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December 2010[edit]
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Kal Penn. Users who edit disruptively or refuse to collaborate with others may be blocked if they continue. In particular the three-revert rule states that making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block. If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the talk page to discuss controversial changes. Work towards wording and content that gains consensus among editors. If unsuccessful, then do not edit war even if you believe you are right. 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 edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Tbh®tchTalk © Happy Holidays 22:16, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads up. I am not planning on editing the article again and will seek resolution if this continues. I've been actively trying to discuss this on the Talk Page to no success. DFS (talk) 22:20, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Do you have a reliable source for the year of his remarriage? The Mark of the Beast (talk) 06:06, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Nope, but I know that he was married after the pregnancy and before the birth, which means 2009. Feel free to delete since there isn't a source, but a re-write would be great since it was really awkward the way it was previously. DFS (talk) 06:23, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
- Whoops, on second glance, I see that the People magazine article that is the source for the birth is also the source for the marriage in 2009. DFS (talk) 08:46, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hiya,
I noticed your work on Kenny Rogers' "Movies" section table. Very good stuff. I like it when wikipedians use "charts" instead of plain text to display data more appropriately or go that step further to correct. However there were a couple of gripes!
1) Using the syntax "!" for data is wrong since there is nothing to distinguish between it and the headers. As I've stated on my edit summary: as a rule of thumb, and proper manual of style, we use "|" for data and "!" for headers. And for a bonus point, 2) we tend to position data like dates, for example, to the far left of a table. This makes the table look much tidier overall and allows for faster, quicker and more efficient browsing.
Hope I've been of help,
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My edit at Stan Lee[edit]
Just wanted to let you know about my partial revert at Stan Lee. I completely agree with you that the number of bedrooms or what floor the condo was on is overdetail and minutiae. Addresses, on the other hand, are a viable and pertinent part of biography. There are plaques were Duke Ellington and Humphrey Bogart lived, for instance, as just two of a thousand examples. Where one lives is a big part of a biography. But, yeah, the number of bedrooms and whether they had a fireplace ... yeesh! --Tenebrae (talk) 20:38, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
List of Colorado Rockies seasons[edit]
Regarding List of Colorado Rockies seasons, I couldn't find anything in the UPI source that says the Rockies are one of two teams not to win a division title, can you point me to the text? As far as I can see, it just says that the Rockies haven't won the NL West, it doesn't mention any another team. Thanks. By the way, I really hope your user name derives from DFS Furniture... --Jameboy (talk) 11:13, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
The other team is the Marlins. I'll add a reference. DFS (talk) 18:40, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
- Good work. Bit of a quirk that the Marlins have won the World Series twice but never won their division! --Jameboy (talk) 20:04, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
Please keep this[1] in mind when adding entries to this list. It reads in part- 'Provide information, preferably in prose form, of any famous or notable individuals that were born, or lived for a significant amount of time, in the city.' and 'For "college towns" where students reside in the "town" only during their college years, it is preferred to list those students in the "Notable alumni" section of their respective college article,'. I just removed a half dozen entries at least of people who either just went to college in Sacramento, worked there, or lived nearby- Wally Herger is from Rio Oso for example - etc etc. I checked a old Almanac of America Politics I own to verify that and added him to Rio Oso article with a reference. I've used the Almanac for Congressman articles before, Robert Kastenmeier is just one example...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:32, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the help! DFS (talk) 19:05, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
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