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The edit I made was to move a paragraph that was in the wrong place. The movie man of fire was mentioned, then the next paragraph goes back to what the previous paragraph was saying about Morales' review of Kill Bill. 67.222.224.69 (talk) 21:44, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

rollback

Hi Boomer Vial. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", 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! Katie 23:20, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

@KrakatoaKatie: Thank you, and I will definitely keep those points in mind. Cheers! Boomer Vial 00:33, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Your message regarding my edits in 1968 World Series.

In response to your first message, it was not allowing me to respond to your first message. I kept trying to "enter" text into the box, but was not allowing me.

Much of the edit/deletion revolved around information that was found in other entries or extraneous or repeat information that made the entry about the 1968 World Series difficult to read. For example, one of the toughest plays for an outfielder is a ball hit directly at them. Curt Flood's initial reaction was a typical one step in before going back on the rocket hit by Northrup. The writer spent undo time and references saying the same thing: he misplayed the ball. We got it the first time that the writer thinks Flood blew the series on that ball. Making four references was overkill.

The other edits involved the summary of the previous (1967) season for both teams, while there was an entry touching on the same subject. Very long, unnecessary copy that can already be found in other Wiki entries. The entry that was edited specifically dealt with the 1968 World Series. That's it. These entries are supposed to be quick and easy reads for a reader. Good detail is not discouraged, however, there has to be a happy median between a one-line summaries and what is written in this summary with overkill information that slows the read down. The "prelude" also details individual game substance, but yet goes into a repeat information in individual game (Game 1, Game 2, Game 3, etc.) details. One entry, for example, spent an entire four line graph detailing innings where the "slow" Tigers got runners on base but didn't score.

As a one-time professional copy editor, I took sports copy and made it more readable for multiple newspapers: Spartanburg (SC) Herald-Journal, the Marion (IN) Chronicle-Tribune, the Williamsport (PA) Gazette, the now defunct Cincinnati Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Not trying to harm the Wiki entries but make them more readable.

Conchobar Lads Tomlinson

Thanks for the ping on this. I thought I should tell you that I should get no credit for moving along the deletion of this article. Since the talk page is deleted with the article, there is no way to show the previous sequence of edits. It seems Materialscientist deleted it just after I read your message and during the short time I was considering it. I had actually looked back to see the time stamp and the article was gone. Donner60 (talk) 08:00, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Your welcome. I know, I was hoping to have you ping a few admins for me so it could be dealt with. Materialscientist ended up deleting the page right after. Just a case of good timing, haha. :) Cheers! Boomer Vial 00:37, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Why you reverted my edition in Indigenous rights?

Why you reverted my edition in Indigenous rights? But in the 1950s the indigenous of New World countries wasn't made protest movement for indigenous rights, they accept the "acculturation" and the "colonial mentality", they accept as people . Before 1960s cultural changes, the Western world was in the conservative culture and wasn't rooted and steeped in Marxist cultural and Radical environment ideologies countercultures. - 201.81.64.163 (talk) 06:46, 28 January 2016 (UTC).

@201.81.64.163: I reverted your edits, because accidentally erased 3,000 bytes of data from the page when you added your contribution. You can re-add it if you like, just please be careful about erasing large portions of texts. It's more likely to catch the eye of vandalism-fighters, such as myself. Thanks. Boomer Vial 06:50, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Pings

I happened to notice this edit. Note that the valid ping and your signature have to be added in the same edit, or no notification occurs. The thing to do in that situation is to add a new comment with the ping, being careful to remember to sign it. Also, {{ping}} is a template, so it has to be enclosed in double-braces, not double-square-brackets. You have created a piped wikilink to the dab page, Ping. ―Mandruss ☎ 10:06, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

@Mandruss: Oh, oops. Sorry about that. I guess I wasn't holding my shift button all the way down. I went back and changed it to brackets. Thanks a lot for letting me know. :) Boomer Vial 10:08, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

See the first thing I said above. You stil have not added a valid ping and your signature in the same edit. You added your signature in your opening post, all the rest was simply replacing what was already there. That's why I said the thing to do in that siutation is to add a new comment. Oh, and the user link generates the same notification as ping, so he had already got the notification with your opening post. Maybe why that's why your AIV report got such quick attention by that same admin? ―Mandruss ☎ 10:15, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I'm not following you. Do you mean the ping, and my signature in the same edit? Boomer Vial 21:42, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

A typical scenario:

• You create a new comment containing an intended ping and your signature. But you botch the coding of the ping, for example as {{ping|username]]. Since a valid ping and your signature were not added in the same edit, no notification is sent.
• You notice your mistake and you edit your comment to fix the ping. But this edit does not add your signature, it has already been added above, so no notification is sent.

Another typical scenario:

• You create a new comment containing a good ping, but you forget to sign it. Since a valid ping and your signature were not added in the same edit, no notification is sent.
• You notice your mistake and you edit your comment to sign it. But this edit does not add the ping, it has already been added above, so no notification is sent.

After noticing either initial mistake, there are two possible ways to correct it:

• Self-revert. View the diff and copy your comment text. Create a new comment, pasting in the text and then correcting your mistake. -or-
• Add a new comment below the existing one, including a valid ping, your signature, and the statement that you are retrying a botched ping.

Finally, keep in mind that a link to the user page also generates a notification. The only difference is in the appearance on the page; ping produces a @ character, user link creates the prefix "User:". In some contexts a link makes more sense or "works better", in others a ping does, but it doesn't really matter as long as the notification gets sent. Also keep in mind that there are multiple templates that generate notifications, and various aliases (redirects) for each template, and different editors prefer different templates and aliases. This is in keeping with the Misplaced Pages tradition of making things as complicated as possible. ―Mandruss ☎ 01:01, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

What's really odd is when I view the page, my post and the ping to Materialscientist are unmalformed (meaning, when I look at it, Materialscientist has a @ before his name). Well, I understand what you were trying to say now. I need to either strikeout the post in question, and re-post it, or copy/paste it. Thanks for the clarification. Boomer Vial 06:18, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer granted

Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

See also:

• Misplaced Pages:Reviewing, the guideline on reviewing
• Misplaced Pages:Pending changes, the summary of the use of pending changes
• Misplaced Pages:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy determining which pages can be given pending changes protection by administrators.

BethNaught (talk) 19:46, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Misplaced Pages's policy on edit warring. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.17.137.178 (talk • contribs)

Help with User:Symplectic Map/AutoSpell

Hi there. I was just wondering how I access my monobook.js? I'm trying to add this spell checker to my tools, and I have no idea how to do the first step. Boomer Vial 07:48, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

These are just files that can be edited like any other. First, check in "Preferences" which "skin" you are using. The default nowadays is Vector, in which case you would need to create User:Boomer Vial/vector.js and add to it the line described in User:Symplectic Map/AutoSpell. If something goes wrong and you want to delete the file, you can put {{db-u1}} at the top. The U1 template does not display in the usual way, but it does put the file in the speedy-deletion queue. JohnCD (talk) 10:07, 29 January 2016 (UTC)