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RE: Welcome!

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the welcome note. I actually created my account about 2 months after you did, but I've not been as active.

Buell and the 1125R are near and dear to me since I have owned two Buell motorcycles: a 2007 XB12R and a 2008 1125R which I currently own. Vicky, my 1125R has over 35,000 miles on her as of Monday.

I see that you live in Kirkland; I live in Tacoma... We should see about riding together some time!

Are you, by chance, on PNWRiders.com? If so, look me up... Chameleon

--PDA Monkey (talk) 12:19, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm surprised nobody sent you a welcome message before! Not on pnwriders.com but I check in on sport-touring.net occasionally. -- Brianhe (talk) 16:40, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Link Light Rail navbox

I don't know how to edit a navbox, but could you change the navboxes that you put in the International District Station, Westlake Station, and University of Washington Station (Link station) so that instead of saying they are the termini of East Link, Central Link and University Link, and North Link and University Link (respectively) they say something like "Continues to (route)"? Right now the navboxes are confusing because they make the rider think that they will have to transfer between lines at these stations; however, trains will run straight through from North Link to South Link and North Link to East Link.

Thanks,

Alexseattle (talk) 05:17, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

I've tried without success to tweak the nabvbox to use the through1/through2 parameters. Do you want to give it a go, or maybe we need help from train project people? — Brianhe (talk) 19:20, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Broken Coord

Hi. I'm trying to clear out Category:Coord template needing repair. Your page, User:Brianhe/scratch/Beelden an Zee, is on it because it has {{coor title dms|52|6|38|N|4|16|39|E|type:landmark|zoom:17|region:NL}}.

I think the code you want is {{coord|52|6|38|N|4|16|39|E |type:landmark_region:NL |display=title}}. The parameters about the subject have to go together, separated by underscores. The parameter zoom doesn't do anything, but you could add dim or scale. See {{Coord}} for explanation.
—WWoods (talk) 19:35, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Blanked the page. It was a scratchpad for Beelden aan Zee prior to creating the article. -- Brianhe (talk) 21:50, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Suzuki Hayabusa

On October 23, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Suzuki Hayabusa, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 15:03, 23 October 2009 (UTC) 19:07, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Harry Hurt DYK FYI

• Template talk:Did you know#Hugh H. Hurt.2C Jr.

If you don't mind, let's use my talk page for non-article chatter. That way we don't bounce back and forth between your page, my page, and WPMOTO tedder (talk) 06:50, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Harry Hurt

On December 5, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Harry Hurt, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 23:56, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Lifetime vs DEFAULTSORT

Hi. Concerning this edit of yours, I would like to inform you that, per consensus, lifetime now is replaced by DEFAULTSORT and the latter should not be replaced by lifetime when exists. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 19:57, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Autoreviewer

Hi Brianhe, I just came across one of your articles at newpage patrol, and was surprised to see that an editor who has been contributing articles since 2004 hadn't already been approved as an wp:Autoreviewer. So I've taken the liberty of rectifying that. ϢereSpielChequers 21:10, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

I feel all warm and fuzzy :) Thanks -- Brianhe (talk) 21:16, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

You're very welcome. ϢereSpielChequers 21:23, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Cochicken

Actually, it's already been through prod once - I put it there myself, unsuccessfully. Deb (talk) 18:16, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

It looks like AfD is on track though, so my faith in Wikipedians' wisdom is unshaken :) — Brianhe (talk) 19:06, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

SuperFabric article

Thanks for helping edit my article, I am pretty new to Wikipedia. Can I ask you why you decided to include the Goldstein image? I removed it a while back because other editors were giving me a hard time, saying that the image was associated with promotion. Julieskim0202 (talk) 16:26, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

WP:IMAGE has some guidelines on using images. In general if it contributes to the article it's allowed. In this case a close-up of the special material makeup would be better, but some illustration is better than none in my opinion. Not sure why it was removed before but it probably had to do with overall promotional tone of the article, which is getting better now. -- Brianhe (talk) 16:38, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

WP Motorcycling in the Signpost

WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Motorcycling for a Signpost article to be published April 12. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Also, if you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 19:30, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Great, thanks for the invitation; I participated in responding. Can I suggest contacting User:Seasalt as well? - Brianhe (talk) 04:18, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Feel free to WP:BEBOLD! Dbratland contacted a few others too. tedder (talk) 05:37, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

A little help

The text in Royal Enfield Thunderbird is copyrighted but the images are not, how do I correct it? Daniel Prabhu 03:01, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Instructions to edit on the temporary version of the article were in the notice posted to your userpage, also included in the copyvio notice currently on the article. You will need to copy the images from the existing article to the temporary version. -- Brianhe (talk) 19:24, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks... Daniel Prabhu 10:10, 16 April 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dprabhu (talk • contribs)

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 19:07, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Neat. Note to self - check Special:OldReviewedPages. —Brianhe (talk) 19:55, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Commemorative Air Force

Did you mean to put this in the category of National Aviation Hall of Fame inductees? Neither the Airman HOF nor the CAF are actual inductees. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 15:02, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

I was following the statement in the article "The group's accomplishments were recognized in 1989 when it became a National Aviation Hall of Fame inductee." This is uncited and I was unable to verify at NAHF website. -- Brianhe (talk) 15:04, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Oh, ok. I found the verification ([1]) and it turns out that they are not an inductee, they are an "Spirit of Flight Award" winner. I have corrected the statement in the article and added the ref. I'll let you decide if the category still fits. Thanks. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 16:01, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for chasing that down. I removed from the Hall of Fame Inductees category. — Brianhe (talk) 18:57, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Multiple external links to Bridge of Glass, Tacoma

Hi Brianhe

This is in reference to your recent post in my Talk page about external links of Bridge of Glass, Tacoma in multiple (3) pages of Wikipedia.

In this connection I wish to clarify that the intention was not for advertising or promoting my blog or increasing the page ranking. I am aware that Wikipedia uses nofollow tags. At the most you can say I was overzealous. The blog is totally Ads free and I do not derive any monitory benefit from it. I spend many hours researching on a topic and thought that Wikipedia readers should get more information about this magnificent bridge, about which the present Wiki page gives very little information. I therefore suggest that the external link in the Bridge of Glass page inserted by me should be reverted back and the deletion of same link from other pages is OK.

I have also noted in greater details the guidelines for Wikipedia:External links and will try to follow it as far as possible.

All the Best.

CuriousJM (talk) 15:27, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Hey Curious, thanks for your acknowledgement of the WP:ELNO guidelines. As you must have noted guideline #11 covers the use of blogs, such as yours, as citations. Are you a notable authority on architecture or art? Or is the site a self published source? I agree that the Bridge of Glass article needs citations, but still they should follow the core Wikipedia tenet of verifiability. -- Brianhe (talk) 04:41, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Good catch :)

Hi there, just a quick note, no need to respond: just wanted to say "thank you" for fixing my errors of categorization, and for doing so sans the wiki's standard fanfare for such matters. Good job, SteveStrummer (talk) 23:48, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Smith Tower

I am reinserting my edit regarding the occupation of the penthouse, based on the following two statements regarding inclusionism on Wikipedia: "Because Wikipedia does not have the same space limitations as a paper encyclopedia, there is no need to restrict content in the same way that a Britannica must." "Two important prerequisites for additions to Wikipedia are that the information is correct and well placed." I see nothing "unencyclopedic" about the information, certainly it is more encyclopedic than the anecdote regarding the Chinese Chair superstition. My opinion of this aside, this deletion should stand until discussed by the WP community. --DOHC Holiday (talk) 01:08, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Flash Gordon (physician)

The article Flash Gordon (physician) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

fails WP:BIO

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. -- Y not? 13:09, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Honda RC series

The article Honda RC series has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Opening statement "Although there is, strictly speaking, no Honda RC Series" makes it unlikely the term could ever meet WP:N or WP:V. A search for references found web hits, but no published (gBooks) that meetWP:RS

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 15:39, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Added links to Stephanie moulton sarkis

Hi there, I've linked from three other Wikipedia pages that mention Sarkis, but I have an orphan tag. I'm wondering how to fix that. Thanks! Anne2608 (talk) 22:16, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Just delete the tag. — Brianhe (talk) 22:19, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Okay, thank you! I'm still learning the ways of the Wikiverse. :) Anne2608 (talk) 22:21, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion converted to PROD: Sikta deo

Hello Brianhe. I am just letting you know that I have converted the speedy deletion tag that you placed on Sikta deo to a proposed deletion tag, because I do not believe CSD applies to the page in question. Thank you. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 02:24, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

I am OK with prod, thanks for the heads-up. Brianhe (talk) 05:03, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Re: Your contributed article, Law (rule)

Hi, Brianhe. I am an experienced editor from pt.wiki and I noticed that the english version of Wikipedia doesn't have the article that corresponds to Lei in my wiki. You can see by viewing this page there are several other versions of Wikipedia that have this article. I tried to create it, but my article was deleted. Please, help me to create this article. Thanks. Roberto de Lyra (talk) 04:12, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

You can add an interwiki link to pt.wiki. It should look like this: [[en:Law]]

Add to the end of the Lei article, near es:Ley and the other INTERWIKI links. Cheers — Brianhe (talk) 05:02, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for trying to help me, but if the problem were with the interwikis, the Bots would have solved this problem. I can imagine how it's hard for you to understand the difference between Direito and Lei, because in english the two words have the same name, but i ask you to analyze the two pages and trying to understand their difference. Thanks. Roberto de Lyra (talk) 05:25, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately I do not read Portuguese. It's possible you're looking at a word that translates to "rule" in English, see rulemaking. We don't seem to have an article on rule in the legal sense though this may be subsumed into Law and/or Administrative law. This probably requires an expert on law to sort out. — Brianhe (talk) 07:28, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

That's the difference:

pt:Direito = He graduated in Law at Harvard University.

pt:Lei = The judge created the new law to control drug trafficking.

Roberto de Lyra (talk) 18:40, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Please, help me to create this article. Roberto de Lyra (talk) 18:41, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Roberto de Lyra (talk) 22:58, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Like I said, I'm not an expert on law but I pulled some public domain text from the first edition of Black's Law Dictionary and put it in your userspace at User:Roberto de Lyra/Rule. — Brianhe (talk) 02:23, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi from your 60-second recap editing buddy!

Hi there -- I'm newish to Wikipedia and learning as I go, so I really appreciate your patience with me as I fumble about, but there are a couple of things that are really bugging me here about this Hebe Magazine/Wash Post thing ...

1) The Heeb piece is unsigned. It's anonymous. 2) Valerie Strauss, who wrote the piece for the Post's online blog, "The Answer Sheet", is an "on-line columnist" -- e.g., a blogger -- for The Washington Post. 3) I imagine that Strauss did not write the piece for Heeb ... but I don't know for sure, do you? It's a conjecture on my part -- sure, a reasonable one. But a conjecture nonetheless. Is it conjecture on your part? 4) If so, how can we state, with absolute certainty, that there are multiple "critics" here, as we only know the identity of one critic?

Thanks for taking the time to read, and respond! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Contextmatters (talk • contribs) 00:52, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Strauss is a Washington Post staff writer: [2]. There's no reason to presume that she's moonlighting for Heeb. If the piece were signed, would you know with "absolute certainty" that it's not a false identity? This is not a reasonable standard. — Brianhe (talk) 01:10, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

LOL You are tough. Well, Valerie Strauss' comment was NOT written for the newspaper. It was written, exclusively, for her online blog. There is a BIG difference. Furthermore, I know of no encyclopedic standard whereby anonymous criticism (e.g., Heeb) is not delegitimizing. You say we have two critics here. Fine. Who are they? 1) Valerie Strauss and 2) Who? P.S. Before I became a full-time educator, I spent 10 years in journalism. We had a saying in the biz: You think your mother loves you? Check it out! Cheers ... Contextmatters (talk) 02:22, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Gavin Trippe DYK nom...

Gavin Trippe on DYK. Hopefully I can expand a little more. --Dbratland (talk) 07:12, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

You did a great job on the expansion! – Brianhe (talk) 20:39, 24 December 2010 (UTC)