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Barn + star = Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your continued diligence and hard work towards Greater Vancouver-related articles. :) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 03:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

9617 Grahamchapman

Thanks for creating the above article, I think it inspired C-w-l to create articles on the rest of the "Monty Python asteroids". Quite the nice set we've got now! Have a great day, — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • 08:44, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

About the Vancouver College Article

Wow! Thanks for contributing to the VC article! I go to VC, and I'd like to say what a great job you've done. You wrote some stuff that even I never knew about VC! Again, thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.71.43.200 (talk • contribs)

Signature thanks

Thanks for fixing my mistake with my signature. -- Jeff3000 00:32, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem - I've forgotten before, and I always appreciated it when someone did the same for me. --Ckatz_spy 00:58, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

np . Matthew Fenton (talk · contribs · count · email) 09:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Title

I think "of the" is supposed to be lower case - I don't mind either though, The 4400 epsiode is "of the" according to USANetwork.com not sure about Buffy though. Matthew Fenton (talk · contribs · count · email) 09:21, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

7 Minutes to Midnight Edit

Thanks for the edit. I wasn't sure the best way to word that and not take out the other guy's Gattaca movie trivia. I like your rewording. Thanks!

RE: Beyond Jericho update advice

Just wanted to say thanks for the feedback on how to address the info I've gotten on the fate of Beyond Jericho. Your input was, above all else, given in a positive, professional and above all else *adult* manner. That's how an RFI over Misplaced Pages policy should be handled, and there are those who could use that as a lesson on how to conduct such affairs. 66.90.151.114 05:58, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! I appreciate the note, and the BSG information as well. Cheers! --Ckatz_spy 23:04, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Glad to be of help. Are you planning on using the info in the Pegasus article, or should I bother to add it myself, as it's obviously *not* "fancruft"? Sixty Six 06:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the userpage revert (although it made me look way more impressive than I am ;) ). -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 19:00, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Ckatz, it was very thoughtful of you to create an edit-count userbox with a comma in response to my moaning. I've checked it out and it works just fine. I think people will appreciate having the choice. Thank you. :-) SlimVirgin 18:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Sklocke

Ckatz, I'm for the investigation into user Sklocke's activities. If I can help let me know. He has as you say done some "strange edits" on my user and talk page. I'm more concerned of the vandalism he might be doing to the rest of Misplaced Pages. I wasn't aware of how to report Sklocke so I'm glad that you have.-BiancaOfHell 20:47, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Solar System interactive template

The new ineractive image looks great -- I especially liked the touch of having the asteroid belt on both sides of Ceres (and likewise for Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, Eris and the Scattered Disc). On the large Solar System template, I moved the image to the top, just under the "Solar System" banner -- I hope without breaking anything. I also changed the margins so that there was less of a gap between the edges of the image and the edges of the box; unfortunately, I wasn't able to make them match exactly. RandomCritic 20:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello. The complilation, solar system image is finally finished (on my part), while I had some ideas of improving it while doing it, it would require starting form blank, and I'm not going to do it. The first version (in latin) of the image took almost full two days to do and I believe that a more experienced image processer could do a better version in a day (if the scale can be modified to allow larger images of the planets). Then maybe someone finds an even larger Eris or something, and that would require again a new scale to be adopted... Dreg743 13:54, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your support

It's been a long haul, and I really do appreciate you and everyone else who stepped in to help. Any ideas for another article you think needs improvement? Serendipodous 10:56, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

hey, thanks

Got your note - thanks very much! Now, how do I edit my monobook? This is an area I have not ventured into since I've been here.... Tvoz | talk 03:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC) (Meaning, I have not a clue.... I've seen "monobook" but I don't what it is, what it does, what I want from it, or much of anything to do with it!)Tvoz | talk 03:07, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

trivially easy to do, and awesome! thanks so much! They absolutely should incorporate this into the watchlist Tvoz | talk 03:27, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Surreal Barnstar
		For your insighfull edit summaries, I proudly award you this barnstar. --Qyd 16:05, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

External Links

Thanks for the heads up! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Luxborealis (talk • contribs) 11:22, 10 February 2007 (UTC).

• Thanks helpin' to clean up the spam external links. --MaNeMeBasat 11:29, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert

Thanks for reverting my talkpage. It's the second time something like this has happened recently (user with no prior contrib history vandalizing my userpage)... strange. Thanks again! -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 06:08, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Jelly Belly Award!

This message is issued from Loop 101 Dead!. If you have any questions, send it to my talk page. 15:23, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Heroes

You're welcome, and thank you for the awesome work you do on the articles as well! - fmmarianicolon | Talk 23:25, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

I was just tidying up my talk page...

when I realised I never said thank you for the very nice compliment you paid me over getting a GA notice for Solar System. I have to say, the process of getting that article up to code was fairly ardurous, and I really appreciated your help, particularly in the whole "planet vs. dwarf planet" edit war. Serendipodous 08:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the autocollapse imagemap hybrid for Solar System footer!

Thanks so much: I really really like how it came out. I hope other people like it, too.

For a bit of amusing historical context, check out Talk:Solar_system/Archive_1#Navigation_footers for the original discussion of the design of the footer 3 years ago. I'm glad that WP now has fancy stuff like imagemaps and collapsible tables... we can now present a lot more information in the amount of space. hike395 14:48, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Banner

You might be happy to find out users are now no longer taken off-wiki by the banner.

Thanks for the revert

Thanks for reverting my user page to a non-koran-quoting version; much appreciated. Mike Peel 19:09, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

TV templates

Yes, your changes have improved the template considerably: less aggressive, more helpful. I threw a few ideas down on a blank template that were generated by an equally blank mind! We need to prepare a few more templates for other stages in the review, so have a think about the wording for them, also. Thanks. Gwinva 18:48, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Heroes Plot rewrite.

Nice assist on that Forst season plot rewrite, Just noticed it now. Looks great. I think between us, we've gone from a craptabulous list to a solid, strong summary. great job in expanding in a neutral, major points only relevant manner. ThuranX 03:20, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Judge Judy

No problem - least I could do when I can see you're going out of your way to take a patient approach to working with a relatively new editor with some aversion to certain policies.--Opark 77 (talk) 12:04, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Any interest in adminship?

I have not actually created the nomination page yet, but will do so in short order if you are interested in standing for adminship. I suspect you would find it useful to be able to block vandals directly, and you would be well suited to many of the other chores that adminship entails. Please let me know what you decide. Cheers, ➪HiDrNick! 23:45, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Centralized TV Episode Discussion

Over the past months, TV episodes have been reverted by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here . --Maniwar (talk) 19:11, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi, do you know what the morse code for "reconstruction" episode is? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.149.130.131 (talk) 10:12, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Dwarf planet

1. Sorry, this was an edit error of mine (since you can see that it deleted some of my previous edits too!)
2. I do not understand your point with this edit].

Cheers! Nergaal (talk) 11:34, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

mythology

thanks. I will remove the tag. I am done now, but thanks very much. I would really love for you to go through the article. you are fantastic editor and i know you can improve and get rid of any fan cruft or OR, POV or unverified stuff I may have added...lol...I am sure I did...but not intentionally. Anyway, take and look and please improve. I hope all my refs are good. I didnt use any fan sites or local newspapers. anyway, thanks for adding the tag for me...that was really cool of you to do that. have fun fixing the page. i am about to go to the peer review volunteer page and try to get some editors to contrib to a new peer review request i posted.--Chrisisinchrist (talk) 05:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

peer review

I was wondering if you could take some time out of your schedule to head over to the Heroes (TV series) talkpage and give us an honest peer review. The page has gone through some major changes in the last few months, and it would be fantastic if a prominent editor/contributor like yourself, could head over and give us at the Heroes Wikiproject some sound opinion and ideas on improvements for the page. We have all worked very hard at improving the page, and we need great outside, reliable and trustworthy users to come over and help us improve. I you are interested in joining the peer review discussion with other prominent users/contributors, much like yourself, please follow the link. Thank you very much for your help and your continued effort to improve Misplaced Pages and its quality! Misplaced Pages:Peer review/Heroes (TV series)/archive2--Chrisisinchrist (talk) 05:47, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Solar System

Are you sure that info needs to be there? It's all already in Formation and evolution of the Solar System. Serendious 22:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Research guide

Please unschedule this template for deletion. I am doing testing on the template at the moment for possible changes that need to be made before posting it for discussion, which I expect to do in the next few days. There is only one other administrator who has posted to my page and I am working with him on advice to get it to the posting stage. I have a record of all of the pages the research guide appears on and can go back and delete them should the template be rejected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shannon bohle (talk • contribs) 06:02, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok. See this page for the proposed deletion and my reply.Shannon bohle (talk) 06:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Solar System

Go right ahead; whatever you feel is appropriate. :-) Serendious 20:38, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Removing of link

• You removed an external link from the article List of films shot in Hamilton, Ontario. No explanation was given for the removal. Why was the link removed? Nhl4hamilton (talk) 08:22, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Hollywood North

Hey Ckatz. I know your work on Misplaced Pages very well, but in the fairness of neutrality I just want to point out that on the article Hollywood North it is dangerously close to an edit war. I have given User:Nhl4hamilton a WP:3RR warning, but strongly suggest that you guys attempt to discuss the topic further with out making any further changes to the article. Perhaps informing other key contributors to the article about the dispute would allow for a larger discussion. Mkdw 00:08, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem, and I appreciate the note. I'm also trying to avoid an edit war, as that article has had enough battles in the past with "DEYS". Accordingly, I've proposed what I feel is a possible solution at the talk page; please let me know what you think. Thanks again. --Ckatz_spy 00:15, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Deletion of television-related images

Hi Ckatz. Sorry for not replying you soon. There seemed a bit misunderstanding here. Please look at my log and check 'What links here' for each image, you will see that I only deleted orphan fairuse images, which did no harm to the illustration of articles. If the image is found in use, I am willing to restore it. Hope this address your concern. Cheers. @pple complain 04:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

I've restored all images. The rest (putting them in use) is up to you. Cheers. @pple complain 05:03, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Schulich School of Business

Hello, Ckatz. I wonder about consensus when Misplaced Pages also provides the following guidance: votes are not necessarily binding. Have I mis-read something? A couple of anonymous IPs, an alumnus and Cyrill... represent a consensus, do they? I can get ten times that number if I asked my friends to join. Then what?

Senior editors should answer questions or refer people who want to know to the right place. Let's act on principle. I want to know if ranking MBA programmes, or any programme, constitutes a comercial activity. It seems like marketing to me. How about you? Consensus will always go in favour of self-interested cliques, like alumni are when they subvert a general-knowledge, Misplaced Pages page into a marketing arm for an institution. —Preceding unsigned comment added by COYW (talk • contribs) 20:25, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Your removal of the external links I added (Danelectro)

I can understand -- perhaps -- why you deleted the external links I added to several articles pertaining to Danelectro, but why did you also delete the link I added to the actual Danelectro page. Much of what other people write on the subject is incorrect, incomplete or just misses the main point -- namely my father's pioneering role in the field of electric guitars and musical instrument amplifiers.

I'm quite new to Misplaced Pages and don't understand how to carry on a conversation with its editors/overseers. Please respond to me at my e-mail address, howard@pen4rent.com. Thank you very much.

Howard E. Daniel —Preceding unsigned comment added by Howarddaniel (talk • contribs) 10:19, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello... thanks for the note. Hopefully, the guideline I supplied will help explain Misplaced Pages's approach to external links. However, I wasn't the one who removed your edit from the main article - that was done by someone else. I see you've restored it, which is fine as it seems valid. If, by chance, it is removed again, you may wish to bring it up on the talk page and explain why you feel it is warranted; that tends to be received better than simply reinserting. (By the way, with regards to "how to carry on a conversation" - you're doing just fine. Generally speaking, questions regarding article content go on the article's talk page, while questions regarding a specific editor's actions are best directed to that person's page.) Cheers. --Ckatz_spy 00:48, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

help with vacation rental page

I made a suggested edit to the vacation rental page but it was removed. I am fairly new to wikipedia so am not sure what to do. I completed the edit summary -- hope that is all that was needed??! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Denise78735 (talk • contribs) 15:11, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi

I noticed you made a few revisions to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and I was wandering if you had any suggestions for how to improve the show's episode list. It recently went under some big changes and I understand that the show is still extremely premature, but I feel that's reason to make it as strong as it can get right now. If you can, thank you, it's appreciated. But if you don't want to, I understand. Thank you, The no erz (talk) 07:37, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Sam Tyler

Thanks for clearing up my edit now that you mention it they aren't really theories so thanks - J.Naven 11:42, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Spaceship moon

Consensus, why? Misplaced Pages is not a democracy--Tomtom9041 (talk) 18:14, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Peanuts

Ah - I was confused as to why you had reverted my change, as the rest of the paragraph is written in the past tense, and so it seemed to read better by changing the first sentence into the past tense as well. I wasn't familiar with that particular Misplaced Pages policy - I will leave the sentance as it is! --DonVincenzo (talk) 04:29, 6 February 2008

Thank you for explaining the logic behind that - it now makes much more sense. --DonVincenzo (talk) 05:07, 6 February 2008

external links removed

Hi Ckatz, you told me you removed some external links I added to some articles. I can understand the one pointing to a video hosted on AOL video (I think) but also the photo galleries and interviews? I've seen several links like those on Misplaced Pages and I thought linking to photo galleries was OK. They're generally accepted on the web in general (not like videos or song lyrics), so please explain if the problem pertains those particular websites or if it's just because they were non-official photo galleries. So I'll know what to do in the future. Thanks a lot!

PS: if you can, please leave me a message instead of replying on your own page. Thanks.

Outerspace813 (talk) 10:41, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

External links (Heroes)

Hello Ckatz. How are you today? I was wondering if you can explain your reason behind your edit of the Heroes page external links section. I have read and reread WP:EL and have found no evidence that proves my contribution to the EL section was inappropriate. Of course, I may be wrong on this subject. I was under the impression that wikipedia was supposed to give to an international scope on the series and since NBC is not the only network that shows heroes, i was under the impression that it was okay to link to other official sites for other networks which aired the show. My reasoning for making the edit was moduled after the LOST page...as you know, I love the Lost page. Lost is a featured article and I was attempting to emulate them. Anyway, if you have some time, please respond. I will add your talkpage to my watch list until you respond, so feel free to respond here or come to my talkpage...whatever you prefer. Like I said, you may be right on this subject, as you are more experienced than I; i would just like to know your reasoning and discuss it with you. Also, if you are right, then is the LOST page wrong in having a similar external links section like the one i created?--ChrisisinChrist 03:31, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• Just wanted to chime in here. I also don't know of anything in WP:EL that prevents the links ChrisisinChrist added. Also the Lost article has them now and also had them back in October 2006 when it became an FA. I think they'd be a useful addition. --Centish (talk) 16:41, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for adding on to my point...that is kinda exactly what I was trying to say, but i said it in too many words. yeah, lost is fa and had a similar if not exact EL section as to the one i made when they got upgraded to featured article. thoughts?--ChrisisinChrist 16:50, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, I noticed on a lot of pages about books and novels, the external links section has links to all the different official publishers from around the globe.--ChrisisinChrist 18:36, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

(indent reset)Per WP:EL, there are several reasons why the links should not be included:
(from "What to link")

• Articles about any organization, person, web site, or other entity should link to the official site if any.

-As the original broadcaster, NBC's site is the "official" site for Heroes. The other sites are not official Heroes sites, they are promotional pages for the respective networks. (Yes, NBC's page is for promotion as well, but we consider it to be authoritative with respect to the show. Not so the others.)

• Long lists of links are not appropriate: Misplaced Pages is not a mirror or a repository of links.

-We're not supposed to be a directory service. Yes, we want to be international, but that means having the article reflect a global perspective, not creating an unmanageable list of links to every broadcaster. Do we list every station in every country that has the show? If not, how do we decide what is "worthy" and what isn't?

(from "Links normally to be avoided")

• Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article.

-Most of the sites fail this - for example, Seven Network's "page" is a Yahoo site, and TV3's site is a bare-bones episode guide. Further to this, we have no way of verifying information presented on these sites. With NBC's site, we can presume a certain connection between the broadcaster that commissioned the series, and the creative team. With the other sites, they are just networks that bought programming - and their sites are more likely controlled by their respective marketing departments.

• Links mainly intended to promote a website.

-By this, I certainly don't mean to suggest you are biased in choosing the links. However, they serve no useful purpose other than to indicate the website exists.

These are just some of the reasons for avoiding excessive lists. Yes, Lost may well have such lists, and I'm sure you could present other examples. That doesn't mean it is the best solution, however, and there are certainly examples of long-established, highly respected television articles that do not do this. (For example, The Simpsons, which is generally regarded as an example of what we should strive for.) Thoughts? --Ckatz_spy 19:13, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much for explaining...I understand now...i just needed some clarity...your explanations make sense to me...maybe the lost article should be reassessed for FA status, because that page has a lot of little errors that should not be listed in a fa article. Also, are you an admin? You have a lot of knowledge on WP policy...you should really go for admin status if you are not.--ChrisisinChrist 20:04, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Well said, Ckatz. =) I think those are some very good reasons. --Centish (talk) 04:02, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

AutoWikiBrowser

Hi,

I have approved you for AutoWikiBrowser. You can get to work immediately (you can download it from here). Good luck!

  jj137 (talk) 01:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

thanks for the TARDIS edit

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		thanks for the corrections you made to the TARDIS article Ukt-zero (talk) 04:34, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

That one sentence has been a thorn in my side every since I started editing this - and it wasn't even my sentence to begin with, but somehow it has been attached to my edits now all evening ... it's been changed and changed back so many times that I now wish I would have just left it out of there altogether

grammar is one of my worst areas and I appreciate you going through that article and cleaning it up

anyways, thanks for fixing it up - I've included your corrections into my current edit (thank goodness for the "edit conflict" message) and it should stay that way now

have fun - Ukt-zero (talk) 04:15, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Why are my links being changed?

Why are my links being removed from the subjects "Dodge Charger" and "Superbee", and why am I considered a "known spammer"?

The website being linked to exist purely as a resource to help people find their old cars, and has no profit motive whatsoever. Other links on those subjects bring you to websites that advertise or have google ads, and they are still linked.

Why can I look up Juno or Cloverfield and be sent to the official website, where I can purchase tickets? I think you are way off base on this.

Please explain. my email is superbeefinder@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Superbeefinder (talk • contribs) 17:47, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Imagery

Yes, that's exactly what I mean (a new image revision). Go ahead and do that if you want for the images you want to keep. We can have my revisions deleted once you're done. Matthew (talk) 23:11, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Vancouver

Hi Ckatz, do you watch the WP Vancouver page? I'm looking for some feedback there. Thanks. Franamax (talk) 22:03, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Adminship?

I came across your name while looking for good administrator candidates. I notice you've been asked here a couple times but (apparently) never confirmed. Any interest now? You appear to be quite qualified. —Wknight94 (talk) 21:08, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Sure, take whatever time you need. I won't do anything further unless I hear from you. —Wknight94 (talk) 12:24, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Fixing Vancouver article

Hi Ckatz, I noticed this morning that (at least on my browser), the Vancouver article has been broken for several days, all the references were in plaintext down at the bottom. I restored a good version from Feb. 6. The intervening lost edits were: vandalism; playing with population figures, which I'm not going to try to reconstruct; and this edit you made with AWB. I can't particularly follow what you were doing there, so I'm asking you to have another look and make your changes again.

I'm not sure, but it also looks like the edit you made left the infobox taking up more than half the page, can you check on that when you re-do? Thanks. Franamax (talk) 17:20, 11 February 2008 (UTC)