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A request for you at WT:MOS

Hi Roger. I have left a request for you here. And I mean it. Best wishes to you! –¡ɐɔıʇǝoNoetica!T– 22:14, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Well done Roger. Thanks for fixing that. –¡ɐɔıʇǝoNoetica!T– 08:20, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

See also section

These section are not generally recommended per

talk · contribs · email
) 06:59, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Comments on my questionnaire

Thank you so much for your wonderful review comments for the questionnaire about "motivation to contribute to Wikipedia" I posted on. According to your comments on the word "realizing', I have just changed the word into "actualizing". However, I am not sure that "actualizing' does not have the same problem you mentioned for "realizing". I established a online form for the survey. Please visit the online form and give me additional comments on the online form. cooldenny (talk) 11:40, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Majuba Aviation crash

If the article is deleted, I can provide you with a userfied version if you wish. However, the sources in the article are probably not reliable. The ASN Wikibase entry, whilst not reliable itself, has links to several reliable sources that can be used. Would suggest these should be used. Mjroots (talk) 16:54, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I've actually moved on and no longer need that. I simply copy-pasted the "core" of the article into my Sandbox for the parent company's article - User:Dodger67/Sandbox/Italtile. There are indeed far better sources from South African news media websites and others. I suppose I should post a "retraction" of my request. Thanks. Roger (talk) 17:03, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Air France 7

Cool, I know accident.

(talk)
06:48, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

The Modest Barnstar
Thanks for your recent contributions! -Mike Restivo (talk) 20:12, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

YW

Anytime :) WhisperToMe (talk) 17:46, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Corvette

The summary arguments at Talk:Corvette are unsigned because they are, like article content, collaborative efforts. Also like articles, with more editors contributing, they are improving. If you think something is particularly unfair or biased or is not presented in an NPOV fashion in these summary arguments, please improve them accordingly, or at least alert others about your concern in a comment, instead of deleting it wholesale. But please do not delete it again. If you still think it should be removed, please participate in the discussion about it on the Corvette talk page. Thanks. --Born2cycle (talk) 07:24, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi

You probably need to restore your comment which got deleted by edits[1]. I am having some difficulties editing this page, hence I am not doing it myself. --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 13:21, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Mantsopa Local Municipality

I wasn't arguing whether the change has happened or not — but the category you want to add has to actually exist before you're allowed to use it, as redlinked (i.e. non-existent) categories are not permitted on Wikipedia articles. You need to either create the category or find another alternative that actually exists (such as a state-level parent category), but until the article is actually filed in a proper category it needs to remain tagged as uncategorized. Bearcat (talk) 04:47, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I somehow overlooked it. We're in the middle of a massive edit and cleanup process in the South African local government articles. We had nationwide municipal elections last week and some local and district councils changed boundaries and status. I'll add "verify all the categories" to the to-do list. Roger (talk) 06:27, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I checked and found the problem - a simple typo! In the correct category "Municipality" has an upper case initial. Roger (talk) 07:28, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Excessive citations in election article

Hello, Dodger67. You have new messages at Gk sa's talk page.
Message added 18:20, 24 May 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Enjoyed your comment

Hi Dodger, I enjoyed your editorial comment re the Northern Cape article: "Removed meaningless nonsense about "last true San". Lifestyle does not define ethnicity." The tendency has been to let lifestyle equal ethnicity. By the way, there is a category Wikipedians in the Northern Cape - I gather you might be residing within this province? All the best, Blarcrean (talk) 05:58, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

LMAO!! "Lifestyle does not define ethnicity." Thank you btw, for fixing that embarrassing mistake that I made on the
Square Kilometer Array. Respect Increase :) --User:DiscipleOfKnowledge (talk
) 15:51, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Just so you understand the background of what has been happening there, a

talk
) 19:12, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Ok thanks, but surely there should be at least something in the edit summary? Roger (talk) 20:14, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Number format

I've replied to your message on my page, but I'll repose it here, in case you don't see it. I don't understand. In the article you cite,

Decimal mark, it says clearly that South Africa uses the comma as its thousands separator. Besides, no matter what system South Africa uses I don't see any reason why the English Wikipedia should adopt that system for South Africa-related articles. I mean, we don't use 1.000 in French or German articles, why should we use 1 000 for South African articles? I believe the English Wikipedia needs to have a standard system, and since 99% of the numbers already use 1,000 I think that should be used everywhere. Has there been any previous discussion on this before? What is the official policy? --Hibernian (talk
) 18:35, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Your request for rollback

Hi Dodger67. After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

  • Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing
    Twinkle
    .
  • Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of
    good faith edits
    .
  • Rollback should never be used to
    edit war
    .
  • If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
  • Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see

Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! FASTILY (TALK)
18:49, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

South Sudan

Why did you unedit by edit on South Sudan? It IS The Republic of South Sudan, not Republic of South Sudan. --Linux731 (talk) 14:38, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Read the discussion on the article talk page. Roger (talk) 17:05, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Reference Desk Removal

user:Looie496 has removed one of your contributions of the reference desk [2]. It is being discussed on the Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk#Removed Section. Buddy432 (talk) 03:26, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

General Atomics MQ-1 Predator Unit cost

I hold that the cost of the General Atomics MQ-1 system Predator is 40 million $ for the following reasons:

A) It puts it in link, so much in yours as in mine.

B) In the above mentioned link it does not appear for any divides a reference to a cost for every UAV that integrates the system of 10 million $, whereas in one of my two references if there shows a cost of 4,5 million $, in addition if the General Atomics MQ-1C Herd Eagle costs today 8 millions of $, the UAV of the one that was developed 14 years ago cannot cost 10 million $.

C) The unitary cost says to the system, not to the UAV that it integrates it, nobody buys an alone UAV, or an UAV and a console, the complete system is acquired, as with the systems of anti-aircraft missiles no country buys X batteries, buys the system that includes multiple batteries. --Codepage (talk) 07:00, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

I copied this topic to the article's talk page, please discuss it there. Roger (talk) 07:16, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

August 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not remove citations or information sourced through citations simply because a link to a source is not working, as you did to

Qwertyus
09:54, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Nelson Mandela

I humbly admit foolishness about that flaw. I should have had it on authority before posting it. I feel terribly bad about it. Thanks for taking time to notice it.

talk
) 14:29, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Ref Desk Removal

User:Medeis has removed one of your comments on the reference desk [3]. It is being discussed on the talk page. Buddy431 (talk) 19:34, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Date in image files

  • With all due respect, please don't take offence that I've reverted two of your recent edits (1 & 2), sometimes you need to click on the photos to find the relevant infromation you seek and dating them inside of infoboxes are not specifically disallowed, especially when the dates themselves are being used to tell the reader/viewer something of relevance. Best and out. --Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 07:59, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
IMHO the date is of no significance at all. What does it matter when the marine looked through the sight or when the missile was launched. Roger (talk) 08:17, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
  • You may say that now but what about the ordinary readers/viewers? They won't see things your way, especially in Milkor MGL, where the caption is dated for when the Milkor MGL was newly issued to a Marine unit, how can they tell without the stated date? We can trim off needless text in the main body of the article page but for images, its another story altogether because of the need to condense/summarize things, the date plays an important part of telling a story. Or would you have something that's a total non-descriptive one-liner instead? Again, with all due respect, perhaps you would like to read up on the arcane part of WP:Manual of Style/Images and/or WP:Manual of Style#Images before coming to a conclusion that I was incorrect to have reverted your edit? --Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 08:39, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
The date when the USMC took it into service is in the aricle, where it belongs, together with further detail. The purpose of an infobox image is simply to show what the subject of the article looks like. Extraneous detail such as the date of the photo is irrelevant to the article itself and is available on the image description page if anyone wants to know. See WP:Manual of Style/Captions. Roger (talk) 09:49, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
See
WP:CIVIL. Working on WP is not an adverserial process. Roger (talk
) 15:01, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

POVTITLE explicit percentage

Did you read the discussion? It is explained there why a percentage is a good idea - this is the key part. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 19:14, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes I have and I agree with the (well over 2/3rds) majority of participants that your and B2C's arguments are not convincing. There is no consensus for the change you made so I reverted it. BTW I am not willing to discuss this matter any further here, all discussion should be kept in one place. Roger (talk) 19:31, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Cool, sorry if it was a little aggressive to ask the question. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 19:32, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Tel Aviv airports

Tel Aviv has 2 airports with passenger service:

Ben Gurion International Airport and Sde Dov Airport. Therefore Tel Aviv must have disamiguation. Snoozlepet (talk
) 16:19, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

I learn something new every time I come to WP. Thanks! Roger (talk) 16:46, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

November 2011

You currently appear to be engaged in an

try to reach a consensus
rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Please be particularly aware, Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:

  1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; that is to say, editors are not automatically "entitled" to three reverts.
  2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing.  Chzz  ►  16:48, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your message on my talk. I'm sorry for the 'warning'; I do know you are not new - but I can hardly just warn one party. There's the
hangs themselves
(and is blocked), then fine.
I do appreciate your point - Wikipedia is indeed not for promoting separatist causes; but it's content-dispute, not vandalism; you've got to at least attempt discussion.
I had also requested protection already, but changed my mind [4].
Anyway; I'm sorry if you were annoyed by the warning, but I assure you I was merely trying to do the best I could to prevent disruption; article histories full of battles don't help any of us. I hope you'll accept it in good faith, and just relax about the article for a while - have a
nice cuppa
or something and by the time you're back, they'll probably have got bored or got themselves blocked.
Please consider the warning as just a 'take care'/'be careful'. Best,  Chzz  ►  17:14, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
P.S. An admin added comments about it over on my talk, whilst I was typing the above - so take a look there too.  Chzz  ►  17:15, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Made a section on the talk page and contacted the other user so they can fully express why they feel Catalonia should be split from Spain on that page, Talk:List of amateur radio organizations#Catalonia, hope they reply :) Snowolf How can I help? 17:21, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
IP blocked [5]  Chzz  ►  18:13, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft