User talk:Floatjon

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Tallest float

Which was the tallest float? According to the LA Times, the tallest float was the 62 feet Honda's clown float. It was published in last Sunday's paper. Ucla90024 (talk) 16:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- If memory serves, the Tower of Terror float ("A Sudden Drop in Pitch") was 100 feet tall. I'm not sure, but I think even JPL's float a couple years ago was taller than 62 feet. That same ad section also got last year's theme wrong (it was Passport to the World's Celebrations, not just Passport to the World) so it clearly wasn't fact-checked all that well. 216.103.50.52 (talk) 05:34, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, following myself up: The JPL float I was thinking of was only 50 feet tall, but the Disney float was indeed "nearly" 100 feet tall -- see, for example, http://www.galenfrysinger.com/companies.htm 216.103.50.52 (talk) 05:43, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnhill

Thanks for adding the photo! I've taken lots of photos in western Ohio, where I grew up, but only once (see the Port Washington article) have I gone through Tuscarawas County. Please leave me a note (go to my talk page and create a new section, or simply click the edit button if you'd like) if you have any questions about editing Wikipedia, and I'll try to help. Nyttend (talk) 13:26, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, it's not done. It's technically possible, but only the developers can do it, and they have a backlog of bigger things to do. At one time, the situation was different, and Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit was created. Please note that it's no longer used. Nyttend (talk) 05:08, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Robert DeLong

Started a page on Robert DeLong after hearing his song on Alt Nation and finding no article. Waiting for review. Putting this here so I can get to the article easily again. Floatjon (talk) 04:33, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And the relevant talk page. Floatjon (talk) 18:10, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Cayucas

Hi. I'd like to thank you for the courtesy of notifying me about the re-opened AFD for the Cayucas. So... Thanks! -- Whpq (talk) 22:07, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tunisian Arabic

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As you are one of the contributors to Tunisian Arabic. You are kindly asked to review the part about Domains of Use and adjust it directly or through comments in the talk page of Tunisian Arabic.

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Sungrazing comets

Neither did I add mere spaces, but non-breaking thin spaces—where appropriate—for optimizing the display in justified text mode, and I also checked all the bibcode links. I opted to do just that again.--*thing goes (talk) 16:11, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for you!

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		I award this Barnstar of Diligence for the random fixing of the citation access dates on Miracle of Sound. It must have been a tedious job, for something that few people will notice, but now those citations are just right. Thanks mate. Insert CleverPhrase Here 12:16, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest in IMDb

Thank you for disclosing your COI and not editing yourself as a connected contributor. 80.221.159.67 (talk) 11:44, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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ISSNs

Hi. I noticed that you like to fix ISSNs. I need you help! Please check Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/ISSN errors which provides a list with all broken/invalid ISSNs and help fix them! -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:55, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Magioladitis: thanks for that -- I've been working through various CS1 errors (particularly dates), but it's good to know about this more comprehensive list of ISSN errors. It apparently hasn't been fully cleared in years, since the last entry on there was wrong since about 2008. I'll work on it as I get time. Given that there's under a couple hundred entries, shouldn't take long. --Floatjon (talk) 12:26, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There is also Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 108 dump which focuses only on ISSN with wrong checksum. Your help is appreciated! -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:57, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Magioladitis: OK, I've finished a first pass, knocking off all the easy ones from the list. The good news is that there are fewer than 30 entries left. The bad news is that the Google Books ref tool at http://reftag.appspot.com/gb.py is creating bad ISSNs almost as quickly as I can fix them (stripping hyphens). --Floatjon (talk) 08:52, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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"Fix date"??

Hi. I noticed you made this change to 3 GB barrier. The page history shows that that edit removed one character. And I can clearly see, in the previous version, that the template throws an error on that parameter, and that after your edit that error is gone and the access date is properly displayed. So... thank you for fixing the error!

But I can't for the life of me see what the error was, or what you changed, and it's bugging me. :) The diff display shows no change that I can see, not even e.g. a removed trailing space (not that a trailing space would cause the error from the template). Browser text searches within the page find "|accessdate=2016-06-07" in both versions, and in both sides of the diff display. In fact the exact same text string appears in many other cite templates on the page. But only this one raised an error. I was about to compare HTML in the two versions and thought... why don't I just ask Floatjon? So, here I am. :) Jeh (talk) 14:46, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There was some kind of weird, non-printing character following the date (added in the previous, otherwise good, edit). Showed up in my browser as a block with 4 digits in it. I removed it, and hey presto. --Floatjon (talk) 15:21, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Added in my edit. But I swear I never touched that line. :) What browser are you using? Jeh (talk) 15:32, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]