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• 2025 PDC World Darts Championship
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• Blenda
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• Matsés National Reserve
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• Moukoukoulou Dam
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Happy Wiki-ing, from +Hexagon1 (talk) 04:12, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Good job on San Antonio Spurs

Hello Mike! I noticed your creation of the position table on the San Antonio Spurs page- it looks good, well done! Have you seen The NBA WikiProject? It's where many editors who are interested in the NBA get together and collaborate on different NBA pages on Misplaced Pages. I think you should post a message on that WikiProject's talk page, showing people what you've done on the Spurs page, and perhaps it will become standardized on all the NBA pages across the encyclopedia.

Anyway, thanks for your edits, and let me know if there's anything I can do to help you settle in and enjoy Misplaced Pages! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 19:23, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I'll gladly promote the new player-position chart; I thought about just mentioning it there, but I at least wanted to get your permission first. Perhaps someone there (not me) will be able to tweak the appearance a bit. I'm glad you're enjoying Misplaced Pages, and I hope you decide to stay. We always need new, good editors. Let me know if you ever need any help with anything. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 03:24, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S.- You can track the discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject National Basketball Association.

Dehydration

I'm glad you added the sentence of the chemistry meaning of dehydration. It pointed out a source of potential confusion. Looking through what linked to the article, I found a bunch of links that needed to be redirected to the dehydration reaction article. --Ed (Edgar181) 12:19, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Re:Unsigned Draftees

Nope, "unsigned draftees" sounds good to me, unless someone else thinks of something. It would allow us to be more inclusive if someday they ever drafted an American kid and sent him overseas for a while. (Now that I think of it, that would have applied to David Robinson while he fulfilled his Naval duties...hmmm...) Anyway, I'm trying to think of how long the list would be. Obviously you got the three major ones. There's also Viktor Sanikidze, who perhaps we should make an article on. Is there anybody else I'm forgetting? EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 17:53, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Update: Okay, I've established the Viktor Sanikidze page. Feel free to add anything to it if you can find some other/new information, but I found that it was generally slim pickings. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 19:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't recall having heard of Sanikidze. I'll probably do the table tomorrow during my lunch time. --Mikebrand 21:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and Sergey Karaulov, whose page we'll have to establish at some point as well. Wish we had a good source that listed these in one central location, I bet we're still missing a few. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 21:39, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

NBA vandalism

Hey. I see you've noticed some of the misinformation perpetrated by 70.225.66.22 (click link for full story). I've blocked this guy for 31 hours, but if you see him around (he seems to target the Spurs quite a bit, perhaps a Spurs fan gone down the wrong path) after the block expires, give him a {{bv}} warning and feel free to report him straight to me. (or to WP:AIV if I don't appear to be on and he's on a particularly bad spree) If he keeps it up, he'll get a longer block next time. Thanks. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 03:37, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. It's interesting to learn how the system works. I'll keep an eye out. --Mikebrand 10:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, there's a lot more details about how the whole anti-vandalism side of the wiki works, but it's a seedy underbelly that I don't blame most users for not getting involved in. ;o) Thanks for the help. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 03:45, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Wines template

I noticed you added the wines template to the Barolo article. I haven't seen this template before, and frankly, I'm wondering what value it adds? The apparent intention is to place the wine in question in the context of various styles and varietals, but the template doesn't provide the whole picture. If it did, it would duplicate information already found in the main wine article. I'd like to better understand what the motivation is for this template; please clarify. Gregmg 19:27, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I may be misunderstanding your question. The Wines template is designed to provide easy navigation between types of wine that are commonly available. Though the template does not explicitly state so, the intention of most who have contributed to it is for it to list the more common types of wine available in a restaurant or grocery and to not include very obscure wines. I think it serves the a similar purpose as most other navigational templates. Did I miss your point? --Mikebrand 00:28, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

NBA edit wars

Hey Mike, thanks for the heads-up. While I generally don't consider dispute resolution among my greater skills, I've sent messages to User:Downwards and User:Clipper471 to try to explain to them why their actions may be detrimental. Since you may know more about this conflict, feel free to review those messages and let me know what you think. Though I'm not quite as active on Misplaced Pages as I once was, please always feel free to send me a message if there's anything on your mind. Cheers, EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 22:37, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing my edit to Unitarian Universalism

I am always thankful and relieved when editors correct inaccuracies that I have inadvertently introduced into Misplaced Pages. This is just a simple note of appreciation. Keep it up, Dave Runger⁄_(c) 05:19, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Date links

Because they are years, which should not be linked alone. Date links are for date preferences or links relevant to context. -- Renesis (talk) 03:26, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

From the reference you linked, I see that "Stand alone years do not need to be linked but some users prefer it". Since the list has been built by many users over many months and they have followed the practice of linking years, it seems reasonable to allow those users to link the years. It does not seem necessary for one particular user to remove all the year links. --Mikebrand 03:47, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

The links I have removed have not been set by "preference", they were set because this was the practice long ago. The link I posted above is also not the only link talking about linking years. It is perfectly fine to remove date links, because if an editor of that article actually likes the links in that context, they can always revert the changes. There is no need for inconsistency between articles "just because it's already like that." -- Renesis (talk) 04:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. I trust, then, that you will not be going back and re-reverting on articles where the year links have been restored.--Mikebrand 12:05, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Dolcetto

Hi, I saw that you added Dolcetto in the wine template. Aren't there several different Dolcettos, though? Badagnani 00:34, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

I had added a link to the article on Dolcetto. I think the article is the place to address the variety of Dolcettos, not the template. --Mikebrand 17:53, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Updating scores

I only do it because it provides an additional purpose for me to watch a game. Either way, if I reduce edits, can I do the scores with the <----> tags attached. Soxrock 11:45, 22 May 2007 (UTC)