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I delete old talk. If you are very curious about it, you can have a look in this old version

Hi. I got your message about typo correction day. Thanks for the support. I was thinking that we would have a typo correction day on the last saturday of every month. Alexandros 22:18, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip about adminship. I appreciate your thoughtfulness. I will wait for someone to nominate me I believe. Best wishes and happy Thanksgiving! Alexandros

Muriel: apologies for being too hot on the deletion trigger. It was only a sentence (and misspelt) but I should have checked first, or left it for someone else. Secretlondon 16:26, Nov 26, 2003 (UTC)

Muriel: I did copy from a site -- my site. this site is a site I own (and plan to shut down at the end of December) and granted myself permission to copy the items I wrote to Wiki. If this is a problem, please let me know. (UTC)
I will note such in the talk pages. davodd 11:36, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

• Thanks - I will pare each to the minimum within the next few minutes. davodd 11:46, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Muriel. Please can add your user page to the list on Wikipedia:Protected page if you intend to leave it protected. There is a section especially for sysop pages as otherwise there is no way of knowing whether the protection was just accidental or meant to be temporary etc and it will probably be unprotected. Thanks. Angela 15:36, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I've been having trouble with my computer, and images do not come up in my Explorer browser. So when I saw the article, to me, all it said was Caecilius Metellus's family tree. That is why I deleted it. Please accept my apology.

I have since been able to see the amazing image that you created for that page. It is really quite beautiful work. Kingturtle 19:41, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Muriel, I didn't know if you'd seen these replies to your question on the village pump so I moved them as it was time to clean the page. Angela 21:27, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I should probably know this, but... What do we do when we stumble on an article which has a borderline copyvio? Meaning that some sentences are copied, others not. Is the whole article going to the copyvio page? I'm tempted. Cheers, Muriel Victoria 09:12, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Even if you're unsure, it is better to be vigilant and list it on the suspected copyviolations page. Then you can get other people's help in analysing whether or not it constitutes a copyvio. I think (IANAL of course) that using other people's copyrighted material is unlawful, unless it is clearly quoted as belonging to the originator. --snoyes 16:22, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

OK, I had a quick look at the article. Given that the original (long) version comes from a respected, longtime wikipedian a better approach would be to address the concerns on that users talk page. Or the article talk page. --snoyes 16:30, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Muriel,

I read your comment on Wikipedia talk:Make only links relevant to the context with great interest because it is an issue which I have been interested in and ocassionally raised, to little effect. I find pages with too many links horrible looking but so often people insist of having them all, despite what seem to me to be eminently sensible guidelines posted on the above page. Sometimes it seems like insisting on common sense here is a losing battle... Anyway, I thought war elephant was a great article. Cheers! -- Viajero 21:50, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)