User talk:Fopkins

Welcome[edit]

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It looks like you've already got a pretty good idea of how to handle things, but if you do need anything, feel free to ask. --Emufarmers^(T/C) 03:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. :) By the way, another user edited your user page, creating it; it looks like he meant to create it on his own page, so I've gone ahead and called for "your" user page's speedy deletion. You can recreate it afterwards if you wish (or you can edit it now if you don't mind having the current edits in its history). Enjoy yourself. --Emufarmers^(T/C) 04:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and welcome! Please see my reply to your comment, on my talk page. You might want to take a look at the block log to see just how much blocking is actually done. -- The Anome 01:04, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling[edit]

Welcome, and thank you for correcting spelling on the Wikipedia:Maintenance page on Wikipedia! However, organise and organize both are acceptable spellings of the word.

Please familiarize yourself with American and British English spelling differences before making further spelling corrections to articles. Wikipedia has 47,372,221 registered users on this English Wikipedia. These editors use different versions of English including American English and British English. The list of dialects of the English language goes on and on.

When many styles are acceptable, avoid changing from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change. It is acceptable to change from American spelling to British spelling only if the article concerns a British topic or vice versa or if you are making the article internally consistent.

More information is available on Wikipedia's Manual of Style. Enjoy your time on the internet's fastest growing encyclopædia/encyclopedia . Thank you. Ardric47 06:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the guidelines. I would not have changed this if I realized (or realised :P) that -ise was acceptable in the UK. Unfortunately for me, I did not know this. Now I do. Thank you for the informative article. Fopkins | Talk 06:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

England football bio stub sorting[edit]

Thanks a ton for sorting some of the English football bio stubs. However, I was going through some that you had sorted and noticed that you had tagged some players who weren't English with one of the four tags. Please keep in mind that if the player isn't an English national, they shouldn't be in one of the English biography categories. Instead, they should be in one of the other categories listed at WP:WSS/ST. Thanks again! --fuzzy510 05:31, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The stub category which I am sorting through is English football biography stubs. I have not sorted through any other category. I have been assuming that because the articles were in this category to begin with, they had been tagged correctly. I realize that this is probably not entirely the case, but I would hope that at least 98% of the articles were in the proper category to begin with. The four categories I am sorting the players into are not specifically (to my knowledge) for players that are English nationals, but rather players who have played on an English team in the four respective categories, as there are several players who have played for multiple countries. While using AWB, I do monitor each and every change before I save the page, but I do not check the verifiability of the articles themselves. This would frankly take a very long time, and is not the purpose of stub-sorting. (At least, in my mind)

Anyway, can you please give me some examples of stubs that I have sorted, where the players did not play for English teams? If there is anything else you can think of that I could do to try to catch some of these incorrectly tagged articles while I am sorting through them I would be happy to consider/implement it. I have thought of adding more criteria to my sorting process via AWB, but the problem is that so many of these articles are so poorly written/incomplete that I would recieve many more false negatives than the current amount of false positives. Thank you. Fopkins | Talk 07:31, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to VandalProof![edit]

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rico Puestel[edit]

I rewrote the article on Rico Puestel so that it would no longer be a copyvio. The RfA is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rico Puestel

Could you please take a look at Rico Puestel and make any other changes that seem necessary? -- TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 09:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Changed my vote to keep. Good work with the page. Fopkins | Talk 22:13, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
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