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Suggested changes at MOTD

Hello fellow motto contributor. Discussions arer still open on Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Nominations#Suggested changes and still require further input especially on ideas 10-17. Please could you voice your opinion as this is going to be closed in early November. Please help out or even make any new idea suggestions. Simply south (talk) 15:16, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

This is a last call. Any opinions should be suggested by and including November 5th. See Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Nominations#Suggested Changes Simply south (talk) 21:22, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

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What are you doing? What do you know about garrysmod? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Otis1017 (talk • contribs) 19:36, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

YouTube links are not to be used on Wikipedia. See WP:YOUTUBE for more information. ~NerdyScienceDude 19:45, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

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Confirmation Request

Hello NerdyScienceDude, I noticed a request at http://prototype.wikimedia.org/flaggedrevs/Wikipedia:Request_permissions Can you please confirm that you made this request. Thank you, --Alpha Quadrant ^talk 02:13, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Confirmed. ~NerdyScienceDude 02:16, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

 Done --Alpha Quadrant ^talk 02:20, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Formatting

Hello, when I was creating the newest section for the NASCAR portal, Portal:NASCAR/Championship standings, I wanted the third table to be below the others in the middle. However, it would squeeze inbetween the others. That table is hidden, and I was wondering if you would know how to fix it. Also, do you believe we should add colors to the tables that are similar to the portal colors? Thanks. Nascar1996 02:17, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Nevermind. I fixed the issue. Do you believe 2010 Price Chopper 400 is ready for GAN? If it is, why not you nominate it. I have two others (2010 Sylvania 300 & 2010 AAA 400) in the process. Nascar1996 14:15, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I've nominated it. ~NerdyScienceDude 03:23, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

For the restrictor plate tracks (which has a lead change every lap), how would I write a good prose for them. Should I just ignore those races (except for the Daytona 500)? Nascar1996 17:51, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

You could write something similar to 2010 Coke Zero 400. ~NerdyScienceDude 18:06, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I may be able to do that for the 500, I'm not going to be able to finish this race. Nascar1996 18:10, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I may be able to finish it, after I double checked my scheduled. Nascar1996 18:20, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

OK. ~NerdyScienceDude 19:18, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

For you...

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		For the initiative you took a few days back with the report you filed. It's always touching when someone stops what they are doing to try to look out for someone else. Gives me hope for the human race. Thanks... for being you!!! ROBERTMFROMLI TALK/CNTRB 04:17, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! ~NerdyScienceDude 12:58, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

about your rollback

hey, what i said was in good faith...i meant to suggest editing at that point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by M.thoriyan (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia is not a forum for general discussion. Talk pages are for article collaboration, not for random comments. ~NerdyScienceDude 02:23, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE You rolled back this edit as "unhelpful". In my opinion, the text was poorly written POV, and I asked that future edits be discussed on the talk page before being added to the article. I don't claim to have perfect knowledge of WP practices, but I thought my edit was correct. Perhaps I could have discussed my reasoning on the talk page first, but I feel that the burden of proof should be on the editor trying to add controversial text. The automatic message you sent to my talk page telling me it was unhelpful was in itself quite unhelpful. What do you think I did wrong? Tdslk (talk) 03:58, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I was using igloo, which automatically leaves a templated warning on your talk page. It looked like blanking of sourced information and replacing it with information about condoms, which is something a vandal could do. I'll remove the warning from your talk page. ~NerdyScienceDude 13:04, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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PayLeap

Please ease up. The article did not fall foul of WP:CSD#G11 and the user is not a vandal - just a good faith newbie. I have to say I was suprised to se someone of your tenure and experience making those errors NSD. Pedro :  Chat  21:18, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh, and that bloody dreadful editnotice thing when I edit your userpage is, well, bloody dreadful. Not that it's my business, or enforceable, but half a page of random crap to get to the edit box???? Pedro :  Chat  21:20, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I reverted the removal of CSD tag because the user who created the article isn't supposed to remove the CSD tag; they should use the {{hang on}} template to contest the speedy deletion. And the {{help me}} template is not supposed to be used on articles. Also note that his username is almost identical to the article - could be a promoter. ~NerdyScienceDude 21:27, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

NSD - see WP:BITE. you know about COI, about how to use help tags and about how to use hang-on tags - this editor does not. Instead of reporting him to WP:AIV a few pointers on his talk page would have been better. We don't slavishly follow rules around here mate - or at least those of us with block buttons don't if they have any sense. I'm not having a go at you, but please remember we were all newbies once. Pedro :  Chat  21:34, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

FYI, another editor has applied an A7 tag to the article, and the user in question has been blocked per WP:ORGNAME. The AIV report was automatic based on whether or not the editor has a level 4 warning; since there isn't one the report was probably a Huggle error. I also shortened my editnotice. ~NerdyScienceDude 21:44, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

FYI the A7 has been removed, the block is a softblock to get the user to change their name (and frankly I think that's overkill but the crats wont generally change username with a few edits so I guess we're stuck with it) and I have no time whatsoever for people blaming Huggle for stuff. Thanks for shortening your edit notice. NSD if you want to be an admin (which I note from your userpage you do) I'd suggest a little reflection on the nuances rather than the process. Pedro :  Chat  21:50, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

OK. ~NerdyScienceDude 22:01, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Please help with the Apple Inc. collaboration

Monomium (talk) 03:42, 10 November 2010 (UTC)