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Hi, the recent edit you made to Signing Time! Foundation has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. Alexfusco⁵ 01:43, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

• It really needs to be a subsection of the main article -- the foundation itself isn't notable apart from Signing Time!. NawlinWiki (talk) 02:45, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Something you might care to note

Regarding this edit that you made to Cody Martin, the IP you reverted is a persistent vandal, creating gratuitous wikilinks and changing content. You'll often see it changing female names to "Chanel". Unfortunately it has a dynamic address so the IP changes, but it's always from 108.17.x.x --AussieLegend (talk) 02:43, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Uriel227 at Dylan and Cole Sprouse

Uriel227 has been reported to WP:3RRN for breaching 3RR. The discussion is here. --AussieLegend (talk) 10:58, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

You might also like to check out the SPI case that I've just started. --AussieLegend (talk) 12:41, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Thnak you

Thank you for the cookie.[1] You're not so bad yourself. --AussieLegend (talk) 03:10, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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Left aligned images after header question

I have seen lots of left aligned images as the first thing in a section in a lot of articles so I am curious where the issue of "Left-aligned images directly after headers can cause problems with screen readers and break the flow of text" is discussed and if there are other workarounds other than a paragraph of text before the image. Looks like a bug in the wiki software. Geraldo Perez (talk) 02:36, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
To add - I checked a bunch of WP:featured articles and, although right aligned images are most common, I found a lot of articles with left aligned images directly after headers so this does not appear to be an issue for featured article promotion. --Geraldo Perez (talk) 02:47, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Actually, an admin switched an image I had added to a right alignment and said that was the reason, and I assumed he was right. I have a screen reading browser that I use to check for accessibility issues here sometimes. I checked the page before and after the edit, and it read it confusingly before, so I changed it. However, it also read confusingly after, so I have no idea. I might've been (read: was probably, like I am usually about tech-ish stuff like that) wrong. - Purplewowies (talk) 03:25, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

I added more stuff about this at Talk:Jessie (TV series)#Left aligned image in Main characters section so others can participate. If it is an issue, I think it is fairly minor. Geraldo Perez (talk) 03:30, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Re: One of your suggestions in the Peer Review for Dylan and Cole Sprouse

I assume there are reliable sources that refer to them as the Sprouse Brothers, and I know they refer to themselves as the Sprouse Bros, so I assume it would be OK to use and bold both. If for some reason no reliable sources ever refer to them as the Sprouse Brothers (which seems unlikely), then I would not bold it. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 23:44, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

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I just wanted to thank you for the quick response to my question. Chris (talk) 22:01, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

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Copyedit

Is there a place where I can request an article to be copyedited? Thanks. - Purplewowies (talk) 20:19, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

You can try Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests and Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/List of participants--NeoBatfreak (talk) 20:22, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

User:Codyluva/Sandbox

I saw an IP blanking a User's page and reverted it. Seems to be a common vandalism. Sorry for the inconvenience! Jim1138 (talk) 19:45, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

TSLOZAC/TSLOD

I appreciate the effort that you've gone to copying the character content into the two articles that you've created, but it's problematic. The main issue is with the main characters, Zack, Cody, London and Mr Moseby, who appeared in both series. The content from their articles shouldn't simply be duplicated at each of the new articles. Only content relevant to the specific series should be in each article. Content that is common to both series needs to be in each article, but that inevitably results in duplication errors and a loss of the character's full history in each article. Then there is the issue of redirection of the original articles. Redirecting them to one or other of the series is inappropriate because it makes it difficult for readers to find the Mr Moseby of TSLOD if his article is redirected to the TSLOZAC article. At some point in the past, somebody created List of characters in The Suite Life (series) and I had considered placing all of the characters in one article, but this results in other issues, namely that there is a group who delight in deleting multiple fair-use images in list articles, improperly citing WP:NFLISTS as justification. This would result in one, nice and neat article without any images of the characters at all. Ultimately it seemed best to leave the individual articles. That said, there is a definite need to prune much of the content in the individual articles, and that should really be done before any merging. --AussieLegend (talk) 08:22, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Well... I only even considered merging because it was the second time in a relatively short span that a merge was suggested for most/all of the character articles (first at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fictional characters/Archive 3#Can this article be reassessed?, second at User talk:Nolelover#A barnstar for you!). I'm an inclusionist at heart and would do anything possible to keep things from being merged/deleted, which was why I did a huge chunk of work on Cody's article until I hit a wall (not that he was in really super danger of being merged or deleted). I really think that these specific articles would be much better separate, especially if their problems can be dealt with. (I was going to say something else here but my brain is almost sleepwalking at this point... Hopefully, you understand what I'm saying.) - Purplewowies (talk) 08:53, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Redirects to these characters: as a result of your operations, several redirects were first switched by one bot, as double redirects, to point to List of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody main characters and then, when that was deleted, marked by another bot for speedy deletion as dead redirects. For future reference, when doing these sort of moves and rearrangements, you need to click "what links here" so that you know what redirects may be affected. Now that I see what has been going on, I have re-created Madeline "Maddie" Fitzpatrick and Madeline Fitzpatrick to point to the existing article Maddie Fitzpatrick, and London Leah Tipton to point to London Tipton. There were also Madeline Margaret Genevieve Miranda Catherine Fitzpatrick, Madeline Margaret Genevieve Miranda Catherine "Maddie" Fitzpatrick and Madeline "Maddie" Margaret Genevieve Miranda Catherine Fitzpatrick - restore them if you like, but I did not because they seem to me absurd overkill. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 14:48, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

I have just intercepted Marion Moseby and Moseby and redirected them to Mr. Moseby before they got deleted. There are no more live redirects still pointing to the "List" article, but others may have been deleted by people who didn't realise what was going on. JohnCD (talk) 14:59, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Yeah... I normally check those types of things. Disregarding the fact that a merge like that probably needed more consensus, I made the mistake of starting it pretty late in the day. It took a long time to do, and it was mentally tiring, so by the end of the initial merging, I was already a little out of it and had started succumbing to brain fog. I had completely forgotten to check redirects at that point, even with the merge instructions in front of me telling me to do so. Then, when the character redirects I had done as part of the merge were reverted back into being character articles, I thought it would be best for the list articles to be deleted (though I probably could have waited to do something like that when my thoughts were more coherent). Again, partially because I was extremely tired, I totally forgot to check redirects at a time when I normally would have. I am never doing something like this again. I'm sorry. - Purplewowies (talk) 17:36, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

No worries but, as I said above, other incoming redirects from individual character names may have been deleted by people who did not realise what was going on, so you might like to check any other alternate versions of names that might have been redirects. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:45, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

The only other one I could think of was Carey Marie Martin, which I have restored. I can't think of any other names (other than the ones you've mentioned) that are even close to significant enough that someone would've/should've made a redirect. (And in the case of Maddie, if someone were to search her entire name, 66-100% of the results are related to The Suite Life.) - Purplewowies (talk) 18:01, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

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Thank You

This is just to thank you for your kind help with my proposal to delete an article. Thank you! RomanSpa (talk) 23:23, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

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How do I get permission to edit Semi-Locked pages?

NarratedSignedThis (talk) 00:42, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

You need to be confirmed or autoconfirmed. You will become autoconfirmed on 10 Febrary 2012 at 00:36 UTC (about two more days). To be confirmed, you have to request it, which I see you did a couple of days ago. Your request was denied, and they said you should probably get more experience here, so they would probably deny it if you asked again. Your two best options are to either wait until you're autoconfirmed two days from now and make the edit yourself, or request an edit on the article's talk page following the instructions here. - Purplewowies (talk) 02:11, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. I'll just wait to be auto confirmed. NarratedSignedThis (talk) 23:53, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

You are not a bot!

And therefore you get to make judgements like these! :) You don't need to increment the warnings by one each time, and the only reason bots and automated scripts do it is because they don't have human judgement, and so can't decide which warning is most appropriate. For obvious bad-faith vandalism, it's quite acceptable to start at level two or three, or to skip a few levels, as long as they get a final warning before they're reported to WP:AIV. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:12, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

I know. :-p I just typically don't skip warning levels myself, and I felt the need to explain my reasoning in the edit summary. On another note, I apparently behave like a bot a lot, since some other sites that have anti-bot technology stop me sometimes for bot-like browsing activity. :) - Purplewowies (talk) 18:25, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough. How on Earth can you browse like a bot? If ClueBot could read, I'd be able to write an article instead of block vandals! ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:33, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't know. :-? I think I was repeatedly searching the site, and it told me I was searching too much like a bot does or something. I believe I was quickly searching for things on the site, clicking into a page, realizing it wasn't what I needed, then searching a similar term and doing the process again. I was attempting to cite a statement here, and I was "in the zone" and searching really quickly and repetitively, so maybe that set it off? (Come to think of it, I think the message I got told me very specifically what I was doing and then apologized in case I was a human, but I don't quite remember because it was awhile ago. :P Also, I know nothing about bots.) - Purplewowies (talk) 20:00, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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Leave downside as is

MI5 are scared of that is why whenever I enter the UK they question me.

Do not touch the downside page. That is good advice. As is the page gives a very good reflection of the values and the history. Do more then I will mention your name in areas where your name should not be mentioned.

I assume you do not have children, but you probably have parents and maybe a girlfriend.

The abuse story is ok to wiki but should have its place a little lower down and without so many words.

If you want a fight you will lose. I can only hope you wish not to go down this route. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Denhaagandy (talk • contribs) 01:23, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Downside

Than you for your message. I will continue to hold that the fact that one has to pay for a product makes it difficult to check sources. Wikipedia is free. The sources ought to be free also. I suspect the comments about Downside have been lifted and are subject to copyright. The contributor also stated that the source is reliable. Wikipedia states that newspapers are not reliable sources. The Times is part of News International which is subject to criminal investigations both in the UK and the USA. To check the source one has to pay for the subscription. I asked the contributor to use a different source. This is fairly easy to do. You can get the same story from the Guardian or even the Telegraph. I also pointed out to him that the school is, according to the UK government, fully compliant with regards to children's safety. He has refused to acknowledge this even though the source according to wiki rules is much better than a newspaper.

I asked also that his piece should be shortened and it's place belongs towards the end of the wiki entry. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia not a place of accusation or innuendo. That spirit has been lost in this case. As is the entry is by far the largest about the community, and actually shows considerable ignorance about the importance of the community. The monks do not go onto the Internet and so are an easy target and defenceless.

I hope this explains in some part my position. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Denhaagandy (talk • contribs) 04:59, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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Dylan and Cole Sprouse

Here they are:

• Centro Chirurgico Toscano - "Pur mantenendo le caratteristiche di Ospedale privato ad indirizzo esclusivamente chirurgico, nel 1995 la conosciutissima Clinica Tanganelli (così chiamata ad Arezzo), cambiò gestione."

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• The Surname Tanganelli

• Ulisse Tanganelli on it.wikipedia

Are these good enough? :) - kingston28 11:22, 24 August 2012 (CEST)

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Re: Jessie (TV series)

I support your revert of the content that does not really belong in this article. You should have left a note in the edit summary, though, as uncommented reverts are pretty much synonymous with a vandalism revert and the edit did appear good faith. Geraldo Perez (talk) 18:16, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah. I left a comment (and typically leave comments), but my wifi did a weird thing, and Wikipedia was having problems at the time, so I had to do it again and I didn't leave a summary. What's weird is usually it warns me about that... - Purplewowies (talk) 18:23, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Actually, I just went to the tab I did the edit in, and a big Wikimedia Error screen greets me. - Purplewowies (talk) 18:27, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

I hate that when stuff like that happens. I've had problems like that too when wiki is acting up. Geraldo Perez (talk) 18:32, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Sprouse brothers

I saw your conversation at the help desk. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Dylan+and+Cole+Sprouse . I don't think you will find any admin that thinks unprotecting an article that has needed to be protected so many times is a good idea. Most of the Disney/Nickeleodeon stars' articles are under near constant semiprotection due to vandalism.—Kww(talk) 08:36, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

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this is new for me just a month old. difficult how you get attacked trying to comment anywhere, people attack you not because they have issues with what you wrote, but because you are new so you have to fake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nlfestival (talk • contribs) 00:12, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

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Note: Im not an employee of the Company. I wanted to put information of Company based there as its a public limited company and they are into manufacturing of auto components.

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can u help me please (Mr N Ivanov (talk) 06:50, 6 January 2014 (UTC))

Zack Martin (Suite Life)

I've removed the speedy tag that you added to Zack Martin (Suite Life) because it's not the same article that was deleted, so speedy doesn't apply. One of the things that I noted at the original AfDs was that the Zack Martin and Cody Martin articles were different, with "Zack Martin" essentially being unreferenced while "Cody Martin" was referenced. I assume this is why "Cody Martin" wasn't re-nominated when "Zack Martin" and Bailey Pickett were. Zack Martin (Suite Life) is essentially a rewrite of Cody Martin, which seems reasonable given that they're twins with almost identical storylines. My reaction when I first saw the article earlier was the same as yours, I almost speedied it myself, but I think this would have to go to a new AfD. --AussieLegend (✉) 08:05, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

(The following is moved from my talk page to keep the discussion in one place)

Okay, fair enough. I sat for several minutes myself debating whether it should have been nommed and went ahead with it because it seemed to be identical to what I remembered. (I'm still of the opinion that these articles would all be better with more real-world coverage I unfortunately don't have the time to add, but that's an issue less-related to this particular thing.) But again, I didn't realize the article was not sufficiently identical to the one that had been deleted... so yeah. (I forget my original point of posting here... but ah, well.) - Purplewowies (talk) 20:04, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

I don't disagree with you about the lack of real-world content. I'm of the opinion now that it might be best to merge all of the articles into "List of The Suite Life series main characters" with redirects from "List of the Suite Life of Zack & Cody main characters" and "List of the Suite Life on Deck main characters". That way we can at least keep the content we have without much risk that the existing articles will be deleted. When that happens we lose everything. --AussieLegend (✉) 04:41, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Where was I uncivil?

You gave me a warning without saying where I'd allegedly done something wrong.

User_talk:88.104.27.18#January_2014 —Preceding undated comment added 16:01, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

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yes that's what I meant.Eloguys (talk) 04:49, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

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I am sorry about calling you a boy, I didn't want to mix it up but when I read your user name I must have missed it but I couldn't find any notification that you where a boy :s deepest apologies I shouldn't have drawn to the conclusion that you are a boy, won't happen again. SilentDan (talk) 21:47, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

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...that's what I meant ;) Cassianto^talk 21:25, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

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Why is p inaccessible? [2] 213.7.147.34 (talk) 01:12, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

User:213.7.147.34: I was referencing the documentation when I asserted that: "However, using <p> tags can cause problems for navigation with screen readers, which expect these tags to delimit paragraphs of prose." I suppose the doc could be wrong, but it didn't seem that way from how I know the tag to work. - Purplewowies (talk) 02:18, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Oh, I see. But a p tag would've been right to use inside a list; the accessibility issue (if there's indeed one) is with using it inside footnotes. 213.7.147.34 (talk) 02:27, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

I must admit I don't know enough about the accessibility issue to be able to find good info outside the documentation right now, though the doc doesn't make it clear that it isn't also talking about lists, not to mention that Mediawiki renders their list-item-level html exactly the same (in terms of used tags), so theoretically, they'd both hit access issues. At any rate, I still feel the change should have been discussed. - Purplewowies (talk) 02:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

The access issue I assume is with auto-dictating the paras inside the footnotes. Indeed, the mediawiki markup is the same, but that's not relevant here. If I'd noticed that note, I wouldn't have made the change. Thank you for reverting it. 213.7.147.34 (talk) 03:22, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

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