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Null (SQL) Peer Review Request Fix

Thanks for fixing my request for peer review. Not sure why it broke, but I couldn't seem to fix it. Can you tell me what I did wrong? ThanksSqlPac 02:23, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

The header was the wrong size. You needed a level-three header instead of a level-two header. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 02:34, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Oh, ok. Thanks for the fix! SqlPac 21:57, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

DramaTech (India Institutes of Technology)

Reg the Indian Institues of Technology page..

can you pl caption it the following and redirect it to url http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatech:_theatre_group_by_alumni_and_present_students_of_IIT_Delhi%2C_IIMs%2C_Delhi_University%2C_India

CAPTION ON YOUR PAGE Dramatech: theatre group by alumni and present students of IIT Delhi, IIMs, Delhi University, India

THANKS —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rrsagar (talk • contribs) 06:21, 20 April 2007

I'm deleting that new article. Remember, article titles should be no longer than needed to describe the subject, and I doubt that each individual DramaTech within IIT needs its own page. Also, please concentrate on formatting and copy editing if you want to keep someone from deleting any article you create as nonsense. See the Manual of Style. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 14:44, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you and congratulations

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For getting List of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni to FL status, for your success with getting several articles to GA status, and for your contributions to the GA review process, I award you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Johntex\talk 18:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


Hello Disavian, thanks for your help with 2005 Texas vs. Ohio State football game and 2005 Texas Longhorn football team. The former passed its AfD with a Keep, so hopefully that is good news for the 2 GA nominations. I also split out 2005 Oklahoma vs. Texas football game.

If you are not sick of Longhorn football after all that, I'd be curious to get your input on 2007 Texas Longhorn football team. I see that 2007 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team is doing quite well. I think it is great that so many college football teams are coming into the season with articles ready to go.

On a seperate note, congratulations on getting List of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni to FL status. That is quite an accomplishment and it is a very impressive list. For your hard work on getting this list to FL status, for your success with getting several articles to GA status, and for your contributions to the GA review process, I award you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar.

Best, Johntex\talk 18:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Wow, thanks! Yeah, the list was (and still is) pretty hard work. Starting WP:TECH has had me editing far more athletics articles than I ever thought I would :p —Disavian (talk/contribs) 20:09, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Technique Best and Worst Issue

Disavian, several Reck Clubbers, including myself, are interested in the polling results of best/worst traditions on campus. We're doing a lot of brainstorming and it would be really cool if you guys might be able to pass along the vote count for the traditions. Let me know whenever. It made me feel good to see the Ramblin' Wreck sitting at number one with the students, as well. Thanks. --Excaliburhorn 19:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

They're here: Best of Tech poll results. Keep in mind that only about 130 people voted, though. I think a campus-wide poll that involved all of the Tech traditions would be a better indicator of which ones are more popular. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 20:00, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Haha, alright 130 votes is a little less indicatory than I expected. Thanks for the help. --Excaliburhorn 20:48, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I don't think it was advertised very well- you had to know it was going on, and even then, you could only vote for one option. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 20:49, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Game designer

I want to be a video game designer when I grow up. I just got a new book on game designing and after looking at your user page, I was wondering if you had any tips for me. --cemd012 (talk · contribs) 18:35, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't know much about game design. If you know (or are willing to learn) C#, I recommend that you try out the XNA Framework. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 20:29, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thank you for that. i hope it will help. --cemd012 (talk · contribs) 15:37, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the nesting code

Just wanted to say thanks so much for adding the nesting code to the Template:WikiProject Atlanta. I've been working hard on making it a really first class banner, and your upgrade certainly helped. In fact, I've shamelessly plagiarized your code and updated a few other WikiProject banners myself because it looks so good on a busy talk page. Check out the new look at Talk:Martin Luther King, Jr.. Anyway, thanks again and have a great one! -- Satori Son 19:33, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm glad you liked my hard work there. Be sure to add the projects to which you added nesting support to the list at Template:WikiProjectBannerShell/doc. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 00:22, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Will do. Thanks again, and I've voiced my support at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#WikiProject talk page templates. -- Satori Son 02:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Oh, and would you mind not tagging Category:Georgia Institute of Technology and its subcategories? That's being a bit excessive, especially since your template categorizes the category talk pages. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 03:09, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of The Technique

The article The Technique you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:The Technique for eventual comments about the article. Good luck in future nominations. LordHarris 10:48, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I think the peer review really helped get it to GA status. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 16:55, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Calvin Johnson

Everything i said was the truth. It is a fact and can be found if you took time out of your busy day and came to tyrone and did a little research. You know nothing about him. I do because i played with him in high school. Why don't you just ask him??? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 928s4 (talk • contribs) 16:30, 24 April 2007 (UTC).

The fact that you played with him is irrelevant to the article. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 23:36, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
The fact that ric Burrel was the first person who he did smoke pot with is relivent. He came out and said that last week. Is that relevent? Who are you to tell people what is and is not relivent?

Your GA nomination of Joe Dever

The article Joe Dever you nominated as a good article has failed , see Talk:Joe Dever for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a review.
Under Wikipedia standards for Biographies of living persons, you MUST have high quality references. In it's current state, the article may qualify for AfD. --LaraLoveTalk/Contribs 17:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree with your GA decision. I'd also like to point out the following: I nominated an article for deletion on the grounds that it was unreferenced, and it was kept. See Ronald Collé and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ronald Collé (2nd nomination). —Disavian (talk/contribs) 04:52, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
It may not be around much longer. Ronald Collé is not notable, really. There may be potential for the article to be improved but I have no interest in doing it. If there aren't some sources within the next few days, per Wikipedia policy, I'll remove ALL unsourced information and renominate it for AfD. Possibly speedy deletion. --LaraLoveTalk/Contribs 19:06, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm glad someone agrees with me on that article. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 19:31, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Ronald Collé has been renominated for deletion. See discussion. Please vote. --LaraLoveTalk/Contribs 05:24, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Why would you delete the historical link Only two minutes after I added it to the rambling wreck page?? You obviously did not follow the link to view the page and/or it's historical nature as you deleted it only two minutes after the addition to the page. Many of the students and visitors to this page would truly have enjoyed the link and it's historical and accurate input with regard to The model A that is the georgia tech Mascot. You have deprived all of further advancing their knowledge of the history and background of such an important regional attractions -The Georgia Tech Rambling Wreck. Why automatically deprive all of furthering their knowledge of such an important part of Georgia Tech Institute? You didn't even bother to look at the nature of the link yourself. Why the Blind eye? User:moefuzz

Because it is what I call "spam." See the external link policy. If you wish to cite a specific fact in the article, the do so using the reference system. Wikipedia is not a mere collection of links. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 23:35, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I would have thought that spam was commercial in nature and as stated in the Edit Summary, The Picture album and Page is totally non-commercial in nature and is solely there for The benefit of the end user as a knowledge base as well as a point of historical interest. Still, it perplexes me that you did not bother to follow the link to see what it was, you just blindly deleted it as if it has no significance to you or the users of This page or those of Wikipedia in General. Sincerely, moe Moefuzz 23:53, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
From WP:NOT#LINK: "Wikipedia articles are not... Mere collections of external links or Internet directories.... Mere collections of photographs or media files with no text to go with the articles." The fact that your link was tangential to the subject of the article was irrelevant. It had nothing concrete to add to the article in question, and was therefore removed. I will defer to User:Excaliburhorn on this; however, he will likely concur with me. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 05:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
"Wikipedia articles are not... Mere collections of external links or Internet directories.... Mere collections of photographs or media files with no text to go with the articles." Oh really, I see that there are already 20 odd outside Links to things like Beer parlors and breweries that you have allowed... Still, you Have and did not bother to actually follow and look at the link that I added, you just Blindly Cast It Off.. -Your Qoute of "Not just Mere Collectins of Links" totally contradicts the 20 links you have to beer makers etc..Wikipedia is, and should not be a place for biased and/or blind injustice. The educational and non-comercial Link I added (That you still have not Followed) Has/Had Just as much relevance to the car as 'Mikes affordable stone gaurds' or 'The Chicago Brewing Company'. Wikipedia is a world encyclopedia, Born Of the People and of the WWW Moefuzz
Are you trying to reference something specific in the article? If so, then add the link after a punctuation mark surrounded by ref tags and using a citation template. References are encouraged, external links are not. Learn the difference. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 13:20, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Brownsville Elementary School

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Brownsville Elementary School, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Coren 20:24, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree that it should be deleted; however, I was moving content written by GriersonOrigins (talk · contribs) and Censorships (talk · contribs) into its own article, as it did not belong in that one, IMO. You'd best notify them instead. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 20:26, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Reggie Ball

Thanks for fixing it. I was in a hurry and couldn't remember the proper cite tag usage. Drjayphd 00:22, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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Ga Tech cats

Hello Disavian. I noticed that you have just reverted many (all?) of my WikiProject Atlanta tagging for the Georgia Tech categories. Might I ask why? As such an advocate for banner nesting under {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}, you surely must realize that pages often properly fall under the auspices of more than one WikiProject. Such categories are for the use of everyone and cannot be owned.

As an early part of our assessment drive, I had begun tagging the articles and categories for Atlanta-based universities such as Georgia Tech, Emory, and Georgia State. We will use those categories to locate additional Atlanta articles. It's very frustrating to have someone revert my hard work without contacting me, especially someone who was kindly assisting me with new template design just a short time ago.

I respectfully request that you please revert any {{WikiProject Atlanta}} tag removals you have performed. Thank you, and have a good morning, Satori Son 04:18, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I respectfully think that the WP:ATL (nor the WP:GA) template does not belong on the GT categories, and I will not be adding it back; I also demand that you not add it back yourself. Why?
  1. I asked you to remove it the last time we had a conversation, and you did not reply.
  2. As per the message mentioned in #1, you categorize category talk pages along with article talk pages in Category:WikiProject Atlanta articles. That just seems stupid and redundant.
  3. The Georgia Tech categories exceed WP:ATL's scope. Most of the categories in question have nothing to do with Atlanta. Georgia Tech alumni don't all live in Atlanta; Georgia Tech professors don't all teach in Atlanta; pictures of Georgia Tech aren't all taken in Atlanta. Just because we share a lot of articles doesn't make your project a parent of mine. For example, I don't add the WP:TECH template to every person on List of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni. Why? Because they're not important to the project's goals.
  4. Georgia Tech has several campuses, not just the one in Atlanta. Articles that are most relevant to WP:ATL can be tagged, but ones independent of Atlanta should be left alone. It's easy to find where you've mistagged pages, though: Talk:Discussion about this template (just speedied); Talk:History (diff); User talk:Nfreader/Decatur (a user talk page); the contents of any category remotely related to Atlanta (people: Mikey Post; places: Austell, Georgia, Bulloch Hall); companies that happen to be based out of Atlanta, but have no overwhelming effect on the city (Coca-Cola, Rich's, Davidson's are acceptable but RCA, Georgia Power are not); Talk:Hurricane Opal? I could go on. You need to control your template spam before you can begin to justify placing your template on those categories.
  5. Category tagging is stupid to begin with. My project's tag is only on there because it'd be odd to have some other project's tag and not WP:TECH's.
I don't object to your tagging articles; for example, I agree that Tech Tower and Bobby Dodd Stadium should be tagged with WP:ATL, just as Georgia Tech Lorraine should be tagged by/with WP:FRANCE. As I have said before, though, you need to reexamine your project scope without depending on a bot. At least, if you plan on actually accomplishing anything. Start with the things that I have pointed out in #4 and work from there. Once you've done that, prove to me you're not just making this project to categorize articles; actually accomplish something. I'll have you know that arguing over category talk pages is an awfully fast way to lose sight of the real goal here-- to write an encyclopedia. My project has clearly defined goals and several very specific accomplishments. Does yours?—Disavian (talk/contribs) 08:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)


Honestly, I am shocked by your extremely uncivil and hostile response. Obviously, you are harboring some major resentment about the new WikiProject Atlanta, and it appears I am to bear the brunt of it.

Normally, I would not reply to a personal attack such as this, but in the interest of the project I will try my best to respond to each of your points.

  1. I did not see that earlier message, and I am very sorry about that. Since it was on your talk page and not mine, I mistakenly thought we were done and did not notice it. I will try to be better in the future about monitoring conversations elsewhere following comments I leave (watchlist needs a little pruning...).
  2. I do not quite know how to respond to your calling my actions “stupid”. Again, I really don’t know where this hostility springs from. Many other WikiProjects use categories in this exact same manner (I lovingly stole from quite a few in my improvements to {{WikiProject Atlanta}}). What is the drawback, exactly, beside the fact you don’t like it?
  3. I disagree that the Georgia Tech articles lie outside the scope of WikiProject Atlanta. I am also a member of WikiProject Georgia, and that would also apply, but even I thought that might be too much and purposefully did not apply that template. It appears your attitude violates WP:OWN.
  4. I agree with you that articles independent of metro Atlanta should not be so tagged, and if I have improperly done so, I apologize. I do not operate BetacommandBot, and I did not make the request for bot tagging for {{WikiProject Atlanta}} templates. Obviously, the tagging of User talk:Nfreader/Decatur was a bot error I have now corrected. You should have taken this up with the bot operator. The other articles you mention are properly tagged: the scope of the WikiProject is the Atlanta metropolitan area, not just that which if physically located inside the boundaries of the City of Atlanta. This includes the cities of Austell and Roswell. Georgia-Power is headquartered in Atlanta. RCA has never been so tagged, so I do not know to what you are referring. I myself did not place the tag on Mikey Post or Hurricane Opal, but it is disingenuous to call such tagging “spam”.
  5. Yes, I understand you think I’m stupid. There is no need to keep attacking me.

I really feel your anger and insults are completely unwarranted. WikiProject Atlanta is all of 15 days old, so to criticize us so harshly for not yet having any significant accomplishments seems petty and mean-spirited.

You are clearly an intelligent and competent editor, but you have acted completely inappropriately here. Considering the content of my first comment to you, and the courtesy I used in my request above, I am frankly stunned you have chosen to handle things in this manner. It's like I've been sucker punched by the guy whom I bought a drink and later asked nicely to not step on my foot.

That being said, I will admit to being a little naïve about all this. While I am hardly new to Wikipedia, I thought it would be fun and educational to help start a new WikiProject for the first time. And what could possibly be stressful about that, right? But based on your overt hostility, and the bickering I have now found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject reform, I now see there is much conflict and controversy of which I was blissfully ignorant. As such, I have withdrawn from WikiProject Atlanta and WikiProject Georgia. I get enough grief and name-calling from my anti-spam and vandal work, so I don’t need to get beat up over here, too. I swear, sometimes editing Wikipedia is worse than litigation: at least in court the other lawyers don’t call you “stupid” or a "fool" (although sometimes the judge does…).

So, thanks for the lesson, anyway. I will not be bothering you again. Good luck on your own WikiProject. You're doing really great work over there, and even if your camaraderie is lacking, your contributions are sincerely appreciated. Best, Satori Son 16:28, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

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William Bradford (professor)

Why did you revert this article? You wrote, "per WP:AIV decision, that paragraph is not to be included." Where is this "decision" and what is its basis?--YHoshua 18:53, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:AIV is the "administrator's noticeboard" that deals with some things requiring administrator attention such as conflicts, legal threats, etc. Bradford made a legal threat, and an administrator decided that the "lying about credentials" section needed to go because sources weren't reliable enough and its removal did not significantly detract from the article or the encyclopedia as a whole. The discussion in question is archived at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive220#William Bradford (professor). If you had read the article's talk page, you would know all of this. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 20:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

My Opposition

I want to thank you again for your nomination of the Kellner diary article, My Opposition, to Good Article status and for placing it on Peer Review. Without doubt, it is a far better article with all the improvements that were made. You may have noticed that yesterday evening the article was approved and upgraded. Will you be able to remove the B Grade template at this point, or is that done automatically by a Bot? Again, thank you. Scott Rskellner 13:03, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

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Troy Trojans

Thanks for adding that image. I didn't know where to look for one. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 07:22, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, but I didn't do much. The image was already added on the Troy University page. :) -Texink 07:42, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
D'oh! —Disavian (talk/contribs) 07:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Ramblins Discrepancy

I recently found some discrepancies between the Ramblins articles by Pat Edwards and other websites so I double checked with some GT Historians. One, in particular, was pretty familiar with Edwards and said that some of his information was poorly researched and that dates and other facts may be incorrect in his articles.

Alumni Association Homecoming - This site says homecoming started in 1920.
Ramblins: Anak -This Pat Edwards article says:
'Georgia Tech's first homecoming celebration was organized and sponsored by ANAK in 1916. It was at this time that Tech's proud tradition of combining the alumni reunions with Homecoming was established. This tradition, once unusual among colleges, continues to this day.'

--Excaliburhorn 22:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Fascinating. I don't really trust anything that mentions ANAK anyway. At least Edwards wrote something, though; his articles cover a pretty broad range of topics related to Tech, so they've been reasonably useful. I don't know any GT Historians... mind hooking me up and/or having them look at History of Georgia Tech? It's the next article I want to nominate for FA status. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 20:13, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, ANAK seems to claim that they started everything and don't take credit for some of their failures (student basketball ticketing debacle). I think he got most of his information from some secret ANAK archives. Beats me. Also, I'll try to get some people to start looking at the wikiTech stuff. --Excaliburhorn 22:48, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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About your poll in the Talk: SSBB

Mind giving a due date for the poll so that more users can be aware and vote? magiciandude (Talk) (review) 01:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

The last time I saw it, it was 8-0-1, so I went ahead and changed it back. I suppose an official close date would be good. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 01:37, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

UCLA

Hey, thanks for your cleanup on UCLA's article. I need your honest opinion, though, about what can be done to get this FA-status. ALTON .ıl 06:32, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I can't see anything immediately wrong with it. I've been trying to get Georgia Institute of Technology to FA status since I started editing WP, and I'm still not there, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask. My advice is to get it peer reviewed, and then nominate it for FAC. If there's something that should be changed, someone there will tell you what to do. Nice job on the references, by the way. Most of the GT references are hidden in sub-articles like History of Georgia Tech... which I'm coincidentally going to nominate for FA soon. :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 06:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Alright, good luck with that. I'm more concerned about the cookie-cutter expectations of WP:UNI and the like, since people like to harp on those guidelines. But yeah, thanks for the help, and if you need some ref work (or whatever), don't hesitate to ask! ALTON .ıl 07:24, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Actually, I wouldn't mind you having a look at Georgia Institute of Technology... especially paying attention to things that should be cited. Also, I need help expanding #Academics and the lead. I've never been good at writing long article leads :( —Disavian (talk/contribs) 15:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Kevin Lomax and Georgia Tech

I unfortunately do not have a link to it, but in the movie, while he is around the table in a bar, I believe it was Al Pacino's character who lists off everyone's alma matter, though I may be mistaken about who actually it was who said it. I believe he said some reference to someone else, saying "he is by your old place at Georgia Tech" or something along those lines. I also remember a flashback scene of Lomax's character having a southern accent which would support that as well (although obviously not directly since there are many colleges in the South). Still, if we do watch the movie I do specifically remember them saying he was at Georgia Tech.Arnabdas 18:29, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh, okay. I wonder if we can just cite the movie? Perhaps you could toss a {{cite}} in there and fill it with the information about the movie. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 18:31, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
I found a script for the movie: http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/d/devils-advocate-script-transcript.html
If you type in a text search for Babs Coleman, he says that she is from Georgia Tech, "your neck of the woods." I don't know if that means Kevin himself is from Tech though.Arnabdas 16:31, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Good enough for me :) Thanks for finding that. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 16:49, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey

Disavian, just out of curiousity, why do you keep such a watchful eye on the Florida International University page. Did you go to FIU or did you just randomly pick the page to moderate? Just wondering. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.225.43.101 (talk • contribs) 18:21, 25 May 2007

It's mostly random... I saw that I could help in certain ways, and have done so. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 00:39, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Cool. You do a good job on a variety of pages, so congratulations. I hope one day the Georgia Tech page eventually makes it as a featured article, as I see that's one of your big goals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.225.43.101 (talk • contribs) 22:46, 25 May 2007

CLA

Do you think you could write up something on the Caldwell Liberation Army on Tech Tower#Stealing the 'T'? Source: Adiga, Madhu (2002-02-22). "When stealing only one "T" just won't do". The Technique. Retrieved 2007-05-26. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 23:11, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Added the info about the CLA. Nice job with all those monument links. MaxVeers 00:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Nice job on those edits; I especially like the presidential visit picture. Are you sure that the "steam engine" is a "whistle"? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 03:10, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
You know, I always assumed that thing was the whistle but maybe it isn't. I changed it back. MaxVeers 03:16, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
By the way, I've been trying to think of an alternate photo for the Student life section of the Georgia Tech article. The two Tech Tower photos seem a bit excessive. We don't have many good sports/sports fan photos in there so I was thinking that might be a good idea. What do you think? MaxVeers 03:19, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
As in replace a generic Tech Tower photo with one of our football photos? Sounds like a good idea. I reccomend looking at the many pictures in Category:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football... I'm thinking Image:GT Football Score.jpg. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 04:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
I was finally able to get around to messing with the first part of the Tech Tower history section. I always thought it was too short and didn't address the purpose of the building, what it was originally meant to do and what was inside it, and its relationship to the shop and its overall connection to the themes upon which the School was founded. I hope it is a bit clearer now. MaxVeers 04:38, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
I went ahead and replaced one of the images of Tech Tower on Georgia Institute of Technology#Student life. How's it look? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 17:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Skidaway Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

Just wanted to notify you that I marked the article you provided previous input to (the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography) as a possible {{copyvio}} in case you wanted to comment or correct. Absolon S. Kent 13:21, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up, but there's not much I can help you with there. The best solution would be to delete the article content. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 17:21, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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Hehehehe oh yes! I thought it was a very strange co-incidence when I saw that you have a connection to Pensacola and I'd just viewed a page about that topic earlier today! I have no connection with Pensacola and know nothing about the place -- hence viewing the article. I saw something earlier today about "Pensacola: Wings of Gold" and I've always wondered "what" Pensacola was. Thanks for the welcome though! :) SabreWolfy 19:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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This page is displaying with a horizontal scroll bar. I've not seen any other Wiki pages display like this. It only scrolls a tiny amount, but it's quite distracting. I think it's due to the long "citation needed" entry sticking over the edge under the "National Recognition" section. I'm running 1400 x 1050 resolution. SabreWolfy 21:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Did that help? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 21:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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With my addition of Marion L. Brittain this evening, we now have articles on every president of Georgia Tech! MaxVeers 03:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

An impressive article! I'm glad we got all of them done... I wrote a stub for Edwin D. Harrison just to get rid of the redlink, so it probably needs a bit more attention. Next up on the list is Dean George C. Griffin. Mind taking a stab at writing him a bit of an article? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 17:36, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
You should nominate Marion L. Brittain for a DYK. See Template talk:Did you know to suggest it. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 18:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Done! MaxVeers 02:29, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Good job! —Disavian (talk/contribs) 02:31, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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Those citations were not all retrieved on 06/06/2007 I will revert them back tomorrow if it is not fixed. PianoKeys 01:35, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

The main objective of that edit was to add the citation templates. Technically, I did access the references on that date... but if you wish to replace the dates with ones from the time the reference was originally added, be bold and do so. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 03:44, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

The Red and Black

For now it can referenced from http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2007/05/01/News/Red-Black.Returns-2891749.shtml

The staff list on the website should be up sometime next week, once the summer staff is finalizedPruddle 00:51, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Okay :) I take it that you are involved in The Red and Black in some manner? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 00:52, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Yep, I just started there actually. I'm going to be the Online Editor and on the Editorial Board for the Summer. I may continue on as Online Editor for the Fall, depending on how things go this summer. Pruddle 01:44, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Sounds like fun. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 07:24, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Calvin Johnson (musician)

that pic on Calvin johnson's page is really just so ugly it makes me really think it was posted by someone who doesn't exactly think too well of him - it's like a paparazzi pic of someone while they're popping a zit or wiping their bum - i really think it violates his "personality rights" or whatever - i would rather have NO pic on at all than that 1 cos it's really difficult to look at and i think it really unfairly turns people off and precludes them even thinking about taking the article "seriously" or at least neutrally - doesn't that violate NPOV? specially when he's such a handsome chap otherwise

I'm just the messenger of WP's image policy, although if you think it's a big deal and a valid claim under fair use, I'll let you have your way. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 06:58, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
By the way, someone will inevitably replace it with the free one again. It's a WP policy, and it's not really up for discussion. I just have other things I need to deal with instead of arguing over this. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 22:06, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

About "fixing" redirects

Hi Disavian, please read this: WP:Redirect#Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken. Thanks. --Tkynerd 21:44, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm aware of that page; however, I'm not doing it for performance reasons; I'm trying to clean up the Special:Whatlinkshere for Georgia Institute of Technology, a tool I've used a few times in order to expand related categories and articles. Is that a valid use for bypassing redirects? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 21:47, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
Why are you trying to "clean up" incoming links for Georgia Institute of Technology? Articles, unlike dab pages, are supposed to have incoming links. I'm confused; enlighten me! :-) --Tkynerd 22:07, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
When using Special:Whatlinkshere, redirects that have links to them have those links pasted into that page. Right? For pages with redirects containing a significant number of links (ex: Georgia Tech), the Special:Whatlinkshere page doesn't follow the rules on how many links to list on a page, making link counting difficult. In addition, if a page links to both Georgia Tech and Georgia Institute of Technology, it will appear twice on the Special:Whatlinkshere for Georgia Institute of Technology. These are all minor complaints, I know, but it seems worth it to me to take care of these problems. Also, there is no "Georgia Tech University," so that one should *always* be bypassed. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 22:14, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand the concern with the number and/or type of incoming links to an article. As for "Georgia Tech University," to my mind that qualifies as an unprintworthy redirect (the name is erroneous) and should be corrected rather than "bypassed." (Which may be what you're doing, I don't know.) It might be worth starting a thread on this at Wikipedia talk:Redirect, but I don't wish to do that if you're not interested; it would look like I was "reporting" you, if you see what I mean, and that isn't my intention. PS This page is on my watchlist for the time being, so you can stop copying every post to my talk page if you want to save yourself the trouble. :-) --Tkynerd 22:27, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
Eh, it's not that big of a deal that we'd need to start a thread on WT:Redirect. What's the unprintworthy redirect category, so I can tag Georgia Tech University? I bet it's something obvious, like "Category:Unprintworthy redirects... yep, it is. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 22:32, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I think there is actually a template for unprintworthy redirects -- {{R for misspelling}} or something like that. Check WT:Redirect; there was a mention of it when I was reading the page just now. Better to add the template than to add the category, I think. --Tkynerd 22:41, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
Done. :) Thanks for the help on that. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 22:42, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome, glad I could help. --Tkynerd 22:51, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

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