User talk:Santaduck

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Hello Santaduck, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Alexa ranking

Your insightful comment about the systemic bias inherent in the Alexa toolbar made me withdraw my AfD nomination for your article (it's still up, but the result will almost surely be "keep" now). I hope the rough welcome you had by having your first article nominated for deletion doesn't put you off contributing; I'm sure that among other places, the Wikipedia:WikiProject Macintosh could use your knowledge and help. Again, sorry that I made you have such a bad start, and welcome! Kusma (討論) 03:34, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I see it was your third article. I should look more closely. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 03:36, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Facebook and freshman facebooks

I noticed that you added a line to the History section of Facebook (website) pointing out the connection between the website's name and the facebooks commonly handed out to freshmen... Thing is, this was already mentioned in the article's introduction (look at the last paragraph before the table of contents). Perhaps we could combine the two into a sentence explaining that facebooks are handed out to freshmen at many colleges, including the college attended by Facebook's creators? I'm not sure whether this information would fit better into the introduction or the history section... what do you think? - AdelaMae ^{(talk - contribs)} 21:34, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Re:Akeakamai & Macs

Hey thanks for the note no problem I like wikifying articles. I think the website you mentioned is worth making an article for at MarkMonitor. Have a happy new year. — Wackymacs 07:58, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Animal training; overlap

You wrote: The text for animal training itself is still very stub-like, and I'll continue filling it with more content. Unlike for dogs, as there is not a separate dolphin training article, I may start more text there. The key part I might need help on is contrasting different training philosophies, or even historically-ingrained differences in the training in various contexts, e.g. zoos vs. dolphinariums.

I'm having the same struggle with the dog training article, which had become somethign of a how-to obedience training article. I know a little bit about different training philosophies but not a tremendous amoutn and haven't really gotten that stuff into the dog training article yet (mostly I seem to be on cleanup duty for hundreds of dog articles). animal training is on my watchlist and I'll contribute if I can or add comments if I think of anything.

You wrote: Also in wikipedia, addressing redundant information is still a new task for me, and I might ask your advice in the very messy overlap between animal language and Great Ape language? The first article will be seriously edited, but even after that, the overlap with the second article is quite large.Santaduck 20:35, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd suggest always checking the talk pages and page histories in such cases to see whether there's already been some discussion on the overlap. If there isn't any old history explaining why there's overlap, then I consider it to be fair game for sorting out. It seems likely, on a quick scan through these particular articles, that it'll be hard to avoid some overlap. It always takes me back to writing term papers and taking info from tons of different sources that I originally dumped into the paper in what I *thought* were good sections, only to discover that it all needed to be chunked differently. I encounter that problem just in the main dog article all the time or other large dog topics like dog health, e.g., there's a whole huge discussion on rabies in the dog article that's redudant and/or should be folded into the rabies artcile but I haven't gotten to it becuase it's hard work. :-) Anywya, good look, I don't know that I can give more specific advice. Elf | Talk 21:13, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Harvard University Band

You're welcome. I was actually at my internship, noticed the new article (I watch the scramble bands article, since, yes, I'm in the DCMB), and did a couple quick edits. I just did a whole bunch of clean-up and formatting edits - feel free to change things, though. I did eliminate the section stubs, since the whole article is already a stub. --_└ ^Smith120bh/_TALK ^┐ 03:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Yak Butter

I agree with you about possible afd - it does look like a promotion article . Wilson's other book was nominated last year but was kept due to no consensus Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dead Men Don't Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa but it can nominated again as it still doesn't really identify its notability. See Articles for deletionfor a 'how to'. --JBellis 11:42, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

IATSE

Hey; the best way to go through a pagemove is by using the 'move' tab at the top of the screen (should be a bit to the right of the 'edit this page' tab), which will completely and fully move the page to whatever title you desire. If you've any reservations about moving pages for the first time, reading over m:Help:Moving a page should make things pretty clear. I've cleaned up the situation at IATSE (there's a slight technical issue with the existence of the extra page) and an administrator should complete the move in due time. ~ PseudoSudo 04:14, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Yup, all taken care of. ~ PseudoSudo 04:16, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

On second consideration, the previous spelling was actually correct. Employe is just a less-common spelling of the word 'employee,' and happens to be the spelling used by the IATSE on their website, so it seems like it'll stay as it was after all. ~ PseudoSudo 04:26, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Zebra pictures

I noticed that you commented on the Talk:Zebra page a while back, and I wonder if you might be willing to share your opinion on the last topic on the page. I like my pic better, but the other author likes theirs. What do you think? Lunkwill 06:26, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

List of Famous People From Hawaii

Hello Santaduck! Since Bulldog the actor on your list of famous people in Hawaii had no proper listing at Wikipedia (he was linked to the animal "Bulldog"), I tried to write one. It has been marked for speedy deletion and I've tried to further justify the article's existence. That being said, I note that there are a number of people on the list no more or less famous locally than Bulldog who do have links on Wikipedia. Do you have any tips on what I might be able to do to either keep Bulldog's article on the list or for how I might better recognize when somebody does belong on the list? Thank you!

• Thanks so much for your reply and for the advice regarding signing these notes. I can't say for certain that they teach Meisner Technique, but I would encourage you to contact The Academy of Film and Television, specifically Scott Rogers. They offer a wide range of classes and are probably aware of what else is being offered out there. You might also contact Harry Wong at Kumu Kahua Theatre since they periodically offer acting classes. Good luck! In related news, I know enough about Glen Cannon to make an entry about him. I'll work on this a bit later. Thanks for the tip! R. Kevin Doyle 19:29, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Spam in InsideMacGames

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Nomination of Photomedicine for deletion

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Replaceable fair use File:Promotional photo for Thomas Land theme park in Japan.jpg

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