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please can you return the article kingston hospital radio to my sandbox. i do not understand what you mean by redirects etc, and I find the wikipedia guidelines confusing and complicated. i work for the charity involved so am not sure how why i don't seem to be able to use our content. all i need is for someone to say do this, don't do this in relation to my article. if necessary i will move it to a special page. thanks.

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Most wanted. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Most wanted redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 14:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help at Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth, much appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 21:27, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Judgement with an "e" is correct British English, and should not be changed on UK related articles! Thanks. --Scott Mac 00:18, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well spotted; I have flagged Judgement of Solomon as a correct alternative spelling of Judgment of Solomon rather than a mis-spelling. Cheers. - TB (talk) 18:35, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page Columbia Center Mall has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. Please use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did, and feel free to use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. Your edit summary indicated a link repair but in fact you avoided a redirect that has been it place since 2004. If you used a tool for this edit please contact its maintainers about this problem. – Allen4names (contributions) 05:39, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The book-seller to which the link refers is properly "Barnes & Noble" - they are very consistent in using the ampersand rather than the word "and". The aim of my edit was to update the visible text of the link to reflect this, hence I changed [[Barnes and Noble]] to [[Barnes & Noble]]. I could of course have kept the target the same by making it [[Barnes and Noble|Barnes & Noble]], but as [[Barnes and Noble]] redirects to [[Barnes & Noble]] anyway, I didn't see any advantage in doing so. Apologies if this (or my edit summary) were unclear. - TB (talk) 18:45, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you capitalizing "bachelor of arts"? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 08:43, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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As one of the previous contributors to {{Infobox film}} or as one of the commenters on it's talk page, I would like to inform you that there has been a RfC started on the talk page as to implementation of previously deprecated parameters. Your comments and thoughts on the matter would be welcomed. Happy editing!

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Hey, Topbanana,
I see you changed the status of this WikiProject to active. I was basing my edit on Template:WikiProject Status and the lack of significant activity on the main page as well as the talk page. I'm happy to hear that the WikiProject is actually active! I'm running across so many WikiProjects that haven't had any activity in 3 or 4 years. It seems like there was a big drop-off in WikiProject activity 2010 and again in 2012.

It's been great to see that after I set sorting criteria for the categories the WikiProjects are listed under, many of them have appeared on editors' Watchlists which has prompted them to go back to them and get involved. Of course, it takes more than one editor to keep a WikiProject going but if just a few get revived, that would be a great benefit to the encyclopedia. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:01, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up. All fixed now. --Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 19:45, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that on the 22 March 2014, without consultation, you have removed a page entitled Sydney Electric Train Society Incorporated. I will assume that this is because the content matches the webpage www.sets.org.au. Please note that this Wikipedia page was created by committee members of the organization, who are custodians and rightful owners of the content contained in the aforementioned page. We ask that in future before making substantial changes you enquire as to the content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Setsinfo (talk • contribs) 07:14, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Could you send me the link to the 2010 article on this man that you deleted? I want to start an article about a man with the same name. thanks!--Aichik (talk) 02:32, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was definitely wrong about this being a misspelling. However, it seems to be an old name for the current city: [1] Do you have more information about this? Did the plural town cover more area than the singular city? --NE2 17:48, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not much more info, sorry. If I had to guess, I'd say it's a case of lazy naming; the only large prominent island in the group was named "Cedar Key" and the plural used to refer to it and it's surrounding group of smaller islands. The city has initially been named for the large island before acquiring its own unique title. There probably is a primary source out there somewhere, but even the language in which it was named is unclear - could be a French or English, or possibly even Spanish or Portuguese. Far beyond my area of expertise. - TB (talk) 21:02, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you actualy read the article, you will see why "correcting" to Goetz is wholly wrong, though you have now helpfully spotted a typo (Ziegler/Zeigler). If you just mechanically follow a system without seeing the consequences in context, it can lead to pointless or unconstructive edits. And, by the way, the general guideline is that redirects should not be "corrected". It just adds utterly pointless layers of coding to articles. I simply cannot see how this is helpful. The "hidden" text is especially absurd. Are you going to add similar hidden commebnts about their real name to every mention of Baby Face Nelson and Lewis Carroll? Paul B (talk) 19:19, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I seem to have offended you; I apologise if this is the case - it was not my intention. Let me explain what led me to make the edits I did Prior to my editing, the article Kidnapping of Edward Bremer linked to George Zeigler (Z-E-I) which, as you've noted above is a mis-spelling. Normally, I would simply have corrected it to George Ziegler (Z-I-E), but this is a disambiguation page. I wasn't convinced that Goetz should be the primary topic for the title (he's an interesting character, but this is after an an alias of his), so I opted to leave the disambig page as it was. Options to correct the mis-spelling were therefore:

• [[Fred Goetz]] - the simplest option (you reverted this one)
• [[Fred Goetz|George Ziegler]] - clean, but confusing for editors not familiar with the topic
• [[Fred Goetz]] (alias George Ziegler) - explains the two names in context, but messier. Had the link not been in a leading paragraph where conciseness is preferred, I'd've gone for this.
• [[Fred Goetz|George Ziegler<!--alias used by Fred Goetz in this context-->]] - clean and simple for the reader, messier for the editor but explains why one name is linked directly to another - this was the change I put in after you reverted my initial edit.
• [[George Ziegler (mobster)|George Ziegler]] - I nearly went down this route ( creating a new redirect) as it would have allowed me to improve the slightly odd flow of the George Ziegler disambiguation page also.

Now, if you're not keen on the second edit I've made to fix the mis-spelling, you're very welcome to pick another option or implement your own fix. I would ask that you don't add the incorrect Z-E-I spelling back in again - it does appear this way in a few sources, but all appear to be accidental. Hope this helps. - TB (talk) 20:43, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos Torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it. To give a Dobos Torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:52, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers, didn't know that. - TB (talk) 14:41, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Topbanana, this list is generated by a bot? I'm interested on its use on pt wiki. Rodrigolopes (talk) 14:53, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]