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File:Obscene-eu-coin.pngControversy over sweeden in the EU 2c coinNeither of the images is free, but I created one you could use. While it will not end up in an article, you could keep it in your user page or in the article talk page. —This user has left wikipedia 04:25 2006-01-27
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I consider your removal of material off my user page as vandalism. I think you need to learn the difference between hypocrisy and irony. Gillyweed00:01, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, sure, I bet everyone's in stitches because you said both you have a lot of page edits, and page edits don't matter. Real funny. Kevin02:52, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not really sure, make sure you to hit preview button though when you type a long post on a heavily trafficked page. That way you won't have to re-type what you've already entered. Try it a couple more times and make sure that it gives you the same message and get back to me. Quadzilla9921:40, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'll concede to you on this. In retrospect saying "and final" violates WP:CRYSTAL but not saying it isn't making a call either way. Good points, all. -- MisterHand17:28, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, no those will not work. Websites with information that is submitted by everyday joes are not allowed as sources for Wikipedia. The Filmaker01:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Judging by your user boxes, you care about spelling and grammar. Since I also care about spelling and grammar and would prefer people to correct me when I get something wrong, I would like to let you know you incorrectly used further in Soldat. Since you were referring to the distance jumped the correct word would be farther. I fixed that, and on your user page noticed two spelling errors but didn't correct them because I'm uncertain if it's acceptable to edit someone else's user page. The misspelled words are asterisk and entries. --Noerrorsfound07:58, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks I guess. But if you'll notice my userboxes, all the language ones are about grammar. I pride myself on knowing which form to use when multiple forms are available, like you're your, their there, etc., and I've never been very good at spelling (and I don't really care about other forms of grammar, such as prepositions at the end of sentenses).
English s a crazy language, with silent letters, multiple pronunciations of letters, and unneccessary multiple forms. But it's the only language I know, and in what I've learned about French, some other languages are worse in ways. It makes me sincerely wish there was one, sensible langage that the whole world used. Kevin11:50, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. There may be spelling errors in my response, but I don't really care.
Hi. I'm just wondering, why did you add this to the tfd's? I'm not sure if it was a test, if you were editting another page, if you thought it needed refs, etc, but this invalid refernece parameter casued the entire expand section to go under the seven wonders thing. I have fixed it since. Thanks. ~AH1(TCU)15:51, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Erm... I quoted that because the nominator cited basing the article on primary sources as a bad thing. I was just trying to explain when it's appropriate to base an article on primary sources.--Marhawkman04:23, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Which is why I said "at worst". It's probably not a slippery slope. But anyway, that notwithstanding, I agree it should be kept. Kevin04:38, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Please keep politeness in mind when reverting other editors. No standard can be used to justify reverting an edit with "STFU". Circeus (talk) 17:42, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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"Information loss" is inherently not a good reason to revert changes to a WP:DISAMBIGUATION page. A disambiguation page should not have any information that isn't contained in the articles that it links to, because it only exists to help users navigate to those articles. If the linked articles don't actually contain any information about the phrase, it should not be linked from the disambiguation page. Propaniac (talk) 02:21, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like the vast majority of those links you claim are useful are for the phrase "A good day to die" and not "It is a good day to die"; to be honest that's probably why I removed a lot of them, but I don't have time this evening to go through all of them. If they were on a disambig page called A Good Day to Die and linked to articles that discussed some meaning of that phrase, that'd be fine. Propaniac (talk) 02:32, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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A news alert on twitter. I wasn't trying to be first, I just wanted to read up on him and I noticed no one had edited his page yet. 02:36, 15 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Knut (talk • contribs)
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No offense, but I've reverted your addition of Sparknotes again per WP:RS: "Articles should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." According to this criteria, Sparnotes is not a reliable source and therefore should not be utilized, no matter what is being sourced. There are many scholarly works that discuss The Red Badge of Courage and its characters, available both in print and via online (GoogleBooks, Netlibrary, etc.), so Sparknotes isn't exactly the only choice out there. :) Hope this helps, María(habla conmigo) 21:36, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I intend to revise those articles following the Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines. There are more details on the discussion pages of those articles. I'd be interested in any comments you have. It would be best if your comments were on the discussion pages of the two articles.
Kevin, thank you for your response on my talk page. As a matter of fact, I deleted the link to MobyGames because it looked like a pedestrian review. The guidelines I mentioned above say
If the page contains substantial information that is relevant but not necessarily encyclopedic in nature, a video game's page at MobyGames, Allgame or the Internet Movie Database may be added on a case by case basis.
I didn't feel the page had "substantial information."
I am sorry if I disturbed you with my message. I do plan to do an extensive overhaul of the two articles and I thought there would be less problem if I let people who were interested in the articles know about it. I checked and the articles are on less than 30 watchlists. I wish there was a way of identifying who was watchlisting the articles. Then it would be easier to figure out who was interested. I did consult with Narthring and Reyk about letting people know and Reyk said "It is good that you're asking for advice before making large-scale edits though- politeness and consideration for other editors is always a good thing."
I'm new and don't know the proper protocols. I've read the materials that Narthring provided me. I would appreciate any guidance you have. You can reply on this talk page. I have watchlisted it.
Please stop inserting references to "Tasty Planet" all over the place - it's not appropriate - and I strongly suspect you have a WP:COI issue here. I will be carefully checking your recent additions and rolling back where necessary. SteveBaker (talk) 16:21, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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