April 2006 Music Videos are posted on Len's Myspace profile, so check it out now!" reads like an advertisement, not an encyclopedia entry.

Third, it's speculative. Example: "It seems as though they are taking the album more seriously as time goes by." That's your opinion of how you think they feel about the album.

And finally, it's not just Marc Costanzo's spelling and grammar that are poor. There are grammar errors throughout that section.

Really, it's just that section that I have the biggest issue with. The first part is a decent intro, the last half is all lists but that upcoming album part is just too big and could be much better and shorter. Dismas|^(talk) 10:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've done what you've wished for, now could you please take off the tag? Darkroom Danny 08:05, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bald Knob Cross

Thanks for the quick answer and (re)starting the article on the Cross. I could swear that there used to be an article on it, but I guess I was wrong... (I didn't want to just add if if it had been deleted, without finding out the reasons why...) I guess I'll have to work on expanding your article!

VikÞor [[User talk:Vik-Thor|Talk]] 04:39, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your quick reply!

Thanks for your quick reply! Yes, I was having trouble adding my question to the help page! I thought I had played enough in the sandbox... but I couldn't get my own heading to show up and ended up in someone else's question. Oh well - we learn something every day! --Carol Hattrup 18:50, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

It's ok to put a talkheader in any talkpages since the it's created for the talk pages.--2hot4u2handle 01:01, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

T

Thanks my friend.

--200.125.109.69 06:43, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PUI image

Okay I took a picture of that thing using a program called PowerDVD, I was watching the movie in the computer and then technically, I uploaded it here because basically any pics you find in a website it's probably right, so I did my own thing and uploaded it in both photobucket and imageshack.com, so basically, it's my picture that I took by using a program —Preceding unsigned comment added by ElBoricua (talk • contribs)

stupid question

Just wondering if you saw my response to the "Stupid Question" on the Misc. Ref. desk. Dismas|^(talk) 05:20, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers for looking this up! I, for one, didn't know that integrated APUs didn't start being used until the introduction of the 727... — QuantumEleven 07:34, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mac Info

do you know of any programs that Mac Users can use to help in editing/revising articles? I've come across several for Windows boxes, but not seen anything for Mac OS. stuff like User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof Thanks for any info!! VikÞor [[User talk:Vik-Thor|Talk]] 21:34, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know of any. Though you can still add scripts to your monobook page. You can find them here: Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts. Some of them are pretty handy. One I use often adds a tab at the top of articles between the "+" and "history" called the zero tab. It's handy if you want to edit just the introduction to an article, not the whole thing. Dismas|^(talk) 00:40, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: U.K. -> UK

Hi Dismas,

it's a good idea, and as you say, it'd be an easy case to add, but are you sure 'UK' is the preferred useage? IMHO 'UK' looks a lot better than 'U.K.', but I don't see any mention of it in the MoS.

Cheers, Cmdrjameson 22:27, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Arg, someone has changed the page. It was there the last time I looked at it. Although, the article for United Kingdom points out what I was referring to on the first line. Dismas|^(talk) 22:56, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, you might be interested to know that there are around 4700 occurrences of U.K. in the current Wikipedia, vs about 66000 UKs. I know a consenus when I see one! :) I've modified my script to fix the former as I come across them. Cheers, Cmdrjameson 22:14, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info... And the change to your bot! Dismas|^(talk) 05:10, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hispanic Hollywood

Hellooo Dismas. Why do believe that Salmah Hayek is the biggest Hispanic star since Dolores del Rio? Carmen Miranda was the top earner of all women actresses in 1945. Dolores del Rio was A-list, but never on top. Please do not obliterate my genuine improvements. It's annoying. Also, don't forget Señor Wences. Ghosts&empties 21:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to know how would you request articles cause I have been trying to do that and I even went to the pages that it said to go to request and I still don't know how to request articles of certain actors and actresses

side view mirror

Hi Dismas,

I added an image to sideview mirror and started a new page. I saw that you just after that merged sideview and rearview. I agree that this is the right way to do it, but I am curious (since I am kind of a rookie at wiki): when do you know where to put stuff? Also: is it a good idea to start a new page just if you have "only an image"? PER9000 09:49, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! PER9000 10:47, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your Bardia Mural updates

Thanks also for removing the stub, I worked hard on it but did not know as a newby if I had made page have the "No longer a stub" grade. I reviewed each of your edits carefully and commit not to repeat the mistakes. I assume from your edits that you saw the article as a valuable addition to the world of wiki... Jws42 14:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Playboy accuracy

I actually think the accuracy tag can be removed. I can't remember the name, but someone recommended supermodels be switched with athletes, because athlete pictorials seem to be very low in number (Which was my main concern). If there's anything you think should be done, I say go for it. Ohyeahmormons 19:59, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Petty - Red Hot Chili Peppers controversy

Hi Dismas. I saw that you removed the paragraph about Tom Petty's Mary Jane's Last Dance and Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers sounding alike from the Tom Petty page. I didn't add the paragraph, nor had I heard about the accusations before reading it, but I did a little research (okay, a Google search) and there are quite a few sites talking about it. Also, the Dani California page on Wikipedia has similar paragraph and a link to support the claim. Do you think it's worth adding the paragraph, albeit in a less POV fashion than was there before, with the same link as on the Dani California page? Just thought I'd get your input on it. Phileas 02:58, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel Hiddle

I thought you would like to know that I've posted a message on User talk:Daniel Hiddle's talk page regarding his behaviors and improper tagging of obviously non-GFDL copyrighted images. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. ^{Think out loud} 14:21, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Smile!

Joe Beaudoin Jr. ^{Think out loud} has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

Chloe Sevigny

Well, I changed most of it...so it wasn't exactly a "direct copy", but maybe if someone would update the article, add some more info on Mrs.Sevigny, and a new picture then there wouldn't be all this trouble!!