User talk:Tubedogg

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I'll Be

Hi there!

On Edwin McCain and Misguided Roses, you wrote that "I'll Be" was the top single or song, respectively, of 1998. Where? Please specify any country/genre/broadcaster/chart where this occured. On this apparent copy of the 1998 Billboard top 100 it shows at number 71 for the year, having peaked at number 5.

I'll remove the assertions for now, to prevent any false conclusions. But certainly I wouldn't be surprised if it topped a radio format airplay chart, a regional chart, etc. So please do add anything you can. :) Cheers! Samaritan 01:00, 1 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Article Creation : HiveMail

Hi Please excuse me if this is in the wrong place (I'm new and it says at the top of the talk page that I should write questions on the talk page... but I'm not sure how to create a new section so I've loaded the last section and created a new heading(?) using double '=' characters.

My question is, you say on your user page that you own HiveMail. I hardly know anything about HiveMail and although HiveMail's site contains a lot of info I usually check Wikipedia first... I did and I couldn't find anything about HiveMail.

Seeing as you're the owner of the site (and better acquainted with it than I am) perhaps you should create a simple article for it ? I'm not sure if that's a conflict of interest/an issue.

Thanks

Aquarat (talk) 21:52, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

updating album ratings

Thanks for going through the album ratings and updating them. Not all of the ratings do use stars though. I don't know if you're checking that. If they only use a numeric rating, we should not convert it to stars. However, if it's already displaying as stars, and you're running a script or other automated process, I don't think you need to check. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:26, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Walter Görlitz: I haven't been checking the validity or source of the ratings (except in a handful of cases where the template was used but no parameters were present). I have only been rounding to the nearest whole or half number to conform to the template requirement, and adding the score parameter in that case to reflect the original score. I have seen some cases where there was use of the rating template intermixed with ratings that were not in the template -- presumably meaning the source did not use a star rating, like you say -- and I left those non-template ratings alone. tubedogg (talk) 01:41, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thanks for adding oldIDs to old GA templates. Argento Surfer (talk) 18:29, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Argento Surfer: You're welcome, and thanks for the barnstar :D tubedogg (talk) 22:26, 9 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deception (2018 TV series)

I added the ratings for the series first and the other user over-edited them with the less accurate and unreliable source. 119.224.3.221 (talk) 22:40, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Since there is a disagreement, I suggest you direct discussion of your proposed edits to the article's talk page as the other editor requested, so as to come to a consensus. Edit warring is not in anybody's best interest and can lead to editing blocks. tubedogg (talk) 22:46, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm over it. showbuzz is the better source due to their consistent use of three decimal places and their listing of up to 150 top cable shows. Whereas zap2it only round broadcast finals to two and only list the top 25 cable shows and do not average the broadcast shares correctly. So since multiple editors seem to want to keep and force the zap2it's style of broadcast final rounding on every article I'm giving up on this whole site's TV articles. And those editors can go to hell. 119.224.3.221 (talk) 04:15, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) This IP user has a history regarding the presentaiton and rounding of viewership figures, resulting in lengthy discussions including User_talk:Whats_new?/Archive_3#No consensus for this type of formatting???????. I noticed you reported it to the admin noticeboard and I'll be interested to see the result there, as I have come close to doing so myslef in the past -- Whats new?^(talk) 06:28, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Get a life and stop stalking users. And you fail to realize the tvtonight numbers are rounded but are presented without metric prefixes. And I stopped using a registered account here because of stalkers like you. 119.224.3.221 (talk) 22:45, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have no horse in this race. I came across the page via Recent Changes. I could care less what format/precision of numbers is used. (So if you want to continue that discussion, please do it someplace other than my talk page.) What I will say is that edit warring and violations of WP:3RR, which an administrator did find reason to think you, 119.224.3.221, were engaged in, causes users to be blocked whether it's an IP or registered account. I suggest that you consider WP:CONSENSUS and WP:BRD going forward. If you find yourself constantly at odds with another editor(s) and can't come to a consensus, it may be best to find other articles to work on. tubedogg (talk) 22:59, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Consensus never works as all an editor needs is one other editor to agree with their way of doing things regardless of if it makes sense or not. I like other editors have ended up moving on to other articles, but you eventually encounter the same problem especially in regard to related TV articles. I have never met such a controlling group of editors who enforce and restrict edits to their way of doing things as dictated by MOS:TV which is used as more a rule book and NOT a style guide. 119.224.3.221 (talk) 01:30, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Harrow (TV series)

The editor AlexTheWhovian has taken over yet another article with unnecessary and repetitive table fields and can not be reasoned so discussion of any sort would be futile. Editor should be reported for his dictatorial style of editing. 119.224.3.221 (talk) 11:07, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More at my talk page. You've been told before not to edit war, on this very talk page. -- Alex^TW 11:10, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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No more nonsense

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You made a mistake in your edit of Jeffrey Dahmer and I chose to assume good faith, and therefore left you a notification, not a warning or block. Your use of this template on my talk page makes me believe that you were not, in fact, editing in good faith, and simply vandalized the article by removing valid content, and I will view your future contributions accordingly. tubedogg (talk) 21:18, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You just failed Logic 101. 32.218.42.122 (talk) 21:27, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Says the guy who stated that "[t]he Discovery Channel has broadcast an episode focusing upon Dahmer's crimes" is "commentary that belongs on the talk page." I'm not being vindictive. I'm simply stating that you followed your error (or vandalism) on Jeffrey Dahmer by accusing me of abusing warning templates by warning you or blocking you, neither of which were done. That doesn't seem like the action of a person who is editing constructively or in good faith themselves. tubedogg (talk) 21:44, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sir William Gladstone

I removed the content from Sir William Gladstone's article because when someone dies, they are removed from the Order of Precedence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:4D00:8780:B847:3B02:AA9A:F478 (talk) 01:57, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense. Please be sure to include that type of information in your edit summary to avoid confusion. I see that you've reverted my edit with a comment explaining, so we're good to go. tubedogg (talk) 02:01, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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