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WikiProject Films December 2009 NewsletterThe December 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 01:51, 2 January 2010 (UTC) Release countries in film infoboxDo you think it would be ok if in film infoboxes we abbreviate the countries in the "released" part? Video games do it like this. Well, maybe not in front or superscripted. To me currently doing line breaks looks sort of...ugly and even if you don't add a line break, long names will find themselves on the bottom anyway. What do you think? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MikeAllen (talk • contribs)
Tarzan fancruftHey, I didn't notice that this person put all that garbage on the talk page, too. I just saw it in the article. All I can say is "wow," and not in a good way. Thanks for catching it there. --McDoobAU93 (talk) 06:49, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
EggIt's good and WP:BOLD that you are taking on the task of cleaning up those WP:EGG links but I think you are taking it a little too far by requiring such a close match of the text to the target. I've mentioned it on the ProjectFilm discussion page. I would like to draw your attention to the ongoing dicussion of the Template:Official which may be of interest since I think it violates the Egg principle. More generally it suffers from a generic, vague, and uninformative bit of link text, not quite as bad as "click here" but in the same vein of poor style. -- Horkana (talk) 16:49, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
AvatarHi. Wondering why you redirected Avatar (film). It's getting tens of thousands of hits from people obviously looking for the extremely popular new film. Why make them go to a dab page? I've added a hatnote to the new film. Station1 (talk) 21:34, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps we should take this discussion somewhere more visible? Talk:Avatar (2009 film) would be a good place. BOVINEBOY2008 :) 23:10, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
So did you guys move this conversation to a new spot? I agree with Station1. Lets move this and get more imput.--CPacker talk to me 08:17, 8 January 2010 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:Frogger Ancient Shadow GC.jpgThanks for uploading File:Frogger Ancient Shadow GC.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 04:27, 6 January 2010 (UTC) The WPVG Newsletter (Q4 2009)The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter Project At a Glance
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Italicizing film article titlesRe this: So we're not doing it in film article titles? Someone has been doing it for book titles ([1]), and personally I think that if the title of a book article is italicized, then the title of the article about any notable adaptation into another medium should be as well. We need clarity and consistency on this. Daniel Case (talk) 04:57, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Buffysboy292818I've opened a thread at WP:ANI about this user. Your view on their editing would probably be valuable. I speedily deleted their creation of articles about seasons 10, 11 and 12 of Rugrats, as these do not seem to exist, the episode titles were apparently copied from earlier seasons. Fences&Windows 16:12, 8 January 2010 (UTC) Green Hornet navboxI am the editor responsible for the material you deleted in and related to the Green Hornet template/navbox. While I cannot find support of your position in the page you linked in as part of your edit summary, I can also find no other navbox to support my edits. Hence I ask you to point out just what on that page does mean "no people in such boxes." I feel the exclusions of co-creators George W. Trendle and Fran Striker from this one (and that for The Lone Ranger) to be conceptually indefensible in the most literal sense of that word, whatever general regulation, rule or guideline might arbitrarily work against them. (I hereby add your talk page to my watchlist pending the outcome of this discussion, so you can respond right here and I'll be informed of it.) --Tbrittreid (talk) 23:18, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
I am shocked to discover that I failed to sign my most recent post here, but unfortunately I must admit that in my almost four years contributing to Wikipedia, it is not the first time. That aside, both your reply and the change to the template are noted, this point seems settled, and I'll remove you from my watchlist, as promised. --Tbrittreid (talk) 22:01, 13 January 2010 (UTC) 2010s American television series groupJust some info. The groups are for any show that airs during that decade. Several shows span multiple decades and are grouped like this, i.e. The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, Days of our Lives, Roseanne, Cheers, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, etc. If you look at these shows, they are in all the categories for the decades they aired. Hope this helps. Ejfetters (talk) 02:16, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Can't i write in all caps?I finally figured out how to send messages on this site (maybe). I want to see that the All-American Rejects get all info, and it feels good to make Wikipedia right, but at least I have a life. Not to bite buddy, but sometimes I wonder about you guys. Block me, ignore me, and change what I edit but I just want the AAR pages to be right. You keep them right, I will stay off the computer. I'm just a high school student blowing time. Sorry to have wasted your time. P.S. AAR rocks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Whoaman35 (talk • contribs)
HeyaJust thanks for the nice welcome ^^ And good luck with classes ^^ GBK2010 (talk) 12:51, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
HiI'm not sure if I'm writing this in the right place, so help me out if I'm wrong, but I appreciate the welcome! Thanks, God bless, and have a good week. Zachdonaldson (talk) 05:40, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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Why do yo delete information about Telemundo novels?Why do you delete them? Crew Cast release dates? Why you delte them, can you imagine how much work I have to do to gather all? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Siachoquero (talk • contribs)
Superman Bob Holiday EditDear Bovineboy2008, I'm wondering why you deleted the Superman/Clark Kent timeline on Bob Holiday's article? For years, a fine-looking box showed Bob's place in Superman history as the successor to George Reeves. I restored it today only to have you delete it again. Is there a Wikipedia rule against such a "graphic"? I'm truly befuddled. Birdplaneexpert (talk) 17:45, 24 January 2010 (UTC)Birdplaneexpert
Regarding Template:FriendsCan you direct me to where the discussion to do these edits took place? Thanks. Nymf talk/contr. 02:10, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
2010 filmsTrue enough ~ ς ح д r خ є ~ 01:52, 30 January 2010 (UTC) Thanks for noticing. Wish I had one my self :P BOVINEBOY2008 :) 01:56, 30 January 2010 (UTC) Thanks for undoing that bad edit on Narnia I did, I was going to undo it but my DSL went down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dylancraigboyes (talk • contribs) 06:50, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
list of wii games editingplease stop reverting my changes. the wii list article has had that table format for 4+ years. your attempt to change it with discussion from 2-3 members over a period of 2 months is not enough consensus for such a drastic change. there are people like me who object to your changes. i personally did not edit the page for 3 months so i was not able to participate in the discussion. Gqwu (talk) 23:44, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
3RRI have filed a 3RR report against you. Gqwu (talk) 23:52, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
I Love You Phillip Morris.On this article you edited out the reference. I'm not sure why, I gave it a tidy, you put it back. The link in question isn't even notable anyway as it's a fansite. As for The rules on film release dates.. why just take the UK out. Shouldn't it just read where it first recieved a showing, so in this case at the festival. Would it's showing at the festival not overide the need for the french release date to be in there?Raintheone (talk) 02:23, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject Films January 2010 NewsletterThe January 2010 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 04:41, 2 February 2010 (UTC) "Overlinking"I have started a discussion at Talk:82nd Academy Awards#Overlinking. If you could temporarily refrain from going through other articles in regard to this issue until it's clear whether there's a consensus on the matter, I would appreciate it. Propaniac (talk) 16:32, 2 February 2010 (UTC) Please helpHi Bovineboy. thanks for the useful work that you are doing cleaning up film articles. One thing though. Please do not remove navboxes like "Cinema of Spain" from articles like the Pedro Almodovar one. In his case it actually does lead there, though indirectly. If you click on the directors section you will find his name. Even if his name wasn't there these boxes are still useful because it is the other articles that they lead to that is the reason that they were put on there various pages. Also there is nothing in the various Manual of Styles that state that a navbox must lead to a page that it is on. You help in this will be appreciated and if you have any questions about them please ask at the Wikipedia film projects talk page. Thanks again for everything else and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 04:44, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
SockSorry about not being able to help out, I was at work (eight hours away from Wikipedia, dang!). If you stumble across any more, I'd recommend reaching out to a few admins, in case one or more are disposed. By the way, thank you for you work in continuing to clean up the leads/infoboxes and fixing other style issues in the film articles (including some of the ones I've worked on). Your work is much appreciated. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 04:35, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks!Thanks for the welcome! Still getting my wiki-legs! TK Heffer (talk) 00:33, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
AfD nomination of SpongeBob SquarePants (seasons 8-9)An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is SpongeBob SquarePants (seasons 8-9). We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SpongeBob SquarePants (seasons 8-9). Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:08, 13 February 2010 (UTC) "characters are not to be bolded"You unbolded the headings/character names in the bullet point descriptions on the Curious George (film) page. Your explanation of the change is, "characters are not to be bolded." Can you please point me to this rule and its context? Because I can certainly understand why you shouldn't bold characters in, for example, the middle of a paragraph, but in this instance they are essentially headings, which make it MUCH easier to scan the page. It is incredibly common and proper to bold the name of the item being defined or described. It makes the list easier to read. Heck, open any manual or book with lots of bulleted lists to see that. A dictionary is a good comparison, though without the bullets. Your change seems arbitrary and in my opinion makes the page less readable rather than improves it. -Dwimble (talk) 14:11, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Bill FreibergerHello! You reverted [2] an edit of mine in regard to the BOLP template with the comment imdb is an external link, not a source. I am unsure on how to proceed at this point. I believe the whole content of the article is noted in the imdb link. Is the source itself unreliable, did you revert because the link has to be under the heading references instead of external link or is there some other issue? Thanks --Snakemike (talk) 15:26, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
Check outCan you chack out Shigeru Miyamoto am triyng to make it gA.--Pedro J. the rookie 21:23, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
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