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I'm lazy..... what can i say, you know what to do

Quilava

What I reverted wsa nonsense, you called Typhlosion a Stage-3 and started going on about water and dirt. Highway 08:48, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

But HighwayCello, total page reverts are not the way to handle a few mistakes or formatting concerns. --Brandon Dilbeck 20:34, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Oz, Liir, etc.

Hey, Zappernapper. Thanks for the invite, but I'm pretty busy at the Doctor Who WikiProject and I'd rather not divide my energies further. Feel free to improve the Liir and Wicked (novel) entries — I don't own them! I may drop in from time to time to see how things are progressing, but I trust my fellow editors. I'm not really an expert on Baum's Oz either — I just read the books a lot when I was a kid, and enjoyed Maguire's novels as an adult.

I agree that the character profile should have more than just a summary of his actions in the two books. It sounds like you've already got some good ideas for expanding and revising the articles. If you are going to work on them, you might be interested in this guideline that I recently learned about. In any case, I wish you luck and good editing! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 02:30, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

WP:PAC/S

Looking great! :). —Celestianpower 18:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

merge tag you put on power points

i dont konw where you wanted this comment so i thought i would leave it here.

I am not a pokemon person, and i did a simple google search on this site for weasel words listed on the weasel word page, and added a tag for it.

so long as the weasel word is corrected, I dont care what you do to the page.

good luck

Stwalkerster 13:29, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

erection index page deletion

Hello, there. Thanks for defending the Erection index page I made, though it was deleted. As per dispute resolution I have sent the delete voters messages asking for clarifications and have begun working on a replacement page with some additional explanation and references. I'm thinking since this has a popularity contest element to it I should keep your handle and let you know when the Erection index page is under threat again. The deletion process has my respect, to a qualified degree, but in my opinion--as you pointed out--there were some pretty unqualified and arguably contradictory complaints against the erection index page. Anyway, thanks and maybe more later (and any advice gladly accepted). Cheers! -- M0llusk 05:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Vote solicitation

Hi. I agree with your comments about vote solicitation, which is why I only messaged people who had already voted. Cheers. Remy B 09:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Re:Pokefair template

You forgot to subst it. Anyway, I've fixed it for both the images. Cheers, The Raven's Apprentice 08:40, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

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PokeVideogamesIntro

Are you absolutely positive that this is the best way to introduce the Video Games section of each pokemon? See my comment there for more details.

Re:hi raven

Apparently, that conversation got archived. :o Anyways, thanks for reminding me, I'd totally forgotten about it. However, I'd rather wait and hear what AMIB says before commenting. Cheers, The Raven's Apprentice 14:21, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Re:Bisexuality

Thanks for letting me know. I left a note on Angr's talk page, and hopefully we can resolve the issue. I wasn't really protecting the page out of the number of vandalism edits, but out of the type of vandalism (libel, slander, etc.) Nishkid 64 20:49, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Geisha

Thanks for supporting my Geisha nomination; hopefully having it as a featured picture will inspire people to work on the shoddy article itself. --Iriseyes 15:02, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: BiCon (UK)

Yes, a direction to human sexuality was my intention, I just forgot the split between that and the sexuality page. Simply put the field of discussion and experience at BiCon encompasses many other areas not directly linked to bisexuality (or other sexual orientations), such as alternative relationship styles and BDSM. I had used the term sexuality in the article in it's true broad sense, instead of the unfortunately common misuse of it as a euphamism for sexual orientation. --Myfanwy 19:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Gloves

Actually, although I've had rats in the past, I don't have a strong interest in them; I created the article on degloving because... well, I don't remember what specifically made me look up degloving, but after I created the article, I linked all the mentions of it to the article. Plus I just did touchups for the article while I was there.

I'll have a look at the How-To section later on. DS 18:24, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Ah!

Figured it out.

You should go to Wikibooks. If there isn't already material on How To Keep Pet Rats for you to add to, you can start it. DS 23:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

bulba change....

i love your proposed bulbasaur change, it cuts out so much redundant information that can be found elsewhere in WP. And of course, WP should not be a guide, and so cutting gaming strategies was good... although i kinda only skimmed your thing, and noticed a few things that i'm not 100% for, your proposed change is 100% in the right direction. I don't know how the hell it got featured while being so bloated. Blueaster 00:30, 30 November 2006 (UTC) i didn't fully understand what u said... and could u tell me exactly what happened to u when u got "wikibonked"? Blueaster 00:37, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: a request for futher input

You asked for my input regarding standardized section headings, so here it is. I haven't seen much success with this sort of thing in the past. I think the best way to handle it is through the WikiProjects, as you've attempted in the Pokémon case. In general, attempts at standardization tend to be seen as bureaucratic, for better or worse. In the case of Cat and Dog, the relevant WikiProjects are Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cats and Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Dogs. It might make sense to have a Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Pets or Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Domesticated animals, but this should probably be dicussed at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Council to gauge the level of interest. Mike Dillon 05:24, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Poke Ball

I don't think you can really use a page entitled 'Satanism in Pokemon' as a reliable reference. Veinor (ヴエノル) 19:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

 Mr.Veinor should listen to your athouratay, or you should just not call it statanism, but something less harsh

Note: I'm not insulting anyone, I'm just giving adv-icePikazilla 19:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Category:Rat breeds

Are you moving all the articles out to Category:Rat species ?? Headphonos 20:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

yes. these are not breeds, but species, and therefore inaccurate. The categorey should only contain links like Dumbo rat or Hairless rat if they ever exist.

The best thing to do is put them back in the Category:Rat breeds and then ask for a WP:CFD rename vote to Category:Rat species. If the vote is successfull the wiki "bot" will move the articles over automatically. 20:39, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, We better wait for this vote to finish first. Vote Once this vote is done, we can have a send vote to fine tune the Category. Species might be the way to go. We want to make sure that all rat "Breeds" or "Species" articles are under one category so people can find them easily under one roof. Whatever, the final category name voted on is fine with me, once we get input from others and agreement. Thank you. Headphonos 20:50, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

No #redirects wait for the current vote to finish, then we will have another vote to fine tune everything. Please put everything back to rat breeds +cat for now and we will have a vote soon. Currently, you have split it in half making the situation confusing. Thanks Headphonos 22:30, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Please don't put humans into the Category:Pet rats this is for rats not humans. Headphonos 00:14, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

This +cat is already being used for fictional rodents Category:Fictional mice and rats Headphonos 11:01, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Why would you put the categories up for vote before the first vote is completed ? Headphonos 11:09, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Greetings

There are moves by some of the more biologically oriented editors to boot the 'in popular culture and trivia sections out of what are predominantly biological artilces' and I consider I have a half way attitude - I really think they should have see also's in the species articles - perhaps a smaller section than the one in rat - but some of the orang utan edit war was over total removal. The big problem with the in popular culture articles - is that they are anecdtoal ad hoc collections of items from us-based tv and film watchers who dont even know what a ref or citation is - they are not in a stricter term encyclopedia articles but badly unalphabetical created lists. Oh well - there is a whole academic literature on the issues that hardly one of the arts in the range of category animals in popular culture even acknowledges as well. sad. SatuSuro 03:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh well we are at least honest and direct on our preferences as to the issues - I appreciate that - maybe there might be some compromise somehwere rather than drawing lines in the sand - if you think rats ok - but point out an issue with dog - well there's something gained. I appreciate you going to the trouble to answer - all the best! SatuSuro 23:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

And the issue of size is a point well made. I suppose if you detest sub pages - you can tell my problem - anecdotal ad hoc unalpha order lists with mainly tv and film info with no refs! Hey - as I said - thanks for responding SatuSuro 23:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok looks like we agree in the end! cheers! SatuSuro 02:11, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

new world rats and mice and OWRAM

i have left a solution at the discussion page but no one has provided any feedback and i fear that is why the discussion was not closed today, could you please respond so that it could be closed? I will also be contacting visvia and headphonos, thanx! -ΖαππερΝαππερ _Alexandria 02:11, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Sure. - jc37 04:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorting of animal phyla

The spaces in the sort keys of the animal phyla was deliberate, and prevents the phyla from being mixed in with the other categories. The only alternative would be to separate the phyla out into a Category:Animal phyla or Category:Animals by phylum, but I think that would overcomplicate things. --Stemonitis 16:34, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for any inconvenience i may have caused. I was under the impression that it was common for the next level of taxonomy to just be included, rather than separated. In truth, it is acually more confusing to have them seperated without a clear reason why to the common layperson. I recognized Chordata along with some others but a few were unknown to me and i thought that they were all just mistakenly put there, the spaces being accidental. I've seen the convention to use an asterisk before to denote a special group, but never just a space. Is this a convention that the relevant wikiproject proposed or one that i missed when reveiwing the category conventions? Pls respond on my talk page. -ΖαππερΝαππερ _Alexandria 00:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC) copied from User talk:Stemonitis

There's no need to apologise. I don't believe that there is a standard for such things; it was my personal preference. I had previously found it confusing and time-consuming to have to search through a list of "exploding animals", "animals in politics" and so on to find articles about taxonomic groups, and thought it would be easier to keep the phylar categories separate. As regards the use of the space, that's another thing that has been widely adopted without being specifically agreed upon anywhere (to my knowledge). It achieves the same thing as an asterisk, but looks a bit neater. I have used both in some categories, in order to create two independent sections. --Stemonitis 11:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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Pokemon game mechanics

I've removed the {{inuse}} and {{underconstruction}} tags because they were up for over a week. I do like the reorganization you've done and am looking forward to your improvements on the article. Feel free to msg me or start a discussion on the talk page if you'd like any help in developing your ideas! -ΖαππερΝαππερ _Alexandria 22:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

That’s fine, as I said in my last edit summary, other users should feel free to edit. Just be aware that I am still working on it on my computer every day, though, and hope to unveil some major rewrites and additions within a week.( Though Saturday obviously is Egg-retrieving day.) --WikidSmaht (talk) 23:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Vaporeon

The article was assessed with the Cryptozoology template because it is contained in the Category:Fictional mermen and mermaids. All the articles in that category were given the banner, because, if you look at the banner, mermen and mermaids are kind of one of the primary focuses of the project. Also, the majority of the articles in those categories, even Aquaman and Namor the Sub-Mariner, are ones which contain content the new project would probably be best aware of. Personally, I have no objection to seeing the banner removed. However, if you do not want the article to be considered to be one about mermen and mermaids, I suggest you remove the misleading category. It is of course entirely your decision what you will do. However, if the banner is not replaced within 24 hours, I will remove the article from the misleading category myself. Badbilltucker 19:00, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Please attend to your bot

Sorry I was sound asleep when I got the message and forgot to check my watchlist when I woke up, delaying the fix even more. It has been fixed now, thanks for the reminder. BJ 23:18, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Pokeball

Singular their

Thanks for the comments. You're right, I'm a bit of a grammar Nazi, I'll stop. You might not have noticed, but I try to eliminate the annoying pronoun whenever possible, i.e. "The player can use their Pokedex to..." becomes "Players can use the Pokedex to..." or something like that. SubStandardDeviation 07:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

How Thrifty :P

Nice job being thrifty at the new page bazaar. That certainly gave me a chuckle...¤~Persian Poet Gal 20:15, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Category:Species of rats and Category:Species of mice

Where did these categories go to ? Were they voted on ? Headphonos 13:02, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

No I was not accusing you of deleting them, but I do believe you add very little to wikipedia. bye Headphonos 22:19, 18 February 2007 (UTC)