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Reverting vandalism doesn't count. I am reporting the user to VirtualSteve and he can block all the socks. The Real Libs-speak politely 19:17, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

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When you have an opportunity would you check on this article? I found it watching RC and saw a "cite error" message displayed. I attempted to correct the problem but was not able to succede. Fortunately I did no damage, either :) It's a low priority thing, but I try not to leave an article in disarray and this one is not cooperating :-\ See ya 'round Tiderolls 20:49, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

...and adopt the "popcorn" version as your own idea! lol LessHeard vanU (talk) 19:55, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm insulting Sonichu, not Chris. It's not an attack. 76.247.154.143 (talk) 10:33, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

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sync from User talk:Excirial, Spitfire^Tally-ho!
Hello Excirial, just a quick note to say I've removed the db template you put on Busan Foreign School, I've edited it a little, and believe that it should now be fine, if you disagree please do feel free to talk to me about it, great work in the new page patrol, all the best Spitfire^Tally-ho! 13:14, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

How could i ever disagree with such a change? It looks a-ok to me. The initial page lacked even the most basic context to indentify what "Busan Foreign School" the article referenced to so i could not make a stub out of it. But that problem is obviously solved now. Great work! Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 13:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :) Glad you like it, all the best Spitfire^Tally-ho! 13:21, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

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Heheh, sorry, did I keep giving you edit conflicts? :) It needs to be moved to a better-capitalized title at some point, but I'll let you do the honours/leave it til you're done. Gonzonoir (talk) 19:02, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

No worries. Chocks away! :) Gonzonoir (talk) 19:15, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Today was the second time you noticed something was going on. The first time was when I created categories in article namespace, the second time a conflict with another editor. How come you are aware in realtime of what is going on? Debresser (talk) 21:30, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

For future reference, members of a national legislature are de facto notable. DS (talk) 23:42, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Information of this sort should have a stand alone website. Nevermind, I made the necessary changes. Needs a bit of cleanup. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nefirious (talk • contribs) 08:23, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Nevermind, been editing too many articles, so I might have muddled up somewhere. Delete the tag if you felt was not necessary. Keep up the good work. Keep wikipedia safe from Vandals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nefirious (talk • contribs) 08:29, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Meh...I guess I get the feeling that if someone creates an article prompting a reader to visit 'this so-and-so website' and 'that so-and-so website' about a company that has no importance asserted about it, the attempt at "spamming" and promoting the subject supersedes its lack of importance. But, nah, don't mind you making the changes at all. I'll go with A7 instead if you feel it's best. Cheers! - SoSaysChappy (talk) 13:02, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I actually meant to tag the article for speedy deletion because it doesn't seem to meet wik-policy. If you agree, you could retag. Happy editing.SchnitzelMannGreek. 13:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

It's okay...feel free to stop by my userpage, view it and sign the guestbook if you want;)SchnitzelMannGreek. 13:49, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi. The lack of tagging on the article may be a Twinkle error, or me prematurely navigating away from the page back before Twinkle had finished. I'll be more patient in future, and look out for any re-occurance. Thanks for the heads-up, sorry for the confusion. TrulyBlue (talk) 14:16, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

I can't help but notice that you are editing the article on fragmentation analysis.... Are you adding something to it, or are you deleting it? As I mentioned in my talk page, I am in the process of editing the topic and will have more information by 5:00pm EST. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wipware (talk • contribs)

Hi .. noting your concern on references, can you please suggest what is suitable for inclusion? Does trivial mean they should not be <refs>, or are not worthy of supporting the article? Some guidance appreciated, thx.

Stennie (talk) 12:23, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Spitfire! I didn't mistakenly remove the category "barrages" from the Bristol Harbour article. I removed it because its addition was so obviously a mistake. Bristol Floating Harbour, to give it its accurate name, is not a tidal barrage, like Cardiff Bay or the Rance estuary in Brittany. There has been talk, since Brunel's time, of putting a barrage at the mouth of the Avon, but it hasn't happened.

As I am sure that you know, there is some interest in building a Severn Barrage, but there is no tidal barrage in or near Bristol Floating Harbour. I have worked boats on that harbour since 1983 and I do know what I am talking about.

There is a weir across the river Avon at Netham and an underfall dam at Rownham, but neither serves any tidal barrage purpose. Cheers. Jezhotwells (talk) 15:51, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

No probs - Ah, I see, I just saw it listed at Barrage (tidal) and assumed.... - now you know why Wikipedia is NOT an reliable source!!!! Jezhotwells (talk) 16:11, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

With regard to AfD of Luke Ayling, sorry, author was notified but assumption is normally made (by me anyway) that recent contributors who have a genuine interest retain articles on their watchlist for a few days. Although this was a relatively new article with relatively few editors, it is often impractical to notify all contributors and so I rarely bother.--ClubOranje^T 01:43, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Re this: just to let you know, the time between speedy nomination and completion is a minimum of 48 hours. Thanks for your work, though. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 08:01, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, had a brain fart. Bcspro (talk) 15:54, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Please have look at article and discussion page. ThanksDjflem (talk) 19:36, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi - I've had repeated problems with a user (over a period of possibly half a year) consistently not acting in good faith regarding edits, acting arrogantly, and (IMHO) discouraging people from editing pages that he polices. I noticed that you had a disagreement with them some time ago and even went so far as to suggest that if they can't AGF they should consider not undoing so many changes. Nothing has changed in this respect. I personally believe that even though this user does remove a lot of vandalism, their net effect on wikipedia is negative, and that they are (a) removing a lot of useful information quickly (sometimes they will remove an entire edit just because it does not conform with one tiny thing - even if the rest of the edit is fine and informative), and (b) discouraging a lot of newcomers with this attitude. I thought I'd mention it here since you seemed to really know what's going on through your discussion with them - is it appropriate for me to say who they are, here? Sorry to bother you if this is all too much trouble. Luminifer (talk) 18:23, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Ah. you must have emailed me about this. I might have changed my settings since then - can you try again? Luminifer (talk) 16:12, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

[1]. Careful please, that lasted hours. Prodego ^talk 23:52, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

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Abce2|From the top now!Arggggg! 21:47, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

2 Simply south, Spitfire, and Nutiketaiel: I'm going to approve "Carpe Diem" so I've answered on my talk page. All the best! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:43, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder about the WP:CSD A2 criteria. I'll make sure that I only use it if there is an equivalent article. If it's a language that I do speak (my Arabic is only limited and dialectal at the moment), I'll redirect next time, or leave it to someone who can translate. -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 20:47, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

There is no need to have a formal merge discussion for a redirect and there is no need for a merge in the case of these articles as a WP:DUE appropriate description of this fringe theory exists at the destination article. I will copy these comments to the appropriate talk page. Simonm223 (talk) 18:03, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

So you mentioned that there should be an essay about this, but there isn't one. So maybe I'll write it. What should the essay be about? Just more on what I wrote to start the MOTD? And if I did write an essay, how does one go about getting it put somewhere else in WP besides my userpage? Thanks for giving me something to think about. :-) Hires an editor (talk) 02:34, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing the strangeness at the Pain Hertz deletion ... BTW, I emailed you (I think) some weeks ago, did you ever get it? Luminifer (talk) 15:44, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Ok, thanks again... Things are getting ugly now... sigh... Luminifer (talk) 15:01, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

FYI, [2] (since you're involved) Luminifer (talk) 21:23, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello, In response to your message Reg White built originally the ISO and then a short time afterwards introduced the Buzz as a smaller version and then the Boss which was a larger twin trapeze boat to the ISO family.

Topper and Laser flooded the boats onto the market at the same time to out do one another and Laser won.

The Boss followed the Laser 5000 in sailing history and Topper International collapsed.

There is the Buzz's twin wire big rig version called the Spice if you have ever heard of that, it sold in small numbers and was faster than the ISO!

Regards

msa1701 (talk) 13:05, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Much as I appreciate you adding three sources for his supposed birthdate, can I counteract with [3], where Armstrong himself says that his birthday is in March? iMDb is certainly not reliable here, btw, and I'm not sure about Chortle/TV.com, which may also have got it from there (every site referencing another wrong site, perhaps)? Stephenb (Talk) 13:27, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi there. I *do* so appreciate the "I'm not attacking you" attack post! In any case, this has been discussed before, as I see you've now learned, and if you look at my part of the discussion, you'll see I posted a possible source that, if it's the right Alexander Armstrong, is 100% solid evidence. As I'm not in the UK, I can't exactly check the listing itself; that's why I said in my revert "if someone could check that" or similar. I suppose someone could ask AA himself on Twitter something to prove it (what his middle name is; what his mother's maiden name is), though I don't know if that's exactly RS... Bangdrum (talk) 22:07, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

On October 9, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Melanie Hall, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (see the pageview stats(?)) 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.

Thanks ... Do think about one for Halloween! Victuallers (talk) 06:28, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Please excuse my tardiness in taking note of some recent help from you on my talk page. I'm well aware that it is not my page in a literal sense, but you are welcome to make changes there as you see fit. You were one of the first editors to offer advice and help when I started here and I keep your opinions and insights in high regard. I hope things are well with you and yours, Tiderolls 11:46, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for giving the vandal that warning, but... isn't anything going to be done about them? I mean, they just vandalised my talk page out of the blue! --LordNecronus (talk) 22:12, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

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		Awarded for the tactful way you recently questioned another editor's use of uw-vandal3. Pointillist (talk) 21:28, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

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...I don't think it would be helpful to discuss the matter further in this case. - Pointillist (talk) 22:15, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Regarding this one, I deleted some of the content from it (before it was deleted then recreated) since the long list of bf's could potentially be a negative thing for a young girl. Given that it's a BLP, I wasn't taking any chances. (Plus, it's easily within policy as removal of unsourced info). --Bfigura ^(talk) 15:56, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

it is in the best interest of everyone to ensure safety and love my previous edit was changed so i am to assume that some sort of hatred of america is a common theme here 71.197.46.219 (talk) 07:29, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

This is a general message to get people to contribute as we are running out again so if you could please do. Please also see Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day#The Future. Note to anyone who reads this, WP:MOTD/N. Simply south (talk) 15:54, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Just wanted to stop by and thank you for your comments in Wikiquette.  IShadowed  ✰  19:59, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

No problem, I'm glad to be of help. Kind regards, Spitfire^Tally-ho! 20:06, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Hello! I had received a comment in my first review that my article looks like an advertisement. I have attempted to rewrite the article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fiberlink/sandbox) with an encyclopedic tone. Can you please review my article? Also, can we please remove the tags (as the article is created in my sandbox space and these tags seem irrelevant). If there are any sections which appear to be still like an advertising effort, please point out that sections and give appropriate examples.. I am here to stay and would like to contribute more to wiki writing.

Thank you Fiberlink (talk) 09:43, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

A request for comments has been filed concerning the conduct of CarolineWH (talk · contribs). You are invited to comment on the discussion at [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/CarolineWHTemplate:Highrfc-loop]]. -- Paularblaster (talk) 15:06, 25 November 2009 (UTC) Thanks. --15:06, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Howdy, I'm rather new to RfCs and was not sure where to comment so I figured I would write here. Regarding your second point there some things which I probably should have brought up in Wikiquette alerts. The first is on the block. Caroline edits from the same computer as a convicted sockpuppeteer who has made the same edits that she is making, she is the reason her ip was blocked. It was unblocked for reasons that I am not privy to and this is acceptable to me, but highly suspicious. Per the second, Caroline is a textbook SPA, even as an ip she only edited the same narrow band of abortion related articles and only for the same purpose. - Schrandit (talk) 16:19, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

I am aware that the block was overturned but keep in mind that all the evidence that contributed in this overturning was submitted by Caroline and taken, in good faith, by the community and this has left me suspicious. - Schrandit (talk) 16:49, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for awarding me that barnstar. I'd like to get this content dispute resolved and move on to opportunities to earn other barnstars. CarolineWH (talk) 18:39, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

In response to this edit, I'd like to briefly offer some information. Yes, I did a bit of detective work with the intent of determining whether allegations of sockpuppetry linking both Specter and the anonymous editor at that unnamed company with Spotfixer had any merit. These allegations were based solely on the fact that the editors had similar views about a particular technical topic, not anything that I would consider convincing.

As you may be aware, I was also accused of being a Spotfixer sockpuppet, which is what spawned my interest in this. Coincidentally, Schrandit was a key figure in most of these accusations, which is another aspect of my interest. The one private thing I know about Spotfixer -- and carefully did not WP:OUT -- is the name of the school they attended, based what I know about a publicly-revealed IP that they once used. Using this knowledge, I made the phone calls to determine if I could find some evidence that any of the above-mentioned editors could be linked. Based on the absence of evidence where it would be expected, I am convinced to my satisfaction that they are not. This confirms my suspicions about most, if not all, of the Spotfixer sockpuppetry claims being false.

I'd like to clarify that my motivation was to check the accuracy of these accusations, not to make accusations or in any way reveal private information. I believe that what I did was within the bounds of ethical journalism, in addition to the rules of Wikipedia, and I stand behind it. It is my considered opinion that Paul was mistaken to bring this into the RfC/CU, even more so than he was mistaken to launch an RfC/CU in the first place. CarolineWH (talk) 19:17, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Basketball's not my sport (more of a cricket man) but I believe that would count as a full-court press? – ukexpat (talk) 20:39, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, never intended to remove your reply on the Village Pump, just the duplicate section. I was about to sort it out when I noticed you already had. CrispMuncher (talk) 21:27, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

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