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Contents 1 Welcome 2 Feral in Mexico & US 3 Signature 4 Welcome to WikiProject Northern Ireland 5 Invitation to WikiProject_Telecommunications 6 Hold on with the "military junta" dabs! 7 RFD 8 Goth links 9 Perfect numbers 10 Malays dab page 11 Lewis with Harris 12 Well said about divisiveness! 13 Huh? 14 Palatinate 15 Malformed TfD nominations 16 Latin 17 TfD of Template:User_Kim_Possible 18 Reversion on Rouge Admin Page 19 Chinese checkers 20 Posthumous 21 Could you look at something for me? 22 RFD for Veterans with Desputed Status 23 WhatLinksHere 24 Wu who reaction 25 Image:KimPossible.png 26 Image:KimPossible.png 27 Hipparchos (astronomer) 28 "Anna Mae He" 29 right-of-way -> easement dabs 30 Smile 31 OMG LOL Thank you! 32 Barnstar 33 Judd Winick 34 Incorrect warning — sorry 35 "...in the holy name of..." 36 stop changing marching band 37 Cobblestone School 38 Holy name of wiki! 39 Ordinance 40 Ordinance / Decree 41 Your puzzler 42 A. K. Faezul Huq 43 Panavision edits 44 Public libraries in other federal government countries 45 Gothic 46 Bot edit error (I think) 47 Metalstorm Ranger disambiguation 48 AfD nomination of British and United States military ranks compared 49 WP:WLA 50 Invite 51 whatlinkshere.js just stopped working 52 Wookie Rules 53 Manson's name 54 Army Air Corps

[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Feral in Mexico & US

I cannot find information about feral peafowl in Mexico in the 19th century and their dispersion throughout Mexico and prolifereation from there to much of the USA, from California to Florida, in the 20th century. Please, do you know anything about it? I need exact references. --Michael Romanov 06:17, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Signature

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[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Northern Ireland

Thank you for your help. In my haste in setting up the Troubles project page on Saturday, I missed the disambiguation. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:44, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to WikiProject_Telecommunications

You have made many good contributions in the area of telecommunications. Why not join the WikiProject Telecommunications? Mange01 00:28, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hold on with the "military junta" dabs!

I noticed that you'd changed junta to "military junta" on the Sandinista National Liberation Front page, and I see you're changing it on a lot of pages. First, "military junta" just redirects to "military dictatorship." Second, I don't think you should be killing wikilinks to "junta" just because it's a disambig page, as it does contain information about juntas in general, that some might find useful. Third, in the FSLN case, it was not a military junta. Anyway, hold up with the junta-killing! --Groggy Dice T|C 09:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFD

On 09 January, you tagged the Native Americans: America's Palestinians redirect for deletion, but you did not complete the nomination by listing it at WP:RFD. While I have fixed this one, please see the instructions at WP:RFD for future reference. You may also wish to comment on the deletion debate at that page. -- JLaTondre 20:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 January 27 — Randall Bart 09:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Goth links

Thank you so much for putting in the hard yards disambiguating so many links to "Goth". I've been trying to do a bunch each day to try to get it under control, but your efforts have far outshone mine. :-) --Stormie 03:16, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Perfect numbers

I saw your new Template:Divisor_classes and thought it looked pretty cool. Nice work!

CRGreathouse (t | c) 18:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanx. I was on one of those pages (mondo abundant, I think), and clicked one of the "see also" links, and there I noticed the see also list included other links, and before I knew it I had over a dozen see also lists to merge, so I decided to make a box. Then I spent a few hours making a box, including one catastrophic failure and a long lesson on Do Not Fight The Tool. But I ended up with pretty much what I wanted, a narrow right side box with white on green title.

I screwed up and put an underscore everywhere I used it, but that doesn't matter, so I didn't fix it. Don't tell anyone I invented the term "divisor classes". If some mathematician wants to correct me, they can tell me what the correct term is for that list of things I made, and I'll go fix it. As I decided how to order the list, I realized I needed prime and composite. I have three more to add: unit, void, and power. There are articles on 1, 0, and exponentiation, but not on those number theory concepts. Power I can do without, but you really can't have composite and prime without unit and void. Well there are integer fields without units (a+b√5, IIRC), but if you don't have units you don't have primes, only composites. — Randall Bart 04:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Malays dab page

Would you be willing to give a little feedback on the possibility of redirecting the Malays dab page to Malay per my comment at Talk:Malays? Dekimasuが... 12:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Glad to be of service. — Randall Bart 17:53, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Chinese, relating to a possible redirect of Chinese people to Chinese, is another case that could use a new outside opinion (in either direction), if you have the time. Dekimasuよ! 03:01, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lewis with Harris

Is there much point in having the category on this page as well as the page it redirects to, it looks strange when you look at the list under the category itself. Fraslet 20:51, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I was just getting to that. First I add to Category:Amalgamated placenames, then I take away. I knew there would be duplicates (Waldeck-Pyrmont and Waldeck and Pyrmont eg).— Randall Bart 21:03, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Cunning. Good luck! Fraslet 21:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Well said about divisiveness!

Just came here to give you kudos. DanielZimmerman 02:38, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Huh?

What do you mean I deleted the template? It's still there. I would have no objection to userfying it per WP:GUS, of course. >Radiant< 09:12, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

If you didn't delete the template, who did this?— Randall Bart 13:25, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• That's not the template we were talking about. At any rate, as clearly stated in the deletion summary, this is a recreation, which falls under WP:CSD criterion G4. >Radiant< 13:41, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Palatinate

Hi, you seem to plan to move Palatinate to Palatinate (disambiguation). Just to let you know, there has been a survey in January, which resulted in the move in the opposite direction, see Talk:Electoral Palatinate. Markussep 20:21, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually I plan to leave Palatinate (disambiguation) pointing at Palatinate. The long link is used to tell disambiguators the link doesn't need to be fixed.

OK. Markussep 20:37, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Malformed TfD nominations

On February 26th, you made a couple TfD nominations here: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007_February_26#Template:User_atheist_a in which you simply named the template. In the future, please use {{lt|NameOfTemplate}} because it makes it easy to see if the template has been deleted and what still links to it. —dgies^t_c 16:42, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I thought I had followed procedure. I'll try, but the xfD procedures are non-intuitive and differ from each other. The xfD procedures are all in need of revision. Maybe I should work on that project. — Randall Bart 16:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Wait, here I am giving you bad advice: the actual instructions are {{subst:tfd2|template name|text=Your reason(s) for nominating the template. --~~~~}}, which is very similar to {{lt}}. Still, a homogenization of XfD procedures might be good...—dgies^t_c 16:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Latin

Hey, how's it going? I'd just use Delenda delenda est. Of course, literally I guess this would be rendered "destruction (destroying) is being destroyed", but the sense of "Destruction must be destroyed" will be conveyed. I'm taking a little bit of a liberty by using delenda twice as a gerundive, but the "est" clarifies the use of the second gerundive. Hope this helps!
PS -- if you have other questions, feel free to drop a line. •Jim62sch• 11:23, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanx, but I want to avoid "taking a little bit of liberty". I'm sure Delenda delenda est will be good enough, but I'll put a little effort into finding if something is better. — Randall Bart 07:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TfD of Template:User_Kim_Possible

For future reference, if there is a page you want to delete which has only been edited by yourself, you can tag it for speedy deletion under WP:CSD#G7: "Author requests deletion. Any page for which deletion is requested by the original author in good faith, provided the page's only substantial content was added by its author." To do so, add {{db-author}} to the page. I have already tagged the page for you, referencing your request to delete. Obviously if it is a page in wide use speedy deletion would not be advisable. —dgies^t_c 20:50, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, dewd. I'm just trying to get along. — Randall Bart 20:56, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I'm just trying to save you future effort. —dgies^t_c 21:07, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reversion on Rouge Admin Page

Hey the ^{[citation needed]} tags were a joke. The page is a humorous one. You could have at least used the talk page before undoing somebody's work. Seriously. I won't bother reverting it back, but I hope you will reconsider and change it back yourself. It's HUMOR. Sue Rangell 01:05, 15 March 2007 (UTC)^{[citation needed]}

I think the red link user did a revert before he got the joke, then reverted himself once he grokked the page. I then did a third revert, which under the circumstances is not climbing the Reichstag, but could be construed as loitering in der Platz der Republik in unusual attire.

The joke didn't seem to fit. It's the wrong type of joke for that page. There's a clause and sentence level believability of the piece that was being violated. — Randall Bart 03:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese checkers

Saw you added "Swedish checkers" as an alternate name. Googling shows only 13 results, so I don't think this is an often used name, if at all, so I deleted it. A source would probably be needed for such an obscure version of the name.

Not that "Chinese" checkers is any more correct, of course, but it seems that nobody cares about that (ironically Chinese people seem to have appropriated the name and claimed the game for ourselves). Kelvinc 22:45, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I have never read a description of Chinese checkers in a book which didn't say it was originally called Swedish checkers. I must have read it at least ten times (probably two books five times each). I have seen Swedish checkers sets. Of course this may be manufactured history. The claim that it's German not Swedish is news to me.

Web searching was not fruitful. I found a few people mentioning there is such a game, but no description to what it is. Certainly not a cite. My books may be out of storage soon, but I may not even have the book. Until I find something, there's nothing.— Randall Bart 23:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for being cool with it. I suppose adding it with {{fact}} appended might work: your call. Maybe I'll go to the library in the upcoming days and browse through the books on board games to see if I can help. Kelvinc 01:44, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I looked at all the trans-wiki links, and didn't see anything that looked like "Svensk" on any of them. (No that I would recognize it in Chinese, but I looked anyway.) Now I am seriously wondering about the provenance of the name "Swedish Checkers". If I can find a Swedish Checkers set, I will be sure to upload a picture. — Randall Bart 21:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Posthumous

Hi, I noticed your post on WP:DPL about disambiguating posthumous. Have you run into many instances of that article being linked when someone is talking about an album released after a band's breakup and not necessarily after someone's death? I found that the other day and I'm not sure that's a proper use of the term. --Mus Musculus 19:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Not correct, but probably figurative. In quotes, it's okay. Hmmm. I mean that two different ways. In a quotation ("We released it posthumously"), or in scare quotes (on their "posthumous" Foo album). However, I would use scare quotes in Wikipedia text only if that word is used in a cite. In such a case the scare quotes indicate that Wikipedia doesn't really endorse that meaning.

As for linking it (if you keep it), I don't expect [[figuratively posthumous works]] will be written any time soon. You could link to [[posthumous works]], but I would delink. — Randall Bart 21:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Could you look at something for me?

I don't want to sway you in one direction or the other on this topic, but could I get you to look at this, then give me your honest opinion?

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Sue Rangell/B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I.C.A.

Sue Rangell^{[citation needed]} 18:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RFD for Veterans with Desputed Status

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[edit] WhatLinksHere

Hi Randall, I just wanted to thank you for your work on the WhatLinksHere script. I find it really useful and, in fact, I've been toying around with it for a few hours now. If you don't mind, I'd also like to bother you with a Javascript-related question. (Disclaimer: I'm a Unix guy. So when I hear script, I think bash. I've written more than a few lines of C (and, reluctantly, C++) code in my day but I'm certainly no JS expert. In other words, there's a good chance I'm overlooking something really obvious. Oh well, the only thing I've got to loose is my special geek parking permit).

Basically, what I'm trying to do is display a working DPL div on the article page (ie. without clicking the 'what links here' link). The problem is, that I don't know how to load the 'wlh' page into memory (on-the-fly) without actually loading it in a visible tab or window. The only simple solution I can think of right now is to have a servlet/cgi script on one of my servers do the legwork (ie. parsing) but that seems a bit excessive and pretty inefficient. Is there any other way you can think of to do what I'm trying to do? Cheers. -- Seed 2.0 22:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

P.S. A quick heads up: the {{user Firefox}} template you use on your userpage appears to have been moved recently.

I started doing JavaScript on December 30, so I don't know everything yet. I'm not sure what your question is. If you look at the way I use my getGetParamValue function, does that help? Otherwise, go ask at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject User scripts.

Hey, thanks for your answer. Frankly, it doesn't really since I'm trying to parse a page on-the-fly that the user hasn't looked at. What I'm trying to do is this: 1.) The user loads the article. 2.) The script grabs the 'what links here' page in the background without the user noticing and (from here on, it's a piece of cake). 3.) The script adds the div at the top or bottom of the article.

Right now, I'm not sure if this is even possible. I suppose it could be done using a server-side script but right now I'm too busy/lazy (interesting combination, btw ;) to bother since the 'what links here' page is just a click away. Thanks though. I'll see if I can come up with a way to fix this tomorrow and, failing that, I'll take it to the project's talkpage. Cheers, -- Seed 2.0 01:06, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wu who reaction

See [[1]].And I dont see any other reason for deletion of this article,by the way. New Babylon 16:21, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand. I disambiguated Wu, and wrote the words "Wu who", but that related to a physicist, and the link you gave me is about dynasties. What was deleted? — Randall Bart ^(talk) 16:29, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:KimPossible.png

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[edit] Image:KimPossible.png

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[edit] Hipparchos (astronomer)

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[edit] "Anna Mae He"

See my discussion page for an important reply to your question. JodyB _{yak, yak, yak} 13:19, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] right-of-way -> easement dabs

I see that you've been switching links from right-of-way to easement, but that is not always a semantic replacement. In particular, it is common (probably even typical) for public roadbuilding in the US to involve actual ownership of the property rather than an easement. For example, in Texas state highways, a sentence used to read:

• After the city or county acquires right-of-way, TXDOT builds and maintains the road.

This sentence is wrong after the replacement has occurred. The local government is not acquiring mere easement to travel: it purchases, is given, or has to condemn the property. The fact that, after the road is built, the public has an implied easement to travel across it (as described in the easement talk page is irrelevant), since that's not what the sentence describes. It is using the term 'right-of-way' to mean the boundaries of the acquired property. This usage is common in the US. Deh 13:45, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

I've been struggling with some uses of "right-of-way" to mean "route", but this is not one of them. There were some cases where the easement sense was completely lost, so I didn't change Triborough Bridge or Simutrans Transport Simulator. I stand behind "easement" in the case you mention, because intent of the the city or county is to buy an easement, though usually by acquiring 100% interest in the property.

But as I said, I have been struggling with some of these, so let's continue this at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links. — Randall Bart ^(talk) 18:39, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Smile

Thanks for making me laugh with your funny edit summary to the Lifest article! Royalbroil

Hey thanks for fixing the capitalization of the article for my open source project.

[edit] OMG LOL Thank you!

Thank you for making me laugh. I don't know why it was so funny, but it made me laugh out loud when I saw your edit summary on one of my watchlist pages. here LOLOLOL! - Jeeny ^Talk 03:22, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		Bloody hell, man. 3,000 edits in little over a week and almost all of them fixing links to disambiguation pages. You rock.;) Bobblehead (rants) 03:23, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

TYVM — Randall Bart ^(talk) 03:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Judd Winick

Hi. There is a discussion about the Judd Winick article's length. Would you mind weighing in with your opinion on its Talk Page? Thanks. Nightscream 07:13, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incorrect warning — sorry

I just put a warning on this page that was not for you — clicked the wrong line in the history page. Sorry about that. Schutz 08:10, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

np— Randall Bart ^(talk) 08:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "...in the holy name of..."

Too funny! Cheers, --Fire Star 火星 04:21, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I second that, coming from this diff.

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		Sometimes all it takes is a funny edit summary to brighten someone's day, for completing just such an edit summary (more than once I might add) I bestow upon Barticus 88 this Barnstar of Good Humor. IvoShandor 22:26, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

IvoShandor 22:27, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

what the hell are pop-ups??? Seems humorous, but I you have gone through multiple articles making this edit, and I still can't figure out what the pop-up is? please explain so I am not blaspheming wikipedia ;-) --Abebenjoe 23:39, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Just click on the word "Popups" in the edit summary. — Randall Bart ^(talk) 23:47, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

LOL [2] thanks for the laugh Jeepday (talk) 13:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] stop changing marching band

Please justify yourself on the marching band talk page. I am once again reverting your edit. Marching bands often use a ceremonial mace, BUT NOT ALWAYS!!! Most military bands use a functional mace that can be used as a weapon and do not fit the definition in the lede of the ceremonial mace page. — BQZip01 — ^talk 07:46, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cobblestone School

Thank you for catching the ambiguous wikilink for portfolio in the Cobblestone School article. I have linked it to the correct Career portfolio page. Thanks again. Truthanado 23:53, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

TY. Ironically, portfolio is a case where I had ambivalence, and ended up leaving many unchanged. Had I hit this one later I might have linked to Career portfolio or not changed it, but at the time I hit it I decided to delink. Partly, I was reading Career portfolio too narrowly, and several more could have been linked there.— Randall Bart ^(talk) 00:00, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Holy name of wiki!

Doing a great little jobb there! --Amandajm 07:29, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but please take care. This dab is incorrect. The article uses "ordinance" in the sense of "national government decree", not "local ordinance". Sandstein 20:12, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

You're right; decree is better. When there's a compound construction (A and B), I try to slice the topic to avoid the articles already linked. In this case the article to avoid was law, so I should have hit decree. I'm virtually positive the law applies at the federal, cantonal, and local level, so I figured it wasn't wrong for slicing the topic, but somewhat surprising in the context of the words linked. — Randall Bart ^(talk) 22:25, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ordinance

I'm not sure why you removed the link to the disambiguation page for ordinance from High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I, however, I have added an alternative link which you may like to look at. Rjm at sleepers 06:52, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

I delinked it because 1) it's meaning was made clear in context (so linking to "law" would just be silly), and 2) I didn't seriously think I would find an article on "ordinance" in the context of Parliament of the Interregnum. Of course it wasn't clear to you that I was on a disambiguation run, because the message in Popups for link removal is not customizable. If I had changed the link the message would have mentioned the great disambiguation project.

BTW, I recently ranted about why I do so many delinks. Let me assure you I respect that article. — Randall Bart ^(talk) 09:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ordinance / Decree

You recently changed the link from ordinance to decree in the article Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. But in the Indian legal context, ordinance is the term for a law passed by the government while the parliament is not in session. So I believe the former link should be retained on the article, with possibly an addition of this meaning of ordinance to the disambiguation page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkeranat (talk • contribs) 20:57, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

As stated on the project page, "Ideally, Wikipedia articles should not link to disambiguation pages (with rare exceptions where the ambiguity of a term is being discussed)". I'm trying to pipe that link to an appropriate article. If there's an article on "ordinance" as used by the Government of India, that would be ideal. Short of that, it was [[law]] or [[decree]], and "decree" seemed to fit more. I am just a Wikignome with no lasting interest in that page. You can direct it as you wish, but if you direct it to the disambiguation page, in a few months another disambiguator will change it. — Randall Bart ^(talk) 00:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your puzzler

Answering here, so as not to blurt it out on WT:DPL, so others can also have the fun. Take the x's and z's out of xzwzxoxxozzlzxwxzoxzrxztxxhzzsxz to see the answer. Thanks for the challenge, one I was not quite up to without a bit of wikidigging. Happy editing! Chris the speller 20:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

You really are the speller, aren't you. —  Randall Bart   Talk  04:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A. K. Faezul Huq

Hey, thanks for the changes you made on my father's page. Appreciate it. The Minister 11:47, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Panavision edits

Hey, I just wanted to give you a heads up that I've reverted your edits. While the credit is interesting, it's debatable how relevant it is to the overall topic (it is somewhat trivial), and additionally, the current consensus on IMDb is that is that it's not a reliable source for referencing. Please let me know if you have any further concerns. Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola 22:26, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Whatever. —  Randall Bart   Talk  00:36, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Public libraries in other federal government countries

You changed the link to federal in this article to the US federal govt, when the article specifically includes discussion of at least two other countries that have federal govts. Are you sure that the term federal in that article should be limited to the US? just checking before I revert. thanks --Tinned Elk 22:27, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I took "county, state, federal" as such an obvious USA-centric expression, I just went with the flow. I just changed it to central government; you may change it to anything you wish. For more info, see my Dab FAQ.  Randall Bart   Talk  00:50, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gothic

Hi, Gothic can also refer to the Gothic alphabet, not just sans-serif. Cheers, --Kjoonlee 13:56, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Was there a specific case you would like to point out? Gothic alphabet would only apply to the era about 400 to 800 AD, while sans serif and blackletter are more modern, so I can't imagine an article where it would be ambiguous.  Randall Bart   Talk  00:01, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Fixedsys Excelsior is a sans-serif font, so all letter shapes are "Gothic." It also has letters from the Gothic alphabet, which is completely distinct from the Latin alphabet. Cheers, --Kjoonlee 05:33, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I did not expect to see Gothic alphabet in that context. When I'm on a dab run, most of the articles I don't read deeply. Good catch.  Randall Bart   Talk  08:31, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot edit error (I think)

I believe that your disambiguation bot put an erroneous link into the Archie Griffin page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archie_Griffin&diff=159270510&oldid=157757836

This link looks bogus:

junior university)

as it only has the closing ')'. Maybe it should be "junior (university)" ?

RainbowCrane | Talk 12:13, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

1. I am not a bot
2. Yeah, I bobbled that one. I was very frustrated disambiguating [[junior]], because there is an article called [[high school junior]], but no college equivalent. Further, I had no precedent to follow, because "freshman", "sophomore", and "senior" were all handled differently. I ended punting by creating redlinks to [[junior (university)]]. I'm not sure exactly how I fat fingered this one, but since it was intended as a redlink, I didn't catch the error.  Randall Bart   Talk  20:39, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Looking more closely at that one it is especially puzzling. That was one with both high school and college, so I had to edit manually. The summary generated by Popups has Junior (university), which means Popups created the edit changing all three to [[junior (university)]], and I needed to manually change one to [[high school junior]]. How I fat fingered the one I didn't need to change is a mystery.

Now that I look even more, more closely, I see that Popups changed two links to [[junior (university)]], I then changed one of those to [[high school junior]], and along the way I decided to add one more link, and botched it. Fixed now. Thanx.  Randall Bart   Talk  20:54, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Metalstorm Ranger disambiguation

In keeping with the proper meaning of the main character's title of "Ranger", he is supposed to be space cop... a protector, a guardian, and in this case in which it is being used in the movie, the best link for it is still, AND WILL FOREVER BE, "Ranger". He wasn't a commando, and definitely not a freakin D&D character class! I laughed at that! Come on... please use some common sense - Did you even watch this movie? If not then you should know he was more or less a bounty hunter than anything, but they called him a "ranger" for some reason. Please stop changing the link. Cyberia23 22:35, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

When disagreeing about an edit I have made, please provide a link to the article.

Wow, what an odd case. I went at ranger in multiple phases over a week, searching for articles to link to. I reread the lede to [[Ranger (character class)]], and took it for a generic crap fiction article, so I took a bunch of crap fiction articles still in need of disambiguation, and sent them there.

If it's worth linking, [[commando]] is correct, though not that good. Perhaps you would like to write an article called [[Ranger (crap fiction)]]. See also my FAQ  Randall Bart   Talk  23:04, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of British and United States military ranks compared

An article that you have been involved in editing, British and United States military ranks compared, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British and United States military ranks compared. Thank you. Caerwine Caer’s whines 22:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:WLA

Template:XLos Angeles/Userbox (♠Taifarious1♠) 02:00, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I broke the template, because it was putting this page in the project category.  Randall Bart   Talk  21:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Invite

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of University of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! ~~~~

[edit] whatlinkshere.js just stopped working

I don't know why, since you didn't change it and I haven't changed my own monobook.js file, but it stopped working sometime yesterday. Maybe there's been some change in the format of Whatlinkshere pages? --Russ (talk) 14:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Found the problem. Some genius in the dev group changed the page title from Special:Whatlinkshere to Special:WhatLinksHere. If I'd only monitored each and every one of hundreds of items in the MediaWiki Bugzilla on a daily basis, of course, I'd already have known about this. --Russ (talk) 14:59, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanx for the headsup, and thanx again for chasing down what changed.  Randall Bart   Talk  21:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wookie Rules

That isn't relevant if someone considers the wookie a gnat. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 21:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Manson's name

On the Charles Manson talk page, I've provided information in response to your question about Manson's name.JohnBonaccorsi (talk) 04:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Army Air Corps

As the person who moved Army Air Corps to Army Air Corps (United Kingdom) (via another move), and who converted Army Air Corps to a DAB page, I'd like to thank you for cleaning up all the links you've been working on. I didn't realize there were so many, or that not all of them were related to the UK AAC. Thanks for your diligence in this. - BillCJ (talk) 21:07, 10 May 2008 (UTC)