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Userpage

Reverting your userpage vandalism is really no problem. If it is your wish, I can increase the status of your page to semi-protection, so that anonymous users can't edit it. Regards, - Gilliam (talk) 17:00, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Anti-vandalism work

Thanks for your help in removing vandalism from Slope Day! —Notyourbroom (talk) 17:48, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem! Wow, I don't think I've ever seen such a huge amount of vandalism in one place before. Thanks for clearing the majority of what we only scratched. ^_^ a little insignificant 19:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Adopt offer

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Congratulations! (for accepting me as your mentor). Now, I give you this:

This user has been adopted by Damërung.

, you can either put it in your page instead of the old one, ignore it and just type whatever you like to show or do nothig and discard it. Whatever you do, I´m glad to have you as adoptee, and if you´re still online now perhaps I can help you somehow. (you can delete this message if you want to keep clear your talk page, any messages here) - Damërung _{_ΞΞΞ_} . -- :06:39, 22 January 2025 (UTC-5)

Re: Insects GA review

Yes, that should cover it, can you help with the cite refs though? Many of the refs that I implemented were bare refs, or just hyperlinks. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 20:00, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, and thanks, I am going to start to change all of them, or at least most, and help would be appreciated now, so tell me if your in. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 19:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

You see all the Gullan and Cranston refs? They are refering to ref 15, so I changed ref 15 to <ref name= Gullan and Cranston>{{cite book |last=Gullan |first=P.J. |coauthors=P.S. Cranston |title=The Insects: An Outline of Entomology |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Oxford |date=2005 |edition=3 |pages=22–48 |isbn=1-4051-1113-5}</ref> and tested it on 16, and it works, so change all the refs with Gullan and Cranston, like refs 22 - 29, to just <ref name= Gullan and Cranston>, that should help a lot, thanks for your help too! Bugboy52.4 (talk) 20:49, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Try it with <ref name= Gullan and Cranston>{{cite book |last=Gullan |first=P.J. |coauthors=P.S. Cranston |title=The Insects: An Outline of Entomology |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Oxford |date=2005 |edition=3 |pages= |isbn=1-4051-1113-5}</ref> where the pages are those stated in the ref. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 22:16, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

If you want a list, refs 9, 18, 19, 49, 50, 52, 61, 62, 64, 66, 68, 69, 70 - 76, 82 need to be cited, but I wouldn't make you do all that. I will do 66 - 82, deal? Bugboy52.4 (talk) 00:31, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

No Problem, it was my job in the first place and I thank you for your help, so I give you this Barnstar...

		The Original Barnstar
		I, Bugboy52.40, here by award you the original barnstar for your help with improving the Insects article. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 19:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

I am sorry to say but it seems we have more work to do.... see Insect talk page. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 13:48, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

I have lost track, are all of the needed revisions done, I feel like I am being pulled apart here, I am also have Trombiculidae for GAN too (* Note to self - I HATE REFS!!!) Bugboy52.4 (talk) 00:20, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: question

Hi Damërung,

Do you know what the difference between a bare ref and a cite ref is (for the current Insect GA review)? a little insignificant 14:44, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, in an article you can put a reference like this: "<ref>Gullan and Cranston, 57.</ref>" (taken from the article: Insect). This is a way to cite reference, but it´s primitive, more like... too simple, naked or incomplete; that kind of reference will only show the text: Gullan and Cranston, 57. (as seen in the reference #16). However, there is the proper template to cite references in a more correct or complete way like this: "<ref>{{cite book |last=Gullan |first=P.J. |coauthors=P.S. Cranston |title=The Insects: An Outline of Entomology |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Oxford |date=2005 |edition=3 |pages=22–48 |isbn=1-4051-1113-5}}</ref>" (as seen in reference #15). This template shows the reference with it´s proper format, and not only the text typed by someone (which in some cases could not be true), as you see in this better citation, the editor who write it has the ISBN of the book and he putted it in the template, which makes the information more reliable. Each pipe mark (|) separates the sections of the reference, you can find how to use these templates here (for books) and here (for web citations).

In this other reference: "<ref>{{Cite book |title=] |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>" (reference #3) you can see that the user who wrote it also put the title as a link to a page that actually talks about that book.

Tell me if you have more questions about anything. - Damërung _{_ΞΞΞ_} . --

, 22 January 2025 (UTC-5)

Pokémon notability discussions

Per your comment on User talk:Aruseusu about trying to find the original merge discussions - Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Pokémon/Archive 14#Is there any reason why all Pokemon are necessarily notable? MelicansMatkin (talk) 20:08, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem; I'm glad I could help. People constantly say that the discussions never happened, but I saw it by accident one day when I found WP:PTEST, which had the discussion linked. MelicansMatkin (talk) 23:23, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

inre Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Pushed to the Limit

Come on back. The nom didn't check well enough before her nomination. The film had indeed received coverage and reviews 17 years ago and so I expanded and sourced the article to show just that. However, the sweetest gem the nom missed is that the film was screened at a festival 14 years after its release, and WP:NF specifically instructs that makes it notable in that "The film was given a commercial re-release, or screened in a festival, at least five years after initial release.". Schmidt, 11:01, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Slope Day references

Thanks for the cleanup work! —Notyourbroom (talk) 20:43, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

FYI

Deletion of Bilateral relation pages despite ongoing merging effort Ed Fitzgerald _{t / c} 08:27, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

May 2009

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Misplaced Pages, as you did with this edit to the page Run's House. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. e0steven(☎Talk|✍Contrib) 20:16, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Oops! My mistake! It looks like you did several edits each adding/removing a small piece. Taken in part the bit I was rolling back was the addition of "middletown new york." which you subsequently removed yourself! I apologize and I would recommend that you make all of your edits in a single edit rather than sporadic ones that may be seen as random sentences being inserted into an article. You can always Show Preview if you're not sure how an edit will look. Thanks e0steven(☎Talk|✍Contrib) 19:46, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Not a problem at all; it was my mistake really. However I have to mention that vandalism was (for some reason) high yesterday and it was hard to fight against the tide of malicious edits. Happy Editing and I hope to see you around the Misplaced Pages! e0steven(☎Talk|✍Contrib) 19:57, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Bios deletion

Sorry I couldn´t answer earlier, my computer got wrecked
About creating new bios, yes, they are highly vulnerable to deletion, however, an article can always be upgraded or embellished to meet the qualities of a well-redacted article. If an article (in this case, the bio) has good source references, then that make it more hard to be deleted, and even if it's proposed for deletion, there is a discussion about such choice. If you think you have good reference information to create the article, then don´t think it twice, be bold and do it! It is always good to do whatever to make[REDACTED] better and don´t worry, I´ll make sure you won´t get bitten, even if you make a mistake. - Damërung _{_ΞΞΞ_} . --  07:09, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

I have a question for you: Can you see the typeface on my signature? or is it just an oversized dark-green text that says "Damërung"? - Damërung _{_ΞΞΞ_} . --  07:09, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

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