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Span

Before the history merge, there was a disambiguation page, and I can't see it in the history of Linear span. It should still exist in the deleted edits at Span or Span (disambiguation), could these be restored? Peter E. James (talk) 00:56, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

My New Design for the Main page

Hello,

I hereby submit a New Design for the English wikipedia. Please visitMy New Design for the Main page to see my Design for the main page. I'm not a Computer engineer but only a student currently in year 10. If theWikipedia Community likes my Design then can't we think about a change to the Designof Main page? Could you Please comment about it in the Talk page ofMy New Design for the Main page. Thank you. --Njavallil ...Talk 2 Me 19:31, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Slavic languages

Did you do something wrong here? I'm seeing Slavic language and Slavic languages redirected to a MediaWiki talk page.--Kotniski (talk) 14:11, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Nope, the servers just hadn't caught up with the page renames. If you see something like this again, purge the page, which I've done for this case. Graham87 14:16, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
OK, all fixed now, thanks!--Kotniski (talk) 14:39, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry

I thought this was bot's work. I'll be more careful next time!--Maduixa (talk) 15:05, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Joan Armatrading the first British female singer/songwriter black or white to have international success

Hi Graham In one of the articles on Joan on her wikipedia page it mentions that Joan Armatrading is the first Black UK female singer/songwriter to have international success. In fact Joan is the first Black OR White UK female singer/songwriter to have international success. All female artists before her, Petula Clarke, Dusty Springfield, or any other female name you mention were not singer/songwriters. This is a historic fact that I'm sure can be checked against records. Could we get this changed to the correct statement Joan Armatrading is the first female UK singer/songwriter to have international success. Cheers (Bertbert1 (talk) 14:06, 6 December 2011 (UTC)).

I've added some info to this topic on Joan Armatrading's talk page. Can you look at it when you get a chance(Bertbert1 (talk) 13:14, 10 December 2011 (UTC)).

Removal of text about "Joan Armourplating"

Hi Graham This is a late reply. I can't supply you with any record of Joan telling the journalist her nickname but I do know that it was a nickname she got at school. It was the telling of this nickname that gave the headline and has since been used often. In fact it has become almost a term of endearment to her fans and many use it in an affectionate way, much the same as it was when the nickname was used at school. It is certainly was not used to make her seem an awkward person. It would be good if it were not written in Wikipedia as if that were the case (Bertbert1 (talk) 14:18, 6 December 2011 (UTC)).

Thank you

For this edit, I missed that junk when reverting some other vandalism.Shearonink (talk) 01:52, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Kiwanis

I joined Wike today using icuk00001@LIVE.com Have you been using this system long. Every time I try to do something on here I screw it up. I am looking for a mentor. John Zarlino — Preceding unsigned comment added by ISEEYOUPHONES (talk • contribs) 11:11, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Roald Dahl task force!

Hello, Graham87/Archive 20, We are wondering if you would like to join the Roald Dahl task force as you have contributed a lot to the articles in our scope. We hope you can join!

Please feel free to add to this list. If you feel a task has been completed feel free to remove it and start a new one!

  1. Become a member of the task force and encourage others to do so.
  2. Tag articles for the task force.
  3. Improve: George's Marvellous Medicine.
  4. Improve: Going Solo.
  5. Work on all Roald Dahl related articles mainly focusing on stubs.
  6. Assess articles on class and importance.
  7. Get Roald Dahl to FA or GA

sillybillypiggy¡SIGN NOW OR ELSE! 17:10, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Text to speech

Hi. I've had a few people inquire why Spoken Word Wikipedia should be worked on considering how far Text-to-speech has come. After watching this youtube video for about two minutes, it becomes obvious to me. Is there a way you do record an example of text to speech of a Paralympic article, preferably a shorter one where I can do my own spoken word version, so we can show people literally why having a human read version might be preferable? --LauraHale (talk) 10:41, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry...

Hello Graham.

I'm sorry for making an unscrupulous and irrelevant edit to a Wikipedia article. Although it was only meant to be cheeky and was not done with a malicious intention it was still a disruption. My apologies, and it will not happen again. MSKeys. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MSKeys (talk • contribs) 16:30, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Office Hours

Hey Graham87/Archive 20; another Article Feedback Tool office hours session! This is going to be immediately after we start trialing the software publicly, so it's a pretty important one. If any of you want to attend, it will be held in #wikimedia-office on Friday 16th December at 19:00 UTC. As always, if you can't attend, drop me a line and I'm happy to link you to the logs when we're done. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:31, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

As promised, office hours logs! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:29, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

hi

Wanglei268 (talk) 05:16, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I am a new user. I just want to try this function.:)

Jeremy Doyle

Writing is absolutely abysmal for Jeremy Doyle. :( Can you please improve? :( --LauraHale (talk) 11:47, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Cults

Hi. You are probably right about calling organisations "cults", but in the case of The Family I don't think there's much to worry about. They have been raided by the cops; several of them have been convicted on criminal charges; they have been thoroughly exposed by Sarah Hamilton-Byrne and the media. I don't think they're in a position to complain if people call them a cult.

Sardaka (talk) 10:05, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

The Family

Thanks. I have emailed Sarah Hamilton-Byrne and she told me to get back to her in a few weeks, so hopefully that will lead to more useful info.

Sardaka (talk) 08:53, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

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Editing assistance: Perspectives on women in the WMF movement

Hi. :D As you do a fantastic job editing, I was wondering if you might be willing to help improve some of the articles on Perspectives on women in the WMF movement. At the moment, I've mostly done a lot of random putting of data into these articles, much of which is repetitive across different countries. They have no organisation, no framework and often utilise really poor grammar. :( It would be great to improve the organisation and flow on some of these articles, begin to give some of them a more unique feel… instead of a generic perspective with just the numbers changed. :) The purpose of these little sections is to bench mark women's related content by country, the on wiki involvement of women women from a certain country, the involvement of women inside the country (chapters or running events) and the involvement of women behind the scenes in the larger context of Wikimedia Foundation projects. It needs to be written as neutrally as possible, to not condemn the WMF for any failures here, nor to make the WMF look extra special awesome for how well they have done that. You're good with doing that balance. :) If you can start to improve one or twenty, any assistance would be appreciated. :) --LauraHale (talk) 21:51, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Blogs

Hi. You said "cite the blog post where appropriate"; when does this apply, because I understood blogs aren't accepted as refs? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sardaka (talk • contribs) 10:06, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Auroconfirmed

Thank You for taking the time to explain Auto confirmed. Happy Hollidays, Pocketthis (talk) 17:06, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your reply. I'd actually been thinking that blogs should be accepted in cases like that. Nice to know they are.110.33.208.63 (talk) 06:11, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Interwiki order

Hi, I've totally missed that point. Thanks for correction. --Sayginer (talk) 17:47, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Flatlist at WP:FA

Please have a look at Wikipedia talk:Featured articles#List markup. Folks are saying current page doesn't work for those with screenreaders, flatlist will work better, but it is slowing down the page loadtime something awful for me. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:37, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

For helping with the Paralympic related articles. :) LauraHale (talk) 23:06, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Charles Boycott FAC (again)

Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more. Sorry for my absence over the past few months, I have decided to renominate Charles Boycott for FAC again. As usual, your input would be most welcome. Quasihuman | Talk 18:25, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool - notes and office hours

Hey guys! Another month, another newsletter.

First off - the first bits of AFT5 are now deployed. As of early last week, the various different designs are deployed on 0.1 percent of articles, for a certain "bucket" of randomly-assigned readers. With the data flooding in from these, we were able to generate a big pool of comments for editors to categorise as "useful" or "not useful". This information will be used to work out which form is the "best" form, producing the most useful feedback and the least junk. Hopefully we'll have the data for you by the end of the week; I can't thank the editors who volunteered to hand-code enough; we wouldn't be where we are now without you.

All this useful information means we can move on to finalising the tool, and so we're holding an extra-important office hours session on Friday, 6th January at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. If you can't make it, drop me a note and I'll be happy to provide logs so you can see what went on - if you can make it, but will turn up late, bear in mind that I'll be hanging around until 23:00 UTC to deal with latecomers :).

Things we'll be discussing include:

  • The design of the feedback page, which will display all the feedback gathered through whichever form comes out on top.
  • An expansion of the pool of articles which have AFT5 displayed, from 0.1 percent to 0.3 (which is what we were going to do initially anyway)
  • An upcoming Request for Comment that will cover (amongst other things) who can access various features in the tool, such as the "hide" button.

If you can't make it to the session, all this stuff will be displayed on the talkpage soon after, so no worries ;). Hope to see you all there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 04:50, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

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Occitan

Hi. I've corrected this change you made about Occitan language. When you only define Occitan as a "set of Romance dialects", I'm afraid you express a nonobjective and a nonscholar point of view. Nearly all specialists and nearly all handbooks of Romance linguistics recognize Occitan as one language (which doesn't impede the recognition of its internal, dialectal diversity; see for instance: POSNER Rebecca, 1996, The Romance languages; ALLIÈRES Jacques, 2001, Manuel de linguistique romane; BEC Pierre, 1970-71, Manuel pratique de philologie romane; etc.). Moreover, Occitan has been legally recognized as a language by different bills in Aran Valley (Catalonia, Spain) since 1990, by an Italian bill in 1999 (nº 482) and by various administrative norms in France since 1951 (ministeries of culture and education).--Nil Blau (talk) 15:52, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Jeremy Doyle

The DYK project (nominate) 23:47, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Grammar

Thanks Graham for all the grammar corrections to my last two articles - good to know that someone is 'keeping their eyes' open for these sort of things. Need to start organising a catch-up for 2012 before everyone gets too busy. Dan arndt (talk) 01:35, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Brian McNicholl

Talk:Brian McNicholl should have some sources for you to improve the article. I've got some of the sources in PDF format but they are not machine readable. : / --LauraHale (talk) 07:25, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Timestamp

Hi Graham, UOJComm was using the correct UTC timestamp. See http://i.imgur.com/x3g4n.jpg. — Ganeshk (talk) 14:55, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

I did not know about your blindness. Sorry for posting an image. The image was a diff from "Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group" page history that showed the original revision timestamp, "Revision as of 18:51, 6 January 2012" exactly matches the signature that UOJComm left, "UOJComm (talk) 18:51, 6 January 2012 (UTC)". You were trying to replace the signature with "UOJComm (talk) 04:46, 5 January 2012 (UTC)". It is no big deal anyway. Thanks for responding. — Ganeshk (talk) 15:59, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
I checked the history, it makes sense now. I do that sometimes myself when I forget to sign, it is just easier to add four tildes than hunting down the exact UTC time for the edit. Plus the issue with conversion if you had set your preferences to a difference timezone from the UTC. -2 it is. :) — Ganeshk (talk) 16:55, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the helpful and civil feedback

Just got some notes from you on my talk page. I've no idea how the Proprioception edit gaffe happened, but I'm glad you caught it. I can see you get a lot of love here on Wikipedia, and I'm happy to add my small contribution towards that - Thanks! Kineticscientist (talk) 17:22, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Jeremy Doyl

Hi Graham, this is just to let you know that I've nominated the OTRS image of Jeremy Doyle for Featured Picture at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jeremy Doyle. As you worked on the article, you may be interested. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:42, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool - things to do

Hey guys! A couple of highly important things to do over the next few weeks:

  • We've opened a Request for Comment on several of the most important aspects of the tool, including who should be able to hide inappropriate comments. It will remain open until 20 January; I encourage everyone with an interest to take part :).
  • A second round of feedback categorisation will take place in a few weeks, so we can properly evaluate which design works the best and keeps all the junk out :P. All volunteers are welcome and desired; there may be foundation swag in it for you!

Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:51, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks / translation ready

Hello Graham,

thanks for your cooperation ! My translation is ready now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Neun-x/Wehrwirtschaftsführer

Could you please move it into the Wikipedia Namespace or ask another colleague of en.wikipedia to do that ?

I suppose one needs administrator rights to do that.

thanks and best regards from Cologne to West Australia!

--Neun-x (talk) 08:51, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Wyndham & Boab Prison Tree, Wyndham

Hello Graham - Thanks for reviewing these pages and point taken about See Also v Also See and now know not to include links from article in that section. Cheers KHS-Boab (talk) 16:08, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Cleanup

I made a huge wreck when trying to create a category structure here. Can you fix? :( --LauraHale (talk) 06:29, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

The templates on the category pages were showing red links, when they should have been showing blue. I have no idea what I did to make them not appear blue. :( --LauraHale (talk) 06:56, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool

Hey guys; apologies for the belated nature of this notification; as you can probably imagine, the whole blackout thing kinda messed with our timetables :P. Just a quick reminder that we've got an office hours session tomorrow at 19:00 in #wikimedia-office, where we'll be discussing the results of the hand-coding and previewing some new changes. Hope to see you there :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:48, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Sarah Hamilton-Byrne

Did you ever have time to read the above article? Someone has nominated it for deletion (which I disagree with, of course). Perhaps you'd like to express an opinion.

Sardaka (talk) 09:17, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Samuel Butler

Hi, Samuel Butler's birth date is an ambiguous point. We know when he was baptised, but not when he was born. It is likely he was born in February 1613. Part of the confusion results from giving dates in the "old style" where the year started on April 5th. However, most library catalogs, from the British Library down, give his dates as 1612-1680, so there is a value to the convention even if it is likely to be correct.

Typical seventeenth century practice was to have a child baptised within three days of the birth, so I would guess that he was born about 11th February 1613. The most relevant source is the citation I give by Wilding.

Silverpool14 (talk) 17:00, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Sarah Hamilton-Byrne

Thanks for taking part in the debate. Personally, I think it's rather bloodyminded of someone to nominate an article for deletion unless there's a bloody good reason for it.

Sardaka (talk) 07:00, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the Welcome

Graham,

I appreciate the welcome, and the guidance on "new section" headings. It is great to encounter such patience when you are a newbie. I'll be continuing to add edits when I can. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Silverpool14 (talk • contribs) 11:35, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Using Wikipedia in the classroom

I teach undergraduate college students in a research course about broadcasting and broadcast journalism. I would love to assign each of them to write a Wikipedia entry related to the class. I'm wondering if I need to search for 16-18 related articles marked "This is a stub" or if there's someone to ask about what's needed. Does anyone coordinate this sort of thing? Thanks!

Jim Baxter jmbaxter@jmail.umd.edu jimat41@aol.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimat41 (talk • contribs) 16:37, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Happy Australia Day! Thank you for contributing to Australian content!

Australian Wikimedian Recognition (AWR)
Thank you for your contributions on English Wikipedia that have helped improve Australian related content. :D It is very much appreciated. :D Enjoy your Australia Day and please continue your good work! LauraHale (talk) 01:39, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

office hours

Another notification, guys; Article Feedback Tool office hours on Friday at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office :). If you can't attend, drop me a note and I'll send you the logs when we're done. We're also thinking of moving it to thursday at a later time: say, 22:00 UTC. Speak up if that'd appeal more :) Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:17, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Miles/KMs

just a quick question about this edit and the other related one. I know the Australia uses metric, but the source specified miles. Do you think it's an issue to convert? I'm not too fussed either way, just went with what the source used StarM 05:09, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

I think what you changed it to makes it clearer anyway, good call. Cheers. StarM 16:58, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Wrong Reference (moved from my user page)

The provided reference didn't have anything to do with the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995. That is why I removed it. ThomasRules (talk) 18:09, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

New Page

Hi again after 4 years! I wrote a new page. Last one was heavy editing to Picosecond Ultrasonics. This time I created Whispering Gallery Wave. I wonder if this new page could be rushed through quickly? It's up to scratch I hope. Femtoquake —Preceding undated comment added 15:37, 31 January 2012 (UTC).

Thank you Graham! Actually, it was 3 years. Not so long. Femtoquake (talk) 00:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Wow! Already up!! Graham is a guy with influence. Thank you!!Femtoquake (talk) 01:07, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Graham, it is possible to remove the warning thing at the top of the Whispering Gallery page (not the new Whispering Gallery Wave page) because I added some references? Or perhaps you want more references? Please let me know.Femtoquake (talk) 03:08, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh I see. Thanks. Lot of things are claimed to be WG but they might not be.Femtoquake (talk) 03:31, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Graham, I wonder if you could link the keywords "whispering gallery waves" in the plural, and "whispering gallery mode" and "whispering gallery modes" so that they all automatically direct to whispering gallery wave. The "mode" appellation is common is science, but the "wave" appellation is better for the layman because it is easier to figure out what it means. Also, the terms "whispering-gallery" wave(s) or mode(s) should redirect too, because it is often hyphenated. But for a title I thought it was better not to use the hyphens (I hope it is OK---you can see that in the text I hyphenated it).Femtoquake (talk) 02:30, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Where do I put that? And I am bit unclear about your example. "#redirect [[Whispering-gallery wave]] The thing you enclosed in [[]] is already the title. Did you mean I put this line at the bottom of my article with a few variations on the title? And is there really only one double quote before the sharp sign, and no closing ones? Sorry.Femtoquake (talk) 03:02, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Graham! Something strange is happening. Am I editing an old page (before you changed the name or something)? On this computer I succeed in editing, but on another computer my new edits not going to wiki as a whole.Femtoquake (talk) 03:58, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

I think Wiki has two versions, because on the same computer the one that loads is a bit random (depending on the browser, even if you clear the history etc.). The version with 36 references (not 30) is the correct one. Is that the one you see? It's a bit worrying. ;; 131.111.7.27 (talk) 04:13, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Fixed by purging server cache. Very surprising! But Wiki told me how to do it. I have submitted about 6-7 titles for redirect approval. Hope it goes through. Femtoquake (talk) 04:49, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Graham, precisely what do "you" in Wikipedia want for the "Whispering Gallery" page in terms of references? I have added two references that introduce whispering galleries. One is a whole chapter by Sabine. As far as I know there are no modern texts devoted to lists of whispering galleries. If there are not, could this page be deemed OK? It is a pity to have it as a marked page that is not up to scratch without knowing what exactly needs to be done to improve it now. Perhaps what Wikipedia is thinking they want does not in fact exist.Femtoquake (talk) 09:14, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks Graham. Lots better with the box lower down.Femtoquake (talk) 09:28, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh, and one more thing...Please could the disparaging boxes at the bottom of the article referring to it as a stub be removed now? The article part of the article is OK I think.Femtoquake (talk) 09:38, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Orfeocookie at ANI

Hi Graham. Orfeocookie got a little carried away on Clavier-Übung III and started templating the article page suggesting a split into five articles. I had already said that the part on the reception and influence could, with a lot of effort, be made into a more general article on the reception of Bach's organ music. I do not agree that the article is unreadable as Orfeocookie writes. The reader survey on the bottom of the page from 11 or 12 readers is positive. I have had no choice but to report this incident at WP:ANI, where you may wish to comment. I can't see any point in segmenting the analysis, but the reception section could be summarised with the present content expanded to include all Bach's organ music. Cheers, Mathsci (talk) 03:24, 2 February 2012 (UTC)


RE: Wrong Reference

Hi, Graham87, is it possible that you could use the reference to redirect to the part of the webpage where it talks about the Great Hanshin Earthquake? If it is possible, could you do this. Many Thanks ThomasRules (talk) 09:48, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

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MSU Interview

Dear Graham87,


My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.


So a few things about the interviews:

  • Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
  • Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
  • All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
  • All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
  • The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.


Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 01:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Linkrot

Hi Graham87, I appreciate your comment, please take a look at Google App Engine en show me how to do this. Lotje (talk) 15:30, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Whitney Houston

Your edit edit removed information about her selling her Atlanta-area home, but the reason you put for the edit was "logical quotation". I am putting this info back. If you wish to delete the information again, please remark why either in the Edit Summary box or on the Talk page.Keizers (talk) 03:34, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply! Keizers (talk) 13:27, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Copyeditor's Barnstar
What a machine. Keep up the good work David.moreno72 (talk) 02:06, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

thank you

Thank you for the helpful information, Graham, and apologies if I gave you additional trouble rather than help. I'll make sure to revert next time I come across something. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsuipen (talk • contribs) 01:57, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

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Tom Jones' middle name

Thank you for removing what you so rightly call "tabloid fodder" from the article however you have also removed my link to Sir Tom Jones' birth certificate http://tomjonesintl.com/2011/09/08/middle-john-jones-check-birth-certificate/ . There has been on-going problems with Sir Tom's middle name being either "Jones" or "John" and I consider that the above link (showing a copy of the birth certificate that I have in my possession) finally confirms his middle name as John. I have restored this link. Perhaps you could help edit the article by removing all the other examples of tabloid fodder that have unfortunately been restored. Regards 81.105.49.183 (talk) 22:01, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Precious

advice and vision
Thank you for helping me to English my Germanic wording, to make me create articles instead of interwiki-links, and for moving articles sensibly. I award you a Yogo sapphire, sparkling and rare, on the day when the other Graham's string quartet Chinese Whispers (new article today) receives a prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:39, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for more copy-edit. You are welcome to play in my sandbox, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:33, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Valentin Yordanov

We would appreciate if you would stop editing the page of Valentin Yordanov.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ianny310 (talk • contribs) 16:57, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Resolved by email. Graham87 07:01, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Your Reference desk question

Hello there ... I am glad I was able to answer your question. If you are in need of additional details about the video, please let me know and I'll provide them for you! --McDoobAU93 03:43, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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Alan Reid

You assert that my article Faceless men was partly taken from your Alan Reid article. It was not. Your article incorrectly asserts that Reid used the term "36 faceless men" to describe the ALP Federal Executive. The Executive had 12 members from its founding in 1915 until the Whitlam reforms. Reid was refering to the National Conference, which had six members from each state. I suggest you correct your article. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 22:32, 25 February 2012 (UTC) I took that from the 1963 election article.Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 02:28, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Richard Osman

Please accept my apologies for the Rickard Osman Page, I mused of clicked the wrong user by mistake. C. 22468 Talk to me 14:45, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

...for the last round of copyediting of the research section, appreciated. --DarTar (talk) 02:24, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Hobart training Day

Hi, hopefully this is the right spot to respond to your message? The training day was excellent, thank you. I got a bit excited with the categories and managed to get myself a bit confused. Think I'll just stick to the basics for now. Thanks for your help. Melissa Carlton (talk) 10:40, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Import Page Mage Solar

Hi, you imported the German page Mage Solar to my User page. What are the next steps to see the page in the English Wikipedia? Do I have to translate it? Do I have to upload it? Where? Sorry, but I have no idea how to go on....Thanks a lot for your help! --Bausar (talk) 15:42, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

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