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WP:CFB Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the College football Wikiproject! We are a group of editors who love college football and work to improve Wikipedia's coverage of this sport.

There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:

• Starting some new articles? Please add {{WikiProject College football}} to the talk page and list your new article in the new articles section.
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If you have any ideas you would like to share or if there is any way your fellow college football fans can help you, please feel free to ask on the project talk page.

MECU≈talk 22:41, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: Few good things:)

Hey! To answer your ?s...

1. is it ok that I copied your resources article from your user page?

That's totally fine. I just took one of the welcome templates and modified it.

2. is there anyway to shrink a to-do list, like the one on my userpage?

I tried what I thought might work, but it didn't. Check out my to-do list. If you look at my infobox, there is a little section near the bottom that says "LaraLove subpages" (right above my useboxes). If you click on it, my to-do list is small, but it was automatic. I don't know how to make it small. Possibly, if you create a subpage and link to it that way, it will be small.

3. is there easy way to write your username at the end of a page, instead of going to your userpage and finding it?

I don't understand this question. What is it exactly you're wanting to do? Are you talking about your signature? I'm confused!

4. could you look over East Carolina University again. i think everything is cited or i took it out. i put some NPOV about the dental school. i increased the length using North Carolina State University as a template.

Sure thing. I'll look over it. LaraLove^T/_C 04:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey. I'm not sure if I ever looked over it again after leaving you this message. I've lost internet several times, which put me out for a couple days or so off and on. Hopefully it's good now. I'll look back over it tonight. I'd also like to mention that you need to fix your signature. You have a sup tag at the end that causes all text after your signature to be tiny. I had to edit it to correct the entries on my talk page, I believe I did this the last time you left a message as well. You might want to look into it. LaraLove^T/_C 03:43, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I did. See here in case you did not see it before. I'll still look over it again. LaraLove^T/_C 03:47, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Okay, so here's what I've noted:

• The lead is not an adequate summary of the article. It should include a little information from all sections.
• Issues with conversions have not been corrected. See Category:Conversion_templates for assistance with this. It lists the various conversion templates. You just have to enter the main unit. It will automatically convert it for you.
• I still don't like the format of the alumni.
• Why are some of your references followed by (in English)? This is the English Wikipedia. It is implied, and recommended, that all references are in English. Only if they were in another language should that information be included in parenthesis after.
• I also still don't like that the logo image interferes with the references.

I hope you just missed my last review, which is now archived on my talk page and linked above, because none of those issues seemed to have been addressed. LaraLove^T/_C 05:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

East Carolina University

I'll probably take a look at in the next few days, I can't today since I have to work. With a quick glance, the article looks very good, but again, I'll read it soon. --Nehrams2020 20:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

With a quick look over the article and after I read the comments already at the peer review, I think the article should have little or no problems passing GA once the issues have been addressed. Good job on the article and I hope it passes. --Nehrams2020 02:55, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

East Carolina University

Hello, because of your lengthy past for helping articles achieve GA and FA status, I am asking if you could give East Carolina University a peer-review. I want to add the article to the Good article candidates list. Thank you, PGPirate

• Thank you for the review of East Carolina University. When you wrote "There shouldn't really be bold text or external links within the prose." are you referring to when text such as East Carolina Teachers Training School is bolded? Should it be italized instead? Also with the external links, is a wiki red-link better? Thanks - PGPirate
  • East Carolina Teachers Training School doesn't need to be bold or italized. A red-link should only be made for a subject if there is enough notable information about the subject to form a decent length article. External links should always be in the External links section.Epbr123 16:23, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
    • Maybe you could add to the admin section some of the info found at the start of List of East Carolina University Administration. Epbr123 19:50, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Please, read my comments on the Talk:East_Carolina_University. Ruslik 07:37, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I passed this article. Ruslik 19:06, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

As you can see by my edit summary and User:EEMeltonIV's appraisal of the situation. I was partly justified in deleting those comments. I'm sure you wouldn't like your comments being copied inaccurately on to another page. 128.227.43.42 00:37, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

So you aren't even going to respond? Just another IP. 128.227.43.42 02:32, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

69.26.225.210(talk) Just made another identical edit to roth IRA that he/she was warned about earlier. 199.125.109.25 19:31, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Notability of GetEducated.com

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{{ECU-stub}}

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Re: Adoption

Hi. I'm not really adopting in general, I actually withdrew from the program, but I would be willing to "adopt" you (even if un-officially) because of your ties to WP:CFB. My activity level has dropped off a TON (which is why it took me so long to reply) and I really only do WP:CFB, some admin things once in awhile and plan to write about CU this fall. But, if you're willing to have me adopt you despite my lack of activity lately, I promise I will reply to your questions quicker than this one. I typically check in at least once a day. Lemme know, and whether you want to go the "official" or un-official route. MECU≈talk 16:49, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

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CFD or IFD?

Just thought I'd point out that you've nominated Image:Avery Small(Football Warrior).jpg for deletion at WP:CFD, which is the wrong forum for images! Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 23:03, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject East Carolina University

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Pirate: I supported keeping your project on the basis that you personally were actively editing. Based on the deletion discussion, your page, and discussions elsewhere on what ought to happen to inactive projects, I took the position that your project should be made a task force or maybe more appropriately userfied until you can obtain more membership. Your best bet would be to userfy the project and then post on Proposals your topic with a link to your userfied page. If you gain member interest, you can rename later either as a stand alone project or, more likely, as a task force. Thoughts?--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 19:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania in Atlanta!

Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 22:51, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Lobstrini

I've removed the speedy from this, as it's certainly not "unsalvageably incoherent" as you tagged it. While it may be a hoax, possible hoaxes should never be speedied/prodded. I've sent it to AfD for consensus. — iridescent (talk to me!) 21:31, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Your CSD for Ride & Show Engineering, Inc.

Please review both the article and talk page and let me know your thoughts on your nomination for this article for WP:CSD#A7. I would say at worst this would be a WP:AFD, but not a CSD. Tiggerjay 05:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

East Carolina University Template

Responded on my talk page.↔NMajdan•talk 00:59, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

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Congrats!

East Carolina University which you have significantly improved is currently being featured on Portal:North Carolina. Keep up the great work! --Mr.crabby (Talk) 21:47, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Let me know what I can do to help. I'd love to see a North Carolina-related article on the front page. --Mr.crabby (Talk) 03:29, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Removing Redirects/AWB Usage

Hi, PGPirate. Two things: 1. I noticed that you have been using AutoWikiBrowser to change some links that point to redirects so that they point to the targets directly. Note that this is discouraged on Wikipedia, as it generally does more harm than good. Which leads to #2: Your automated edits using AWB to the East Carolina links mangled text and links on about 25 pages and templates. Please be certain that these automated tools are editing as you intend them to. (I've reverted your changes that created the mangled ECU text and links...I think I got them all.) Thanks. WildCowboy 11:18, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Finance

Howdy. Please, please be more careful with your automated search and replace. I'm currently trying to fix all of the damage from your insertion of "finance|" into every single occurrence of "financial", even if it was not within a wikilink. You've broken links, quotes, and inserted the "|" symbol into the middle of regular text. Kuru ^talk 14:28, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok, that was an unbelievable mess. I've simply reverted all of your changes from last night - I could find very few instances where the F&R successful performed the operation you intended cleanly. If you need assistance with performing such an automated task in the future, please ask. Kuru ^talk 14:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

AAAUGH! STOP !!!

I don't know what's going wrong, but whenever you are attempting to revert vandalism, you are cutting out about half the article. I noticed in on Honduras, and when I went to check your other contributions, it's happening all over.Kww (talk) 20:42, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Looks like it was just Honduras and United States Marine Corps. They are fixed now, but you should try and figure out what happened.Kww (talk) 20:46, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm curious

And thus I am asking you for your rationale.

Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Template:Trivia clearly says at the heading: "The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page." But you edited it to alter the spelling of a word (this diff refers.

One might say "but that was a trivial edit," but one might also say "the header says what it means," or "means what it says". So I am interested in your rationale for the edit. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:23, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Ah, looking at your contributions log I think I can see what happened. It looks as though you ran AWB (a tool I am unfamiliar with) and had it correct the spelling of catagory pretty much wherever it appeared. It seems to me that this was a good faith and potentially unwise action, especially in view of the issue with (I think) finance| that you had a little earlier this month. It seems to me that your edit may well have run roughshod over a number of articles, not just the one I mentioned above.

The question thus becomes even more important: If the edit was against the express instructions in a header, the rationale is interesting, and, presumably, the plan for corrective action. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:35, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

AWB

Re: [1]

When running things like scripts and AWB, run them only in the main article namespace, and don't change people's comments with them. -- Ned Scott 08:31, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

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