User talk:Dravecky/Archive 1

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Dravecky, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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My Rollbacks

Well I'm probably right 99% of the time, but occasionally I accidentally flag something as vandalism that isn't (especially when there isn't a descriptive edit summary). Given the sheer volume of recent changes, it sometimes happens. I'm sure you know how to revert my edits, if not I can help. Just please document it well in the edit summary that way it doesn't get flagged again. Talmage 06:17, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

There, fixed on Small, local, or niche genre conventions. Sorry. Talmage 06:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

N/m, looks like you beat me to it by a couple of seconds. Talmage 06:24, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Alabama

Welcome to the WikiProject, Dravecky. I saw you've added your name to the members list already, and have begun to improve Alabama related articles. Some of the tasks you're doing, like adding the {{Defaultsort}} template, can be done using Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser. It makes these tedious and repetitive edits much easier, and will check for typos and general formatting errors as well. You may want to apply for the software; I think it'll speed up your efforts. We're still working on assessing articles, and have assessed about 84% of all tagged articles; hopefully we'll begin the collaborative process soon. We also have a bot running through the Alabama related categories, noting new articles, and applying the project banner. Let us know if we can help with anything, and feel free to jump into anything related to the workings of the project. We're still fairly new and are feeling our way into this. - auburnpilot talk 15:08, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi - I see you have recently created one or more new stub types. As it states at Wikipedia:Stub, at the top of most stub categories, and in many other places on Wikipedia, it is recommended that new stub types are proposed prior to creation at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, in order to check whether the new stub type is already covered by existing stub types, whether it is named according to stub naming guidelines, whether it is otherwise correctly formatted, whether it reaches the standard threshold for creation of a new stub type, and whether it crosses existing stub type hierarchies. Your new stub type is currently listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries - please feel free to make any comments there as to any rationale for this stub type. And please, in future, consider proposing new stub types first! Grutness...wha? 01:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Since you've edited Harry Harrison recently

Thought you might like to know that Category:Esperantists has been deleted, and the deletion is up for review. In case you'd like to chime in, go here. --Orange Mike 18:16, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Our friend Fred

Just thought you'd like to know that our friend, User:Fredadams has earned himself an indef block due to persistent sockpuppetry. I'm sure his socks will continue to pop up for a while, so if you see any, let me know. Also, I noticed your note on your talk page about the NASA templates...have you thought about doing one for Dryden? I only ask because it's near and dear to my heart, being just over the hill from us at Mojave. AKRadecki^Speaketh 03:54, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use disputed for Image:WRSA-Lite969.gif

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Whoops, that rationale should have pointed at WRSA-FM instead of the WRSA disambiguation page. I've fixed it and removed the dispute tag. - Dravecky 05:04, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT

Sorting by the second letter in the callsign makes categories more readable rather than have them bunch up around the W's and K's. Your comment on the latest edit of WLOR indicated that sorting it as LOR is "inappropriate here as article must normally sort as WLOR except in very specific cases". Can you expand on that? Is there something special about WLOR or is there a WP:WPRS convention that I'm missing? Thanks --Rtphokie 17:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

The latter. When a station will be a long list of stations all with the same starting letter then it's appropriate to sort on the second letter. For example, in "Radio stations in Huntsville, Alabama", all of the FCC licensed stations start with W so they should be sorted on the second letter. But in cases where W and K stations are mixed, such as the format categories and most other geograpically non-specific categories, the sort should be on the first letter so all the Ks are together and all the Ws are together for logical sorting. This is how it was explained to me a couple of months ago when I "corrected" the sort on a couple of stations. - Dravecky 18:09, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:WDRM-1021.gif)

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It seems that this logo has been superceded by a far superior version on the WDRM article so I have no objection to the deletion of this image. - Dravecky 19:10, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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