User talk:Bezapt

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Hey Gurubrahma! Many thanks for the welcome, and for making my article a DYK! As a new Wikipedian, I was surprised and honoured to see one of the first of my few creations (so far) linked to the Wikipedia front page. :-)

Best regards! Bezapt 14:45, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Page moves
Hi there - a quick request: In future, when you move a page (like you did with Dan Lewis), after doing so could you please be so good as to check the incoming links to its former location and update the relevant wikilinks to the new location? It saves other editors from having to do the necessary cleanup work instead. Thank you. Qwghlm 11:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Qwghlm, I'm actually working on the Dan Lewis restructuring at this very minute! (Writing article for the newsy Dan Lewis (newsreader)). Was intending to check on the redirects next, but thanks for reminding me (could've slipped my mind after getting sidetracked, writing an article!) Cheers :-) Bezapt 11:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Cheers, didn't know you were in the middle of sorting it. Thanks for dropping a note on my talk page. Qwghlm 12:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

redirects
Sorry! I may have missed a few double redirects. There used to be a bot that ran every night to automate the process, but I see now it has been disabled. Its a delicate balance between consistency and the most well known names for and actors. The best strategy when you want an author to appear under a truncated name: J.R.R. Tolkien is to add the full name as a redirect, that way the fullname is already occupied and no one can move the article without first deleting the redirect. I have been working to fill in missing middle names for people by going through the obituaries in the New York Times archive, using Google (which isn't always useful, "John J. Smith, US Army" searched for as ["John Smith" Army] gives way too many results) and using the census. Lets move the name back to the truncated version. Cheers. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 15:38, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

its and rogue '
Thanks, that will be the grammatical death of me yet. rootology 03:55, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Chain weapon merge comment
Hello, I moved your comment about the Chain weapon merge proposal to the Talk page. -- Gogo Dodo 03:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Dan Lewis - KOMO news anchor
I can partly see where you're coming from, but as a former reporter myself (some freelance work for KOMO TV's weather department in the late '90s), I can firmly say that the use of "news presenter" is not a term used in the United States. I think that if you're going to write an article about an American journalist, you should refer to them as they would be in American terms. Even the vast majority of the American public itself refers to such persons as Dan Lewis, Kathi Goertzen, etc as "news anchors" not "presenters."

In the near-decade I spent in the business, the use of the word "presenter" was unheard of, and on the standard-issue portrait-type photos KOMO uses as autograph material, it lists Dan Lewis as "Anchor/Reporter" - which is his official title at KOMO.Srosenow 98 05:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Location of the German artillery piece
The M96nA I photographed is actually on display in a war veterans' retirement home here in Sydney, Australia, just outside the home's museum. It's next to a Bofors AA gun, which I also photographed and uploaded to Wikipedia. If you're in Sydney yourself, I could give you an exact address if you'd like.

Sorry it took me so long to reply to your question. —DO&#39;Neil 02:56, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Apophysomyces

 * Enjoyed the article. Many thanks for the contribution Bezapt -- Samir धर्म  07:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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Your moving of Orac (Blake's 7)
I just noticed that you moved Orac (supercomputer) to Orac (Blake's 7) via cut and paste. Please don't do this again. You could have moved the page over the redirect without a problem, and had it not worked you could have put in a request at Requested moves. Now an admin has to come in and perform a history merge because the article must be kept with its history for copyright reasons. I already tagged it for the history merge, just try to be more careful in the future.-- Dycedarg &#x0436; 06:06, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry Dycedarg, I didn't realise I could have moved a page on top of a redirect. Many apologies, I will know for next time. Is it possible to do the move now, since my mistake is so recent, or is doing the history merge unavoidable? Bezapt 06:12, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * You can only move pages over a redirect that doesn't have any history. Now that the page has history, an admin is going to have to delete it and move the other page over top of it to merge the histories together. It's not that big an issue, it's just more work for the admins.-- Dycedarg &#x0436; 06:33, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

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 * Rationale added! Bezapt 13:10, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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 * Why not make a list of image links rather than create clutter with repeated blocks of text? (just a thought!) Rationale supplementary text now added to each image. Bezapt 11:33, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest
Hi Bezapt. You are off to such a great start on the article Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. Appearing on the Main Page may help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created and if you haven't already done so, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. If you do nominate the article for DYK, please cross out the article name on the "Good" articles proposed by bot list. Again, great job on the article. --  Jreferee  (Talk) 18:45, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Jreferee! Have nominated article as per your suggestion. Thanks again for the kind words! Bezapt 03:10, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Map of Egypt restored
11-July-2007: The ID "User:Lanternix" (notified) was logged as overwriting an unsourced map image onto a map of Egypt developed by the American CIA, on 19-May-2007 at 1:09 a.m, which has been restored (after 52 days). Map image: Image:Egypt-region-map-cities.gif (view older versions to compare). -Wikid77 06:54, 11 July 2007 (UTC)


 * The above message was sent to you as a member of WikiProject Ancient Egypt, where the map is displayed in several articles about ancient Egyptian temples and towns. I apologize the reasoning was omitted from the original message.  -Wikid77 04:02, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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 * Fair use rationale added. Bezapt 01:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

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Request help with article Ancient Egypt
As you are listed as a member of Wikiproject:AncientEgypt, I'd like to recruit your help in reviewing the article Ancient Egypt. The article is listed as top priority in the Wikiproject and as a vital article by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, but appears to have failed to meet Good Article criteria at its last nomination. The article is in need of some serious attention.

In the past week, I asked for (and got) the article to be semi-protected to protect against the constant barrage of vandalism. This protection lasts for two weeks. I also did a little clean-up, added a map and so on. I would like to see everyone in Wikiproject:AncientEgypt have the chance to add their input to Ancient Egypt, and get the article up to featured status as soon as possible. I believe the article is at least 80% of the way there, and some focused attention will bring it the rest of the way.

The most pressing concerns seem to be the culture/architecture section, and the achievements/unsolved problems sections. Also, the entire article, especially the achievements section, the sources, and external links need to be seriously checked for accuracy. These sections also require a little organization too.

Ancient Egypt ought to be the top priority of Wikiproject:AncientEgypt, and I look forward to working with everyone to get this article cleaned up and hopefully promoted to featured status. Thanks for your help, Jeff Dahl 03:28, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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Nomination of Andrew W. Saul (nutrition specialist) for deletion
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Category:Egyptological journals
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Nomination of The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics for deletion
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