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Note: I'll always reply to comments that are asked on my talk page under the same section to make the discussion easier to follow, so if you ask anything or make a comment, put this page on your watchlist until you receive your answer/reply. Thanks! Dabomb87 17:04, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

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Media naturalness theory article

Hi Dabomb87. It took me a while, but I think that now the media naturalness theory page is properly formatted, referenced, etc. Can you take a look and let me know what you think? My next project will be on channel expansion theory, which has also been getting a lot of citations lately. Best regards.--Senortypant (talk) 17:15, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Tennis articles

Hi Dabomb87 - just to let you know, Tennis expert undid your unlinkings, and I've repeated the unlinkings, in an attempt to bring these articles in line with the MoS, but he's now busying himself reverting my work on those articles too. Colonies Chris (talk) 12:22, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

I know—the only thing we can do is to keep persisting. Dabomb87 (talk) 13:02, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Template:Baseball Year

Can you please stop removing the Template:Baseball Year per WP:CONTEXT#Dates, I see that you are keeping it in the infobox, but why are you removing them from the article.--Yankees10 03:17, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I must have missed the ones in the article, they are harder to distinguished. Consider using writing out "Baseball Year" in those templated dates so when I run the script, they are kept intact. Compare {{by|1987}} and {{Baseball Year|1987}}, the second template does not get delinked when the script is used. In addition, I don't think you need to link every year to a baseball year, especially in the prose. Once readers get to a baseball year article, they can navigate to the other ones from there. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:23, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

See this edit to see how the second BY template is preserved. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:26, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Wait, so you are not doing this manually? im confused--Yankees10 03:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

I am using a script which automatically delinks the articles—hence the identical edit summaries— but lets the user of the script preview the changes made and make other manual edits if needed. What I did in the baseball players' articles was I used the script to automatically delink all the dates, and then I manually restored the Baseball Year links. In a nutshell, I am using a script (not a bot) to delink the dates, but I have the power to modify those delinkings in the same edit. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:44, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

P.S. When I restored some of the Baseball Year links, I used an edit summary of my own instead of the one produced by the script, that is why it seems like I delink dates manually. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:48, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for fixing it--Yankees10 04:07, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Lazare Ponticelli

Greetings. For Lazare Ponticelli, we are using year links for someone noted because of extreme age. hus, the reader can easily access the year 1897 to find out what people were doing when he was born. ~the editorofthewiki ~ 17:28, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I see what you are saying. However, linking to what are essentially a trivia articles for one does not aid readers' understanding of Lazare Ponticelli's life or his accomplishments. If readers really want to know what went on that year, they can enter the year into the search box. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:32, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Date linking

I notice you're running a script which removes full date links. Can you please stop running the script? There is currently no consensus for the removal of date links (see WT:MOSNUM) and doing so only hinders our ability to format those dates later. Thanks! —Locke Cole • t • c 19:30, 9 November 2008 (UTC)