User talk:StewdioMACK/Archive 1

Welcome

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I'd suggest you first read some helpful pages including:

1. WP:V
2. WP:RS
3. WP:CITE
4. WP:CIT
5. WP:Article development

I hope that helps,

— Cirt (talk) 04:21, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Cirt, I'll definitely read those. StewdioMACK (talk) 04:24, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Okay great, I wish you the best. :) — Cirt (talk) 04:24, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

FA writing tips

1. User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA
2. User:Yomangan/A bastard's guide to writing a featured article
3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Writing a featured article
4. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-02-18/Tutorial
5. User:Dweller/Dweller, on Featured Article Candidates
6. User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
7. User:Tony1/How to improve your writing

Some of these might be a little more advanced for right now, but helpful down the road. — Cirt (talk) 04:25, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of G.I. Jeff

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Peer review for SNL

I've placed some comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Saturday Night Live/archive1. — Cirt (talk) 21:42, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of G.I. Jeff

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Your GA nomination of G.I. Jeff

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Rollback

Hi. Per your request at WP:PERM I have added the rollback tool to your account. Please note that this is strictly to be used in clear cases of blatant vandalism only. Happy editing! --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:01, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Phil Mac Giolla Bhain and use of pending changes review

A while back, I put pending changes on the article Phil Mac Giolla Bhain following repeated and recurring violations of the biographies of living persons policy. In this edit which you reviewed and approved, an IP editor uses the phrase "peddled" to describe the views of a journalist. This really is not an appropriate description to use of a Wikipedia subject and is far from being either neutral or BLP-compliant. Please try and be more careful when reviewing pending changes on articles about living people in the future. —Tom Morris (talk) 13:15, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

@Tom Morris: Thank you for the message, I'll be more careful with the matter for now on. StewdioMACK (talk) 14:39, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to STiki

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re SNL

Hi there, Cirt! During your peer review of Saturday Night Live, you mentioned that it would be best to do away with Controversies entirely and merge it into the History section. Well I took another route and split the entire section into its own article, Saturday Night Live incidents, while expanding on content and sources. Was wondering if this all seems to be fine. Thanks again! StewdioMACK (talk) 15:29, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Sure, but it should still be summarized in a more brief fashion than that entire article, in the parent article in chronological order, in my opinion. — Cirt (talk) 16:24, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

AfC

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Spam

Referring to MoonKnight Networks (deleted), anything that written in the first person (I, we, our) is very likely to be spam, and anything that contains a telephone number is 99.99% certain to be spam. And most things copied from company websites are spammy as well - that's what a company sit is for, isn't it? I've added it to the deletion reasons (copyvio and attack are the most urgent deletion reasons, followed by spam and hoax - anything else like lack of significance comes further down the priorities). When you find a CorenBot (or other copyvio reporting bot) report, check it out and add it into a db-multiple tag. It's easy to do in Twinkle (but complicated otherwise...). Peridon (talk) 12:12, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

When reviewing, don't forget to CSD tag anything that's copyvio, attack, hoax or pure spam. We had a lot of stuff in the old AfC that fell into these four categories and got left there for years. Those aren't allowed anywhere (except for the store of hoaxes for certain good ones, and a few pages clearly labelled as 'humour' created by well-establised editors - and not in article space). Stuff that's a promo in places but otherwise notable can be rewritten if it's only a few bits. If it's rotten to the core, tag it. Peridon (talk) 12:18, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

So you're saying articles like MoonKnight Networks need to be tagged as G11 as well as A7? I will take that into consideration. I probably need a bit more reading on the speedy criteria anyway. StewdioMACK ^{Talk page} 16:46, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Oh yes, tag for anything that's appropriate. Some combinations are extremely unlikely, like spam with attack, or spam with hoax, but A7 with spam and copyvio is quite common. Watch out for art-spam - an apparently neutral article (but often on a subject we've already got) with a concealed spam link, or just a link at the end - to a commercial site. Also, there are frequent things about cars that link to Toyota cars - tag them spam on sight. I block the authors on sight (possibly spambots, and definitely needing their IPs blocking anyway to slow them down). Any questions about CSD, don't be afraid to ask. And if you want a second opinion - or a different view - ask DGG or Kudpung. Peridon (talk) 22:18, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, Peridon! StewdioMACK ^{Talk page} 01:46, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

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Ether One screenshot

Good work on contacting White Paper, but have you considered asking for more images? Most video game articles only show one small screenshot because they are limited by our non-free content policy. But you can use as many free images as you like, Fez for example has free images, video and sound. We have a growing collection of free images at Commons:Historical and commercial video games, it'd be great to see more from Ether One. Let me know if you need any help regarding Commons, licensing or even video. - hahnchen 19:39, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

@Hahnchen: I've sent another email to White Paper asking about more media, so we'll see how that goes. Thanks for your guidance! StewdioMACK ^{Talk page} 13:50, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Infobox

Since it really isn't mandatory, and the infobox only uses that as a suggestion. Then if you must change it, please change the other seasons so that they are all the same. It seems odd that you would pick a single page and change that. Thanks.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 01:49, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

I've just been through some featured season articles, and I'm astonished that there's not a standard yet. Parks and Recreation (season 1) uses what I think is correct, as does Supernatural (season 1) and Supernatural (season 2). But Homicide: Life on the Street (season 1) and Homicide: Life on the Street (season 2) uses your syntax. I think the former method looks nicer and cleaner, so I'll change the other Smallville articles (and the other featured articles). StewdioMACK ^{Talk page} 01:56, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

There isn't a standard because it's not something that requires standardization. It's a matter of preference. If it's that important, then as long as they are all the same I'm not going to continue to fight it.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 02:16, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

re: Smallville (season 1) -- you're too close to edit warring so please chill and talk it out before doing any more undoings. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 09:12, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

As you can see above, the matter's settled and there shouldn't be any more reverts. :) StewdioMACK ^{Talk page} 09:14, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Did you know

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Apps with both OS X and iOS flavors

For Photos (application), I was following the way Messages (application) is currently written, although I didn't have time to do a full-blown "iOS version" section. If you think it best to have one infobox for all the apps with both OS X and iOS versions, go ahead; presumably the version, release date, platform, etc. fields will have both OS X and iOS information.

The apps I know of in that category are Photos (application), Messages (application), Calendar (Mac OS), Contacts (Mac OS), iBooks, Mail (application), Apple Maps (although that covers both the service and the applications; perhaps a Messages (application) vs. iMessage split is called for there), Notes (application), Photo Booth, Reminders (application), Safari (web browser), iLife and its GarageBand/iMovie/former iPhoto components, and iWork and its Keynote (presentation software)/Numbers (spreadsheet)/Pages (word processor) components. Some have two infoboxes, some have one.

(BTW, Calendar (application) just redirects to Calendar (Mac OS), and Contacts (application) just redirects to Contacts (Mac OS), so the two could be swapped, leaving "XXX (Mac OS)" as a redirect to a page named "XXX (application)"; it might just be possible to rename "XXX (Mac OS)" to "XXX (application)", with MediaWiki figuring out what's going on, doing the rename, and creating the new redirect, or it might require some administrator's help.) Guy Harris (talk) 07:35, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

@Guy Harris: I'm actually thinking the "Mac OS" apps should be renamed to "Apple", perhaps? Like "Calendar (Apple)", for example. The others ("Notes (application)") could be renamed to "____ (Apple) for consistency.

As for the infoboxes, I think it looks nicer to have one infobox (it's a bit cluttered the way it is) and will merge the infoboxes into one on all appropriate articles. Thanks for the response! And yeah, I think a split is called for on the Maps app. StewdioMACK ^{Talk page} 08:08, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Ether One

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:32, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Photos (application)

Harrias ^talk 04:46, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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History of Saturday Night Live (1975–80) edit conflict

Well, first, I'm not sure what changes you were making (I didn't see anything on talk page), but I was making some improvements for style mostly in the cast lists, and when I saved it there was a conflict. I tried to restore the changes you made, but it seems I readded some that you removed. If you make those changes again, please don't change back my edits. Thanks. --Musdan77 (talk) 03:28, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

@Musdan77: Yeah, sorry about that. I was making a large amount of changes to the article and basically giving it a complete neatening and restructuring (making it immaculate like History of Saturday Night Live (1995–2000)): I was doing it in the article space at first, but then wised up and took the whole thing to my sandbox and tidied it there before making the edit. I reverted your edit because it seems to have restored a lot of the poor points of the article that I fixed with my edit (if you want I can go into more detail about the structure I think it should have). Sorry for the inconvenience. StewdioMACK (talk) 04:14, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Okay, I think I know what happened now. At first, I was pretty upset when you just reverted everything, but I understand now. I just want to let you know that one main thing that I fixed was the use of bold type, which is definitely not correct. Footnotes like that (in an encyclopedia) should use asterisks or symbols like †, ‡, §. --Musdan77 (talk) 18:13, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Alright, I was just bolding to maintain consistency with some of the other SNL articles; I'll change the other articles instead so everything's consistent. StewdioMACK (talk) 00:04, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I was on the way to doing that myself, but it would take me awhile. The links for "Weekend Update" really shouldn't be repeated per WP:REPEATLINK. Also, the use of small font should be avoided there per MOS:FONTSIZE, but I won't push the issue. --Musdan77 (talk) 17:02, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

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