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Mark Hamill
RE: the Mark Hamill page--do you really think that including (unsourced) details about his lines in minor roles and irrelevant plot points related to those minor roles belong on the wiki page for an actor? Do references to Jay and Silent Bob necessitate an entire paragraph? Does writing like, "When his large, fake right hand prop is cut off in the film's duel" really belong here? "Large, fake right hand prop"? Is it necessary to clarify that Mr. Hamill did not lose is actual hand during filming? Do we really need to know that Mr. Hamill said, 'Hi, Ray and Rirent Rob'."? The page appears to have been written by trivia fans as they happen to stumble across Mark Hamill's page. Frankly, it's a mess and it's badly written, and the information is haphazardly arranged. 184.38.19.227 (talk) 20:36, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
- Please see Talk:Mark Hamill. -download ׀ talk 22:10, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Article: Setup (film) - stop undoing my edits!
Don't patronise me by suggesting I'm vandalising a page when all I'm doing is removing crap content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.87.148 (talk) 19:07, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Your first edit was vandalism. You can replace content but you should not simply delete content unless it is blatant "crap" without discussing it on the talk page. The article is now using your plot summary. -download ׀ talk 19:10, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Well, I came to the page to find out about the film and frankly I couldn't make sense of the plot summary. My 8 year old daughter can write far more clearly than that. Thank you for going back to my second edit though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.87.148 (talk) 19:14, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Re: SSME Revert
The information I deleted has been deleted several timed before as trivia. Do you really think that readers are interested in knowing which specific flights were flown by specific engines? I'm sure a few are - but those would be the ones that are googleing around for any info they can find on the subject anyway. This informatino is totally trivia. --71.214.211.30 (talk) 19:10, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- You appear to be the person who deleted the information before. This is edit warring. For example, [1]. Take this to the talk page first. -download ׀ talk 19:15, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
PROD on Types of antidepressants
First, thank you for your recent contributions in new page patrolling. Just wanted to let you know I removed the PROD tag on Types of antidepressants. If a page can and should be redirected to another page that it's very similar to, and there's little to no chance of this being contested, there's no need to PROD the article (and in fact that shouldn't be done). Just go ahead and redirect the article to where you think it should go. In this case, I've redirected it to List of antidepressants. If you have any questions, feel free to reply here, or in the future, feel free to contact me on my talk page. :) Inks.LWC (talk) 05:36, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads-up! :) -download ׀ talk 23:00, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
At Dan Wheldon
Without going through the edit history, I am guessing the ref. ended up on the 11 because that is the part that kept getting modified, not "in the race". I agree it belongs at the end of the sentence, but sadly, regardless of whatever tactic is used, someone will disregard the detailed note and say "ENGLISH BBC SAYS IT SO THERE DUMBO" in their summary. What can you do. =) CycloneGU (talk) 04:51, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hi CycloneGU, I understand. That's a lot of edits! I suppose it'd be a good idea for semi-protection on the page for a while if it isn't already semi-protected. -download ׀ talk 19:55, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- The thing is that someone dying isn't reason enough for semi-protection. Unless it's an extremely notable figure (let's be honest, a race car driver isn't near as notable as, say, Bill Clinton or Steve Jobs, the latter who did die recently), and even in those cases, it usually would have to be vandalizing of the page routinely before semi-protection can be applied. I once requested protection for Timothy Cain after he came out or something on Facebook and vandalism edits of unsourced information started, and it was summarily declined. Sometimes even vandalism isn't enough. Feel free to read the protection policy to learn how that works if you're interested (linked in the decline message, see the page as it looked after the later edit further down). CycloneGU (talk) 22:21, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info! Well, at least the activity on the page will die down after a while. -download ׀ talk 23:02, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- The thing is that someone dying isn't reason enough for semi-protection. Unless it's an extremely notable figure (let's be honest, a race car driver isn't near as notable as, say, Bill Clinton or Steve Jobs, the latter who did die recently), and even in those cases, it usually would have to be vandalizing of the page routinely before semi-protection can be applied. I once requested protection for Timothy Cain after he came out or something on Facebook and vandalism edits of unsourced information started, and it was summarily declined. Sometimes even vandalism isn't enough. Feel free to read the protection policy to learn how that works if you're interested (linked in the decline message, see the page as it looked after the later edit further down). CycloneGU (talk) 22:21, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
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