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Stuff I'll be editing in a week

• Area code
  • List of area codes in the United States
  • List of area codes in Canada
• Guadalajara
• Dodger Stadium

Community ban, guidelines, mentorship

Community ban I don't have one. None was agreed upon.

Guidelines I don't have any. None were agreed upon, maybe because many felt none were needed. Anyway, as far as I can tell, my block was mostly due to starting POINT threads on RFdA of Colton and R-Demote on Von Braun. So here are my guidelines:

• No starting of new threads on Wikipedia and Wikipedia talk, but can comment on existing threads.
• Regular editing of talk space and mainspace.

If you don't like these guidelines, comment below.

Mentorship Some thought I needed it. Here are some people I would consider for mentors:

• The Griftster
• Barras
• Eptalon
• The DJ
• The Rambler

There are my thoughts. I return on Sunday. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 19:23, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

• I have no problems to offer you Mentorship. Barras (talk) 19:25, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Cool, cool...how you do feel about the guidelines? Purplebackpack89 (talk) 19:28, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

If there are useful threads you want/need to start on WP or WP talk pages, I have no problems if you do so. It is sometimes needed. Barras (talk) 19:33, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

• Me neither. I'd be happy to help. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:28, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi there! As mentioned above: if you need any help/mentoring, so just ping me on my talk page. Barras (talk) 20:44, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

I may need some vetting occaisionally. Check out Guadalajara in a few minutes Purplebackpack89 (talk) 20:52, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

merging

When you request that an article be merged, please remember to leave your rationale on the article's talk page. Griffinofwales (talk) 02:27, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Done. Proposed mergers involving tuxes and suits. Please comment on them. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 03:19, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

List of area codes in Canada Deletion request

Howdy. I've nominated List of area codes in Canada for deletion. This is not a reflection of your ability, because I do value your contribution. I don't think the subject is notable or important, and I did the nomination to see what the community thinks. Very best, NonvocalScream (talk) 01:48, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Quick welcome back

Hi PBP89. Welcome back to editing. Good to see you again, and hope we can work on articles together. If you have any queries, disputes or anything else, feel free to get in touch with me. I'm happy to help out with anything I can. Good luck and once again, welcome back. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:18, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Ice cream

the image you posted does not have a defintion of what it is. 72.73.67.163 (talk) 19:18, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Should now. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 19:19, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Sources

Please provide a reliable source for this insertion to ensure that it is verifiable. —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 17:03, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Did you think I made that up? Purplebackpack89 (talk) 17:07, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

I can't answer that question, because I know nothing about it's truthfulness and haven't formed an opinion. All information on Wikipedia must be verifiable to a reliable source beforehand. Please only insert it after you have done so. If not, I'll have to remove it again. I am very serious about verifiability policies, which is why I am so intent on enforcing such policies. —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 17:09, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

If we removed everything unsourced on this Wikipedia, we'd have about 2 KB of text left. What made this jump out from all the other unsourced claims on Wikipedia? Purplebackpack89 (talk) 17:12, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Reliable sources are required for any and every claim made on Wikipedia. Citations are what help readers ensure that what they are reading is verifiable and not Wikipedia's own word. If I add "Doritos are competing with Pringles" to Doritos (I don't know if they're competing or not, but that's irrelevant), I'd have to provide a reliable source for my claim. It is not our job to publish new knowledge, but publish knowledge already published by other sources. —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 17:16, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm still kind of wondering why pit barbecue jumped out at you, compared to the many other poorly-sourced, and indeed inaccurate, claims made on Wikipedia. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 17:19, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

It doesn't matter what is said. The only thing I am looking at right now is whether it is reliably sourced. Thanks for adding your citation. I'll read the citation sometime in the future. —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 17:28, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Presumably he was watching Recent changes. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:20, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes I was. I spend the majority of my time looking through New Changes. —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 17:21, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm just kind of shocked that he goes after something like pit barbecues, when there are other articles, like the Moon hoax, that need real work and have neutrality concerns (the article is way too pro-hoax, hence my tag). Purplebackpack89 (talk) 17:22, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Acutally, that isn't an article. Please check your links before saving. —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 17:23, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Moon Hoax. See, doesn't even follow proper capitalization functions. I think I ought to RFD it...it's 100KB of biased, complex lies

Your recent comments

Lately, I have been seeing failures to sign your comments. Here are comments you failed to sign:

• "Moon Hoax. See, doesn't even follow proper capitalization functions. I think I ought to RFD it...it's 100KB of biased, complex lies"
• "Goblin, much of the article is, to be perfectly honest, utter hash. If I rewrote the article, it'd probably go from 100 KB to less than 20KB.", in which I added Template:Unsigned indicating that you made the comment.

The next time you make a comment, please remember to sign your posts. Thank you. —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 17:48, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Sherbet

Please provide reliable sources for your creation of Sherbet. —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 23:07, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Myth, you've started three threads here in the last 30-odd hours. If you think something needs refs, you can just add a {{cn}} in the body or a {{noreferences}} in the top. It is not necessary to bring it up here, nor is it always necessary to delete edits, like you did with the pit barbecue. Remember to AGF. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 06:38, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

So please remember to adhere to WP:V (an official policy) by adding references to articles you write. It hasn't got anything to do with AGFing. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:25, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

I do assume good faith. I'm just warning you to follow WP:V. Please keep it in mind. —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 05:08, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

The barbecue was enough warning. You should have CNed the article instead of going to my talk page for a second time Purplebackpack89 (talk) 05:20, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Cities

Hey, good work on User:Purplebackpack89/Vital Cities in the United States and Canada. Need any help creating the redlinks? Just ping me if so. Cheers! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:17, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

LOL. Gotta finish the list first. My long-term eventual goal is at least 1-2KB of wikitext on each of them. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 21:42, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Ah, alright. Seems like a reasonable goal. Merely out of curiosity, do you plan on adding an infobox to each one, or leaving them out for now? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:45, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

I can take or leave them. The big issue for me, kinda with regard to the recent RFD on cities, is that too many articles either don't exist or are 1-2 sentences plus an infobox. I kinda want each of the Cities lists, and there are a lot of cities on that list, to have a couple paragraphs. Think of it somewhat as a Project, with the cities on the list garnering high or top priority. I'll bring it up on simple talk soon. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 23:10, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

RE:Legendary Pokemon

"Kanto", "Johto", "Hoenn", and "Sinnoh" are the regions of Pokemon. Sorry if that isn't made clear. I would love to complete this list, but I am too busy with many other things. _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 17:20, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Oh. I had no idea. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 18:01, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Ophélie Bretnacher disappearance

Dear Purplebackpack89,

1) I would prefer that you keep only one of the two articles (the other results of a computer problem), and if you want to delate, may be it could be includ in an other article more generalist...

The case Ophelie Bretnacher, pointing the problem of justice and police non cooperation between France and Hungary, violating the Treaty of Lisbon is an issue of human rights and democracy in Europe. Do I must write this in the article ?

2) Notability : Ophélie Bretnacher : 109 000 articles on google 17 800 photos --Raymondnivet (talk) 10:31, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest Raymondnivet (talk) 12:31, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

On fr wiki : Je viens de trouver une 2e source secondaire, un récapitulatif fait un an après sa disparition

I just found a second secondary souce : synopsis made one year later. http://www.lunion.presse.fr/index.php/cms/13/article/394228/Deux_mois_de_recherches_et_d_angoisse Best regards --Raymondnivet (talk) 13:27, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Why are you telling me this here? You should put it on my fr-wiki talk page

DYK

The picture of the penguins don't really show the male with an egg, and the Wright Brother's one will be useless at a low resolution. Maybe the egg in the Emperor Penguin article, for educational value? If not, I'd say use Joe Biden's picture. TheWeakWilled (talk) 19:26, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Your call Purplebackpack89 (talk) 19:29, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

RE: List of Mario series characters

Yah, it doesn't look good. I dont understand why it should exist when every character on it has a full article. Unless the articles get merged into it, I would just say delete it. _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 16:34, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Mario, Luigi, Kong, Peach, and Bowser can stay as full articles; but Wario, Waluigi, Daisy, Toad, and Yoshi ought to be merged (and Diddy and ROB never were articles in the first place). Honestly, all the articles in this dept need lots and lots of love Purplebackpack89 (talk) 17:51, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Wario, Toad, and Yoshi should stay as articles. En.wiki has full articles about them with reception and conception info. Just needs to be gleaned from there. I just don't feel like doing it at the moment. I think us two are the only ones who care anything about these video game characters though. _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 02:31, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Might want to comment in the RFD that's going Purplebackpack89 (talk) 02:33, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Question concerning your reverts of my edits

Could you please explain why you made these reverts of my recent edits to the decade articles? ([1] [2] [3] [4] [5]). —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 19:59, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Instead of using the rollback tool, you should have just used the undo tool. Sure, it is slower, but it gets the job done without having the use the rollback tool, which is usually reserved for bad faith edits and vandalism. Razorflame 21:02, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

While rollback may have been misused, I am more concerned about why my edits were reverted. But, yes, rollback was misused. —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 21:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I felt that precendent was with the IP edits. A list of important world figures has been on the English Wikipedia for at least six months. How can either of you tell that I used rollback? Purplebackpack89 (talk) 01:23, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

The edit summary is the rollback one. I'm worried about both the misuse and the reverts themselves, but as i'm uninvolved thus far i'll just say "Be more careful", and will leave it up to others if anything further should happen (if that makes sense... basically, i'm not going to be saying anything further!) Goblin 01:40, 30 December 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots!

I think Mythdon is being too defensive about being undid. As I said, precendent is for having a list of world figures. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 02:44, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

There is no defense of anything coming from this discussion. The point was to request clarification as to why you reverted my edits so I would at least know why my edits were reverted. —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 04:33, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

He said the reason why. The general consensus is to have important people there. I don't know exactly how "important" is clarified though. I suppose the list was taken from En.Wiki _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 15:36, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Importance is always up for debate. The EN lists have a couple hundred people, these lists only have a couple dozen Purplebackpack89 (talk) 15:46, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Also, FYI, Mythdon patrolled rollback on EN wikipedia and then questioned rollbackers about their edits, and it got him banned Purplebackpack89 (talk) 19:31, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

I did patrol rollback on the English Wikipedia for a time, but's not why ArbCom imposed the six month ban. Also, why are you mentioning my English Wikipedia actions? —Mythdon ^{[talk] [changes]} 19:35, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Ah, badgering people on talk pages is what you were banned for. I could ask why you're monitoring me here Purplebackpack89 (talk) 19:47, 31 December 2009 (UTC)