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[edit] howard moss (singer)

Hello. I did as you had suggested & began a new page for the singer, songwriter Howard Moss. In Europe the late American poet of this name is sadly not as well known as he is in the States. The singer Howard Moss (b 1975 Luton, Bedfordshire) has had chart hits & is recognised as a top performer who plays regularly to live audiences. He should definitely be included in Wikipedia.

The page I started was deleted. Can you please help?

Frank observer 15:46, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Have a look at similar articles, and use same type of layout. Also add a little more information, particularly regarding his notability and if possible with references. I'm sorry to say that I don't know anything about him. --Leo Laursen TALK⋰CONTRIBS 16:06, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Finland-Lapland

Dear Leolaursen, I apologize for taking so long to get back to you. The matter of whether Finnland refers to Lapland or Finland is a tricky question. The two runestones that mention(ed) Finland are held to refer to Finland proper while Icelandic and Norwegian sources used the ethnonym Finn for Saamis. Frankly, I don't think that Viking Age Scandinavians cared very much for such distinctions, and Finn and Finnland was probably used indiscriminately to refer to Finno-Ugric tribes north and east of Scandinavia. So my answer is: I really don't know.--Berig 14:18, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Maybe, you should discuss it with the Wikipedia specialist on Finno-Ugric pre-history: user:Drieakko.--Berig 15:20, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jessica Williams photo

Dear Leolaursen, thank you thank you thank you for fixing the bad code on the box for the photo of Jessica Williams. I spent way too much time and gave up...you saved the day. Thank you for the good deed. The world can use many more like you! Elaine, (ElaineCArc, elaine@elainearc.com) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ElaineCArc (talk • contribs) 10:52, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

No problem at all, only glad to help. —Leo Laursen ( T | C ) 10:58, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Robert Patrick

Hi Guroadrunner. I reverted your edits in Robert Patrick. It looks alright in Firefox, so I guess the many edits today in the template Infobox actor did the trick. —Leo Laursen ( T | C ) 14:04, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

:-) No worries on that - I found out that the actor/actress template infobox was the problem, I just did not know how to fix it. Guroadrunner 03:51, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pillope

I don't think it's vandalism. "Pillope" may be a common/local name for Sclerocarya birrea. However, as the article is copied from a copyrighted source, I have deleted it under WP:CSD#G12. Conscious 12:54, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Zen articles

Kizeme and Maai are both included in the parent Category:Zen, Zen being one of the schools of Buddhism. Pretty much, that was the only connection I saw, and it was on that basis that the banner was added. Presumably, the Zen connection is to Zen Buddhism. If the connection is not strong enough, however, then feel free to remove the banner. Certainly, I would have no objections to your doing so. However, if possible, maybe finding some category other than Category:Zen to place them in might also be a good idea, to prevent any further confusion. John Carter 13:12, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah, OK. I didn't notice that they are in Category:Zen. They probably shouldn't be, but that's another discussion. Thanks for the clarification. —Leo Laursen ( T | C ) 13:25, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

If you believe that they should not be included in that category, I would take your work on it. If you wish to do so, and feel doing so is justified, please feel free to remove both the category and banner. I don't know the subjects well enough to know one way or anotehr. John Carter 00:03, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Refimprove

I do use Firefox, but yes it probably is the ambox that is the problem. I will look up other similar templates and try to tweak it. — $PЯINGεrαgђ 15:37, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Just make sure that the errors aren't caused by some weird cache problem :) —Leo Laursen ( T | C ) 16:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Historical literature

Honestly, I don't know. When I saw the previous category (Historical Literature) I saw that it was a subcategory of Historical fiction, and thought "that's not right." and reversed it, without much thought. Wikipedia's categories are rather convoluted. I would almost think that we need a Wikiproject just for category management. Back on subject. Yes, I think that the two categories should be side by side in Category:History. Some of the material from historical fiction could be categorized as historical literature, thus filling that category.--Vox Rationis (Talk | contribs) 16:42, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, I'll look into it soon. Thanks.—Leo Laursen ( T | C ) 21:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hornulk

Regading dk:Hornulk, could you please move the article back to dk:Ulk, change the scientific name to Myoxocephalus scorpius, and remove the Figure (see Discussion of that page). Thanks. -- .g —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.249.61.200 (talk) 00:39, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I copied the text back. I didn't remove the image, but added a caption that indicates that it is a Deepwater sculpin. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 08:49, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ReOrganizing Mobile categories

I appreciate your input on the mobile categories. If I could afford to spend more time on the task I'd try and pitch at wikipedia project mobile, but I only spend as much time on wikipedia as I can justify at work. I style myself a "Mobile Guru" at times though so I can justify a lot of short edits. For me that has meant categorizing, discussing, throwing up stubs when most needed. I enjoy stripping out advertising lingo too. Too many mobile companies are notable, but someone made the mistake of copying their marketing material and trying to make an article out of it. Anyway I commented on my own page to. I'm still not sure on wikipedia's etiqute for the discussion page. Mathiastck (talk) 19:14, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I am not an expert, but I have way too much time on my hands at the moment (unemployed). My point of entry was categorizing articles. To come to a working solution, we need to step back a little, to get perspective on both regional and historical differences. After reading just a few articles I now think that it might be possible to clean the existing scheme to an adequate solution. I don't know the best place to discuss this, since it involves so many articles. For now I'll await more discussion. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 19:40, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Recipients of the Légion d'honneur

Regarding merging the Legion of Honor, certainly, that is fine with me.Billy Hathorn (talk) 02:02, 12 February 2008 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Billy_Hathorn"

Moved here from User page. Thanks – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 17:40, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Fort Minor Militia EP

All right, if you wouldn't mind seeing if I nominated it right, I'd appreciate it. I tried, and I don't think I did it right. The reason I reverted the edits was that the edits gave people viewing the page the inpression that the article is of a legit item. I was also thinking of taking off the "Producer" and "Label" tags, as they aren't apprepriate either, but decided against it. Thanks, and feel free to say your piece about the article. Jay (talk) 15:31, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Afd looks fine. It would help if You have some links that clearly shows that it is a fake. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 16:34, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't know of any links, but I have a friend who bought it. As stated in the page's "Fake:" description, it's very obvious that it's a fake (still says "DVD" on it, as it borrows the FM Militia DVD's art, mislabels which artists are on which tracks, etc.). I'm a devout FM fan, and have had experience with bootlegs on several occasions before as well. If need be, I suppose I could ask my friend for pics and whatnot. Jay (talk) 00:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of User Madram/Alfa romeo spider alloy wheels

Please do not move pages to nonsensical titles. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to learn more about moving pages, please see the guidelines on this subject. If you would like to experiment with page titles and moving, please use the test Wikipedia. Thank you.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 15:28, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Albinoni's Adagio In G Minor

You have redirected the above article which was originally about the Doors track by that name to the main article about the original work. You did not include an edit summary explaining your redirection. Would you please explain why you redirected the article? Do you think that it does not merit a separate article? Please in future be more informative in your edit summaries! Thank you. --ukexpat (talk) 18:23, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

The track does not merit a separate article in my view, but the reason was that the article stated that it was a song written by Ray Manzarek. Further more, the original publication was on An American Prayer. I suggest that you write a section about the Doors version on Adagio in G minor. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 18:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Uncategorized from 2008

I originally put it up when I was testing the new "hidden category" feature but seemed to have forgot to remove it. It is no longer in the category. Vivio Testarossa^{Talk Who} 05:59, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, it's no big deal, it just pop'ed up on my todo-list. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 10:01, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Hatnote on FLASH

I'm aware of WP:HN, very much. I'd say it applies (because of the dab page and same name character). See Crash for example. Another would be Batman (disambiguation), though not sure if that's a good one (look for the "B.A.T.M.A.N." link there). And there's Viz. Does that help? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 15:55, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I disagree (obviously), for me it falls under WP:NAMB. FLASH needs a mention on Flash, but not a hatnote. I don't mind that we disagree, just wanted to explain since you asked. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 16:11, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I use WP:NAMB for the most obvious cases (often when there's no redirect involved or when the hats are superfluous). I've tagged Flash for cleanup recently. You're right that FLASH needs mention on the dab, however, what of THE FLASH (also known by FLASH)? And spelling of FLASH is an all caps version of Flash. These things I feel should be mentioned. Thoughts? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 16:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Personally I would never look for THE FLASH, but rather The Flash, and based on the number of backlinks (THE FLASH: 2, The Flash: +250), so would most people. I don't see any mentions of "all-caps" FLASH on Flash (comics). If it is commonly spelled in all caps the hatnote is justified, of course. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 16:58, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

It's the same case as BATMAN; most would type "Batman" instead, however, the article makes no reference of the all caps. I think there used to be a hatlink on B.A.T.M.A.N. until it was removed for reasons similar to yours. Or so I read. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 17:03, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Atmakur (Warangal district)

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[edit] Thanks

Hi, Leolaursen. This is just a quick note to thank you for categorising the article Vladimír Šťastný. I often forget to add a category when creating an article-I appreciate you doing it. Thanks again. Puchiko (Talk-email) 21:34, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Categorization needs to be reviewed

Hello Leo. There's really no universal rule. Only a few of these articles were placed in incorrect categories. More often than not, the problem is that the categories used are too broad (say, Category:Albums, Category:German people) or that important categories have been left out (birth and death categories for people, year for albums, etc.). The idea is that you should treat the articles as uncategorized. If the categories placed by the bot are good, then of course they should remain. Pichpich (talk) 14:50, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Santonian

Thanks for fixing my problem. :) Abyssal leviathin (talk) 09:53, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stakeholder (general)

Hi Leolaursen. I'm in two minds about this one, which you prod-ed a couple of days ago. I created it because I found a number of redlinks while working on redirecting links to the dab, which would seem to indicate a need for it. And looking at this [1] older version there may be value. Have a look at that one and see what you think, please? If that previous version doesn't sway you, then by all means put it out of its misery. 9Nak (talk) 05:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

A short introduction on the dap Stakeholder, with a reference to wiktionary wikt:stakeholder, should suffice. Further elaboration on the meaning belongs on wiktionary. You can remove the prod-template if you disagree, in which case somebody might take it to WP:AFD for a thorough debate. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 08:23, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

No, sounds like a good call. In this case some links should go to the dap, perhaps. Or I'll find another way around the problem. 9Nak (talk) 13:54, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

The disambiguation looks difficult indeed. My take is that some should simply not be wiki-linked, others link to wikt:stakeholder and the rest to Stakeholder (disambiguation), a redirect to be created in order to distinguish them from accidental links in Special:WhatLinksHere/Stakeholder. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 15:05, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] my NavBar

I have no clue why you would flag my NavBar on my UserPage for deletion. Can you tell me why? CarverM (talk) 03:22, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

The NavBar belongs in your user space, e.g. User:CarverM/NavBar, not in the Template-name space. It was tagged as an uncategorized template, that's why I was there in the first place. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 08:00, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply but I still do not understand the issue. (I'm still new to all of this.) On ones Userpage where people first come to learn about you or communicate to you, shouldn't there be some kind of navigation? CarverM (talk) 04:09, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

The problem is that your navigation bar is a template. It should be a sub page of your user page, which can be transcluded just as a template. So you should move the template, and then change {{CarverNavBar}} to e.g. {{User:CarverM/NavBar}} in your pages. Let me know if you need help in doing that. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 07:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I think I see what you mean. I'll give it a try, then call for help :) CarverM (talk) 22:53, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry to bother you but I guess I'm still unclear. My UserPage is not a template. So, couldn't I leave my UserPage as is? Then, on my subpages simply take out the template and replace it with the code used to make up the template? One would essentially see the same thing it would just not be a template. Thanks for the help. CarverM (talk) 00:21, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

It's no bother at all. You could can simply replace {{CarverNavBar}} with {{subst:CarverNavBar}}, that will write the code unto the page, but then its more difficult to maintain. Moving or copying the template to a sub page is the easiest solution. The only special with templates is that you don't need to write template, but any page can be a template. I use User:Leolaursen/Boxes as a template on my user page. I can change it for you if you want, it really just a minor thing. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 06:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

If you wouldn't mind making the change that would be great. Then I could watch/learn from what you did. THANKS. CarverM (talk) 01:14, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Done Hope all went well. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 12:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Now I understand! CarverM (talk) 19:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gravensteengroep speedy deletion

Hi there, I just declined the speedy deletion on Gravensteengroep as I couldn't find a previous AFD discussion on this article. I will gladly reconsider if you can point me in the right direction - perhaps it was discussed under a slightly different name? Kind regards, nancy ^(talk) 17:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

It was deleted 4 March 2008 at 00:58 by Golbez under A7, under the same name. Restored same day and also marked as patrolled. Whether it was improved upon I can't tell. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 17:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

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