User talk:Muchness/2010


AfD nomination of Computer role-playing game

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Quick thanks....

..for catching my error in Ronaldinho. Cheers. --Mosmof (talk) 21:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

No prob. --Muchness (talk) 21:23, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you for the notice. --Muchness (talk) 17:30, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Kig (Slur)

I really think Kig (Slur) is an attack page on somebody named Kig. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 00:19, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Possibly so. At any rate it's deleted now so problem solved. --Muchness (talk) 11:41, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Jacques Marnier Companie

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Thank you for the notice; I've gone ahead and listed it at AFD. --Muchness (talk) 11:41, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Re: The Saboteur

Ah, I was unaware that this feature of Wikipedia existed, I thought there was no other way to move a page once the redirect had been created at the other title. Thank you for pointing it out to me. Master Deusoma (talk) 02:17, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

No problem. --Muchness (talk) 02:23, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Elemental's reception section

Thanks for the help with Elemental. I figured it would be best to hold off on writing that part myself, for various reasons. GreenReaper (talk) 04:43, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

No problem, hope you guys can get the problems ironed out. Looks like a very cool game. --Muchness (talk) 07:20, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Episode anchors

FYI, anchors are build in the {{Episode list}} template, not the title but the episode number. As section #ep[#], "Hammer of the Gods" would be Supernatural (season 5)#ep101. Since these are section links you have to pipe them anyway so adding anchors to the episode title has no real benefit. It's also a cleaner link as the self made anchor links to the episode title, while the build in one links to the row, Hammer of the Gods (Supernatural episode) (also, the extra "episode" dab is unnecessary unless there is another Supernatural article about "Hammer of the Gods") links to the title which is slightly to low, and the user has to scroll a bit back up to be able to read the story writer. Xeworlebi (talk) 12:30, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the info, I was unaware of the anchor feature. As far as the naming issue goes, I was following the (apparently erroneous) naming pattern of various episode titles I've seen in article space. I'm not a regular contributor to TV articles and I appreciate your help and expertise on this. --Muchness (talk) 13:39, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction

Westley Turner here...on a different computer, so I'm not logged in. Sorry about the mess-up on the Chernobyl page. I only intended to change the time, but I wanted to go back in the history to find who/when it was done. Apparently, I actually changed that historical page. Can you clarify for me what I possibly did and let me know how to avoid it again?? I'll be more careful in the future.

Please respond at the bottom of my talk page (I'm still reading up on many of the links offered to me!) as I can't guarantee that I'll be back on this computer any time soon.

Thanks. 68.28.42.230 (talk) 04:43, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi, what you actually did was revert the article to revision 06:27, 5 September 2010, which is the revision immediately preceding the edit that introduced the incorrect time. What you perhaps should have done is just edit the current version of the article to correct the time. --Muchness (talk) 05:12, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
I guess I got the tabs mixed up. I had one tab focused on the current article and one on the history. I was viewing them back and forth, but I certainly would have remembered hitting a REVERT button. [shakes his head] At least you noticed and were able to unrevert me back to normal.  :-)
BTW how do you become a reviewer? I noticed that you recently received the honour, and with all these PC experiments, it turns out that a few pages I'm keeping an eye on are flagged as such. Is that what makes it so you're 'automatically checked' or is that something different?
Thanks again for helping me out WesT (talk) 16:26, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
To become a reviewer, read the guidelines at Wikipedia:REVIEWER#Becoming a reviewer and add your name to Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Reviewer if you meet the criteria. --Muchness (talk) 17:24, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
You give excellent advice. Good luck in your endeavours! WesT (talk) 19:35, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
No problem, glad I could help. --Muchness (talk) 17:33, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

The God Beneath the Sea

I stumbled across this article, and saw how much work you put into it and saw the fail at a peer review that happened, when you put it up for review. If you are still interested in improving it, I would suggest going through the WP:GA nomination process, which, even if it doesn't pass, will at least give you feedback where to improve, Sadads (talk) 12:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not very active on Wikipedia at the moment but I will look into it if I get some free time for editing. Regards. --Muchness (talk) 15:50, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you for the notice. --Muchness (talk)

You've been helpful before...

First off, I want to thank you for being helpful in the past, but because you have been so helpful, I'm assuming that you will continue doing so.  :-)

As I was stumbling around Wikipedia, I came across an article with a 'fact' that doesn't seem to be substantiated (and seems highly improbable). Back in Aug of '06, a change was made ([[1]]) by User:Mckaysalisbury which had references, but they all seem to be invalid now.

I wasn't certain the process to 'refute' the info, and the user Mckaysalisbury seems to be sincere (and reminds me that I need to spend a LOT more time on MY user page).

WesT (talk) 20:49, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

I think that WikiProject Law is the best place to look for expert help in this area. The two currently active refs for the repeal reference the same article, Edward Stein's "Past and Present Proposed Amendments to the United States Constitution Regarding Marriage" (full text in PDF at [2]). The article states that the act was repealed in 1978, but I'm not an expert in this field and couldn't tell you whether the journals that published this article (Issues in Legal Scholarship and Washington University Law Quarterly) are reliable sources for this kind of info. I also found this Deseret News article from 1978 mentioning that Jimmy Carter signed a bill repealing the act [3]. But as I say, I think WikiProject Law would be a good place to look for expert help in this area. Regards. --Muchness (talk) 01:16, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks! I couldn't get TO that article, at least not here at work. Yes, it really does say that that law was repealed in 1978, so the federal law unincorporating that church was actuall still on the books until then. I guess that means that for all the time in between, there really wasn't (legally) a Mormon church. Wow!
If I have any more questions in that vein, I'll direct them to the law folks.
Thanks again for being so helpful, WesT (talk) 20:30, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Mount Shasta mess

Hello, At the moment, the main article about the California mountain is inaccessible. It redirects to a list of five topics, and clicking on the first results in a redirect back to the same darned list. I know you didn't start this but would appreciate your help cleaning it up. Other mountain articles have suffered similar ill-advised moves. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 22:02, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Looks like the article's been fixed up now. Thanks for helping to resolve this. --Muchness (talk) 22:33, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Renames. Thanks! Did you get them all?

Wow! I watch a couple hundred mountains and a little while ago when I checked it, my watchlist blew up with all these page renames. Then I checked the responsible users contributions and realized this was just the tip of the iceberg! I didn't know what to do at first but by that time you were well on your way to fixing it. You must be tired! You deserve a very well earned break. Just thought I stop in to say "thank you" and hope you got them all switched back.--Racerx11 (talk) 22:28, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

No problem, I think I got them all but I'll check the editor's logs later to make sure. I left a note on the editor's talk page so hopefully he'll propose future moves on talk pages rather than moving articles en masse. --Muchness (talk) 22:32, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks again. You did excellent work here. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 01:30, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

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Page moves. Somebody did it again and we need help!

Please visit Shishabangma if you have some time. The page went through a bunch of renames and we now have it all screwed up. Also the contributions of user:虞海 need a good once over as the user has made a bunch of page moves over the last 24 hours. There are language barrier issues too, just to give you a heads up. You came though brilliantly in the past with a series of renames so I am hoping you can help us out again. Thanks in advance.--Racerx11 (talk) 02:37, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Reckoning of Hell for deletion

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Reckoning of Hell

Hi. Do you remember writing the original version of Reckoning of Hell in 2005? I was investigating some of the text in Zariel and found that its History section came from the Reckoning of Hell article. Thanks. Flatscan (talk) 04:22, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that's correct. I wrote the initial version of the article. --Muchness (talk) 08:43, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your quick reply. I had found a copy on another site, so I tagged the talk page with {{Backwardscopy}}. Flatscan (talk) 04:20, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

rockism

hello, about the article rockism is easy to see that the article is not impartial. has a tendency popist. Referring to Rockismo Perceived biases? ... This is a critical popist. It is very impartial.

Everyone knows that most rock musicians are men, caucasians and heterosexuals. So it is obvious that most artist considered more authentic, are men, caucasians and heterosexuals. But Rockism supports musicians. afro- descendants as Jimi Hedrix or bisexual as Freddie Mercury.

And the criticism against Rockism are known as Popism, that already in the current sources of the article. (source number five)

Sorry for the grammatical errors, I used google translete.

I reverted edition, so if you can, please fix the possible grammatical errors. Wisehelp (talk) 20:14, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

It's not accurate to say that criticisms of rockism are known as popism; popism is a contrasting ideology, not an umbrella term for all rockist criticism. And your argument starting "Every one knows..." is an opinion that needs a citation from a reliable source. --Muchness (talk) 21:53, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Ok,I include a source with lists of rock musicians by subgenre. (on topic: Criticism)

Now it is possible to verify that most rock musicians are men, caucasians, heterosexuals and rock musicians afro-descendents or gays, are consistent with the fundamentals of Rockismo. Wisehelp (talk) 00:53, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia articles can't be used as references within other Wikipedia articles (see WP:CIRCULAR). A reference is needed for the statement "these popist criticisms make no sense, when it is considered": this is an opinion and needs to be referenced to a reliable source. --Muchness (talk) 08:58, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

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It looks like a fun WikiProject, but I don't really have the time or expertise to participate. Good luck with it :) --Muchness (talk) 22:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

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Human Factors Lab

I have gone ahead and posting my views on why Human Factors Lab should not be deleted and examples of how they do meet the notability guidelines on the human factors lab page. Could you please remove your attempt to delete that page? Thank you do much — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.10.254.215 (talk) 16:50, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm not convinced that you've addressed the nomination's notability concerns but let's let the discussion play out. --Muchness (talk) 23:21, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

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Odd, I have zero recollection of starting this article. I'll have a look around and see if I can find some references to establish notability. --Muchness (talk) 08:08, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

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