User talk:Wayward

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Contents 1 Thanks for Your Work 2 Thanks 3 Antarctic krill 4 GMAW 5 Thanks 6 Massive Thanks for Notes 7 Tasmanian Devil 8 Thanks a lot for your edits! 9 Great copy-edits 10 Nice copy edits for DualDisc 11 Barnstar 12 Thanks 13 Primary candidates VFD 14 Thanks 15 British spelling 16 Schmidt and Hackett 17 DualDisc FAC 18 Thanks for MARS 19 Phishing 20 Cerebellum 21 Makuria 22 em dash 23 Bhutan 24 VMI peer review 25 Have a star 26 Mandan copyedit 27 request 28 ta 29 Administrator 30 Congratulations 31 Your RfA 32 You're welcome :) 33 Popups tool 34 CBW RfA 35 Mandan vandalism 36 Del Mar Fairgrounds 37 Yoweri Museveni 38 Thanks from Pamri 39 Thanks for supporting my RfA 40 FireFox RFA

Thanks for Your Work

Carry on my.... Kansas WikiDon 08:20, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the copyediting on Attack on Pearl Harbor. In the past several days I have made a large number of edits to the article, and I've been hoping that someone with a sharp pencil would follow to correct my lapses. We all benefit from careful editing. Cheers, -Willmcw 06:54, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

Ditto for Siege of Eshowe. Thanks - Wizzy…☎ 14:20, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

...And also for Burkhard Heim. You've consistently made exceptional copyedits since February 11, 2005 - A big WikiThanks to you! :) --HappyCamper 12:36, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ditto for Court of Honor (Scouting) and Board of Review (Scouting) - Thanks! Johntex 13:30, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Same for Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, thanks for catching those little spelling mistakes that slip by the rest of us. GregAsche 03:34, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Antarctic krill

Hallo Wayward! thank you for helping on krill - may I ask you to help contributing on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Antarctic_krill and maybe voting if you like it - we try to get input from all over the planet, want to use the article as academic teaching content for the hatching Wikiversity - best greetings (what country are you in?) Uwe Kils 19:29, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

GMAW

Thanks for the copyedit of gas metal arc welding – it's amazing how much I miss. Your help is definitely appreciated! --Spangineer (háblame) 12:41, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Just thought I'd thank you for doing a copyedit on Denis Law. It's much appreciated. CTOAGN 01:16, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Massive Thanks for Notes

I wanted to express my sincere thanks for doing the inline reference notes for African American literature. I'm a somewhat new user and I only learned about this system about a week ago. Naturally enough, this discovery occured AFTER I'd spent several weeks working on the article and I just didn't have the energy to convert the notes to the new system. Thanks for doing it. --Alabamaboy 7 July 2005 00:53 (UTC)

Tasmanian Devil

Thanks for the copyedit :) --nixie 23:13, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your edits!

Thanks a lot for your edits on the World War II page! I have done a lot of reorganizing there lately, as you might have seen, and I really appreciate corrections, since one gets blind after a while :).

By the way, I am actually quite a newcomer to Wikipedia, and I try to learn by watching other people's edits.

Would you mind telling me why a "ndash" is better than a regular "-"? I've seen this edit done before, and wonder if it is something I should think about when writing? I would really appreciate a message from you on my talk page!

Regards, and thanks again! Dennis Nilsson. Dna-Dennis 22:51, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for you answer. Now I understand the en dash.
• Now, since you placed an "mdash" on my talkpage, I naturally have to ask you: when is this is used? :) Dna-Dennis 16:08, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Great copy-edits

Thanks for the corrections on Pascal. You seem to be developing quite the reputation for this. David Bergan 21:16, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Nice copy edits for DualDisc

Thank you very much for your copyediting on the DualDisc article. Looks good. Cheers! --K1vsr (talk) 01:00, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks

The whole ref/note system is a huge PITA for me and hard to maintain. So at first I was a bit freaked when I saw that you converted Geology of the Death Valley area over to it. But since you left the inotes, any future sequencing mixups will be easy to notice and fix. A big thanks for doing this and for keeping the inotes. :) --mav 07:31, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Primary candidates VFD

Many of the candidates for the June 14, 2005, congressional primary have been proposed for deletion. I am writing those who worked on election articles to request that they offer their votes against the proposal. The VFD's can be found starting at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Log/2005_August_8#Peter_Fossett. It is my view that we ought to provide a complete record of the election and my deleting so called "minor" candidates we do a disservice to them and the historical record. Please vote against all these proposals.PedanticallySpeaking 14:54, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey, thanks for copyediting Sylvia, boy did it need it! -- Rmrfstar 12:08, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

British spelling

Thank you for helping to copyedit harpsichord. I must point, though, that I don't feel it to be quite prudent to change spelling like "standardized" to "standardised" or "favor" to "favour". I don't consider either spelling to be more "correct", though I almost always use the former since speak American English and since it is (as far as I know) far more common. I don't consider it a good idea to change from one form to the other as long as it's clearly consistent in one article, but should be up to the majority of the main contributors of an article to decide.

Peter ^Isotalo 11:10, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Schmidt and Hackett

You worked on articles on the special election in Ohio on August 2. I have posted my articles on the nominees in that race, Jean Schmidt and Paul Hackett, at Wikipedia:Peer review and would appreciate your comments. The individual pages are at Wikipedia:Peer review/Jean Schmidt and Wikipedia:Peer review/Paul Hackett. PedanticallySpeaking 19:31, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

DualDisc FAC

Hey Wayward. Thanks for all your help on copyedits for the article. The nomination for Featured Article failed the first time around, but I have re-submitted it as an Featured Article Candidate. I was wondering if you'd consider supporting it this time around? Cheers! --K1vsr (talk) 19:42, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for MARS

Thanks for spellchecking the Military Affiliate Radio System page. 12.205.166.141 01:16, 23 August 2005 (UTC)KB3JUV

Phishing

Thanks for the copy edits on the Phishing article. --ZeWrestler ^Talk 22:42, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Cerebellum

Good eye, man! I've reread that page so many times and thought I'd caught all the errors by now. Thanks for the minor repairs, as I don't think I ever would have found them. Semiconscious (talk · home) 23:14, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Makuria

Just curious why most of your copy edits on the Makuria article were to change from American to British spellings. Both are acceptable on Wikipedia, and I'm not sure why the British ones should be preferable in this case. BrianSmithson 00:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

The article had a mix of AmE and BrE spellings. I made a judgment call and chose BrE. If you'd like I can change the spelling to AmE. —Wayward 00:51, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, I didn't mean that you had to change it to AmE; it was a good copy edit. I can see British being preferred here due to Egypt's British colonization, but Syria was French, so . . . . At any rate, it seems the original author changed back to the hodgepodge that is Canadian English. BrianSmithson 01:22, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

em dash

hi. thanks for taking a sweep through the Bonnie and Clyde article. nice to see some more editors there (for some reason there's very little traffic). i'm curious about the changes you made for the emdashes. i'd gotten the impression, though without factual corroboration, that the — code was perhaps more universally readable in browsers than —. obviously, — is better when editing though. do you have any info on the browser part, or was your main reason for changing because of ease in editing (or something else)? i think it was this article that started me using the 8212 code, but i don't want to continue it at wikipedia if it's less compatible. any solid info you have is appreciate. thanks. SaltyPig 10:41, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

no more 8212s here then. thanks for the link. SaltyPig 12:15, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Bhutan

Thanks for the Bhutan copyedit. =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:02, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

VMI peer review

You've worked on the VMI article. I have posted the article, Virginia Military Institute, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Virginia Military Institute and would appreciate your comments. Rillian 00:51, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Have a star

I came here to thank you for your copyedits to my peer review nom Bladderwort but I've been astounded by the number of articles you've done a similarly good job on. The thanks on this page are just the tip of the iceberg, and you definitely deserve this Working Man's Barnstar to go next to your Diligence award!!

~ Veledan • Talk ^{+ new} 19:16, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Mandan copyedit

Thanks for your cpoyediting on my article on the Mandan! Feel free to stop by in the near future and make any other corrections you see that need to be made. Again, thank you for you diligent work! 68.219.138.8 18:01, 6 October 2005 (UTC) Sorry I wasn't signed in when I wrote that...Ganymead 21:54, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

request

Thanks for your outstanding copyediting on articles Wayward :). (and you probably know where this goes, LOL) - could you copyedit Microsoft when you get a chance? It shouldn't be too bad, hopefully :).

Anyway, unrelated to the above, but GO TO THE SECRET PLACE HERE and I'll elect you for admin if you want, as it looks like you've got the qualifications :). Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 11:55, 10 October 2005 (UTC) Glad to see you accepted! You might want to sign your acceptance line though :) Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 02:44, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on the Microsoft article! Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 22:03, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

ta

Thanks for your copyediting of Ostracism. You were nudging the entry in the direction of the impersonal, which seems fair enough for an encyclopedia, though I did regret a little the drop in liveliness that produces. In general I am squeamish about the pronoun "one", so when you changed my "we cannot" to "one cannot" I went in and redid it as "it is impossible". The one edit which I really didn't like was changing "So who?" to "So whom?" as that makes for an unpleasant clash of styles and I thought colloquialism was justified at that point as the reader was being asked to commit a small act of imagination. But the copyedit was much appreciated Flounderer 07:29, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Administrator

It's my pleasure to notify you that, consensus being reached, you're now a administrator. You may wish to read the reading list and how-to guide at your convenience. Most sysop actions are reversible, the exceptions being history merges and deleting pages (but it's a good idea to be careful with all of them). Again, congrats on becoming an admin. Pakaran 17:22, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and thanks for fixing my wiki markup. I can't believe I didn't notice that - it's midly embarassing. Pakaran 06:45, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congratulations from the second blizzard of the year. CambridgeBayWeather 05:11, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Your RfA

Congratulations, and you're quite welcome. I should hope so as well. --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 05:15, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Ditto from me. Don't let that revert button distract you from your copyediting, now... we need all the good write-English making of we can get around here ;-) —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 15:37, 18 October 2005 (UTC) (P.S. It's obvious all those "thank yous" were just a shallow attempt to pad out the number of User Talk: edits you have. Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Congrats, and thanks for your support. freestylefrappe 00:32, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome :)

Glad to see you got adminship :). I think you'll be fine - try not to get too involved in the buerocratic stuff though - really draining and causes burnout easily :). Was a pleasure to nominate you! Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 11:17, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Popups tool

Congratulations on being made an admin! I thought you might like to know of a javascript tool that may help in your editing by giving easy access to many admin features. It's described at Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups. The quick version of the installation procedure for admins is to paste the following into User:Wayward/monobook.js:

// [[User:Lupin/popups.js]] - please include this line 

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' 
             + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/popups.js' 
             + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');

popupShortcutKeys=true; // optional: enable keyboard shortcuts
popupAdminLinks=true;   // optional: enable admin links

There are more options which you can fiddle with listed at Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups. Give it a try and let me know if you find any glitches or have suggestions for improvements! Lupin|talk|popups 23:20, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

CBW RfA

Thanks for taking the time to vote. If you have any concerns over my actions please let me know. CambridgeBayWeather 00:11, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Mandan vandalism

Thankyou for catching the vandal and reverting his changes. Minor though it might be, I'm not sure if I would have caught if before sending it to FAC. That might have been embarassing! Thanks again! *Exeunt* Ganymead ^Dialogue? 14:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Del Mar Fairgrounds

Hey Weyward, why did you delete the Del Mar Fairgrounds article ? There are several pages that point to this now non-existent article, including Del Mar, California I commenced it by supplying a nice photograph of the fair grounds. Can you be more constructive and less destructive ? Signal it as a stub, contribute a paragraph or something. I think a good picture is a fine way to start an article. Anything the matter with that ? Intersofia 05:04, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

07:43, 31 October 2005 Wayward deleted "Del Mar Fairgrounds"

The stated reason for the delete was "CSD A1 - very short articles without context". A picture is worth a thousand words (although it took words to say that, granted ;-)

and Del Mar Fairgrounds is crying out to exist - pointed to a priori by other articles. I advanced the cause of wikipedia by contributing a picture. So if you think the article is too short, offer some constructive help! Destruction is cheap, easy and leads nowhere. Thank you. Intersofia 05:13, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Someone else or myself would soon supply the text. Intersofia 05:15, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

(Wayward says) Hi, Intersofia. The article Del Mar Fairgrounds qualified for speedy deletion. Please feel free to recreate the article when you can provide some context (see stub). —Wayward ^Talk 07:37, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Are you confusing context with content ? There is plenty of context for an article on the Del Mar Fairgrounds - since there were other articles that pointed to it prior to its creation (Links that take you to an "edit this article" page) I think this is the very definition of referential context. This is not the unrelated story of some José Nobody who had an Hacienda who know where and a Factory in Lower Obscuria. (see [[1]] ) I provided complete illustrative content: a photograph. Your deletion of this article makes me and others who could soon write the text loose time. I am recreating it and signaling it as a stub, and providing what little text content I can, in the hope that others can soon shed some more literary light on the matter. It is my opinion that visual descriptions alone of a an article needing creation and existence are a positive step forward and should be respected. Intersofia 16:21, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Done. Article re-created with literary AND photographic content. Context provided a-priori by the encyclopedic environment that pointed to this (formerly) non-existing article. Best Regards, Intersofia 17:14, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Please feel free to contribute to the article Del Mar Fairgrounds, as it is only a short stub, needing the constructive work of wikipedians. Intersofia 17:16, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Yoweri Museveni

Thanks for your copyedits on Yoweri Museveni - a number of dedicated people have put a lot of work to raise it to Featured Article status, and that tidying up definitely helps. Wizzy…☎ 08:28, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks from Pamri

Hi, Thanks a ton for voting at my RFA. I am now a wikipedia administrator. I hope I can keep your trust. Thanks again. --Pamri ^{• Talk • Reply} 16:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for supporting my RfA

I know I've been slow in saying this, but thanks for supporting my request for adminship. It was an honor to be both nominated and approved as an admin. If there is ever any adminish (is that a word :-) things you need help with, please let me know. --Alabamaboy 16:08, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

FireFox RFA

FireFox 18:16, 8 November 2005 (UTC)