User talk:AlbertW

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Best of luck, AlbertW, and most importantly, have fun! Ombudsman 19:50, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Licence information

Image copyright problem with Image:Ermysteds.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Ermysteds.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. 213.187.39.186 14:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorted - with use of my own photo --Albert 19:18, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Labor vs Labour

Hi AlbertW. I see you have been changing labor to labour in a lot of articles. I know it is seems messy to have two different forms in use, but this change shouldn't be made in the cases that you are making it. There is no rule favouring international English as your edit summaries imply. See "National Varieties of English" at the Manual of Style. It would be a good idea to undo these changes before the Americans start waking up... Mattley ^(Chattley) 21:54, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please use the move tab to move pages. Don't just cut and paste. You did the moves correctly later on, but some of your earlier ones were cut and pasted.--Bkwillwm 22:27, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Goon Show

Needle Nardle Noo... --JB82 22:09, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm considering paying for a Wiki site if The Goon Show suddenly disappeared. My user page will be updated as everything develops should you be interested. --Proteus71 18:09, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to Goon Show Archiving

Your recent edit to Goon Show Archiving (diff) 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. // Tawkerbot2 17:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to Goon Show Archiving

I hereby award you the Goon Show Barnstar, for dedication to Goon Show madness (and restructuring the relavant pages).

May all your troubles be Goonish ones.

--AGoon 08:02, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi Thomas, I'm starting to tire somewhat of the malarkey and am looking for other outlets for my knowledge ;). Good to see you're a devoted Goon fan. Did you notice the deletion of the Make Socialism History article a few weeks back? --Harlsbottom 13:42, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. I saw the deletion (as well as the process of deletion). I felt that we probably couldn't stop it getting deleted as the Blog doesn't have a big enough profile. I've sort of got used to Admins on Wikipedia deleting stuff and you having nothing whatsoever you can do about it. Oh well. --AlbertW 15:20, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Bert

Thanks for your message, it brightened up my day. GiantSnowman (Thursday, 2006-11-16 T 11:41 UTC)

Daynes Dyke

That's why I moved it to the talk page. Perhaps there's a book discussing it you could link to? We do need for it to be verifiable. I apologise for my language in the edit summary, you are right that I should have done a better job of assuming good faith. Unfortunately, a LOT of unsourced anecdotes of that kind added to articles DO end up being vandalism - still, I should not have assumed that and I apologize. Perel 04:02, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Er, um, oops. You're not the user who added that anecdote - I was looking at your contribs and trying to figure out how I thought they were vandalism, hence the previous post - and it was User:Ben101 who added them. I had just tagged several nonsense articles of theirs as speedys and was checking their (short) edit history when I found this item. Hence the edit summary and move to the talk page.. as they had a history of adding dubious information to WP, I would consider an assertion of local myth by them iffy enough to require sourcing. If you agree with it, move it back and add a needs-reference flag to it, or source it. I'm not trying to be a deletionist - again, hence the move to the talk page - but it seemed questionable given the circumstances. Perel 04:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, I reverted my own edit. Perel 04:14, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Very funny...

Borderline vandalism on my user page, Mr W ;) —Per Hedetun (talk) 19:56, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Yorkshire.

Hi, being a wikipedian from Yorkshire I was wondering if you would support the project I am proposing here. [1]. Retiono Virginian 17:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Ermystedsshield.jpg

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