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I-130

Will they eventually be a i-130? Why did we R# it back to loop Texarkana?--Freewayguy ^{Msg USC} 22:06, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Nevada State Route 562

If you're going to move it back, please fix the categories: SR 562 needs to be in Category:State highways in Nevada and any others that were on the redirect. Thank you. --NE2 11:37, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For properly blocking a user who was a vandal, a troll, and an edit warrior. Bearian (talk) 23:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Interstate 135

i thoguht I-135.svg is clsoer in Kansas, since they do not have access to state documnet. If we don't have state documents how we get specs for Kansas non-nuetral shields. I thoguht now; for many states white text number is fatter, and if state name still apply it writes right on top of number.--Freewayguy ^{Msg USC} 01:17, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Can you answer this?MUTCD is tough to understand honestly.--Freewayguy ^{Msg USC} 20:08, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

M-28 at FAC

can you watch the forum a little for me? It was nominated last night by someone else while I was asleep. I'm still moving some stuff and I don't have internet access at my apartment yet, but I can walk to the bookstore and get online there or use my cell phone. Imzadi1979 (talk) 13:52, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

User:Attic Cat

how come some people can have sockpuppet. most people do not need another account after mine. I only have one account. What does some people use legimate sockpuppet for? Work? home? I know its not for 3RR, or evasion of blcoks.--Freewayguy ^{Msg USC} 14:55, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Can you answer this please. This still don't make sense? Why does people need another account when they have one? Most people abuse extra accounts, getting over with blocks, 3RR, double votes to oppose deletions. Whats the good use people use sockpuppet for?--Freewayguy ^{Msg USC} 01:00, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Quick request

I don't have Internet access in my apartment right now except through my phone which can't do IRC or AIM. I go a couple blocks here downtown to a bookstore to get online with my laptop in the evenings but they closed at 11 pm EDT. Call me tomorrow evening and I'll fill you in. Dan has my number if you don't have it already from the Chicago meet. Imzadi1979 (talk) 05:36, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Need some help on K-10

Could you provide some help on K-10? An IP isn't letting us keep the section on the SLT unless it's referenced. Happen to have any? —Scott5114↗ 23:55, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

I just noticed your comment (shows you how often I log on to edit). Could you be more specific on what you would like referenced. I've gone through more than enough articles on the Journal-World to source just about anything on the SLT. Route56 (talk) 05:42, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Shields

I would request that you re-add them to NY 32 and NY 28 if they got it wrong. Thanks! >>>WoodchuckRevenge (talk) 21:30, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Kansas

Kansas does not have state-specification I thougut; then how we know how interstates look like and how big is the white text. Its better to fix the Kansas interstates; Missouri we don't need it possibly. i did see the specs on state docs.--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 14:56, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Should we fix the interstate shields on Kansas so they look like Arkansas. I don't see any proofs of what Kansas interstates actually looks like by sign drawings. Vishwin60 actually upload these shields.--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 15:03, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Can you answer this questions?--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 02:43, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Texas

how you know is clsoer to MUTCD todays and mor update?Do you have a FHDOT that says the style Engleman makes is actually clsor to todays. I'm actually confuse about Knasas the way the interstaes looks, Jeff says the way he makes shields is actually closer to MUTCD's today. Because most other states the way Ltljltlj makes it is clsoer to MUTCD today. I'm confuse right now.--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 04:32, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Interstate articles

Why did you semi-protected all of the interstate articles for 1 year? --75.47.149.223 (talk) 22:15, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

• Because people keep messing up the exit list violates to MOS.--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 22:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

• • If they keep messing up the exit list once again then their IP address range should be blocked to prevent users from using it to make disruptive edits. --75.47.149.223 (talk) 22:21, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

• • • The range of IPs was too large to be blocked. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 22:25, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

• • • • If the range of IPs was too large to blocked then the Template:Anonblock should be useful when blocking all of their editing access using this default blocking message on the edit summary when they knew when it will happen when users don't pay attention. --75.47.149.223 (talk) 22:31, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

interstaet specification

I 'm sorry, I still dont' quite understand it. What is Series C and E? For Kansas which one is clsoer. The one Engleman makes or the one Ljltlj makes which is non-metric version.--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 22:58, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

i know the INTERSTATE is on the scarlet part of interstate. The blue part is for the numbers. I know the top of the interstates what about the blue part of interstate for Kansas. Whats series C,E, and L for?--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 23:01, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Wait, ltljltlj makes shields like this. The blue part covers 90% of number and right on top is the small state name. That is exactly 2003 update of MT-1. How can Kansas and Texas got it backward. How Englemen's shields be closer to MUTCD todays when the number only cover the blue part of 40% and the state name on blue part be about 15%.--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 23:56, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

This ownly shows the specs of Kansas state rote highways. For the blue part of Kansas interstate how we know they use Series C on numbers and state name, and how we know Kansas still specifies normal state name shields. Most other states use Series E numbers of the blue part. Does Texas use Series C on hughway numbering? Because the guide signs use E Series.--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 02:39, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

My guestbook

Thanks for signing me! I'm actually pretty excited to get another signature under WikiOkie... Thanks again :) Okiefromokla ^questions? 14:34, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppet case involving 75.47.*

Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Artisol2345 (2nd) -- KelleyCook (talk) 22:34, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Washington State Route 531

Washington State Route 531 has recently passed its GA and is up for A-Class review. According to the article history of the article, you are a contributor to this article. Please leave comments at this link. --CG was here. (T - C - S - E) 18:42, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

speedy notification

When you place speedies, please notify the contributor or principle contributors of the article, using the message template that will appear after saving the edit. It is not strictly required, but it is considered polite. Wouldn't you want people to notify you in such cases so you has a chance to fix it? DGG (talk) 14:16, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Texas interstates DOT

I thgouht geenrally interstates use Series D or E, its from MT-1; copyright 2003. From where in Texas you found white text on blue part of interstate using Series B or C? You told me you check from one of the document? Where? it is still better to ask and clarify, and get it right, because Jeff said Kansas uses series C. Also when places not able to access state document, is this possible the state document still exist? Because kansas still uses C Series on highway marker.--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 01:13, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA, Scott5114!

I am grateful for your confidence: My RfA passed by a count of 64/3/3, so I am now an administrator! Of course, I plan to conduct my adminship in service of the community, so I believe the community has a right to revoke that privilege at any time. Thus, I will be open for recall under reasonable circumstances. If you have any advice, complaints, or concerns for me, please let me know. Thanks again! Okiefromokla questions? 21:37, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter, Issue 5

Apologies for the late delivery; here is the June edition of the newsletter.

Want to help on next month's newsletter? Don't want to receive these in future? Want to change your method of delivery? – It's all here. —Rschen7754bot (talk) 20:30, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Deletion process

You told me earlier by Also, when images are deleted, they are not erased from the disks; a copy still exists in case they need to be undeleted. Basically, when an image (or article, for that matter) is deleted, it isn't truly "deleted", just made inaccessible to non-administrators this what does this actually mean when the file is delete the file still exist someplace, do the link still look blue to admin only except the page is blank, and still shows up on admins contribution?Because when the file or pages is delete, I can't see the contribution, or list on my ontributions. When you delete file, does they still show up on your contribs? I do know the admins have access to undelete stuff. I don't understand by if the file is delete, it is not truly delete.--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 05:00, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Oversight

isn't oversighter the big boss of Wiki foundations? Do they get paid for their work on Wiki? I know stews, buros, and admins do not get paid. Do oversighters have office they work in. I saw few staffs in San Francisco, California. And by the way do mapquest members get paid for their work to update route plans?--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 16:30, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello! Guess i went too fast during my CSD spree! lol! But i had to CSD'd them due to the blatant violation of the WP:Myspace rule. There is no category, but go ahead and delete them. --ɔɹǝɐɯʎ!^Talk 20:18, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

California exit list issue

I think you should revert all the changes Splat5572 (talk · contribs) made. All because of his edit, I-5, I-80, US 101 have gone throgh intolerable warrings. Also Splat5572's stubborness is not acceptable.--Freewayguy ^{Call? Fish} 20:52, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

RS

Hi, can you please tell if xprojectmagazine can be considered RS nor not? Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 07:04, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:Ncd

Hi, I noticed you made a redirect of Template:Ncd. However, if you now substitute that template, like you should according to {{NowCommons}}, you will substitute NowCommons. Could you revert your edit or in any case update Template:NowCommons to reflect the change? Thanks. --Erwin85 (talk) 10:09, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

It might be better to have {{subst:ncd}} simply result in {{NowCommons}}, so without the date information, but with backwards compatibility. --Erwin85 (talk) 10:41, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Having a redirect would be better if everyone wouldn't substitute it from now on, but I don't think that's feasible. So I suggest using User:Erwin85/Scratch1, {{ncd}}'s old version without timestamp. I don't think people will notice that substituting ncd is now the same as substituting nowcommons and you therefore shouldn't substitute ncd anymore. --Erwin85 (talk) 11:03, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Table

Hi, is it mandatory to include a table caption if tables are included in articles? For example, Crime in the United States does not include any table caption. Is the table given in Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_Germany#Effectiveness ok, or it should have a table caption. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 06:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I was bit confused over this, discussed this issue with Bearcat also. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 07:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Copyedit?

Will you copyedit Washington State Route 531's Route description section so it can become a A-Class article? ~~ ĈőмρǖтέŗĠύʎ890100 (t ↔ Ĕ ↔ ώ) 01:07, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

WP:TFA/R

I restored the page; please see the instructions there. To replace an article you need to demonstrate more points than the article you're replacing. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:44, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Unprotecting Interstate 5 in California, Interstate 80 in California

Can we unprotect those pages now. I think we should just say See I-5 Golden State Freeway exits 30 to 40 on state-wide exit list. The problem of duplicating the exit lists is over time, the exit lists gets outdated, and most people will only update one, but forget about the other ones. We can't just simply copy and paste the exit lists from page A to B, because those two exits lists have different rowspans. For example Santa Aan Freeway is only part of the I-5 and Orange County only contains like 30 rowspans, I-5 in Orange County incorporates both San Diego and SantaAna Freeway so the rowspan is twice as big in Orange County. For exit list on Santa Ana Freeway i think is a better idea to create another column for the highway makers because several Southern California localhighway names contain two number, for instance Santa Ana Freeway contains both I-5 and US 101, Hollywood Freeway contains both US 101 and SR 170.--Freewayguy ^{Ask questions? See the sodas I've drank} 17:56, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing the situation - I will be out another week but am able to check things very briefly here. --Rschen7754 (T C) 23:46, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Chickasaw Turnpike at TFA

Hi. I saw your edit to the requests page. I'm afraid you fell foul of the system, as you "bumped" an article that was eligible for more points. There's currently a slot on the page, but it's hard for an article with less than 3 or 4 points to stay in place long enough to be nominated to Raul. --Dweller (talk) 12:50, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

OK, here's the scoring system:

Age (since promotion to featured article)

Promoted over a year, but less than two years, ago: 1 point Promoted two or more years ago: 2 points

Timing (relevance to main page date request)

Date relevant to article topic:[1] 1 point Decennary anniversary (10-year multiples): 2 points Semicentennial anniversary (50-year multiples): 4 points Centennial anniversary (100-year multiples): 6 points

Importance

Notable topic:[2] 1 point Vital article: 2 points Core topic: 3 points

Contributor history

Requestor has not previously had an article appear as Today's featured article and is a significant contributor of the article requested: 1 point

Diversity

Subject underrepresented at WP:FA:[3] 1 point

Main page representation

A similar article has not been featured on the main page:[4] Within three months of requested date: 1 point Within six months of requested date: 2 points

Deduct points if a similar article was recently featured on the main page: Within two weeks of requested date: −3 points Within one month of requested date: –2 points

What do you reckon the article scores? --Dweller (talk) 12:55, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Scott. I have some sympathy with your comments, but the fact is that Raul has asked us to nominate just five articles at any one time. The points system has evolved therefore to enable us to objectively narrow the field. If you look at the talk page of the requests page, you'll see that at any one point there's usually a couple of dozen contenders we need to narrow down to five. I think points are the right way; not sure we've got the precise nature of the points system right yet. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's off the mark, but it's getting there. --Dweller (talk) 09:31, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I see that as pretty unlikely, certainly in the short term. This new system represents a considerable step in that direction, compared to the previous situation, so perhaps it may evolve that way, but there are good reasons for control remaining centralised and he does an exceptional job. Having said that, you could suggest it, but I'm not optimistic you'd be successful. For one thing, the current limited community suggestion mechanism isn't working properly; it'd be a disaster to widen its scope until it actually works optimally. --Dweller (talk) 10:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Regardless of whether I agree or not, this deserves a wider audience. I recommend you post to Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests --Dweller (talk) 11:09, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Meatpuppet, Strawpuppet, and good uses

First what is a meatpuppet and strawpuppet? I never hear those words. And also what's the good use of sockpuppets? I know the most common abuse of multiple accounts is block evasion, and do some people abuse multiple accounts so they can try to stop speedy deletions, or comment twice on AFD, to prevent an article from being deleted, this is what you said earlier by people commenting twice to get around with 3RR.--Freewayguy ^{Ask? +000s} 00:36, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Editor review/Freewayguy

Do you have anything else to comment to my ER? This seems like my covility problem is now gone from Commons. I seem to learnt from my civility problems. I did make improvements.--Freewayguy ^{Ask? +000s} 18:40, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

So this is not impossible I will never become an admin, it will just take at least several month for my civil problem to be forgotten. You told me to take a soda when I am about to get crazy mad, I do take sodas everyday anyways.--Freewayguy ^{Ask? +000s} 18:59, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Browsing page from my prefer

You said I should set a main page of browser of WP:CIVILITY. I don't see the part where they let me to set main pages before I start and editing day. And also lately, I noticed 75.47 was actually getting worse than the way he was in march. I've notice, his civil problem gets deeper, and deeper, and more and often he spits slurs and swearing languages. The latest swear slurs I found by editing summary of "Fuck you", which is not a good summary, shows other people he's trying to attack them. I've found some links of editing summary he put "so" or who cares, after CountyLemonade told him to discuss issues on talkpage. Lately, I've set this image on my talkpage, I wonder if I can set it on my main page so it will be the first thing I will see before I start to edit a day, so I won't go under the green zone of the diagram. I found out lately, 75.47 actually dive to orange or pink zone, a zone is dangerous to community.--Freewayguy ^{What's up?} 23:49, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

75.47.0.0/16 range block

Okay, not that I'm taking sides with 75.47, but why are you giving him a range block for 2 months? Isn't that a little harsh for him? I'm sure you can recall that range blocks are only used at the last resort. (And how did you find his IP range number (16) after the 75.47.0.0? I heard you had to convert his IP range to binary codes and counting all the numbers to find the number [which in this case you found his to be 16] in order to correctly block his range) --Splat5572 (talk) 02:52, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

• Splat5572 (talk · contribs), this is because 75.47 continues to call people names and uses slurs under his belt when he known earlier (s)he's not suppose to do that. Keiryn earlier told him "Fuck you" is not an acceptable edit summaries and he knows that, he's just reluctant to comply. Scott is like one of the nicest guy I've ever worked with, and we can't have people be using that many incivil slurs anywhere including edit summaries. There is alot more incivilities in 75.47's history. RFC/75/47 has alot of posted links for the incivilities he had done. Weh ad tried to block him in the past, but he changes his IP to evade it. We normally extend blocks for attemption of evasion.--Freewayguy ^{What's up?} 18:30, 20 August 2008 (UTC)