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Paul McCartney FAC

Sure thing. I'm about done for the day, but I should have some time tomorrow and/or Wednesday. Happy to pitch in. DocKino (talk) 22:33, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

OK, two things before I wade in--one general, one specific:

(1) Do you want to use the serial comma or not? I see both styles in the lead section: "an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer"/"an advocate for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education".

I tend to say no, but you could pursuade me otherwise. What's your opinon? — GabeMc (talk) 03:03, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

(2) It seems to me that it's unnecessary and a bit redundant to name the Beatles and Wings twice each in the short first paragraph. Cutting them out of the second sentence also means we avoid the odd locution "Formerly of the Beatles..." The following makes a perfectly clear, strong second sentence: "He has been described by Guinness World Records as 'The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time', with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles." Alternately, that could be moved to the end of the paragraph, so the Beatles sentence comes second and the Wings sentence third. What are your thoughts? DocKino (talk) 16:52, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

I totally agree, good eye, great suggestion. I made the change, please feel free to fix anything I missed. — GabeMc (talk) 03:03, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Changes to the US Beatles' albums articles

A solitary editor has made massive undiscussed changes to the US/North American Beatles' album articles, removing sourced content and introducing formatting errors. I reverted; he reverted. Please take a look and see what you think. Radiopathy •talk• 01:21, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

PJtP (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Look at his contribs. Radiopathy •talk• 01:28, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Discussion with admin here. Radiopathy •talk• 01:53, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Needing Wiki contribution assistance!

Hello GabeMc,

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Let me know if you would be willing to help!

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Devbot (talk) 04:06, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

"The" to "the" at Paul McCartney

Fine by me. I actually just found out about the wikilink exception so thought we should all be aware of it, but I'm pretty sure "optional" does mean "optional". Lower-case looks much better anyway. : ) Evanh2008 21:53, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

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Lewisohn

I find this very disturbing. Please explain.—DCGeist (talk) 21:15, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, my bad. I obviously originally introduced the error by mistake, then was also wrong to blame it on Doc. He has my full sincere apologies. — GabeMc (talk) 23:02, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Whoops

Sorry about those weird blankings at Paul McCartney. My browser is screwing me up in a bad way. Evanh2008 06:00, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

No worries Evan. — GabeMc (talk) 06:27, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

I hate to badger but...

What? Marcus Qwertyus 21:33, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

If you have a specific question, that you cannot refrain from asking, then it should be asked at your RfA page, not my talk page. — GabeMc (talk) 21:37, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

You just told me not to. Marcus Qwertyus 21:42, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

No, I did not tell you to not ask questions, I advised you that badgering opposes (whether at the appropriate place for discussion, e.g. your RfA or an inappropriate place, e.g. a user's talk page) will not help your case for adminship, not now and not in the future. It's just an opinion, shared by many others wiser than myself. At any rate, I've stricken the erroneous statement from my oppose rationale as I appear to have misread a comment. — GabeMc (talk) 21:46, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks very much for the barnstar, Gabe! I appreciate it, and am glad I could be of help. Evanh2008 01:04, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome, it was very much deserved, so thank you! — GabeMc (talk) 01:05, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Your request for rollback

Hi GabeMC. After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Misplaced Pages:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Calmer Waters 02:00, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Info on my Talk page

CVUA

Hello, GabeMc! The instructors at the Counter-Vandalism Unit Academy have seen your hard work reverting vandalism, and we would like to thank you. But do you want to go to the next level? Would you like to know how reverts, warnings, reports, blocks, and bans all come together to keep this Encyclopedia free from disruption? Then consider enrolling today! Electriccatfish2 (talk) 11:33, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Electriccatfish2 (talk) 11:33, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Thank you

Thank you for supporting me at RfA. In this example, the footprints in the sand were yours. I'll not forget. My76Strat (talk) 03:11, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Just a note

Hi, Gabe. I just wanted to let you know that there is a discussion here to which you may be interested in contributing. Thanks! Evanh2008 02:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Beatle Paul

Good evening GabeMc,

Thank you for the invitation. I shall be pleased to help in any way I can. Curious to know how you chose me ... have we bumped against each other somewhere?

Kind regards, -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 22:38, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

image info

Thanks!

Thanks for participating in my RFA! I appreciate your support. Zagalejo^^^ 06:09, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Barnstars and Paul

This is a belated attempt to beg off helping with Paul's FAC. As you can see I'm less active here than before, but this is primarily due to other computer related activities attracting all my attention (namely building some tools and writing a Wikimania talk). Though there was a bit of Basion in there. :)

You know...Alex Haley was born on August 11th. Might be as good a day as any to sign it up for TFA.

Thanks for the comments on the barnstar. As I said when the article got promoted, you did a considerable amount of the hard work. I mostly made sure that your and Malik's work wasn't bent toward antagonizing each other. Protonk (talk) 18:23, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Ssssh...but nice to see you quoting my rewrite of the MoS regarding the The Beatles controversy, must be about 3 years ago now. And also that most people are using lower case the Beatles even in links nowadays. When I wrote that, it was The Beatles all over the main article, and I'd given up trying to correct it. Cheers, Rothorpe (talk) 23:19, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Civility warning

Calling any editor a "troll", doing "trolling" or the like is quite simply contrary to Misplaced Pages civility standards. I ask you redact any comments making such a claim. Cheers. Collect (talk) 16:02, 4 July 2012 (UTC)!

I agree, and I've redacted the claim. You have my full sincere apologies. ~ GabeMc (talk) 21:37, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Re: Paul McCartney FAC

I reviewed the relevant section of the MOS, at MOS:LQ, and you're right about punctuation placement in direct quotations. Looking over my last edit, I see that the periods were at the end of incomplete sentences, which may or may not have had periods originally. In almost all cases, I don't have access to the original sources, so I can't tell where the punctuation goes. Please feel free to reverse any of the quote-placement edits I've made per the original sources.

Anyway, I'm glad I could help with this article. I've always hated it when otherwise high-quality articles fail FAC over copyediting/prose issues. And thank you for the many hours and days of hard work you've put into this article, especially with its comprehensiveness and clear, impeccable sourcing. szyslak (t) 21:51, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Given all of this, I hope my quote-tinkering doesn't produce too much extra work for you! Also, I do plan to !vote "Support" after I'm finally finished going over each section. When I first encountered this FAC a few days ago, I felt it wasn't ready prose-wise. There's been tremendous progress since then, and I don't take all or most of the credit for this. szyslak (t) 22:07, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

No worries, easy fixes. Yeah, this article has come a long way, thanks again for all your help! ~ GabeMc 22:26, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

• Hey, sorry about that, I didn't notice your message yesterday--I think someone posted on my talk page a few minutes after you and I didn't check the history. I'll comment on the FAC now. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:06, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
  • Also, from following FAC pretty closely lately, this has got to be one of the toughest nominations for a while. The page is at 200k and climbing. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:19, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

I agree 100% ~ GabeMc 04:23, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Writes ... or wrote. Americanism?

I'm afraid I tend to let others argue about this sort of thing as the limits of my secondary education and my tendency not to sit Canute-style resisting the tide of Americanism show otherwise. Sorry. Britmax (talk) 11:01, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Civility warning

I will be more than happy to strike the comment in question when it is rendered moot. To make that happen, please apologize for gratuitously initiating the personal attacks in the McCartney FAC thread and strike your baseless accusations and insinuations that my vetting of the article's grammar has anything to do with "disputes" on The Beatles Talk page, the great "The/the" debate, or "sour grapes" about anything.—DCGeist (talk) 22:28, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

The

I have not had Macca's page on my watchlist for some time, which is a pity. As you are undergoing the trials of an FAC, I will refrain from saying anything at the moment, but be advised that I will later.--andreasegde (talk) 11:06, 7 July 2012 (UTC)