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otheruses template

I notice you placed the otheruses template at a lot of pages concerning "rock." This is mostly unnecessary. The reason for that is that nobody is going to end up at the Rock (geology) page by accident, when they're looking for another type of rock. It's not really wrong to have the notice there, but it's kind of useless. -Freekee 01:14, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Disco Demo

I apologize for losing your other changes. Wahkeenah 15:24, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

  No problem.

Over Wiki-linking

In regards to your comments, as follows:

“I'm not quite sure why you reverted the Truman State University page other than I "don't need to wiki-link every single word", which was clearly not the case. I believe the wiki-links that I added fall into the category of links that make sense and is not a case of overlinking. However, I do believe you were too quick to revert, and could possibly refresh yourself on when and when not to revert a page. If you still feel that I'm wrong, please enlighten me as to why. --Betaeleven 18:55, 6 November 2006 (UTC)”

and subsequent revert, I must stand by my initial action. Linking to situated, cardinal directions, policy, alcohol, exceptions, food service, memorial, library, volumes, museum, welded, haunted, chewing gum, sidewalk, potato, rituals, superstitions, knife, midnight, grades, pregnant, garden, weddings, cellar, myth, plaque, peach tree, euphonium and trombone is certainly overlinking and does not contribute to the context of the Truman State University article. In particular, these guidelines back my case:

“low added-value items are linked without reason — such as, 1995, 1980s, and 20th century.”

“In general, do not create links to: Plain English words.”

Certainly the average reader should be able to understand how a superstition works, north from south, and what food service is. This is an article about a university, not a dictionary.

I would invite you to refresh yourself on those guidelines as well. If we're still having problems over this, I am open to asking an arbiter to sort this out. --KHill-LTown 06:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

what?

"Wes Craven was born with two nostrils, and they are still functioning well, as of last report." I just deleted that line, which seems quite "unhelpful and non-constructive" as you said. I didn't add "unhelpful" information to wikipedia. I think you misread something and thought I added the line, but in fact, I deleted it. 71.214.190.34 is the user who added such a line. 201.252.18.162 20:05, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

My mistake. I re-edited your talk page. Betaeleven 20:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Mr rios

Just wanted to let you know that I changed the SD tag on Mr rios to {{db-attack}}, as it seems to be a personal attack on an individual, likely upon a teacher by a disgruntled student, instead of simply nonsense. MacGuy 19:58, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

  That's fine with me. Betaeleven 20:02, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, my dear, I do not agree -- it is not nonsense. Misplaced Pages has made reality into a commodity. It is real. It is true. MathStatWoman 13:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)