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The article Homer Defined, which you nominated as a Good Article, is undergoing review. The article does not seem to meet the requirements for a good article. It has been put on hold for a week; if these issues are addressed satisfactorily within that period the article will be promoted to GA, otherwise it will be failed. Lampman (talk) 04:10, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One one hand I felt I couldn't condone the approach certain editors were taking to fair use images, but on the other hand I realised I couldn't fail it over this issue. That's why I put it up for a second opinion, and the matter seems to have been resolved now. At least I managed to give it a bit of a copy-edit, so my review wasn't a complete waste of time. Good luck with further articles! Lampman (talk) 23:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, when you get the chance can you take a second look at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Olympic women's ice hockey players for the United States/archive1 and check that your concerns have been resolved? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 21:30, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, not sure if you noticed Felipe Menegaz's comment at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/2010 Winter Olympics medal table/archive1. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:28, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing; just a note that Resolute responded to you at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of NHL players with 50-goal seasons/archive1. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:28, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note. So should I assume that you don't intend to add a medal map per Felipe's suggestion (just to clarify)? Dabomb87 (talk) 21:55, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing: can you take a look at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Olympic medalists in luge/archive1? You're a pro at bringing those lists up to FL standard, so if there is anything that needs to be fixed, you'd probably recognize it. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 19:13, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've promoted the article. Thanks for your patience. J Milburn (talk) 12:55, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I left some stuff for you. Theleftorium 14:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck arguing with that guy about the images. He is apparently on an anti-non-free image campaign. He also made similar arguments at my current FAC before opposing claiming the single non-free image, the book's cover, failed NFCC and therefore the FA criteria. He's done this on half a dozen other FAs so far, and no matter how you try to reason with him, he still turns around an opposes. On the good side, it seems like he is also mostly ignored by other reviewers and by the delegates because his arguments really are badly made and seem to reflect a complete misunderstanding of the entire non-free policy. 14:20, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi. You recently reverted my edit to the Blood Feud (The Simpsons)‎‎ article with no explanation. If you looked at my edit, you'd see that I converted a hard to read, disjointed paragraph into a number of bullet points. I see no reason why you would object to that. -Roger (talk) 04:56, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You've again reverted my edit with no explanation. Please at least acknowledge my original comment before doing so again. Thanks. -Roger (talk) 15:26, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the barnstar! You're a great help to the project too!

		The Simpsons (Annoyed Grunt)-star
		I'm awarding you this star for all your help on the classic seasons good article drive. Plus an extra thank you for taking the initiative of thanking all the other users involved with the drive. Keep up all your great work! CTJF83 chat 18:19, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Crap, Ctjf83 beat me to it! Theleftorium 20:01, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I'm Moisejp and I'm part of the WikiProject Bob Dylan. How are you doing? The WikiProject Dylan is currently working on trying to bring The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan to Feature Article status. As you may know, this album appeared on the Rolling Stone Greatest 500 Albums of All Time list. We used the Rolling Stone website to cite the album's ranking, but lo and behold, Rolling Stone appears to have recently removed the list from its archives, and it cannot be accessed with the Internet Wayback Machine either. I was thinking of citing the published book or magazine versions of the list. Some of the bibliographical information I can easily find online, but other info, such as the page number, I can't. I noticed you have done a fair amount of contributing to The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. I was wondering whether you might possibly own a book or magazine copy of the list, or know another editor who does. Then I could hopefully track down all the necessary bibliographical info. Please let me know if you know anything, thanks! Moisejp (talk) 11:24, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much!! You've been a big help! Moisejp (talk) 21:46, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Let's not continue reverting at List of Nobel laureates in Literature. I've started a discussion here. [1] Regards, JohnWBarber (talk) 02:52, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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According to ARIA (here), the ARIA Hall of Fame induction of AC/DC in 1988 is also an ARIA Award and is counted in their total of three wins from five nominations. Could you return the List of awards and nominations received by AC/DC back to the more accurate form.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 07:00, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, sometimes I miss comments that an editor made, particularly if it was only one time and they never followed up. As for Lisa, I feel like there could be more about her overall character: she's the middle child, more of her activism (she lived in a tree to prevent its destruction, that one comes to mind), she was part of MENSA.... come to think of it, a lot of that is redundant with what you have in "Personality", so that section probably doesn't need much (if any) more. I think more pressing are details on the Yeardly Smith audition (which is important to Lisa Simpson as an encyclopedia article), and the negative reception (which is how the real world looks at her). Let me know when/if you nom it again. --Hurricanehink (talk) 02:54, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, since I reviewed yours, I was wondering if you could review an FAC of mine - Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cyclone Gonu/archive1. Thanks if you get the chance! Hurricanehink (talk) 17:42, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, that audition stuff is better, how it's a little clearer. Good luck w/ the negative reception, tho. --Hurricanehink (talk) 23:09, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Scorpion, Radiowallah here. Sorry not to use the Sandbox for National Parks list. New to this. I'm going to construct the table with as many photos as I can find and reinsert it complete. If you still think it doesn't work, no doubt you will want to revert it. I think there's much to be gained with the photos as part of the table. Maybe it's premature for a Descriptions column. But see what you think. Anyway, as we're both Leafs fans, surely we can agree... Radiowallah (talk) 23:51, 22 May 2010 (UTC)Radiowallah[reply]

Thanks for fixing my error. Narssarssuaq (talk) 13:41, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated Rock the Park, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rock the Park. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

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... in reverting the "sortable" option from the coaches section? What harm does it do? "As far as you know" there won't be any new coaches anytime soon. How far do you know? Have you done any research? LarRan (talk) 20:03, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I did do some research. I looked at the coaches of this year's final teams. Joel Quenneville and Peter Laviolette have never won Olympic gold medals. As far as I know, there aren't any Olympic Games or World Championships coming up any time soon (I could be wrong, but these things tend to be spaced out).

So considering that, I concluded that there won't be any new coach members any time soon, so there's no need to make a table of one sortable. Simple enough. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 20:08, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My reasons were (1) uniformity, (2) future use (you never know...). But whatever. LarRan (talk) 20:13, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not really sure, I did mention other, more recent images, but the implication was that this was the only useable one he had. Not that I'm complaining. I'll probably mail him again in a few months to see how the star campaign is going (apparently the Canadian Walk of Fame attempt failed, so they're trying for the Hollywood walk before they attempt it again) so I’ll ask if he has others. It's a really shame nobody close to the show is reachable though (apart from Bill of course). I've contacted Hank, Yeardley and Silverman on Twitter touting for images, but none of them responded. Gran² 20:06, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

He said Phil "came in third" and thus doesn't get on this year. I've no idea if that makes sense but you're the expert on the process. I'll probably message Josh at some point... Julie Kavner is now chief image priority. Gran² 20:24, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Scorpion0422. FYI, when proposing categories for deletion, you should add {{subst:cfd}} to the top of the category, not just {{cfd}}, as you did here. I have fixed that one for you. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 23:03, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. I see you've been around a long time, so you probably already knew that and it was just an error. Sorry. DH85868993 (talk) 23:04, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted your edit, as noted above the list the order isn't in order of his favorite but by air date, if he said that a particular episode was his favorite then of course that information should be added and sourced to a page but it's no reason to destroy the entire list. I copied the list order from page 70 of the book by the way in case you want to check my sourcing. I'll add the page to my watchlist and will happily discuss any changes on the talk page if you would like. Cat-five - talk 17:28, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• I added the information about his favorite episode above the list, conveniently it was on the same page which made sourcing easy and I hope that it works for you in trying to get that information out while still maintaining the list. Cat-five - talk 17:40, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! Since you are familiar with reviewing Lists of National Treasures of Japan, I thought you could help out with the following... List of National Treasures of Japan (archaeological materials) is presently a featured list candidate and marked as Nominations urgently needing reviews which means that it is in danger of failing the nomination due to a lack of reviews. I'd be happy, if you could have a look at the list and leave comments, questions or suggestions at the nomination page. The criteria to be checked against are found here. Thanks. bamse (talk) 14:24, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Scorpion. I had a question to ask you about the Canada's Walk of Fame article. I found an article on the web a couple of days ago, while checking out information on this year's honourees. It was an article about the director of the Walk of Fame surprising a radio reporter with her very own honourary star. I have not heard anything else about the previous honourees and do not know whether it should be added into either the main page or the list of all honourees as the other 6 have not. I'll leave it up to you to decide. Thanks.

http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/story.aspx?aid=1000374109 65.92.22.48 (talk) 19:55, 10 June 2010 (UTC)samusek2[reply]

Hi Scorp. Wow, it's been so long since I used my account I've forgotten all the code.

As you probably know I've gone in a different direction. I moved away from Wikipedia after I found other ways to express my writing skills. I probably won't return as a dedicated editor, and I most likely won't be trying for any more GAs. Glad to see you guys are still getting there. :D

Thanks for the barnstar, and good luck for the future. Tell Gran2 and those other guys I said hi/bye.

All the best, ...hmmm, what's the code for signatures... oh right, --Simpsons fan 66 08:58, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]