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Biggest Loser

Hey I noticed you made a few edits to the article for The Biggest Loser Australia (Season 3) and thought you might like to add to the dispute on the discussion page. User:Josh710 keeps reverting edits and removing information, adding his own information which is poorly written and messing up the consistency set out by the previous two seasons. I can't seem to explain clearly that the article is being messed up. Do you know the process to get it sorted out civilly? Cheers. Peter (talk) 03:04, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Twilight

Don't worry, I'm expanding it with MTV cites at the moment. It's just a matter of using verifiable sources to narrow the scope so we don't indiscriminately list every single role. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:18, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I wanted to take a moment here to explain. There are many movie websites that list a multitude of roles in a film indiscriminately. I've cited news sources because generally, if they're talking about certain roles, they would be more prominent than someone who will only be in the background. We link to IMDb for the full cast information, so we try to narrow the scope here. Also, it's a good idea to use simple lists for Cast sections instead because they can be edited with more ease and expanded with prose. Wikitables are too limiting to accomplish that. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:23, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, WP:MOSFILM encourages prose. A personal example I've done is Sunshine (2007 film)#Characters. Also, we can't be sure that the characters will be adapted faithfully. They could be either in the background or written out completely. The last example I recall is the exclusion of The Walker in The Seeker, see The Seeker (film)#Writing. Obviously, we should hope that it's faithful, but sometimes changes are made for conventional and creative reasons. I think I've exhausted the online sources I could find for supporting the article at this point. I'll check Newsbank for some print sources covering any additional detail a little bit later. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:39, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see the film poster. I think if you still see the book poster, you need to reload that particular web page in its entirety. Just go to the article, hold Ctrl, and click Refresh. This will do a "hard" refresh, completely reloading the page. This is because the book poster is probably cached on your computer, so when you do the "hard" refresh, it will look for the image as it exists online instead of on your computer. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 07:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strange, now I see the problem you're talking about, and the "hard" refresh does not help. (It showed since another editor tried to put a different file of the poster image in the article.) I'm on a friend's computer, so I can't do anything with images. I contained another editor, Grandpafootsoldier, who often uploads poster images, to see if he can't upload a new and separate file of the new poster image. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:07, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Revert

Hello, I was wondering about this revert of yours. in the edit summary you say it "doesn't belong on a character page". Does this mean it belongs on some other page? Thanks for your time. --Angel Alice ♠(talk) 22:12, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. :) Thanks. --Angel Alice ♠(talk) 01:09, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Wikiproject The Office (US)

Hi Sergay. I've seen that you've done some work with the articles pertaining to The Office, and I just wanted to inform you of The Office WikiProject, a project dedicated to improving Office articles. If you have any questions about it, you can ask on my talk page. Mastrchf (^t/_c) 17:06, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Twilight

Hello Sergay, I just saw your revert of my revert on the Twilight page. Please read the message that I have left for you on that article talk page. I'm just trying to reach a comprimise and avoid one revert after another, which wastes time and space. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The man in the mask (talk • contribs) 22:00, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. i've been watching the Eclipse page, and evidently so have you. While we enjoy your enthusiasm in editing this page, I have noticed that you seem to be reverting every edit made back to your own version of the article. While yours is perfectly acceptable, so are the vast majority of others you have been reverting. If you feel that you must continue these actions, please give a detailed but concise explanation of why each revert was made in your edit summary, as I see that you have been neglecting to do so with your past few reverts. I'm sorry to seem like a nag, but your self imposed regime over these pages has been one of total dominance. Please keep an open mind to the writing styles and opinions of other editors. The man in the mask (talk) 21:59, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop assuming ownership of articles. Doing so may lead to disruptive behavior such as edit wars and is a violation of policy, which may lead to a block from editing.

I am glad to hear that you are so devout in maintainig the integrity of these articles, but some of your claims of vadalism are very opinionated. While some of your reverts are very well intentioned, it is the wording reverts that bother me. Please keep in mind that you are not the only person who speaks the english language, and that as long as it makes sense, most wording is acceptable by Wikipedia's quality standards. I am not asking you to back down, merely to be more open minded. I find it unsettling that you (according to your user page) created your account to work on the wording in this one set of articles. Please take time to review the quality standards, ownership of articles and vandalsm pages. If you adhere to these guidelines, no more warnings need be issued. Dont get defensive please, just loosen your grip a little for the sake of other editors, whose edits, as long as they are valid, are valued equally by the community. The man in the mask (talk) 17:04, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am not going to argue about this any more, but know that I am keeping my eye on these pages. i do not want to have to involve an administrator, which may involve the issue of more Warnings. The man in the mask (talk) 19:21, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Eclipse

No problem! I've been meaning to do one for all the Twilight books that didn't have one, so I figured I'd start with Eclipse. Thanks again. ~ Bella Swan^? 13:00, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]