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Academy Awards

Hello. I see that you made some edits to the article on Academy Awards. Specifically, you inserted some "category labels" to the list of the Current Awards. I was just curious if those were actual, "official" titles that you got from somewhere ... or were they just categories that you created on your own to simplify the presentation of the list? Please let me know. Thanks. Please reply at My Talk Page ... so that I will be sure to see your reply. Thank you. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 22:53, 10 February 2008 (UTC))

A couple of weeks ago, User:209.163.146.95 rearranged the list of Oscar awards so that it provided "much more categorical understanding of the awards".[1] However, this user only added vertical spacing, and did not include any headers to indicate how exactly he was categorizing it. As a result, it appeared arbitrary to the average user who may not be familiar with the awards or film production in general. So therefore, I tried to assume what this user was thinking. So, yes, it is not an official categorization by the Academy. Feel free to change it. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:09, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I do remember when that original changed occurred a few weeks ago. Which, I thought, was for the better. That user did add some vertical spacing ... but he also broke the Awards List out in some categorical manner (implicitly, at least ... as you alluded to). I was only checking to see where you got your categories from, since I was unsure. To the average reader, it now looks like those many (25 to 30) Awards are indeed "officially" categorized into the 7 or 8 categories that you listed. In my opinion. I will give it some thought, as my time allows. One quick thought, though ... I myself would definitely "break out" the Writing Awards. Those are among the more prestigious of all the Oscars ... and are currently seemingly clumped into a generic "Film Production" category. Thanks for the reply. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 23:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC))

BAFTA & In The News

Thank you for being bold in adding the BAFTA award to the In the news template. However, in the future, please do not unilaterally add an entry without posting it on the Candidate forum first so a consensus can be reached first. Cheers. Madcoverboy (talk) 07:33, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• In regards to this we have WP:ITN/C for a reason. Feel free to look at it. Charles Stewart (talk) 08:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

  I apologise. On the other hand, like I have said elsewhere, ITN is a highly-visible template in which any admin can edit at anytime and add something via WP:IAR and WP:AGF without ever looking at WP:ITN/C, Template talk:In the news, or Talk:Main page. This does in fact happen from time to time. In most cases, it is only reverted when someone complains on WP:ITN/C, Template talk:In the news etc. like in this case.[2] [3] In hindsight, it should not have gone on ITN anyway because at the time, and it currently still is, just a one paragraph lead section and a huge list with little or no references and citations – not, as this user put it, a well-cited encyclopedia article recently in the news. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 03:09, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Bucs set sail.gif

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I do not care one way or the other if it is kept. It is not really essential. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:30, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Monty Python sketches

Good evening, and sorry for burdening you further. Following your tagging of Gumby Brain Surgery, I wish to air an argument that's been spinning around in my head. It's a fact that giving an adequate abstract description of the profoundly absurd and almost definitionally indescribable Monty Python humor is either outright impossible or well beyond our current skill level. Agreed? If so, then the critical part of conveying to the reader what actually happens in the series requires having a moderate cross-section of the sketches, notability be darned. Darned to heck.

What's your take on this? --Kizor 18:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Just like the guidelines on Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction), the real goal is to explain something else besides merely the plot summary, from third party sources. How is it significant? What impact did it have in popular culture, the industry, or others people's lives. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 03:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Redirects and Blacklist hyperlinks

Hello Zzyzx11, I am having a couple of issues that I'd like to see if you can clear up or answer for me. Here's the whole story. I have been working on article in my user area, "User:Rocketmaniac/Sandbox4". It is about the "2008 Kansas Jayhawks football team". When I went to move it into the main area, I found that I was unable to do so because it already existed. But the what exists is only a redirect to the "Kansas Jayhawks football" article. So I went to the Big 12 Conference talk page to leave a note asking someone to help me with the redirect issue. When I went to save the post, I got an error message saying that my message could not be saved because I had a link that was a Blacklisted hyperlink. I edited the message several times, removing links until I did not have any links and still got this error message. Can you explain what I have done wrong? My signature has a couple of links to my user page, talk page and contributions list. Is this the problem? Thanks for you time. (I've not added any links here as I as worried about the Blacklisted hyperlink issue. The actual links are listed here inside a pair of quotes) Rocketmaniac ^RT 18:19, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Since I have no idea what is triggering the m:Spam blacklist, as a workaround, I archived the talk page via Help:Archiving a talk page#Move procedure, so there is a new sheet on there.

As for moving stuff from a sandbox to a redirect with possibilities, the move function does not work. I myself never move my sandbox page into the main article space anyway. I usually just cut and paste the wiki code into a new article. I would never worry about all those intermediate edits such as the ones currently listed on the page history User:Rocketmaniac/Sandbox4 because I think they are just like making edits without ever using the "show preview" button. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 03:21, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. I went ahead (in a bold move) removed the redirect on my own and then cut and pasted my article into the existing blank page. I'm still a little confused by the spam blacklist stuff. Nothing I was referring to should be considered spam. But, all is well now. Thanks again, Rocketmaniac ^RT 11:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

It was not you. I even could not make an edit to that page. What usually happens is that when a new website is added to the spam blacklist, a talk page that already contains that link cannot be saved by anyone unless their edit also removes that link. That what appears what was happening here. The problem was that you or I could not find out what was triggering it. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Lions100.png

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Image was replaced on the Detroit Lions article with Image:Lions1000.png. Any other use does not qualify under WP:FUC, and therefore it should be deleted. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:48, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Pittsburgh Steelers helmet rightface.png)

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Image was previously removed from the designated article by vandalism. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:23, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Back to the CDPs

I'm trying to get consensus for a standard format for county navboxes, especially related to CDPs, but only four people have participated in the discussion. You participated in the earlier discussion; would you please join the second one so that we can have a broader consensus? Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 15:26, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

As I said previously, "I do not really care one way or the other how to organize the CDPs."[4] Therefore, I have nothing else to add to the discussion. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 06:16, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:BS-anleitung3

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:42, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Deprecated by the current version of Template:Railway line legend. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

12-team bracket

I'm hoping you might be able to help. Please read and leave a comment at Category talk:Tournament bracket templates. Thanks. Flibirigit (talk) 21:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Template headers

I was just curious: since some of the county templates have just one town, and some have more, is "Cities and towns" the best header? Would it make more sense to say "Municipalities"? Nyttend (talk) 04:17, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Or I could go back to using "Incorporated places".[5] Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:22, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

That seems like a better idea :-) Nyttend (talk) 15:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:NewEnglandPatriotsOld.png

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Image has been moved around so much since I last uploaded that I am not confident how to present it under the current WP:FUC. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 03:03, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Main Page image switch for Joseph Priestley

Hi Zzyzx11, there is now a color version of the Joseph Priestley portrait (pictured here) that would be suitable for the Main Page on March 1st. I checked with Awadewit and it is fine with her (see here), although it is too small for the article itself. I can make the change here as an admin, but thought it best to check with you first. I also note the b&w version is protected by you on Commons, so I thought it best to ask. I have also notified Raul654 diff, but have not yet heard from him. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 19:49, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I was bold and uploaded the picture on Wikipedia, protected it and made the change at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 1, 2008. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:33, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem. I believe I said something about this type of scenario on Commons:User talk:Zzyzx11/En main page, that although I can use ParserFunctions to help protect the images on the rotating Featured article templates, they can also change right before the go on the Wikipedia main page, at a time when I am not online. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:35, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Democrat Convention

Sorry I must of deleted the line accidentally when I was putting the info box on the page. It wasn't intentional. Jayorz12 (talk) 04:07, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

DYK

Althought I it just almost slipped past my mind to do so a while back, I would like to say a big thank you for the DYK. Willirennen (talk) 11:14, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Today's POTD, Image:Kamianets-Podilskyi map 1691.jpg

Hi, I just added a full text of the map's legend in French, as well as its English and Polish translations, on the image's talk page on Commons. I think it would be good to move it to the image's description page while it's still on the Main Page. Alas, I can't do it, since it's protected. Could you please do it (or ask a Commons admin to)? — Kpalion^(talk) 11:08, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Done. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 11:30, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

13 March Selected Anniversary

No offence but why exactly did you hide Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)? I only added that to the page earlier this year after I got it GA status. I've spent quite some time on the article so I'm curious what your reasoning is. Centy – reply• contribs – 11:15, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I tend to put a higher priority on pages regarding significant, historical, political, or world changing events instead of those in the subjects of Culture, Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Pop Culture because I have gotten complaints from time to time. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:05, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Of course, that is not the only factor. There have been complaints about too many 20th Century events listed too. So if I remove something from the 19th Century, my goal always is for the replacement to also be something from the 1800s too.[6] Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:13, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Image:Rabin at peace talks cropped.jpg

Do we still need Image:Rabin at peace talks cropped.jpg here on Wikipedia? You can delete if not, or let me know I and I will delete. Thanks. MECU≈talk 22:16, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

There is a backlog on Category:Temporary cropped main page images. If you don't mind clearing it, feel free. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:13, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Eliot Spitzer scandal

Don't you think Divine Brown (sex worker) and Christine Keeler are analogous situations? --Rajah (talk) 01:22, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

It is too early. The article about Ashley was only a two sentence stub, not enough content. Keeler and Brown has more. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the explanation. --Rajah (talk) 01:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Therefore, the Ashley article should be a {{R with possibilities}} for now until there is something beyond just repeating what the other articles say. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:32, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

emmy templates

hello there! i noticed your edits and new templates, and was wondering if you were aware that a template already exists for categories. i already moved the special emmy categories from {{EmmyAwardsbyYear}} to {{Primetime Emmy Award categories}} which also already has a section for daytime emmys. cheers. --emerson7 23:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

See the Emmy Awards article. Sorry, they are not considered part of the Primetime Emmys. There are seperate, on the same hierarchy as Primetime and Daytime. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

mea culpa --emerson7 15:57, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Ice Hockey March 2008 Newsletter

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Delete Account

Hello Could you please delete my account. Remove everything to do with it, its history etc. Or do the best you can.

Thankyou

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Happy easter!

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Happy easter you guys! Sorry if the picture looked crappy, but it's the best I could do on such short notice. Sincerely, BoL (Talk) 04:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC) Credits: This card was inspired by BoL, an administrator/bureaucrat and head designer of Codesnippets. Join the community today!

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Days of the year guideline

As a frequent contributor (or vandal patroller) to the days of the year articles (WP:DAYS), your comments on the current state of the proposed guideline for that project would be greatly appreciated. Discussion is taking place here. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 18:52, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Nonsense article

I know you deleted my page I was expecting someone to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Crazy Extreme Penguin Dude Guy Person (talk • contribs) 03:30, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Userbox categories

You wholly misunderstood. This was essentially to merge all the categories, save one (to be used as the parent); and then move all non-userbox pages out into 2 new categories or single parent cat, as appropriate.

Would you mind either modifying your closure, or at least reverting it to allow either further discussion (at "Categories for discussion"). - jc37 01:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I have relisted it on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 April 6. As User:VegaDark said, "it looks quite complicated for a single nomination". And User:Woohookitty wrote, "I'm wondering if a more broad discussion is warranted here." But merging several categories into one is still a major reorganization that requires more discussion (than just two supporters for the merge and two comments by others suggesting something else beyond what you recommend, and User:Cgingold and User:Kbdank71 did not state any opinion about the proposals directly), whether it be on CFD or the other pages I previously mentioned. Many of the categories you have mentioned were created in 2006 when userboxes first started appearing in mass, and so the categorization was not completely set in stone yet. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:04, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the relisting. - jc37 12:43, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:08 NFL Logo.png

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Image has a fair use rationales for National Football League and 2008 NFL season. As for any other uses of the image, I do not fully 100 percent agree that they comply with WP:NFC Rule # 8. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 19:22, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Image:2006 MLB All-Star Game.png, the image has a fair use rationale for 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. As for any other uses of the image, I do not fully 100 percent agree that they comply with WP:NFC Rule # 8. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Rick Astley CFD

I wonder if you might take another look at this. The only argument advanced in favor of keeping the category was the other similar categories in the parent. However, not every musician has a category and indeed hundreds of such categories have been deleted over the last year. Otto4711 (talk) 16:34, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

What else do you want me to look at beyond the fact that the discussion was split with three delete supporters (besides the nominator) and three keep supporters, which is no consensus – which defaults to a keep? Another discussion, policy or guidelines somewhere else perhaps? Nobody cited a link to any of those – which would have been helpful – otherwise it just seems that both sides is making the WP:OTHERSTUFF and WP:ALLORNOTHING arguments. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:43, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

How about looking at WP:OC#Eponymous categories for people which is the relevant guideline and the hundreds of similar categories which have been deleted as the precedent? Otto4711 (talk) 22:23, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Let me say that where I am coming from is the rule "When in doubt, do not delete", which has been a guideline long before WP:OC was ever created. Nobody in the discussion specifically linked to WP:OC#EPONYMOUS or linked to an example of the "hundreds of similar categories which have been deleted as the precedent", or specified how it does not pass the exception described in the second paragraph of WP:OC#EPONYMOUS. In determining rough consensus, is is not the closing admin's job to remember every single policy or guideline, or every single WP:CFD discussion, because, in part, it changes almost daily. It is also is not the closing admin's job to, on his own, judge the amount notability of the subject of the article or category, or rule that is will always not pass WP:OC#SMALL – or else there would be no purpose for a deletion discussion to determine consensus, right? Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:45, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Image talk:SablePlante.JPG

I saw your comment on this image from 2.5 years ago. Whatever happened? Also, I saw that you are busy, but I would like to invite you to a project I'm trying to pull off: June is Wikipedia Image Cleanup Month. Any and all help you can provide will be much appreciated. Thanks. MECU≈talk 14:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

iirc, the issue dealt with speedy deleting an image, originally uploaded in 2003, without properly notifying the uploader. I do not remember the details, so you may want to read the entire discussion on the mailing list archive. Unfortunately, the issue was discussed before MediaWiki could archive and restore deleted file images, so I cannot restore or even verify that the original file that was deleted is the same one as User:Anthony's current version of the image. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 14:45, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion?

Should this be deleted? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_SRS/Secret_Page --What does this button do? (talk) 04:31, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

I vaguely remember a discussion about user secret pages. I have not been keeping up with it, nor do I remember where it is, so I cannot comment on the page at this time. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:34, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Question Regarding Tournament Brackets

Hi. I was wondering if you could assist me with an unorthodox tournament bracket which I would like to look similar to this: Unusual Tournament. Are there any templates that can currently achieve such a bracket? I made an attempt to design one myself but it didn't work out very well. Any help would be much appreciated. Ajstyles tna roh (talk) 11:32, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

iirc, there is a template that exists like that, but unfortunately, it is not current in Category:Tournament bracket templates. It is been more than two years that I designed and edited some of those templates that I do remember how they were coded :-( Zzyzx11 (Talk) 14:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Change of plans?

I see you've started improving the anniversaries' pages, but there is no additional template. Is anything the matter? Could I help with that in some way? I am too busy to help with the anniversaries, but perhaps a second opinion with the template would be useful. Waltham, The Duke of 14:24, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

No, it is just that I have been a little busy than usual, so I haven't had time to go through all of the pages yet. Please be patient. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 14:44, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

That I can do. I am just a little curious, that's all. Regards, Waltham, The Duke of 21:13, 29 April 2008 (UTc)

...and my patience has been rewarded. Nice template. Waltham, The Duke of 12:54, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

As for relevance...

In NCAA Football bowl games, 2007-08 the reason that I added the comment was that there were many 6-6 teams left home, and the NCAA decided to add those two games for the 2008-09 post season as they were appropved on April 30th, 2008. It has been done before in the 2005-06 story. NoseNuggets (talk) 12:22 AM US EDT May 1 2008.

You should clarify it on the article itself[7] instead of explaining here just to me so others know. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

DYK update

...is late, any chance you could post it? Gatoclass (talk) 08:16, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Main page May 4

Hi ZZ- I don;'t understand your edit summary here, and I don't understand why this event was now removed from the listing for tomorrow. The facts are not in dispute - to say only that the National Guard shot at students is like saying that JOhn Wilkes Booth shot at Abraham Lincoln - the salient point is that 4 students were killed, not that the National Guard shot. I understand the active/passive voice issue, so the way I edited it would cover that. Could you explain what's going on please? Thanks very much. Tvoz/talk 14:47, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Rule #7 of the selected anniversaries guidelines states that the selected article (bolded item) "should be a good example of Wikipedia content." Generally, this means that any article with a cleanup tag, a dispute tag, or a requesting sources tag is removed off the list – including a {{Refimprove}} tag which Kent State shootings#Monday, May 4 current has.[8] Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:48, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

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Image was previously removed by vandalism. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 14:17, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

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Article needs to be updated with the new logo. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:56, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter, Issue 4

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TfD nomination of Template:FootnotesSmall

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TfD nomination of Template:Current sport-related

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2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs

Regarding the citation you fixed; obviously a better citation was needed, but at the time I made the edit, the only schedule that existed was on the main page of nhl.com. I knew a more official schedule was forthcoming but you beat me to it.Asher196 (talk) 04:18, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

You mean that VERSUS banner ad saying when Game 1 will be held? That seemed to appear about a few minutes after DAL-DET Game 6 ended. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:24, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Current event images

This is hardly an acceptable answer. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 05:31, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Err, so you want me to stop with the AWB? Sorry, I did not see your first revert. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:35, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, that's fine. Could you show me where this change was discussed? —Remember the dot ^(talk) 05:37, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I will admit I was being bold after I looked at around 4:00 UTC 24 May 2008 what was listed on WP:TMG#Timing-related messages and saw that a good majority of them already had Commons:Image:Ambox currentevent.svg. I assumed in good faith that someone already decided to make this as a new icon. If you insist that it needs a discussion, feel free to start one and revert the changes I made. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:44, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, here we go: Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Go back to the old current event icon. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 05:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to put the images back the way they were before :-) —Remember the dot ^(talk) 03:42, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Work work work

Thanks for all your good work cleaning up geographic locations and other gnome-like activities. You make Wikipedia a better resource. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 01:12, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, but I will admit that I am not a big fan of {{Geographic Location}}. Because California cities and communities have irregular shapes and sizes, it is hard to completely and correctly fit them in. Another thing I noticed is that it looks almost exactly like a template deleted as per this discussion. And after some investigating, it is hard to tell looking at Special:Undelete/Template:Geographic_Location_(8-way), [9] and Special:Undelete/Template:Geographic_Location and all the move and edit histories, which ones are the forks and which one is the original. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:04, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Woodling/Busbey coaches

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Featured Picture protection

Hey there. Just wondering why Image:Douglas MacArthur lands Leyte1.jpg wasn't protected, as it was on the main page and completely open to changes. Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 02:42, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

And Image:JamesLawrence.jpg, too. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 02:44, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind, I just realized they're both transcluded on cascading protected pages. My bad. See you around, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 02:46, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

If it is on the main page, it should be under cascading protection. Are you solely relying on the protect/unprotect tab? There is a bug that if it is just under cascading protection, the tab does not change. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:48, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I was going by the tab. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 02:55, 1 June 2008 (UTC)