16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

In your Vinton County maps, whether township maps such as File:Vinton County Ohio incorporated and unincorporated areas Vinton Township highlighted.svg or village maps such as File:Vinton County Ohio incorporated and unincorporated areas Wilkesville highlighted.svg, why is Elk Township coloured differently from all of the other townships? All Ohio townships are of similar legal status, aside from urban townships (if all Vinton County residents lived in Elk Township, it still wouldn't have enough residents to qualify for that status) and paper townships (which isn't the case, because most of Elk Township is unincorporated); aside from those two cases, I can't imagine what special status could exist. Nyttend (talk) 13:52, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Elk Township doesn't have a colour (it is transparent) because when I was drawing the map I seem to have failed to turn it white. It doesn't matter enough to have to change the whole lot, though. Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (talk) 14:07, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Well, thanks for asking me to fill it. Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (talk) 11:12, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Sorry to take up your time. I was wondering how you came to create the redirect for the March 87P. The Wiki F1 project has been battling with a persistent and disruptive IP hopping editor for over 6 mths now. He recently created a draft for the 87P out of a redirect for the 87B (same car different category) after his creation of an identical page as 87B was reverted several times. The draft was rejected twice, at least, and has now been blanked and a further identical article placed in mainspace from your redirect. It's been restored to redirect but the IP will undo that first chance he gets. Thanks. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 18:38, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

I was responding to a request at [9], unaware of your situation regarding the article. I don't mind if you want to delete it or anything - just a routine redirect creation. Rcsprinter¹²³ (state) 20:25, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

I thought afterwards that must have been what had happened. The requester (is that a word?) is our boy. There's already some deleting and restoring going on in respect of the article he created and some others today. He's been blocked three times already. Eagleash (talk) 20:29, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

He's been making requests for re-directs for non-notable cars so that he can then create articles which are also sub-standard from the re-directs. I guess there's not an easy way to stop him making requests. Not helped by the fact that his IP changes frequently... sometimes more than once a day. Eagleash (talk) 21:13, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

It would be best if the redirect were deleted again. Tvx1 23:09, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

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Regarding Category:Railway stations served by Northern - please undo your recent edits. The process at WP:CFD/S#Current nominations is still ongoing; once it is completed, a bot will make all updates necessary. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:07, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

What is to be undone? This, which you already undid? I wasn't attempting to circumvent anything, just moving articles to the new relevant category. I don't happen to be familiar with the CfD process, but I'm just updating links as I see they need it. And why not save the bot work?

I also happen to believe I may use Wikipedia:Ignore all rules here. We know the old category will be deleted, my edits are improving things, so why complain and undo just for the sake of it? Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (address) 19:12, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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I think you should get real: there won't be any objections. If there are, and the rename does not go ahead, then some undoing can be sorted out, but in all probability, it will go through and now the bot won't have to make the edits. Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (jive) 19:26, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I see you're making some kind of mass edits removing "went extinct" from articles. But beware that you are changing actual titles of sources[66] in the process, which should never be done. So please check before doing the edits, and self-revert where it has happened. FunkMonk (talk) 20:25, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, and thanks for catching that one. Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (spiel) 20:26, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Recently I was on the talk page on the Bactria article starting a new discussion about the section known as Tokharistan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bactria

Reason being is because although it says in the last sentence "Later, in the 5th century, it was controlled by the Xionites and the Hephthalites but was reconquered by the Sassanids" There are unfortunately no citations or sources supporting this claim.

See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactria#Tokharistan

This is why I believe this must be discussed by the editors of the article. I'm not sure if you have that much knowledge on this, but hopefully you can put your input on this. I linked the discussion for you. Kirby (talk) 05:26, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I don't have any interest, knowledge, or input on this matter. Rcsprinter¹²³ (cackle) 21:43, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect History teacher. Since you had some involvement with the History teacher redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. —Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 08:12, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, I'd just like to point out that if a species is extinct, then it can't become anything ... In the English dialects I am familiar with, "went extinct" is considered grammatically acceptable. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 20:39, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

It does not become anything after being extinct. It wasn't extinct, and subsequently became so. "Went" ("go") needs to go with a noun ("went home"), preposition ("went south") or verb ("went fishing"), not an adjective ("extinct"). Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (comment) 20:43, 19 April 2016 ://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go Wiktionary]] disagrees with you, and lists several such usages of "go", e.g., "went crazy", "go blind". Sminthopsis84 (talk) 21:00, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Well, what's the harm? "Became" reads better and is surely more correct than "go". Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (notify) 21:43, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

I just came here to thank you for your changes. "Went extinct" sounds icky to my ears, "became extinct" is much better. Keep up the good work! DuncanHill (talk) 23:58, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

I did Google Scholar searches for "went extinct" and "became extinct", and got 12,600 hits for the former vs. 47,400 for the latter. Clearly, "went extinct" is widely accepted. I think it would be more accurate to describe "went extinct" as U.S. usage, rather than bad grammar. Given that assessment, some usage of "went extinct" should be acceptable, at least in articles dealing with American-related subjects. Note that "went" is used similarly in other contexts, as in a reactor that "went critical". WolfmanSF (talk) 20:01, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Sadly, 'went extinct' or 'became extinct' are both rather passive words for what human actions have done to cause most species extirpations since at least the time of the Dodo. I recommend something more in the style of George W. Bush, such as 'extinctified'. e.g. 'Humans extinctified the passenger pigeon, and now poaching has nearly extinctified the white rhino . . .(Couldn't resist it - sorry.) Parkywiki (talk) 23:29, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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Greetings, If you could please look at Moredecai contributions, some of which are at the Signpost WikiProject Desk. For example, at WikiProject desk/Call for interviews, Moredecai continues signing this template even after being told repeatedly to stop (on their talk page). This editor may be a new person & possibly not vandalism. I myself started on Wikipedia in the spring of 2014, so I'm not familiar with how to deal with this issue. Thanks. Regards, — JoeHebda • (talk) 23:25, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

P.S. In addition, I did open a new question on this at WP:THQ (Asking for help for a new user). — JoeHebda • (talk) 23:28, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

This user is making a lot of random edits, which mostly seem to revolve around the WikiProject Desk, none of which are being constructive and I suspect that they are not here to build an encyclopedia. Thanks for drawing them to my attention; I shall see what actions can be taken. I would certainly recommend for the moment that you ask an administrator to protect the Call for interviews page for the moment to stop you having to undo their edits all the time. I commend you on assuming good faith up to now, too. Rcsprinter¹²³ (report) 23:59, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

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The aqueduct of Segovia, Spain Hello, Rcsprinter123. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Shelby Gem Factory • Hilton Hotels & Resorts Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 20 June 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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Home page of Wikipedia Hello, Rcsprinter123. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Home page Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire • Shelby Gem Factory Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 27 June 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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