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Request for comment on Category Redirect template

Because you are a member of WikiProject Categories, your input is invited on some proposed changes to the design of the {{Category redirect}} template. Please feel free to view the proposals and comment on the template talk page. --Russ (talk) 21:22, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

so is all good?

So you are all good with the images you mentioned on my talk page? They appear to be fine.--Rockfang (talk) 22:12, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Replied on Rockfang's talk page Dbiel ^(Talk) 00:59, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

BetacommandBot

Re use of Image:Joeydeacon2.gif: In fairness, I did add the fair use rationale to both the talk page of the image and that of the user. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 19:33, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

reply posted on users talk page Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:48, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

joeydeacon.jpg

Thanks for creating the template - I had thought that I had put the rationale on the image page as well as the talk page, but never mind :) DavidFarmbrough (talk) 21:36, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

RBOC map

Thank you for your time and effort to create the fair use rationale templates for all the logos on the RBOC map. I knew full well that that's really what needed to be done, but I wasn't feeling up to the task at the time I received the notice. As far as what license the map sans-logos should exist under, I have no idea; I honestly don't care. Whatever the copyright gurus feel is best is fine with me. Thanks.—Lazytiger (Talk | contribs) 03:05, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:PosterVelvet 01.jpg

I saw the fair use rationale in the article and didn't notice the missing article name. Good catch, I would have hated to see it wind right back up into the Images deleteion queue. DJBullfish (talk) 03:20, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

re:UK school stubs

Thanks for the explanation. If I had looked below the map I would have seen the subcategories. My first mistake was to try to choose a category from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types/Education thinking that it was a complete list. I didn't see Scotland there (which now makes sense) so I thought that UK was the closest and didn't stop to think that it had subcategories. I learned something. Thanks. Sbowers3 (talk) 02:03, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Replied on user's talk page Dbiel ^(Talk) 02:10, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Cloverly Elementary School

Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Cloverly Elementary School, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 11:59, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Category:Glossary of education-related terms (dictionary format)

I want to let you know that I have nominated this category which you created for deletion, after reorganizing a few related categories. Deletion discussion is here. --Eliyak T·C 22:14, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Oak Avenue Intermediate School up for deletion

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oak Avenue Intermediate School. This is completely ridiculous. Please let's defend it. — Ian Lee (Talk) 23:10, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Invite

Hi Dbiel!

I noticed you were a member of WikiProject Education, and thought you might be interested in WikiProject Homeschooling. In this "WikiProject," we have been together working on the collaboration of Homeschooling-related articles. As a member, I really hope you can join, and let me know if you need any help signing up or with anything else. If you have any questions about the project you can ask at the project's talk page. Cheers! RC-0722 ^communicator/_kills 23:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Rollback given

I have given you rollback because I believe you will do well helping to revert vandalism. Remember, rollback is not to be used in content disputes or on good-faith edits. You can test your rollback here. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Happy editing! bibliomaniac15 I see no changes 04:55, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Category for Educational Activities of Clubs

You removed "Education" as a category from The Gardeners of America/Men's Garden Clubs of America. Is there another category that I can add to the article indicating that TGOA/MGCA engages in activities to educate the public about gardening and landscape topics? Thanks, Lou (talk) 20:06, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I have rechecked Category:Education and I am unable to find any category it would fit into. If you would like to do some more research yourself, I would start with Category:Horticultural organizations and see what additional categories are used by similar articles. Additionally you may want to post your question at Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance) or possibly Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories. I am still trying to learn the many features of Wikipedia myself.

But in any case, the article definately does not belong in the parent category Category:Education. Please remember that the primary purpose of categories is to group similar articles together. Dbiel ^(Talk) 01:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I didn't find another category that represents "educating the public about gardening". But I decided to add two new categories, Category:Urban agriculture and Category:Community building to try to cover both "gardening education" and "community beautification". These categories seem to be used in other articles for the same purpose. TGOA/MGCA also uses gardening to educate children about the natural world, and as therapy for both young and old. I considered using Category:Therapy for the latter case, but decided that wouldn't work. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks! Lou (talk) 20:11, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Re:Bpeps

Sorry that I didn't see your comments to Bpeps and indeed thanks for replying. I have certainly left the project under my old username. Truth be known, I have never needed to see user rights logs before (things like blocks are generally self evident by history logs) and VP (If I had it) flags warnings and blocks on user pages.

I actually thought I was doing good. Aggressive Behaviour is not a stigma which I want to carry around with me. My behaviour was bad. It was reported to WP:ANI and I stopped. I wasn't blocked, it wasn't a disruption of mainspace, I apologised and imposed a (albeit) self inposed bar on contacting the editor without firm grounds.

I requested a deletion of my user page because I really didn't understand the hostility which had surrounded me during the last 15 weeks. I would have left long before if I had have known. Stigma like agression is best played by editors with a thick skin. I don't have one and the whole thing has left me feeling very ashamed. Trust is essential as you pointed out. Stigma is very hard for editors to cast off. 172.200.5.68 (talk) 19:36, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I would hope that you would not leave Wikipedia over this. Your recent edits indicate that you are a good contributor. Based on what you have written, I would suggest simply creating a new user name and starting over. The only drawback is that you will have to build a new history of edits before rollback would be granted again and you could apply for other tools like VandalProof. There is nothing wrong with starting over with a clean slate.Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:46, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Really Need Help!!!!!!!!

Hello Dbiel, it has been awhile since we have communicated. I really need your help. There is this user Maurice45, who has been deleting a lot of info from the articles. He has removed plot/concept of many of the television series because (the reason he writes for removing info) he says that this is all fairy tale. Well a plot/cocept is a necessary part of the television program to let viewer know what the story is about, but this user has deleted from many pages and doesn't stop. For example, following are some of the pages that he removed info from which was edited by a lot of users: Kesar, Kahiin To Hoga, Bhabhi, and many more. Can you please do something to stop this user from vandalizing!!!!!!!!!!! Please! Please! I will be really thankful for your help and your precious time. Your old wiki friend Survir ^(talk) 15:02, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I have done some review, and at this time I do not see much that I can do. I will post a notice on his user page. I suggest that you also review the following: Wikipedia:Plot summaries Be careful not over expand the plot. Try to keep it as a concise summary. Remember that you can revert his edits if you think that they are inappropriate. Just try not to get into an edit war. Dbiel ^(Talk) 03:17, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Plot Summaries

They are only considered acceptable when they are of a certain length and quality. Certain plot summaries are overly long, contain POV and other unacceptable materials. Please take some time and review them --Maurice45 (talk) 10:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

• I will go over my edits and rewrite them all. Thanks for the suggestion --Maurice45 (talk) 12:31, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

:replied on users talk page Dbiel (Talk) 19:47, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Dick Bremer

Why not? He is an American Lutheran and a celebrity. If Troy Aikman, and David Hasselhoff can be listed than so can Dick Bremer. If you have a problem with this, why not just delete the link? Regards --Npnunda (talk) 15:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

replied on user's talk page where topic began Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:00, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

It's really not that big of a deal. I said if you have a problem with it to delete the link. Consider it done. Regards --Npnunda (talk) 21:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Protestantism

There look to be a series of these, and they are certainly non-nuetral POV edits. Would you be willing to go through and undo them? It would certainly be appropriate. Pastordavid (talk) 20:16, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Replied on user's talk page where topic started Dbiel ^(Talk) 13:41, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

response

The list is at Special:ShortPages; and dabs are no different than other pages. Only redirects aren't listed, unless they are corrupt and then they too will be there. Cheers. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 06:53, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

• 1000 shortest articles, updated every few days. Any under 137 bytes will be scrutinized quickly; we are trying to push this to 150 or 200 bytes, but that's 10,000s of articles to go. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Moses archive

Sure I don't mind explaining. I use the move method for two reasons: it's what I've always used and it results in watching the moved talk - this way, if someone vandalizes a talk archive, someone might notice. You claimed that the copy and paste method is "normal," but I don't understand what you mean by that. As far as I'm aware, neither method is more prevalent than the other. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:11, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Responding Please respond on my talk - I'll only watch your page if you ask. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:11, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Van Gogh

What's going on with Talk:Vincent van Gogh? Gimmetrow 01:26, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the post. It was something I thought I could fix but this need the help of an administrator. Talk:Vincent van Gogh was archived using the move method to Talk:Vincent van Gogh/Archive 1 The talk page has active threads that should not be archived. I have prepared the archive page to be moved back, but am unable to do so. Please deleted the current Talk:Vincent van Gogh and move Talk:Vincent van Gogh/Archive 1 back it back to Talk:Vincent van Gogh Thank you for your assistance Dbiel ^(Talk) 01:32, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Also then delete Talk:Vincent van Gogh to be deleted - Thank you Dbiel ^(Talk) 01:35, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Additionally Talk:Pablo Picasso/Archive 2 needs to be moved back to Talk:Pablo Picasso as Archive 1 was done cut and paste and archive 2 was done using move which them makes a mess of the history. Thank you Dbiel ^(Talk) 01:46, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Update: Talk:Vincent van Gogh has been taken care of, but am still waiting for Talk:Pablo Picasso to be deleted so that Talk:Pablo Picasso/Archive 2 can be moved back with the entire history file that also includes archive 1 Dbiel ^(Talk) 03:20, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

learning disability

i think a learning disability is an indicator of low intelligence. why someone who is intelligent need to use notes during a test? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.51.125.166 (talk) 02:06, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Pablo Picasso

{{helpme}} I need to get Talk:Pablo Picasso deleted so that I can move Talk:Pablo Picasso/Archive 2 back to Talk:Pablo Picasso. The page was original moved to [[Talk:Pablo Picasso/Archive 2] moving the entire history which includes the history related to Talk:Pablo Picasso/Archive 1 which was created using cut and paste method. I have added a speedy delete notice but do not know what else I can do to speed up the process so that the talk page can be restored. Dbiel ^(Talk) 03:13, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

 Done. You take it from here. {{db-move}} would've maybe gotten faster response. xenocidic (talk) 03:19, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your assistance Dbiel ^(Talk) 03:36, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Archiving

Thanks for sorting that out! I have commented on User talk:Koavf. Ty 02:51, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Proposal to discourage pagemove archiving

See Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Proposal to discourage pagemove archiving. xenocidic (talk) 14:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

(Re [1]) No worries. –xenocidic (talk) 14:54, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

About.com

{{helpme}} Is the domain about.com considered an acceptalbe External Link for use in Wikipedia? See diff As blogs are not considered acceptable, I am not sure if about.com fits in that category (as it is not technically a blog, but it is not a valid notable source either) as many of its links are back to Wikipedia. The displayed title of the line "Learning Disabilities on About.com provides information and resources on learning disabilities for ages ranging from early childhood through adulthood." does make it clear where it comes from. This is not a article specific question but a Wikipedia wide question, since if about.com is considered an acceptable external link source, then the use in this article is more than appropriate, but it should be moved to the bottom of the list, not the first entry, which I will do now. Dbiel ^(Talk) 01:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

As far as I understand it, about.com is typically a mirror of other sites (sometimes including Wikipedia). It might be preferred to link to those other sites directly in some (most?) circumstances, if the relevant content is worth linking. Leaving this helpme open for more response, but feel free to close it if you like. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I've yet to see any about.com content that's a mirror. If it's not mirrored, I'd say it's acceptable; the site seems to be extensive and reliable enough. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 01:59, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the replies and assistance Dbiel ^(Talk) 02:10, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

• You're welcome. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 02:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

{{WPSchools}}

Thank you for your work with template|WP:schools

I do have a question about a few other changes to be a bit more consistant with other similar templates see User:Dbiel/Category:Schools in the United States by state/work page#Templates for comparision for some examples. I am specificly talking about category pages and {{WikiProject GeorgiaUS}} seems to be one of the best I have seen so far. One additional change, not included in {{WikiProject GeorgiaUS}} Is to change the first sentence from This article is part... to This page is part... but I know that would require a major amount of programing, but the other change should not be that difficult for someone used to working on templates, but I could be wrong, as I am not one of those individuals. Thank you again for your assistance. Dbiel ^(Talk) 02:44, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I have posted a request to fix the template which places that text ({{Cat-Class td}}) and hope it will get someone's attention. I will have a loo at making the text smarter (It's not that hard really). Adam McCormick (talk) 02:57, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply and assistance. Dbiel ^(Talk) 03:06, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Education by country

Now that we have enough articles to support more templates, {{Education by country}} has been deprecated in favor of continental templates, which don't add articles to this category. It doesn't make sense to have all the individual articles listed in Category:Education by country when they are in their respective national categories, which are themselves in Category:Education by country. I only changed the education by country template because it was on a project page, and its presence was making the project page go into the category too. Mangostar (talk) 05:14, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't really mind putting it back or leaving it as it is, as long as the project pages aren't in a mainspace category. Mangostar (talk) 05:16, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Reply lost due to edit conflict

You could have removed the project page from the category by by using the following syntax

{{Education by country|categories=no}}

Dbiel ^(Talk) 05:21, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Template has been reverted and project page has been removed from the category Dbiel ^(Talk) 05:37, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Orinda Academy

Thanks. I just mark them that way as I go through School articles. Since I do assessment, I don't concentrating on deletion procedures. PS: Please reply on my page. Calebrw (talk) 01:59, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

replied on users talk page Dbiel ^(Talk) 02:03, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Very much appreciated. Calebrw (talk) 02:05, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Redirects

Hi Dbiel, thanks for the note. Done, but it wasn't really necessary. Because they had no history, a bot (User:RedirectCleanupBot) deletes them after a short period. Saves us the trouble. :) Though you are correct, links to a page should be checked and deleted. I just haven't had much time recently. All the best, PeterSymonds (talk) 23:03, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the information about RedirectCleanupBot Dbiel ^(Talk) 23:26, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Image:Datpol.jpg

Please explain why you deleted Image:Datpol.jpg without responding to my edits to the image file? I see this as an abuse of your administrative powers. I will wait for your reply before posting an administrative notice. Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:52, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Fair use images of living people are only allowed under very very special circumstances. See this page. Seeing as DAT Politics appears to still be an active band, it is reasonable for someone to take their own photo of them and release it under a free license. (BTW, please respond on my talk page so I'll get a notice.) Melesse (talk) 03:18, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

I did not ignore the posted tag. I read it, decided your rationale was not valid (and based on that quote, someone whose input you respect agrees with me) and deleted it. I don't know what more you want. If it so pleases you, go ahead and complain about me at the AN and see if anyone agrees with you. Melesse (talk) 00:34, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Happy Independence Day!

As you are a nice Wikipedian, I just wanted to wish you a happy Independence Day! And if you are not an American, then have a happy day and a wonderful weekend anyway!  :) Your friend and colleague, --Happy Independence Day! Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:32, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Re:

Check the history of the archive.Electrical Experiment (talk) 03:30, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

responsed on users talk page where topic started Dbiel ^(Talk) 03:50, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

its ok Electrical Experiment (talk) 03:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

RE:MifterBot

Thanks for that :), I was just going to add that along with the fact that it had just been flagged but I was surprised to see that you beat me to it :). Thanks and All the Best, --Mifter (talk) 02:59, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Request for Good Article Review

Hello,

You were very helpful in the past and I was hoping you could take a look at Operation USA and help me to get it accepted as a good article, or at least point out what would prevent it from being a good article.

Best regards, Wattssw (talk) 09:24, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

I reviewed the article and it looks fairly good to me. I made two minor edits to the opening section. I have two suggestions regarding additional changes. 1) It does not seem to have an ending section. It just comes to an abrupt end at Film and Theater Projects I am no expert in what makes a good article, and after looking at some of the featured articles, it appears that they also lack any ending section, so the suggestion to add one may not be correct; but I personally think it would make for a better article. 2)Linking of retrieved dates in the references section is something I do not like, BUT after reviewing a few featured articles it seems to be the current style, so I would not change it at this time. The next step to me would be for you to review the following page Wikipedia:Peer review and follow its advise. It looks like a fairly good article to me and I found it interesting reading. Sorry I can not be of any more assistance as I am not qualified in the area of article review. I wish you success in your endevours. PS since I failed to look at the talk page prior to writing this, I notice that you have already posted a good review request tag. One last thing I would suggest, if you have not already done so, is to double check each of the reference links for validity and accuracy. Dbiel ^(Talk) 17:12, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

I have spent some more time reviewing the article and making a few copy edits. I have also created a good review page and added my comments there. The one major change that needs to be made is to change the date format used in the referece links to get rid of the red links, see the article talk page Talk:Operation USA Dbiel ^(Talk) 18:41, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

California

Got it, thanks. NawlinWiki (talk) 01:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

• Sorry, thought you were complaining about incorrect icon, not lack of same. I'll put them on (it'll take a while, be patient). NawlinWiki (talk) 02:39, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Darwinism

Since Darwin's theory of genetics (Pangenesis) was totally wrong, it is unclear to me why you deleted the reference. --Zeamays (talk) 21:21, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

reply previous posted on users talk page. Dbiel ^(Talk) 21:27, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Knoxville airport

Your right. That does make sense to keep the Knoxville category for that airport. Thanks Xnatedawgx (talk) 14:30, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

King Abdullah II of Jordan.

75.23.217.15 wrote:

   Recently one informed about President of Sudan Mr Omar Hassan Al-Bashir is Abbasi too. His tribe is known as "ja'aili" which is a branch of Abbasi tribe. One Doctor who contacted from Saudi Arabia which also an Abbasi from Egypt explained this.

86.60.67.97 wrote:

   This is information is provided by me and for your all kind information the King of Jordon King. Abdullah is also Hashmi and rooted from Abbasi tribe. Abbasis i saw and met them in Saudia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Some countries of Africa, Sudan especially, Pakistan & India etc etc.

Everybody knows that Kings Abdullah II of Jordan & Mohammad VI of Morocco are Hashimi. However, they are Alawi, not Abbasi. Is this what you meant? Or do you have proof that King Abdullah II of Jordan is Abbasi? Information service (talk) 10:01, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

I am sorry that I have no idea of what you are talking about. I have not edited article Abdullah II of Jordan. Could you please indicate what article you are talking about?

As far as my knowledge of the subject, I have none. Any edit I may have made would have been related to preceived vandalism or unexplained edits that at face value did not make sense. Remember Wikipedia does not allow orignal research. Your personal knowledge is not valid Wikipedia content, but it should help you in finding notable sources to support your knowledge which is what Wikipedia is all about. Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:13, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

After doing some more research, the article in question is Abbasi and the copy posted above was accidently reverted back into the article by mistake. I have correct my error in the article and moved the bad copy to the talk page with additional explaination of my error. Sorry about the mistake Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:29, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the answer, Dbiel. Information service (talk) 09:33, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Protestantism revisions

Dbiel,

Why would you undo changes that I had made? Why do you say it went way too far? Was Luther not a monk or the father of Protestantism? I don't see how that was too far or inaccurate. Please explain.

Thank you,

Theology10101 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Theology10101 (talk • contribs) 03:46, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Will move this discussion over to the article talk page as a better place to discuss this issue. Dbiel ^(Talk) 04:08, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

I did only copy the rating from the other projects listed on the talk page. After a good look at the article, It is definately a C-class article. For it to get B-class, we would probably need to improve the lead, expand a few of the sections (eg. history) and remove the mission statement section. Good spot. Have ammended the rating. Five Years 13:05, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Upon second thought, the lack of references is a major concern, and I have gone to start class. Five Years 13:10, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I only do class ratings to help reduce the backlog of 1200+ articles. Once there is no longer a backlog, i do intend on assessing for importance. Five Years 15:53, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Lynch2000s (talk · contribs)

Hi. Please note that I've reverted yet another edit by this user that involved piping. Please check for any more instances of over-wikification. Apparently the user doesn't understand that this isn't nessecary. Thanks. ~AH1^(TCU) 15:18, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Also, the user appears to be a sockpuppet of Lynch1000s (talk · contribs), see this ANI post. Thanks. ~AH1^(TCU) 20:30, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

I have reverted a bunch of his edits and also posted to the link you provided above. Thank you. Dbiel ^(Talk) 20:39, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Have you read the book? Constant theme is the subtle psychological torture of one another by two of the main characters! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.236.177.22 (talk) 01:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

re: assessment of Maine West High School

Thank you very much for taking the time to assess this article. I cannot agree more .... this is a tough call. I in no way would challenge the "C" assessment, though I appreciated the props of saying that it is at least close to a "B". LonelyBeacon (talk) 11:53, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Please note: I am not saying that the article IS C-Class. It looks like B-Class to me. I am just not confortable or experienced enough yet to rate any article as B-Class. I just saw no reason at all to leave it as Start Class. Dbiel ^(Talk) 15:54, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

changess to a page

hey i appreciate your feedback and suggestions but how to do learn how to work on the pages and make tables and stuff like that please just respond on my talk page thanks:)

--Ovgridiron56 (talk) 20:08, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

"Practice" vs. "Practise"

I know this is a minor point, but I noticed your reversion a few days ago of an edit by ArdClose to Moses in which the former changed "practice" to "practise". In British English, as well as the written English of most other countries excluding the USA, the correct spelling of the verb is "to practise". The Wikipedia article Practice refers to the noun rather than the verb, so is not relevant. The most Wikipedia's policy has to say on the issue is that it doesn't really matter, though I suppose you could use the same argument to say that ArdClose's edit was unnecessary. But then, so was reverting it. Robin S (talk) 01:52, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your speedy reply. I was mostly curious to see whether there was something that I had missed, either in general policy or pertaining to this particular case; I have noticed that edits like ArdClose's (and, often, subsequent revisions) are very common, regardless of the prevailing use in the article, and am never really sure what to do about them. Robin S (talk) 03:20, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

reply posted to user's talk page Dbiel ^(Talk) 03:30, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Copyright concerns

Hi. :) Thanks for pointing out the problem at LAMBDA School of Music and Fine Arts, here. I've removed the infringement, left a note at the article's talk page and warned the contributor. I would like to point out to you, though, that per the instructions we are supposed to tag copyright infringing pages with the {{copyvio}} template. There's a good reason for this, as it not only tells contributors how to properly contribute but also (and more importantly) reduces the risk of the infringement being mirrored on other sites. Once we have discovered a copyright infringement, we can't continue to publish it. While articles which are speedily deleted for copyright concerns are not blanked, articles which are listed at WP:CP are not closed for a full seven days, during which if we continue to display the suspect text we may be liable of contributory infringement. Obviously, since this article is handled, this is an FYI for future discoveries. :) Again, thanks for finding that issue and helping keep Wikipedia in the copyright clear. :D --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:26, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

reply to be posed on user's talk page

Hello, Dbiel. You have new messages at Moonriddengirl's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Category:Uncategorized from September 2008

Hi, please do not create categorise so pre-emptively. We rely on future categorise not existing to track mistakes where the maintenance tags have been dated into the future. Thanks and take care, ~ AmeIiorate _{U T C} @ 22:41, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

replied on user's talk page Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:01, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

{{editor toc}}

{{helpme}} Is it possible to make use of {{editor toc}} without it adding the user page to Category:Editor handbook see User:Dbiel/Cheatsheet Dbiel ^(Talk) 04:24, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Done. Just add |category= as a parameter to exclude the category. Cheers, WODUP 04:38, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction

Thanks for the correction. I can never keep the syntax of all the different templates straight. It does seem strange that they require completely typing out the full month name. It probably too difficult to make them accept Sept, September or just 9. Perhaps I should just leave them blank and let the bots put in the dates. -- ☑ SamuelWantman 06:11, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Your welcome. I know what you mean. I would agree with you that it is easier to just let to bots add the date to the tags. Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:29, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Schools Barnstar

		The Schools Barnstar
		For long-term contributions to school-related articles on Wikipedia, I award Dbiel the Schools Barnstar! --Jh12 (talk) 13:19, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Article 'Jayen varma'...The Title is to be disappeared along with the page

Yes, there is a language problem...between me and you all. Now your question is "whether The page would have to be deleted and then protected from being recreated. Is this what you are asking to be done with the Jayen Varma article?". Yes that is what I am asking to be done as a permanent solution. Otherwise, people will come up and write in it again and again. In this case I, Jayen Varma, am the affected party. So its my earnest request to delete the page, along with the title 'jayen varma' and then protect it from being recreated anywhere in Wikipedia. I mean the Title 'Jayen varma' should also be deleted Thanks and regards--Jayenvarma (talk) 08:07, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Temple City CA Seal.gif)

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Note: image was replaced with Image:Temple City CA Seal.png Dbiel ^(Talk) 01:26, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Article 'Jayen varma'...The Title is to be disappeared along with the page

Yes, there is a language problem...between me and you all. Now your question is "whether The page would have to be deleted and then protected from being recreated. Is this what you are asking to be done with the Jayen Varma article?". Yes that is what I am asking to be done as a permanent solution. Otherwise, people will come up and write in it again and again. In this case I, Jayen Varma, am the affected party. So its my earnest request to delete the page, along with the title 'jayen varma' and then protect it from being recreated anywhere in Wikipedia. I mean the Title 'Jayen varma' should also be deleted Thanks and regards--Jayenvarma (talk) 08:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

I have posted a request for indefinite create-protection of Jayen Varma at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection per your requests on you user pages. Please be aware that this request only relates to Jayen Varma and not to Jayen varma or JayenVarma or other similar page names (titles). Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:55, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

User:75.66.103.144

How should the edits by User:75.66.103.144 be handled? edits are to add articles to the non-existant categories such as Category:Fictional Christians and Category:Fictional Protestants Is it a valid category that should be created, or should the edits all be reversed? Dbiel ^(Talk) 01:22, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

removed help tag, as categories have been deleted previously. added new help tag

{{helpme}} Is it acceptable to use rollback to delete the above mentioned edits? Dbiel ^(Talk) 01:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I would condone using rollback in this case. ~ User:Ameliorate! ^{(with the !) (talk)} 01:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for helping Jayenvarma. Have a great day, Dbiel. -Porchcrop ^{(talk|contributions)} 06:30, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

The reason I picked up about the poster image in the example infobox so quickly...

...was because I almost made the same mistake myself a few days ago, but managed to catch it before I pushed the save button. Frankly, I have some question about why that particular poster is PD, but that's a different problem! Best, Ed Fitzgerald ^{t / c} 22:21, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

An article is tough than music

To Mr.Dbiel, This is to personnally thank you for guiding us to make the writings about jayen varma look like an article. We thank all editors and administrators here. Writing an article in good quality is harder than playing music. We have been doing it just like you guided us. God.. we are tired. Please make any corrections if needed. May God bless you... thank U..for all the help!!!!!!!! !----Fansfans123 (talk) 03:03, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanx

Dear Mr.Dbiel, We thank U for the guidance in editing the article placed by us earlier. Many people appreciated the present edit. We read ur profile. Great person you are and you re contributing so much to the world of knowledge. May God bless you. we do not want to go for any more edits in wikipedia in any articles in WP, because that may lose the beauty of articles, since we are unaware of article placing and proper editing. But we shall bring to your notice if we find any false matter is found placed by anyone in the music category. We respect you . Our bassist really appreciated you, all the editors and administrators and WP's rules after reading the article. Thanks --Fansfans123 (talk) 01:27, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

I am glad I was able to help Dbiel ^(Talk) 04:09, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Alexis Amore

Hello. I reverted because the information was unsourced. Unfortunately IMDB isn't considered a WP:RS because its information is submitted by users and not subject to fact-checking, so I'm going to have to remove the information again. — [[::User:Malik Shabazz|Malik Shabazz]] ([[::User talk:Malik Shabazz|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Malik Shabazz|contribs]]) 04:38, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't think there's a consensus concerning whether IAFD is a RS (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pornography#Reliable sources). Sorry I didn't check to see that much of the same information that's at IMDB is also at IAFD. I'll restore it. Sorry. — [[::User:Malik Shabazz|Malik Shabazz]] ([[::User talk:Malik Shabazz|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Malik Shabazz|contribs]]) 05:02, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Dbiel. You have new messages at Unpopular Opinion's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--[[::User:Unpopular Opinion|Unpopular Opinion]] ([[::User talk:Unpopular Opinion|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Unpopular Opinion|contribs]]) 16:10, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Dodo

I reverted the inclusion of the category Megafauna because the person who did it is apparently on a campaign to stick literally every single page about any animal over 44 lbs into category Megafauna. You mind if we put category Raphinae into Megafauna, rather than just Dodo?--Mr Fink (talk) 13:57, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I follow you logic and it makes sense to me. Thanks for pointing it out Dbiel ^(Talk) 14:53, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I tried to explain to this person that sticking every page featuring animals over 44 lbs into Category: Megafauna would make it too broad and or too arbitrary to be useful. Personally, I want to reorganize it by putting in only all of the relevant taxon categories, i.e., Panthera instead of Felidae+lions+tigers+bearcats+housecats, etc.--Mr Fink (talk) 02:18, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

I would agree with turning the category into a Parent Category. Keep up the good work. Dbiel ^(Talk) 12:28, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the NCCC page

So headings should never be linked? Wjwetzel (talk) 02:52, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

See WP:HEAD "Section names should not normally contain links, especially ones which link only part of the heading; they will cause accessibility problems." Dbiel ^(Talk) 03:05, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Also my second question is how do i upload a picture

Wjwetzel (talk) 02:52, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Uploading images Dbiel ^(Talk) 03:05, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

ThanksWjwetzel (talk) 03:07, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

NCCC- Man I cant seem to get wiki right

https://my2.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do;jsessionid=c0a8060e30d7d977b68a9fe94249906ba45bc977d523.e3uLc3qRa3yOe34Rbh8OaNmLbi1ynknvrkLOlQzNp65In0?fromSearch=true&id=7976&SID=c0a8060e30d7d977b68a9fe94249906ba45bc977d523

Thats where I got the picture....Look in the lowe right hand corner. I figured since this a federal government program it can be posted.

Dude your f-ing awesome and I thank you for helping me. Wjwetzel (talk) 04:08, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Wjwetzel (talk) 04:10, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Please do not get hung up with the thought "I cant seem to get wiki right" Wikipedia is very easy to edit, but that is a lot to learn to be able to do it correctly. It simply takes time to learn it. And the best way to learn is trial and error. So keep up the good work and keep learning as you go. You are off to a very good start. Dbiel ^(Talk) 04:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

PLease Look in to it

Sir, We see that the article Jayen Varma is seen edited now by someone else. Please make sure if it has been edited by the WP editors or by some unknown persons. Thanks and Regards. --Fansfans123 (talk) 12:26, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Reply - regarding the edits by other users; there really is no such thing as WP editors, anyone is permitted to edit any article so long as the edits themselves comply with the Wikipedia policies. As time permits, I will review the edits in more detail and see what I can do to improve the article. Dbiel ^(Talk) 20:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the MySpace link removal, see the following note:

Note that under WP:External links#What_should_be_linked, a link to a social networking site may be included when it is the official website for a business, organization, or person.

I took a look at both the MySpace entry: http://www.myspace.com/jayenvarma and the official web page http://www.jayenvarma.net It would be easier to add it back if there was a direct reference to the myspace page on the jayevnarma.net web site, rather than just the general reference to myspace.com Do you think he would be willing to change his web site to provide a link to the actual myspace.com page? I will continue to review the article as time permits. Dbiel ^(Talk) 21:19, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Thats alright

Yes we understand what you say. Thanx a lot. There is a link of myspace in his website http://www.jayenvarma.net . The "MYSPACE" in the website is the link to the site. So We wud appreciate if the website jayenvarma.net reamins there in the article, if the WP policies dont permit sites such as myspace etc. We know that you re busy and sorry for making the request. We will add as many informations in sand box Fansfans123/Jayen Varma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fansfans123/Jayen_Varma . So that you can varify with that.... thanx and regards...--Fansfans123 (talk) 04:45, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Please do not feel bad for making the requests, the fact that I am busy is pointed for the single purpose to help you understand why I may not be able to deal with it as quickly as you might expect. Feel free to post your questions and requests at any time, just be a bit patient if I do not respond right away.

I see that the link to myspace has been added (or did I just not see it the first time I looked?) to jayenvarma.net so I restored the entry in the Wikipedia article. I will work on the other issues as time permits. Thanks for your patience. Dbiel ^(Talk) 05:17, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Pl see the link below

We have just added few facts and informations in the sand box giving due respect to the changes already made earlier by others. Pl see the link below and see if these are acceptable as per the wikipedia rules. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fansfans123/Jayen_Varma Thankyou for all the help. Regards...--Fansfans123 (talk) 06:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

RE: 60.241.54.145

Ok, that was just disturbing... :) Kuru ^talk 01:02, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but I do not know how to translate what you have written. Would you care to explain your post? Dbiel ^(Talk) 01:33, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

My apologies for the confusion. I was commenting on the rather odd editing habits of the IP that you have been monitoring (here) and reporting at AIV. It's just bizarre that he's been keeping that trivial nonsense up for two years now. I've blocked the account for a year; sadly I predict he will pop right back up. Kuru ^talk 01:39, 23 December 2008 (UTC)