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east.718 at 23:05, November 20, 2007

Re: Colleges and universities

I did that because it is an overpopulated category. I'm of the opinion that no template cat should go over one 200 item page unless it's absolutely necessary. If you think that "Higher education navigational boxes" or "universities and colleges navigational boxes" is better, than we can go with that. I see that we have Category:Universities and colleges as the article space cat. So universities and colleges navigational boxes would go right along with that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Woohookitty (talk • contribs) 03:06, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm trying to organize the template categories so they are more in line with the general guidelines on subcategorization. I'm not talking about creating a second category. I'm talking about moving the ones I've categorized under Universities navigational boxes to a new subcat called colleges and universities navigational boxes.

There actually is such a thing as an overpopulated category. The whole purpose of categories is to articles grouped under one subject easier to find. Well if you are having to page through multiple pages to find what you need, it defeats the purpose of categorization. Now I don't believe in overdoing it. We don't need subcats on universities and colleges navboxes for every state. There just aren't enough navboxes on the subject for that. But I think we should have separate cats for universities and colleges navboxes in general along with subcats for states with more than a few templates, such as California. My main thing here is just making the categories more in-line with our general categorization guidelines. If you don't think we should break it down by state (i.e. have a separate subcat for California or New York), then I have no problem with that. We can just do United States college and universities navigational boxes (or United States college and universities templates) under United States education navigational boxes. I have no problem with that. --Woohookitty 06:50, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Thyatira

Sorry about not getting back to you on Thyatira; as you can see from my talk page, I've been rather busy with other issues in the last few days and forgot about Thyatira. It's done now. Nyttend (talk) 15:31, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Heyo

Thanks for your holiday message. I have been on forced wikibreak lately, first due to a 10-day power outage from an Oklahoma ice storm, followed shortly by moving across town. It seems that the user in question has backed off of the article for the time being and moved on to different things. Happy new year. Cheers, ➪HiDrNick! 03:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your help

Always good to have a bit of help, they used your image of J and T FYI, I've reverted but thought you'd like to know. Benjiboi 13:30, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Used it where? I checked their contribs and don't see where they used it.. -- ALLSTARecho 17:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, I see. Thanks. -- ALLSTARecho 17:14, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

This is quite enlightening as well. Benjiboi 21:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Special Senate Election

Didn't read the discussion... sorry. Gueas I was being bold. There's not too much precedent for this in wikipedia... only one I found was United States Senate elections in Wyoming, 2008 which is a relatively new artilce... even the United States Senate election in New Jersey, 2006 isn't comparable because, despite that being a special election, the other Jersey Senate class was not up for election that year... and if you go further back then that, wikipedia wasn't around so nobodies created those articles (yet). If you want to de-merge the articles I understand and I'm fine with it. My opinion is they should be merged (though it's not a particularily strong opinion). We probably need to establish a standard for this rare occurence and also apply it to United States Senate elections in Wyoming, 2008. Anyway... that's my 2 cents.--Dr who1975 (talk) 20:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Somebody has started a lively discussion at Talk:United States Senate elections in Mississippi, 2008... I actually voted for a split.--Dr who1975 (talk) 23:38, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I actually went to restore like it was but for some reason the original history isn't in the article to restore so I just gave up on it, moved on to other things.. -- ALLSTARecho 01:16, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

You removed my comments when you moved the page... you needed to merge them properly! I made a very important point about the naming of the special election page in there.--Dr who1975 (talk) 14:50, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

The comments on Talk:United States Senate election in Mississippi, 2008 were moved to Talk:United States Senate special election in Mississippi, 2008 where they belong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr who1975 (talk • contribs) 22:16, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

wave

but only for a few... What's up? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 06:19, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

When a page is moved, all the history goes with it. Someone either deleted United States Senate elections in Mississippi, 2008, then moved United States Senate special election in Mississippi, 2008 over, or they did a history merge, which is something I know nothing about except that it exists. If the former, you should be able to find a revision in the United States Senate elections in Mississippi, 2008 history of the other page. If the latter, I think it's pretty impossible to "undo". -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 06:28, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

It's tricky but try WP:SPLICE if you want to get history restored. Benjiboi 21:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Status script

Try this. Just made it, for my purposes, actually. I need the same thing. (adding to your talk page to increase the chance you'll notice it) --cuckooman (talk) 21:03, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

That pesky King James

164.58.209.131: you smell a sock, too? Jeffpw (talk) 17:15, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Very much so. -- ALLSTARecho 17:20, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

My new "friend"

I'm concerned may be a sock as well, they certainly seem to know how to skip along the lines of policy enough to not be blatantly attacking. (As far as I know, I'm trying to just ignore them now.) Thank you for pointing it out, I had completely missed them and if they are also trolling then they've suckered me into their game. (sigh!) Be strong! Benjiboi 22:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Matt's offensive language

Don't change it. Just report it, and let the admins block him again. Aleta (Sing) 07:17, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Done. Although I was under the understanding that talk page comments could be removed if blatantly offensive. Thanks. -- ALLSTARecho 07:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

From what I've learned, and seems true in this case, folks are a bit more impolite in cyberland and if they are a repeat offend of civility issue on wp you should ensure they have been warned in the past and then take it to ANI if they don't change. Matt's an exceptional case and seems determined to get himself banned from the site altogether. Rarely have I seen him behave although he's certainly capable of good editing. Benjiboi 11:29, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

FYI Matt's RfC. http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Bluemarine Good luck with that, seems an endless and non-productive process to me....a nobody.

DADT

On the Matt Sanchez article - DADT is referenced inline, that's why I revert it after adding it back in in the see also section. Aatombomb (talk) 15:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh OK. Sorry, I missed that. -- ALLSTARecho 15:44, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm fine with repeating - another editor removed it because it was in line. I'm not sure what the policy is on See Also sections. Aatombomb (talk) 15:46, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

See also should be treated as a waiting room for wikilinks, once they are in the article then remove from See also; likewise if you remove wikilinks from the article they could go back there. Benjiboi 15:59, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks! Aatombomb (talk) 16:11, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Abusive comments

I'm extremely, extremely sorry you guys (collectively, you specifically, and all) had to put up with that kind of nonsense for so long. It's completely unacceptable. Lawrence Cohen 17:51, 5 January 2008 (UTC)