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Older articles have refs even if it doesn't say that

The need for the term "references" is a modern addition to the wiki. Prior to about 2006/2007, the standard was to use "External links" for this. So if you do come across an older article that has such a usage, like MacBinary, it would be more useful to change the header than tag the article. Thanks! Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:48, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

• sigh* You didn't do that either. I really have to stop editing before my second coffee. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:49, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

reminder

Hi! This message is just a friendly reminder that you signed up to participate in the GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive. I noticed that you haven't logged a single copy edit yet. We'd love to see you participate! The drive runs three more weeks so there's still plenty of time to earn barnstars. Thanks! --Diannaa ^TALK 21:40, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm still working... —mono(how's my driving?) 21:41, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. :-)) --Diannaa ^TALK 21:58, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Motto of the Day

Hi Mono!

I saw that, while you're doing sterling work with the mottoes, when you declined a motto here, you forgot to put the motto discussion into the Decisions page. If you don't do that, we can't see what mottos have been used before. Other than that, you seem to be active on WP:MOTD, which is excellent. Keep up the good work! --Smaug123 (talk) 19:21, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Collab on MBA?

Hey mono, I've left a quick note at your editor review. I was thinking that we could collab on MacBook Air late this month into early August, after I finish the two GA reviews I'm currently doing (Talk:2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350/GA1 and Talk:Boeing B-52 Stratofortress/GA1). How does that sound? Airplaneman ✈ ^Review? 17:05, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Sounds great. I've been quite busy iRl (notice the apple-y (i) thing...), and haven't been able to do a ton. I'll be updowngrading my internet connection soon, so beware of that as well. Anyway, I'll try my best! —mono 21:46, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

OK. My connection is just fine, although it is a base package, peaking at 1.5 MB/s download, .27 Mb/s upload; more than good enough for editing Wikipedia and watching low-quality videos . iKnow what you mean about downgrading. My school had such sporadic (to put it mildly) service from them that they dumped them not too long ago. So for now, if you have time, the lead on MBA needs expanding. RL comes first! Looking forward to collaborating, Airplaneman ✈ ^Review? 22:20, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Attribution

I've actually come to the conclusion that images under GPL don't seem to require require attribution, so I think you can change them back to internal links to your userpages. Sorry about that. –xeno^talk 17:11, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Hmm... even if that is the case, you still need a copy of the GPL by the image. Which is why people should stop using it for images :/ In any case, I can't find the original source for the image I think you're talk about (the apple?), so I can't verify the license for myself. —fetch·comms 18:49, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

<grumble> =] (was also talking about the images on the user page)... "Leopard Icons in Black" no longer appear at opendesktop.org as far as I can tell; but if they did at the time then the license is irrevocable (I think). –xeno^talk 18:52, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

At this point, I really don't even care. —mono 21:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

You should; they're wasting their time trying to help you. Airplaneman ✈ ^Review? 22:21, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

I award you with this barnstar

		The Excellent User Page Award
		Nice user page!  Polymathsj Talk 00:52, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! (I must say I did adapt it from User:AxG) Stop by July 14 for the next cool logo... —mono 00:54, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Watermark removal

Thank you for the nice watermark removals at the Graphic Lab! I just wanted to remind you to also replace the {{watermark}} tag with either commons:Template:attribution metadata from licensed image or commons:Template:metadata from image, whichever is appropriate. Cheers, Quibik (talk) 02:05, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Wow! I never knew that. —mono 03:09, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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Sorry if I took so long just to respond. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 05:38, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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IRC cloak change request

Hello, did you apply for a cloak change? If so, there are some problems with your request:

• is this your username? (Mono)
• what's your IRC nick?
• could you send a confirmation memo? (/msg memoserv send wmfgc IRC cloak request)

Just to confirm, you had wikipedia/mono and now you want wikimedia/mono? Please respond on my talk page if you could, thanks! Cbrown1023 talk 16:06, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

OK, my username is "mono", my IRC nick is "monomium", and I sent a confirmation memo, but I can re-send. I decided that my home project is starting to become wikimedia, so yes: I want wikimedia/mono. —mono 23:28, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I've asked a freenode staff member to change your cloak. :-) Cbrown1023 talk 16:10, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Animals report

Just thought I'd let you know that I copied all the stuff from the questions sandbox to the actual WikiProject report article for this week, and put a redirect on the sandbox page. I noticed on the sandbox questions table that not all the questions have been answered fully - is that still the case? Regards, WackyWace ^{you talkin' to me?} 16:51, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I'll work the bugs out, though. —mono 23:50, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

User Page

Hi there, could I just ask how you got your user page to look how it does? Mine is very boring and I'd like to liven it up like yours! Thanks - TALL^eN ^talk 21:29, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Try looking at the Wikicode in the edit box. Here's a good start. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 21:54, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

User:Mono/Editnotice

I was wondering if you noticed it by now, but Dripping Flame appears to have modified your Editnotice. Is that acceptable? I wanted to ask you first before reverting him. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 03:32, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

User:Dripping Flame is mono's sock :). Airplaneman ✈ ^Review? 03:40, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

He's communist too (not really) —mono 03:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

You mean soviet right? :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 03:43, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

You have new messages here, FYI. Airplaneman ✈ ^Review? 03:45, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I thought that Monomium was mono's sock. Rock drum _Ba-dum^Crash (Review me) 15:09, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Okay, then. It simply means he has a pair of them (to keep his feet warm). :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 15:11, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

What about slippers, lol? BTW mono, I've just fixed a link in your navigation bar ('cos I'm nice like that ) Rock drum _Ba-dum^Crash (Review me) 15:17, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

No. Most likely it's a contest to see who has the best socks. Like this. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 15:27, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Change your archiving time please

12 hours isn't nearly long enough. I suspect you haven't even read my last post here, as you haven't fixed the issue. Try 1 week. —fetch·comms 21:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Tel fixed it. Discussion restored below: —mono 23:58, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Do you need this longer than 2d? :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 19:28, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

User talk:HJ Mitchell

Thanks for the comment on User:HJ Mitchell's talk page. I was going to leave a message there and then realized that for whatever strange reason that page is protected and I cannot even leave a message there. That seems to sort of defeat the purpose of having a talk page in my opinion. Do you have any idea why his talk page would be protected? 192.102.209.29 (talk) 00:53, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about that, User talk:HJ Mitchell is protected because of several rather unpleasant attacks and there's currently no way to filter those edits out. I'll get back to your question in a minute. Whisky drinker | HJ's sock 00:56, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Maybe because of persistent vandalism from multiple IPs? Here's] a page with some logs showing protection of his talkpage. It's probably only available to Autoconfirmed users. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 00:59, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Can't you use an edit filter? —mono 00:57, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm not allowed to, because some of their crap falls under RD2 and shouldn't be publicly viewable, but abuse filter logs can;t be deleted at the minute. I'm waiting on a bugzilla that should solve the problem. Whisky drinker | HJ's sock 01:07, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

• HJ, could you give this account some flags (confirmed, reviewer, rollback)? (yes, it is me) Dripping Flame (talk) 01:40, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

How many alternate accounts do you need? Rollback added, anyway. You really don't need reviewer for vandalism fighting only. —fetch·comms 01:54, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Text in bold added: Well, eventually I will end up turning these into semi-bots, after I learn to code 'em, and BAG em. —mono 01:57, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

How about this? —mono 23:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

You'll probably want to make separate accounts for that, then. In other news,

File:Mono-Logo-071410.png uses File:A logo for mono.png and at least one other image in it (the Eiffel Tower pic), but neither are attributed in the image description. As this is a derivative work of the two, you need to attribute both, assuming the other is under a license requiring attribution as well. However, the original logo is under cc-by-sa. Notice the "sa" part, which means that you'll need to license the Bastille Day image under the cc-by-sa as well. I have no clue why you are using the GFDL for images anyway, because it is completely impractical to have a copy of the full text of the license next to the image at every use. I would just multi-license it under the cc-by-sa 3.0 and GFDL, like Wikipedia does. —fetch·comms 02:12, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. Images and GDFL do not really work well together and I see this all too often. Here is another example of a set of images also placed under the GDFL (from a user that seems to have made many images available here): File:3-way switches position 1.svg Sadly, methinks this might make such images ultimately unusable on Wikipedia (currently that is not the policy). 192.102.209.29 (talk) 02:29, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

• The Eiffel Tower pic is PD, so no worries there. I have properly attributed the image on Commons. This comment would be more appropriate for my Commons page, as everything is there. GFDL is my personal preference, because of the limited nature. Eventually, I think it will be outlawed, but I'll consider relicensing later. fetchcomms, you're one to talk...—mono 23:58, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

I asked here because you'd likely check it quicker; GFDL is simply not fit for images. That's like saying you should drive go-carts on the street because they're lighter. They have their purposes, but shouldn't be used in every case. And I have one public-network account, one AWB account (which I don't even use much any more), and one previous account which is blocked for security reasons. I'm not planning on making semi-bots (most of that can be done with AWB, I find), so I'm not making any more. —fetch·comms 02:01, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

So what do you suggest? Multi-licensing? —mono 03:28, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

@Mono: I think this is what needs to change (as mentioned at your editor review). Being unnecessarily stubborn and inflammatory, like you are being above, will get you nowhere in your relationships with other editors here. Airplaneman ✈ ^Review? 02:09, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

• I have created this page; please take a look. —mono 04:09, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm of the opinion that a regular template will do fine, but yours is acceptable. Maybe make it a bit smaller though. And yes, I prefer multi-licensing. —fetch·comms 20:36, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

...

I'm pretty sure you're not female... ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 19:10, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

And why not? Mono finally changed his gender prefs to female. @Mono: No idea why you have duplicate notices. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 19:27, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

One of them's a group notice, one is a page notice. Thanks, Rock drum _Ba-dum^Crash (Review me) 19:53, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Then Mono doesn't need the group notice... :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 19:59, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

@TeleComNasSprVen - Why do you say "finally"? Are you saying Mono is actually female? ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐ • ✍) 20:02, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Because, in the past, whenever I saw the editnotice, it would say "Hello, Mono! Yes, I know your name. I even know you are forgetting to set your gender in your preferences!..." etc. etc. To your second question: it is a possibility, as far as anything goes. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 20:07, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

You're a girl? O_o {{gender:mono|male|female|unspecified}} says female. —fetch·comms 20:33, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

And the page notice is the unneeded one, as the group notice covers his subpages too. Although it looks a bit odd on the guestbook... —fetch·comms 20:39, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

You mean his userpage, right? His guestbook looked fine to me. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 22:11, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

No, I know the page notice for the userpage should be removed, but saying "is there any reason you're messing with my page" on a guestbook is sort of contradictory, no? —fetch·comms 22:15, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

• What the heck? I am a male! —mono 23:26, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

OK. I'm calming down, as I just realized while I was setting the pref, oops! wrong selection... —mono 23:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Copied from User talk:Dripping Flame

Header

Please change that bizarre header (which I have commented out, for now) - for one thing, it makes it very difficult to click 'edit' on this page. Thanks,  Chzz  ►  10:32, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Removed from user page too, makes it impossible to click the "discussion" link. –xeno^talk 15:16, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

One, can you make your signature more clear as to who you are, and two, can you please not have that symbol as part of your signature? You do know what it means, right? Some people may find it offensive, and I just find it distasteful. —fetch·comms 02:04, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks...

(talk page stalker) Can't wait for the rewrite... ☭ 00:22, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

What exactly this mean? Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 00:28, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

See Wikipedia_talk:TW#Time_for_the_rewrite. —mono 00:41, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Oh thank you for clarify it. :D Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 00:49, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Antonio Liozzi

— Rlevse • Talk • 12:04, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

BRDiscussion

Hey Mono. I saw your edit to Chinatown. Before everyone forgets about it, have you added the info to other articles? Do articles on these Chinatowns actually exist? If so, removing more descriptive info on them means you should instead link their articles (again, only if they exist) on the Chinatown page. Just plain removing good information is counterproductive. Airplaneman ✈ ^Review? 03:03, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I checked before removing info that comprehensive material on the chinatowns exited, and I found that articles such as Chinatown, Manhattan were a better (in my opinion) way to present the info. While I am not on source patrol, much of the info that I removed was uncited, which leads me to question whether the info was "good" or not. —mono 03:26, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Airplaneman ✈ ^Review? 04:35, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

User:TeleComNasSprVen

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Mono, please turn off whatever device you're using. It's getting annoying. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 01:07, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

• I am using a script. Please stop tagging pages for speedy deletion. —mono 01:08, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm done! Can you turn off the script? :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 01:10, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

I can turn off the notifications. —mono 01:11, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, thanks. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 01:15, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

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Declined PRODs

Instead of using CSDH, which is useful for new users, I'm just notifying you that ß stands for "ss" and thus I have declined the prods on aßaßination and aß. Thanks, —fetch·comms 02:31, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Still don't see how redirect (containing said character) could have potential use. Unless the entirety of a single word contains all similar Greek characters, but here only one character is in Greek, which makes the whole word altogether confusing...Jejus! Now even Fetchcomms is involved. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 02:46, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Actually, its German (read the article :P) and is still used occasionally in parts of Europe. —fetch·comms 02:50, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

ß, not β.  Chzz  ►  03:30, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

OK. However, I have to agree with Tel; who is going to type that? —mono 03:44, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

You never know; does it do any harm? P.S. WT:APPLE needs more eyes. Airplaneman ✈ ^Review? 04:30, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

{{Back from dinner}} Well, it's all Greek to me. P.S. Aßhole was deleted not too long ago; I suggest we either keep or delete both Aß and Aßhole, not just keep one and then delete the other. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 05:36, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

@Airplaneman: I honeßtly don't ßuppoße that any number of ßeveral people are going to type in Ußer talk:TeleComNaßprVen every ßingle time they decide to come to look up my ußername. @Mono: Thiß guy created a redirect on Fûck; now I don't think anyone'ß going to type that in either. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 05:46, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

That symbol is for "ss", not "s". —fetch·comms 14:12, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

I am not sure what the german for assassination is, but I am pretty sure it isn't aßaßination. The same goes for aß and aßhole. I think that fact that these are not real words is good enough reason to delete these redirects.--Forty two^{Thanks for all the fish!} 14:57, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, thank you Fetchcomms. I made a mißtake. @Forty two: This is exactly what I'm talking about. One letter is in German, but the letters a-a-ination are all in English. That simply does not make any sense. What would happen if we created a redirect that had French characters and Vietnamese characters and Korean characters all thrown in the mix? :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 15:54, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Misstake? German uses Latin characters, Korean does not. That's my argument. You've never been to one of those places where they still use the symbol, so how would you know it's not a reasonable spelling for some? I've never been to such places either, but I am fairly certain that, as the symbol is still used, there is no harm in keeping the redirects. —fetch·comms 16:31, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Can I see this difference between Latin characters and Korean ones? I don't know how a single German symbol could stand perfectly well amidst English lettering. Could you also tell me how many people on average use such a redirect? There's not a neceßity in creating lots of unneeded redirects like boß, goßip, sißy or anything like that, so I don't know how it would apply here. I believe the majority of such redirects with ß don't exist. To clarify what I mean This, that and the other commented here saying "Besides the obvious unwieldiness of such redirects, there are many possible permutations of Unicode characters that could be used for each mathematical symbol in the formulae, and thus hundreds of possible redirects for each mathematical area. Keeping these redirects would open a messy can of worms." This can similarly be applied to the "hundreds of redirects out there" containing one or many instances of the German character ß.

While we're still arguing over linguistics, shouldn't Aß and Aßaßination be deleted per Aßhole and ß501? :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 16:47, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Other stuff may or may not exist. Bring it to RfD; I never said I am opposed to it's eventual removal, just stating why I declined a prod for it. —fetch·comms 18:59, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I already got a lot of pages on RfD, though. The several most recent nominations are by me. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 19:08, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Great. drippingflame 21:42, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

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And here, too. Rock drum _Ba-dum^Crash (Review me) 08:31, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Oh yeah and at User talk:Sillybillypiggy, too. Rock drum _Ba-dum^Crash (Review me) 18:09, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

done, done, and done. —mono 20:08, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

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GOCE July 2010 backlog elimination drive chart Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have now passed the halfway point, so here's an update. Progress Report - Progress toward the targets has been good. 751 articles out of the approximately 1,600 we would like to get completed by the end of the month were done by July 15, so we will be very close to meeting the target for volume. However, we would like to clear all of the 2008 articles from the backlog, and there are still 892 left to do. Please consider choosing one of these older articles when looking for something to copy edit. If we focus our firepower we can completely wipe out 2008 from the queue. Participation Report - 95 people signed up for the July drive. This is a great result compared to May, when we had 36. However, in May only one person that signed up didn't do any copy edits, and in July only 59 of the 95 have posted any copy edits on the big board. The task may seem insurmountable but please remember that if all 95 participants copy edit just one article a day from now until the end of the month, we will eliminate 1,300 more articles from the backlog. So please consider participating at whatever level you can! All contributions are appreciated. This newsletter was prepared for the GOCE by Diannaa (Talk), S Masters (talk), and The Raptor Let's talk.

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Signing post. —mono 04:19, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Discussion report

I think that once every two weeks would be a more appropriate time frame. There aren't enough RFCs to do two every week, so I think once a fortnight would be more comprehensive and of better quality. Let me know what you think, WackyWace ^{you talkin' to me?} 13:04, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

I agree completely. —mono 00:07, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Regarding: स्फैग्नम

Hello, Mono. I see you nominated स्फैग्नम for speedy deletion under criterion G1. Not being a new user, you probably know by now that G1 is not for articles not in English, and made the nomination on basis of the previous, malformatted nomination's rationale. I am letting you know that after a bit of investigation I've concluded that this is the Hindi term for Sphagnum, and have tentatively redirected the title accordingly, declining your speedy nomination. A foreign-language redirect can be useful, especially if a user comes across the term but does not know its English equivalent. Cheers, Intelligentsock 03:03, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, you would be correct. —mono 03:26, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Not all foreign redirects are valid. If someone creates "voiture" and writes an article about cars in French, there's no reason to say "oh, it's a duplicate of 'car', so I'll just redirect". We don't need to have foreign redirects for every term. This is not a translation site. Now on the other hand Les Trois Mousquetaires is a valid foreign redirect because that's the original title of the work. If you look at foreign redirects, they are all proper titles, not just random nouns. There is more being discussed at WT:CSD. — Timneu22 · talk 12:57, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Er, Mono, you may want to change those tabs at the top of your talk page - the project links may be convenient for you, but not for new users who want to contact you. An anonymous user seems to have viewed your talk page wanting to leave you a message regarding what Inteeligentsock just covered, but instead of posting it here, they clicked on the "talk" tab, in which they were led to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Apple Inc. They ended up leaving you a message there, unaware that the tabs were actually for project talk. By the way, I'm liking the "Congratulations! You're Wikipedia's one-billionth user. Click to collect your prize!" thing. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 03:18, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Done. —mono 03:26, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Regarding the editnotice, I am unsure whether recognizing and reproducing the recent spate of mass-vandalism is in line with the spirit of WP:DFTT and WP:DENY. I will not prevent you from displaying it if you wish to, of course, I merely wanted to let you know. Intelligentsock 03:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

It's not feeding the troll if the troll won't see it ;) Now, if the troll happens to be a very stalker-ish troll, then we may have a problem...~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 03:31, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

And I replied on my talk page; real classy strikethru at the beginning of the message. — Timneu22 · talk 13:06, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Archives… and stuff

Hi Mono. Just a small thing, but what happened to the links on this page to your archives? It makes it hard for people who want to see older posts. Anyway, I like those huge letters in your edit notice about being Wikipedia's one-billionth user . I laughed. Wasn't there a sort of spambot posting the same thing (in red) not too long ago? Anyway, great work on Portal:Apple Inc. Also, I'll begin revamping MacBook Air this weekend or something, focusing on getting sources for reviews. Looking forward to the collab :). Airplaneman ✈ 04:35, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

User:Mono/Archive Index indexes everything, if needed. Glad you like the prize and the portal work I did. Yes, there was a spambot (I'd show you but they revdelled it. I'll try to work on it with you as well. —mono 01:05, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

That index is awesome; I should get one myself! I saw the spambot's revisions; they were in red. Good thing they got deleted. Airplaneman ✈ 03:57, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

User:HBC_Archive_Indexerbot#Instructions. —mono 04:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Please read my talk

Since when is A10 not a valid CSD? Please reply on my talk page. — Timneu22 · talk 10:30, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

I've responded there. —mono 04:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

You templated a regular. Again. I think if you removed/changed the CSD tag manually and typed out a short explanation, he would have received it better. Airplaneman ✈ 04:18, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

How many times have I been templated this way?

• User_talk:Mono/Archive_4#Speedy_deletion_contested:_W._H._Diddle_2
• User_talk:Mono/Archive_1#Speedy_deletion_declined:_John_Travis
• User_talk:Mono/Archive_5#Speedy_deletion_declined:_Jonathan_Benjamin_Gill
• User_talk:Mono/Archive_13#Speedy_deletion_declined:_Uncivilized_.28Texas_In_July_single.29
• User_talk:Mono/Archive_7#Speedy_deletion_declined:_Portal:Percy_Jackson
• User_talk:Mono/Archive_3#Speedy_deletion_declined:_Products_manufactured_in_australia
• User_talk:Mono/Archive_7#Speedy_deletion_declined:_Robert_Teichm.C3.BCller
• User_talk:Mono/Archive_4#Speedy_deletion_declined:_The_Wimpy_Kid_Movie_Diary
• User_talk:Mono/Archive_2#Speedy_deletion_declined:_Narragansett_Paw_Waw_Medicine_Circle

Trust me. I'm not the only one. —mono 04:26, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

That archive index just proved to be handy... —mono 04:29, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm sure of that; it doesn't mean you have to do it . I sure will make an archive index now! Airplaneman ✈ 04:30, 22 July 2010 (UTC)