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Removing "accessdate" and "archivedate"

Hi. Is there any particular reason why you keep using AWB to remove "accessdate" and "archivedate" fields from citations in Gwen Stefani articles, as you did here? SnapSnap 18:41, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

The archivedate was duplicated twice. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:43, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

My bad, I hadn't noticed that, I had automatically thought that was an error. However, accessdates are still being removed in other Gwen pages. SnapSnap 21:31, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

For a few of those, it was my mistake (namely the all music ones). For the rest (aka those without URLs), the archivedates actually causes problems (see User talk:CitationCleanerBot#Accessdates and User_talk:CitationCleanerBot#List_of_professional_cyclists_who_died_during_a_race for details). Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:36, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Bad_.22in_template.22_handling

For Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Bad_.22in_template.22_handling I've created a small patch for you to try. Rjwilmsi 07:22, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Book report

Hey I noticed that! Thanks, and thanks for all the great work! Best, --Discographer (talk) 20:28, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Coordinated Universal Time

Do not remove ref=harv parameters from citations. Jc3s5h (talk) 14:37, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Why not? They were duplicated? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:56, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't see that they were duplicates. Jc3s5h (talk) 21:47, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Rhawn Joseph

You may be interested in this bio. --Crusio (talk) 15:01, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

I'm aware of it. Dude's a complete crackpot, but one that's so obvious that no one really bothered to expose him as such, except PZ Myers. He's got some books, but mostly self-publications. He's the head of the "Brain Research Laboratory" which as far as I can tell, is either his basement or completely fictitious (it's got no Internet presence). Not really sure he passes the notability guidelines. I'm also wondering if Chemistryfan (talk · contribs) isn't someone from Journal of Cosmology. They've been creating and editing several articles related to "anti-Darwinists" and "anti-'Big Bangists'" (which from Talk:Journal of Cosmology, are views Chemistryfan shares) and landed at Journal of Cosmology very soon after account creation. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:24, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured topic candidates/National Basketball Association awards/addition1

FYI, I fixed the deadlinks Purplebackpack89≈≈≈≈ 23:29, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Not to be overly picky, but I fixed them over a week ago...could you take a look at it again? Purplebackpack89≈≈≈≈ 04:39, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

If they're fixed, why do I need to check them again? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:21, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

I guess what I mean is that I'd appreciate it if you commented at the FTC nom that it's been fixed. Maybe I should have made myself more clear Purplebackpack89≈≈≈≈ 15:55, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Undid AWB edit

Hey there, just wanted to let you know I undid this edit you did with AWB back in March because it seemed to be causing "invalid title in link" errors. -- œ 05:41, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Yeah those are old edits. I thought I undid them all, but apparently not. Good catch. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:43, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Great work!

Thanks for all the hard work on Book:Mario titles-related articles. Oh, and a meaningless detail -- I'm a Landry too, my grandparents are from the Tracadie area, even though I'm born and raised in Montreal. Bonne soirée! :) Salvidrim (talk) 06:50, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Bonne soirée à toi aussi. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:52, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Rhawn Joseph

Hi Headbomb,

You have the unfortunate honor of being accused by a new user account of sharing an identity with me! This edit summary is pretty creepy. Anyway, thought I'd give you a heads-up about the Rhawn Joseph article and ask your opinion about whether you think it should be deleted (since the PROD was removed twice now, it may indicate a controversy and should properly be subject to WP:AfD).

Anyway, I'm not sure if this is of any interest to you at all, and if you aren't interested, feel free to delete this notice.

Sorry to have troubled you if you don't care about this.

76.119.90.74 (talk) 19:06, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

These quacks really are something.. Well we both know we're not each other, however Doommetal2 is probably someone's sockpuppet, or another J Cosmology lackey. As for PROD, it's a one-time process. If someone contests the PROD, then it can't be PRODed again, and needs to go to WP:AFD and get community input. I'm torn on Joseph's notability. He has a certain web-presence, but it's mostly within a closed circles of other quacks, or self-publications. AFD is probably a good idea in all cases. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 19:27, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Cool, well, would you be willing to create a WP:AfD page to get the discussion started? I would, but I don't have a user account and have refused for political reasons to get one (if you're at all interested in my reasons you can read User talk:Crusio#Rhawn Joseph, but it's highly off-topic). I'd be willing to fill out the rationale if the page were to be created. 76.119.90.74 (talk) 20:35, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

I've created Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Rhawn_Joseph on your behalf. It contains instructions to follow. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:48, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! All done, I think. Should be an interesting discussion whatever the outcome. 76.119.90.74 (talk) 20:54, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

And, wow! You may want to get that oversited as it seems to be in direct abrogation of WP:OUTING. I don't know why he's so mad at you. I'm sorry if this is causing you any grief. 76.119.90.74 (talk) 20:41, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Well it's hardly outing. And I'm 27 y.o. Atheist, not a 60 y.o. Christian. Either way, I'll sleep soundly tonight. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:48, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

And if you want to know, they are mad at me because I'm the guy who wrote the Journal of Cosmology article, and I've countered every attempt at whitewashing that the journal came up with. They've resorted to legal threats against the WMF, sockpuppets, meatpuppets, the whole shebang. This is just the latest in their attempts to get a foothold on Misplaced Pages. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:57, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough. Still really weird and probably worthy of WP:OVERSIGHT if you really feel like you don't want that kind of thing kept on a public database. 76.119.90.74 (talk) 20:54, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Don't want it? Hell it's a badge of honor! Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:59, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

FYI: I think User:JournalOfCosmology and User:IndianNationalist are probably also alternate accounts of Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/BookWorm44. Of course, this now makes me a hypocrite for falling into the trap of the CheckUser hypocrisy I outlined on Crusio's talkpage. But given that Misplaced Pages is more-or-less designed to encourage this kind of game-playing, well, I guess that's what I've ended up doing. Excuse me while I go perform some ritual ablutions. 76.119.90.74 (talk) 00:09, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Alike or of Unequal

Dear Headbomb,
I enjoyed reading your user page, and following its advice I just set my San Serif browser font to DejaVu Sans. However, one part of your user page was confusing. You asked: "Do some or all of these look alike or of unequal height?" You comment that a reader has a poor font if his/her answer is "Yes". But what does "yes" indicate -- does it connote "alike" or does it connote "unequal"? These are opposite possibilities, and I was genuinely confused. Presearch (talk) 21:10, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edit on California King Bed

Could you not italicise iTunes, Idolator or MTV News in the references please. iTunes and Idolator are not news publications and MTV News using the cite web template, not cite news, because it is not a publication. If you could do that now please. Calvin • 19:42, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

If you don't want them italicized, then you shouldn't put them as "works", but as publishers (since that's what they are). Aka use |publisher= not |work=. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 19:44, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Well, no. Because Apple Inc publishes what goes on iTunes for example. And you've italicised Digital Spy on Hard (song) when it shouldn't be. Calvin • 19:47, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Things don't have two publishers. If you consider iTunes Store to be the publisher, then use |publisher=iTunes Store and leave out Apple Inc. (which would be irrelevant), just like one wouldn't list both Cell Press and Elsevier to be the publisher of Biophysical Journal, but only Cell Press, even if it is owned by Elsevier. If you don't consider Apple Inc to be the publisher, then iTunes Store is the work, and should be italicized. Concerning Digital Spy, it is a work published by Hachette Filipacchi Médias, just like Nature is a work published by the Nature Publishing Group, so yes it should be italicized. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:02, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

RE: WP Beyoncé Knowles

Thank you, I didn't know why the template doesn't work as other projects. Tbhotch. Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 02:26, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

A reliable source in Journal of Cosmology

I question an edit of yours in Talk:Space colonization. Fartherred (talk) 22:19, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations

		100000 Edits
		Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that very few editors have been able to accomplish. The Misplaced Pages Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!

Buster Seven Talk 16:50, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Interesting. Keep in mind WP:EDITCOUNTITIS. But thanks nonetheless. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:54, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

(applause...) "Speech!" "Speech!" -:>)--- Steve Quinn (talk) 01:49, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Purported attack pages of The Journal of Cosmology

Greetings HEADBOMB:

I am not surprised that there was no evidence supplied that the cached version of cosmology.com website was officially approved, but there is more to it than that. I want to know when, where, and how you came across this cached version. I just want to know that if there was any improper action, Misplaced Pages editors had nothing to do with it. Sincerely, Fartherred (talk) 18:43, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

What in the world are you rambling about? Improper action? Officially approved? No evidence? You have the archived version of the attack page hosted on the Journal of Cosmology website. It's still there, in modified form, BTW. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:49, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

It seemed so irrational to have a page like that that it was hard for me to imagine that they cause themselves problems like that. Every other link you provided to those pages was archived through a different website. Fartherred (talk) 00:08, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Medal templates

{{Gold medal}}, {{Silver medal}}, {{Bronze medal}}

I am not confusing these templates with those others. Look at the edit history—I created these over 4 years ago, and in 2009 I modified them for WP:ALT reasons. I know what my original intent in creating these templates; I am not responsible for their misuse on other articles. Create something new if that's what you need. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:07, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Then you are misusing the templates yourself. Having text readers read "1 Gold" in the "medal" columns (example) should NOT happen. These are purely decorative images, and should not featured alt text per WP:ALT. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:09, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I disagree. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:12, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Then get people to change WP:ALT before reverting. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:13, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

That's not what I'm disagreeing with. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:21, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

"Remove useless images"

With respect to edits like these, I'd strongly suggest that you bring this up for discussion at WT:WikiProject Olympics. That style is used on thousands of pages, not just for the 1952 Winter Games. I'm not opposed to their removal, but I think we need consensus before you make these edits. I don't think WP:BRD should apply to that scale of change. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:26, 29 September 2011 (UTC)