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Re Franny and Zooey copyvio

I have responded to your post on the Copyright problems page. It seems that you are most likely correct. It is now a matter of restoring the article to its previous state before the copy-and-paste. That will take a little time. I am glad you caught this. Cheers! ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 05:30, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

• Cool. Based on this diff, I am restoring to a previous version to remove the copyvio. It appears there have been no major edits since that time, and a rebuild from that state should not be a huge problem. Steamroller Assault (talk) 09:30, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Toronto

You will never hear "U of T" outside Canada. If you say so, people would probably assume you're talking about the University of Texas at Austin. I'm from Belgium, and the university is often referred to as the University of Toronto or just Toronto. Just go to the university's bookstore, and you will see hoodies with "TORONTO" on it. (because I did) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.150.48.127 (talk) 20:27, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

• Articles of clothing are generally not considered reliable sources. If you can find a non-sweater-based reliable source for your claim, feel free to add it to the article. Steamroller Assault (talk) 21:35, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

What's your obsession with "U of T"? Do you really want to be unknown, unrecognized? University of Chicago, University of Michigan, etc all accept that they are often referred to as "Chicago", "Michigan", etc. What's so different about U of T? Does U of T sound any better than Toronto? U of T sounds prestige-less anyway. Why don't you ask, in real life, a person from Europe, the States or Asia, if the University of Toronto is often referred to as simply "Toronto" or even "Toronto University" in his/her country?

• If you check the edit history, you will see that I never added "U of T"; I only removed "Toronto". You will also see that I haven't touched the article since then. I encourage you to use reliable sources, not anecdotal information for your claims. Other than that, I'm not sure how I can help you. Steamroller Assault (talk) 23:14, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

The artists formerly known as Mikal

It wasn't my intent to conflate Mikal (UK artist) with Mikal (US artist) (aka Michael Gurry), or to prefer one non-notable artist to the other. I'd seen the name Michael Habron in earlier edits of pre-bifurcated Mikal, and found Michael Gurry by tracing user contributions, and based on the edit chronology I had assumed that Michael Gurry had renamed himself Michael Harbron before reinventing himself as Mikal until I saw the article completely change today. I'm sorry if I added to the confusion. Really I was only trying to sort out the Michael/Michael/Mikal chronology so that I could recommend pre-bifurcated Mikal and Michael Gurry to AfD without spouting nonsense about a very poorly documented artist. I mean, artists, of course. Yappy2bhere (talk) 18:11, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

• I'm not certain if these articles represent two or three separate individuals; a statement which also attests to how poorly the article creators documented these people. As you know, the other articles relating to Mikal (US artist) have been deleted via Afd, and I imagine that the name Mikal will probably turn up at Afd again, in some form or another. Steamroller Assault (talk) 21:24, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Re:Will Gray Magician

Hi Steamroller assault thanks for the redirection theres another article which is just Will Gray this is the same and really the only one thats needed could you help me by deleting the others or redirecting them to Will Gray any help would be appriceated. vanishingrabbit —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vanishingrabbit (talk • contribs) 20:48, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Hey sexist bitch, shut the fuck up

How dare you support calling women bitchy and moody, dumbass ... SoCath (talk) 02:39, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

I have no idea what you're talking about. My warning to you was regarding a personal attack left at User talk:Rachaelnmincey. Steamroller Assault (talk) 02:57, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Re: Socks

Re your message: Probably not worth mentioning since Zany Zebu Redivivus was blocked back in 2008. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:35, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Valve&diff=next&oldid=345072332

Hi Steamroller Assault:

With regard to the rollback on my edit (see above reference): the Valve page is in need of references, which is what I added. You cite my addition as a "spam reference", probably becasue the link is to a corporate website. However, you tolerate the presence of an external link to http://www.tlv.com/global/TI/steam-theory/types-of-valves.html on that same page, which is also a corporate website.

This is not the only reference of mine that you've reverted as "spam". I am not adding spam. For one, together with the references, I've been adding a number of high-resolution photos of valves on these articles, and most articles are void of decent any references, which is another value-added that my contributions to the different articles on spam.

You've also reverted my references on other valve pages, but you tolerate links to other corporations. On the Butterfly Valve article, http://en.wikipedia.org/Butterfly_valve, you tolerate the manual-selling external link http://www.tpub.com/fireman/69.htm, similar to the Gate Valve article external link to the same site, on the Globe Valve page http://en.wikipedia.org/Globe_valve you tolerate the Emerson Corporation's external link http://www.documentation.emersonprocess.com/groups/public/documents/book/cvh99.pdf, the control valve article http://en.wikipedia.org/Control_valves is littered with external company links: Spirax Sarco's http://www.spiraxsarco.com/resources/steam-engineering-tutorials/control-hardware-el-pn-actuation.asp, Emerson's http://www.documentation.emersonprocess.com/groups/public/documents/book/cvh99.pdf, Flow Control's http://www.flowcontrol.com/Animation/index.html and Samson's http://www.samson.de/support/enser002.htm. Same happens with Spirax Sarco's link on the Check Valve article page.

Please note that you are tolerating "External Links" to corporate websites, but my links are "References" to an article on valves on our site. So, external corporate links with no value-added to the text of the article are ok, but explanatory additions to the article with citations from corporate sites are not ok?

Sorry, I can't see a convinving reason for deleting my references (citing them as corporate spam) but tolerating a dozen other corporate links on those very same pages. To me, that's an inconsistent application of the external link policy.

I look forward to receiving your response; I trust we will be able to deal with this constructively.

Thanks Heather Smith