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Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a count of (166/43/7). I appreciate your comments and in my actions as an administrator I will endeavor to maintain the trust you have placed in me. I am honored by your trust and your support. Thank you for your kind words during my RfA and even for saying you would have been my nominator I am honored by that. Thank you, Cirt (talk) 02:35, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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You would not make that comment if you had followed the full course of Ctjf83's behaviour in this instance. However, this matter is now closed. --Geronimo20 (talk) 02:36, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well that's exactly what Ctjf83 did to Rhyme and Reason. I agree I shouldn't have suggested he improve Wikipedia by taking a holiday, but he really annoyed me by his refusal to acknowledge the harm he did. Anyway - enough. Can we please drop this now. --Geronimo20 (talk) 02:45, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

IMDb is a reliable source because it has a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Plus, Wikipedia: Wikiproject Films condones using the IMDb.

The IGN quote is not a long one and in this case it is better to quote than to paraphrase. Troy McClure, the only Simpsons character featured article, uses quotes of the same size in its "Reception" section. And ellipses do not belong in brackets. Brackets are used to insert words in a quote that weren't said; ellipses represent omitted words.Tj terrorible1 (talk) 15:21, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look. If there's anything I can't immediately fix, I'll post a note on the article's talk page. Zagalejo^^^ 18:24, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's a DVD comprising a series of interviews with the staff, primarily about the movie, conducted and produced and distributed by The Sun. Although its The Sun, it is reliable as its basically just Groening and Silverman talking. Gran² 21:10, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, I don't think that's substantially different than what we have now. Even if you put the episode name in parentheses, you'd still need to explicitly state, in the body of the text, that those details are held to be true only in certain episodes. (Although admittedly, it is difficult to do that without weighing down the prose with repetitive expressions. I put together a few drafts late last night, but wasn't satisfied with any of them.)

In truth, I don't really see the need to go into so much detail about Homer's backstory in the first place. First because most of it has been totally contradicted, and second because we don't attempt to chronicle Homer's wacky adventures that occurred in the fictional "present", like the trip to outer space or the climbing of the Murderhorn. If it were up to me, all I'd say about Homer's past would be the following:

"Past episodes have provided details about Homer's youth and young adulthood, though the series does not maintain perfect continuity. In earlier episodes, it was established that Homer fell in love with Marge while they were high schoolers in the 1970s, and that he married her a few years later when she was pregnant with Bart. However, the recent episode "That 90's Show" asserts that Homer and Marge lived together without children in the 1990s."

Maybe we could also throw in something about his mother somewhere. At the beginning of the section, we could say that both of Homer's parents are living, but that his mother went into hiding when he was a child. Zagalejo^^^ 00:00, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think you should focus a little more back on being an FL director as there are articles deserving a promotion to FL. -- K. Annoyomous24_[c] 04:04, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if I hastened into this. I did not mean to distract editors. The only reason I did it it was because I saw that there is a season 10 drive which has few GAs already. I thought that the two I added are significantly closer to completion and I thought users might want to focus on those instead of the 10 one. Nergaal (talk) 00:47, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, why did you remove (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duff_Beer&diff=next&oldid=229135364) the paragraph on the European "Duff" beer? It was also confirmed by another contributor, who noticed identical labeling to the Mexican scam. The label has now been added again as "official", without any source.

Unless you have some specific information, I will add again a note qualifying that as a probable scam. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arcturus4669 (talk • contribs) 21:57, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is even this notable for mention? link A ^{(Reply!,Contribs!)} 01:59, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not the MOS--references can be done pretty much any way you'd like, as long as it's somewhat sensible. That template isn't used much, but I think it is useful in articles like this one where there are only a few book references, so it doesn't make as much sense to separate out the books into a separate section (at least in my view, since they're not qualitatively different, and make up only a small portion of the references overall). You're free to change it back, but I think it makes the references perhaps a little bit easier to use, since you're not jumping between sections? Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:47, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well you'd better check with Matthew. Last time we spoke he had trouble with his web access. It was a couple of weeks ago so perhaps it's better now. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:48, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is the image good like that or is there something else you want me to edit? --TheLeftorium 16:20, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a count of (154/3/2). I appreciate the community's trust in me, and I will do my best to be sure it won't regret handing me the mop. I am honored by your trust and your support. Again, thank you. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 18:49, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue XXVI — September 28, 2008

Recent Project News Featured news The Great American Bash (2005) (link) was promoted to Featured Article status. No Mercy (2005) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate. Good article news Antonio Pugliese, Hornswoggle, No Mercy (2007), Rhonda Sing, Sacrifice (2008), WrestleMania IX, and WrestleMania XXIV are currently Good article candidates. Chyna (link), Survivor Series (1993) (link), and WrestleMania (1985) (link) have been elevated to Good Article status. Other project news Armageddon (2006) (link), Bad Blood (2003) (link), Bad Blood (2004) (link), Hard Justice (2008) (link), List of WWE pay-per-view events (link), Lockdown (2008) (link), and No Way Out (2004) (link) are currently under Peer Review. Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here; and it has been proposed to merge Road agent (professional wrestling) into List of professional wrestling terms. The discussion can be found here. Likewise it has been proposed to merge McMahon (documentary) to Vince McMahon, that discussion can be found here. A fact from WrestleMania IX was listed on the Main Page in the Did You Know? colum on September 15. This Fortnight in Wrestling History September 15, 1998 - Jacquelyn defeated Sable for the vacant WWF Women's Championship. September 17, 1981 - Ric Flair defeated Dusty Rhodes for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. September 17, 2000 - Booker T defeated Kevin Nash for the WCW Heavyweight Championship September 17, 2003 - Brock Lesnar defeated Kurt Angle for the WWE Championship. September 19, 1999 - Mike Awesome defeated Taz and Masato Tanaka for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship. September 21, 2003 - Goldberg defeated Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship. September 22, 1967 - Stanislaus Zbyszko died at age 88. September 23, 2001 - Kurt Angle defeated Steve Austin to win the WWF Championship. September 24, 1992 - Roy Heffernan died of a heart attack at age 67. September 25, 2000 - Vince Russo defeated Booker T for the WCW Heavyweight Championship. September 25, 2000 - Raw Is War debuts on TNN. Professional Wrestling Article Stats We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 586. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Professional wrestling articles Importance Top High Mid Low Total Quality FA 3 5 8 FL 1 12 10 23 GA 6 25 60 91 B 1 16 64 203 284 C 1 14 84 99 Start 2 50 214 1766 2032 Stub 1 21 564 586 List 2 23 576 601 Future 2 17 19 Assessed 3 77 378 3285 3743 Unassessed 1 1 Total 3 77 378 3286 3744

Member Updates Based on the members list, there are currently 198 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. On the calendar: For the month of September: 2 - TJ Spyke's birthday 8 - Perry8331's birthday; WWE presents Unforgiven 12 - Altenhofen's birthday 14 - TNA presents No Surrender 15 - Gavyn Sykes's birthday 16 - Bmg916's birthdays 21 - BionicWilliam's and Rossyboy10's birthdays 30 - LBMixPro's birthday Recent Wrestling News At No Surrender, Sheik Abdul Bashir won the TNA X Division Championship in a 3-way dance by defeating Petey Williams and Consequences Creed. On September 14, Shelly Martinez was released from her contract by TNA. Sheamus won the FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship on September 18, beating Jack Swagger. On September 21, at the SmackDown taping, Primo Colón and Carlito won the WWE Tag Team Championship, defeating reigning champions Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder. Collaboration The Collaboration has recently been revamped, and we will now have 6 collaborations at a time. The current collaborations will stand until they reach a certain goal, e.g. Good article status. Wrestling Legend: Kamala (wrestler) Current wrestler: Samoa Joe Tag team or stable: Dudley Boyz Stub article: Gino Brito Pay-per-view: WrestleMania 23 List: List of professional wrestling terms Cast your vote to select the next collaborations — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Recent Deletion Debates Articles for Deletion Current: Christopher Rombola and Ranjin Singh (Dave Kapoor) Kept: Redirected/Merged: List of WWE Intercontinental Championship tournaments. Deleted: Total Combat Wrestling and Wrestlemania win loss records. Images for Deletion Current: Deleted: Image:Bobby roode ncw.jpg, Image:Lance storm ncw.jpg, and Image:Sly nca 2002.jpg. Contributors to this Issue IMatthew (talk · contribs) NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs) SRX (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) Wrestlinglover (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

Hi, I am wondering if you can close this FLC for me as a reviewer suggested me to bring the article to peer review. Thanks—Chris! _ct 00:56, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For lists that do not qualify for FLC status because they have less than ten items, I guess their items should be merged into their parent article? I don't think this has ever been done before, at least not to a parent article who passes FLC itself. For instance, since you're familiar with my university lists, I'll use those as an example. Some of the provinces don't have enough universities to qualify for FLC, so I will merge those into the parent article of List of universities in Canada. If you look at it now, it's just a list of universities with no statistics or anything. How should the page be formatted to reach FL status, especially if some of those provinces will branch off into their own List of universities in Province articles? Gary King (talk) 16:12, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, this guy supported their own article. Gary King (talk) 16:40, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll probably have separate articles for all of the provinces, then merge back the provinces that have less than 10 universities into the main list. Gary King (talk) 16:45, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for the barnstar. I'm glad to know my edits are appreciated. =) TheLeftorium 18:45, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit says "experimenting", but I think the page was better the way it was. The links were more clear, and that table is not really necessary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.10.72.228 (talk) 21:10, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here is my reasoning. The season links were much easier to click on and read using the standard wiki table of contents. As a temporary solution, I've added the word "Season" to each number to make it easier to click on. Hopefully we can work something better out, though, because I really think the old way was easier to understand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.10.72.228 (talk) 05:32, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it depicts the character (in addition to having merchandise as the subject of the work) so it wouldn't fly. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^(talk) 21:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that a few recently promoted FLs had some prose issues that weren't brought up during FLC. I guess I'm going to go back to reviewing as much as I can, and I'm going to start kicking ass and taking names. We'll need more prose reviewers as TRM slowly fades away (I hope he doesn't, though) so feel free to form an open invitation for that. Gary King (talk) 06:45, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on my talk page for centralised discussion Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 15:21, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please see if current revisions have addressed your concern and improved the list enough to ochange your mind. The intro section was considerably revamped. Thank you very much for your time and assistance.--2008Olympian _chitchat^seemywork 07:26, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry to hear it failed so soon! I have been extremely busy the last few days and was waiting till I had an extended period of time to read it thoroughly (I have some tomorrow). That was very fast to fail an FAC! The article improved dramatically during the FAC process and I was not expecting this outcome, certainly not so soon. I will go through it tomorrow and give as thorough a review as I can and hopefully iron out any remaining problems. Assuming all is sorted tomorrow, I will be happy to support next time. Regards and commiserations. --Jackyd101 (talk) 19:53, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When does the contest start? When can we nominate the articles for FLC? -- K. Annoyomous24_[c] 03:11, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How about if I just delete the section on Province and territories of Canada and put {{main|List of Canadian provinces and territories in order of entering Confederation}} to replace it. -- K. Annoyomous24_[c] 01:56, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for giving me a suggestion which can make my odds of winning the contest higher. -- K. Annoyomous24_[c] 02:45, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for bothering you so much about the FLC contest, but I was wondering if I could co-nominate a FLC for the contest. I know it could be a little advantage on the other entrants, but I hope you are willing to let me co-nominate. The reason I am asking you this question is because Arctic.gnome is still active on Wikipedia and he did more than 50 edits on the article, List of premiers of British Columbia, and it would be unfair if he doesn't get credit for his work. -- K. Annoyomous24_[c] 04:38, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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It is done. Gary King (talk) 15:40, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can I count "List of W. S. Gilbert's dramatic works" as Literature? Because we do rather need both lists, and I've been meaning to do both for a while. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 22:32, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One problem I kind of foresee is that some lists are easier to do than others - List of transitional species, for instance, will be closer to a featured article, with lots of reasearch, whereas simpler lists might be relatively easier. How about a judges' choice award for best featured list(s) created in the contest? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 22:38, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's fair, but do any of my categories now count as underrepresented? By which I mean, I don't think there are very many, if any, FLs in any of those topics, but none are on the official list, and I'm not sure if that list is prescriptive, or just examples. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 22:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, by the way, I did work on some biological topics years ago, under an old nick, but haven't in at least a year. There were some somewhat related to transitional species, but nothing very close - I was one of about 20 working on Evolution and one of two on Ediacaran biota. Is that a problem? Sorry, I just want to make sure I'm rigidly fair about this =) Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 22:51, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just remember I am, of course, one of the leading members of the Gilbert and Sullivan project, with FAs such as Thespis (opera), Creatures of Impulse and Trial by Jury. I haven't nominated any biological FLs, certainly, but... you see why I'm a little cautious here. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 23:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was just wondering who you invited to the contest. -- K. Annoyomous24_[c] 22:53, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean by regulars? -- K. Annoyomous24_[c] 22:57, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could I switch from List of Bleach video games to List of Soul Eater chapters? Despite how the list looks, the lead needs a big rewrite (too much in-universe detail), the table needs refs and plot summaries (see List of D.Gray-man chapters, List of Claymore chapters). As such, it's needs quite a bit of work to get to FL. Cheers, — sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 23:10, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Simpsons character has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Mythdon (talk) 09:12, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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