User talk:RG2

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alf 07:07, 28 August 2005 (UTC).

Texan Collaboration of the Month

Hey there! Have you considered moseying over to the Texas Collaboration of the Month? We're currently trying to select which article should be improved next. If you're interested, you'd be most welcome. · Katefan0^(scribble) 21:22, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

FAC for The West Wing (television)

I have put The West Wing article up as a candidate for featured article status. Your input and support in the FAC located here would be appreciated! Thanks! -Scm83x 08:55, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Dealt with some of your requests (others may have been dealt with by other members). I added correct copyright data and fair use justifications for all images in the article, but I can't find any foreign reviews of The West Wing... Staxringold 21:55, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Man EXCELLENT work with a spoken article addition. I'm on a school computer (which can't play oggs) but I'm sure it's great. I may end up moving the spoken article box further up so people see it before reading all the way through, but very nice! Staxringold 12:54, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

neat!

I didn't even know (though I probably could have guessed) that there was some sort of acknowledgement system on wikipedia. I'm happy to have gotten a star. Thanks!--Mike Selinker 17:07, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Category links

Hey Rebelguys, I saw your post at WP:CFD and wanted to let you know: to create a text link to a category (or image) insert a colon at the start of the link: [[:Category:People]] creates Category:People. When you just insert a link to a category without the colon, it think you are trying to add the article to the category and the link doesn't appear. Hope this helps. Christopher Parham (talk) 16:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I totally forgot about that. Thanks! -Rebelguys2 19:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

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why do you want to be banned until december 21st? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakewater (talk • contribs)

It's a tongue in cheek joke; don't worry too much about it. A Wikipedia addiction during the final exam period is not always a healthy combination. ;) -Rebelguys2 05:37, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Merit Badge Article

rebelguys2, AKA Robert Chan, I like the Eagle Scout template you made and added it to my own user page. My son is an Eagle too and is still a youth in Scouts. I also love your concrete suggestions on my MB article. They are specific, balanced (not too one sided), and workable. I also feel most of the others who have or will comment on the FAC can eventually agree to them once made--here, I'm separately the wheat from the chaff on the FAC page. My FAC has only been up 1 1/2 days and it has a slew of input. I find this quite interesting.

One question--Someone has been editing the comments on the FAC page for the "Prostitution in the People's Republic of China" article; probably because it's had tons of input. This has made me think: Since I want to concentrate on your suggestions, should I leave my article's FAC page as is, edit it, or what?Rlevse 13:32, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Your name is easy to find because you have your personal page, which has your name, is linked on your userpage. I clicked on the link simply out curiosity. I guess my FAC page is going to get pretty long. JohnDBuell is helping work on the page and I like his work. I am confident if he, you, and I work together, we can get it to FA. Rlevse 14:46, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

JohnDBuell and I agreed to take the FAC out. I archived the FAC too. We're going to work on it, change the name to "Merit badge design history (BSA)", and resubmit it after we finish your suggestions. I'll ask for your input from time to time if that's okay. Rlevse 16:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi: I think we've addressed all of your points but the bulleted lists. I'm sure some of what we did needs more tweaking though. When you get time from studying-;), could you look the article over in general, but specifically suggest what would be good to do with the lists. Many of the lists are complete sentences, but I am not sure what to do with them: remove bullet mark on the left, make each line a separate paragraph, etc. I'd appreciate suggestions. Thanks. Rlevse 15:33, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

The West Wing is now FA

Thanks to your comments and constructive criticism, The West Wing has now reached featured article status. Thank you again so much for your input! -Scm83x 05:15, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

West Wing work

Well done! You're quite the wiki addict! Cornell Rockey 06:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Merit Badge Article un-bullet test

HI: Please see the last note in 'merit badge article' thread here one your talk page if you haven't seen it already. I thought of something that might work with un-bulleting this article's bullets. As a test, I've only changed the "badge history" section. I took out the bullets, made a sub-sub section, called it "Examples of merit badge changes", and made it more prosy. I'd appreciate knowing what you think of it and the state of the article as is. If this change to the bullets looks, good, I'll go ahead and change the rest of them. Rlevse 13:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

UT Possible Articles

• The Drag, I can't seem to find article on it
• Sections of Campus

Boston2austin 03:02, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

British

Yes, you're right. I used to have those dates off pat, but my mind must have slipped a cog, I was thinking 1701 instead of 1801. Previous links should go to Kingdom of England, back to 927. When a biography, for example, bridges two periods I tned to use the later period, unless the person was obviously retired at that point. Rich Farmbrough. 00:06, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rasor Elementary School

Please never strike or otherwise edit another user's comments (except in extreme cases of vandalism or personal attacks). Simply place a small comment under their votes/comments for the admin. You may also add a comment to the AFD talk page, and the user/ip's talk page. All admins already know to discount anon votes anyhow, and of course know to discount blatant double voting. --Rob 13:10, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Is blatant double voting from an anonymous IP not a form of vandalism in itself? In Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines, under "Behavior that is unacceptable on Wikipedia," it simply states, "Don't misrepresent other people". What I did was not a grammatical change or the fixing of a typo, and I was hardly misrepresenting what the contributor was saying. I don't feel that I violated any Wikipedia guideline in doing what I did; rather, I was fixing a form of vandalism.

If you'll look at Wikipedia:Vandalism, you'll see that the page reads, "Vandalism is any addition, deletion, or change to content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia." I looked through "Types of vandalism," and all I could find relating to my actions read as follows, "Editing signed comments by another user to substantially change their meaning (e.g. turning someone's vote around)" I did not turn anyone's vote around.

Of course, we then bring up the issue of biting the newbies. Likely, it was not blatant and intentional vandalism. Wikipedia:Vandalism even explicity says that something of this nature, "is not vandalism!" However, if someone is to blank an article, in practical terms, are we to consider it vandalism and revert it? Of course!

I didn't change or modify any of the meat of his argument. I obviously did not agree with his vote, and you obviously don't agree with mine. Regardless, I welcomed the anonymous IP's comments, and responded with my own in turn. However, I think what I did has not been definitively prohibited or allowed by any Wikipedia guideline. As a result, I followed the Wikipedia mantra of "being bold" and fixed the section as best I could - without violating any of Wikipedia's guidelines.

Is there a guideline I missed regarding what I did? Thanks. -Rebelguys2 20:29, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I guesse we need to focus on what we agree: the anons double vote is unacceptable, and *all* their votes are to be discounted. Now, if you consider their double vote vandalism, then by all means report it to Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress and put an appropriate warning on their talk page. If they repeat it, they face blocking. Such steps deal with the problem. Striking out the text accomplishes nothing. No admin would ever count such a vote. AFDs have large numbers of disqualified votes (anons, newbies, sock-pupppets, restricted-by-arbitrators, etc...). We don't strike-out all their votes. Can you explain what striking out the anons vote accomplished? We don't strike-out vandalism anyhow (we remove it). Anyhow, I'll happily concede your actions were done in good faith, which is why I consider the matter over. Note: If I thought you had done something in bad faith I would have reverted you, but I did not. --Rob 21:05, 25 December 2005 (UTC) When I wrote the above, I didn't realize you resorted to name calling. We will no longer be talking about this subject. --Rob 21:11, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I will consider the matter resolved as well, and apologize for my comment. However, what we are now discussing to refers to CalJW's keep vote, while the matter we were discussing earlier refers to how to deal with disqualified votes and anonymous IPs. I have further arguments to support what I did, but will not mention them now. However, if you would like to follow WP:CIVIL and "Ignore incivility. Operate as if the offender does not exist. Set up a "wall" between the offender and the community.," I will understand. I hope, though, that this one-time slip of my tongue (or, is it fingers?) doesn't get in the way of any real debate. Happy holidays. -Rebelguys2 21:34, 25 December 2005 (UTC)