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December 2007

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to STS-122. Thank you. Please see User:MBK004#WikiPet peeve for more info. -MBK₀₀₄ 21:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Launching

Thanks for the updates to this template, but please be careful of engaging in hour to minute updates of the "launching" template. Wikipedia is not a countdown clock, that's why we should link to one (which we don't, because NASA managed to break their webpage last week. i'll see if the clock can now be added again). Something like 1 day, 12 hours, 3 hours, hour will more than suffice. Also please do not things like T-(). I think too few people that read this will know what that is. And if they do want to know, then can visit the real countdown clock. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

CSD#G4 on Crystal Ennis

Hi Leofric1,

I removed your speedy deletion tag of Crystal Ennis, as the criteria you tagged it under (G4 - recreated material) only applies to articles that have been deleted through an XfD discussion. I have, however, gone ahead and tagged the article for proposed deletion, as there seems to be some assertion of notability in the inclusion of the profiling article.

Thanks! --jonny-mt 08:14, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

-- Well, it was a repost of a deleted article. What would be a better tag to use? Leofric1 (talk) 08:27, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

The speedy deletion policy notes that recreated articles can often just be tagged for the same reason they were deleted for in the first place. I know it sounds a bit illogical, but it makes sense when you consider that XfDs are long processes designed to foster consensus while CSDs are short affairs that generally concern three editors (the article creator, the tagger, and the deleting admin) at most. If the article is repeatedly created and deleted--especially for the same reason--administrators have the option of salting the link to prevent unsupervised page creation. --jonny-mt 09:02, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

CSD on Welsh valley middle school

The tag that you placed on Welsh valley middle school was for lack of content. However, the reason it was empty was because an anonymous user blanked the page. Please check the edit history when choosing the type of tag. (The article was speedily deleted, though, but for lack of notability.) --UberScienceNerd _{Talk Contributions} 03:40, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

geo-stubs

Hi - good to see you doing some stub sorting, but could I please ask that - when you do geo-stubs - where possibly you use the coun try specific stub? Saves me having to resort them later fro Category:Geography stubs. Almost every country in the world now has its own geo-stub in the form {{CountryName-geo-stub}}. If in doubt, try it with preview, and if it doesn't work then use geo-stub. Most should though. Thanks - and keep up the good work! Grutness...wha? 23:53, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

St Kilda Cricket Club stub

Thanks for improving my stub. :-) Wakedream (talk) 18:22, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Henry Fancourt White

Hi, I noticed you put a British people stub on this article - did I miss something? Rotational (talk) 18:14, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

-- Well, I patrol the {{stub}} category frequently and try to find better stub categories for articles. In this case, it's a biographical article about a guy from the UK. Leofric1 (talk) 18:18, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

-- oopsy, he's from Australia after all. My apologies. Leofric1 (talk) 19:03, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Your edit to Steam cannon was really helpful, there are so many stub-types. Tcrow777 ^Talk 22:45, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

AutoWikiBrowser

Hi,

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Infoboxes via AWB

Before you get going to far, I wanted to let you know that the infobox is supposed to go before all article content (with the exception of tags or disambig links). Right now you seem to be adding them after the lead paragraph, which is incorrect. — TAnthony^Talk 17:14, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I fixed Jason Graae if you want to see what I mean. — TAnthony^Talk 17:15, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

—I was following one of the guidelines for formatting biographical articles (can't remember which one offhand) that suggested the infobox should appear after the introduction if possible and only in the upper right as a last resort. So I have been placing it in the upper right for very short articles, and after 1-2 paragraphs if there is a suitable amount of material, mostly making an esthetic judgement on how it appears best. Leofric1 (talk) 17:29, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Point taken, I do see guidelines to that effect at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes)#Design and usage. I have just never seen a biography article that didn't have the infobox up top! As a matter of fact, I was just choosing featured articles at random, and every one with an infobox I viewed "violates" these guidelines as far as placement goes. WikiProject Biography doesn't seem to have any recommendations that contradict the MOS guidelines, though, so by all means carry on! Thanks for your hard work. — TAnthony^Talk 18:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Linking years

Just letting you know this edit messed up a link in the infobox. And anyway, standalone shouldn't be wikilinked, per the MoS. - Dudesleeper / Talk 22:55, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

—Okay, that edit of mine didn't turn out quite right. However, my reading of the MoS seems to suggest that standalone years may be wikilinked according to user preference, but need not be, not that they shouldn't be at all. Leofric1 (talk) 04:29, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

John Beradino

It had a picture, but someone deleted it. [1] Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 00:56, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

—The bot removed the image tag since the image itself had been deleted, and that in turn was because the image was a "fair use replaceable" image so I figure that whoever deleted it thinks that the fair-use image should be easy enough to find a replacement for. I just tagged the article so that it gets added to the appropriate categories of articles needing images. Used to be I'd add a placeholder image but those are apparently frowned upon these days. Leofric1 (talk)

Image placeholders

I noticed that you have been removing the image Replace this image male on several of the Medal of Honor pages. I was wondering why you where doing that and ask that unless you are intending on putting an actual image then to please stop. Please let me know if you have any questions.--Kumioko (talk) 14:51, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

—Per this discussion it has been my understanding that image placeholders are no longer desirable and should not be used on article pages. I have been in the habit of removing such images and instead putting "needs-photo=yes" on the talk page's WPBiography template. Leofric1 (talk) 15:17, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Its good to put the placeholder on the talk page also but most users when looking at a page do not look at the talk page. Also, this discussion was closed with no consensus so no action should have been taken.--Kumioko (talk) 21:21, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

—Obviously there are two camps here not giving an inch and I can't win regardless of whose advice I follow. I put placeholders in, someone takes them out. I take them out—and here we are. Perhaps I misread the discussion but it seemed the recommendation was not to use them for now. Leofric1 (talk) 23:35, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Barnstars

i gave you some barnstars. good boy. --88.250.104.129 (talk) 14:08, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Wow, I've been vandalized! I guess it was pretty obvious since they were cut-and-pasted, dates and all. It's sort of a backhanded compliment in a way, but I prefer the proper sort on the whole. ;) Leofric1 (talk) 14:19, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Robert Russell (English actor)

Thanks. I am already aware of that. I am planning to run the bot once again to remove Category:Year of birth missing when Category:xxxx births exists and add the Date of birth missing to the talk page. I already did that before. Friendly, Magioladitis (talk) 21:06, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Lily Mazahery

My intention was to remove the "missing year of birth" tag, which was inaccurate since the article already gave her year of birth. I think I unintentionally removed too much. I'll go look.Bill (talk) 05:31, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Michael Rudd

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Request to unprotect Lily Mazahery

Hi. Given that you have been one of the main contributors and admin of the page for Lily Mazahery, I would like to seek your assistance in getting the edit protection removed from the page so that it can be improved as you have suggested. Thank you.--Kindness55 (talk) 04:40, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

—I think perhaps Manime87 is what I consider to be the main (at least initially) contributor to the article. I merely made a couple small tweaks. I created the talk page and made some suggestions for advancing the state if the article.

Change from stub class to start class

In light of the fact that you had provided comments about how the page for Lily Mazahery has been improving and expanding, I thought it might be a good idea to seek your advice about whether this article is now eligible to be classified as more than a stub page? I look forward to your response. Thanks.--Joaj (talk) 18:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Leofric1! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 937 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

1. Richard Cambridge (U.S. actor) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 00:56, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

You're invited: Spacefest Edit-a-thon Honoring Sally Ride - Tucson, AZ

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Nomination of Keith Wann for deletion

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