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Thanks for categorizing!

Saw a few emails fly past me, saying someone had edited some userboxes I'd made (specifically, the Ham ones I modified to contain an Editor's callsign, should they wish to use it); those were made years ago, back when I had no concept of organizing/categorizing things, and of course I'd long forgotten about them not being categorized. Thanks for taking the time to do that -- really appreciate it mate! k2trf (talk) 23:59, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, signed up again after being gone for years, have been re-learning stuff as well. I've been going through some of the userboxes and adding categories to them. I didn't add "interested in amateur radio" to the category because they might just be scanner users or preppers thinking about becoming hams. BTW take a look at this mess: American Radio Relay League, Inc. v. FCC (my proposal is to delete it and have two new articles be written as time goes on) -bleak_fire_ (talk) 00:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing wrong with that; I've maintained my account for years, and try to be responsive when I get emails that things I'm already tagged/watching change, get mentioned, etc., but still only contribute myself when I have enough (read: quite a bit) of spare free time myself, which unfortunately doesn't happen that often. If nothing else, civility, as the mantra goes. :) Not applying that second category was a good idea; my modded variants are different only because they include a spot for one to insert a license of theirs (though the surrounding text makes it sound like a ham license, I suppose they could be used for any FCC license), and therefore would not likely be of value to those without a current license. As far as that page goes, the issue you've presented is evidently clear; in the first paragraph, three reference links are applied to the end of the date (at the end of the sentence):

    1. http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/617/875/41173/
    2. http://www.leagle.com/decision/2008751524F3d227_1727
    3. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12380905032588396714&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr

The first link references the 1980 case, whereas the second and third links are entirely about the 2008 case. From this alone, we can assume the article was written with mixed sources, and therefore has multiple problems/inconsistencies in its text. I'm not sure if I'm just incredibly tired (at 11:46pm locally) or if this article is written incorrectly, but I don't see anything even remotely related to Broadband over Power Line systems (BPL), which is what the 2008 case was entirely about. The 1980 case, dealing with the massive influx of CB operations and the unregulated nature of both CB as a service and the mentioned operators, is the only case case I can see mentioned/referenced in this text. Perhaps it is just a very shallow article discussing the 1980 case, and needs to have the irrelevant references removed as well as have the content of the article expanded with the valid, relevant references? Then a new page could be made for the 2008 case, dealing with BPL rather than CB. However, I've copied my thoughts on this matter to the relevant location, as they belong there rather than on a user's talk page, for deeper consideration/conversation. All in all, a very interesting issue you've found there! k2trf (talk) 04:55, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding the information to the Talk page, please be sure to vote on the AFD page. -bleak_fire_ (talk) 11:09, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia admin Joe Decker followed my disambiguation idea. He moved the original page to 1980, and I promptly cleaned up the 2008 references and incorrect information about CB radio and "ARRL users". The 2008 page is a dead link, so at some point we can create a new article based on snippets from the History page for the 1980 article. -bleak_fire_ (talk) 08:52, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

American Radio Relay League, Inc. v. FCC

I've closed the deletion discussion as keep, moved the article to the 2008 title, and created a start at the disambiguation page. Thanks for offering to fix up the rest, I know there are still a few issues. Most appreciated! --j⚛e decker ^talk 03:39, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

PS, if I can do anything to help you find your way around here, please don't hesitate to leave a note on my talk page! --j⚛e decker ^talk 03:39, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just cleaned the 1980 article of 2008 information and incorrect information. The 2008 case can use snippets from the initial moved article. -bleak_fire_ (talk) 08:42, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello

Can you explain what are you doing? Your edit here to the Barracuda (disambiguation) page just jumbled things up. Also this edit summary "(your sneakiness isnt working Undid revision 621420767 by In ictu oculi (talk))" is a personal attack. Do you normally leave these sort of edit summaries? In ictu oculi (talk) 23:42, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What specifically is your objection to the sectioning of this dab page? In ictu oculi (talk) 23:44, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My objection is your bad-faith pathetic sandwiching fails to remove Sarah Palin. -bleak_fire_ (talk) 23:50, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's two more insults. This is where I ask you to please link to your previous account before June 2014. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:30, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't care less about Sarah Palin - seems you have some kind of political interest in your edits, I don't. So I've added her into dab prominently which presumably will satisfy your issue. You should still link to your previous account before June 2014, or perhaps modify your User page to state you edited before as an IP. That's a suggestion. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:39, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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