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User:Petedaly Many thanks for your help to me.

Welcome!

Hello, Tevildo, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Welcome!

I noticed you working on Middle-earth articles. Great! Welcome! We always need more great editors. If you're looking for something to do, you might start by taking a look at Category:Tolkien stubs and see if there are articles you can expand and/or merge with existing articles. (Sometimes just a redirect is enough. They're starting to be about awfully minor topics.)

Probably the most helpful article for learning how to edit Tolkien articles is Middle-earth canon, which outlines the policy we try to use. This is, as far as I know, one of the only places to seriously attempt to incorporate corrections from History of Middle-earth into information from the Silmarillion, etc. My general rule of thumb is to do the best you can to be accurate, and be sure to read the relevant articles when you edit because there's a good chance that if there is a discrepancy, someone else has already noted it. However, none of us can possibly keep track of everything at the same time, so do the best you can, and be ready to document your sources.

You will get an idea of conventions as you go. There aren't a lot of absolute rules, but there are some things that we try to do consistently to make it easier for readers (and editors). One helpful thing is to use List of Middle-earth articles to keep track of edits to Middle-earth articles and talk pages. (Use the "related changes" link on that page.) Also, if you're not sure what to do (or why someone who seems to know what they are doing did something that seems odd to you), please ask questions! Again, welcome!

-Aranel ("Sarah") 22:01, 14 August 2005 (UTC) (By the way, you only need to post about a change on a talk page if it's a major or possibly controversial change. Typo fixes are usually not debated. ;)

Page name for temperature articles

To avoid flip-flopping between 'degree Fahrenheit' and 'Fahrenheit' or 'degree Celsius' and 'Celsius', I propose that we have a discussion on which we want. I see you have contributed on units of measurement, please express your opinion at Talk:Units of measurement. Thanks. bobblewik 22:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Tevildo, I didn't know you were also a Wikipedian... --Fibonacci 18:58, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

If there is a specific instance of vandalsim you would like to cite, please do so without breaking WP:CIVIL Civility. Also, please read the editing guides (External links use one bracket.)-- Chris Ccool2ax contrib. 21:30, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Hipocrite

Keep an eye on this editor, he is spamming many of the baiting articles listed here Bait (dogs) 70.51.198.36 23:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Hewwo

Funny, I posted a comment to Talk:Casio VL-1 only minutes after you did. Where ya been? Is there any way we can talk? - furrykef (Talk at me) 15:28, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation link repair

Sorry, but I am not understanding the problem. Which link needs dismbiuation link repair? In general, one chooses the link most representing the word you mean. For example, "industry" has several choices, but in this case (in your Urban planning section) it points to the correct usage. If it did not, you would pick a better choice out of the uses offered on the Disambiguation page.

Does that help?

KarenAnn 16:17, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Date of Joining Misplaced Pages

Just thought would let you know that I joined Misplaced Pages in my present avtaar almost on the same day as you did, which I believe is around the second week of August, 2005.

Akhil Dayal's designation in the IMT article

Hello Tevildo, thanks for your comments till now. I have posted a reply to your concerns on the talk page of IMT, regarding Mr. Akhil Dayal's designation. May I request you to kindly go through it and let me know your thoughts on this. Please do leave a message on the talk page of IMT.Jordy 20:52, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Your WP:PNT entry

An IP replaced the well-written English text with messy Spanish, I simply reverted it. Remember to always check the history in cases like these. Thanks. Grandmasterka 07:04, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

District Council

Thank you for your excellent work in this page. TerriersFan 22:00, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

G4

Yeah, G4 is actually a very narrow, and very misunderstood criterion. It only applies to recreations where there had been AfD consensus. Recreation after prod is treated as a deprod, and recreation after CSD needs to meet other CSD criteria to be re-deleted. They had tagged it for A7 and G4. G4 was inapplicable and A7 I declined. Thanks. - CrazyRussian talk/email 02:06, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Fluffy

I agree, hoaxes are not CSD, but I will not undelete. The preocedure is, you take it to WP:DRV and nominate it there for deletion review. - CrazyRussian talk/email 19:23, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi!

Thanks for your comment on AfD earlier, you meantioned that the ACIM on the whole is notable. I tried to establish that for myself recently, but was unable to do so. When I asked about the importance of the book in the discussion areas, I was basically ignored and harrassed. I dug into the citations and found them to be not only contradictory but that they had been obfuscated to various degrees. So this is a serious question that I am wondering about. Looking into the book itself revealed either anonymous web-sites ore a few churches in Texas. It is my understanding that any article should establish and make plain for itself in the content just what establishes notability among other concerns. I realize that such isn't always possible, however, until a few days ago, I hadn't ever heard of ACIM. Does this make sense? Let me know. Thanks!  :) Ste4k 07:42, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Edit Conflict

Hi, sorry about the constant conflict, was having trouble trying to get what I wanted to appear on the screen, but it appears to be resolved now! Hey, if you feel ambitious, perhaps you could whip up a table for branch badges? That would be awesome! Sharkbait784 23:28, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Stravinskiism

Tip: in the future, close the AfD yourself once deleted. Don't have to be an admin to close an AfD when a judgment is not required. Thanks. - CrazyRussian talk/email 00:20, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

The Convent of Hell

No hard feelings about the edit. Your version is more or less what I would have written if I'd been starting from scratch, but I wrote the original version years ago and still had it lying around. Finding it on my hard drive was what inspired me to create the article in the first place. Klope680 01:30, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

The Unsinkable Molly Brown 2006

The way the article was padded written (more than half of it lists of people involved) seemed to me that it focused more on the people behind the production, rather than the production (plot and other details, etc). Thus befitting A7. Kimchi.sg 15:16, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Sheldon James Martin

Hi, I didn't mean to sound curt there - I think your contributions throughout this AfD have been very helpful in encouraging the editor to make the article verifiable. Dlyons493 Talk 02:44, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages in Quenya

Hello, Tevildo! There is a voting at Meta for opening a Misplaced Pages in Quenya. Perhaps you would like to vote: here. Meanwhile, there is a test Misplaced Pages in Quenya started at the Incubator: here. I bet you would like to participate. :)

Hope to see you there, --Djordje D. Bozovic 13:01, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Fact and Theory in evolution

This is a very good observation Tevildo. In fact, a few hours back I also came to the same realization as you can see here. I have to accept part of the blame because I emphasized that "fact" has two meanings that are being confused, and "theory" has two meanings that are being confused, but I did not emphasize that "evolution" also has two meanings that are being confused. So the statement that "evolution is a fact and a theory" can be parsed and interpreted several different ways, and it is sort of a fun phrase. However, to someone who is not aware of these multiple layers of meaning, it just sounds like nonsense. And of course, it is treated like nonsense by the detractors. And evolution scientists avoid exlaining this carefully at their peril.--Filll 03:17, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Слава Народным Героям Потёмкинцам!

Wedding Saga

Just want to say thanks for your support in the deletion of the Wedding Saga, I put the speedy deletion up. Tyar 04:11, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Chad Hauf

Thanks for categorising this delete. Server is funny - I can't even see the page listed on todays log. Could I trouble you to look it over? Perhaps I'm doing something wrong today. Listed an AFD Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Pyrénée yesterday and it has no comments so it is possible. Obina 22:58, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Boston University Debate Society AfD

Hi, and thanks for the advice! I tried to add a reason to the AfD proposal for Boston University Debate Society but somehow couldn't figure out how: after I added the article to the AfD page, it took a long time to appear despite repeated reloading. Is there an easier way to insert a reason into the intial post? ECKnibbs 03:23, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

TrekBBS Deletion Review

Thank you for your opinions in the TrekBBS AFD. I do not agree with the closing admin's decision and have listed this now under Deletion Review. As you had participated in the AFD, I wished to inform you this in case you wished to voice your opinion on this --Brian_{(view my history)}/ 17:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for fixing the AfD I created. | Mr. Darcy talk 19:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Azoic Age merger

I have rewritten the Azoic Age article with citations to materials available via Google book, mostly USGS and Dana (1863). I think that merger is not appropriate, but let me know what you think. Further discussion at Talk:Hadean#Azoic. --Bejnar 21:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Geotimeboxes

I thought that you might be interested that AMK152 proposed, in a series of edits on 27 December 2006, a geotimebox for various articles dealing with the Geologic time scale. For example: AMK152's edit of Hadean looked like this. See discussion at Template talk:Geotimebox. --Bejnar 21:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, I always forget, Jimfbleak.talk.17:12, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Ultimate X-Men (story arcs)

Thanks for the fix. I must confess I gave up trying to get the AfD right after the fourth attempt. CovenantD 00:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your input

Thank you for your helpful comments on the Hitchers AfD page. I'm a total noob and was almost knocked out by the sudden appearance of Wiki acronyms and howls of "Delete!". Wouldn't it be easier if folks just asked nicely for fact verification without all that palaver? Anyway, I was wondering if you could tell me how I can get rid of the "band from Limerick" redirect page. Much obliged. Airwave 06:15, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

- If you could submit it for me I be would be very grateful. Thanks a million! Airwave 08:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

- You are a saint and a scholar. Airwave 10:29, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Screwed up the nomination on Brilliant Earth

This was my first time nominating an article on Afd. We had an edit conflict, can you help correct the double listing at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 January 4??? Not sure the way to do it. Thanks. SauliH 04:43, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Geez you are quick with edits! Thanks! SauliH 04:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Your recommendation on Complementification AfD

. . .seems to be missing links or has spurious text. Could please check it? Ronbo76 05:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Must be me. By the way, I just came across an interesting new that has a redirect Rellon Senga created by Rellon Senga to Hare Krishna Senga which looks like an article full of nonsense. Ronbo76 05:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

No worries

Sorry for putting up a warning notice. I'm just a tad grumpy this morning - haven't had my 3rd coffee yet! :) --Mais oui! 07:25, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Concern

Whats your problem dude? Why did u put that yellow tag on my page that says I am a sockpuppet?

You don't have to reply. Music's been indefblocked by the admins. Although I'm SURE we'll see more prod's and wrestling related AFD's soon from another Sock.. SirFozzie

AHH??

I asked you to delete the Phil Dukes article but u deleted the Lincolnshire Pallets one aswell!! The Lincolnshire Pallets on is fine please put it back to normal if possible? (Jamesbourne11 17:55, 8 January 2007 (UTC))

Ok, Jose!! I see Lincolnshire Pallets as a slightly notable company due to the many awards they have won for certain things. The people they sponsor and the sheer fact they employ 840 people and have a turnover of £17m probably even more!!! So if you think the article i wrote was so bad i would ask you to write one yourself and i will happily give you all the info you will need! (Jamesbourne11 17:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC))

AfD

Actually I was trying to complete someone's nom for Head of Household (Big Brother) but after three attempts I'm giving up. Otto4711 23:20, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For kindness above and beyond the call of duty. Airwave 14:08, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Fuck

I removed your G7 (Speedy delete) tag from there, and put the note at the bottom. An admin will pick up the request to close/withdraw and close it, but these pages are kept for archival purposes. If you've got any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. SkierRMH 00:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help

With the Best Animated Short deletion. I'm still confused by all the steps and I know I did something wrong! Shawn in Montreal 20:23, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Human cheese

The article Human cheese is now better sourced, with information from a newspaper column by Dan Savage. You may want to take a look at the current version of the Human cheese article and perhaps change your vote. --Eastmain 18:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

SEAS article

Hey I have been working really hard on it this past 2 days, can you take a look and tell me if it is good now? SEAS (:O) -nima baghaei 03:40, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

• Cool, im gonna look for media sources, but the interviews greer talks about SEAS and what they are trying to do (actual vocal proof...fact i guess), is it ok if i leave the audio links up? -nima baghaei 05:00, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

• I just added the comments in the AUdio section (:O) ... by the way, is it possible to remove the deletion box and put this as a "Stub" that is still growing? I wanted to use an energry company stub (I have seen some VERY short articles on other chemical companies that have stubs on them instead of deletion). -nima baghaei 16:05, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Gay icon

I would like to know why you nominated this article for deletion, when a brief look before you slapped that tag on it would have shown you that it had been completely rewritten, revised and referenced since its last nomination. It seems a bit uncivil to me. Jeffpw 15:06, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Wagon Wheel

I nominated Wagon Wheel for deletion, and you were the one who posted it. Im not sure if your an admin, and if I can simply remove the article myself, so I am contacting you to figure out how to remove this article from AfD. As well, I wanted to let you know that your userpage's userboxes are piled on top of each other when viewing with firefox. ThanksDUBJAY04 23:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC) anyway i can contact you outside wikipedia?DUBJAY04 23:35, 22 January 2007 (UTC) i see no email address on your userpage, could you sign on YIM?DUBJAY04 00:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

AfD chaos

This edit, dragging in the Jan 24 log was not exactly what the edit summary claimed. Please be more careful. -- RHaworth 15:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

List of songs containing covert references to real musicians

You may want to weigh in at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2007 April 15#List of songs containing covert references to real musicians, since you were involved in a previous discussion of this article. - Jmabel | Talk 05:26, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

ID

Hi Tevildo. The prior discussion of Ann Coulter is mostly here. As she's mentioned a number of times, maybe the easiest way to seek relevant passages is to use the "find" function and type in "Coulter", which will bring up a number of threads in this archive. I believe I had brought up the issue, and arguments ensued here and there, then finally settled on the premise that she's really a commentator and not a leading or original or primary proponent (or something like that). ... Kenosis 17:11, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

¡

Tevildo, thanks for the info on the upside down "!" -- I hadn't realised that it wad added so late (a lapse in my education ;) ). Giving the ref was a good idea, too, because after I wrote the comment I started wonder who (besides you and Kenosis) might get it. Cheers and thanks. •Jim62sch• 22:04, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Intelligent Design copyedit

I've responded on the ID Talk page. Whose bright idea was that silly rule, anyway?--Margareta 22:51, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I just used "minor" for anything that didn't seem to risk changing actual meaning. But I also kinda figured the ever-vigilant editors would be looking at all the changes, anyway, whether marked "minor" or not!--Margareta 23:23, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

ID again

Tevildo, I definitely noticed your comment placed near the bottom of the section at Talk:Intelligent design#Ambiguous_sentences. I'd like a week or two, as my time permits, to research and consider the implications of what you said. As I've mentioned on talk page(s) related to ID, this is a problem, or set of problems, that are related to the demarcation problem that rears its ugly head every time somebody or some group thinks it/he/she/they have a bright idea that is SCIENCE. Which of course capitalizes,whether justly or unjustly, on the hard work of hundreds of thousands, maybe more, of highly educated individuals who actually do the hard work of finding out what the rest of us can depend on, and what are the probabilities we can count on, etc. There are one or more ways of saying it briefly and accurately in the context of that part of the article on ID, I'm convinced. But it'll require a bit more research on recent reliable summaries of scientific method and philosophy of science. On the other hand, maybe I'm wrong about that. ;-) I'll drop you a note later on. ... Kenosis 02:24, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

RE your response: While the preferred technical usage is "scientific method", the popular usage remains "the scientific method". That's all I was saying on the ID talk page. It seems it's a maintenance headache that likely is not worth keeping up with, on the whole, because frequently folks come along, see the term "scientific method" without the "the" attached, and plop it right in there, repeatedly. So unless the regular particpants agree to maintain it, as has been done at scientific method, the popular usage will prevail. But my note above had more to do with settling the issue of the words "empirical science" by finding sourcing for the words, or a suitable alternative. ... Kenosis 15:20, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

pupilometer

Hi! It's been a while since the article pupilometer was written. The original user that was the author no longer exists. I don't see any references to validate the nomenclature, although there is use of it as an Ophthalmic Instrument to measure the distance between of the PD, or pupillary distance from eye to eye when fitting eyeglasses to align the optic centers of a prescription. Would you concur to changing the content of the article? I don't know what your original contribution was, but found this link to your user_talk page in the history. StationNT5Bmedia 02:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Archeologist

Your minor change on the Intelligent design page has ignited more discussion on the talk page than perhaps warranted. Anyway, though you may want to chime in. Cheers. Abecedare 20:41, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Furry

Looking for something to do? WikiProject Furry is improving articles on furry and anthropomorphic topics, and we'd like to have you on board. Our current goal is to raise Anthrocon, furry convention and furry fandom to good article status and beyond - but if that doesn't take your fancy, there are plenty of other articles to work on. Give it a go and let us know how you're doing! You received this one-time invitation because you are a Furry Wikipedian. GreenReaper 23:21, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Quenya Misplaced Pages

Hello Tevildo,
I notice that you are proficient in Quenya. Would you like to participate on the Quenya Misplaced Pages? The project has been dormant for quite some time, but as of late there seems to be renewed activity. For the survival of this Misplaced Pages the creation of new articles is greatly needed. Faultless Quenya is neither expected nor required.
Your help would be highly appreciated.
- Troy 19:02, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Beep!

Hey, I haven't seen you in a while and I've forgotten where else to contact you, so hey ^^; Is there anywhere you go where we could chat? There's no particular need or anything, it's just that we haven't talked in a while. :) - furrykef (Talk at me) 21:38, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Withdrawn remarks

The way that withdrawal is normally indicated is by editting the original comment to make it a <strike> element. You might want to apply that convention at AfD/Internets —SlamDiego_←T 01:09, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Ye Art Cordially Invited to the Annex

Hello, My good Fellow, listen and I shalt telleth Ye a Tale of a Wiki that well comes All Manner of Articles relating to Fiction. What is This wonderful Place of Fantasy, You ask? It is the Annex, Haven to All fiction-related Refugee Articles from Misplaced Pages.

Before nominating or proposing a fiction-related Article for Deletion, It is My sincerest Hope that Ye import It to the Annex. Why do This, You wonder? Individuals have dedicated an enormous Amount of Time to writing These Articles, and ’twould be a Pity for the Information to Vanish unto the Oblivion where only Administrators could see Them.

Here is a Step-by-Step Process of how to Bringeth Articles into the Annex:

1. Ye shall need at least three Browser Tabs or Windows open. For the first Tab or Window, go to Special:Export. For the second, go here. (If Ye have not an Account at Wikia, then create One.) Do whatever Ye want for the third.
2. Next, open the Program known as Notepad. If Ye haveth It not, then open WordPad. Go to “Save as,” and for “Encoding,” select either “Unicode” or “UTF-8.” For “Save as type,” select “All Files.” For “File name,” input “export.xml” and save It. Leave the Window open.
3. Next, go to the Special:Export Window at Misplaced Pages, and un-check the two small Boxes near the “Export” Button. Input the Name of the Misplaced Pages Article which Ye wish to import to the Annex into the large Field, and click “Export.”
4. Right-click on the Page full of Code which appears, and clicketh on “View Source” or “View Page Source” or any Option with similar Wording. A new Notepad Window called “index” or Something similar should appear. Press Ctrl+A to highlight All the Text then Ctrl+C to copy It. Close yon “index” Window, and go to the Notepad “export.xml” Window. Press Ctrl+V to pasteth the Text There, and then save It by pressing Ctrl+S.
5. Now go to the Special:Import Window over at the Annex. Clicketh on “Browse…” and select the “export.xml” File. At last, click on “Upload file,” and Thou art done, My Friend! However, if It says 100 Revisions be imported, Ye be not quite finished just yet. Go back to Misplaced Pages’s Special:Export, and leave only the “Include only the current revision, not the full history” Box checked. Export That, copy the Page Source, close the “index” Window, and go to the “export.xml” Window. Press Ctrl+A to highlight the Code all ready There, press “backspace” to erase It, and press Ctrl+V to pasteth the new Code There. Press Ctrl+S to save It, then upload once more to the Annex. Paste {{Misplaced Pages|{{PAGENAME}}}} at the Bottom of the imported Article at the Annex, and Ye art now finally done! Keepeth the “export.xml” File for future Use.

Thank Ye for using the Annex, My Friend — the Annex Hath Spoken 01:41, 30 December 2007 (UTC)