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FYI

I've used your name hopefully not in vain. Glad to see you back, hydnjo (talk) 00:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

what mine? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.81.66.43 (talk) 20:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Peanut Butter

Ah! You found it! I was wondering if anyone would ever notice it. You, sir, have a keen eye. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.107.128.198 (talk) 03:07, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

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A tag has been placed on L.O.S.T. requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for musical topics. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/header problem

I'm leaving you this note because you are noted as the header designer. there's a minor problem with the template that I've noted at Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk#technical_problem_with_reference_desk_headers, but there's a much bigger problem that you've used the header talk page as a content page. This leaves no place to discuss problems with the header template itself. really, the header template and the talk header templates should each have their own pages (with their own talk pages) - how difficult would it be to revise things to make that happen? --Ludwigs2 06:10, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

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Druid Days/Prank

While the Druid religious designation was a prank, the Druid Student Center and the Bandersnatch humor newspaper (published by the Druid Free Press) was real and lasted many years.

The heading was intended (I think) to echo "College Days."

The first time I registered as a druid was spring of 1961. This was *long* before the neo pagan movement got started, but I have often wondered if this was the origin or contributed to the origin of the much later neo pagans.

Either way is ok, but I don't think the change is really needed since the prank is explained in the paragraph.

Keith Henson (talk) 17:46, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Opinion on inclusion of keys?

Hi, I noticed you participated in discussions on Talk:Texas Instruments signing key controversy in the past and now that there are the keys are restored wanted to get your opinion there of which keys if any should be included in the article. Please respond at Talk:Texas_Instruments_signing_key_controversy#The_keys. Thanks! Dcoetzee 07:00, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:US Penny 2.PNG

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Your input is needed on the SOPA initiative

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SOPA-related discussion

Hello. Because of your comments regarding the SOPA blackout, I thought you might be interested in this discussion. As a guideline, WP:POINT is supposed to reflect the broad consensus of the Wikipedia community. PSWG1920 (talk) 03:26, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

RefDesk header

Hi Froth! I know it's been a while since you were involved, but I'm hoping we could have your assistance on the RefDesk again. A decision has been made to shorten the headers for the RefDesk (there are a couple of recent discussions, including here and on the current talk page). The proposed new text is currently here. I can see that you're currently not very active on en-WP, but I hope you'll be able to help us out and/or suggest ways to make the headers less daunting for other admins to tackle :-). Matt Deres (talk) 21:24, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

reverted good faith edits:

  • canker sore is more related to aphthous stomatitis (aka "canker sores") than to the parent mouth ulcer page. Aphthous stomatitis has a wikilink back to the parent mouth ulcer page.
  • ulceration by definition is breach of the epithelial continuity. Therefore thermal and electrical burns which breach the epithelium can create mouth ulcers.

Thank you, Lesion (talk) 12:11, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Apparently people do chew on live wires often...stripping wire with teeth during DIY mostly I would imagine, or children, but I've not personally come across this. It is sourced... Lesion (talk) 12:43, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

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Minute of arc

Greetings, Froth. I don't really feel like reverting your last edit at Minute of arc. If you feel strongly enough about it, I'll let it be. But I tried to indicate in my reversion edit that I don't really think it adds anything to the article or paragraph, even though it is true. It's a fact of geometry, but not especially relevant to the topic at hand. An encyclopedia article by definition needs to sift material and strain out according to relevance. If we don't keep alert to that here, every article would burgeon in size and become unwieldy to read. Think it over, and see if you don't agree. Evensteven (talk) 22:42, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

If you're concerned about the size of Wikipedia, then I find it strange that you support calling out the equator and meridians specifically. You can more concisely communicate the same idea by saying great circle, and it's more complete information too. .froth. (talk) 4:22 pm, Today (UTC−7)
As you wish. But "size" was not my issue; relevance was. Evensteven (talk) 23:24, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

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