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Congratulations

Great profile in Business Insider, congrats and great user page you have. I like the chronology with the link to articles on what you have been up to. I may copy that. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 20:08, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): Thanks yourself! I mostly kept it around for my own benefit--spring 2012 was a crazy time for me. —Justin (koavf)TCM 00:04, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
I got to spend a lunchtime with Oliver Sacks at and American Chemical Society tradeshow. My trick was to hang out with his wrangler during the book signing, and when the break came she introduced me to him, and he invited me to walk around the show with them during the lunch break. It was a great hour. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 00:09, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): He seems like such a genuinely kind and wise man. —Justin (koavf)TCM 00:21, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Category:X-language websites

Can you explain why any of "Category:X-language websites" or the "Category:X-language media" you created to categorize them, are appropriate? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 22:34, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

@Arthur Rubin: I don't understand what you mean by them being appropriate. There are schemes for Category:Mass media by language and Category:Websites by language (and albums, books, songs, operas, newspapers, films, etc...) —Justin (koavf)TCM 22:40, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
They may be appropriate schemes, in general, but that doesn't mean categories that should be empty should necessarily be created. A quick scan shows about 79 of the websites categories have only one entry, most of which are probably DMOZ. Furthermore, Category:English-language websites would be unmanageable if maintenance were attempted, as most articles in Category:Websites [and subcategories] should be in it. Category:English-language media makes a little more sense, but not much. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 22:59, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Perhaps DMOZ, Wikipedia, and other multilingual WikiMedia websites, should be placed in a new category Category:Multilingual websites, and the individual categories be reserved for websites which are primarily in that language, possibly with one or two others. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 23:03, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
@Arthur Rubin: I don't really mind some kind of standard as long as it's applied regularly. Do you know of standards regarding other media? —Justin (koavf)TCM 23:05, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Not really, but I don't know where to check for or propose such standards. The question of whether DMOZ should be in the -language websites categories is a matter for the DMOZ editors (sorry, I mean editors of the article DMOZ, not editors of DMOZ), even if guidelines for the categories are established. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 23:07, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

@Arthur Rubin: Well, you could check the Manual of Style, help pages on categorizing, or relevant projects like WP:MASSMEDIA. —Justin (koavf)TCM 23:08, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

I'm going to have to take off shortly. (In fact, I should already have gone.) I won't take any further action for at least 8 hours, and I will check for projects. In general, though, "English-language X" is a questionable category on en.Wikipedia, as most X will be English-language, unless it were a specific category such as Category:English-language media about Russia (which probably doesn't exist.) — Arthur Rubin (talk) 23:12, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
@Arthur Rubin: also, it's not a problem to have small small categories as a part of a larger scheme. I reject the idea about "English-language X" being a problem--there's no reason to assume that things we discuss here were composed in English. —Justin (koavf)TCM 23:13, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

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Comment on edit war

Hi. I noticed that you are an editor of Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Album article style guide and I would greatly appreciate if you could give your opinion on the matter of track listing formatting in the edit war that User:Radiopathy started at Talk:Shades of Deep Purple. Lewismaster (talk) 14:10, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Help!?

Hi, could you please help me with the article "Allan Schwartzberg". Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 19:57, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5: I don't have much in time or expertise to offer but I can do a little bit. —Justin (koavf)TCM 07:39, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, do you know any other editors that are good with writing about their Careers, I'm not. All the best wishes and kind regards Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 08:48, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5: Sorry, I don't. You can always post to WT:ROCK or WT:JAZZ and see if anyone is interested. —Justin (koavf)TCM 15:15, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Hey

How's it going? URDNEXT (talk) 02:58, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

@URDNEXT: Okay enough. You? —Justin (koavf)TCM 07:41, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
Me too. You watch a lot of football? Or sports in general? URDNEXT (talk) 12:38, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
@URDNEXT: Not really but I'll get caught up in a basketball or football game if it's on television. Baseball is best watched in person. —Justin (koavf)TCM 15:15, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
Agree. It's even better when you catch the ball from your seat. URDNEXT (talk) 15:20, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
@URDNEXT: That's the dream. —Justin (koavf)TCM 02:33, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
How awesome would it be to catch one? If I did, I'd frame it and put it on a wall at my house. URDNEXT (talk) 02:45, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
@URDNEXT: Pretty awesome as long as you don't catch it with your face. —Justin (koavf)TCM 02:46, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
She agrees. URDNEXT (talk) 02:59, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Koavf you suck. You are very sexist and discriminatory towards women! Proud Feminist (talk) 04:14, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

@Proud Feminist: Wow. Good point. Sorry. —Justin (koavf)TCM 04:17, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Koavf I have taken you to WP:ANI for trolling The Messenger of the Night (talk) 04:19, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
And bullying User:Proud Feminist as well The Messenger of the Night (talk) 04:19, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

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Track list numbering

Thank you for your comments at Talk:Shades of Deep Purple. A Rfc is currently open at Template talk:Track listing to finally settle the dispute. It would be greatly appreciated if you could give your opinion on the matter one last time. Lewismaster (talk) 19:24, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Supreme Military Council (Syria) listed at Redirects for discussion

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I'm in love with you... please go out with me

Oh my god, Koavf! Justin Anthony Knapp, I love you so much! You look SO hot! You turn me on SO badly! I want to be with you! I’d do anything for you… You seem like a very nice person who would take good care of me :) I love you ;) I want to do naughty things with you, my sweet Koavf, you are just too KOAVFTASTIC and KOAVFILICIOUS ;) You are my chosen one ;) xoxoxo Samantha — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koavf's GF (talkcontribs) 03:18, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

What? Antiv31 discuss 09:40, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Wild claim at ANI

Please see WP:ANI#I lost the password for my account. Johnuniq (talk) 00:16, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: Thanks. As you can see above, this guy has been trolling me on many, many accounts. —Justin (koavf)TCM 03:03, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

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Untitled

You may delete your My Opera blog cause My Opera is officially closed and your blog redirects to http://www.opera.com/whereismyopera . Thus linking to a dead page from your user page. VedantMadane (talk) 13:30, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

@VedantMadane: Thanks! —Justin (koavf)TCM 16:06, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

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Awkward

Odd name drop over here. The user is now blocked. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:52, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

@The ed17: Cow cleaner 5000 intermittently makes sockpuppets to troll me. —Justin (koavf)TCM 06:33, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Ah, I see. I've been dealing with a similar user who has plagued Parsecboy for ... something like seven years, possibly more. It's quite similar to playing whack-a-mole. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:36, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikispecies stuff

Hi Justin, I'm Marius, an admin from Wikispecies. You participated recently in a WS discussion concerning a user named Stho002, who happens to also be an admin there. His harassment continued since than and he practically forced me to abandon editing there altogether. The problem is that all the admins at WS are scientifically-inclined persons, who don't care about policing and about enforcing the rules, so it's impossible to obtain support from them. See please the latest discussion [1] where everyone justifies my position, yet no action or measure to deter Stho002 is being taken.

Let me stress the point that Stho002 has a very negative history at enwiki, where he was blocked several times on similar offences. please see this. Also, Stho002 monopolizes WS, which is a low-volume wiki by editing 8 hours a day, 365 days a year, without interruption. By this he reached a position where he practically manages WS according to his whims.

Can you please advise me what to do next? Is there a possibility of applying to a higher authority to look into this and sort out this issue? Many thanks, Mariusm (talk) 08:28, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

@Mariusm: First off, I'm happy to help as long as you understand that I don't have any technical abilities from the community (such as admin or bureaucrat) that would let me do anything you can't do and that I'm not somehow associated with the Wikimedia Foundation, so I don't have any kind of authority or legal expertise or somesuch. Problems like this are more-or-less tailored for stewards. They have bureaucrat abilities across (almost?) all WMF wikis. There are very few of them and they generally only intervene in the case of small wikis which have no admins or few active editors and get overrun by bullish users, hoaxes, spam, etc. This is probably your best bet if you feel like all options have been exhausted on species. That project has several bureaucrats who can block someone and furthermore change his user rights (so that if the community is in agreement that species:User:Stho002 is a problem user, he can be effectively stopped on that wiki). Have you spoken with any of them? Do you think they are receptive? I don't want to come across as someone with a horse in this race as I don't really know Stho002 nor do I do a lot on Wikispecies but it's clear that there are several users who are at the end of their rope interacting with him. —Justin (koavf)TCM 08:36, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Albums/songs category templates

So what exactly is your concern with auto-adding the "see also Category:FOO albums" to the songs categories and vice versa, through the template? Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:44, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Simultaneous postings--I responded on my page. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:46, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Your user page, delete template removal

Hi Koavf, I'm Allen that I'm looking at your user page. I see with the delete template on your user namespace, but can I (or you) remove it because this page needs to stay undeleted with the last version of yours. George, don't request to delete his user namespace. --Allen (talk to me! / ctrb / E-mail me) 08:07, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

@AllenHAcNguyen: Thanks anyway. Ask you can see, it was just a troll. —Justin (koavf)TCM 11:44, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Wolverine

I tried to bring up the severe shortening of the lead section of Wolverine and several other articles at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics#Minimalistic lead sections on character articles, but... I feel like I just kind of got yelled at for complaining too much. 68.57.233.34 (talk) 12:13, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

@68.57.233.34: Every article needs to have an adequate lead section and that includes some discussion of every further section in the body of the text. I've noticed that a number of comics and film articles are extremely brief. —Justin (koavf)TCM 16:04, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
I agree with you, and that was the point I was trying to make in that discussion, but I got shouted down by one adamant user and gave up. For what it's worth, Wolverine's lead used to be more than twice as long. 68.57.233.34 (talk) 02:28, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Admin

Why aren't you an admin yet? I would've thought you'd have made an RfA by now, why haven't you made one yet? You'd be a great admin :)
-Fimatic (talk) 02:09, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

@Fimatic: I've never applied nor had anyone else apply me until a few months ago when a new user out of nowhere nominated me. It didn't go well but I think that's mostly due to the nominator and nomination rather than the nominatee. I'd be happy to do it and I've used the tools on other Wikimedia projects and unrelated MediaWiki sites as well. —Justin (koavf)TCM 03:40, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
I just read through those - I'm actually surprised you didn't get more supports.
-Fimatic (talk) 03:43, 23 October 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fimatic (talkcontribs)
@Fimatic: So am I! I really don't understand why it was so harsh--honestly, what is the big fear of letting me block users or delete pages? I got several messages on my talk and e-mail expressing support and saying something like, "Had I noticed this earlier, I would have said something" or "If you get nominated again, I'll support you" which was actually very nice. I have lots of user rights here and I don't think there's anyone who sees that as a problem. Oh well. —Justin (koavf)TCM 03:46, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
Yeah, I completely agree. Wouldn't you be a better candidate than some others because of your existing user rights and how you haven't messed up with them?
-Fimatic (talk) 03:58, 23 October 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fimatic (talkcontribs)
@Fimatic: Makes sense to me. Having rollback taken from me for alleged abuse seven years ago seems like a pretty silly complaint. —Justin (koavf)TCM 04:00, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
Yeah, you've probably changed in 7 years haha
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Edward Mordrake

Can you explain to me why since this edit Edward Mordrake has been a redirect with a hatnote. I have never heard of such a thing.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:21, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger: I preemptively put in the hatnote, since the article for this episode will be made sooner or later. —Justin (koavf)TCM 04:58, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
Do you realize how silly it is to have both a hatnote and a redirect going to different places. Imagine someone pointing to the right with their left index finger and to the left with their right index finger.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:14, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
@TonyTheTiger: Sure. But once the episode airs, the redirect will be removed and replaced with content and the hatnote will remain as useful. —Justin (koavf)TCM 06:42, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
Why do you believe that the redirect will be replaced by anything but a redirect?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:15, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
@TonyTheTiger: Someone makes articles about every episode of American Horror Story. If no one else does, I do. They just have to air first (and this one did yesterday). —Justin (koavf)TCM 16:27, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
I too am confident that an article will be created for the episode. However, I do not believe that the page should both point to the person and the episode. Why doesn't it just redirect to the alternate spelling of the person? That article should mention the episode.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:09, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger: I don't understand you. —Justin (koavf)TCM 19:34, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Jonathanas Hillas (aka Jonathan Hill alias Lord Hill, newly-appointed EU Commissioner)

Hello Justin

Dunno whether you might be able to help? My friend Lithuanian friend Tina and I have been having probs with Lithuanian Wiki insofar as they keep deleting the appended article about Jonathan Hill, one of the new European Commissioners taking office on 1 November. Lithuania's new EuroCommissioner is Vytenis Andriukaitis and since Wikipedia no doubt would prefer to be represented well in all languages, including Lithuanian (www.elections2014.eu includes info about all the new EU Commissioners in case of interest), why has Lithuanian Wiki so far rejected this article?

Moved to lt.

Much obliged if you could advise what could be done for an article about Jonathan Hill to be uploaded on lt.wikipedia.org. Looking forward to hearing - many thanks. M Mabelina (talk) 11:59, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

@Mabelina: I'd be happy to help but you know my Lithuanian skills are non-existent... Have you spoken directly with the admin who deleted it? Have you posted to the Village Pump there? —Justin (koavf)TCM 16:41, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

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Halloween cheer!

@Northamerica1000: You too! I get so excited for the holiday season! —Justin (koavf)TCM 16:17, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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testing

can we add links witout captcha?

Hi, am just wondering how you managed to get the box to show different colours. Cannot figure out how to get it to work for the Delhi Metro template I'm upgrading. Template: Delhi Metro box. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

@Survivorfreak: I have no idea what you're asking. —Justin (koavf)TCM 06:41, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Talk page much?

Shit, how do you get through all of the comments on your page? If that was my talk page; by 2020 I'd have been able to read it all and replied! Rihanna-RiRi-fan (talk) 19:30, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

@Rihanna-RiRi-fan: I just try to leave quick responses as soon as I see mentions. Like this. —Justin (koavf)TCM 19:58, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Wikilivres down

Thank you for your comments. I am in the process of trying to figure out who DNSEver is and why they have the authority to shut down the wikilivres.ca website. I have never done business with these people.

Sorry if I didn't "ping" you, but I couldn't make sense of the template link that you provided. Eclecticology (talk) 06:55, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Categorization is not exempt from WP:V, WP:NOR and WP:BLP, and neither are you. Please explain where on pagan rock or pagan metal is the reliable source supporting your claims that Moonsorrow's albums are "religious" or that all "pagan metal is religious music". The former article is completely unsourced and both clearly contradict your views on the matter. Prolog (talk) 16:53, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

@Prolog: I know that I'm not exempt from those: why are you telling me this? I have provided several citations where band members say that their music is spiritual. —Justin (koavf)TCM 17:46, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Renaming

Please see my proposal to speedily rename Category:Georgian television sitcoms to Category:Television sitcoms in Georgia (country) Hugo999 (talk) 23:04, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Latin music albums category

Hello Koavf! Thanks for creating the category for Latin music albums by artist nationality. Just one major thing that bothers me about the category is how it's not clear on what it means by "Latin music". See, Latin music just redirects to Latin American music, but Billboard and the Latin Recording Academy's definition of a Latin music album is any album that contains at least 50% recorded in Spanish or Portuguese (for Brazilian music) so that includes albums by artists from Spain. So if it's alright with you, I'm linking the "more information" to Latin music (genre). Cheers! Erick (talk) 23:55, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

@Magiciandude: If it's any consolation, I did not like the idea of this category scheme at all but I decided to fill it in since someone else started it. Thanks a lot. —Justin (koavf)TCM 03:57, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Stoya

Regarding your edits to Stoya ([2] [3]): the Guardian page does not include her actual name, and Sunday World doesn't look like a reliable source for BLP information. Trivialist (talk) 11:50, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

@Trivialist: I've also included a third source now and I don't know why you're saying that Sunday World is unreliable. Is it more or less reliable than "Rog's Reviews" from two words later in the sentence? This is well-sourced information. —Justin (koavf)TCM 18:45, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
For something like birthplace, I don't have a problem with something like Rog's Reviews, but I think a more reliable source is necessary before including the real name of someone who hasn't actively publicized her real name. In any event, the Guardian page doesn't actually contain her full name, and technically, the Awl article just uses the name as a tag, but doesn't say that it's her real name. Sunday World still seems a bit tabloidy to use, but I'm not familiar with the publication, so I concede that I could be wrong about it. Trivialist (talk) 23:00, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
@Trivialist: She can't be too picky about hiding her name if she freely uses her personal name in publications like The Guardian and a contraction of her surname as her stage name. Several sources reproduced this for several years. —Justin (koavf)TCM 23:02, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
But, unless my browser is truncating words, the name listed on the Guardian page is not the same as the name listed in the Wikipedia article, so it doesn't seem like a valid source. Trivialist (talk) 23:06, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
@Trivialist: What is not valid? The Guardian? One of the most prestigious newspapers in the world? I don't understand what your endgame is here. —Justin (koavf)TCM 23:08, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
My point was, according to the Guardian page you referenced, her name was "Jessica Stoya," which is not what you were claiming. (Sorry for the delay; missed your ping.) Trivialist (talk) 22:35, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

@Trivialist: But there's clearly sufficient justification for her proper personal name being "Jessica". —Justin (koavf)TCM 06:39, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

There's another reason why she's not hiding that name. It's because it's not her actual name. Stoyanodivich is her maternal grandmother's maiden name. Her last name through her father is a bit more mundane. You can figure out what it is if you look up the US trademark database. Remember WP:BLPPRIMARY though. Morbidthoughts (talk) 02:42, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
@Morbidthoughts: Thanks for the heads-up. —Justin (koavf)TCM 03:37, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
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Biographies of filmmakers

Hello! Just a reminder, the Film project does not cover biography articles. Therefore, please do not add the {{WikiProject Film}} banner to articles about actors, directors and filmmakers. Those articles are covered by adding |filmbio-work-group=yes to {{WikiProject Biography}} instead. Thanks! Fortdj33 (talk) 21:09, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

@Fortdj33: Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)TCM 07:18, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Orwell article you might like

Hi there - I came across this article on A&L Daily about Orwell's heritage, and I thought that you might enjoy it: http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/features/robert-butler/orwells-world?page=full#_

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@KConWiki: How considerate! Thank you so much. —Justin (koavf)TCM 03:32, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Monsters Among Us

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@Mike V: Thanks! —Justin (koavf)TCM 08:18, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

FDR lede

Just thought I'd let you know I've expanded the Franklin D. Roosevelt lede to address your concern about lack of mentioning his pre-presidency. I also added a sentence about him dying in office, and I removed the tag. pbp 18:06, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

@Purplebackpack89: Thanks a lot. Man, that was stupid to request information on his post-presidency... —Justin (koavf)TCM 20:08, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

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Just Your Average Second On This Planet 1997-1998

This may be something for your 1337 albuming skillz. I have removed the apparent misnomer of this albums artwork, on the basis that the artwork on Progressive History XXX and Progressive History X seems to have the better claim to the name. I'm wondering whether there's more to the Fear of Pop: Volume 1#Cover artwork that we should have noted, or indeed whether we should have an article on Just Your Average Second On This Planet 1997-1998.

See also Talk:Fear of Pop: Volume 1#Cover Art.

A Merry Christmas! Rich Farmbrough23:40, 22 December 2014 (UTC).

Here is a partial explanation of what is going on. A Merry Christmas! Rich Farmbrough01:42, 23 December 2014 (UTC).
@Rich Farmbrough: I know I must be missing something pretty obvious here but... what is the problem? Happy Christmas to you and yours as well! —Justin (koavf)TCM 05:24, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Its sorted now. Basically two albums said the cover art was "Just Your Average Second On This Planet" 1997-1998 but plainly didn't use the same picture. Turns out the artwork is comprised of several pictures, each of which has its own name, for example "Just Your Average Second On This Planet" 1997-1998 (Discotheque). All the best: Rich Farmbrough12:28, 7 January 2015 (UTC).

Wrong tags

Be careful, it seems you are adding several wrong orphan tags to articles which are actually not orphan: eg Biotrog, Bizarro League, Bilbolbul. My best, Cavarrone 09:08, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

@Cavarrone: I remember that WP:AWB's settings add the {{orphan}} tag to articles with less than four incoming links in the main namespace per a recommendation at WP:ORPHAN. If you don't want me to tag it, I don't mind. Alternately, if you think it's a bug in AWB, I'd recommend registering it as a bug. —Justin (koavf)TCM 09:11, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Per WP:ORPHAN, orphan tag should be added "if it satisfies the orphan criteria", ie "It is recommended to only place the Orphan tag if the article has zero incoming links from other articles." (stress not mine). I don't know nor I don't care about AWB, adding improper tags is disruptive. Cavarrone 09:19, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
@Cavarrone: I'm not suggesting that you do or must care about AWB as such but I am suggesting that if you care about articles being improperly tagged with {{Orphan}}, then a fix to that program will cut who knows how many off at the pass. —Justin (koavf)TCM 09:22, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
@Cavarrone: Per checking {{Orphan}}, one can (and evidently should) apply the few parameter and AWB has an option under Preferences to only add {{orphan}} to linkless pages. —Justin (koavf)TCM 09:28, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Uh ok, I was just starting a discussion on Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs but if there is an AWB preference to correctly set the orphan parameter the problem looks easily fixable (please fix it). My best and good editing, Cavarrone 09:41, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

But why do so

Maybe so, but why do so? If a template exists called "character" and the first parameter of the template is called "character's name", that is clearly an important parameter. I am not saying it is critical to the point that omitting it would break the template, I am saying it is important, as in "self-documenting". What on earth are you accomplishing by your mass edit? Prhartcom (talk) 18:48, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

@Prhartcom: character_name can be useful in the case of disambiguation but it's not needed otherwise and just adds it to a tracking category needlessly. —Justin (koavf)TCM 18:51, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Sorry, but what are tracking categories? Prhartcom (talk) 19:01, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
@Prhartcom: See Category:Tracking categories. They are often used for problems with templates (e.g. Category:All_articles_lacking_reliable_references or Category:Album articles with non-standard infoboxes). Sometimes, they are used for information which will need to be monitored (say, a statement which will necessarily be dated and have to be changed in the future across multiple articles). —Justin (koavf)TCM 19:08, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
I found out on my own, you are talking about Category:Redundant infobox title param. Why not provide a more helpful edit summary including this link next time. Prhartcom (talk) 19:07, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
I'll bet there is an easier and better way to do this. What is really causing this "redundant" category? Probably not the quite reasonable inclusion of the important "name" parameter in templates used by a thousand articles, but probably a single line of code dealing with "name" in Template:Infobox comics character, Template:Infobox comics creator, and probably others. Can we change the code of the templates to prevent them from causing the article to be added to that category? For example, perhaps the code should be checking for the presence of parenthesis in the name, i.e. "Tintin (character)"? Prhartcom (talk) 19:50, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
@Prhartcom: I'm still not sure why name is especially important... The template generates a name at the top of the infobox anyway. I agree that if the name of the thing being discussed wasn't mentioned that would be odd to say the least but it is mentioned. I don't see why we would want to add extra code for something that can be generated on the fly. In the case of things like "Tintin (character)" then name is quite useful for making it clear that his proper name is simply "Tintin". In the case of "Batman" why do we need to say, "name=Batman"? I just don't see what I'm missing here. For what it's worth, I'm also taking out some junk styling parameters as well. —Justin (koavf)TCM 19:54, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Here is all that I am asking: What is really causing the redundancy, which causes the articles to be added to the redundancy category? We know that the template is designed to take the "name" parameter and place it at the top of the Infobox. We know that the template is also designed to take the article name and place it at the top of the Infobox. Perhaps the template is doing both unnecessarily, causing a redundancy, and may only need an "if" statement so that it will do one or the other? I don't know. I should read the code. I'm just saying that, if something like that is happening, it would be better to fix the template rather than fix all the articles, which are including a very reasonable parameter that you are busy deleting ("name" is a reasonable parameter in a template called "character" or "creator", don't you agree, therefore shouldn't we try to keep it?) If I am missing something please let me know. Prhartcom (talk) 20:09, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

@Prhartcom: We could also have fields for infobox=yes and lang=English and format=HTML all of which could be very important for many purposes but which aren't necessary in the infobox itself. There are times when name can be useful (the only one that comes to mind is disambiguation) but there's no reason to include more code than is necessary. —Justin (koavf)TCM 20:55, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm getting no indication from you that you are following what I am saying. Likewise, I don't really understand you. I wish we could communicate. Please refrain from your mass edit until I can find someone that can analyze and understand the templates (I tried; I cannot). Prhartcom (talk) 21:12, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

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Out Among the Stars

"Dobro" is a trade name, so it should be capitalized. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 16:47, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer: I did not know this. Thanks--it will come in handy. —Justin (koavf)TCM 17:14, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

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Elections categories

Hi there, these tags on redirects seem kind of strange to me. I see some of the "see also" links in the election articles are circular redirs to the same article. Is this part of a greater work in progress? Generally WP:ORE tags redirects very sparingly, for the most part keeping them only on redirs that have a chance to become standalone articles. I see the need for a full set of Oregon election articles in time, but I suspect no one in our project will get around to that for a while. In any case, would you be so kind as to class these as redirs? I'm also going to mention this on the project page in case anyone is interested in taking this on. Cheers, Valfontis (talk) 02:42, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

@Valfontis: No problem. I didn't make any of that tree but I did notice that at least a few redirected to general United States elections. I did not see anything about the "See also" sections looping back to themselves... I'm working on a little task but I can get to those in a day or two. If you think it's urgent, I can knock it out sooner. —Justin (koavf)TCM 02:50, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
No, not urgent at all, I'm just too lazy to fix it at the moment. Thanks for taking the time to tag things that need tagging. I try to go through and do it once in a while for the categories but you found some new ones! Cheers, Valfontis (talk) 02:54, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Error in project tags

FYI you added redlinks to several articles' talk pages, this for instance: Category talk:Buildings and structures in Enumclaw, Washington. I think you meant to use {{WikiProject Washington}} without disambiguation. — Brianhe (talk) 21:03, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

@Brianhe: D'oh! Fixing now. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)TCM 21:04, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Grateful Dead

Greetings, Koavf. I have started a discussion at Talk:Grateful Dead#2015 reunion concerts: Grateful Dead?, that directly relates to some of your recent edits of that article. You are invited to comment there if you wish. Thanks. Mudwater (Talk) 13:47, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi there

I have no particular objection to your putting a WP:AFRICA template on the redirect at Talk:Battle of Río de Oro if that's what you feel is right, but please do not use the roll back feature for reverting good faith edits. Per WP:ROLLBACK this feature should not be used where an edit summaryh is expected, and given that I had already stated my reasons for restoring the redirect, and my edit was not vandalism, you should not have rolled it back, and should have given some reason whyu you disagreed with what I did.

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@Amakuru: Point taken. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)TCM 20:26, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

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