User talk:Matt Gies

For old talk see /Archive_1.

I'm no wiki regular, so please excuse if this is wrong place for an inquiry.

In reference to wiki entry: uff da. I have regularly known this term to mean 'difficult task' used in all tenses... usually involving heavy lifting, often upon sudden realization of the difficulty, but, never, in defeat. From full blooded (Iowa) Dane, if that matters. Hope this helps.

Thanks, Kevin D. stlrnr@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.87.75.218 (talk) 03:17, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

I blocked your "friend" for 2 weeks. Cheers~ J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:00, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers! Matt Gies (talk) 21:01, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re:[1]

I would say so. Cluebot beat us to reporting it though hehe

And to be honest, before I clicked on the link, I thought you were saying "Time for suspension?" as in I had done something wrong lol. PopMusicBuff ^talk 21:56, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Roach clip for deletion

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New Suri Cruise AfD

Hello. You previously voted in the 2006 AfD for Suri Cruise. At the time, Suri was less than 10 days old, and the ultimate verdict was to turn the article into a redirect to her mother's page.

Since then, Suri has become much more notable in her own right as a toddler fashion icon, with over 13 million hits on google image search. After getting an administrator to lift the protection on the redirect, I recently restored the article as a stub, but an editor who believes that "6 year olds are not inherently notable" has again requested deletion.

If it's not too much trouble, I'd appreciate your making your opinion known at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suri Cruise (2nd nomination) Warren Dew (talk) 07:28, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

January 2014

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Penny/Cent

This is just a courtesy message to inform you that I've reverted your move of Penny (United States coin) to "Cent (United States coin)" based on the previous consensus to use the name "penny" over "cent" and the fact that WP:COMMONNAME dictates that the name "penny" be used rather than its official name as the "one cent piece" or "one cent coin" or whatever (also the "cent" is merely a decimal unit of the US dollar). Please try to attain a new consensus at the article to use "cent" over "penny" rather than participate in a move war.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:28, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What consensus are you referring to? Matt Gies (talk) 04:20, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relevant policies and guidelines

I reverted the large collection of images at Ghost sign per Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Image_galleries: "Images in a gallery should be carefully selected, avoiding similar or repetitive images, unless a point of contrast or comparison is being made...However, Wikipedia is not an image repository. A gallery is not a tool to shoehorn images into an article, and a gallery consisting of an indiscriminate collection of images of the article subject should generally either be improved in accordance with the above paragraph or moved to Wikimedia Commons." Montanabw ^(talk) 21:53, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

July 2015

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What edit was not minor but was marked as such? Matt Gies (talk) 04:25, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[1]; [2]. VQuakr (talk) 06:14, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You're wrong on at least three counts: (1) Using a word in strict accordance with its dictionary definition does not require review and is not disputed by an honest person. I always have and will continue to mark such edits as minor. (2) Wikipedia is not a sanitized/Disneyfied version of the facts. (3) The article in question has been and continues to be included in a category using the same word. Matt Gies (talk) 19:00, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is not possible to repeat an edit that has been reverted and be in compliance with Help:Minor edit. VQuakr (talk) 20:03, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Charleston church shooting. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Precious

start articles

Thank you for quality articles started early, such as Nänie and Steven Raichlen, for fighting vandalism, for gnomish improvements such as "rephrased to eliminate passive voice" and going for brevity and readability, - Matt, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:08, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A year ago, you were recipient no. 1955 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:07, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And a belated thank you to you! Matt Gies (talk) 05:35, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome, - two years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Foamite moved to draftspace

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Looking back on some other articles that I created, such as Olympic Peninsula and Free body diagram, those also began as tiny stubs with no sources or citations, but they were allowed to remain in place and grow into the full articles they are today. In the same spirit of Wikipedia:Be bold, I created Foamite today as a stub in the hope that others would add to it and it would flourish into a full article. But is this really what Wikipedia has come to? How are people supposed to collaborate if we kill the seeds before they grow? Matt Gies (talk) 06:03, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Panty line for deletion

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Wow, there's an article I haven't thought about for 17 years. If memory serves, I was really into the associated Sonic Youth song at the time. WP sure felt a lot more informal back then; I'm surprised the article's still up. Thanks for the notice, but I'll recuse myself from the discussion. Matt Gies (talk) 02:30, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ha. I don't think I've spent much time with Washing Machine, but now that you've mentioned it I seem to be on a Sonic Youth kick on Spotify... — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 03:46, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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February 2023

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The page was a redirect which was causing a recursive link, and would serve better as a redlink. How do I do that? Matt Gies (talk) 01:03, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

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Thanks, Gerda! I always get a little anxious when I see a Notification bell--did I do something wrong?--so the Precious anniversary message is always a pleasant surprise when I see it. Matt Gies (talk) 14:31, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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May 2024

Please don't change the format of dates, as you did to Cash (Chinese coin). As a general rule, if an article has evolved using predominantly one format, the dates should be left in the format they were originally written in, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. Please also note that Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes (e.g., st, nd, th), articles, or leading zeros on dates.

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So the Wikipedia policy is "keep the year style that the article started with"? That's the stupidest of all justifications, "tradition". Whereas a perfectly good reason not to use "BC" and "AD" is that they imply belief in Jesus Christ. If I had more time on my hands, that's a policy that I would vehemently fight to change. But instead I'll just register my displeasure here. Matt Gies (talk) 02:12, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you want, I can try to explain why I think WP:ERA is the best policy pragmatically, and also why I personally don't feel BCE/CE are better labels than BC/AD. But I will otherwise allow you to vent in peace. Remsense诉 02:22, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

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Thanks, Gerda! Matt Gies (talk) 16:09, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]