User talk:ERcheck/Archive 1

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Archive of my talk page = Archive1 (October 2005 - March 2006)

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Hello ERcheck/Archive 1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Dan Rice

Thanks for cleaning up this article. I see you also weighed in on the Afd, that's great. I seriously doubt the article is in much danger of being deleted now. Friday (talk) 05:24, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

John D. Roth

Got your message - nice work expanding that one. For future reference, if you're interested, there's a list of stub types at WP:WSS/ST which is handy to know about if you end up labelling many stubs. It's also a good way to find topical stubs that need expanding. Even if you just use the {{stub}} template on an article, it'll get sorted pretty quickly by one of us stub-sorters, so don't worry about stub types if you don't want to. At any rate, welcome to Wikipedia! GTBacchus 00:12, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Big Heavy Stuff

Nice work creating this! It is great to finally have an article for them, it's been hovering near the top of my 'to-do' list for a long time. :) I'm not sure where you live, but if it's in Australia you might like to check out some of these links: The Australia Wikiportal, Australian Wikipedians' Notice Board, Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight, New Australian Articles and Australian stub articles. User:Chuq also works on quite a few Aus music articles, so feel free to jump into his to-do list here. And finally, if you live in Melbourne, the Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne could be useful, and of course there are similar ones for the other cities. cheers. pfctdayelise 16:33, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Not trying to steal the spotlight, but I threw up the Big Heavy Stuff page - I want to thank ERcheck for cleaning it up though! That, and apologise for not doing a very thorough job, I figured no one would even notice and that I could get back to edit it later on when I have a little more time :)--Evervans 16:10, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Question on Requesting Topics/Categories

In regards to your question, I wasn't overly familiar with this off the top of my head. But, I looked at the page in question, and it does look like you'd be OK to just go to Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Sports and add appropriate sections. These aren't really "Categories" in the sense of Wikipedia:Categories, so they're not as tricky to deal with. Hope this helps! Friday (talk) 17:56, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

signing

Please be sure to sign your comments to talk pages with four tildes, as so: ~~~~. Best regards, Ëvilphoenix ^Burn! 04:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Sun/the Sun

I cannot open the BBC link, it was banned by the government. What if Earth and Moon, if upper case first letter, should the word "the" be added? Yaohua2000 20:46, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Shahid Maqbool

Please check this out: House_Of_Maqbool, Tahir_Sohail

Looks like someone really wants to list people involved with United Detergents. Haven't afd'ed it , as I wanted to hear what you think first, as you are more familiar with the previous attempts. Bjelleklang - talk 21:25, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

OK, will afd Tahir Sohail asap, and also see if I can find some more info about the House of Maqbool. Bjelleklang - talk 21:38, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Hoax article

If you are fairly sure the article is a hoax (and it's best to do a little checking if you can) then nominate at WP:AfD - you will find the instructions at the bottom of that page. If you have any difficulties, let me know. --Doc (?) 23:17, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I've short-circuited the process and deleted dear Ariel. I've confirmed that there isn't an Odell (or anything close) in the Ontario Legislature, and I'm keeping an eye on Nympheta. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 00:08, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

STILL REFUSES TO SAY SORRY

that article has already gone through VfD and was deleted. Xtra 00:17, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

From Lestatbrow (moved from User page to discussion page)

Hi, isn't it alright if I get the Band's permission??

or would we have to write a brand new one for them??

(from 18:07, 7 November 2005 Lestatbrow)

Mycalesis patnia

Thanks for your comments. I meant to leave the image in a taxobox ! Shyamal 03:57, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Houston ISD

What's to clean up about it? WhisperToMe 23:04, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, in that case.. that's what "stub" would be for. Cleanup is for an article that is messy or disorganized. WhisperToMe 23:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Kaci Brown

Thanks for your help on the Kaci Brown page.

OperativePhrase 05:03, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Alana Davis

Do you know anything about Alana Davis it seems she doesn't have an article. OperativePhrase 05:26, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks :) OperativePhrase 05:36, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Speedy tags

ERcheck, you have been marking many articles for speedy-deletion. Quite a few of those do not qualify for speedy deletion under WP:CSD. Please familiarize yourself with this policy so that admins can rely on your input more effectively. Thank you! Owen× ☎ 02:58, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

The following don't seem to fall under any of the CSD categories:

• Star and stripe
• Arborphiliac (which you marked as db-attack. why? the content was: "or Arbourphiliac, it is one who is sexually aroused by trees.")
• Pi Approximation

The last one has already been deleted, but the admin who deleted it also agrees the Speedy tag may not have been appropriate. Owen× ☎ 03:22, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed you fixed Star and stripe correctly; thank you! As for CSD:A3, it refers to articles where the whole content is just a repeat or rephrase of the title. So, if the whole article only contained the text "an approximation of Pi", you'd be right to tag it. But since that article contained real information not contained in the title (as well as two external links!), it certainly does not qualify for db-a3. It is, however, a candidate for transwiki to Wikisource, which is usually done through an AfD. Personally, I always try to turn these kinds of articles into redirects. This way, it can be easily reversed if needed, or expanded. It also usually prevents these articles from being recreated. It's not easy coming up with the perfect redirect, but it's worth the effort! Anyway, keep up the good work, but please be careful. Owen× ☎ 03:53, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Frederick Noel Dotson III

Yep, I see your point, I'll delete it. Enochlau 07:47, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

killing time

You are correct - I confused Killing Time with a previous vandal. I've reinstated it to List of songs about suicide. My apologies. - DavidWBrooks 18:27, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Shpants

I am quite surprised that you nominated it for speedy delete. What's wrong with a harmless redirect? 4 of the 8 votes were for redirect, thus meaning that there was a precedent for it. The original article was talking about three quarter pants, and the rewrite listed it explicitly. Its not a candidate for speedy deletion if the content is different to the original, as in this case. I was quite surprised to see you put this up for speedy deletion. At worst, its a very picky technicality. I really don't see what the harm is in putting a redirect in, even if only a small proportion of people use it as an alias for 3/4 pants. Some people do. Or are we running out of space on the servers now? Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 04:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

No. As I said before, the conclusion was that of Redirect. 4/8 said redirect, which was the most popular choice. Whilst the closer I suppose used their discretion to delete, it had already been agreed to redirect. Now I suppose I am expected to go through deletion review over this petty technicality. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 11:35, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome...

...others have done the same for me in the past, so I'm glad to have been able to do the same for another editor! CLW 23:54, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

AFD

They're more or less the same thing, so yeah. Thanks for reminding me. I didn't see any of them linking there, so I figured they were already on other pages and didn't check. karmafist 04:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

RE: Thanks for improving my warnings...

If you want to get the rest of them working you can.... The main thing is changing your nick to ~~~~ and inserting ~~~

see User talk:Adam1213/warn

--Adam1213 Talk + 23:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

RE

I got an admin to move it. The trick is as I said above go to Special:Preferences nickname should be: ~~~~ enable raw signatures and insert ~~~ where you want ~~~~ to be --Adam1213 Talk + 00:47, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

You need to try that trick + User talk:Adam1213/warn - it will now show you what has and what has not been made --Adam1213 Talk + 01:09, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for working on my warner. --Adam1213 Talk + 01:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for suggestion Endomion had the suggestion of putting it on Election_promise which I will do. Travb 07:07, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

and Thank You

Thanks for cleaning up Smedley Butler! Keep up the good work. And merry Christmas! – Quadell ^(talk) (bounties) 07:16, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Re:Image deletion

Thank you! :)--Shanel 18:55, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

image move

Done! Martin 19:52, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Semiprotection

I've semiprotected your user page (not talk, just User:ERcheck) because some nuisance editing from the AOL IP ranges was repeatedly defacing it.

If you'd like me to lift the semiprotection, drop me a note. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 15:02, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Semiprotection prevents anonymous IPs and accounts below a certain age (a few days, if I remember correctly) from editing the page in question. Established editors–including you–can still edit the page. Full protection would prevent all non-admins from editing your user page; I'd rather avoid preventing you from editing your own user page. Cheers, TenOfAllTrades(talk) 17:00, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Categorization

Hi, you don't need to add articles to categories and their subcategories. For example, if someone is a general in the Marine Corps, they should only be categorized in Category:U.S. Marine Corps generals, not also Category:U.S. Marine Corps officers and/or Category:U.S. Marines. So you might have noticed me removing a lot of redundant categories. See WP:CG. Nice work on all the USMC articles, by the way. —Kenyon (t·c) 21:49, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments on categories. Is there a simple way to view the categories and subcategories, etc. in a tree. If U.S. Marine generals is a subcategory of U.S. Marine officers, if I categorize a general, should the name appear under the U.S. Marine officers and U.S. Marines categories?

Semper Fi! —ERcheck @ 22:36, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

No, if you categorize a general in Category:U.S. Marine Corps generals, they shouldn't be also listed in Category:U.S. Marine Corps officers and/or Category:U.S. Marines, since those are direct parent categories. Semper Fi! —Kenyon (t·c) 22:42, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

It's about time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's about time you finally created a "real" user page. (Very nice quote, great selection...I love it.) Wikipedia is nice enough to give you a free forum and it's nice you finally decided to show some gratitude!!!  : ) YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!! Keep up the good work, ERcheck!!!! 172.128.93.5 03:01, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

USMC cats

It is about 3AM my time and I am crapped out and can hardly keep my eyes open. I was wondering if you could help add some Categories to HMM-262 & HMLA-367. I see you have been editing USMC pages so I thought I'd ask. If not I'll try and get them later. Thanks. Like the revert to 1MAW by the way. Much cleaner.--Looper5920 16:22, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Another favor. Take a look at the HMLA section of List of United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons. I was messing around with it and added the gallery. Do you think it is worth keeping and changing rest of list or just go back to the old way? --Looper5920 23:43, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

How the hell can Globalsecurity.com protect use of USMC images when all they are doing is cutting and pasting from the USMC webpages? That includes the histories as well. Also, I went back and tagged all of my USMC images with the categories you mentioned.--Looper5920 01:00, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Off the top of my head no I don't know of an official USMC site that has all of them. Best bet will be to do a Google image search and just use the one that pop up on Government pages but I say F-it. I'm using the ones on This guy because they are good quality and no matter what they say they {the patches] are the work of the US Gov and are open to public domain. Also, I am doing the voodoo to HMH-363 right now. SHould have her up and running and looking a hell of alot better in a few minutes.--Looper5920 01:33, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Munster, Indiana

It's NOT vandalism. It's true. Maybe you should drive through there before assuming that it is vandalism. It smells that way even with the car windows closed and the air conditioning off. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kalmia (talk • contribs)

Image:Hagee in MARPAT with Marine.jpg

It is done! Now all you have to do is replace the old image with this one: "Image:Hagee in MARPAT with Marine.jpg" I hope that this has solved the problem. Semper Fi Tony the Marine 17:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

• I saw the article that's up for deletion. I'm against its deletion and in favor of the article being merged to the "United States Marine Corps" article. I'll keep my eye on it and merge it myself, if it isn't deleted. Tony the Marine 03:03, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

• • I agree with you on the redirect and that's the way I would do it. Semper Fi Tony the Marine 03:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Corn

I reverted your edit to the sunwise article, because it clearly refers to wheat. We don't use "corn" to refer to maize, except in phrases such as "sweet corn", or "corn on the cob". It certainly hasn't been grown here until well into the post-War period, and is still not a major crop thanks to our climate. --MacRusgail 14:39, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Apple Springs, Texas

ummmm....it was in a texas monthly magazine. i have it right here; i am reading it right now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gigem12 (talk • contribs) @02:34 on 2/6/2006.

no, i'm sorry. I clipped the article out of the magazine. i know for a fact it was in Texas monthly and it was in 2001. that's all i know. i'm really sorry. but believe you me i wouldn't lie. a lie is a sin and hell is hot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gigem12 (talk • contribs) @02:57 on 2/6/2006.

yeah that sounds right. thank you!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gigem12 (talk • contribs) @03:14 on 2/6/2006.

i got the information from various sources on the internet. i checked them on a couple of different sites to make sure they were correct. Would you like me to add a link at the bottom to the sites? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gigem12 (talk • contribs) at 21:31, 7 February 2006

I hope that's ok!!!!

the second link wasn't the same one. It was a different that had extra information. but whatever. thanks!!!! Emily 22:45, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

i meant to do that....... Emily 01:00, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[Teenage Wildlife]

Hi ERcheck, you've recently voted Teenage wildlife forum for deletion, can I draw your attention to the following links -

1. BBC Stuart Maconle's Critical List At the bottom of the page the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) say 'Comprehensive fan site, with lyrics, pictures and discography'
2. Scan of The Complete David Bowie The cover of notable Bowie biography The Complete David Bowie - author Nicholas Pegg, showing a mention of Teenage Wildlife (www.teenagewildlife.com)
   

Could you change your vote to keep?

Many Thanks —Fegchanges 02:09, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

My apologies

You're right, it was somehow lame to add those AWOL marines links. Sorry. Im not a vandal but a contributor, I hope this is evident from my contributions to other articles. 85.82.130.124 19:13, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Looking for help

In the past 24 hours, I've been experiencing some strange behavior from Wikipedia. When saving a page/"show preview', I have gotten the following error message:

Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in.

In addition, I've been logged out mid-edit. Is Wikipedia currently experiencing a problem? Or is it my session? —ERcheck @ 01:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't think Wikipedia is experiencing a problem. I have experiecned these problems before, try clearing your browser's cache to fix the problem (Mozilla/Safari/Konqueror: hold down Shift while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R), IE: press Ctrl-F5, Opera: press F5.)--Commander Keane 01:26, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Nana Joshi

If there any standard for using single or double quote in Padmanabh Govind "Nana" Joshi ? If there isn't, I would like to go back to single quotes. Tintin (talk) 00:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Let it stay the way you have changed it. Tintin (talk) 01:17, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Time limit for Speedy deletions under Category A8

Category A8 of [[Wikipedia:Candidates for Speedy Deletion provides:

An article that is a blatant copyright infringement and meets these parameters:

   * Material is unquestionably copied from the website of a commercial content provider (e.g. encyclopedia, news service) and;
   * The article and its entire history contains only copyright violation material, excluding tags, templates, and minor edits and;
   * Uploader makes no assertion of permission or fair use, and none seems likely and;
   * The material is identified within 48 hours of upload and is almost or totally un-wikified (to diminish mirror problem).

As user Keiphers had uploaded it on 18 January 2005, it had passed the time limit so I placed it as a copyvio as per normal process. The commercial content aspect was doubtful too. Capitalistroadster 16:49, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Portal:United States Marine Corps

Just opened a USMC Portal and could use some help if you have the chance. Thanks in advance. --Looper5920 13:19, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

• AS far as what needs to be done I was thinking that before anything else gets created I wanted to standardize what we have already. Make sure that all the units have the same style infobox and a link to the portal. I also am going through and doing the same for famous USMC persons. This is taking longer than I thought but I am slowly slogging through it. I also am thinking of creating a Famous Battles in USMC history page or something to that effect. Maybe just make it a category? Once everything is standardized I am going to make sure that every active/reserve unit has a page so there are no red links on the pages. Mostly it is grunt work that needs to be done then when that is ever finished I'll start looking at training commands, schools, etc......

• • Two quick ones.... 1) I am having a hard time finding "Good" feature article. Any ideas for this week? I am reluctant to just throw something half decent up there but we may have to do that until our Portal gets a bit more robust and we have a large amount of articles to use. This actually leads to my 2nd point which is do you think it would be worth it to have a new section on the portal for "Collaboration of the Week" This way we can build up a decent feature articles database. Feature by our standards not the actual Wikipedia standards. that will have to wait till later. Thoughts?--Looper5920 03:38, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Feature article ideas: Joe Foss, Medal of Honor recipient. —ERcheck @ 03:51, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

For you

This Barnstar is awarded to ERcheck for his excellent work creating and editing articles on the United States Marine Corps. Semper Fidelis! —--Looper5920 23:58, 12 March 2006 (UTC) (KC)

• Your rocking tonight with the articles. Since you have the momentum, and are the main effort at the moment is there anything you need help with? I have a 1/2 hour to kill.--Looper5920 07:07, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

• As far as the commandants go what is left is between the guy after Lejeune and Al Grey. Many of the ones in between have been done but there are a few that have been missed.--Looper5920 00:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

• You takeChapman and I'll get Wilson?--Looper5920 12:40, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

• • Might be easier to get on the same page. Who are you working on right now and I'll go to the next guy?--Looper5920 13:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

• • • I'll take Barrow and you got Kelley.--Looper5920 13:26, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Something popped up so I have to run for the rest of the morning. I will pick up whaere you left off when I get back Yut--Looper5920 13:33, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

• Agree on medals. Go by order of precedence down to the Purple Heart. Don't need anything below that because they will all have NAMs and NCOMs. Good job on the MOH articles. I think the whole USMC portion of Wikipedia is starting to look pretty good. Uniformity is getting there and content is improving. Someday it will be where it needs to be--Looper5920 03:34, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Deer Park and San Jacinto College

Hi, thanks so much for checking that and making the necessary fixes! Mikker ^... 21:18, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

USMC specific stub

I have been thinking about proposing a {{US-mil-usmc-stub}}. I think it would be a great way to consolidate all of the things that need to be done. Also, the {{US-Mil Stub}} is just to broad and has hundreds of articles. Just wanted to run it by you to and get your thoughts. ALso thanks for doing the 1/7 article. Finally got me off my ass to do the rest of 7th Marines.--Looper5920 01:50, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Recent events

With the recent events that occured involving 3rd Battalion 1st Marines just wanted to ask if you could watch that page and the Wiki news, recent events and a few Iraq pages to make sure these guys get a fair shake as the Anti-American crowd is sure to eat this up. Thanks --Looper5920 22:03, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

• I went over to the wikinews and just realized that I don't know how to edit over there. I think I'll stay here where I'm comfortable. I'm still rolling with active unit articles, are you going to stick with the MOH guys? The portal is looking pretty good. Please make any changes you see fit. We're looking better than most but we can improve. I think we are not to far from a Featured Portal space. One more thing... I couldn't decide on a new bio for the portal. Any ideas? --Looper5920 11:55, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:SeattlePacific1915.jpg

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AFD

I am thinking of putting Erlene Thomas up for AFD. There is nothing in that bio I feel warrants an article here. If anything I believe it was written by the individual or someone that knows her. Just wanted to get your thoughts before I nominated it.--Looper5920 01:00, 30 March 2006 (UTC)