User talk:BRG/Archive 2008-9

Volapük

Hi BRG! I found your name via the m:Association for Inclusionist Wikipedians and thought you might care about this discussion: m:Proposals for closing projects/Radical cleanup of Volapük Wikipedia. In case you agree with us that deleting stubs is not the best way to go for the Volapük Wikipedia, you could help us fight against this proposal with your vote. Thanks! --Smeira 17:58, 13 January 2008

Streetcars

I have replied on Talk:Broadway Line (Lower Manhattan surface). --NE2 15:59, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Another Time, Another Place (television episode)

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Smith Ballew

Thanks for starting the Smith Ballew article. I also try to get articles about people from that era, including the "singing cowboys", added to Wikipedia, for example: Jimmy Wakely. I have made some additions to the article. Feel free to take a look and edit as you wish. Thanks. Truthanado (talk) 15:20, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

DC Meetup on May 17th

Your help is needed in planning Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4! Any comments or suggestions you have are greatly appreciated. The Placebo Effect (talk) 18:51, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Songs by Hank Williams

I have nominated Category:Songs by Hank Williams (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into another category. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 00:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (song)

Just came across this and wanted to thank you for starting it off; it's good to have a place to point people to find out more about this song. You may wish to include some of the information I just posted on it's talk page. Thanks again! 75.214.114.36 (talk) (really, User:JesseW/not logged in) 07:16, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4

Any comments you have about location would be appreciated. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:40, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia meetup

As someone who may live or work near Washington D.C., you may be interested - if you've not heard already - about the meetup scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, at Union Station. For details, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4.

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Thanks

Hi there. Thanks for the welcome. It's great to meet other editors with similar interests. I look forward to working with you. TheRetroGuy (talk) 11:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Patti Page

Thank you for your great contributions to Patti Page's article. I have just made her a discography page (if you haven't noticed already) and added more information to her main article. I have recently discovered that you made articles for her albums, but failed to redirect the albums on her page, which makes it nearly impossible to find. Please be more careful when editing articles to make sure her albums are accessible through her page. I have another problem. You have made articles for her albums, but don't have a year for when some of them was released, for example the Patti Page album. I need to know its year, so I can add to her albums table on her discography page, so please tell me on my talk page. There is also a few others, where no year was added. No means to criticize (I'm not trying to), but please remember to add the information to the articles for next time. I'm very glad someone has taken interest in an older singer's article, such as yourself. Dottiewest1fan (talk) 22:19, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I will add it anyway. You know, I think the Patti Page might be one of her first albums ever, so I think I'll add it there. As I said before, great contributions, thank you for adding some album articles, they're very helpful! I just wanted to be sure about clarifying things. You're a Patti Page fan too? That's great, so am I. I'm getting a box set of her music next month, I can't wait. She is probably the only traditional pop singer I like (I'm a country music editor on wikipedia and am a big fan of mainly that music). I've always been fascinated how her music adds country music melodies too it, I think it was so revolutionary. I do have a question though. Since you're a Patti fan, do you know who was the original singer who recorded "A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)," was it Page or Patsy Cline, who also recorded it the same year and made it a country hit? As I said before, thanks for the contributions. Dottiewest1fan (talk) 02:34, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

So you think Patsy recorded it first, okay just wondering for myself. Thanks a lot. Dottiewest1fan (talk) 16:31, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh great, that's good, very good. Well I'm sure your Polygram CD is correct. If want to make anymore albums, feel free to add them to the Patti Page discography article. Thank you. Dottiewest1fan (talk) 20:54, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

August DC Meetup

Greetings! We're working out the details about the next DC Meetup sometime this month and would love your opinion. Please check it out at Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 5 and spread the word. Staeiou (talk) 18:17, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

The Astaire Story/Project

Any thoughts on this album?.... Should we angle toward setting up a trad pop/vocal jazz Wikiproject? How much interest is there? So many of our great artists have horror shows for articles. Ella, Betty Carter, and Astaire are pretty good though :) Gareth E Kegg (talk) 11:35, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

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I'm glad to have met you at the meetup. Cheers! bd2412 T 23:36, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject

I replied on my talk page, incase you hadn't read this: I think it is perfectly acceptable to have parent categories, according to WP:PROJGUIDE, I think our closest relations would be Wikipedia:WikiProject Music genres, Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Theatre. How much support do you think we would have? I can think of four or five reg editors. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 12:32, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Songs by Bob Merrill

I have nominated Category:Songs by Bob Merrill (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Songs written by Bob Merrill (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 23:38, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

"Songs by"

I don't know if there's an easy way to nab them all. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 19:09, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

• That's going to be a huge CfD. Might want to ask at the music wikiproject. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 19:15, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Pochhammer Binomial theorem

Dear BRG,

As I was unaware of the existence of a binomial theorem for Pochhammer symbols I derived it myself. Only afterwards did I see that you already mentioned it on the Wikipedia site. Do you know of any standard reference work that I could cite when using this theorem?

Thanks, JB —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.199.99.96 (talk) 11:13, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't know of any; I worked out the formula on my own. -- BRG (talk) 16:08, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Devoted to You (song)

I have nominated Devoted to You (song), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devoted to You (song). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 02:53, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

• Okay, then if it charted, why the heck doesn't the article say that? I surely wouldn't have afd'ed it had the chart positions been in the article. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 15:04, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

• Oh, I see, you added the positions. Good work. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 18:32, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Dreamweavers

I have nominated Dreamweavers, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dreamweavers. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. TTN (talk) 03:27, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the article that is there now has no relationship to the one I created. I had made a redirect page to The Dream Weavers and I would prefer that the current article be replaced by my original redirect. I don't know how to put that through the AfD process, but I said this on the discussion page. -- BRG (talk) 18:32, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of It's the Talk of the Town

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CfD nomination of Category:Songs by Howard Barnes

I have nominated Category:Songs by Howard Barnes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Songs written by Howard Barnes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 22:30, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Songs by Frank Loesser

I have nominated Category:Songs by Frank Loesser (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Songs written by Frank Loesser (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 23:49, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

No content in Category:Songs by Anna Sosenko

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You maybe interested in the Article Rescue Squadron

Article Rescue Squadron

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DC Meetup Events: You're invited!

Wikipedia Loves Art! (February 27) The Smithsonian American Art Museum will be holding a Wikipedia Loves Art! meetup on Friday, February 27 from 5-7 pm in the Kogod Courtyard. This is a photography event involving Wikipedians, along with Flickr users and others, to generate content for Wikipedia. Come share your experiences, meet the other teams, and take some photos! While RSVPing isn't necessary drop Jeff Gates an email if you're planning on attending so he can get a head count: gatesj (at) si.edu. There also is a signup list here, along with detailed information. The museum is conveniently located across from the Gallery Place-Chinatown metro station. DC 6th Meetup (March 7) The DC 6th meetup will take place on March 7th at Pizzeria Uno's at Union Station, one level up from the main floor. The meetup will start at 5pm, and people usually stick around there for several hours. You can RSVP at Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 6.

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Welcome to the Article Rescue Squadron!

	WELCOME	from a Article Rescue Squad member
	Welcome to Article Rescue Squadron BRG/Archive 2008-9, a dynamic list of articles needing to be rescued, which changes with new updates, can be found here: Articles tagged for deletion and rescue Category Articles tagged for deletion and rescue not found I look forward to working with you in the future. Ikip (talk) 22:37, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Welcome BRG, I look forward to working with you! Ikip (talk) 22:37, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Summertime

For a while I've been deleting the recorded versions of Summertime, partly because no one added them as well as you, but mainly because they'll eventually need their own page! What shall we do? Anons will start adding all the American Idols and the like soon, and it shall be huuuge. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 18:07, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi!

Realized I saw you at the meetup today, but never got to say hello to you. It was great to see you, even if we didn't get a chance to catch up due to my slight tardiness. SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:51, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to ARS!

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AfD nomination of I'll Never Stop Loving You (2003 song)

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Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll

Thanks for your input, but the poll will not start until 30 March 2009. Regards, Dabomb87 (talk) 00:04, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

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Johnny Mercer

Hi, I have nominated a category you created for renaming. I think it is a contentious nomination and I would like to see your thoughts at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 April 18. Thanks. --Richhoncho (talk) 17:54, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your note on my talk page. I can see exactly where you are coming from on this, my consideration was for the whole of the category tree, not JM specifically. If JM was purely a lyricist no problems, but I think that 2 additional, very small (1 and 2 entries respectively and one of them wasn't cat'd properly!)) categories is overkill and denigrates JM's ability as a songwriter. I also wanted to put a stop to where a songwriter wrote both music and lyrics having 2 entries for the same song (as happened in JM's case). I am happy to discuss this and support a re-creation, perhaps the way round it is to create a sub-category "jazz standards by songwriter" or similar. Sorry you missed the CfD discussion, your input was wanted. Let's talk this through and see if we can find a solution that suits JM and similar songwriters and WP categorization. Regards. --Richhoncho (talk) 11:32, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your further note. I do understand the credit system in the times of JM although I remain sceptical there really was such a division of labour as composer/lyricist as so often suggested, especially when I see "bandleader" and "lyricist" in the same sentence. In fact present day contracts still refer to lyricist and composer - which can be quite important when dividing up any royalties, if for no other reason. I wish I had an idea which we could both approve, I don't and I think the best suggestion is for you to to nominate the existing category for sub-division, as you suggested, lyricist and composer, I wouldn't outrightly oppose, save to say that I think it is overcategorization, but in the case of JM, who is notable in spades, an exception should or could be made. Let's just hope it doesn't open the floodgates for duplicate cats for a bunch of relative unknowns. BTW I am trying to beef up the whole songwriter categories (if nobody wrote the songs, the people who sing them wouldn't be known!), so if you have any pointers where I should be looking I'd appreciate that. Thanks. --Richhoncho (talk) 20:06, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

You can take the matter to Wikipedia:Deletion review. Regards--Richhoncho (talk) 07:36, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, I have responded. --Richhoncho (talk) 20:29, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

No my intention is to link what is already in WP with references (which might be a problem), BTW I use the "official lists" which can be found at ASCAP. Although plenty of things missing from ASCAP, you can rely on what is actually there. Ditto BMI. --Richhoncho (talk) 19:04, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

The 7th DC Meetup

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Ricochet

You wrote, "(In at least one case I managed to be able to make a good guess; see Ricochet (song), where I've tried to make it clear that it is a guess, but with good reason.)" and according to that statement it would fail WP:V and WP:OR. It's the words "good guess" that rings my alarm bells. I have no intention of tagging the article as such. Regards, --Richhoncho (talk) 08:06, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer

I have nominated Category:Songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Songs written by Johnny Mercer (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:47, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Dorcas Cochran

Dorcas Cochran was my maternal great grandmother. I spent a great deal of time with her when she lived in Los Angeles and was able to visit her often in Las Vegas before her death. Her son, Robert Jackson Oakley, was my grandfather and one of the most important people in my life. Thank you very much for your entry, Dorcas was a truly unique character and should be remembered for the wonderful woman she was.

Again, many thanks for your entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluebillie (talk • contribs) 04:00, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

RE: The Johnny Mercer rename

Why is Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 May 9#Category:Songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer still an open question? It is clear that nobody except the one person who started the whole thing wants to do the change, but a whole bunch of songs got recategorized as a result of the earlier action, and the question really should be closed so the recategorizations can be reverted. -- BRG (talk) 21:47, 19 May 2009 (UTC) (Please respond on my own talk page.)

Yeah. But even if it's just a procedural nomination, I as nominator shouldn't close it, so somebody else probably can close it. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:23, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I've finally closed it. Sorry about the delay—one of our "regular" closers is away, so a bit of a backlog has resulted. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 02:27, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Location change (and reservations made) for DC meetup

I stopped by TGI Friday's this evening and was less than impressed. They apparently don't take reservations, except perhaps if you call 24 hours ahead of time. The staff was not so helpful, and the menu has hardly anything vegetarian which is an issue for some people.

So, I checked out the Bertucci's pizza/Italian place across the street (21st & I St NW). Their staff couldn't have been more helpful, and think it will be fairly quiet so we will be able to hear each other. So, reservations are made for Bertucci's at 5pm on Saturday. --Aude (talk) 02:38, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, June 6, 2009

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Frank Sesno Article

Thanks for the copyedit. Good to see you're keeping tabs on my writing ! :-) --rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 01:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Delete nomination of Category:Songs written by Don Robey

I have nominated Category:Songs written by Don Robey that you created for deletion. For details, please see here. Your comments are welcome. Thanks. --Sumori (talk) 03:32, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Merge/separation of different versions of the same song.

As somebody who appears to be interested in song articles you might be interested to know there is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs/coverversions with the purpose of trying to establish a standard rule for merge/separation of different versions of the same song. You are invited to comment. Regards,--Richhoncho (talk) 02:17, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the note on talk page, much appreciated. We didn't actually disagree about Mercer, it was how WP categorised him. When I first looked at the songwriter categories there were people who had written words and music for ONE song and had 2 categories, one for composition, and another for lyrics. Unfortunately there always will now, until somebody else picks up the baton. OTOH Mercer deserves 2 cats! --Richhoncho (talk) 21:56, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Volunteer opportunity in Bethesda, Thursday, July 16

The Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting an all-day Academy at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday, July 16. The team that will be teaching at the Academy, a mix of paid staff and volunteers, is looking for four more volunteers to be teaching assistants, providing one-to-one assistance in workshops whenever a workshop participant has a problem following the instructional directions. (We currently have two editors signed up as teaching assistants, and are looking for a total of six.)

The NIH editing workshops are only for two hours, but volunteers are asked to meet the Wikimedia Foundation team at the hotel in Bethesda at about 7:15 a.m. (time to be finalized shortly) and to stay for the entire day, which ends at 4:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. (The full schedule can be found here.)

The team is not necessarily looking for expert editors (though they are welcome), just people who can help novices who might get stuck when trying to do some basic things. If you've been an editor for at least 3 months, and have done at least 500 edits, you probably qualify.

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DC 8 (talk)

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Hello

Saw you walking along the sidewalk Wednesday morning while in my car - I honked hello and waved, but you didn't see me. Thought I'd say hello nonetheless. SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:22, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, September 26

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Films by composers.

Thinking about your special interests in music and most the people you are interested in are film score composers I thought it would be a useful category to have. Any thoughts? Regards, --Richhoncho (talk) 07:07, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Your wikki philosophy...

Put a smile on my face. As someone working on the Shirley Bassey discography I have noticed a few of the the deletion-happy youngins who probably have never heard of many traditional pop stars. They usually have the rules on their side, so I'm not complaining. But with so many on the deletion side of the equation, it is nice to read about someone who is on the inclusion side.--Nyctc7 (talk) 14:36, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply...I defer to your knowledge about whether the deletionists are on solid ground with some of their activity...perhaps I was giving credit where it is not due. While I think the page patrollers do an important job to keep self-promotion, gibberish, copyright violations, etc., off of wikipedia, I do think that being a "deletionist" is rather strange, as if Wiki was some kind of exclusive club. But I have read the articles on both schools, and find I agree with points in both camps!--Nyctc7 (talk) 15:43, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

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Speedy deletion nomination of Collectors' Choice Music

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Planning Discussions Now Ongoing Regarding DC Meetup #9

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Collectors' Choice Music

The flags added to Collectors' Choice Music were using a program called AWB or Autowiki Browser. I use it to scan articles and automatically add flags for improvement. For instance, it adds an orphan flag if there are less than three links leading to an article (although it's really bad at removing the orphan flags, hence why I don't use it for such). With regards to the Wikify tag, I believe it automatically adds them when there are less than three external links leading away from a page (it adds a deadend tag if there are none).

Anyway, I added a wikilink to bring it to the minimum, and removed the tag. The Wikify tag can also apply in cases where the layout isn't very good, but this isn't applicable in this case.

Best regards, Miyagawa (talk) 19:12, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Songs by year...

Rather than let your proposal die, I have put a message on Steelbeard's talkpage to ask him for further comments/objections to the proposal. As he was the major objector and I suspect he is not willing to argue against the proposal we could reasonable write a guideline (taking into consideration 2 songs with the same title released the same year) and make it a policy. What do you think? I am ignoring all further comments on credited/actual writers, but I do thank you for your comment regarding multiple releases of same song. I have responded on the project talkpage. --Richhoncho (talk) 20:04, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

The Project page says, "WikiProject Songs is a project intended to improve articles on songs. The goal is to make the song articles provide basic information in a quick and easy-to-read fashion. This project is based on WikiProject Albums, and uses similar templates. Its 'parent' project is WikiProject Music. A lot of this project has been lifted directly from the Albums project. This project is not yet fully defined, so feel free to modify and clarify it." I don't see what else we need, Steelbeard has had a message for a couple of days and not responded. Just go for it. You have one definate supporter and several so-so backers. Needs to be written, that's all. --Richhoncho (talk) 20:57, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Any ideas on wording if there are 2 songs with the same title in the same year (The Power of Love has been cited)? --Richhoncho (talk) 13:16, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Trouble with your suggestion is when you have more than half a dozen writers, can't see that being approved. Perhaps by songwriter if less than X characters, by artist if the artist is also a contributor to the songwriting, failing that.... I think I can run it through as non-contentious - see my extract above. --Richhoncho (talk) 17:38, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Planning Discussions Now Finished Regarding DC Meetup #9

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MIA

If you consider working full time, starting my Masters degree and teaching a class this semester to be vanishing, then I am guilty! Hope to see you at the next meetup. My schedule is a bit more free these next few months, luckily, I'll reenter the webosphere and maybe we can meetup with Feanorstar and Ben as discussed.rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 21:44, 20 December 2009 (UTC)