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Counter

Thank you for updating the vandalism counter on my User page! Owen× ☎ 03:57, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hey, nice work cleaning up vandalism - David Gerard 14:49, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: RPI Pep Band

Thanks for your help with the Pep Band page!

France

Have done, with some favourable comments, but an awful lot of bluster from French-speaking Wikipedians (not that there can be a connection there). In my opinion, being misleading and inappropriate, and with an already large article, the article is better without the entire paragraph. JDancer 00:51, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Baseball on Wikicities

Hello RPIRED, Googie Man here and I'm writing to you because of the great work you've done on the Red Sox/Yankees rivalry, and the New York Yankees articles. Jimbo and Angela have made a new webstie called Wikicities. You can read more about Wikicities on the about Wikicities page.This link in particular will take you to the baseball Wikicity. As you'll see it's similar to Wikipedia, but my hope is this will allow baseball fans to do more and different things, like reporting on games, in depth statistics, create mulitple pages for pictures, and whatever else baseball fans care to create. You've done excellent work on Wikipedia and I was hoping you could help get this baseball Wikicity off the ground. Please let me know what you think. Thanks! Googie Man^(Talk), 15:01, 10 January 2006 (UTC).

hudson river crossings

I agree that maybe my note in the Lake article doesn't fit in very well, but please don't remove the links to the bridges with existant articles unless you are willing to write new articles about them. The boxes were designed for browsing, not information. If you have a better way to present both (the next one with an article and the actual next one), please implement it, but don't just remove them! --Chris 16:55, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

OK, so if you say they are for both navigation and information, then why did you remove their navigational functionality? Perhaps every bridge up to and including the next bridge in the encyclopedia should be listed. --Chris 18:11, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Are you doing something to fix this situation or not? I don't mind it being done a different way. There's already a list of all the crossings; it would be best to just put brief descriptions of the minor ones on the list of all of them. --Chris 22:33, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Gen Wood

Thanks for the spelling correction of Gen Wood in the Roosevelt article. My reference had the spelling I used but I was surprized when the link didn't word. Epeeist smudge 09:21, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Natl. Team Flags..

Hey I don't really have a problem with it myself, check the archives though, I believe they were added and then removed by someone citing precedent about provicial/state flags. Batman2005 17:52, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Flags

Hello. I think some "master list" doesn't exist so you should probably check it manually in future. - Darwinek 07:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Big Dig

Yeah I questioned the nomination as well. It very well might have just been vandalism. However, I told the user that they need to properly nominate articles and I completed the nomination. Considering the article, I figure it will probably have an overwhelming keep vote, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to let the nomination go through. Dbinder (talk) 16:40, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, RPIRED! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. - Glen 02:29, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

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3RR violation means that someone did 4 or more. Three reverts only isn't a violation. - Penwhale | ^{Blast him / Follow his steps} 15:13, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

If someone times his 4th revert just after 24 hours from the first, it could be considered gaming the system. Still, there needs to be 4 reverts before a violation can be called. :) - Penwhale | ^{Blast him / Follow his steps} 15:21, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

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ECACH

I'm gonna guess that in a facebook group about the above athletic conference, your officer title is 'Neil Little'. Might I be correct? :) Cornell Rockey 13:45, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Endorsements

Thanks for adding the endorsements list to the Giuliani campaign page, I was just about to do it myself.--Southern Texas 16:50, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry

I'm definitely interested in cleaning up the article, and going after that GA rating, thanks for considering me! In a strange coincidence, I'm going to be away from MY computer starting Friday, but I'd love to help as soon as I can.Djdickmutt 15:53, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Seasonal articles

Jaranda (talk · contribs) has taken it upon himself to redirect the articles 2006 Kansas City Royals season and 1980 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season. I've saved them and put the underconstruction tag on them, but enough has been said, he's going with the non-notable card. Just an FYI that he is trying to redirect them. Soxrock 23:50, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

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Baseball infobox template

I see from the history that you created the MLB yearly infobox-pre1969 template. I was doing a little disambiguating today, when I noticed a problem with the template, and I was wondering if you might be able to help explain what's going on.

For most of the items in the template, such as owners and managers, you enter the relevant information using internal links and you can pipe in different text than the name of the link itself.

However, in the current league spot, this doesn't work. The text has to be plain rather than using internal links, or else the double square brackets will show on either side. Piping in different text doesn't work at all.

It's coming up as a problem when dabbing because the article for the original American Association is actually at American Association (19th century).

Any suggestions? Mlaffs (talk) 21:36, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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