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Speedy deletion nomination of Intrastate[edit]

Hello Howpper,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Intrastate for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Blurred Lines 18:24, 3 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to:"Speedy deletion nomination of Intrastate"[edit]

Ok. Thanks for letting me know.

November 2013[edit]

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San Diego clim[edit]

Don't un-transclude templates without good reason again. Editing the data is not one of them. "My master, Annatar the Great, bids thee welcome!" 01:44, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Intrastate listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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Reference errors on 2 June[edit]

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In noticed you've been changing climate data on various articles, but you are not adding a source. What is the source of your data, and why have you not been adding it to your edits? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 01:11, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't use your IP address to revert edits. It's that same IP that edited your sandbox here. What a coincidence. If you continue to add unsourced content, or revert edits using your IP address, I'll report you as a vandal. Magnolia677 (talk) 01:19, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your message on my talk page. When you use the same source please update the date you retrieved the information, so it shows that you actually used a source. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:05, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

August 2016[edit]

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The article List of tallest buildings in Wenatchee has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

As per WP:OUTCOMES cities of this size don't merit stand alone tallest buildings lists

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December 2016[edit]

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I undid your cut n paste move[edit]

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Same at Inland Northwest (United States). — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:56, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation pages[edit]

Hello, Howpper. When you moved Portland metropolitan area to a new title and then changed the old title into a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:

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It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Portland metropolitan area" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks. R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:08, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • On second thought, never mind. If you had looked at Talk:Portland metropolitan area, you would have seen that this same move was proposed in 2013, and the consensus was against the proposal. The Oregon metropolitan area was deemed the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. If you disagree with that result the correct course of action is to start a new discussion, not to ignore the past consensus. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:12, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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May 2017[edit]

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Deletion discussion about Behemoth's World[edit]

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Thank you for your recent edit to this article. However, you do not appear to have supplied a reference source for the death details. Is this forthcoming ?

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:54, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I have now added a source that I found myself. Please bear in mind the need for references in all such cases in the future. I have lost count of the number of editors who have tried to post bogus death notices on Wikipedia over the past decade and more ! Thank you,
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The article List of tallest buildings in the Tri-Cities has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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Alexandra, New Zealand[edit]

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Invitation[edit]

Are you aware of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group? We usually meet in Seattle, but if there's an Eastern Washington contingent who would like to participate, maybe we could arrange a Hangouts session or even meet in the middle at some future date? ☆ Bri (talk) 02:45, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Greenacres Middle School moved to draftspace[edit]

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Akanthos of Sparta and the diaulos[edit]

What is your source for Akanthos winning the diaulos? Both Eusebius and Beale say that he won the dolichos, but I cannot find any source for his victory in the diaulos... Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 21:36, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Caeciliusinhorto: I reverted my edit, I was just confused somehow. Howpper

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85B[edit]

Just thought I'd ask: Is there another U.S. 85B other than this one? If not, then I'd be happy to move it from the identifier. ToThAc (talk) 15:26, 15 April 2018 (UTC) @ToThAc: No, there isn't another highway named U.S. 85B. I would really appreciate it if you could move the page. Thanks, Howpper 20:03, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2018[edit]

Please stop your disruptive editing.

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Please see my closing statement at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 May 2#IDubbbzTV regarding the best method for getting the creation protection from IDubbbzTV removed. Steel1943 (talk) 16:28, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

May 2018[edit]

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As with the previous editor, I posted this as you seem to have issues with page moves, specifically the move of Lookout Mountain to Lookout Mountain (Walker County, Georgia). Please discuss such moves in the future. Thanks. - BilCat (talk)

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U.S. Route 85B (Williams County, North Dakota)[edit]

I gave a reason when I moved it back, which is the naming convention at WP:USSH. That convention specifies that special and suffixed routes get their locations in their names, even if otherwise unique. USSH came about after the end of a VERY contentious page move war over a decade ago, and the convention was the result of an ArbCom case. In short, changing USSH or going against it is the third rail of USRD, and yes, we use disambiguation terms even when titles would be unique without them (which is why the article is at "M-185 (Michigan highway)" instead of just "M-185"). Imzadi 1979  01:03, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Almost entirely unsourced article for a city of 33K; has exactly one building that has an article.

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Kansas City, Kansas[edit]

Hey Howpper, I noticed you added Kansas City, Kansas to the vital article level 5 list. Maybe you did this by mistake? Kansas City, Missouri is already listed and Kansas City, Kansas is a suburb of that. It doesn't seem to match the rest of the cities on the list which are either large central cities or state capitols. I can go ahead a remove it but I wanted to check first. Thanks. Grey Wanderer (talk) 00:38, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've responded over at my talk page to keep the conversation together. Grey Wanderer (talk) 23:49, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be reverting and cleaning up your edits to the exit list over the next few days. For future reference, the Destinations column should only list what is actually on the signs (as seen in Google Street View or WSDOT SRweb), even if they omit cross-streets. Adding names from Google Maps (which are not always accurate) is borderline WP:OR, so I'd rather see it left off the page. SounderBruce 03:57, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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May 2018[edit]

Stop icon You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Foo Fighters. 4TheWynne(talk)(contribs) 05:47, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Warning icon Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did at RiceGum, you may be blocked from editing. As I said in the edit summary, combining 100 and Bubbling Under peaks violates WP:SYNTH. Read WP:USCHARTS; it states this already. Songs don't re-enter the Bubbling Under chart if they fall out of the Hot 100, therefore number one on the Bubbling Under chart is not necessarily 101, so it's misleading to claim it is. This is why the guideline exists. Ss112 05:58, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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May 2018[edit]

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Category:Bazzi songs has been nominated for discussion[edit]

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I see you moved, without any form of discussion, the article I created eleven years ago. Never before has anyone seriously questioned the title. Discussion before such a controversial move would have been IS the right thing to do. The only question about terminology, and clarification, offered is found in the archives here. Read the last sentence.

You may not realize this, but in Greenland the deer are only referred to as "rensdyr" (reindeer). English and scientific literature tries to translate from Danish, but since there are two words in English, they often get confused and don't consistently use the "right" words in the "right" places, pretty much like English speakers also do. It really depends on whether it's a North American or someone from somewhere else who does the writing. Therefore you're placing far too much weight on a dubious distinction in words. I suspect it's possible to find articles and scientific literature which could be used to bolster each view. I chose the term used in Greenland, since it's about Greenland, and nowhere else. We shouldn't use North American terms and distinctions, unless referring to North American conditions and animals in North America.

Only in North America is there some sense of consistent usage of the two words. Otherwise, everything east of Canada (from Greenland, to Norway, Finland, Russia, and Siberia) are ALL reindeer. All of the ones we hunted in SW Greenland (there are almost no others in the country) were reindeer (there isn't much difference genetically). Nearly all the naturally occurring deer died out and the ones brought from Norway have interbred with the few remaining. Just sayin'...

I've shot 16, and there could be slight differences between animals shot one mile apart. Most of the ones I shot had wet snouts, just like cows.

To top it off, according to the Danes, Santa's Reindeer (not caribou) come from Greenland, and I shot Rudolph in 1990, as the third out of four deer that day. All sightings since then are of imposters. (I know, I know, you don't have to say it.... Santa actually lives at the North Pole (out on the ocean ice), so he must get his reindeer from Greenland, the nearest source of the animals. He also uses his office in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, where he answers all those letters from children. The mailbox there is huge. )

Anyway, something to think about. We don't just move articles here without discussion. -- BullRangifer (talk) PingMe 05:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Your revision to the album articles was inappropriate; McNair in The Independent does not refer to either album as "glam punk", only to the band's music at the time of their inception in 1971; a necessary distinction to make when articles are vulnerable to opinion-based genre changes ("more accurate genre"). At New York Dolls, you simply ref-bombed the infobox to give the impression a point-of-view you favor outweighs any opposing views. The Guardian blurb you cited does not even mention "glam punk". I've added a quote from McNair to #Musical style, so it verifies "glam punk", which was already in the infobox. This should suffice. Moreover, there is substantial discussion among sources in the musical style section disputing the view the band were either glam or punk. Dan56 (talk) 18:13, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Your talk page is filled with warnings but not so much appreciation of all the hard work youve done. I just wanted to thank you for coming back day after to day to work on such a thankless task. Specifically regarding climate editing, I'm glad that you've been using the Desert Research Institute instead of corrupt sources like Weatherbase. I wish everyone did that.

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Hey Howpper! Just want to start off by saying thanks for your great contributions to the website in writing content and adding media. I especially like how you have snapped a lot of pictures to be used to illustrate the articles, the Spokane area related ones in particular. They really bring the articles to life and make you feel like you’re there.

Need updated photo of campus: The treed area to the right in the scene has had the significant addition of a 100-bed psychiatric hospital and a hotel (construction crane visible)

I wanted to message you today to request another photo though, a new picture of the Sacred Heart campus from the same vantage point that you shot File:Sacred Heart Hospital.jpg since the scene has changed a lot since the time you took that photo in 2017. A psychiatric hospital, INBH was constructed at 5th and Browne in 2018 (which has no photo in the Commons yet) and a Hampton Inn primarily to serve people visiting the hospital was put in on McClellan further up above it on the lower South Hill (you can see the cranes in place to build it in that 2017 photo). I like the vantage point you used, shooting up Browne and with the elevated highway in the foreground. You can see most of the campus and it interesting how the hospital seems to gobble up Browne Street with that tunnel. I was considering retaking the photo myself but I couldn’t figure out where you took it lol. If you don’t have the time or aren’t interested, I could take it if you share the location.

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Long overdue, but according to the EXIF data in that file, the photo was taken from this location (Google Maps). This appears to be eastbound I-90 at exit 281. I suspect Howpper was the passenger in a vehicle and shot the photo through their window. Alternatively, I suppose you could attempt to stop in the gore point between the interstate and the exit ramp to take a photo. Google Earth shows that you might be able to get a similar angle from the rooftop of the DoubleTree down by the Spokane River, but you'd need a fairly strong zoom to pull it off (a 70-200mm might work). A shot from street level would probably be heavily obscured by the freeway (if shot from the north side of I-90) or possibly too low (if shot from the south side of I-90). A drone shot might be possible, but because of airspace restrictions you need to be part 107 certified (commercial UAS operations) and it requires advance coordination to take off. If I can get certified by summer I might attempt to take a better shot. —Locke Coletc 06:57, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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