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Thank you for telling me, I completed the Wikipedia Adventure not very long ago Jo-Jo EumerusJJBers (talk) 17:55, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

January 2016

Information icon Hello, I'm Oshwah. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to World Trade Center (2001–present)— because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 20:20, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Information icon Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Windows 8.1, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.
This applies not just to the Windows 8.1 article but also to all of the other Windows articles you edited today. Thank you for your efforts, but we just don't write articles in ways that refer to the time of writing, e.g. "4 years from now". It is completely sufficient to give the date. You can find the specific MOS guideline and rationale at WP:REALTIME. Thank you for your understanding. Jeh (talk) 23:54, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Information icon Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at World Trade Center (2001–present). Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 17:53, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Your contributed article, /States

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William O'Neill Path

Dear JJBers, I read your article on the William C. O'Neill Bike Path with great interest and subsequently, I found some old photos, which might be of interest to you:

Best regards from Germany --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:06, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination

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Speedy deletion nomination of Dramaalert

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Speedy deletion nomination of Dramaalert

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A tag has been placed on Dramaalert requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Photos in station tables

For the time being, please stop adding photos to the tables of stations in articles about railway lines. The images take up a great deal of space, do not integrate well for visually impaired people using screen readers, and don't add very much to the content of the article itself. Images belong on the articles about the stations themselves, and sometimes well-integrated into the article text, but please stop adding them to tables. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 16:18, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Alright--JJBers (talk) 16:30, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
Also, you cannot copy images you find elsewhere on the internet, upload them to Wikimedia Commons, and claim them as your own work. You may only upload images that you took yourself (which you have also been doing), images that have been released under an appropriate free-use license by the author, or images that are in the public domain by law (like images published before January 1, 1923). In all cases, you must accurately identify the author. You'll want to read Commons:Licensing before you upload any more images. Commons already has a vast number of images of train stations in new England; there is no need to take them from elsewhere. I don't want you to feel like I am hounding you, but uploading copyright violations is a very big deal on Commons.
As an example: you uploaded File:2-mount-hope-mbta-station.jpg, claiming that it was your own work, taken in 2000, and of Mount Hope station. That is in fact an image I took in 2012 of Highland station on the Needham Line. You seem to have confused images of other stations as well, which suggests to me that you need to be much more careful before adding images to articles. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 16:33, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of William C. O'Neill Bike Path

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Quinebaug River

Hello...I noticed that you changed the source information on the Quinebaug River.  Do you have a reference for that?  I did some research and I can only find that the Quinebaug River named after Holland Pond, not Hamilton Reservoir.  If Hamilton Reservoir is the source, that body of water extends into Tolland County in Connecticut and you deleted that so that's why I wanted to ask about a reference for your edit.  Thanks.  Dbroer (talk) 20:25, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Oh I'm just as confused as you. It was originally ending in Southbridge and it made no sense, I used google maps and followed the stream up to the reservoir. I'll try to find a source that has it, if not I'll change it to Holland Pond.--JJBers (talk) 20:28, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Couldn't find anything, I'll fix it right now.--JJBers (talk) 20:31, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Changes to Windows articles

Why did you change the syntax of the support dates? {{Start date and age}} may only be used once in a microformat-embedding infobox per the documentation, and this is the release date typically. Additionally, it removed the exact end of support date and replaced it with just a month, which could mean anything. ViperSnake151  Talk  01:37, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Alright I fixed the pages to the end day and re-added days back--JJBers (talk) 02:12, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

DYK for William C. O'Neill Bike Path

On 3 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William C. O'Neill Bike Path, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rhode Island's William C. O'Neill Bike Path follows a route first proposed for use as a school children's rail line? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William C. O'Neill Bike Path. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, William C. O'Neill Bike Path), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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September 2016

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Please do not create, maintain or restore hoaxes on Wikipedia, as you did at List_of_the_most_subscribed_users_on_YouTube. Hoaxes are eligible for speedy deletion under criterion G3. If you are interested in how accurate Wikipedia is, a more constructive test method would be to try to find inaccurate statements that are already in Wikipedia — and then to correct them if possible. Please do not disrupt Wikipedia. Feel free to take a look at the five pillars of Wikipedia to learn more about this project and how you can contribute constructively. Thank you. Jergling (talk) 18:20, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm very sorry, I was at school, and I didn't realize until now that my school blocked the content on his channel, but thanks for reminding me!--JJBers (talk) 18:45, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
I understand, please keep that in mind in the future. Generally, it's a good idea to defer to Archive.org before assuming a page has been totally obliterated. Especially on a busy article like this, try to bring it up on the talk page first. Have a nice day, -Jergling (talk) 15:22, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

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MatthewVanitas (talk) 07:27, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

You appear to have cut and pasted content from List of rail trails to List of rail trails in United States.  To do so without providing proper attribution is copyright violation and not permitted.  Please read WP:splitting and WP:copying within Wikipedia and take the appropriate action. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:40, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Alright, I have credited the page history in the begging of the page.--JJBers (talk) 19:24, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
Now please do it the way specified in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. --David Biddulph (talk) 20:09, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

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Bistate roads

FYI, you need to use an en dash (–) between states instead of a hyphen.  Connecticut-Massachusetts→Connecticut–Massachusetts.  MOS:DASH has some handy tips for dash use. –Fredddie™ 14:32, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Confusion

Greetings.  You seem to suddenly be going around causing trouble on Connecticut River bridge articles.  Why is this?  I'd like to know before I start reverting you right and left, and addressing the issue on an admin page looking for arbitration. - Denimadept (talk) 01:50, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm just learning how to use a few new tools, and the pages that were nominated for deletion did qualify for A11 as there was not reliable sources. The Route 3 bridge is the only one I deiced to tag. The other 3 did also comply too, but I wanted to properly test out the other tools. The other CT River bridges I did edit, I put information in. You can delete the revision for the speedy deletion if you feel it is unnecessary. I just feel the pages are unnecessary and are as important as a local stream crossing.--JJBers (talk) 01:57, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
You'll get no argument from me for most of your edits, and in fact I was toning down my post here when you replied, so I gave up on doing so.  I apologize for the original phrasing.  The Rt 3 bridge is the northern-most (first) bridge on the river, as I thought we agreed was notable a few days ago.  Maybe that was someone else.  The Enfield bridge image removal was inappropriate as it showed additional information.  The Stub/Start distinction is somewhat vague, I agree, but it seems nicer to call them "Start" since someone might find more information about the subjects. - Denimadept (talk) 02:01, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
I agree with most of what you said there, and also I did say it was notable a few days ago, and it kinda is, but it would be better off not being a separate article, and more of a note for the bridge listing on the CT River Crossings. The Enfield Bridge photo removal was because it disrupted the flow of text, and I found no other way to fix other than simply removing it, and I understood it provided useful info, but it could of also been transferred into text, or linked to the page in some way. Finally, a lot of the Start articles had stub tags, or were very short summaries for history, and also for every single one I re-marked, the Bridge WikiProject had the page marked as stub, while the Connecticut WikiProject had it marked as start, which caused confusion with me...Oh well, I'm not the feisty user with these types of situations, and I agree with most of the points mentioned.--JJBers (talk) 02:15, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
We don't always have these admin articles up-to-date.  I expect many people forget about them.  Regarding the image on the Enfield bridge article, see the text which follows it. - Denimadept (talk) 02:19, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
Alright, I deiced to try to fix the bridge image situation, which I felt semi-satisfied with the fix for the short term. Also I'm going to try to sort out the deletion issue, probably trying to re-list it in the near future. Also I'm going to try to attract traffic to the situation by helping other nominations out. I think we can dismiss the situation for now, but we'll have to address this again soon again. For now, so long.--JJBers Public (talk) 14:36, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

AFD

Hi, Could you reopen Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Brook Road bridge over the Connecticut River (and revert the redirect) as there's clearly no consensus to redirect at all, Not only that but you've used the wrong AFD template entirely (Technically I should revert and reclose however it's counterproductive to revert, reclose with the correct temp, and then ask you to reopen), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 22:50, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

@Davey2010: Alright, I completed all of what you said. This is really a first for me, but while your here, you could bring up something. I closed it because it had matured, and no one had responded in 4 days.— JJBers (talk) 23:00, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Wow that was the easiest ask I've ever done so thank you :),
Well 1 as you were the nominator you cannot close your own discussions, and 2 - Consensus is to at the moment delete and now there's delete !votes present you can't withdraw the AFD,
Forgot to mention but you obviously don't get to choose your preferred outcome - Once you nominate it it's then down to the community to decide what to do with it,
I would strongly advise you read WP:AFD and WP:BADNAC
Thanks and Happy editing :), –Davey2010Talk 23:12, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
@Davey2010: Could you possibly re-list the nomination if possible, it has been nearly 8 days since it was nominated, and nothing much came out of it.— JJBers (talk) 23:19, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Hurricane Matthew death count

Where are you getting these revised, lower numbers? There have been multiple news sources reporting over 1,000 deaths in Haiti. If such a serious change is warranted, it's important that the source be provided. Thanks. Dustin (talk) 23:28, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

I'm putting in the official death count from here and here— JJBers (talk) 23:32, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
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