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User:Omo007 per WP:USERNOCAT
Hi there, this is an urgent massage a user by the name of User:Omo007 has added categories on to User:Omo007's userpage. I know I want to remove all of the categories but it won't let me. I need your help, could you the userpage titled User:Omo007 and remove all of the categories and talk to User:Omo007 to never create and article on it's user page per WP:USERNOCAT. This is an urgent message and reply me back as soon as you can. Thanks for your help. 2001:569:74EF:BD00:6CA5:BC2B:7750:77F6 (talk) 02:37, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for removing all of the categories. See you later. Cheers. 2001:569:74EF:BD00:6CA5:BC2B:7750:77F6 (talk) 02:44, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Polygon (Star Trek)
Hi,
I saw you added a redirect to ST:DSC from Polygon (Star Trek) and adding it to Category:Star Trek: Discovery characters. Could you give me details about this character? I couldn't find anything about him/her/it? Thanks, DGtal (talk) 14:09, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
- @DGtal: Good question. He was listed here. Finding info on Jimmy Chimarios joining the cast is difficult. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:42, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
- The name was added by an annonymous IP and the character isn't in IMDb or Memory Alpha or even google. It is either an error (or worse) or a future character yet to be heard of. I recomment deleting the redirect. DGtal (talk) 07:12, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
- @DGtal: Agreed. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:44, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
- The name was added by an annonymous IP and the character isn't in IMDb or Memory Alpha or even google. It is either an error (or worse) or a future character yet to be heard of. I recomment deleting the redirect. DGtal (talk) 07:12, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
Flatlist
I just wanting to make it organized & straight. Just be clear, I'm now going to do all the work on the Stretch Armstrong page for now on. You got more arms more than ever. BigGreener (talk) 19:13, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
- @BigGreener: Okay that wasn't entirely grammatical but sure--if you want to remove the template, that's fine. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:59, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
1824 vs. 1826 introduction of Imperial Units
I noticed your addition, which I think is great, however I'd like to debate the issue of which year should be referenced. The weights and measures law that created Imperial Units was passed in 1824, to go into effect in 1825, which was later pushed back to 1826. Shouldn't the introduction date be when it was first used in commerce, which was 1826? I've not used the introduction template before, so am unaware of what rules are used in cases like this. Can you provide some insight as to what those conventions are, and why you think 1824 is the better date to reference? I think this is an important semantic issue, and want to learn more. PetesGuide (talk) (K6WEB) 05:47, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
- @PetesGuide: That's a good question. I think of something being "introduced" just when it's public in some way--published in a book, passed as a law, etc. Maybe if something were in a private journal in (e.g.) 1822 but weren't published until 1836, it was introduced in 1836. That's my take at least. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:55, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Category:Christian biblical canon has been nominated for discussion
Category:Christian biblical canon, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:03, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
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Good morning from Coreca
Good morning from Coreca, I am writing to greet you and know how you are. I'm good enough for now, I'm writing to ask you a courtesy if you like, that is to give a rereading page and maybe refresh the page. In Spanish it is perfect and for the links there is so much stuff in German, Naurally if I can do something for you ask as well. Ah, before you forget! I found another link for Sabrina Ferilli and her Marriage with Cattaneo. there he is!. Would you please insert it and remove that horrendous template above the page? thanks again and see you soon!--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 04:27, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Peanut as nuts
Hi Koavf,
Regarding this revert. I appreciate your distinction between nuts and legumes and agree that a peanut should not be categorised, or otherwise encyclopaedically defined, as a nut. However, the broader purpose of hatnotes is to help readers locate the articles they are seeking. It is not an appropriate place for technicalities. As such, I'd like you to self-revert and restore my improved version of the hatnote on the Peanuts article.
The Peanut article already raises the distinction in its third paragraph, and future readers of the Peanut article too shall learn about it. This paragraph brings me to my point, which is, that it is linguistically appropriate to refer to peanuts as nuts (in common English language usage, and in culinary contexts, peanuts are usually referred to as nuts"). The Wiktionary usage example that helps define "nut" as a word even uses "peanut" (wiktionary:nut).
Before my unfortunate encounter with the Peanuts article about the comic, I myself had not heard of the word "legume". This, despite having learned English at an early age, and having spoken it on a daily basis for almost ten years. As such, I believe it would be likely for users to find the article easier, and quicker, by disambiguating peanut from a comic book as "the nut", not as "the legume". --Krinkle (talk) 00:45, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Krinkle: Thank you for your note. Was the hatnote unclear when you encountered it? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:39, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
BCE editnotice template
Hello Koavf. I looked for a template similar to {{use dmy}} for eras but couldn't find it. I then noticed that an editnotice existed for Abraham (using Template:Editnotices/Page/Abraham). I tried to create a similar Template:Editnotices/Page/Tetragrammaton but then realized that the template editor right is necessary. Since you created the Abraham one, I wondered if you'd like to also create this one, if you also consider that it is warranted. Lately someone invoked MOS:ERA in an edit summary while converting dates to BC/AD, but the article already used BCE/CE consistently except for one instance of AD and one instance of BC, which I fixed after reverting their change. Hopefully that an editnotice would reduce the likelyhood of future inconsistent additions. Thank you, —PaleoNeonate – 05:22, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
- @PaleoNeonate: No problem: Template:Editnotices/Page/Tetragrammaton. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:25, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
- Many thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 05:26, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Alphabetization
So the rule for alphabetizing parameters in the album reviews template is to go by someone's last name (e.g. Christgau) rather than their first name (e.g. Robert)? I assume so, given your recent revert of my edit to 3rd (The Baseball Project album). Everymorning (talk) 22:56, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Everymorning: Well, yes--this is just an individual and the others are publications. Note also that I was wrong about some of those publications and I fixed it on that page too. Thanks a lot for doing that. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:05, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
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Plip!
[1], [2], [3] --NeilN talk to me 03:46, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
- @NeilN: Thanks. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:05, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:1804 in the Louisiana Territory
A tag has been placed on Category:1804 in the Louisiana Territory requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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Again
Athletes who played sports in Indiana are not automatically from Indiana. Going to school or playing professional sports somewhere does not automatically make a person from that place. That is a longtime consensus here and if you bothered to check, other states don't categorize sportspeople in such a way. I have reverted this in the past[4] and am doing so again. If this continues, maybe ANI is my only course of action left....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 21:12, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
- @WilliamJE: If you don't tell me what this is in reference to then I can't help you. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:28, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
- My first sentence says 'Athletes who played sports in Indiana are not automatically from Indiana.' The link to my talk page above is pretty darn clear to what I'm talking as are the edits of yours I've undone which come up under your alerts. Notre Dame, Purdue, Ball State, South Bend Cubs, Indianapolis Colts, etc etc athletes or players aren't from Indiana....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 01:41, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
- @WilliamJE: I solicited feedback from the relevant WikiProject on this but it just didn't get much traction. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:47, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
- See also Category:Indy Eleven players. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:50, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
- The one reply is pretty clear about the difference between sportspeople from and sportspeople in. 49 other states don't do it that way. City or town article notable people sections don't list someone as from Foo only because they went to college there. That's a consensus that I pointed out to you on my talk page. In some cases you incorrectly took categories categorized as 'Sportspeople in Indiana' and changed them to a from Indiana category. Playing or working somewhere doesn't make a person automatically from that place either....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 01:57, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
- @WilliamJE: You linked to me something about colleges specifically. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:00, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
- @WilliamJE: I solicited feedback from the relevant WikiProject on this but it just didn't get much traction. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:47, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
- My first sentence says 'Athletes who played sports in Indiana are not automatically from Indiana.' The link to my talk page above is pretty darn clear to what I'm talking as are the edits of yours I've undone which come up under your alerts. Notre Dame, Purdue, Ball State, South Bend Cubs, Indianapolis Colts, etc etc athletes or players aren't from Indiana....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 01:41, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
Would you be willing to weigh in this discussion regarding the infobox should keep "playlist" instead of mixtape. Only if you interested. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 18:15, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
The article Post–Secondary Education Quality-Assessment Board has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
No evidence of notability (organizations and companies). Possible minor notability, but I'm in Ontario and never heard of this Board.
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Precious
"the anarchistic approach to editing is its strongest feature"
Thank you for quality articles such as New Multitudes, for creating Portal:Western Sahara, for adding to Member states of the United Nations and Persoonia terminalis, for saying about Wikipedia that "the anarchistic approach to editing is its strongest feature", for contributing, more than anybody else, from 2004, - Justin Anthony, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:00, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Thank you and thanks for adding to Wikipedia yourself. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:31, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
Seasons' Greetings
...to you and yours, from Canada's Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:03, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Bzuk: And a very merry Christmas to you! Let me know if you see Santa coming to and fro the North Pole. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:27, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Simon Peter Hughes: And the same to you. It's encouraging to bump into you around the WikiSphere. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:51, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
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Taxonomic authorities
Hi, I reverted the edit you made on the page Ceratonereis but not because I believe that you were editing other than in good faith. It's a convention for lists in these types of articles, lists of subordinate taxa such as species in a genus or genera in a family to have the authorities in small text. There is currently a proposal to have this convention formally adopted as policy, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Organisms#Sources and authorities. I would ask you to bear that in mind when making these types of edits. Quetzal1964 (talk) 06:57, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Quetzal1964: Thanks for the note. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:00, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
It reads in part- "The creator of a page may not remove a speedy deletion tag from it."...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:00, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
- @WilliamJE: I understand. And someone else has already removed it prior to going to CfD. Please participate in the discussion there if you think you have something to say. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:06, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
- Doesn't make any difference. You are the creator and are therefore strictly prohibited from taking off the tags. No exceptions. I will report you if you continue....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:08, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
- @WilliamJE: As you can see at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, a page should not be tagged for speedy deletion if it has survived its most recent discussion (this generally applies to articles). If the discussion isn't even over then why would you tag it for speedy deletion? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:16, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
- It says in bold that creators can't take tags off. You are being very selective in your reading....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:31, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
- Well, I can see why you've been blocked several times recently. Please do go on with your threats—I'll be here waiting. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:32, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
- It says in bold that creators can't take tags off. You are being very selective in your reading....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:31, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
- @WilliamJE: As you can see at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, a page should not be tagged for speedy deletion if it has survived its most recent discussion (this generally applies to articles). If the discussion isn't even over then why would you tag it for speedy deletion? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:16, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
- Doesn't make any difference. You are the creator and are therefore strictly prohibited from taking off the tags. No exceptions. I will report you if you continue....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:08, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Deletion discussion
This is a waste. See Wikipedia:Deletion policy: "Once there is an objection or a deletion discussion, a page may not be proposed for deletion again." There is a deletion discussion (which you know), therefore, the category. cannot be nominated for speedy deletion simultaneously. Please post to the actual CfD if you have feedback. If not, why do you think the CfD process can't run its course? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:25, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Threats
Yes, please do inform an administrator. I'd be interested in someone else's feedback on this topic. Thanks. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:31, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Talk:American Utopia
The article you have created is currently start class. There are plenty more upcoming albums that don't have future in the class but assessments of their length and content. How we can't assess the class of an article when it's already start class is beyond me. I'm well aware "future" is an option and I don't have a problem with it existing, but American Utopia is a start class article as it is and thus should say that. Regardless, I have rated its importance low because it does not appear to be of significant cultural importance yet/if ever. There is no future option and there is nothing saying we can't have an assessment of that. Ss112 10:03, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Ss112: Upcoming articles have special considerations; that's why Future class exists. Since this is unreleased, it is assessed that way. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:31, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, but I'm saying not every upcoming album is assessed as "Future". I've seen users more experienced than I who generally know what they're doing create a talk page for an album they've created that is upcoming, and put an assessment that is not "Future" in the template but rather an assessment of its actual quality. Ss112 10:34, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Ss112: Yes, there is a lot of work to do around here. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:40, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, but I'm saying not every upcoming album is assessed as "Future". I've seen users more experienced than I who generally know what they're doing create a talk page for an album they've created that is upcoming, and put an assessment that is not "Future" in the template but rather an assessment of its actual quality. Ss112 10:34, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
Neutral notice
There is an RfC at an article you have edited, to which you may wish to add your input: Talk:American Flagg!#Request for comment. --Tenebrae (talk) 18:03, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
Category discussion...
...over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red. I pinged you because you have some thoughts on the subject - hope you don't mind. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 03:39, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Never mind a ping--always happy to hear from you, Ser. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:01, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
- You're too kind, and I too undeserving. Thanks for your input. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 06:15, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Three Billboards and Shape of Water
I suggest you try to ignore the edit warring IP at Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Shape of Water (film). I blocked him for violating 3RR, but you're nearing the same. These aren't obscure articles, and disruptive edits are likely to be seen by others. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 07:46, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
January 2018
Your recent editing history at The Shape of Water (film) shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
I'm tired of handing out warnings. More edit warring means a block. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 08:31, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Belated best wishes for a happy 2018
== BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:27, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
- @BoringHistoryGuy: Here's hope your 2018 is not a boring one (in the good way). Thanks for the kind words. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:39, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
NPR article
Hello, I removed the NPR article because, while generally true, the page in my view should remain as politically neutral and the article mentioned is the title of a single article describing the results of a single poll, not a summary of general public opinion conducted during the president's tenure. Please don't add it back. Thanks! -Benwitt, 19 Jan 2018
- @Benwitt: Of course it should be neutral: every page here should be. How is your objection any different than the first, third, and fourth citations in the article, which are not meta-analyses of surveys but single news reports? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:56, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Koavf: My only objection is that Trump's widespread disapproval has been seen and tracked since day 1, and reiterated in the articles published. I think it's a little too early to say that a majority think his presidency has been a failure because it has not been tracked as frequently, and as a president, Trump is still fairly new. I think mine is a minor objection- if you want to repost it, please feel free. Thanks. Benwitt
- @Benwitt: My claim is not that it's a failure (altho that is also true) but that it's perceived as one by Americans and having a poll indicating as such on his first anniversary is a tidy place to track it (in addition to all of the extensive daily/weekly/monthly polling data). ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:58, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Koavf: I think it couldn't hurt to wait, but if you would like, please feel free to add it back. I'm not going to be up much longer for much of the night, so I won't be adding much to this page. I also agree w your previous point. You can use pollingreport.com/trump_ad.htm as a resource if it helps.Thanks - Benwitt
- @Benwitt: Thank you. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:22, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Koavf: My only objection is that Trump's widespread disapproval has been seen and tracked since day 1, and reiterated in the articles published. I think it's a little too early to say that a majority think his presidency has been a failure because it has not been tracked as frequently, and as a president, Trump is still fairly new. I think mine is a minor objection- if you want to repost it, please feel free. Thanks. Benwitt
Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors
Hi Justin! I came across two categories, Category:Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors for Spring 2012 and Category:Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors for Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, of which you are the only member. At least the first one appears to be a historical category, and I'm not sure about the second one. Would you be open to upmerging these to their parent, Category:Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors? Thanks, -- Black Falcon (talk) 05:45, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Black Falcon: I certainly don't object in principle. I had hoped others would add to that scheme but it never happened and that whole program is dead. :/ ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:02, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
- Since you were the only member, I've gone ahead and done it manually; let me know if you think they should have a full discussion instead. Thanks for your quick response! -- Black Falcon (talk) 17:37, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Black Falcon: No objection from me. Thanks for the note but it's clear that the scheme was never going to be realized. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:18, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
- Since you were the only member, I've gone ahead and done it manually; let me know if you think they should have a full discussion instead. Thanks for your quick response! -- Black Falcon (talk) 17:37, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Organized crime#Loops
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Organized crime#Loops. —usernamekiran(talk) 18:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
DMOZ contributor category
Please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 25. – S. Rich (talk) 04:51, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Dermot Mulroney
I've read the entire Dermot Mulroney article but can't find any connection to football (soccer). Then again it's Friday and my brain is fried. What did I miss? Thanks. --Jameboy (talk) 18:22, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Jameboy: Category:Hollywood United players. (An unsourced category.) ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:41, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
- Ah yes, I forgot to check the categories. Thanks. --Jameboy (talk) 18:45, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
Universal love listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Universal love. Since you had some involvement with the Universal love redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 01:39, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Hey! I saw that you edited the article Black Mirror and thought maybe you would be interested in this new user category I created?-🐦Do☭torWho42 (⭐) 01:30, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @DoctorWho42: Thanks but I've never seen it. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:13, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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- @Ma'az: Thanks. I'm not a part of the very first generation of Wikipedians but I'm in the second. This is my life's work. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:49, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
- Yes. Wikipedia started in 2001, despite being in 2nd generation WP:7, you are the 2nd best editor on Wiki and an inspiration for other wikipedians. Great job :) M A A Z T A L K 08:29, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
Nomination of Krishna Reddy (artist) for deletion
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The Dreamcast listed at Redirects for discussion
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- @KinkowanWinter: Thank you--it's a team effort. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:17, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
“Category:Basketball coaches from State Foo”
Hi - I noticed that you added a number of schools and/or professional team coach categories to this (example, adding “Basketball coaches from Indiana” to “Indiana Hoosiers men’s basketball coaches”). People who coached at schools or pro teams in these states are not valid subcategories of these categories. You have a mix of long-time coaches and people who move through on their way to another job in another state, so you just can’t assume they will be “from” that state. For example, Vanderbilt’s current head coach is Bryce Drew, who is from Indiana. Just wanted to let you know why I removed these. Thanks. Rikster2 (talk) 18:00, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
RfA nomination
How is it that you are not an admin yet? You have more than 1,000,000 contributions, you are experienced, so what is missing? L293D (✉) 01:44, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
- @L293D: I have been for awhile and contributed a lot but being an admin requires some other skills such as patience, trust from the community, understanding of policy, discretion, etc. Simply editing a lot or for a long time doesn't ensure those things. I may have some of them, I may lack some of them. At the very least, it requires someone to be willing to do it and at the moment, I don't have the ability to dedicate time to those sorts of issues here on en.wp. Thanks for asking, tho. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:24, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Dashes rather than hyphens in citation titles
Hi Koavf. As far as I can recall, you change hyphens to en dashes in article text and citations (I think I've even see you run a script that changes hyphens to en dashes). An editor, Life of Tau, disagrees that hyphens should be changed to en dashes, and has made a bit of a deal about it at God's Plan (song) when I changed them to en dashes. I know it's not a requirement, but I also don't believe it's a requirement we replicate exactly what a source's title is in the citation title parameter. If you know some bit of a better reason/standard for why en dashes are changed to hyphens (other than MOS:ENDASH), can you please drop a line at User talk:Life of Tau? It'd be much appreciated. Thanks. Ss112 07:28, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for sorting part of the problem out by removing the YouTube citations—however, there are still other sources on the page that use en dashes over hyphens in the title, and I believe this is part of what Life of Tau had an issue with. Ss112 07:35, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Ss112: I posted to his talk. I'm definitely not perfect, so maybe there is something that I'm missing here but yes, I do believe that we should use our in-house style even for external titles. I don't see the incentive to not. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:36, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
- Is there a specific page other than MOS:ENDASH that states we should use en dashes rather than hyphens? Is there any other page where this is stated? Life of Tau was saying that they believe ENDASH doesn't apply to citations but only article prose. Ss112 07:42, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Ss112: Other than WP:DASH, I don't believe so but it does certainly apply to title as well. I don't see why it wouldn't apply to citations--we're not obliged to accept anyone else's styling. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:56, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
- Is there a specific page other than MOS:ENDASH that states we should use en dashes rather than hyphens? Is there any other page where this is stated? Life of Tau was saying that they believe ENDASH doesn't apply to citations but only article prose. Ss112 07:42, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Ss112: I posted to his talk. I'm definitely not perfect, so maybe there is something that I'm missing here but yes, I do believe that we should use our in-house style even for external titles. I don't see the incentive to not. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:36, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Baby, Come Back (album)
Any thoughts on what's best to do at that article? We have an irritating IP edit-warring, but it hardly seems worth the bother of protecting the article. Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:47, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Ghmyrtle: I agree that it's pretty low-stakes and that the IP is a rude jerk. I don't see a big difference in the content really. Maybe pick your battles and let it be? I hate letting someone who's a jerk win, tho. :/ ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:11, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
RS
Hello wikipedian. Based on your experience in editing, I wanted some help from you. I wanted to know if Wikileaks can be mentioned as a reference in articles or as a reliable source? M A A Z T A L K 09:03, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Ma'az: I don't see why not. A good rule of thumb for me is to see if reliable sources consider a source reliable--other news outlets certainly do (even tho many are critical of Wikileaks). Do you have a particular use in mind? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:06, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- So, you are saying that it can be mentioned. I agree with you. There is also a template available on how to mention wikileaks references https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WikiLeaks_cable. This should imply that it can be used as reference. Thank you for your input. And I was just using it in an article Research and Analysis Wing activities in Pakistan, and thought I should inquire about it. In its AfD discussion, some were saying that it is not reliabble. M A A Z T A L K 09:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @Ma'az: Visit WP:RSN where you can ask questions regarding whether particular sources are reliable in context. samee talk 09:31, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- Ok User:Samee. Thank you for the advice. M A A Z T A L K 09:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
input on Draft:Richard Walter Thomas
There seems to be some questions that perhaps a few people could chime in on. I'm approaching senior members of various projects related to the subject as I can find to see if they might be interested in reviewing the draft and comments on the talk page. Smkolins (talk) 11:30, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Smkolins: Thanks for asking. I am simply too distracted and this is too long but the least I can say is that it looks ready for mainspace, no doubt. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:28, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Koavf:, Hi. Perhaps you can share the draft with another who could be interested in advancing the work of this blend of issues. Smkolins (talk) 10:31, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Ellipses in quoted material
Hi Koavf, I assume you're quite well-versed in how we use quotes on Wikipedia and where to use ellipses for omission of quoted material and where we don't. A user by the name of GWFrog thinks here that ellipses are required at the start of quotes because that somehow to them means "omission of quoted text" (which I quoted to them as part of WP:MOSQUOTE), whereas there is no omission in that quote—we have just chosen to start quoting the material at a certain point. If you get the time, can you please explain to them that these ellipses are not required? Because I don't really see these ellipses used all over Wikipedia every time somebody chooses to start the quotation of a source at a certain point. Taking up part of a quote is not an omission, and I'm surprised that this user has been given copyediting awards without understanding this. Thank you! Ss112 19:00, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
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- @Xaosflux: Thanks. Very considerate to write. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:48, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Nile State listed at Redirects for discussion
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What should we do with Lorca?
Please see Draft talk:Gabriel Lorca. Thanks, DGtal (talk) 13:05, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
a favor for Draft:Prakash Neupane
Good evening, dear Justin. I am writing to greet you and know how you are. I am well enough for now, busy between Coreca and my agricultural campaign. I am writing to ask you a little favor that I hope you will not deny me. I saw this article here, which I'm going to report, is a young Nepalese rapper, very smart for what I could understand. Already some friends gave me good information about him and I translated it into Italian. What is the practice for it to be even formalized in English? you know, could you help me? Thank you for what you did, do and you will do for me. a greeting from Calabria--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 14:22, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino: Sorry, I don't think I can help at the moment. I would recommend seeing the Translation Tool. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:45, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
The standard for charts sections is to have the reference next to the chart name and not the peak, and generally the peak position column should not be that wide, so we break the value with a line break. Template:Album chart even generates the reference next to the chart and not the peak, because when more charts are added, if the reference is next to the number value, it will not sort correctly (and this would be an WP:ACCESS concern, would it not?). So 2 will appear before 20 instead of before 3. (Try it out for yourself with dummy entries.) I've added chart wikitables to pages you've created or extensively edited before and you didn't seem to have an issue with it then, so I'm confused as to why you do now. Ss112 09:20, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Ss112: Nice point about accessibility--I was not aware of that. In my mind, the fact you are citing is that it reached "2", not that it was on [X] chart, so that is the fact that needs to be cited. (e.g. When I say the population of Indianapolis is 880,985, I am citing the number, not that Indianapolis has a population.) Regarding the width of the table, there is no real prospect of it being too wide to render, so I don't see the necessity for the line break. Alternately, it could just say "Peak". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:24, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- I don't agree with combining commercial performance and the chart section. MOS:ALBUM separates the two; I'm not sure if you've combined these sections on other David Byrne articles, but even still, they don't need all need to be uniform. Not saying all album articles need to be uniform either, but some conventions suit the greater project. I don't think a table in the middle of the page rather than towards the bottom (as track listing, charts, certifications and release history generally are) aids the reader. Also sure, the column could say "peak", however I don't see the need to stray from convention here. I've kept the prose of the commercial reception, and kept your reference style per WP:CITEVAR. Ss112 07:20, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
- Sounds fair. Thanks again, Ss. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:37, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
- I don't agree with combining commercial performance and the chart section. MOS:ALBUM separates the two; I'm not sure if you've combined these sections on other David Byrne articles, but even still, they don't need all need to be uniform. Not saying all album articles need to be uniform either, but some conventions suit the greater project. I don't think a table in the middle of the page rather than towards the bottom (as track listing, charts, certifications and release history generally are) aids the reader. Also sure, the column could say "peak", however I don't see the need to stray from convention here. I've kept the prose of the commercial reception, and kept your reference style per WP:CITEVAR. Ss112 07:20, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Category:Tennis players from Indiana has been nominated for discussion
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Template:4 Non Blondes
Good day Justin, I noticed that you posted a red link to WP:NANN at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2018_March_19#Template:4_Non_Blondes. --Jax 0677 (talk) 17:24, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Category:Baseball coaches from Alabama has been nominated for discussion
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New Page Review Newsletter No.10
ACTRIAL:
- ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.
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A favor for Holy Easter or an aid to improve Lori Jo Hendrix
Good evening from Calabria, I write to greet you and know how you are, I'm enough for now, waiting for the holy easter, I'll write to ask you a favor if you can and want to expand and improve the biography that I have reported to you, eventually enough that remains here on Wikipedia, of course if I can do something to improve it and look for other necessary sources I will do my best. I thank you for the patience, esteem and friendship you have in my regard. a greeting from Calabria and I hope I can soon do something for you.--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 20:17, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino: Prego as always but there's not a lot of time for me to look at this. Please make sure that you cite some sources--even if they're in Italian, it's a start! Buona Pasqua. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:57, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
looks like @Drone Doom Metal: added Hum (band) to the article List of ambient music artists in 2006 with the edit summary "Addittion of a few, random ambient artists.".-🐦Do☭torWho42 (⭐) 22:43, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- @DoctorWho42: That makes a lot of sense, then. Thanks for making the encyclopedia more consistent (even if this one bit of data is incorrect). ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:48, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Connected how?
Would you please provide some more detail around this? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 02:51, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Jytdog: Good question and I will--I am just not done editing the article yet. :/ I've been pretty negligent about it. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:06, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for replying. If you have some significant connection you should not be editing directly, right? Jytdog (talk) 03:07, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Jytdog: Good question. As you can see at WP:COI, there are conditions under which someone must disclose affiliation and simple affiliation itself does not disqualify you from editing (e.g. paid editing). ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:57, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- It depends; this is why I look forward to you making the nature of the connection clear. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 04:28, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Jytdog: Good question. As you can see at WP:COI, there are conditions under which someone must disclose affiliation and simple affiliation itself does not disqualify you from editing (e.g. paid editing). ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:57, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for replying. If you have some significant connection you should not be editing directly, right? Jytdog (talk) 03:07, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Wiktgle
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MfD nomination of Template talk:Dream Team
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Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing
Hello,
There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.
There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{infobox ship}} is parsed).
If you are interested in helping with this project, please see Wikipedia:Linter. There are also some basic instructions (and links to even more information) at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-April/001836.html You can also leave a note at WT:Linter if you have questions.
Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Otello Corporation listed at Redirects for discussion
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Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 02:55, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Doc James: Thank you for all you do. We bump into each other every know and again and it's always a treat. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:50, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
a favor for Lizzie Cundy
good morning from Coreca, I'm writing to greet you and know how you are, I'm pretty good for now, I saw this article and I thought I'd give it a hand. I was wondering if you could possibly refresh the article, maybe updating it a bit. Then if I can do something for you, ask quietly, I will help you in Italian and its dialects. a greeting from Calabria and see you soon!--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 06:20, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1955 has been nominated for discussion
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Hello, Koavf, and thank you for your recent clean-up of African diaspora. The first sentence of the article ("The African diaspora is made up of communities throughout the world that peoples descended peoples from Africa, predominantly to the Americas and among other areas around the globe.") seems to be a bit of a mess, though. Maybe it's missing a word or two? Or maybe you were interrupted in the middle of an edit and never finished it? It's a big improvement over what was there, but it seems a shame not to finish it. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 02:24, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Malik Shabazz: Thanks, man. I agree that it can be better. Do you want to collaborate on this by chance? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:24, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
- I'm very short on time these days, unfortunately mostly reverting vandalism and policy violations. I'll try to help when things at work lighten up. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:43, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
ACTRIAL:
- WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
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Editathons
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Paid editing - new policy
- Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
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List of YouTubers
Do you realize you removed every single ever reference? You need to fix it or risk your edits being reverted. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 06:51, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Fishhead2100: No? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:56, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry it wasn't you. My bad. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 07:10, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
- Oh and I had to undo your edits because I wasn't going manually add the references back. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 07:14, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry it wasn't you. My bad. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 07:10, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Blank lines
Hi. I was trying to follow the guidance on blank lines of MOS:INDENTGAP in an edit in the Pedro Perebal AfD talk but it didn't work. Could you tell me what went wrong and how in the future I can add the blank lines to my wall of text following the guideline? Thinker78 (talk) 06:16, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Thinker78:
- The middle colons need text in them to keep from running together. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:55, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
- But, unless I'm wrong, that's how they are supposed to be used to render blank lines according to the example provided in MOS:INDENTGAP. Thinker78 (talk) 19:13, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Action Comics 1000
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Action Comics 1000 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Courcelles -- Courcelles (talk) 20:41, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Action Comics 1000
The article Action Comics 1000 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold 
. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Action Comics 1000 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Courcelles -- Courcelles (talk) 21:01, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Editor seems to think t in "the" is a special exception to normal caps
Hi Koavf, I know I've asked you to help me explain several things to editors before, and it looks like there's another instance of this. The editor Wikisian seems to believe that the production company Off the Dock, which redirects to Lakeshore Entertainment, is some kind of special exception because its "literal name" and "literature" use a capital t for "the". I've explained it's not an exception to normal capitalisation rules, but they don't seem to get it. This editor has been around since 2011 but doesn't seem to get very simple things like this. We had a disagreement over overlinking several months back as well. They also are trying to use WP:NCCAPS to claim that "proper name" means we capitalise all first letters in a title. Ss112 08:54, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Obama caption
Why would you claim there was consensus on the Talk page of an article, when there most clearly was not? Dave Dial (talk) 13:30, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Dave Dial: I didn't say there was consensus. What I implied was that there was an argument offered on the talk page to support this, which there is. If we are doing a tally, Koavf, Brendon, and SoWhy are all in favor with AnimalParty and Dave Dial not in favor. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:15, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- Why are you lying? There is obviously 3 editors that opposed a caption, including Corky who reverted you the first time. And even if it were true, that is not consensus. Use the Talk page and don't edit war. You are the one that wants to make the change, you don't just keep adding it. Dave Dial (talk) 00:04, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
Alec Stevens
Dear Koavf,
I added a photo to the Alec Stevens (comics artist and illustrator) article this morning, only to find the entire second half of the article (and all external links) edited out of it. Do I need a wiki editor to put the relevant info back in, and with footnotes? Would you be willing to help? I can provide the necessary links, fact-checking, etc.
For example, this line was removed:
Since 1992, Alec Stevens has served as an instructor at The Kubert School. Many of his former students are now industry professionals.
The proper reference to prove this is: http://www.kubertschool.edu/faculty/Alec_Stevens.html Some of the notable professionals who were his students include Sergio Cariello, Brandon Vietti, Micah Gunnell, and Alex Maleev, to name but a few.
Much of the second portion of the deleted article had to do with the Christian books, graphic novels, tracts, and the like published under his Calvary Comics imprint over the past 18 years, as well as his musical work in secular venues as well as serving as guitarist at Times Square Church from 2010-16, not to mention evangelistic and Gospel music work in Nigeria, West Africa in 2002.
Best regards, ```` Chrisart7 —Preceding undated comment added 20:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Chrisart7: Hi, Chris. I can tell you're new here and looking for help—I'm glad you reached out to me. I agree that the article is better with this expanded content but it needs to have sources. So I can work with you in expanding it if you want to do that. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:06, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Yes, I do! What is the best way to proceed? Should I paste the deleted text in here, then interject the appropriate links as sources/references? Yes, I'm quite new at this.
```` Chrisart7
Did it, but wasn't able to keep the original Wikipedia links to keywords in the article. I'm sure you can solve that problem faster than I'm typing this. ```` Chrisart7
P.S. If you go to my talk page you'll see links to correspond to the deleted sections for sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Chrisart7#Alec_Stevens
Let me know if you need anything else for footnoting. Thanks again! ```` Chrisart7 —Preceding undated comment added 21:56, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Chrisart7: Here's my recommendation: copy and paste the text that you want at User:Chrisart7/sandbox and then we can start from there. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:05, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Did it, but wasn't able to keep the original Wikipedia links to keywords in the article. I'm sure you can solve that problem faster than I'm typing this. ```` Chrisart7 —Preceding undated comment added 22:26, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Chrisart7: There you go. Now it's started. You'll have to find sources for all of the claims you make. If it doesn't have a source or isn't common knowledge, it has to go. (Also, you sign your posts with four tildes: ~~~~, so hold down
Shiftwhile tapping the`button.) ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:37, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Action Comics 1000
The article Action Comics 1000 you nominated as a good article has passed 
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Action Comics 1000 has been nominated for Did You Know
Hello, Koavf. I've nominated Action Comics 1000, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed, to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know
. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. Philroc (c) 16:45, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
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DYK for Action Comics 1000
On 14 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Action Comics 1000, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that two weeks before its release, retailers had already reportedly bought more than half a million copies of Action Comics #1000? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Action Comics 1000. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Action Comics 1000), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Gatoclass: Boss, thanks! ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:03, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
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