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Futurama

We just had an edit conflict...I will incorporate your stuff in a moment, thanks. House of Scandal 16:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

The Robot Devil

Hiya. I just spotted your request on Talk:List of recurring characters from Futurama and thought I'd teach you how to change it yourself, if that's OK. (Give a man a fish / teach a man to fish etc.) When you are redirected, you must have noticed the little notice saying "redirected from wherever". If you click on that link, it takes you to the page you were redirected from. If you edit that page you will see it says #redirect ] so you can now change what it redirects to, or you could replace it with some text and start a proper article. At the moment "Robot Devil" redirects to Robotology and "The Robot Devil" redirects to list of recurring characters. I think they should probably point to the same page, whatever that may be. What you do is up to you, really! As a fellow futurama fan, I'd be happy to help if you start a new article, so let me know! Hope this helps. RupertMillard (Talk) 23:42, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

You're very welcome. I'm pleased it helped. RupertMillard (Talk) 00:06, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Why do we have so few engineers as Wikipedians?

I am trying to understand why there are so few Wikipedians who are graduate engineers. Once I get a grasp on that, perhaps I may be able to formulate some ideas on how to attract more experienced engineers to become Wikipedians. It would be very helpful if you would respond to these a few questions:

• Are you a university graduate engineer?
• Please indicate in which of these engineering disciplines you obtained your degree:
  1. Aeronautical or aerospace engineering
  2. Bioengineer or biological engineering
  3. Chemical engineering
  4. Civil engineering
  5. Electrical engineering
  6. Environmental engineering
  7. Mechanical engineering
  8. Petroleum engineering
  9. Other
• In what year did you obtain your degree?
• What attracted you to participate in Misplaced Pages?

Please respond on my User talk:mbeychok page. Or you may respond to me via Misplaced Pages's email which I have enabled on my User:mbeychok page.

If you would rather not respond at all, that's fine also. Regards, - mbeychok 04:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Futurama quotes.

Yes, I do think they should be removed. Regardless of what they add, Misplaced Pages explictly is not Wikiquote, and thus does not include collections of quotes.--Sean Black 01:04, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I disagree with Sean. I'm with you, stardust. We should put the quotes back... Micoolio101 (talk)

Thanks for your support, unfortunately it looks like this is a battle we won't be winning. I do wish that if he was going to delete so much of everyone's hard work because it 'belongs in a sister project' that he had taken the time to transfer the information to said project and put a link in the article. That seems like a much more reasonable solution than blanking the page (at least to me). I guess that will have to be one of my future projects *sigh* Stardust8212 22:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Futurama

Hello Stardust8212,

I noticed that you have recently edited articles to do with Futurama. I was wondering if you would like to join WikiProject Futurama. Please add your name to the participants list and drop a line on my talk page if your interested.

Cheers, Jasrocks 07:29, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Space Pilot 3000

I understand that the 3 articals should be kept seperate but as i have seen in previous articals on futurama unlike normal articals is that many times the references section is used for trivia or references to other media. Other articals use references to post links from where they got information and where related contect is found. Both are correct since both ways are references but im just trying to keep suit :P

BaconSquishy

Ok. There are other episodes that should be reverted than to the old format that i have editted. Sorry for any inconvieniance that i may have caused.

Bacon Squishy

Call

Why did you call me last night? Callrgeek 03:46, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Why are you leaving this message on apparently random people's talk pages? Stardust8212 04:52, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Futurama Edits

Sorry about that! I'll be more carefull in future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shealer (talk • contribs)

Amphibiosan

Some users had the auacity to BLANK the page with the Amphibiosan article on the basis of non-notability and no references. Do you know an admin. with an interest in Futurama that might become involved with what will probably be a conflict? House of Scandal 21:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Edit conflict

We just had an edit conflict...I will incorporate your stuff in a moment, thanks. House of Scandal 16:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks. I was doing endnotes and they were getting all messed up...I needed to save the edit in which I figured them out. I think I got all your edits re-inserted. I went with a 300 px image size as a compromise. Thanks again.

Futurama discussion

Greetings, my name is Sibin and I think we should have a lengthly discussion about Futurama articles, and series in gerenal. I would like to help to expand Futurama articles in any way I can.

If you feel like it, you can reach me at:

coola.m@gmail.com

Cincearly Sibin Grasic

CooLa.M 21:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Bujinkan

I threw the baby out with the bathwater. Good catch. Thanks. EvilCouch 09:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Stardust8212 12:44, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

matt groening

Hey, thanks for letting me know. Yeah I guess it's just one of those things you have to deal with when you use a program and more than one vandal has been having his way with an article. LibLord 18:52, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Pritpal Sahota

Hello. Thanks for your help on the uncategorized articles backlog. I have removed the speedy deletion tag for Pritpal Sahota that you put in because, honestly, it does not quite meet the strict requirements of WP:CSD. I have put a proposed deletion tag instead, which should have the same effect (but in a week...) Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 02:26, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Don't know if you're watching this but whatever...I almost tagged for prod but I thought claiming a 9 year old won "Sportsman of the century" from Sports Illustrated was pretty non-sensical. Oh well, prod is just as good. Stardust8212 02:30, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Futurama edits

Thanks Stardust, I'm sorry about my brevity; it was about 1 in the morning where I live when I did those, and that is not conducive to clarity (or good editing, I should know better). I'll try to do better next time. Noclevername 17:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Roswell That Ends Well

Hi. About the quote box you removed: Farnsworth's line was there when I rewrote the plot summary (BTW, since you have more experience with Futurama on Misplaced Pages, any opinion on that rewrite?) and I set it apart to because that improved the flow of text and because it's one of his most famous ones (not to mention dang funny). Your removal deleted it altogether. Did I unknowingly violate some stylistical policy, and if so, what? --Kizor 15:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

The reason I removed the quote is that there is an ongoing effort in the wikiproject to remove the various quotes sections from articles. I have been explicitly told that quotes belong on Wikiquote and while I argued against it at the time (see my talk page and this archive) I have since come to terms with the fact that consensus seems to be against me. As such I felt explicitly calling out quotes went against this effort and while I agree that one quote shouldn't be a problem I have seen how these things get out of hand. I agree that putting quotes directly into the plot summary also tends to hamper flow and if I had my way I would simply remove those as well however I've never gotten around to re-reading all the articles and removing them. I understand that some people have a different opinion on these matters however so I'm willing to put it back and see what happens if you'd prefer.

Other than that I thought the rewrite seemed pretty good. Don't take my massive number of Futurama edits as indicating I know what I'm doing though. I edit because it's fun and I edit the same pages over and over because I'm obsessive, not knowledgeable. Stardust8212 16:21, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah. Thank you for the explanation, and for the feedback. While I agree with your view, there's little point in tilting against the windmills on this issue, and having witnessed the kind of creep collaborative editing can cause, I see the others' point. The situation would be fundamentally different with quotes that are an integral part of their work, but since this is merely an awesome one I'll just re-insert it into the summary. --Kizor 02:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Futurama Cleanup

Good work on the cleanup after my trivia integrations on the Futurama articles. My main goal is to get rid of trivia sections on the episode pages, but to avoid stepping on toes, I have been deleting only obvious jokes and badly unsourced trivia, without judgment on anything else. I am glad there is someone behind me to finish up the leg work.TheGreenFaerae 10:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Yea, personally, I would delete it all myself, but I don't want to get under anyone's skin by doing so, so a lot of times, I'll just rename. What I have seen, however, is a bogus name like continuity usually mtitvates other editors to take the initiative and remove it themselves.TheGreenFaerae 21:49, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Mini uzi

Just so you know warnings are not badges of shame that users are required to display. Mini uzi has clearly read it, so they are allowed to delete it. --Spartaz 20:20, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I thought I'd read somewhere in the past, though I don't remember where and I'd be hard pressed to find it so maybe I imagined it, that they weren't supposed to be deleted because they helped to monitor repeat offenders. Also seeing as he deleted it while putting another personal attack in his edit summary I tohught it might be appropriate to read it again. Oh well. Stardust8212 20:37, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Reading your talk page and that of TheGreeFaerae its pretty clear that Mini uzi is objecting to content changes on the Futurama pages that you and TGF are supporting. This puts you in a content dispute with him. It can only escalate any dispute for you start telling him what he can and can't have on his talk page. Even if he wasn't allowed to delete the warning, it would have been wrong for you to be the one to tell him - especially as the abuse wasn't aimed in your direction. --Spartaz 20:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I guess I never thought about it like that, mainly because I didn't realize I was even in a content dispute with him. Don't worry, I have no attention of venturing back to his talk page anytime soon. Stardust8212 21:58, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Futurama

Would you mind specifying which Talk page please ? Because honest to god, there really should be no reason to mention something so general in an infobox that is the same for at least 99% of the Episode pages. Where it differs for 1 % (haven't even been able to find that), it should be detailed in the specific episode. --TheDJ (talk • contribs • WikiProject Television) 13:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah i see it already. The way that these things are usually done is by naming the header "Original Airdate". reruns and international broadcastsdates are considered not encyclopedic information. Please see {{Infobox Television episode}} and it's friends. --TheDJ (talk • contribs • WikiProject Television) 13:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant "The talk page of the page you are editting" I thought that was implied. Stardust8212 15:09, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Nonsense page

See I was right. Lungszeague 20:58, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

General note: Page blanking, removal on Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized/previous-April. using TW

April 2007

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized/previous-April. Please be more careful when editing articles and do not remove content from Misplaced Pages without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. MichaelJE2 22:06, 8 April 2007 (UTC)