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Rotoscope

I left you a message on Talk:Rotoscope#Pruning_the_lists. Greetings, --Janke | Talk 09:09, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Replied. Thanks. --Eyrian 20:41, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Arrow and Arrow (weapon)

Back in April, you broke the page Arrow into separate pages according to the meaning. However, you redirected Arrow to Arrow (disambiguation), resulting in a huge number of links to a disambiguation page. In the process of fixing all those links, I'm finding that a great majority of the links should go to Arrow (weapon). I'd like to move Arrow (weapon) to Arrow, and put an otheruses tag at the top. Do you have any objection? –RHolton≡– 03:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

None. --Eyrian 04:36, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

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Long overdue Welcome

Hi, it was quite simple - I just noticed that nobody had Welcomed you! That's it, nothing more. I hope I haven't offended you. I've been monitoring new pages and when I see one where someone hasn't been welcomed, I welcome them. If you think I should only welcome total newbies (fewer than some number of edits) I can check that and take it into consideration... Please let me know if I offended you or violated some protocol. Brian 18:16, 24 June 2006 (UTC)btball

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STLE, and maybe ESDU

Hi Eyrian, I saw that you quickly picked up the cleanup of the page of STLE, thanks, looks much better now. Someone has been putting links to that page into different see-also sections. I encountered them on chemical-pages, where they are inappropriate, so I am removing them all (also from other pages). But now I came across ESDU, and a link there in the see also section on Trbology .. does this one deserve the same fate? See you around! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 19:53, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I've done some cleanup on the ESDU article (including moving it to Engineering Sciences Data Unit). What do you think? --Eyrian 20:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Great (not that I am specialised in company profiles)!! I have removed all the links to these pages from all 'see also' sections. All looked like spam to me (they did not provide any extra information on the topic on the linked-from page). Thanks for the cooperation! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 20:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I see that 70:229:184:30 has been putting his links into pages again. I think most of these edits are inappropriate, the page on on STLE does not give more info on the subject of the page where it links from. I therefore revert all his edits (without question). It feels to me 70:229:184:30 is spamming. What is your opinion on this? --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 21:10, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

You're probably right. The user is adding links repeatedly for a commercial organization, with only peripheral relation to the subjects at hand. Continuing with the reverts is fine. --Eyrian 21:15, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

The IP-address is linked to "SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGISTS-051005060757" .. I have put the full WHOIS-info on his user-talk page. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 21:26, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Could you have a look at ESDU, someone moved it back to the abbrev i.s.o. the full name. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 14:00, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Fixed, with an annotation to the talk page. --Eyrian 17:59, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Cheers. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 18:02, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Your welcome

Thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia. Seeing that when I logged on just now was very much appreciated! Thanks again. Snow Shoes 21:25, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Babylon 5 - regional boostering

The only reason I reverted [[1]] is because 64.53.74.151's history of edits. Obviously B5 is american - anyone knows it anyway.Futurix 09:53, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Ah, no problem. I understand. But I don't think that "Everyone knows it anyway" is valid, I'd rather be specific (or at least support someone who wants to be). --Eyrian 10:03, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

6.5 Grendel

Oops. Thanks for catching that. Crimson30 23:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

WHAT ARE YOU DOING

hello you have kept DEleating a sectionout of hobo. I keep adding it back but you keep deletingit. WHAT IS UP. Email me and plz stop deleting —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kendermage (talk • contribs) .

Ore sorting changes

Hello Eyrian, Could you please explain why you deleted the section Why Sort? from the page Ore Sorting. I believe that this is the most interesting part of the article. I read through dozens of articles in the category Metallurgy that give examples of how a particular technology is applied, yet you removed it from this page. ??

Hello again Eyrian. I understand that the style is important, but not at the expense of information. Although the points do follow on from the summary description, they only follow on if you are familiar with mineral processing. Otherwise you have cut out useful information, which is not evident to someone trying to learn about mining technology.

The Manual of Style also contains several sections with bullet points for clarity. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mkowal (talk • contribs) .

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Repeated Vandalism on 6.5 Grendel and Assault Rifle page by SwatJester

Eyrian,

It appears that SwatJester has chosen to pursue an agenda of promoting the 6.8SPC cartridge by vandalizing and using Wiki regulations to cover his butt in doing so. I am confident that all of the material used in the construction of the 6.5 Grendel page was used with permission and can be adequately sourced but I do not have an adequate knowledge of Wikis rules to keep SwatJester from destroying the page. In short, we need your help or hundreds of hours of work will be destroyed. TVMIA for your help.

Solidpoint 02:00, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

vandalism at Bawls

Thanks for catching and reverting that other bit of vandalism by Bobmanbob92. I would have removed that had I seen it.--EarthPerson 22:49, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Medieval-armor-stub

Hi - I note that you have created a new stub type for mediaeval armour. Please note that all new stub types should be proposed for debate prior to creation at WP:WSS/P (as explained at WP:STUB and elsewhere), to ensure they conform with the standards and needs of stub sorting. In the case of this stub type, it is very unlikely that there are the required 60 existing stubs on this subject - the Category:Medieval armor and its subcategories only contain 80 items, many of which (in the shields category) are not actually medieval. The new stub type has been listed at WP:WSS/D as a new discovery - please feel free to add any comments relating to the reasons for its creation there. Grutness...wha? 00:54, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

They're guidelines rather than policies, but they are regularly adhered to for the simple reasons that to do otherwise creates far more work than it saves. I'd suggest having a look at several parts of the page WP:STUB, such as the last paragraph of the "Categorizing stubs" section and the "New stub categories" section, especially point four, and WP:WSS/P#Proposing new stubs - procedure. Stub categories work slightly differently to standard categories, as they are aimed primarily at editors rather than readers. It has been found through long experience in stub work that having fewer than a certain number of stubs actually creates more work for editors on a particular subject - more categories have to be sifted to find relevant articles, more specific category titles discourages more general editors, and more specific sorting makes it harder for stub sorters as well. For this reason size requirements have become established to stop the proliferation of minute stub types. As it is, there are nearly 4000 stub types, even with those requirements - without them that number would become even more unmanageably large. Grutness...wha? 01:14, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help

Eyrian,

On behalf of all of us who fought the good fight to keep the 6.5 Grendel page intact I wanted to thank you for your help. If I don't get another chance to say it, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Please let me know if I can return the favor in the coming year and all the best to your and yours in 2007.

Solidpoint 05:29, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

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POTD

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Gap Cycle

I just created articles for each book of The Gap Cycle and they are in dire need of plots, images of the cover art and other useful info RoyBatty42 23:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

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Snowhomie (talk · contribs)

FYI: Snowhomie edited Fat after you warned them about Bacon. - CobaltBlueTony 21:18, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

He made the actual edit shortly before I made the warning, though. One can still hope for turnaround. Thanks for the notice. --Eyrian 21:21, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Russell's Teapot

It isn't link spam but a legitimate link to a legitimate site which describes the concept. I am developing an article much like the Jesus and Mo for Russell's Teapot (Comic). I hope you won't delete that. E.I. Addio 23:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

As it doesn't appear to satisfy notability guidelines laid out in WP:WEB, I almost assuredly would. Jesus and Mo seems to have a much more prominent publisher, satisfying criterion 3. --Eyrian 23:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

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Pastrami

Weird Al, irrelevant? Are you joking? Songs mentioning our favorite lunchmeat are rare finds indeed, and as we all know this is Jimbo's Big Bag of Trivia. Maybe you can stop being such a curmudgeon, eh? TVshot 04:05, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that a song merely mentioning the word "pastrami" calls for a mention in the article. --Eyrian 04:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

The Wasabi article refers to several songs which merely mention the word. Trivia is hardly out of place here in Jimbo's Big Bag. With this reasoning I'm putting Weird Al back in; hopefully an edit war will not ensue. TVshot 15:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Just because one article is broken doesn't mean other articles should be, too. I'd rather not make this into an edit war. But the mere mntion of a relatively common word in a song most certainly does not merit inclusion in an article. --Eyrian 17:39, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

WTF? You've gone and vandalized Wasabi as well! I DECLARE EDIT WAR! TVshot 22:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't believe anything I've done qualifies as vandalism under Wikipedia:Vandalism. Is there a better way to resolve this? --Eyrian 23:49, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Black Sheep (psychology)

When you deleted my entry on the disambiguation, I was demoralized and bummed out. It was just this evening that I checked it again and discovered that you not only reverted your deletion, you created the topic page. Thank you so much. I was interviewed by an author of many books who is now writing a book on the Black Sheep syndrome. For so many years, the predominate view of a black sheep was a neer'do'well... but if truth be told, it is often because of familial abuse and scapegoating that a black sheep is MADE. Thanks again and if, on some day when I'm not so tired, I will write the author and see if she has the time or interest at this time to add to the stub. Kiwi 06:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Glad I could help you with that, and it's nice to have brightened your day. I look forward to seeing the article improve with your knowledge. --Eyrian 06:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

What is science fiction?

Why do you keep removing the references to two particular SF films (okay, I think AI is so bad I'd rather call it 'sci-fi' in the pejorative sense) and leave two others, while tagging the change as removing vandalism? --Orange Mike 20:12, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

It appears that it got caught up in a vandalism revert (and only once; I'm not sure what is meant by "keep"). Though now that I look at it, I don't really think the opener needs more examples pushed in there. Overly long prose lists look bad and are annoying to read. Perhaps a separate section/article "Questions explored in Science fiction"? --Eyrian 21:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

These things happen (twice, in this case). I think four examples is sufficient but not grossly excessive, but can see your point of view. --Orange Mike 23:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

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Kasten-brust

could you make a short article about Kasten-brust armour? I've writen ru:Кастен-Бруст (доспехи), but I don't have a registration to make a such article for english wikipedia :-( It is a geram armour of the first hal of 15c , the source is "Osprey-Military "German Medevial Armies 1300-1500" (Men-at-Arms Series t166), text by Christopher Gravett, colour plates by Angus McBride, editor Martin Windrow, Reed International Books Ltd., ISBN 0-85045-614-2 " and illustrations are Image:Konrad Witz Sabobai And Benaiah (1435) fragment.jpg & Image:Jan van Eyck 032.jpg, this armour could be gound in museum of Vienna, and shown in many german pictures and statues e.g. image:Arthur3487.jpg —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.115.55.212 (talk) 12:16, 28 March 2007 (UTC).

GREATEST THANKS!!!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.116.227.249 (talk) 14:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC).

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