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Think its fixed now, help me delete BmcCJ.jpg please

I have deleted BmcCJ.jpg as requested. I will note, however, that BMcCJ.JPG is currently still up for deletion, as it doesn't have a copyright tag. Please add one from the link above.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 15:18, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't that intuitive, but I figured it out.

Hey there

Yup, I haven't a clue why people wanted to delete it. The very first version of it was fine. I always need help in formatting some of the complex stuff. People here are ideologically opposed to certain biographies and claim anyone who wasn't a president of the US isn't important. And I thing they would love to get rid of few dozen ex-presidents as well. Its always a good idea to back up some of your work off site. I have a Google account and that lets me add information directly into Google at pages.google.com or base.google.com. Here is one I backed up there: Eddie Schneider --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 03:13, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

cool, I want to leave the link here so I can use it to store stuff while I digitize it.

And don't forget to contribute family biographies to findagrave.com. You can also store biographies in your userspace this way: User:BMcCJ/Whipple family history or by adding any article title after the slash. The more places you store them, the more likely they will survive your own life. Get a Google account today so you can reserve your name. Oh, and here is how Google pages look Eddie Schneider. The other thing you can do to make editing easier is to use Firefox 2.0 as your Internet browser, it catches spelling errors as you type them. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:08, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whip Jones

I was happy to support your article on Whip Jones. It is infuriating to have these pompous uninformed people judging meaingful articles while no one questions the plethora of meaningless articles on cartoon characters and minor entertainers. One of my articles on a prolific boat design team was nominated for deletion by a teenager whose contributions were a series of biographies on child actors in some obscure movie. Another was proposed by a member of the Pokeman project. Madness!

Good Luck

Kevin Murray 01:00, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yep - Unbelievable, history is being written and erased as we speak. Often by editors with no appreciation for the work of others. BMcCJ

I'm going to post this on Mr. Murray's talk page as well. Please be aware that personal attacks are very much discouraged on Wikipedia. Calling people "pompous" and "uninformed" strikes me as a personal attack. Please remember to be civil, and comment on the content, not the contributor. Thanks. --TheOther Bob 15:49, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To be clear, those were Mr. Murray's words... and I will just leave it at that, no other agreement or disagreement. -BMcCJ

Absolutely. I left it both places because different people prefer different things on their talk pages. (Some like to keep the conversation together, others only want messages directed to them). I didn't intend to imply that they were your words, and I apologize if I came off that way. Thanks. --TheOther Bob 01:15, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merging Notability pages Organizations and Companies

You may find this interesting as it is somewhat related to your notability battles. I have for some time tried to simplify the notability guidelines for companies, since there are editiors out there tagging any small company because they misunderstand the confused rules, which imply that small companies are not notable. Some of us are also advocating a merger of companies and organizations for the notability page.

I have written some proposed text for a merged and simplified page, please see the continued discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Notability (organizations). This is also posted at the Companies & Corporation page.

Thanks.

Kevin Murray 21:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cross-namespace links

It is considered inappropriate (although I don't recall the actual guideline) for links from the mainspace to link to pages in userspace, such as User:BMcCJ. Please don't do that. If you want to note a link to a future page, indicate it in the article's talk page. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 20:51, 25 December 2006 (UTC) Insert non-formatted text here[reply]

Hmmm I seem to have seen it done in many places. Including the link from Talk:Arthur Rubin --> User:Arthur Rubin, with the line that says the subject of this article has also edited Wikipedia. Baed on your example, I thought it was OK. See Talk:Arthur Rubin for the example of such a link. Feel free to send me the link to the actual guideline, and I'll revise. As always, Thanks for the polite request. :)

The guideline only applies to links from the main article space to user space. Talk has its own rules, and user can link anywhere. For the moment, consider WP:CSD#R2 which states that redirects from the main article space to User:, or Talk:, or User Talk:, can be speedily deleted, and Jimbo's instructions that the encyclopedia should be self-contained with only the main article space, template space, and category space. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 08:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

General Aubrey Hornsby

I've been doing a lot of work with articles for deletion, trying to rewrite and perserve what I think are valauable projects. I've got one that might benefit from your expertise as a former AF officer. Aubrey Hornsby was a WWI veteran who joined the air service in the early 1920s, and rose to general by the end of WWII. I think that the article is facinating, but I can't seem to find much solid evidence to support the "facts" that I got from the poorly written earlier article. Any ideas? There are enough tid-bits on the web to support the story, but not to prove to Wiki notabilty "standards"