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Proctorville

Good work on changing the wording. I'm always excited to see Tri State/Kyova articles get improved. If you ever have any questions or need any help, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers. youngamerican (wtf?) 20:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Huntington

Good job catching that vandalism. I had overlooked it when keeping an eye on an anon vandal who thought they were cute. Keep up the good work. youngamerican (wtf?) 02:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Your first barnstar

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		For spending so much time, adding all those links to Ohio villages manually, as if you were a bot. Nyttend 15:41, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Such a thing can be done with a bot: look at the article history of virtually any US place, and you'll see that most of the earliest edits were done by usernames of "____bot". I don't know about you, but I know nothing about running a bot. If you do, by all means write one and seek to get approval (look here for the bot policy): it will help us all, I'm sure. Nyttend 11:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Noise Reduction

Hi there. I use Neatimage which does a much better job than photoshop in my opinion. I've heard Noise Ninja is also good but I haven't really investigated it much to be honest. Hope that helps. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 21:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Downsampling

Hi again. Well, downsampling by definition should increase the sharpness, not decrease it. There isn't any real secret to how I do it. I downsample it using Photoshop CS3 using the default settings (but Elements should do just as good a job) and then, if it needs it, sharpen it with around 50% strength and a radius of about 0.7 which generally gives it a good sharpening without creating too much of a halo around the edges. Do you have any examples of where it has decreased the sharpness by downsampling? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 19:30, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Munsell-system.svg

I was going to nominate your Munsell-system.svg image as a Featured Picture when I saw it had already been nominated - and was turned down. I was surprised they complained that one couldn't understand it at a glance - I DID understand it at a glance, and was so happy with its effectiveness I wanted to nominate it. Oh well, just wanted to let you know it's an excellent illustration and thanks. JaGa 06:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Still a ways to go for Munsell color system to be a good article—I tracked down several articles about its history, etc., but never got around to incorporating them—but it's sure vastly better than it was a year ago. --jacobolus (t) 10:01, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Also, this is unrelated, but w.r.t. color theory, "lightness" and "value" mean basically the same thing, so your change to that article doesn't really affect its accuracy. :) --jacobolus (t) 10:48, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Citizenship and nationality

Thanks for supporting the Citizenship and nationality guideline that I have proposed. I have responded to your comments. I would appreciate it if you would indicate your support in the 'Request for comment' section as well. The original title of your contribution, "This is exactly what we need!", indicated your support, but SMcCandlish changed it to "What about ethnicity?". – SJL 20:05, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Malaysia

Hi, can you please let me know why you reverted my revert of the actions of an anon who removed the whole Education section in Malaysia ? Without edit summaries it is extremely hard to know why you did what you did. Thanks. --Ubardak (talk) 07:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Shoot, my bad

Looks like I missed an undead entry in Philipsburg, Montana. I'm not a vandal, I swear! Casull (talk) 09:42, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah, remember to CTRL+F "undead" in the reverts! I'm currently copy/pasting the correct dialog and just pasting that in, it beats undo in times like these. Casull (talk) 09:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

WP:RFPP.

Yeah, an RFPP was the best way to go; two users reported it, actually. I wonder what incited that vandalism... probably a youtube video or something. :/ · AndonicO 10:16, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for cleaning up my talk page. At least "Troll" is better than some of the things I have been called! JohnCD (talk) 18:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

World Tourism rankings

Thanks for fix the vandlism on the World Tourism Organization article. If you have time, could you expand the contents in the World Tourism rankings? Like expanding the top ten into the a top twenty and adding a separate chart for the ranking of international tourism receipts base on the 2007 issue.--Balthazarduju (talk) 23:16, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, JaGa! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page.

Finally, I'd like to appologise for any delay, and wish you luck with VandalProof! Ale_Jrb 19:27, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

AIV

Thank you for making a report about 209.175.58.2 (talk · contribs · block log) on Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Misplaced Pages and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, administrators are generally only able to block users if they have received a recent final warning (one that mentions that the user may be blocked) and they have recently vandalized after that warning was given. The reported user has not yet been blocked because it appears this has not occurred yet. If this user continues to vandalize even after their final warning, please report them to the AIV noticeboard again. Thank you! --Moonriddengirl 19:32, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

WP:RFPP templates

In response to this, the template for user talk vandalism is {{lut}}. Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 00:35, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Random Wiki Smile!

WarthogDemon has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

-WarthogDemon 03:49, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

In-line citations?

User:JaGa -- You were right to notice mistakes in the in-line citations in Emperor Jimmu; however, I disagreed with some elements of your "clean-up" edits -- see Talk:Emperor Jimmu#In-line citations?. Perhaps this merits further discussion. Maybe I need to re-visit my notions about how best to present citations in a Misplaced Pages context?--Tenmei (talk) 15:07, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

30X vs 12C

You can look a bit at my draft in progress here or look at the main homeopathy article for its discussion.--Filll (talk) 17:33, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

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The Ohio WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - Month 2008

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Fighting vandalism

Hi, I'm currently fighting vandalism and I would like to know how VP is being used. Any ideas, suggestions, advice, etc? ~ Thanks!

Prowikipedians (talk) 07:28, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

On the idea of fighting vandalism: you reported 212.121.193.252 for vandalism to Birkenhead after the final warning, but the Birkenhead vandalism was actually a minute before the final warning was given. I've blocked, but only because the IP committed yet more vandalism afterward. Not trying to nag or anything, but could you go a little faster? Nyttend (talk) 12:17, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm well aware it's difficult; I ended up blocking one before other admins got to the rest. My apology in turn: I was simply trying to get stuff done and didn't pay attention to the IP's history, other than to note its last two vandalisms. Nyttend (talk) 12:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh, no hard feelings for sure :-) I've known being stressed out; you can see Jay S. Thomas, on which I had to make a personal phone call to Illinois to sort out matters (see discussion here, or Dr. Jacob Varkey, in which an Iowan vandal pretended to be two different California professors at loggerheads with each other :-) Nyttend (talk) 13:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing Ideal gas law

Hi, thanks for properly reverting Ideal gas law. I knew that the last edits were vandalism, but then I got lost trying to figure out which was a good version. I was still mulling it over when you took care of it. I appreciate your stepping in!  ‑ MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM  (talk)  06:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

CE or AD

Here is the text in full regarding dates from WP:DATE. Note especially the bolded portion. Also, it is bad faith to ask for info "or I'll revert" and then revert anyway.

Either CE and BCE or AD and BC can be used—spaced, undotted (without periods) and upper-case. Choose either the BC/AD or the BCE/CE system, but not both in the same article. Style guides generally recommend writing AD before a year (AD 1066) and after a century (2nd century AD); however, writing AD after the year (1066 AD) is also common in practice. The other abbreviations always appear after (1066 CE, 3700 BCE, 3700 BC). The absence of such an abbreviation indicates the default, CE/AD. It is inappropriate for a Misplaced Pages editor to change from one style to another unless there is a substantive reason; the Manual of Style favors neither system over the other.

That should answer your question. MSJapan (talk) 20:06, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

We have used CE for much longer than the occasional rv to AD, and British spelling was by consensus, as we take Freemasonry to originate in England. There's no ownership involved. MSJapan (talk) 03:30, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure I need to say anything, but I will :) Just letting you know that I have reverted some of your changes regarding era notations. On wikipedia, both are OK. Therefore, there is hardly ever any reason what so ever to switch between the two. It is considered a form of disruptive editing to change an era notation without prior discussion/consensus. I personally think there are much, much more important things to worry about on wikipedia then a few silly letters after years. As a good rule of thumb, if the article isn't FA yet, then there is probably something much more important needing your editing then CE vs. AD. Hope this inspires you to do some constructive editing!-Andrew c  02:35, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm sure that you hadn't noticed that the text was a direct quotation when you changed the date convention to your preferred style, because everyone knows, and you don't need to be reminded, that one never "fixes" a direct quotation. Doing so is the equivalent of intentionally misquoting a person. --Wetman (talk) 03:15, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Regius link

The problem with the citation reversion was not content, but the source; the "Regular Grand Lodge of England" is anything but. It is a very problematic organization (and I use the term loosely) for many reasons, and therefore it doesn't meet RS. I've found a better citation, and have changed it accordingly. MSJapan (talk) 03:44, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Mexican-Canadians

Have you ever encountered a Mexican-Canadian. They are very scary. They really shouldn't be trusted. The eat tacos covered in maple syrup. Maybe you're a Mexican-Canadian, and you're trying to take over the world. I'm onto you buddy. 69.180.20.38 (talk) 06:23, 4 May 2008 (UTC)