User talk:Brad101/archive1

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June 2006-September 11, 2006

Contents 1 Welcome 2 Wikipedia:Translation into English/Bulgarian 3 The Electrifying Mojo 4 Barnstar 5 Use of {{stub}} is no longer recommended 6 Timbaktu 7 Why on earth? 8 TRUMPF 9 Barnstar 10 Your edit to Social interaction design 11 Speedy A7 does not equal WP:BIO 12 Thank you 13 February 5, 2003 14 Note about copyrights 15 Refund theft 16 WP Wikify 17 Thank you! 18 William Durden 19 Reasons for moving [[User:nickname]] to [[Full Name]] 20 re-adding wikify tag 21 Michael Vaughan/info 22 List of Yamhill County Post Offices 23 Roger Scott 24 Scotland the Late Middle Ages 25 Mirror Fusion Test Facility 26 Wikify "Lord of Biscay". Why? 27 "Musical Theatre Guild" Neutrality disputed

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[edit] Wikipedia:Translation into English/Bulgarian

Hi Brad,

Can you tell me why you deleted all the recently translated articles on the Bulgarian to English translation project? Thanks, --Vanka5 07:18, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I proofread all the articles and removed them since they were finished? --Brad101 13:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. I wasn't sure. I thought it would be better to leave them there for awhile to show people there's some progress. At some point there was a big momentum going on. If you think once proof-read we can remove them that's fine with me. --Vanka5 04:26, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Electrifying Mojo

Hey Brad, Love your work so far on the Mojo page... Do you live in the Detroit area and what would I have to do to talk you into hooking me up with copies of any of his shows that you've got around? 1 or 100, I don't care... I've moved so many times in the last 20+ years that all I have left are a handful from '97 when he was on 105.9 and 1, maybe two from WMXD. Let's make a deal, thanks. dj detroit butcher 18:37, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Oops ^that was me above^ ... edited my preferences today and was distracted by other things going on - didn't mean to change my nick at all. Damn people and their cats!smokeverbs 18:41, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm still in the area but I do not have any shows recorded. I guess I never thought of it. Would be nice to have some of the early ones, prior to WJLB. In 2002 I discovered quite by accident WDTR 90.9 and their playlist was an excellent reminder of all the tunes that Mojo made so popular. Having to commute 2 hours a day at that time I was able to listen quite a bit. I was a faithful listener until they changed the format in late 2004. --Brad101 15:03, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For tireously wikifying the Wood Brothers article, I award you the Working Man barnstar. Thanks for your hard work! --D-Day I'm all ears 21:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks :) Ummm, check out Military history of Denmark and Waxy corn for yet more fun I've had recently. I'm wondering when I'm going to burn out. --Brad101 02:07, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Use of {{stub}} is no longer recommended

Hello,

Thank you for your stub submission. You may wish to note that it is preferable to use a stub template from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types instead of using simply {{stub}}, if you can.

Thanks! -- Where 02:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Timbaktu

Thank you so much for the reminder about this article. I don't know how I managed to miss it. I always preview articles before saving. Ydam 08:16, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why on earth?

Why on earth did you propose merging The Liberties and Georgian Dublin? The articles are about two different locations, miles apart, developed centuries apart, that have nothing to do with each other. One is a mediaeval section of Dublin, the other 5 squares developed in the Georgian period hundreds of years later, miles away. I've removed the ridiculous merge tags. Please be more careful to propose merging things that are the same, not things that aren't. It was about as inaccurate as proposing to merge Canada and the US, or articles on mediaeval history and georgian history, or Spain and Portugal. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 22:31, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

In other circumstances I would be happy to explain but since you could have removed the tag and wikified the article without causing all this drama, I'll just say thanks for fixing the article instead. :) --Brad101 22:51, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TRUMPF

Hello,

I can't find any evidence of TRUMPF being a copyvio (neither google or the site you linked to seem to have anything currently). If you could link to where the content is from, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- Where 17:07, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

It's a bit difficult to link towards because of the way the page is set up. From the main page if you look into the corporate history you'll see the same text from the website copied into the article. You might try: http://www.trumpf.com/3.history_1923.html and there are copyright notices on every page you see from there. --Brad101 20:52, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For tireless efforts on the wikification drive (even on the horrible articles!). Ladybirdintheuk 11:37, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. This gives me hope that one day it might all be caught up.. lol --Brad101 10:28, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

That's ok - we can only dream ;) -Ladybirdintheuk 12:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Social interaction design

Your recent edit to Social interaction design (diff) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // AntiVandalBot 23:55, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

The edit was part of a merge operation. I'm placing a redirect on it now without blanking the article. --Brad101 23:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy A7 does not equal WP:BIO

"No claim of notability" (as in the speedy deletion A7 criterion) means absolutely NONE, not that the notability claimed doesn't meet our guidelines like WP:BIO. Maria C. Tan for instance pretty clearly claims notability as a researcher. Probably not enough for keeping in the end, but not a speedy. This is a common misconception people have these days. I'm going to mark the article with a WP:PROD tag, and hopefully it will go quietly. Mangojuice^talk 19:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

I've never had a barnstar before *feels important*. We'll get there eventualy I hope! -Ladybirdintheuk 11:04, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] February 5, 2003

The article has a {{wikify}} tag, but it looks fine to me as far as wiki format is concerned... GregorB 11:29, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I removed the tag. Not sure why I even put it on there to begin with but thanks for pointing it out. --Brad101 16:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Note about copyrights

I saw a note you left on the Jackson Sanitorium talk page and just wanted to clarify something. Websites, pamphlets, books and other media do not require any type of copyright notice - they are automatically covered under copyright laws. So yes, the act of "copying" even when there's no notice is the same as a copyright violation. Wikipedia can only use material where copyright is specifically waved or the material is released under a free license like the GFDL. Shell ^babelfish 18:12, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok, that is simple enough but it still leaves a question about .gov or .mil sites as I see many references say those are in the public domain. There is a lot of confusion as to what is or isn't a copyvio. --Brad101 23:19, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Refund theft

hi, i have removed the unref template on the Refund theft article. please add a note in the discussion explaining what the article needs a referece if so. THanks--Cacuija (my talk) 08:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP Wikify

Hi there! Thought you might be interested in WikiProject Wikify. We're currently recruiting help to clear a massive backlog (8000+ articles), and we need your help! If you have a spare moment, please join and wikify an article or tell your friends.
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Hi there Brad101' I saw your part of the wikification drive (on your user page) and have wikified a few articles. I thought you might be interested in WikiProject Wikify which is a formal WikiProject based on the wikification drive. The idea is to promote the project more than we have previously, set out guidelines to follow when wikifying and provide help and support for contributors. At the moment we are still developing the project page and policies and would value your input and ideas. If you want to join just go to the project page and sign up, then let us know any ideas you have!

Hope to see you there, --Errant Tmorton166^(Talk)(Review me) 11:03, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Another Barnstar from you - people will be starting rumours about us soon ;) Thanks very much, what a nice surprise to find when I got to work this morning! -Ladybirdintheuk 07:38, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I believe in credit where credit is due. Although others jumped in and helped launch the project, you were the one who brought the idea around. I think barnstars are a bit of a morale booster since we do this work gratis. --Brad101 10:46, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] William Durden

Hello! I see that you've edited William Durden in the past few weeks. I was wondering if you might put it on your watchlist for a few days. I'm having a bit of a dispute with User talk:Frankie1969 (talk) regarding the inclusion/exclusion of copied material in the article. Thanks! -Medtopic 04:07, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I put it on my watchlist but if he does it again I/you should put the copyvio notice on the article and follow the procedure so the copyright people know something is going on. --Brad101 06:20, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again! -Medtopic 16:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reasons for moving [[User:nickname]] to [[Full Name]]

Hello, I just noticed that you unmoved my user page. I had originally moved it from User:sibaz to Simon Bazley because I intended to create some articles about Wycombe, following on from my election to Wycombe District Council. I saw today an article about the by-election which noted that election Wycombe_local_elections, but I don't want to link to my user page. My persona as an editor of wikipedia has nothing to do with that as a politician, and I wanted to have kept them separate. Should I create a new 'User:Simon Bazley' which I use when editing things of a political nature and leave the geeky stuff to User:sibaz.

Here, by the way is a page for one of my colleagues on Wycombe District Council, Darren_Hayday. I'm also not enamoured by you claiming that its vanity in the comments, hence I'd rather like you to move it back if you wouldn't mine. Cheers --Simon Bazley 22:19, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello. You'll have to forgive me but I've edited hundreds of articles as part of the wikification drive so I don't recall exactly the reasons I moved the page. WP:BIO and WP:VANITY are two guidelines that are used to determine an article's worthyness for wikipedia. Writing an article about yourself is usually frowned upon in the community even if it meets the above guidelines. There are a lot of articles either purposely or mistakenly entered when they really should be user pages. Userfy is another edit action that happens often here. You're certainly welcome to recreate the article Simon Bazley by a copy/paste of the text, though it's possible another editor in the future may do the same as I did. Hope that helps. --Brad101 03:29, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re-adding wikify tag

Hi Brad

I spotted someone who had removed lots of wikify tags without having made any significant changes to the article I went through and added the tag back onto any which I thought could do with more work. (They had done good work on some other articles too, new user, and so they seemed to get better at is as they went along!) I went through very quickly, as it was quite a long list, so it's entirely possible I've added it back somewhere where the article is fine, so feel to take it back off again if I've made a bo-bo! -Ladybirdintheuk 10:38, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Cheers Brad. I'm working through lots of lists/tables today. I'm at work, and theyr'e quite easy to plod through in between other things. And yep, it seems I am in trouble with the royal family. I hope they don't come and get me ;) -Ladybirdintheuk

Hi Brad, you removed a load of wikify tags from articles that hadn't been wikified. There was a school on and a book one - check you contributions I cant remember their names - that I had to complete and the was a few more as well. Take Master status, you didn't do any wiki-linking or anything on it!! Im going to doit now but if you remove the tags without doing the work no-one benefits :D --Errant Tmorton166^(Talk)(Review me) 12:41, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I didn't see anything in Master status or the other articles that would have improved them by adding interwiki links. Some of them were rather sparse in content and context where linking to other articles to explain things like America or dog (for example} would have made any difference. --Brad101 13:54, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

That doesnt matter! Wiki linking to Dog is pretty pointless but in Master Status there are a few things - such as the list of features etc. (spirituality). The whole point of linking is to co-joinas many articles as possible to make things complete and to make the articles look better / become more useful :D Oh and as to the secondary school you detagged with a few minor tweaks? There were no end of links to do and secton headers to put in (don forget that is a job for wikifiers too!), take a look at what i did to it. --Errant Tmorton166^(Talk)(Review me) 14:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I guess we have different standards as to what an article needs or doesn't need. With over 7000 articles to wikify and few people to work on them I'm not really sure why we're having this conversation to begin with. Anyway, no offense and not whining but this has rather turned my stomach as someone who has hundreds of wikified articles behind him. Oh, and you're welcome for the barnstar. --Brad101 10:37, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey sorry I wasn't taking a dig at you! I was just comenting on the odd one or 2. Personally I do more work on an article but that doesn't make me right.. by the way did I not thank you for the Barnstar - I did mean too but I must have forgotten - so count yourself formally thanked; Thaks for the barnstar! --Errant Tmorton166^(Talk)(Review me) 13:22, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Vaughan/info

Hi. You nominated this page for speedy deletion under the criterion that it was empty. While this was superficially true, you blanked the (admittedly invisible) content that did exist. Please be more careful in future when nominating pages for deletion. Sam Korn ^(smoddy) 16:47, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok, so what is the point here? Apparently you decided not to delete the page even though it has a non functioning table in the contents. People who want to experiment with boxes should do so in a sandbox. It looks blank to a person going through the new pages. Why you decided it should remain is beyond me. --Brad101 10:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Yamhill County Post Offices

I am currently working on this article. Will categorize it now, will complete it tonight. -Zinc2005 04:57, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

No worries. I just tag articles for what they need and when someone gets around to it all is ok. Actually, that article is nice and informative compared to the others I find. --Brad101 10:30, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roger Scott

Hi. You put a Wikify tag on the article about Roger Scott. I'm working on the article, but was puzzled what eactly needed to be wikified. Could you provide some insights about what you think needs to be changed. Just a thought, but some comments on the discussion page of articles you place this tag on might help.

Thanks RXUYDC 17:08, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I went and finished it up so you could look in the history and see what changes I made. Your article was quite minor in need; just added a few more wikilinks to round out the article. If you're aware of an article under another name for Boom Boom Braningan it would be good to see that linked in. Nice article in general and reminds me of The Electrifying Mojo. --Brad101 02:13, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scotland the Late Middle Ages

Can you not see that I have just started this article? It will be fully referenced when I am finished. Rcpaterson 20:55, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

See my response to Zinc2005 above. Remember, If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it. --Brad101 01:55, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mirror Fusion Test Facility

You tagged Mirror Fusion Test Facility, but did not offer any comment in the talk page. What do you think needs to be done to the article to improve its style? It appears to be very similar to all "small pages" on the wiki. Can you be specific?

Maury 21:41, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I see that the vast majority of the comments on this page are "complaints" about drive-by tagging. Please, if you add a tag that is not extremely specific, like a wikify tag, put comments in the discussion page! That's what it's for. Maury 21:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

My response is going to be about the same for the last two persons who wondered why I was tagging 'their' articles. Tagging articles for various problems is not vandalism or meant to be insulting the person who wrote the article. WP:WIKIFY can be found by following the link within the tag for all you need to know about wikifying an article. A wikify tag is a rather specific task on wikipedia and there are currently over 7000 articles tagged as such. Hope this helps. --Brad101 01:33, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Brad, I did follow the link in the tag, and it did not answer the questions. The article appears to be perfectly valid according to the style guide. Unless you have some specific objections or examples of things you'd like to see changed, I think I should just remove the tag. I'm not asking for anything other than a one-liner on the discussion page. Is that really too much to ask? Maury 15:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll reply here to the comments referenced above for Roger Scott, because it seems pertinent to this discussion. Brad, you mention that there are over 7,000 articles tagged with WP:WIKIFY, and I think that is the point. There are so many, it is almost pontless, and adding articles that are clearly new, being written, and require relaively minor changes does nothing but increase the number. Its not that the article is "my" article (it certainly is not), or even that I am offended by the tag (I am not), it just is puzzling when it is added to an article and the only improvement required is a couple of links. If the tag was applied more selectively, to articles that clearly need style or other changes, the number of articles might be reduced to a more manageable size and the tag might actually mean something. Certainly waiting for a while after the article is first created might save everyone some time. For those articles requiring relatively minor changes, like Roger Scott, it might be more helpful to simply make the actual changes in the article as you did in response to my question, for which I thank you. --RXUYDC 17:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I have put in a request at Template talk:Wikify-date to make things more clear to those articles with wikify tags. If there aren't any objections within a week, I will make the changes myself. --Brad101 12:43, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikify "Lord of Biscay". Why?

Dear tag inserter. Why did you put a Wikify tag in the article Lord of Biscay? I think it's perfectly Wikified. Where's the problem?

I think you should add a comment to make the creator or other users willing/able to make the proper changes how can be the article imporved to be correctly "wikified".

As I see that these kind of complaints are common and the tag is actually irrelevant, I'm deleting it.

Enjoy, --Sugaar 10:14, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Musical Theatre Guild" Neutrality disputed

Hi Brad...I see you inserted a dispute on this page I submitted. I'm new at all this so forgive my ignorance (in fact I hope I'm doing this right!). When I looked up what a neutrality dispute was, it said that when someone disputes a page, they need to insert why they are disputing it on the talk page. However, you inserted nothing that I can find. Unless I'm missing something, it seems like it does little good to dispute something without leaving some sort of comments as to why you're doing so. If I've missed the comments, perhaps you could point them out to me. The article was actually written by a group of people and read by even more before submission, all of whom have something to do with The Musical Theatre Guild. There was never any talk about it being impartial or lacking neutrality. So if you could help us out here with why you tagged the article, it would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, please remove the dispute.

--MTGUILD 5:26, 13 September 2006 (UTC)