User talk:Captain-tucker/Archive 1

Redlinks in disambig

I agree with your recent edit since the Chelsea Carters were probably not the same. However, I wanted to make sure that not all redlinks get deleted, as some are ok according to MOS:DAB#Red links. If you check Special:WhatLinksHere/Chelsea Carter, you'll see that a page does link to Chelsea Carter, so in some vague technical sense the red link qualified for being on the disambig page. Like I said though, I agree with your edit on this one. JackSchmidt (talk) 20:24, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

I looked over some of your past edits, and your work seems good. It's very nice to see someone improving technical details of sci-fi articles. It is also very nice to see an editor acknowledging and fixing their own mistakes (e.g. the authorlink). Every editor makes mistakes, and no one can know and understand all of the silly guidelines, but an editor who keeps learning more about the process and adapts is pretty much equivalent to a perfect editor in my book. Let me know if you need any help with arcane templates or citations or something, but as near as I can tell you are doing great. JackSchmidt (talk) 15:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:SOX Invite

Please accept this invite to join the Red Sox WikiProject, a WikiProject dedicated to improving all articles associated with the Boston Red Sox. Simply click here to accept!

--RyRy5 (talk ♠ wikify) 01:59, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Stave Puzzles

On 27 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Stave Puzzles, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 01:04, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Cheadle Bleachworks

Hi Captain, just wanted to say thanks for your comments and advise on this. »xytram« talk 10:01, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Emma Hunton

User:Captain-tucker/Emma Hunton Here you go. Wizardman 03:16, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Contact Harvest

If you've got it, yes! Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^(talk) 01:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Email is fine. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^(talk) 13:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

The Citation Challenge

Someone has made it to level one!

LAAFan is now working on achieving level two.

Are you going to let him stay ahead of you?

Just curious.  :)

The Transhumanist 20:27, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXV - June 2008

The June 2008 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. SteveBot (owner) 23:48, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Award Center Newsletter

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Thanks Captain..

Proxxt is So Pleased to share Hamish. The novels of M.E. Beaton are very different from the T.V. adaptations, but each has its own rewards. I know what it is like to be time poor. I commute 4 hours per day in my smelly car! You are doing Hamish fans a great service. Don't worry about small things like commas. I'm happy to tidy these up.

Love from Proxxt —Preceding unsigned comment added by Proxxt (talk • contribs) 10:56, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Forgot to add Proxxt (talk) 11:00, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Just a heads up

I thought you might like to know that the Awards Center page has been deleted, along with its newsletter.  :(

So, where do we go from here?

To new and even more interesting projects, of course!

As announced in the newsletter, I've been preparing to co-coordinate a large collaboration/competition called Around the World. It was going to be run at the Awards Center, but since that no longer exists, the collaboration will be hosted somewhere else.

Around the World will begin July 15th as planned - it's location will be announced soon.

It'll be a blast. In the competition, participants will be helping to develop over 200 pages (drafts, which will be moved to article space once they are ready), using advanced tools to edit every single one of them!

This is going to be interesting.

And the event shall have awards which are being created specifically for it as we speak!

If you would like me to keep you informed of this and other interesting collaborations I'll be working on and/or organizing in the future, please drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll be happy to keep you in the know.

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

The Transhumanist 21:41, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I need your feedback...

Which of the following medals looks better. This one:

Or this one:

Which one do you like better?

Please let me know on my talk page.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:13, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Unreferenced Article Cleanup Userbox

Thanks for adding a userbox and other useful templates to the Wikiproject Unreferenced Article Cleanup page. I have added the userbox to my userpage. Thanks again for your additions and for notifying me of them! Cheers! Scapler (talk) 18:42, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Template Barnstar

Here, have a delicous, gooey, template barnstar. ;) Scapler (talk) 18:52, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Re:Invite

I joined the project. I might add more references than clean them up, but I'll help out. --LAAFan 18:54, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation. I can't guarantee that I'll be very active, but I figure some help is better than none. I'm losing interest in Wikipedia, but this might help give me something to do. I already finished referencing one article since getting your invitation, so it's a step in the right direction. GaryColemanFan (talk) 20:39, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

You're Quite Welcome

For the barnstar, that is Scapler (talk) 19:10, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

What is Around the World?

It's a collaboration!

A collaboration using advanced wiki-tools!

The event is being co-sponsored by Wikiproject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."

The set of pages we are working is currently located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics.

Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of Wikipedia's contents system.

The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than tediously working on a single country to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!

For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees.  :) The energy is contagious.

And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.

The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.

Standing by to help are co-coordinators, who can lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators also use advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.

Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.

The Transhumanist 01:29, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Captain

I have accepted the invite. As a librarian, I appreciate the importance of referencing and using reliable sources. Now all I need is the time to do this! Proxxt (talk) 12:04, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for inviting me as well. I will join    Juthani1   ^tcs 15:11, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

13th Army Band and 13th army band articles

Not sure how that happened that there are two copies. The 13th Army Band needs to be deleted or redirected in this case the name of the unit is referring to the service and not the 13th Army as a formation. Cheers--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 22:45, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I have also added myself to the unreferenced articles project. I have been participating without knowing though for some weeks. The best way to catch them is during new articles patrol.

What I do is place the following sections into the article

==See also==
<!--These should be links to articles not otherwise mentioned in the text, but within the subject area of the article-->
==Citations==
{{reflist}}
<!--Use for footnotes containing source page citations or short commentary on the main text-->
==References==
{{find}}
<!--Is a list of referenced materials (books, websites, etc. cited in the main text)-->
==Further reading==
<!--Any books or other material relevant to the article subject but not cited in the Notes section-->
==External links==
<!--Any links that have not been cited in the article, but related to the article subject area--><br /> <!--===========================({{NoMoreLinks}})===============================--> <!--| DO NOT ADD MORE LINKS TO THIS ARTICLE. WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A COLLECTION OF |--> <!--| LINKS. If you think that your link might be useful, do not add it here, |--> <!--| but put it on this article's discussion page first or submit your link |--> <!--| to the appropriate category at the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org)|--> <!--| and link back to that category using the {{dmoz}} template. |--> <!--| |--> <!--| Links that have not been verified WILL BE DELETED. |--> <!--| See [[Wikipedia:External links]] and [[Wikipedia:Spam]] for details |--> <!--===========================({{NoMoreLinks}})===============================-->

The use of Citations rather then Notes is to encourage people to read the works they are using for reference rather then just getting a list off Amazon.com. The find function is useful to encourage others to use the special relationship that exists between Wikipedia and Google, with GoogleBooks often being sufficient to cite references for many articles in the Humanities and Natural sciences disciplines. Cheers--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 22:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

My hatred

is eternal. You, RyRy, and Schfifty are GOING DOWN. Beam 00:14, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

You know exactly why. Don't act ignorant, YOU KNOW. Beam 00:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

So now you're going to rub it in my face? YOU ARE GOING DOWN. Beam 01:04, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Obviously. Beam 01:18, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

You barely beat me. I'll get you though, you haven't heard the last of me. MY HATRED IS STRONG AND I WILL AVENGE THIS INJUSTICE. Beam 01:24, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

No need. I'm going to whoop you up no matter how fast you are.Beam 01:58, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

You have made an enemy for life. Beam 01:58, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I apologize that you have been subject to this person's abuse and threats, I have blocked him for 1 week over this incident. Chillum 02:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

:::Oh, good lord, Chillum, this is obviously in jest. Unblock or I will. Keeper ǀ 76 02:11, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

lol Just because you got someone to ban me doesn't mean I will give up my life-long goal of defeating you. Beam 19:37, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

This section is very funny. Enigma ^message 04:20, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Beam is a very funny guy.--Captain-tucker (talk) 07:32, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

I GOT YOU!

MWahaahahahahah. It was worth all the trouble I went through! I AM A CHAMPION! I AM A CHAMPION! lol

Thanks a lot for that barnstar btw, it's very appreciated. Especially considering that we're friends now! Beam 22:20, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Posting Images on an existing Wikipage

Hi there, just a quick question. I am currently working for Eidos Montreal for the team making Deus Ex3. We have some logo's and images we would like to share with the wiki users, how do i go about getting them published?

many thanks

Tomwaine (talk) 13:38, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks but...

I heartily thank you for the invite to the CIET cleanup project, but I don't think its project for me. I cited up AT&T Hobbit because I'm totally into failed CPU designs, not because I like fixing cites. :-) Thanks though! Maury (talk) 02:06, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Question on talk page deletion?

All of those talk pages had only one revision. They all contained only {{talkheader}}, and they were deleted as part of general housekeeping. None of them had citations or any conversation. Template:Talkheader recommends that, "This template should be used only when needed. Do not add this template to every talk page. In particular, it should not be added to otherwise empty talk pages." Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:49, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Cerâmica de Valadares

I added some sources, independent ones. Now I believe there's no need to delete the article: The facts have been proved! A corporation which produces per year 800000 to 900000 is not such a small one! And the quality and the design are recognized worldwide! But you still can take a look at the websites... NovosibirsK (talk) 08:13, 2 August 2008 (UTC)NovosibirsK

DYK: The Concrete Blonde

On 6 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Concrete Blonde, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--PFHLai (talk) 23:38, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

The Rose Rent DYK

The article is fine. Sorry about missing the "move" in the page history.... nom verified. Cheers. Thingg^⊕⊗ 01:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Clyde Barnhart

I also said this on Template Talk: DYK, but I fixed the above article so it meets requirements. May it be reassessed? Thanks.--LAAFan 02:01, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

I fixed the article again. Guess I'm rusty on submitting DYKs.--LAAFan 15:56, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Andy Vores DYK - please re-review

As per your suggestion, I fixed the reference in the August 5 DYK for Andy Vores -- please re-review and confirm that this makes the grade. Thank you. Ecoleetage (talk) 03:23, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

O Captain, My Captain -- thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:21, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Ecoleetage (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

The Rose Rent

On 11 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Rose Rent, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 12:35, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Great article! Congrats on some well-earned honours! Ecoleetage (talk) 14:19, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

A little doubt

Is my account restricted to a single laguage page on wikipedia?

I mean, If I want to make articles on the spanish wikipedia do I have to sign up all over again? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Angry Mushi (talk • contribs) 03:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Minor issue with Chamaeleo melleri

I was reviewing some DYK's and found a very minor issue with Chamaeleo melleri, you list 3 citations for the hook but the first one ref #2 [1] does not actually provide the 20 inch reference. The other 2 do provide the reference so the hook verifies but I didn't feel right leaving the with the first citation not correct. --Captain-tucker (talk) 17:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks for your note. I'll take a look at it. The first citation probably refers to another fact. If the hook checks out with even one reference I am pretty sure the should remain would apply (sorry, I misunderstood and thought you had removed the check). - Boston (talk) 17:23, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
  • Yes, the ref #2 should have followed the proceeding sentence about conspecific aggression. Thanks for adding the green checkmark now that it's been fixed. - Boston (talk) 19:25, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: DYK verification

You are right about the Hurricane Gilma one. I probably shouldn't have done that even though you can verify the statement with the info on that page. (I also found a similar alternate hook that could be added using info from this page) As for the other one, I thought that the following: In view of the menace of fascism and barbarism in Germany and other European countries and in view of the unfolding Stalinist tyranny in the USSR, Posthumus decided to take care of and to safe from destruction or dispersal the 'paper legacy', as archives could be defined, of those social movements as well of their leaders and theoreticians threatened by fascism and/or Stalinism. backed the hook up, but maybe I'm being too lenient. I don't know. Thingg^⊕⊗ 02:56, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I just realized I misread the Gilma one while writing my above comment. The hook is partially backed up by this page Like EMILIA, GILMA also reached a record intensity of 140 knots for the Central Pacific. but you have to use the other page to verify that Gilma was more intense. (it's lowest pressure was 6 millibars lower than Emilia) Thingg^⊕⊗ 03:09, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, and...

Hey, thanks for verifying the Man in the 5th Dimension hook that I put forth in the 15 August DYK slate. If you are online and you have a moment, can you please review another hook I have in the 15 August section, for Duty to God Award? It is at the bottom of the section -- the verification was held up because an outdated stub designation was still on the article. Thanks again! Ecoleetage (talk) 13:00, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Just saw your input, thanks! I am one away from my 50th DYK and that could be the one! Ecoleetage (talk) 13:57, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

A Problem about Pope Damasus I death

I see you have changed the death date of Pope Damasus I. I think these books which are cited have the incorrect date by printing or something else like this [2]. I doubt that his successor Pope Siricius had been consecrated so long time later than December 384! When 384 is right date of Siricius’ consecration, there are no information about the vacancy.

See Catholic Encyclopedia, Salvador Miranda site, In German. May you control this date over at “Annuario Pontificio” (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2008 ISBN 978-88-209-8021-4).Kask (talk) 17:32, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

The Last Coyote

On 31 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Last Coyote, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 14:12, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Guai a chi ci tocca links

this page is not orphan. Look there [3]
--Vale maio (talk) 15:44, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Healthcare in Hong Kong

On 7 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Healthcare in Hong Kong, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 09:47, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Gail Symmons: PROD contested, AfD started

An article that you proposed the deletion of, Gail Symmons, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gail Symmons. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? —C.Fred (talk) 14:42, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Calling all active WP:NOVELS members

WikiProject Novels Roll Call

WikiProject Novels is currently holding a roll call, which we hope to have annually. Your username is listed on the members list, but we are unsure as to which editors are still active within the project. If you still consider yourself an active WP:Novels editor, please add your name back to the Active Members list. Also feel free to join any of our task forces and take a look at the project's Job Centre to get involved!

Next month we will begin the coordinator election selection process. We hope to have more involvement and input this time around! More news will be forthcoming. Thanks, everyone! María (habla conmigo) 14:40, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels Newsletter - September 2008

This newsletter was automatically delivered by TinucherianBot (talk) 14:31, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Rollbacker

I have granted you the tool. Remember to only use it for blatant vandalism. -Djsasso (talk) 21:12, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Adoptee Application

I would like you to adopt me. I am a great reader and am currently working on the Artemis Fowl project, and when I find it, I plan on joining the Inheritance Project. Or I will start a new one.cdmajava There are always possibilities... 03:19, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Barnstars 'R' U

		The Hidden Page Barnstar
		I award you one for finding Trekphiler's page for people who always think that "new message" bar is real. Aren't you glad you checked your mail? TREKphiler hit me ♠ 21:06, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

The Masks Of Time: What I thought

I know I'm not the most experienced or anything, but here goes:

The Plot summary is written from a perspective too much in universe. This will not be in accordance to WP:INUNIVERSE. Am article for wikipedia should be from as realworld of a perspective as you can make it. (look who's calling the kettle black...)

Characters are Fine. I'd put in more details though. What were their roles in the book, not just their jobs. For an example see Artemis Fowl (series): Characters

The theme of a book is the unifying subject or idea of a story that the author writes into the settings of the story. What you have there should go into a category labeled reception (or criticism), or something.

Awards are fine.

External Links are fine. Add in references; for a good ref cite the book itself.
 Cdmajavatalk  01:19, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks kindly, :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 10:13, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

The Masks of Time

On 19 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Masks of Time, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 06:03, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek

It is a picture book, not a novel. Schuym1 (talk) 20:25, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Welcome back Tucker

I thought I spotted some familiar grammar glitches. You and I clearly have similar interests as I have read all of this series too. I am a fan of yours because you take the time and trouble to add content. Good on ya, as we say in Australia. You do the hard work, and I will quite happily "tidy up". Keep up the good work. I hope you had a refreshing break. Proxxt (talk) 11:37, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for getting rid of the vandalism on my user page!

Can i ask what did the vandalism say?

Jack haywood (talk) 19:00, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for reverting vandalism on Don Alfonso (song). Someone must have been EWI to have been so upset when I tried to resolve an editing dispute with a "meet you half way" solution. The editor says he had a run-in with me before; I have no recollection of what that refers to. Life goes on... --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 15:01, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

The WikiProject Novels Newsletter - October 2008

• Newsletter delivery by xenobot 13:07, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Goodnight Children Everywhere

I am just curious as to why you reverted my addition of an unreferenced tag on this article since the article does indeed not have any references?--Captain-tucker (talk) 21:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

hello...it was my intention to drop you a note, but i guess i got distracted. serious sources aren't required for the sparse information that is contained in this stub of an article for the moment, particularly since all the particulars have been gleaned from the ibdb links. cheers. --emerson7 21:48, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

I would disagree, there is as far as I am aware not any exemption for stub article from needing references. Is that not the point of the unreferenced tag to categorize articles that do not have references? If it is true that the article does not have any references then it should have an unreferenced tag. --Captain-tucker (talk) 00:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

AAU reminder notice

A friendly reminder from the Adopt-a-User project =)

Hey there Captain-tucker! This is a friendly reminder to update your status at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters whenever it is appropriate in order to provide new users with the most up-to-date information on available adopters. Also please note that we will be removing adopters who have not edited in 60 days. If you become active again (and we hope you do!) please feel free to re-add yourself. Cheers!

• Notice delivery by xenobot 14:08, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Unreferenced Article Cleanup

Shouldn't the template be placed beneath the project tag in section 0? Otherwise the tag is going to get archived. Placing it in section 0 prevents automatic archiving. Viriditas (talk) 03:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

BTW, I added a comment to your editor review. Viriditas (talk) 03:42, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment on my editor review page and yes I guess it does make more sense to put the template in section 0 so that it does not get archived. I think I will add that instruction to the project page, Thanks for the advice. --Captain-tucker (talk) 11:34, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Looking for an adoptee?

I found you were open to adoptees over at the program. I'm a newborn Wikipedian, so kinda clueless there. I'm also a professional copywriter, licensed pharmacy technician and major sci/fi fantasy fan. I do a lot of medical copywriting and the lack of peer-reviewed references in some articles is driving me batty. I'd love to fix them, I have access to a lot of references already due to the nature of my IRL work, but I don't know how.

The major offenders I've seen are in natural and alternative remedies. Herbalism is one of my ongoing hobbies and I believe it has value. I also believe it will never be taken seriously as long as proper scientific studies are ignored in favor of popular psuedoscience authors.

I'm also an Irish pagan, so not against metaphysics per se. I just loathe seeing metaphysics, medicine and science all mixed up together and thrown out there to confuse people. In addition, I enjoy documented historical research, classic literature and I'm going to college for art history whenever I have the time.

Hope that gives you enough information to decide if I'm a good fit for you! Thanks for taking the time to read this and I'll be waiting for your answer.IceandInk (talk) 18:32, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I got your message on my talk page, and it sounds like a plan! IceandInk (talk) 00:28, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Dyadya Vanya (1970 film)

hello, just out of curiosity, just how important do you think it is to place tags on stubs, that make no unverifiable claims, and have links to all of the source data? --emerson7 20:02, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Huggle bug report

Hi there. Your bug report which has been added to this section has been read and dealt with. A new version of huggle(0.8.2) has just been released and I would be gratfull If you could download it and test it to ake sure that this bug has been fixed :). Thats for the report and if you wish to reply to this message could you please use my talk page as I have sent this message to more people that just you. Thanks again. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 10:25, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Status report on the Country outlines (Around the World) project

Penubag has been hard at work developing awards for this project. He has completed a very professional looking medal, and is almost done with a trophy that is truly awesome - both of these awards are visually stunning.

I and a few others have been working steadily on the country outlines - one for every country of the world! They're shaping up nicely. So far, 28 of them have been moved to article space - these aren't complete, but they are complete enough to be made available for readers to benefit from them. The rest of the set still includes temporary data that was generated by template (because it matched most but not all of the countries), and before the lists can be moved to article space, all the temporary data needs to be checked for accuracy, and if incorrect it needs to be replaced with correct information.

The effort on the lists has been on 3 fronts:

1. Working on the lists in article space to complete them so they will be good examples for editors working on the rest of the set.
2. Adding or correcting other data (fixing redlinks, filling in blanks, etc.). The main type of work participants in "the contest" will be doing. The reason we're doing this is to get a feel for it, to develop the fastest methods for each type of task, etc.
3. Improving the overall design and implenting changes on all 247 pages, whether in article space or not.

There has been some opposition to us running the contest based on edit counts or iterations. The concern is that we should reward quality work and not quantity, for fear of crappy edits done quickly without thought. I pointed out that the collection of pages are drafts in the Wikipedia namespace (therefore posing no danger to article space) and that most of the work needs to be done with power tools like AWB and Linky (which are specifically designed for repetitive work), but the reply was that we shouldn't set the precedent of rewarding barnstars for numerically-based tasks, and implied the threat of continuously MfD'ing the contest if we attempted to do so (like they did with the Awards Center - I was very surprised and disappointed that participants didn't step up to defend it). So we need to be careful in determining what exactly the awards will represent, and how they will be awarded.

Since rewarding iterations (passes with AWB on all of the pages in the set) are out, we really don't need the globe in stand anymore. Two awards should suffice.

Once we get started with the contest, I'd like to kick the whole thing off with a round of medals for those dedicated few who have worked hard on the project so far.

What do you think of all of this?

Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.

The Transhumanist 23:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Caine Black Knife

Have you read the novel? If so, please help. I'm going to work on that as well as Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, and Stover's page. The Rypcord. 02:38, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

No, I have not read any of Stover's novels, I am a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels and was going through a bot generated list of new literature articles looking for new novel articles to cleanup and tag but I will see what I can do. If you are enjoy fantasy or sci-fi you should check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels, they can always use more members. --Captain-tucker (talk) 09:31, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Main Page redesign

The Main Page Redesign proposal is currently conducting a straw poll to select five new designs, before an RFC in which one will be proposed to replace the Main Page. The poll closes on October 31st. Your input would be hugely appreciated! Many thanks, Pretzels^Talk! 10:28, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

The WikiProject Novels Newsletter - November 2008

This newsletter was automatically delivered by TinucherianBot (talk) 05:14, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		I would like to give you this barnstar for assessing so many book articles. Schuym1 (talk) 20:36, 8 November 2008 (UTC)}

disambiguation page

Hello Capt'n, thank you for your welcome. As you perhaps have noticed I started a lemma about Holland (publisher). As there are several "holland" lemma's, perhaps it is an idea to have a disambiguation page for Holland. I am rather new on the English Wikipedia, I think it is better someone else should be the judge of this. Yours, --LaconIII (talk) 19:42, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

LaconIII, there actually is a disambiguation page for Holland, its Holland (disambiguation). You may want to put a Template:Dablink at the top of your article and add your Holland (publisher) to the disambiguation page. And thanks for the Thank You, I have placed several hundred of those welcome templates on new users talk page and you are the first to actually say Thank You! --Captain-tucker (talk) 21:16, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer, that's very helpfull. I noticed today the template link is now also on top of Holland. I am sorry to hear I am one of the few for a respond on a welcome; that must change. Hopefully we have started something...--LaconIII (talk) 10:10, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey, maybe you did start something. Someone just left me a Thank You on another welcome that I left on their talk page, User talk:McTavish 2, good job LaconIII. --Captain-tucker (talk) 11:43, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Wauw! (I am telling everyone I am having a pint on Captain-tucker of en-wikipedia and there is laughter. Thank you, I am enjoying this)--LaconIII (talk) 16:25, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Dick Vitale

Hello Captain-tucker, I am sorry if my editing has disturbed or intruded on the Wikipedia collection of information, but I must inform you, the information about my article is incorrect and inaccurate. I feel as I have been insulted in my page. Therefore, I ask you to remove my page or suspend it temporarily so any of the true information may not be altered in any way. Thank You. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Polak414 (talk • contribs) 02:55, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

If you have issues with specific facts in the article you have a couple options, first is to start a discussion on the articles talk page and reach consensus with the other editors. There is a wikipedia policy regarding the biography of living people which this article must adhere to, it can be found here. In addition there is the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard, which is for reporting and discussing Biographies of living people policy issues which require outside intervention. But you can not just arbitrarily remove the contents of an entire article with no discussion, this is WP:VANDALISM and will be reverted. --Captain-tucker (talk) 10:22, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

I've added replies to the Juliet Marillier section on your talk page. Many thanks for the help. You will see that I have a problem with lines wrapping - or not wrapping...CarolFN (talk) 07:04, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

your correction to Septimus Heap

Thanks for correcting my error. I must have felt a year ahead of the game, though I am sure I'm far behind. Thanks again, Drmies (talk) 02:45, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Beaufort (novel)

Thanks, Cap'n, for the helpful addition of the Infobox template! I followed its link for the code, and find that it's within my abilities though I'll have to search a bit to fill in the required into. I'll get onto it ASAP, unless someone else beats me to it :-) Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 10:48, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Juliet Marillier

Hi Cap'n - I've made some edits to the Juliet Marillier page and the Sevenwaters Trilogy page. Some are under an IP address; others under my own tag. I am so glad you're a JM fan - you've obviously been the guiding star of the pages that relate to her and her work!

As I know Juliet Marillier personally, I interviewed her in order to get her opinion on my proposed changes. Some are slight tweaks to biographical info: others involve clarifying the relationship between the new book, Heir to Sevenwaters, and the original trilogy. I also modified the plot outines to remove spoilers. I left comments on the Talk pages of the articles concerned.

Juliet is hoping to get a page going for the Saga of the Light Isles books, too, but as a newbie contributor I have no idea how to do this. Help? CarolFN (talk) 03:44, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I'n not sure I would say that I am the 'guiding star'. I did read the Sevenwaters Trilogy and created separate pages for each novel. They were actually the first articles I created. I have not read any of her other works. I would be more than happy to assist you in adding to her pages here on Wikipedia. If you want to create a new page for the here is the process that I use that has worked for me:

1. First create a 'work in process' page within your user space for working on the new page. Other editors will not bother with with anything in your user space normally. Many editors monitor new pages in the mail article space so if you create a very simple page if can get quickly deleted. So for example if you wanted to create a page for Saga of the Light Isles, I would recommend starting it in User:CarolFN/Saga of the Light Isles. Just click on the prior red link, it will take you to a new blank page where you can start editing. In this way you can edit incrementally without having any other editors looking to make sure that your article meets notability guidelines as you write it.
2. The best thing to do when first editing on wikipedia is to just copy the style and formatting of other similar articles such as The Sevenwaters Trilogy or The Bridei Chronicles.
3. When you are completed you then 'Move' the article to its real name Saga of the Light Isles which would move it into wikipedia main article space.

Feel free to ask me any questions as you go, remember one of wikipedia's main principals is to be bold. --Captain-tucker (talk) 18:07, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I have no idea how to reply to this but many thanks:-)~CarolFN

(Later) I've created the page as suggested http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CarolFN/Saga_of_the_Light_Isles but the lines of text don't appear to be breaking. Can you tell me where I've gone wrong?CarolFN (talk) 07:02, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Carol, The problem was the extra spaces at the beginning of the bulleted sentences. If you add spaces before a sentence it put them in that box you saw. Also you should only sign talk pages not articles so I removed that and cleaned up the lead formatting. Looks like you have a good start going. Please feel free to ask me any questions at all. --Captain-tucker (talk) 11:15, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks, Cap'n. Will work further on that page.CarolFN (talk) 00:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

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Thank you for your warning

But I have already been told for editing Sandpit so please remove it. Also, should Sandpit not have lock if it is prone to accident edits?--86.135.86.189 (talk) 16:35, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Mr. moose (talk) reverted the vandalism warnings in this edit. Sorry for the confusion.--Captain-tucker (talk) 16:42, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Re:Pun Incident

Understood, thanks for the warning and the tip. From now on, I'll leave puns on the talk page and comment on talk pages instead of user pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grenada4fun (talk • contribs) 12:06, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks fo the tips

I'll remember to sign from now on and post my edit summaries. Right now I'm just spouting nonsense in the talk sections. Means I can be as asinine as I want without harming anything. lol Hey, btw, Merry Christmas.--Grenada4fun (talk) 12:20, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem, I removed the last vandalism warning. If you are looking for someplace to make a useful contribution getting involved in a project in an area that interests you can be helpful. Check out the top level list here: WP:PROJ. --Captain-tucker (talk) 12:33, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Uncle Daddy

On 25 December, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Uncle Daddy, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Thanks

Thanks for the revert on my user page. :) — Aitias // discussion 16:07, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Re referencing project

Thank you, Cap'n, for the invite. But I'm always overextended. Could you, though, point me to unreferenced articles by project, if there are such pointers - in some areas I've no idea what a reliable ref would be, in others I might could take some on in the future. Happy holidays, Novickas (talk) 15:45, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Ali Moeen article

Hi Cap'n! Happy New Year to you and everyone on Wikipedia and all users. With reference to my contributed article on living person, Mr. Ali Moeen, I have included sufficient reference material and external links that will confirm the authenticity of the content. I would appreciate your help in preventing this article from deletion as I assure you all content is authentic and the notability is established. I'm new to editing on Wikipedia and not yet familiar with editing technique. I hope to get help improve this article and fix all problems if still any exist. Surely my intentions are to uphold all copyright considerations and add to living people biographies in Wikipedia one of Pakistan's most renowned names in the showbiz industry. Thanks very much. --Crimson67 (talk) 08:13, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year to you too. The first thing you want to do is read and make sure that you understand the notability requirements for people WP:BIO, if your article meets these requirement then it should not be deleted. The most important thing is to have verifiable, reliable sources for as much of the facts in your article as possible. And it would be best to have these references formatted using wikipedia standards. For example, I made the link to the web site for the Best Drama Writer of Pakistan in the Hum TV's HUM Telefilm Festival award. I used the following web site to easily create citation template: http://diberri.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/templatefiller/index.cgi?, and I always try and create a archive of a citation especially when using newspaper web sites since many of them only exist for a short period of time. Here is the web site that I use for creating archives: http://www.webcitation.org/archive.php. The other thing that is very important is that the article must be have a neutral point of view. The current article has some POV statements that should be removed, it also has some weasel words. I took a quick edit at removing some POV stuff, take a look at this edit diff for what I mean: [4]. Why don't you try changing all of the bare URL's to citation templates and see if you can find more reliable sources for some of them. For example the URL that you provided for awards http://www.infinityfilms.com.pk/awards.htm appears to be a films web site, a newspaper article providing information on the specific award or the actual award web site would be more reliable. Let me know if you have any more questions. --Captain-tucker (talk) 19:24, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Ali Moeen article

Dear Cap'n Tucker! Thank you for your helpful guidance. I shall to the best of my abilities follow the standard templates and adhere to the guidelines, though it will take some time to get the hang of it. Meanwhile, I appreciate all feedback in the interim. Regards, --Crimson67 (talk) 09:47, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

re: Voice (recording artist)

Can you please send me a "userfied" version of my article so that I may get some input on correcting the page?

-Infotrobe —Preceding unsigned comment added by Infotrobe (talk • contribs) 18:09, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Infotrobe, you will need to talk to an admin to have the deleted article Voice (recording artist) restored to your userspace. Aitias (talk · contribs) was the administrator who deleted your article so you might want to start there, but you can ask any administrator, a full list of admins can be found here [5]. BTW, you might want to read the notability guideline for music, it's the standard that must be met for music related articles to be kept here at Wikipedia, it can be found here: WP:MUSIC, Good Luck! --Captain-tucker (talk) 19:15, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

The Crossroads

Hello Cap'n,

I noticed you helped out on the page, thanks. I saw you gave it a rating of stub-class, I know its a short article so could you please help me expand it? If not could you tell me what to do? Im pretty much new to writing articles, I make mostly edits. So any help is appreciated.

--D3t3ctiv3 (talk) 01:17, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

D3t3ctiv3, I searched for some reviews of the book and added them to the article, this also shows that the book passes the notability requirements of WP:BK, I removed the stub templates and changed the class to Start. A citation for the award would be helpful if you can fine that. Classes are so subjective, good work and keep creating new articles. BTW, if you are in the US and have a local public library many of them provide access to the EBSCO databases vie their web site with just a library card number needed, that's where I found the reviews. Cheers! --Captain-tucker (talk) 18:33, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks man!I actually live near the headquarters for EBSCO.--D3t3ctiv3 (talk) 02:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

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Cheers!

Thank you for the kind message! Ecoleetage (talk) 03:15, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Ecoleetage (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend, Go on smile! Cheers, and Happy editing!=)
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Beyond issues of Notability and COI

I have submitted an autobiography as an article in response to several requests for my resume from various sectors of society here in the Philippines. While done in good faith, my lack of familiarity of the rules caused the nomination of the article Benito T. de Leon for deletion on issues of WP:Notability and WP:COI. Noting that the article is about myself, it would just perhaps be best for other editors to debate on it. May I solicit your advise how to proceed from here. Thanks very much for your assistance.-Sultan-Commander (talk) 07:34, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Sultan-Commander, I think that your article does indeed pass the notability requirements of WP:BIO which you have to meet. And I will be voicing that opinion in the AfD discussion. I would be careful about Point of View, and original research, especially in the Thoughts and views section. I would remove any statement in this section that does not have a clear and strong cited reference. Good job. --Captain-tucker (talk) 14:27, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Captain_tucker, Thanks very much for your kind assistance. I have been following the debate and will certainly act on the comments and advices given. I really have to be familiar with the rules and exercise due care more as you clearly pointed out. All the best always.-Sultan-Commander (talk) 03:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

66.240.56.141

He/she also got a "last warning" in December. Why not just block 66.240.56.141 right now?

Irv Smith (casey56)

(cur) (prev) 12:14, 12 January 2009 Captain-tucker (Talk | contribs) m (18,852 bytes) (Reverted edits by 66.240.56.141 to last version by Casey56 (HG)) (undo) (cur) (prev) 11:19, 12 January 2009 66.240.56.141 (Talk) (18,852 bytes) (undo) (cur) (prev) 10:19, 10 January 2009 Casey56 (Talk | contribs) (18,852 bytes) (→History: added Wikilink for "HTHS" (name it was known as for 54 years)) (undo)

Irv (talk) 19:06, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Irv, I am not an admin so I can not block anyone. There is a process that is followed for WP:vandalism and for blocking, WP:BLOCK. The place where a user is reported for vandalism is WP:AIV. Cheers! --Captain-tucker (talk) 19:25, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

User:RossPatterson

Thanks for the vandalism cleanup! Wonder what I did to upset him.

RossPatterson (talk) 00:21, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

image

thanks, I occasionally move images to Commons, but it seems rather complicated so i tend to do other things jimfbleak (talk) 16:42, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
+Image:1978Carina--Thks for that. I now upload pics to Commons but wasn't on to it then. Cheers Bjenks (talk) 00:11, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

WikiThanks

Captain, thank you for taking the time to comment on WT:Notability_(fiction)#Final_adoption_as_a_guideline. I am glad you see how important this guideline will be, since it will determine the inclusion or exclusion of television character and television episodes. Have a great weekend. Ikip (talk) 15:45, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

By the way, another editor responded to your comments. Ikip Ikip (talk) 15:45, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Image 109 109.JPG

This photograph was taken of downtown Half Moon Bay, California on my annual trips to the San Francisco Bay Area. I thought it had originally been included in the article on that coastal community. Sallyrob (talk) 15:10, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, how about File:116 116.JPG, that one does not have a description either and is not in an article. --Captain-tucker (talk) 15:23, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Okay, photograph 116 was taken at Stowe Lake in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. I have already placed photograph 109 in the gallery for the article on Half Moon Bay. Photograph 116 could probably go in the article on Golden Gate Park. Sallyrob (talk) 17:49, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Progress report: Country outlines

Development has been slow but continuous:

Penubag has done a fantastic job on the images for the awards we'll be using for our project's collaborations and contests. We now have 3 awards: a medal, a trophy, and a race ribbon. They all look tight. The trophy needs a small adjustment, but other than that, all 3 award images are complete and ready to use to create awards with.

Spartaz has warned us of (threatened to take) G4 (speedy delete) action if we run a competition that resembles the previously deleted Awards Center page. So whatever we do, any contests we run must differ substantially from the methods used there.

One type of competition I've been exploring is edit racing. I'm in the process of working the bugs out of this concept - the first race didn't work as expected - you see, because we only had an award for first place, the opponent didn't think it worthwhile to continue once it was clear who the winner would be. And since editors are in different time zones and usually need to start the race at different times, we need to base winning on personal start times - he who completes his assigned edits in the least time (rather than first), wins. And last but not least is quality control. What good is winning if your edits are ripe with errors? So I'll be exploring possibilities such as using a referee (whoever is overseeing a particular race), having participants watching each other for errors to knock them back, etc. I'm not sure yet.

Rich Farmbrough has been applying his bot expertise to filling in blanks in the country outlines (the population and area entries). I'm amazed at the number of edits he pumps out each day on a myriad of projects - ours makes up but a small time slice of his activity, and yet he has saved us many hours of manual work. Perhaps we should look into how he gets so much done.  :)

Zlerman has chosen to work on one outline at a time, and is taking on Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. He also has been keen on noticing and reporting design issues pertaining to the whole set of country outlines. Keep up the good work!

Highfields has been filling in the names of capitals, and is our first race winner. Check out the award on his user pages.

As you probably know, this project has expanded to include working on any and all sets of pages that are linked to from the country outlines. Once the set of country outlines go live (in article space), traffic will likely increase for all the links included on them. The quality and usefulness of those pages will reflect heavily on the country outlines (the outlines, which are essentially lists of links, are only as good as the links they present), and therefore we've branched out to solve the biggest problems with those as well. So far, we've taken on:

• The creation of disambiguation pages for country adjectivals ("German", "French", "Taiwanese", etc. About half done.)
• The clean-up of the CIA World Factbook statistics on the "demographics of" country pages. We've been renaming those sections to provide a key string that AWB can use for targetting (for skipping and filtering). Once that's done, we'll be able to break the clean-up down into simple AWB search/replace tasks, because we'll be able to target just those pages that include the CIA stuff.
• Renaming the "Cuisine of" articles to their adjectival forms ("Chinese cuisine", "Italian cuisine", etc.)

Blackadam2 and Thehelpfulone have been helping out with the "demographics of" pages mentioned above.

And we have a couple speed addicts (addicted to wiki-velocity, not drugs)...

Both Robert Skyhawk and Thehelpfulone prefer (and excel at) simple AWB search/replaces. Robert hasn't actually joined our team yet, but he has been helping out quite a bit from the sidelines (via the WP:AWB/Tasks page. Unfortunately, there has recently been a non-AWB chore that has been holding things up on the AWB front - an edit to all the the headings which had to be reverted before too many new edits were made, because any new edits would make the reversion more difficult. The headings have been restored, so now the way is clear for AWB operations, and there are many search/replace tasks in the queue. AWB assignments have started again!

There's a similar bottleneck on the "Demographics of" pages (the "keying" mentioned above), but that's almost cleared too.  :)

With my internet access somewhat crippled, I've been finding it difficult to keep up with you guys. However, I expect to be accessing a Linky-capable workstation on a faster server (I'm on it right now, as you can probably tell from my contributions list for today), and so I should really pick up speed. Feels goooooood.  :)

Recruiting has been a bit slow (but steady), due in part to my crippled access, and because we've been waiting for the images for the awards to be completed. I expect the team to grow more rapidly as the bottlenecks are removed.

Well that's what's been happenin', and here's what's in the pipeline...

I'm about to begin work on a set of lists that corresponds to all the standard links on the country outlines, and these will be presented on the Topic outline of countries which will be organized exactly like the country outlines. Aside from being an extremely useful navigation aid, it will allow editors to easily see the state of country coverage on Wikipedia. I'll provide you with a link once I get up to speed on this.

In the meantime, keep up the good work!

Cheers,

The Transhumanist 05:41, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

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File:285680.jpg

I'm still not exactly sure what you've done (I'm still not familiar with the plethora of options we have to work with here at Wikipedia). How'd you find my photo, and why'd you take an interest in it? It's a rather mundane photo. What use will it be to the Commons? --Criticalthinker (talk) 05:33, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

All that I have done is to move your photo from Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons, Commons is the central repository for Free images for all wikipedia projects. If you have a free image that you want to add to a Wikipedia article its best to upload it to Commons rather then directly to Wikipedia. Someone in the past tagged your image with the {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} tag putting it in a category Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commonswith a whole bunch of images waiting for someone to move them over to Commons. I have become interested in Commons recently and have started working on moving some of the images that have been tagged. So it's now on Commons in the categories commons:Category:Buildings in Michigan and commons:Category::Lansing, Michigan, not sure if anyone will ever us it but its in the right place now.--Captain-tucker (talk) 10:27, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

EDIT --Criticalthinker (talk) 07:57, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

600.PNG

Hey. Its a very old map i did. Forgot it even existed. I'm going to delete it Hxseek (talk) 20:34, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

COVER PIC for InfoBox

Dear Cap'n,

How to add the pic to the infobox? I've looked in vain for a place to upload the photo. I understand the proper code to place, but how to upload?

Artsandpalaver (talk) 21:58, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

I assume that you are talking about a picture for your article Year of The Rhinoceros, which would be a pic of the book cover. This would be considered a non-free/fair use image and would be uploaded directly to Wikipedia. So click on the Upload File link in the toolbox in the left frame of your browser. Then click on A cover or other page from a book, DVD, newspaper, magazine, or other such source, this will bring you to the upload form, browse for your file, then you have to enter a fair use rationale, this is very important. I would suggest looking at the rationale left by another fair use image for some pointers, here is an image that I uploaded: File:The Concrete Blonde.jpg, then pick the Book Cover license and then click on upload. Let me know if you have any more questions.--Captain-tucker (talk) 10:23, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Info regarding three Trek novels

Hi Captain-tucker, I recently made the pages for Warchild (Star Trek), Objective: Bajor and Station Rage, and added the blurbs from the back of the books, which I have. Then CorenSearchBot checked to see if they had come from another source, and found the sites it believed the blurbs were copied from. I wrote on his talk page that I had written the blurbs directly from the books, not from another site. I didn't even know the site existed before. A few other Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels have their blurbs on the pages, so I was wondering if the edits could be reversed, or if there is a reason the blurbs aren't there now. Thanks, Dave (talk) 16:07, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Dave, Wikipedia considers the text from those other web sites are the copyright of those web sites. The CorenSearchBot I would imagine looks at recent edits and perhaps was not running when those other novel articles were created. But if you are copying even unknowingly text word for word from another web site it must be removed from Wikipedia, which is why I removed the text. And the words from the back of the book would be the copyright of the publisher of the books in any case. There is a simple solution, you can just create the plot summaries in your own words. That is what I and other editors do when dealing with novel articles. Let me know if you have any other questions. There is a Wikipedia Project about the coverage of novels that has some good info and lots of members, check it out here: WikiProject Novels. Cheers! --Captain-tucker (talk) 16:28, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Nordy Bank (novel)

On 20 February, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nordy Bank (novel), which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Dravecky (talk) 05:57, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Adopt me ?

edit count

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The WikiProject Novels Newsletter - March 2009

This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 16:57, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Country outlines project update - 2009/03/08

Remember "Around the World"?

Well, we've been around the World, and around again (virtually speaking, on Wikipedia), on this project.

Things have been slowing down again, so it's time for a big push...

We've gone live

This project needed a shot in the arm. Also, its draft pages have been littering Wikipedia's categories for months. The time seemed right to move all the country outline drafts to article space.

WHAT???

Well, the drafts had been sitting in Wikipedia space for a year.

WHAT???

Development has been moving at a snail's pace and we could use the help of the Wikipedia community at large (who are more likely to find these if they are in article space).

WHAT???

Yes, we've gone live.  :)

This puts pressure on us to get the blatantly incomplete elements of these outlines done. The only glaring problem is the government branches sections. These need to be corrected ASAP.

I've mentioned THE GOVERNMENT BRANCHES SECTIONS many times to many people over the past year, but the problem just doesn't seem to have been taken seriously. So let me put it another way:

HELP!!! I need your help on this now. Almost all the countries have a government with an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch. The links for these branches need to be completed for each country outline:

Here's a convenient list you can use WP:LINKY on to access and edit these quickly. Please copy the list's link to the top of your talk page so that you can access it easily.

If you spot any standardization in links, and ways we can automate parts of this process, or for groups of countries that have links in common, please let me know!

Administrative support for outlines

There has been growing pressure on me to write up the administrative pages for outlines - their instructions, guidelines, etc. Therefore, I'm now in the process of composing these. Fortunately, it is mostly a matter of gathering material from messages I've written to you guys over the past year. Still, this is taking up most of my time, and I will be buried in these for the foreseeable future.

Traffic control

The next big task after the government branches sections are cleaned up is link support for the outlines.

There's quite a list of links and notices that need to be put in place around Wikipedia, providing access to them to readers, and alerting editors to the need to develop and maintain these pages. This will keep our bot people very busy (and happy).

But the most important thing right now is to get the government branches sections completed. So please, put your bots aside, roll up your shirt sleeves, and start typing.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 03:07, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

User:Sallyrob

I'm contacting you because you left several messages on his talk page. He keeps creating or editing articles about non-notable people and organizations (3 have been deleted so far) and he keeps citing himself as a reference! Based on the lengthy biography he put on his user page he seems to think he's important. Who is the best person to contact about him before he keeps on recklessly creating useless articles and editing others with himself as a so-called reference? 67.79.157.50 (talk) 14:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Geography WikiProject update - 03/15/2009

You commented on the awards effort when it was just getting started a long while back - I thought you might like to see the end results...

The award images are complete!

After months of toil and attention to detail, Penubag has completed the set of images for this WikiProject's awards!

There are five race ribbons:

There's an engraved medallion:

And by far the hardest to create, a golden trophy:

If you have any ideas about awards these images can be placed upon, and how to award them (to show appreciation and to attract participants), please let me know.

And be sure to pop by Penubag's talk page to let him know what you think of his graphics artistry.

The Transhumanist 22:22, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Balkans 960 AD map

Hi. THanks for your message. Boy, that map is so old I forgot about it. If you have the time, copy this map File:Balkans950.png‎. It is more accurate and of better graphic quality, and delete the old one.

Hxseek (talk) 05:02, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure, just moved it to Commons. --Captain-tucker (talk) 10:43, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

File:Ar-95bg.jpg

Works for me.. Take care and thank you :) Bwmoll3 (talk) 22:19, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

New image project

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photo moved to wikimedia commons

Just noticed your message, no problem, thanks for the notice Heggyhomolit (talk) 02:10, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

File:Karen S. Evans-100.jpg

Thank you for the notice. I had forgotten ever uploading that image. / edg ☺ ☭ 02:42, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

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Contest proposal

A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We need to know how this contest should be run, and what problems to look out for.

The Transhumanist 17:44, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page :) Jozal ^(talk) 17:49, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

File:Beinggreenmother.jpg

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Altered Speedy Deletion rationale: Baumert

Hello Captain-tucker, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I have deleted a page you tagged (Baumert) under a criterion different from the one your provided, which was inappropriate or incorrect. CSD criteria are narrow and specific to protect the encyclopedia, and the process is more effective if the correct deletion rationale is supplied. Consider reviewing the criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. Thanks again! Ale_Jrb^talk 17:28, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 19:58, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Captain-tucker (talk) 20:31, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

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Coordinator Election

Hello. The Coordiantor Election has begun. All members are encouraged to vote by the deadline, July 28. To vote simply add support to the comments and questions for.. section of the member of your choice.

3 users are standing:

• Alan16 (talk · contribs)
• Kevinalewis (talk · contribs)
• Pmlinediter (talk · contribs)

Regards, Alan16 (talk) 19:45, 29 June 2009 (UTC).

Dodge & SLANT\6 stuff...

Thanks for moving those pics I put in Wikipedia as I'm new to this & forgive me for taking so long to acknowledge your work. Slant6guy:) (talk) 23:20, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels - Narnia Task Force

Hi! You would be glad to know that a new wikipedia ad has been created by Srinivas to encourage users to join Chronicles of Narnia Task Force. You can display that ad on your user/talk page too using the following code: {{Wikipedia ads|ad=190}}

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WikiProject Novels - August 2009 Newsletter

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New article on "I Build the Tower", film about the Watts Towers

Dear Captain Tucker,

I am writing to you because somehow your User Talk page came up on my Watchlist. I am new to creating articles for Wikipedia so I am not sure how any communication works among Wikipedia users.

Below is a message I put on my User Talk page:

I recently submitted an article on "I Build the Tower" about a feature-length documentary film on the life of the man who built the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. It was my first wikipedia article and I have some questions about my submission.

While I can reach the submitted article through my watchlist, it cannot yet be accessed through the Search box. Is this normal? Does it take a few days for an article to be posted for all to see?

Also I used the Infobox - Film template to put credit information into the article, but I could not figure out how to have it read "Directed, written and produced by Edward Landler and Brad Byer". Instead their names appear three times - once for each credit ("Directed by", "Written by" and "Produced by"). Could someone tell me how to fix this?

I have an image to upload for the article also but I don't want to start doing that until these other problems are addressed.

I would greatly appreciate any advice anyone can give me.

Elspethaw (talk) 19:17, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Elspethaw/%22I_Build_the_Tower%22"

Thank you for your attention

Elspethaw (talk) 05:40, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Please see my response on your talk page. --Captain-tucker (talk) 15:06, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Images from commons

Hey Cap'n. I recall yu earlier copied one of my maps to Commons. I just uploaded a new one directly to commons. How can I now use it in Wiki articles, as an older one already exists on WIkipedia with the same file name ? Hxseek (talk) 07:46, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Can you give me the file name? If you uploaded the new version to Commons with the exact same name then you need to get the version on Wikipedia deleted. You should be able to use the {{ncd}} tag to get the version on Wikipedia deleted. --Captain-tucker (talk) 13:11, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I see. Thought as such. file is WestBalkans800.png. Hxseek (talk) 22:41, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Getting an image into an article

Hi Captain-tucker, I've been trying to get an image of George McWhirter to appear on his article page. My first attempts were hampered by not fully understanding how to select the appropriate copyright. (I took the picture.) I think I've taken care of that now...but I can't quite figure out the next step. How do I get the image on the page? Can you help? Thanks --Readerwild (talk) 11:17, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

The best way to do this would be to add an Infobox to the article such as {{Infobox writer}}. In that infobox there is a field for image. You can take a look that the one bio article I wrote, it happens to be a writer, Ralph Fletcher. One thing that I would recommend about your photo. Free images should always be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (the free media file repository for all of the Wikimedia projects) and not directly on Wikipedia. Then any of the many different language Wikipedia's and other Wikimedia projects can use your photo. Here is a link to the Commons upload page. If you name the image the same as the one on Wikipedia then add the {{ncd}} tag on the version on Wikipedia so an admin will delete it. Your image from Commons will then be displayed. I am an admin on Commons so if you have any questions about it you can ask me and I should be able to help. --Captain-tucker (talk) 16:52, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Getting an image into an article 2

Hi Captain-tucker, I'm having trouble. I was able to put the box template (as you suggested) into the George McWhirter article, but for the life of me, I can't find instructions on how to get the image into the box. I've tried writing the file name with .jpeg (and all kinds of variations on this theme) but nothing seems to get the image into the box. My second problem is trying to figure out how to respond to you on my talk page. I don't see a place that says "write a message"--or anything like that. Can you help? Thanks for your help last time, by the way! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Readerwild (talk • contribs) 05:34, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels December 2009 Newsletter

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BSicons

Hello, thanks for the deletion. About this, pls do not edit it, as this page is (sort of) auto generated. The correct icon will show up in its slot (in the TUNNEL2 row) and the empty row will be empty, as it should, to go away when I update these lists. Thanks! Tuvalkin (talk) 05:41, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

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You are now a Reviewer

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Invitation to join WikiProject Bacon !

Oh won't you please consider joining WP:WikiProject Bacon? :)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Bacon has been created, and you are cordially invited to join, and list yourself as a participant at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bacon#Participants!
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Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 08:37, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Captain

Few sections of my article are Deleted! by some one. the deleted informations were important for the article. can you please recover them. M.A.M.H.S.S. thankx in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Basilittan (talk • contribs) 19:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

I would recommend you either discuss it with the editor that made the changes, Vipinhari (talk · contribs) or discuss it on the articles talk page. It looks like things were removed for either being spam or being unencyclopedic. If you click on the History link at the top right of the articles page you can see who has edited the article and view all of the changes. --Captain-tucker (talk) 19:41, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

I would agree that all of the Outstanding Student and Social Network section should be removed. --Captain-tucker (talk) 19:51, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion

I have deleted the article Critique of present Arabic to Latin transliteration systems. - it has been blanked by the creator. On the other hand, if anybody - including the creator - contests the proposed deletion or removes the notice, the page should not be proposed for deletion again; it should be brought to a full deletion debate, if need be. (That he had not explained why he objects to the deletion or improved the article is irrelevant.) See the proposed deletion policy. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 08:58, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the policy reminder. I had forgotten that the article creator could remove the prod. --Captain-tucker (talk) 11:00, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Corsewall_Lighthouse.jpg

Thanks for moving the file and the updates where in use, much appreciated. --Cactus.man ✍ 17:48, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

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WikiProject Novels Collaboration for February

Thank you everyone who participated in the January Collaboration, it was quite a success with 5 new C class articles, 3 stub kills and several articles were removed from our backlogs. In support of the Great Backlog Drive, the WikiProject Novels Collaboration for February is going to help remove backlog candidates in the backlogs related to WikiProject Novels. Please join us, and help us wikify, reference, clean up plot sections and generally improve Novels content, Sadads (talk) 22:25, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

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WikiProject Images and Media

Hello Captain-tucker, I have prepared an drive yesterday to get the most images moved to the Wikimedia Commons. It is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons/Drive Sep 2011. It will start at 12 years ago or more precisely at 00:00, 1 September 2011 (UTC). There are some awards you may get. You may sign up now. ~~Ebe123~~ ^talk_Contribs 17:27, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

my last edit that was not accepted

Dear, I forgot to summarie the changes made and the reasons for making them. I briefly indicate as to what changes I made and how that will make the article more useful to readers. 1. In the list of books I have added the names of the publishers and possible links to their sites. 2. I have updated the list as 15 new books of the same author are recently published along with links to the publisher. I believe these changes give additional information about the books that are mentioned and I strongly feel that my changes are accepted Rajiva bhatnagar (talk) 05:32, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you

This I discovered today. Even though it has been nearly five years, I still want to thank you for reverting this vandalism. NHRHS2010 RIP M.H. (1994-2014) 23:16, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

You are quite welcome. --Captain-tucker (talk) 22:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

File:Thelypteris noveboracensis.jpg

Hi there. This is my first attempt at anything Wikipedia related so I hope I'm doing it right, but this is why I signed up so here goes. Looking at the Wikipedia page for Thelypteris noveboracensis and I am fairly certain that your posted image is mis-identified. It looks like what you posted was Athyrium filix-femina. How certain were you of this plant ID? If not 100% I would recommend deleting it. Thanks. Clnoll (talk) 02:57, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Predrag Finci

I am not able to see my text about Predrag Finci. This is what I get: Firefox can't find the file at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predrag_Finci. Help, please(Chiqui Teo (talk) 13:06, 29 July 2014 (UTC)) Sorry. It's OK. I see it now. :-) (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:08, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of User:Captain-tucker/Emma Hunton

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Proposed deletion of File:Young-legionary.jpg

The file File:Young-legionary.jpg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-free book covers are generally allowed per item 1 of WP:NFCI when the cover art itself is used for primary identification purposes in a stand-alone article about the book in question, but their non-free use in other articles requires a much stronger justification per WP:NFC#cite_note-3. This particular cover is not being used in a stand-alone article about the book in question, but rather in an article about the series to which it belongs. The cover art itself is not the subject of any sourced critical commentary so the context for non-free use required by WP:NFCC#8 is not being provided; moreover, the subsection where the file is being used is basically part of an embedded list and non-free file use in such lists are not really permitted per WP:NFLISTS. If the individual book is notable enough for a Wikipedia article to be written about it per WP:NBOOK, then the file could be used there; no such article, however, exist and the file shouldn't just be kept in the hope that one might someday be written.

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The above also applies to File:Galactic-warlord.jpg, File:Deathwing-over-veynaa.jpg, File:Day-of-the-starwind.jpg and File:Planet-of-the-warlord.jpg. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:33, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

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