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::: I'll redirect you to [[WP:STYLE#National_varieties_of_English|WP:STYLE - National varieties of English]]. Basically, it's fine to start an article in a regional dialect of English, but if an article has already been written in another dialect, don't add sections in a different dialect for consistency. [[User:Beno1000|Beno1000]] 15:20, 29 June 2006 (GMT)
::: I'll redirect you to [[WP:STYLE#National_varieties_of_English|WP:STYLE - National varieties of English]]. Basically, it's fine to start an article in a regional dialect of English, but if an article has already been written in another dialect, don't add sections in a different dialect for consistency. [[User:Beno1000|Beno1000]] 15:20, 29 June 2006 (GMT)

:::: ''I would like to draw your attention to the fact that i still have an unannswered question. please can you explain why American English has modified English English the way it has?''

::::: I fail to see how this has anything to do with how Wikipedia should be edited. [[User:Beno1000|Beno1000]] 12:20, 9 July 2006 (UTC)


==Mark Thomas comments==
==Mark Thomas comments==

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Semi-protect

Stop adding semi-protection notices to articles which aren't semi-protected. If you want to request semi-protection for an article, go to WP:RPP. --Sam Blanning(talk) 18:05, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If you don't mind, I'd like to keep the discussion here rather than fragmenting it across our separate talk pages. This talk page is on my watchlist, so I'll see when you reply.

i am semi protecting articles to prevent vandalism before it happens not after it has happened i personally thin prevention is better than cure so if we can discourage vandalism and protect vulnerable pages from vandalism i think we should protect them from vandalism also can you delete the broken picture on the lancing college page please —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lucy-marie (talk • contribs) .
Semi-protection can only done by admins. When you added the semi-protection notices it didn't semi-protect the article. If you want to ask an admin to semi-protect a page, you have to go to WP:RPP. Also, articles are only semi-protected when a large amount of vandalism comes from several different users in a single day, and glancing at some of the pages you tried to semi-protect, not all of them qualified. We don't want to discourage anyone from editing unless absolutely necessary. See Wikipedia:Protection policy for the full explanation. --Sam Blanning(talk) 18:14, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

i thank you for this so. i request that gordon brown and john prescott be protected from vandalism —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lucy-marie (talk • contribs) .

Sorry, both articles have only been vandalised once today. That isn't close to the amount of vandalism necessary to justify semi-protection.
But I did remove that broken link for you. Image code looks like this: [[Image:Teme_House.jpg|thumb|300px| Teme House, Lancing College]], so if you want to remove a picture in future, just find that code and delete it. Also, please sign your posts on talk pages by typing ~~~~, which produces the name and the date, like this: --Sam Blanning(talk) 18:21, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Statute

Whilst it is not a copyright violation, the entire text of an act of parliament, such as Appropriation Act 2000, is simply not encyclopedic. I have created an external link to it. -- RHaworth 07:23, 17 May 2006 (GMT)

Did you do this edit? If so, please note that it is a cowardly thing to edit anonymously - always log in before editing. Why did you do the edit, given my message above? Why this act out of huindreds?

If you want something useful to do in this area, why not answer the following questions: What is the difference between Consolidated Fund Act 2000 (Ch. 3) and Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Act 2000 (Ch. 9. They seem to come in matched pairs every year. -- RHaworth 02:11, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dispute resolution

I'm taking our dispute over the Robot Wars articles to arbitration. I see no other option. Lenin & McCarthy 16:00, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An image that you uploaded, Image:Gymslip.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Dbratton 01:32, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Lucy-marie,
Thanks for removing the image from the Gymslip article. Since I'm not an administrator I can't delete the image myself; we'll have to wait until someone with admin rights comes to it on the copyright violations page. Once that happens, the image should be deleted. Dbratton 22:33, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removing template messages

There is a reason someone placed the disputed tag in the article Tiger Woods. You removed it without discussion or consensus. I've reverted it, and want to warn you that simply removing tags like this without any dicussion at all can be considered vandalism. Try reading the new contributors' help page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. - CobaltBlueTony 15:02, 30 May 2006 (UTC) Please be more polite when you talk to someone i am not an idiot but how can common consencus be deemed a non netural point of view.Lucy-marie 15:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't vandalism

It's the name of the program that I am using. I reverted your edit since it was on someone else's userpage. If any issues arise please contact me. Yanksox 15:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is vandalism because it's my talk page, not yours. No harm, no foul, no one was hurt, and a user page is not an encyclopedia article. - CobaltBlueTony 15:26, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Fair doos well let you have your page and ill have mine its been claased not be vandalism. Its just a disliked edit not vandalism.Lucy-marie 15:28, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Your edit to Tiger Woods is vandalism, because the Wikipedia policy on vandalism (linked above) states:

Dispute tags are an important way for people to show that there are problems with the article. Do not remove them unless you are sure that the dispute is settled.

Likewise, your edit to my talk page was in bad form and impolite within the Wikipedia community. - CobaltBlueTony 15:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

template

which template? And if you want to leave a message, please leave it on my talk page, not the userbox area!

Micoolio101 (talk)


{{User dolphin}}


Copy the above and place it in your userbox area.

Micoolio101 (talk)

You don't seem to have added this case to the front page of Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal, so the reason no-one has offered to mediate this case so far is that no-one knew it existed. I've added it to Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases and Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Opentask (so it appears in Wikipedia:Community Portal/Opentask) for you. (I also replied to your question on my talkpage.) --Sam Blanning(talk) 22:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Scratch that. I see User:Kcordina offered to mediate on User talk:Lenin & McCarthy. I'll revert my edits. --Sam Blanning(talk) 23:00, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh Lucy

I see you left me a very thoughtful message. However, since (A) Your British and (B) A teenager I will refrain from responding in kind. I would appreciate if you would do the same and refrain from vandalism.

Re: Redirect

I am monitoring the recent changes, that's how I found your page. I reverted your edits because your page was just a copy-and-paste of the real page. If you want to make a redirect, just type in #REDIRECT [[Pagename]]. Hope that helps. Mr. Lefty Talk to me! 19:08, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edit to Clockwise and counterclockwise was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // AntiVandalBot 19:14, 16 June 2006 (UTC) [reply]

== Stop reverting ==

On the Clockwise and counterclockwise talk page, it has been established that the current name is the one to keep. Your page should serve as a redirect. If you keep reverting against consensus, you may be blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Mr. Lefty Talk to me! 19:14, 16 June 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Re: Vandal proof why bother using it?

Vandal proof is only used by people who are too small to conformt people or talk to people about diffrent points of views. I think the using pof vandal proof should be banned as it is a stifle of free speech and expression. So i think there should be a friendlier way of dealing with vandalism you treat vandalism like murder and any way why are there so many page written in a butchered version. if you didnt get it im refering to american english. the articles should be written in the 'real' version of english British english.
I use Vandal Proof because it is an effective way of dealing with vandalism on Wikipedia. I see that you disagree with this and say that its use is a "stifle of free speech and expression". Well let me tell you something. Wikipedia is not the ground for freedom of expression. It's the ground for a proffessional encyclopedia. I don't see how you could seriously and sensibly argue that Vandal Proof is a stifle of freedom of expression, because let me tell you something I find every time I go onto Vandal Proof. I find articles where the entire text has been deleted and something to the effect of what is below has been added to replace it:

gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay"

Now are you seriously telling me that this belongs in an encyclopedia? If all you seriously see Wikipedia as is a ground for freedom of expression regardless of what that "expression" is, I suggest you find another site where the aim *IS* freedom of expression. Vandal Proof is a very uselful tool to Wikipedia, and helps effectively combat vandalism and see no reason to ban its use. Beno1000 16:57, 22 June 2006 (GMT)
And I just checked this page to see if you'd responded yet, and might I ask why you put strikethrough over the section where I quoted the way people vandalise articles and make homophobic comments in articles by replacing the entire text with the word "gay"? Beno1000 16:32, 23 June 2006 (GMT)

I dont li"ke homophobia but when someone changes individual words vandal-proof should not be usedLucy-marie 19:35, 23 June 2006 (GMT)

Okay, so how about this scenario. An annonymous IP address edits an article from "The New York Yankees are a Major League Baseball team based in the borough of..." to read "The New York Yankees are a gay Major League Baseball team based in the borough of..." They've changed a single word in the article, according to your thesis, VandalProof should not be used in this case, despite the fact that it is blatantly homophobic vandalism.
And don't think this kind of editing doesn't happen on Wikipedia because it does. And if someone edits a single word in an article where the previous word was sufficient, and the new word is incoherent or breaks the flow of the article or is debatable, this can easily be corrected by rolling back the article to its previous revision using VandalProof without warning the user as well. Quite simply, VandalProof is a useful tool to Wikipedia and I think your proposition that it should be banned is proposterous.
I've also noticed that you've debated over whether Wikipedia should be written in English English or American English. You claim that Wikipedia should be written in "proper" English English. I disagree. It should be written in American English, or English English and rewritten to American English at a later date. Why? American English is more recognised internationally. Beno1000 19:31, 24 June 2006 (GMT)


You said:
"No it should be written in Mandarin then because it is more internationaly recoginsed, if you follow that tact. It should be wriiten in English English as that was the orginal version of English. Can you please explain why American English has done what It has done to English English If you can then I may be more understanding at the moment I am narrow minded."
Mandarin wouldn't work because this is the English Wikipedia, there is a seperate Wikipedia for each language and I was refferring to the most internationally recognised dialect of English, which is American English. Also, the English Wikipedia is hosted in the USA so it is understandable that it would be written in American English, and I'll finish by saying that while English English is the "original" form of the English language, it itself is an evolution from Middle English. There isn't a "correct" dialect of English, they're all correct, and it just so happens that this site uses the American dialect and spelling. Beno1000 14:37, 27 June 2006 (GMT)
I have never seen wikipedia policy on which version of english is used so to say that wikipedia uses American emgklish is too much of a generalisation. please either source this comment or remove it.
I'll redirect you to WP:STYLE - National varieties of English. Basically, it's fine to start an article in a regional dialect of English, but if an article has already been written in another dialect, don't add sections in a different dialect for consistency. Beno1000 15:20, 29 June 2006 (GMT)
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that i still have an unannswered question. please can you explain why American English has modified English English the way it has?
I fail to see how this has anything to do with how Wikipedia should be edited. Beno1000 12:20, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Thomas comments

Lucy, it's very bad manners to keep striking through my (very amusing) comments, please stop doing that. They are just comments, if you don't like them, write something sensible as a rebuttal, don't just remove mine. Thanks! MarkThomas 15:40, 2 July 2006 (GMT)

Ha ha very funny, the strikethrough-babe strikes again! Next stop; the words strike and striker! MarkThomas 07:22, 4 July 2006 (GMT)

Gaelg

Hi! Why you don´t do articles in the manx wikipedia? I´m an user of the Galician Wikipedia, and I do articles also in hte English Wikipedia and in the Manx Wikipedia. Why you don´t help us? User: Norrin strange

Please adopt your state

I am trying to improve Girl Scout articles in the United States. Please help fill in some blanks for Girl Scouting in your state! Thanks, Yours in Scouting, Chris 02:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]