User talk:MrZaius

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Thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thank you Mrzaius for welcoming me when I was editing using an IP address. I am now a registered user and addicted to Wikipedia. Southern Illinois SKYWARN 02:27, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Justice (economics)

On your very helpful Justice (economics) Edits & both sets of Talk p. comments, my thanks. This is the way Wiki is supposed to work. --Thomasmeeks 13:58, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Avoid trivia is the guideline I am proposing.

It's still at Avoid Trivia in the LEAD - "Wikipedia is not a trivia collection. In order to keep Wikipedia articles encyclopedic, unimportant information may be excluded from articles. Large sections of minute details only indirectly related to an article's topic should be avoided." That said, WP:NOT doesn't have to summarize each and every policy. 14:44, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand your comment. Wikipedia:Avoid trivia is the guideline I am proposing. It is less than one hour old. / edg ☺ ★ 14:50, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Responded on pump - Misread your comment and thought you were talking about Wikipedia:Trivia sections initially. 22:59, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Mutants and Masterminds AfD

While I agree that this particular AfD might be considered understandable, the nominator certainly does have a history of nominating clearly notable gaming articles for deletion:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GURPS Space (2nd nomination)
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of GURPS books
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Castle Falkenstein (role-playing game)
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bunnies and Burrows

And of course, the one that started it all:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GURPS 4e Basic Set

Maybe people, including myself, have implied bad faith too quickly in this particular instance, but the prior history has given me reason to believe that the nominator would like to see gaming articles off of Wikipedia, notable or not. -Chunky Rice 19:37, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Lolcat

What??? Noe moar! - CobaltBlueTony 17:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Also this. - CobaltBlueTony 17:09, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

You inserted it over another site and falsely attributed it to the other's source. Of course it was removed. 17:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

I was following your revert over an anon's. - CobaltBlueTony 17:36, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. I just realized I was in error in my own reverts. Anon was on the ball, and I let a bit of anti-vandal bias mar my judgement. Apology posted to Talk:Lolcat below the Scandinavian's comment 17:38, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Apologies for the anon comments - didn't realize I had been logged out. Thank you for the note, and your patience! Desertdwell 04:39, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Petro war

Thats fair. It is one of those subjects that is fairly interesting but most info on it is rather fringe... I totally agree that the source was iffy. I will see if I am lucky and run into something one of these days. The best would be official data from the Iraqui government but given the situation there I doubt it will be easy to find. Since the statement was not tagged for a long time perhaps we could leave it in, tagged, for a few days and then remove it? Up to you; it may be that some reader who speaks another language has some readily available source on it. Feel free to move this to the article's talk page. Take care, Brusegadi 02:43, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Yahoo! Answers article edits reverted. How to proceed?

Thanks for your help editing the "Yahoo Answers" article to address NPOV and WP:OR. I tend to agree with the edits you made, but it appears others in the community did not as most of them have been reverted. As someone whose somewhat new to this process do you have any suggestions on the best way to resolve this apparent conflict? Malpern 10:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Remarkably, it got worse after that edit. One userwent so far as to use it to promote a .torrent of independent criticism. The section needs a rewrite from scratch. 18:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Pierre De Geyter

I changed the lead again, since he DID compose other tunes (among them, practically all those in the Pottier poem bundle) but of course, the Internationale is the best known. Have a look whether you agree.

The picture is a problem. The reason is that Belgium (just like France, so getting something from Lille as I could easily do on my own, does not help) has a very restrictive law on panorama and copy right. The photograph fails two conditions: 1) it is not in the open air, people have to pay to enter the museum 2) quite simply, you cannot use anything obtained by panorama pictures (if this were one - again I could very easily get a picture which shows much more of the museum and much less of the statue) as the subject of a "public showing" (which Wikipedia is) if it is copyrighted. And this statue is unquestionably copyrighted: Tom Frantzen, its creator, is not even dead yet (he was born in 1954).

Note that Dutch Wikipedia is rather lenient on copyright issues, because there is freedom of panorama in the Netherlands - though as I wrote, even if the museum were in the Netherlands, by count 1 this picture does not qualify as panorama. On English wiki, we have the possiblity to introduce a fair use rationale. Unfortunately, this is not the best picture I would put in the article for PDG. Have a look here: [1]. I think this picture was taken close to his death. There is therefore a good chance that the photographer who made it, has not been dead for 70 years. And the photographer may have had kids still alive, so that it is really 78 years and six months (extension for the second world war in French copyright law). However, as a fair use photograph, it looks much better than a statue made by someone who is still alive. The book by Van der Merwe has a Soviet artist's impression of a De Geyter portrait for a Russian edition of his compositions - and a German Democratic Republic postage stamp with De Geyter (looks like the internet photo, cap and all). I could scan one of these, but it would have to fall under fair use anyway. Even if I could find out when the Soviet thing was published (basically, if it was published before 1945, it is probably PD), the copyright of Van der Merwe is still to be considered. Thanks for your attention, --Paul Pieniezny 10:34, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Per the substantive points, that's fine - I just wanted to ensure that the Lead accurately reflected the rest of article. On the image, all that we can really go off of is the Wikimedia Commons page's copyright assertion. If you contest its assertion that the image can be freely licensed under the GFDL, please do so there for clarity and openness's sake. Thanks, 13:25, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: At the dawn of time

I have absolutely no idea. I'm sorry. It's been too long for me to remember. :) Inter\ 09:21, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

moving scam

why you keep deleting my adds? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gene.n.cave (talk • contribs) 15:13, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

See Talk:Moving Scam, but the core problems were that they were badly in violation of our WP:NPOV guidelines, completely unsourced, and written in a rambling, incoherent manner that detracted from the encyclopedic tone expected from articles here. 17:29, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Image Pierre De Geyter

Image Pierre De Geyter

Well you can take it out of the wikipedia since i am not interested in copyright. it is to complex for me. By the way i really don't mind you writing in english since i appreciate the language.--Joostvandeputte 29 okt 2007 20:44 (CET) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joostvandeputte (talk • contribs) 19:45, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I was more interested in a second opinion on the Belgian copyright regime - It's an excellent photo, and would be wonderful to be able to keep. 00:10, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Gibson Southern

I'm not sure that having the lyrics of a school's song in the article for that school could really be considered "spammy" and "offtopic".

You're right, that article is rather horribly written and needs a major fixup (I'd do it myself but I went to Princeton...I couldn't stomach the thought)...some new, but very well-intentioned editor, wrote it about a week ago. I'm hoping he or she comes back--clearly the individual has the potential to be an excellent contributor, once he/she understands just what an encyclopedia is (that same individual introduced colored section headers to articles on various local high schools, colleges, and high school athletic conferences). In the meantime...

Also, I know we've discussed this before, but do you have any new pictures of the area you could upload? I'm planning on spending this Wednesday (no class, yay) driving around Gibson, Wabash, and Pike Counties taking some pictures. I've already got a bunch I took around Princeton about a year ago; I'm going to expand my collection--I'd especially like to get one more picture (in addition to the one that's already there) for the Lyles Station, Indiana article I've written.

By the way, I thought you might be interested: Indiana-Illinois-Kentucky Tri-State Wiki Kurt Weber (Go Colts!) 14:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

We generally don't repost song lyrics except on articles that can deal critically with the song. See The Internationale. On the pics question, I just happened to grab that one while I was trying to get pics of the highways on a recent trip through the region. Unfortunately, I won't be able to return until Christmas at the earliest. Feel free to replace my picture if you find a better one - it was definitely snapped in haste, and in passing. On the other wiki, thanks for the link - 16:45, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Your contribution to the page "General matrix notation of a VAR(p)"

Hello

I saw you added warning on the page "General matrix notation of a VAR(p)". Could you please let me know how I can improve this page so that this warning becomes useless? The problem is, that this page was thought as an annex of the "Vector Autoregression" page, and so contains only some developments of formulas. Adding such big formulas on the other page would make it unclear to read.

Maybe is there a way to include it? Should I add an "annex" mention?

An other problem seems to be the lack of sources. The thing is, I just followed one notation of an author, and so only one source seems justifiable, maybe even better better than many sources who could be confusing for the reader searching the information.

Thank you for your help!!

Matthieu —Preceding unsigned comment added by EtudiantEco (talk • contribs) 14:53, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

As the article was created as a separate piece, my main concern was that it should have a clearer assertion of the notability of the topic. Note that if your intent was more to provide insight into how to work with the notation rather than encyclopedic coverage, it might make sense to transwiki it to the relevant mathematical tomes at WikiBooks. Thanks! 04:16, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the intro info and links.DocBayless 03:55, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

UnderFunded

Hi

I am new to Wikipedia. I noticed that you either started the article about UnderFunded or were one of the first editors.

I have a site called UnderFunded.com. It is just getting going and will soon have more Under Funded Projects.

Do you have any suggestions on how I can make another article about UnderFunded? There should be an article about things that are Underfunded.

Do you have any suggestions on how this should be done?

Peter

]] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Underfunded (talk • contribs) 06:06, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

This is an encyclopedia, not a pr medium. When/if the organization meets our notability guidelines feel free to post a new article on the subject. Remember to maintain a neutral pov and to provide meaningful independent sources, or the apparent conflict of interest (given your personal affiliation with the site) may lead to deletion. Happy editing 16:25, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

WPMED list of open tasks

You listed an article at the Wikipedia Medicine project's list of open tasks some months ago. It's not clear to me whether your concerns have been addressed. Would you please look at the article you listed, and if it has improved, remove it from the list of open tasks? If you still have concerns about the article, please let me know, and I'll see if together we can recruit some assistance with it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:00, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Looks like little has changed. Megalomania still has a more wiktionary-esque feel to it. It looks like it's shrunk in size by 2/3rds, eliminating much of the OR and unsourced interpretation of fictional texts, a quite positive change, but there is still almost nothing there of substance. 02:57, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps the psych project folks can help us here. I've left them a note. WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:43, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

The psych project folks seem opposed to megalomania. I think that moving the dab page (with a Wiktionary link at the top, and perhaps a sentence about it usually being used incorrectly) would please them. Would something like that work for you? WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:31, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Sure - If the concept doesn't have any real medical validity it should probably only be given cursory mention. That said, I wonder where the term came from and what the history of the concept is. If it's not terminology currently used by practicing brain-menders but that formerly referred to what are now a set of ailments it should be covered in depth and not just a dab. 21:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

I think it's from Freud (possibly from "Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)"), but I'm not at all certain about that. These links looked like they might be useful, but I'm not sure how reliable (or useful) they will prove.[2] [3] [4] [5] WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:18, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Speedway Flag

I'm having problems with a bot constantly changing the licensing part of one of the images I uploaded. I'm not even sure what the licensing should be. Any way you could help? Here's the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Speedway_flag.gif - Jablair51 (talk) 18:34, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually, it looks like the bot's right. You didn't create the image or, if you did, you just created a copy of a corporate logo, right? You need to have a short fair use rationale posted to prevent deletion. See WP:FAIR USE - Drop me a line if you need any more help with it. 21:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Sarah Polk

According to the book "First Families," by Bonnie Angelo (William Morrow, 2005), an interesting element of Sarah's life was her 300 mile journey at age 15 on horseback from NC to TN to attend the Moraivan Female Academy in Salem, TN (page 285).

When I saw you involved in the discussion of her views on slavery and her post-Civil War living arrangements, I presumed you would be interested in this bit of information. I am new to Wikipedia, so please forgive me if this is presumptuous.

regards, John Nelson —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigheadx (talk • contribs) 18:45, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

My apologies for the delay in my response - Wikipedia:Be bold and go ahead and make any additions you believe to be pertinent. Just make sure you provide references for anything that isn't common knowledge, and relatively little would be in her case. See WP:CITE. Happy editing, 21:39, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Portable On Demand Storage

Done. You can find it at User:Mrzaius/sandbox/PODS. --Core 02:35, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Diplopedia

I left you a note on your Diplopedia talk page. Mikebar (talk) 06:57, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Lolz.png

Thanks for uploading Image:Lolz.png. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:

1. Go to the media description page and edit it to add {{di-replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.
2. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per our non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. —Bkell (talk) 14:39, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I freely stated as much in the description - It's a placeholder. Feel free to replace it, as you obviously know how to generate a freer equivalent - Wouldn't be particularly hard. Happy editing, 19:33, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Looking for Wikipedians for a User Study

Hello. I am a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. We are conducting research on ways to engage content experts on Wikipedia. Previously, Wikipedia started the Adopt-a-User program to allow new users to get to know seasoned Wikipedia editors. We are interested in learning more about how this type of relationship works. Based on your editing record on Wikipedia, we thought you might be interested in participating. If chosen to participate, you will be compensated for your time. We estimate that most participants will spend an hour (over two weeks on your own time and from your own computer) on the study. To learn more or to sign up contact KATPA at CS dot UMN dot EDU or User:KatherinePanciera/WPMentoring. Thanks. KatherinePanciera (talk) 02:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Proposing merge of Geneva International Model United Nations , Harvard United Nations simulations, National Model United Nations into Model United Nations

Hi, I saw that you were discussing inclusion of articles for individual conferences, so I thought I would let you know that I'm proposing a merge of those conferences' articles into one section in the Model United Nations article. Thanks; Wikimancer (talk) 00:08, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

RfD nomination of What the Wikipedia is not

I have nominated What the Wikipedia is not (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ɣ |ɸ 18:26, April 26, 2008 (UTC)

That's fine - It's obviously not in use anymore. 17:00, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

IRC Networks

I noticed you disputed many of the articles under IRC Networks in the past. I just wanted to notify you I'm proposing the majority of them for deletion.

Reference My COI post for more informationVirek (talk) 02:30, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Lathrop

hey sean, this is Matt Lathrop... i was looking around the MTC wiki and i saw your name... something sparked i clicked and it was you... small world. alright im done, i seriously have nothing...

Matt —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.108.27.177 (talk) 08:40, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Not that small - Shoulda seen me stumbling off the plane in Kathmandu this summer. Still takes a fair bit to get to the opposite side. 09:07, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Drought in the United States

Beginning with the 'Drought in the United States' articles mention requiring cleanups, secondly the views regarding the articles may not represent worldwide view and thirdly the tone or style of 'Droughts in the United States' according to Wikipedia may not be very appropriate. What do these indicate regarding 'Droughts in the United States', please tell me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tropicalstormshirley (talk • contribs) 15:26, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Tropicalstormshirley (talk) 17:05, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

See the article's talk page - better to keep it readily accessible to multiple editors. Talk:Drought in the United States 04:03, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Invitation

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Drought Statement

Hello Mr Zaius-me and my friends by the name of User:tropicalstormshirley, User:marthaerin1812, User:amandajoan1872 are highly committed to editing Wikipedia in hundreds of articles on any subject.

Recently, some editor group from Wikipedia with whosoever we are unfamiliar accused us of vandalism, sock puppeting and abusing while creating edits for Drought in the United States and kept demanding sources. We kept giving these people sources, but somehow stupid editors kept rejecting the sources! We are from the Dane County part of Wisconsin and the truth states that droughts hit Midwestern States at very unthinkable times.

We are using info we think is reliable, major and very, very urgent. Droughts in the United States need to get an urgent look at far more often than is now.

Please give us the critical directions on creating edits that are properly sourced and right for Drought in the United States articles from Wikipedia.

mcmlxxxviii 11:37, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

The use of hyperbole and overly emotional langauge generally detracts from the readability of the article - The Wikipedia isn't a place to make a position statement. Stick to sourced facts and you can present a much more compelling picture of the topic at hand. Likewise, common sense applies here just like everywhere else - Avoid name calling and seek out sources that can be easily verified. That said, if you're being accused of sock-puppetry though you are separate users and it results in a block, I'd advise you to find a way to post here and explain your situation: Wikipedia:Dispute Resolution - I've always found the mediators there to be extremely helpful. By the way, also check out Wikipedia:MEAT. The key word in the statement there is "agenda" - People working together to craft a well written, encyclopedic article are always welcome.

Sorry I can't be of more help on the specifics, but someone else at my office apparently got us all blocked from editing anything but our own user pages. 03:19, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

On a related note....

{{169.252.4.21|Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "[[User:Farthog]]". The reason given for Farthog's block is: " Your account has been blocked indefinitely because it is a blatant violation of our username policy - it is obviously profane, attacks or impersonates another person, or clearly suggests that your intention is not to contribute to the encyclopedia (see our blocking and username policies for more information). We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, but users are not allowed to edit with inappropriate usernames, and trolling or other disruptive behavior will not be tolerated. ".|The Anome|1009064}}

Since when does a borderline profane username warrant a permanent IP block? His or her uninformative boilerplate explanation of the block doesn't imply anything in the way of a recurring issue. The admin in this case obviously overreacted even if the following weren't true, but:

This IP is shared by hundreds, including multiple editors with 1000-10,000+ edit counts. Please remedy immediately. 03:19, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I've released the autoblock at this time; apologies. It would not have been permanent, in any case, but as you mention it can be problematic to leave shared IPs blocked. – (talk) 03:29, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of this so quickly! 03:33, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Questioning

Wikipedia keeps saying the articles are needing edits or expansions for their sections; the problem with Wikipedia editing-the stupid editors that you don't know pop out of nowhere and keep telling "Please don't" these/those and keep demanding sources.

The problem with receiving sources is Wikipedia does not really realize how hard and very complicated getting the proper sources is.

mcmlxxxviii (but with different name)

You remember telling me about somebody using the systems that resulted in the blockage you told me about? The same thing may be occuring with us proud editors on Wikipedia and when we consulted the source of which we got told, they wouldn't listen. It makes us wonder if the Wikipedia is really free as they say! We editors extremely doubt Wikipedia is free as supposed to be claiming!

My partners Marthaerin1812, Amandajoan1872, Barbara1888 and Tropicalstormshirley were blocked out of editing all except our own talkpage, and when Marthaerin1812 tried to reason with editors, one of them had her talk page protected for "time-wasting"! Something is wrong here. Please help us out.

I am not an administrator. Please take this up with them/sorry, there's not a whole lot I can do - All you really need to do is demonstrate conclusively that you're different people, which you should be able to do on your talk page. 15:22, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Excessive bail

Thanks for removing the CorenSearchBot's tag. Bearian (talk) 16:31, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

POV pushing

Please assume good faith. At Category:Fraudulent micronations is says "Micronations which, according to reliable sources, are most notable for being fraudulent or criminal operations". To the best of my knowledge (and the article seems to back me up on this), Sealand has engaged in pirate radio, helicopter assault and kidnap. In future, try not to be too quick to point the finger. --Cameron* 16:57, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Nonetheless, the category itself seems to serve little purpose beyond POV-pushing. Nominated for CfD, although it is possible that a rename and rewrite might do the trick. I did assume good faith, but was primarily seeking to point out that the edit in question seemed indicative of potential issues that may complicate a bid for the tools. No biggy, though. 17:01, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

SwiftIRC AfD

Should this be brought to WikiProject Video games on their list of deletions, since the article does deal with a network which deals a lot with online video games? MuZemike (talk) 08:15, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

If you want to, go ahead - I'm not really that familiar with the specifics of its userbase. 08:19, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

UltraBac Software

You redirected UltraBac Software to UltraBac. This is very confusing and I think should be undone. There is other UltraBac products by another company so your change causes confusion not clarification. OTher backup players listed on the Backup Software page have their own company name. I can't figure out how to undo your change. Please strongly consider changing it http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UltraBac_Software&action=history Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.97.219.2 (talk) 02:39, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

I plan to rewrite the currently rather spammy article to focus more on the software than the largely non-notable parent company. The company itself is confusingly named as well. That said, if you want to move it back, feel free to take it up at Wikipedia:Proposed moves - It'll take an administrator to undo the redirect. That said, if you can back up the existence of multiple companies selling products called "UltraBac", I'll be happy to do so myself. 03:24, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I can absolutely back up the existence of multiple companies selling products called "UltraBac". The other product on the market is ultrabac by Pfizer, a cow vaccination. http://www.pfizerah.com/product_overview.asp?drug=U7&country=US&lang=EN&species=DA —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.97.219.2 (talk) 14:14, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

That I was aware of - There's no other backup software using the name, though, so it's really not enough to warrant disambiguation without the presence of an article about the drug. The line's at pretty much the same place as it is in trademark law. I don't recall precisely where it is, but see the naming conventions within the WP:MoS, probably at WP:DISAMBIG. Thanks, 14:17, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Please help me properly cite the inline citations of the Software 500 as I am still a novice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.97.219.2 (talk) 14:29, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

The long and short of it is just put your citation within ref tags, like so:

<ref>[http://mycite.url Publisher/Article name] extra info, such as date of publication and author</ref>

That much was done with the SW 500 reference, per your request. You can also go all out and use the citation template that stores the above information in a bot-readable and standardized format. It just goes between the <ref> </ref> tags. This site is a clean and easy way to automatically generate the template text. Btw, here's a full guide to the process. . With this in mind it should be fairly easy to add a few neutrally worded paragraphs based on the potential sources listed in the External links section. Happy editing, 15:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help with the citations and modifications so that the flagging of the listing was removed! I appreciate it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.97.219.2 (talk) 00:27, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Kilmarnock

Hi!

I saw your revert on Kilmarnock - good call, I'd already discussed it on the talk page and was inclined to leave it since 2001 is pretty ancient in terms of population growth. I've done some googling just now, though, and found a reference from 2004 which shows Ayr as (slightly) larger - though with a decrease in population since 2001 (and Killie with an increase). I'm moving towards changing the article, though I'm hesitating because of the changes in population - and 2004 isn't 2008. Put together it's possible that Killie has overtaken Ayr, but that's WP:OR so I'd like to (a) discuss further, and (b) ideally find a current reference. What are your thoughts?

Cheers,  This flag once was red  08:04, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Update: should have looked harder on the GRO site - I've now found their latest estimates (2006), which still have Ayr (just) ahead of Killie.

Cheers,  This flag once was red  08:10, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Any better citations would be welcome - The old stuff and the reverted cite were both all but useless. Thanks! 09:34, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

list of apoc fiction

Many of those sources were questionable and other were just imbd, and though I may be in the minority I don't feel that just because you have a source from that site makes your entry notable. Still a couple appeared notable so when I get the chance I'll probably revert those but that may be a while as my time is limited during the week. Feel free to revert any of my edits in the meantime to those items that were notable. Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 12:48, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

As long as you had a rationale for the deletion that extended beyond "this ref syntax is wrong" for the deletions, they're fine by me, especially if you're willing to review 'em. Thanks! 14:15, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

thanks for the help on One-China Policy

Thanks for your input there. We basically get the same few people running the same fights (pro-ROC vs. pro-PRC) continually, so it is good to get a neetral observer to interpret how edits conform to wikipedia policy.LedRush (talk) 19:40, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you and Apology for Til Death

Thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia. I also apologize for deleting those messages on the Talk: Til Death, I didn't realize I had deleted them when I was copying my comments over from Word. Languageleon (talk) 05:41, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

No harm done, 05:44, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

sorry

Yea sorry that I sort of vandalized I was having an off-day and what better way to express your anger by hiding in the shadows and being anonymous!(sort of :D) Won't do it again though. thanks for catching that though. Eagle eyes lol!!! Aka Paradox (talk) 04:53, 13 November 2008 (UTC)