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Disambiguation page linking

Hi, thanks for your contribution to the Detroit Rock City (disambiguation) page. Note, however, that disambiguation pages are formatted a bit differently to normal articles: in particular, each line should only link its disambiguation target. For more information, see Wikipedia:Disambiguation. —Piet Delport 02:11, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Placeholder images

You were involved in the discussion of the "no free image" placeholders. Can you comment here? — Omegatron 08:12, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Pieces of April

Thanks for your message. I'm not sure why you thought "the cast listing looked a little odd," since hundreds of cast listings look exactly like it, but in any event, your change wasn't necessary. There was a discussion about this format awhile ago and the consensus was that "Mary Smith as Jane Jones" generally is used when a description of the character follows, i.e., "Mary Smith as Jane Jones, a drug-addicted prostitute living in a lower East Side tenement." Also, the use of boldface type is not at all common in a cast list. I reverted the change you made. Thanks again for writing. MovieMadness (talk) 13:36, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Fats Waller Vandalism

I realize you didn't add the bit about Fats being born in Passaic, NJ, but you added brackets to it. Please don't edit an article unless you are aware of the facts therein. Fats was born in Harlem and the bit about him being born in Passaic, NJ is vandalism from people who watched the Be Kind, Rewind picture. Thanks, and welcome to Wikipedia. 24.175.66.89 (talk) 13:53, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I moved your comment to me to my real talk page, I had written the above without logging in (oops). As far as your comments about editing pages without checking the history, I can see your point that when you're copyediting you can't sit there and slog through the history to make sure you're not copyediting vandalism. Copyediting is badly needed here and not many people like to do it, so forget I opened my big mouth.  ;-)

On welcoming you to Wiki, I certainly wasn't meaning to be unkind or presuming you were some newbie. I added the welcome because you had nothing on your talk page and I just thought it would be friendly to do so. Supertheman ^(talk) 16:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

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Rollback granted

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Thanks!

Thanks for reverting that vandalism to the Phillies article. I reported the IP to WP:AIV. I appreciate your contributions! KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 02:06, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for patrolling

Thanks for patrolling the Wikipedia waters with me tonight. I just wanted to offer any help if you need it in the future. Thank you! --mboverload@ 04:31, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Also, how did you do that 5 diff thing in AIV. Is that automated with a tool somewhere? --mboverload@ 04:32, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Something weird with your (huggle) revert?

I think something weird happened with your revert at Tony Snow: as best as I can understand, you reverted more than a hundred edits (113, to be precise), while your summary says you reverted five edits by two users (edits that were apparently legitimate, at that). Anyways, I reverted it, and I don't know much about how Huggle works, but I just thought you might want to check on that. ~Wikimancer X *\( ' ' ^) 07:08, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ed Jarvis

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Hello, Im opening this post about the reverse u made in my edit on Julia Alexandratou. Id like the warning removed because the information is verifiable and I re did it with sources. Thanks in advance Ignorance is bliss (talk) 01:06, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey man

I'm just trying to spam links to YouTube videos, what are you going and using super-advanced anti-vandalism tools for? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.34.234.248 (talk) 00:11, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

What's your problem?

I've already explained my edit in the edit summary; considering the mere seconds that elapsed between my posting the edit and your reverting it, it is obvious you didn't even read it, yet you classified it as vandalism based on the heuristics of some dumb bot. Tell you what, if you're there just to press the Revert button upon mere suggestion of a computer program, an upgrade to the program and a lobotomy on your brain would yield more efficient results. Clearly the lobotomy part is already taken care of (or you were simply born that way); now is just a matter of having the bot do the reversions all by itself. It's not all that difficult, other bots already do that.

Tell you what, i'm reverting to self, and unless you want trouble, you're not going to revert me, at least not with a vandalism claim. K? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.132.65.15 (talk) 00:13, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

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Re: Inadvertent block?

Whoops. Did I screw up? Hold on, let me go back and take a look here. Get back to you in a sec. - Vianello (Talk) 19:23, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Ah, now I see what you mean. No, the reason for this particular temporary block was WP:3RR violation - repeatedly, actually. It was a block for edit-warring, not vandalism. Said activity is chronicled quite clearly at [1]. While the post was on AIV, the reason for the block was separate. - Vianello (Talk) 19:26, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Yep, there ya go. 3RR is a bright-line rule. While it's true this specific rule was not brought to the user's attention, and probably should've been, this went well beyond just a simple "toe over the line" type violation in my opinion. - Vianello (Talk) 19:29, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Not a problem at all! I appreciate you keeping a lookout. Accidents and mistakes happen, you know how it is. Better to have 'em caught than not. - Vianello (Talk) 19:30, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

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