Loren.wilton

Hello! I have not been spending much time on Wikipedia lately. I apologies in advance if you leave me a message and do not get an answer for a month or two. On Wikipedia, I occasionally spend time patrolling recent changes. If, while doing so, you believe I have made a mistake, please note: I am only human, I sometimes make mistakes. Edits I revert, I generally revert as they appear to be vandalism of some sort. If you believe I have made a mistake, just undo my edit, and leave me a message pointing it out to me here. I would prefer that you don't leave me a template message, if I've made a bad edit, chances are it was a mistake. And, if I have reverted your edit, whether vandalism or a mistake, please don't abuse me with vandalism here. It will be quickly reverted. I am not here everyday. If you leave me a message and I don't respond immediately, don't panic! I will get back to you the next time I am online and see your message.

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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand Flagged for Copy edit

Please list the run on sentences you have found on the discussion page of the article and I will try to straighten them out.Werchovsky (talk) 02:18, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I reviewed the edits to the article you made a couple days ago and they are good. As you pointed out on my talk page, in the discussion section of the article, we may still have some points of disagreement.

The primary point of disagreement is that I believe the article should be written using college level english. I recognize that on Wikipedia there are many young readers, but this is a subject, based on my own personal experience, of more interest to college educated adults. To see how the subject might be handled when written using high school english I looked at my children's 10th grade world history text. The effect of the dumbed-down language and the effort to capture the children's imagination was to create a text which was in parts false, and in other parts misleading; frankly it was a travesty. Some of the ideas in the wikipedia article go beyond what the average high school student has the patience to understand. Take the section "Serbia's 'Warning' to Austria-Hungary", for example. The "warning" was for the purposes of "plausible deniability" by Pasic, but of course Pasic never admitted this, so the historians and the article are forced to wander the labyrinth of conflicting statements and let the sophisticated reader arrive at the proper conclusion on his own. I think if we can settle on using college level english most other issues will be easy to resolve.Werchovsky (talk) 17:34, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:SCH

I've noticed that you've added our schools tag to several pages which we hadn't found before. Thank you! Adding new articles is one of the most important things to our project. If you intend to continue, I encourage you to join our participants list and watch for discussion on our talk page. We would be glad to have you, and welcome to the Wikipedia community! Also, if you would have a look at the assessment you can also get a better Idea of how to rate articles. Feel free to post any questions you may have to my talk page. Adam McCormick (talk) 04:56, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I am fine with the production line, but would much prefer that you rate none of them. That way our Assessment team can make the ratings. Adam McCormick (talk) 05:23, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Should I avoid even the Stub rating and leave it blank completely? Making a choice of Stub or Start seems pretty straight-forward, yet I see this missing on dozens of articles. I'm more than happy with leaving any higher rating to someone else. Loren.wilton (talk) 05:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Better to just leave the template blank. If you just post "{{WPSchools|class=|importance=|needs-infobox=}} " to any school page you find, we'll take care of the rest. The rating is missing on over 2000 articles, but unrated is easy to find where incorrectly rated is very difficult. Adam McCormick (talk) 05:47, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I've gone through your contributions and corrected a few starts mislabeled as stubs. Once again, thank you for adding all of these tags. Adam McCormick (talk) 06:08, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Stuff to tag

All of those are good to tag.

• School districts, lists thereof, lists of schools, schools, disambiguations of school pages, pages about types of schools, and awards for schools are all great to tag.
• Things not to tag would be educational styles, grading systems, colleges/universities, educator pages, educational programs.

Those might not be exhaustive lists, but I hope that helps Adam McCormick (talk) 06:27, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar!

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Beat me to the revert several times already in this hour. :) Good job. Cheers, Midorihana~いいですね? はい! 06:52, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Header message

HEY! Did you copy my message? From the top of my talk page. :P Steve Crossin (talk to me) 05:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, sorry, I meant to mention I stole that from you and made some small tweaks (like changing the name in the edit link). I thought it looked rather nice, and having had this page vandalized about 8 times yesterday... Loren.wilton (talk) 05:58, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

• Well, I guess I'll just have to steal it back off you ;) I like the look of that border :D Steve Crossin (talk to me) 06:09, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		As I'm watching recent changes, you seem to be the editor-every single time, making the revert. Slightly irritating that I keep getting beaten, but there is no doubt you earned this one. Good job :) Steve Crossin (talk to me) 08:46, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Warning Vandals

Understood...in my case...I prefer doing warnings by hand. I use the following and patch and paste the notices. Thanks for your help. Kukini ^{háblame aquí} 13:57, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

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Nice work!

I've been undoing vandalism for a few minutes now on the Australian football page...I see you've been camping out longer than I have! I g2g now, so I trust it's in good hands. Keep up the spiffy work! Bob the Wikipedian, a WikiDragon (talk) 06:26, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

There was a bout of it there for a while, but it tapered off just about the time you left, so you got to see all the fun!  :-) Loren.wilton (talk) 11:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Keep up the great work

Just want to say keep up the great work taking care of those vandals, you do a wonderful job and the whole Wikipedian community appreciates i am sure. I know you say your human but you revert as quick as a bot. By the time i look at the diff. i see you have done it already. Your probably using some shortcuts, im using my bare hands and nothing else. Thanks Loren. Not many people on wikipedia use their real name. I assume thats your real name. Roadrunnerz45 (talk) 10:53, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

See right above on my comment on Vandal Fighter. A nice recent changes monitor program, and I can say from experience that it can considerably speed up how fast you can catch vandalism. Loren.wilton (talk) 03:08, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Applause...

As a former English teacher, I'm always on the lookout for a nice turn of phrase; your "buttered over with corporate-marketese" made me smile. :)Gladys J Cortez 22:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

The Stanley

Hi, how are you doing? I'm pretty good. Have you checked the Stanley talk page lately? I've got a bunch of plans and schemes I am cooking up. If you have any feedback about them, don't hesitate! Anyway, the reason I am writing is I have been in touch with Nicole from the Arts Club a couple of times and she says to say hi to you from her. Cool, talk to you later, and have a good day. Moisejp (talk) 04:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Howdy. I've got the article watchlisted and have seen you doing lots of good things, but have been too busy in RL to contribute anything useful. Hopefully I'll be able to spare some time again in a week or two, but things are really busy just at the moment. I really like what I'm seeing happen in the article, you are doing great stuff! Loren.wilton (talk) 07:09, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Great, glad you like it. Good luck with your RL and look forward to seeing you back around the Stanley whenever you've got the time. Take care. Moisejp (talk) 02:06, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

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United States H-class submarine

I've undone a combination of your edit (removing "see photo" from description of temporary bridge structure) and somebody else's edit, wherein the photo reference was re-inserted after the "chariot" bridge shield reference. Anyway, a close examination of the somewhat low-res photo of USS H-1 shows that it has the temporary piping-and-canvas bridge erected and is not equipped with the "chariot" shield. That said, thanks for your edits to the United States S-class submarine article, they make it read better. RobDuch (talk) 05:50, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. Your change is obviously correct, I'm not sure how I mis-viewed the design of that bridge rigging when editing that article. Loren.wilton (talk) 00:57, 17 October 2014 (UTC)