User talk:Tinned Elk

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thanks Joe. Believe me I have already spent LOTS of time on here and do in fact plan to stay. Thanks for the welcome. In fact, I like the "have a life" template because I often wonder what I did before I discovered this place. Wow -I have a talk page!! --Tinned Elk 21:56, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re to question

Hi, I'm not really sure what to do about the whole situation myself. I've welcomed e-romance and asked the person to look over the editing links since he/she keeps editing in the same format but so far I haven't seen any change. What I've done is clean up some of the pages best I can, delete the info that I can't understand, and try to deleted unsourced stuff that doesn't seem appropriate for a encyclopedia. I've been thinking about leaving another message for the user but haven't gotten around to it yet. If the person keeps on editing the way they have I'm not really sure what I'm going to do besides maybe see about flagging down the attention of one of the wiki projects or an admin. I hope this kind of gives you more of a direction to go in. Sorry if it's not more helpful. :/ --ImmortalGoddezz 01:35, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Claiming of Sleeping Beauty.jpg

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UK Amusement Parks

Hi there, just to let you know I replied over on the talk page! Is quite refreshing to find someone else who seems dedicated to improving these articles, sometimes feels like there's no hope when so many IPs are adding rubbish. I'm also part of the roller coaster WP over at WP:ROCO, that seems to have quite a few members too. Don't know if you're interested or not, but I decided it would be a bit of a boost to the WPs in general if we got an article up to GA - Kingda Ka looks like a reasonable bet. Is always better to be editing with someone than alone! Let me know what you think. Seaserpent⁸⁵ _Talk 23:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AP Invite

I've created an invite for you which you can find at {{AP invite}}, feel free to adjust it as you see fit! When using it you need to make sure it's subst'ed by including {{subst:AP invite}}, this should give the invite below:

Hello, Tinned Elk thank you for your recent contributions on articles related to amusement parks. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject Amusement Parks, a WikiProject which aims to improve the quality of all amusement park related articles on Wikipedia. Feel free to leave a message on the talk page, hope to see you over there! Seaserpent⁸⁵ _Talk 12:58, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seaserpent⁸⁵ _Talk 12:58, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Huss Rides

Yep, you're quite right! I can understand basic/moderate German so I'll take a look over the article for you. I was going to ask you about the assessment over at the AP WikiProject - particularly with importance, how exactly do you think the importance should be divided up? I've found it's a very subjective area and needs strict guidelines to work properly. Seaserpent⁸⁵ _Talk 18:03, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Amusement Parks WikiProject

I posted my thoughts on the talk page that you mentioned. Thanks for asking me about it! --Idont Havaname (Talk) 23:35, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:GA article improvement

I haven't myself started a list - I nominated the article for peer review nearly 10 days ago and had no reply. Maybe we could set up a to-do list on the article? A lot of it is mainly referencing, though I suspect there's a lot of rubbish on there too. I'll hopefully have tomorrow afternoon to do some work on it. I also had a look at the Huss article, most of it was ok-ish but I've re-written most parts and add some citations, just needs a bit more tidying really. Seaserpent⁸⁵ _Talk 23:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AmusementParkProject template

Just thought I'd let you know that I've updated the {{AmusementParkProject}} template, it now includes fields for articles requiring citations and images... and fields for identifying articles that fall under the descendant WPs :) This way we only need to place one template on ALL pages related to amusement parks and then tag other WPs where needed! Should hopefully bring a lot more editors to the amusement park project. Seaserpent⁸⁵ _Talk 14:54, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's weird, I was just about to leave a message on your talk page regarding the same thing! Unfortunately, I had to change back to using seperate templates. The reason being is that it's hard to write the code correctly so that the class rating is copied across all of the WikiProjects - it's also near impossible to include importance ratings for these 'sub-projects'. So for the time being I've left it that we use seperate templates.

Also, to unify the work we're doing, and to showcase the work to non-editors I've started our very own portal, it's not 'live' so to speak, but if it gives off a glossy impression that should hopefully draw more editors in!

And good job on the categories, will be extremely useful! I've also signed up to use WP:AWB, so if you need a hand tagging amusement parks then just give me a shout - I'd leave them unrated, but atleast they'd be a central place and go onto the assessment chart for anyone to fill in. Let me know. Seaserpent⁸⁵ _Talk 21:15, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, AWB is very easy to use - I think you need 500 mainspace edits to use it. I think it's a silly rule personally, but hey. One useful feature of it is that it lets you go through all pages under a certain category and skip those containing certain terms - in this case "AmusementParkProject". So once we're done with going through those on the lists in that article, I'll go back and find any we've missed. Joy! Seaserpent⁸⁵ _Talk 21:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: AP Thanks you for tags

No worries, was mostly automated anyhow! One thing I did realise though is that there's a need for a clearly defined scope - for example do water parks and miniature villages fall under the project? I'd have said no but the category tree for amusement parks seems to say otherwise. I'm currently going through the roller coaster category to neaten everything out, maybe we should do the same for amusement parks? Seaserpent⁸⁵ _Talk 17:41, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Coney Island

I'm not sure. They might be in the phone book. From west to east is Kiddie Park, 12th Street Amusements, Deno's Wonder Wheel Park, and Astroland, then the Cyclone is east of that. If you're referring to the Spider and Zipper comment, I heard it this morning (9/5/07) on WNYC. Perhaps wnyc.org has the story. --Scottandrewhutchins 18:09, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NFCC 8 revisited

You were involved in this discussion last year, so I thought you might be interested in Wikipedia talk:Non-free content#Criterion 8 objection. howcheng {chat} 21:01, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area roll call

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Again, hi! -Optigan13 (talk) 07:54, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Amusement Park WikiProject

Hello Tinned Elk. Recently, the Amusement Parks WikiProject was reformatted and revived. As part of this process other related WikiProjects (such as Disneyland, Herschend Family Entertainment, Universal Parks & Resorts and Walt Disney World) were also revived and have now become part of the Amusement Park WikiProject as task forces. If you would like to remain listed as a member on these WikiProjects please re-add your name to the appropriate lists at the participants page. All names currently on the list have been cleared. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. Thank you for your cooperation, Themeparkgc Talk 08:27, 6 November 2010 (UTC).[reply]

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