User talk:Graham87/Archive 22

Edits to Childbirth
Hi, I just thought I'd let you know that I have restored a reference and an external link that you deleted from Childbirth. They both link to videos and I note from your user page that you are blind: I think that the reference is useful from the text on the page and the audio, but I believe that the visual element of the external link is extremely relevant to the article. Lineslarge (talk) 20:11, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I've actually restored another of the references too, but with an edit of the associated text (which I feel was useful) that was previously just a cut and paste from the referenced site. Lineslarge (talk) 20:26, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Credo Reference Update & Survey (your opinion requested)
Credo Reference, who generously donated 400 free Credo 250 research accounts to Wikipedia editors over the past two years, has offered to expand the program to include 100 additional reference resources. Credo wants Wikipedia editors to select which resources they want most. So, we put together a quick survey to do that:


 * Link to Survey (should take between 5-10 minutes): http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N8FQ6MM

It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.

At this time only the initial 400 editors have accounts, but even if you do not have an account, you still might want to weigh in on which resources would be most valuable for the community (for example, through WikiProject Resource Exchange).

Also, if you have an account but no longer want to use it, please leave me a note so another editor can take your spot.

If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com. Cheers! Ocaasit &#124; c 17:18, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

July 2012 Study of authors of health-related Wikipedia pages
Dear Author/Graham87

My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address recently edited an article on Paracetamol. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article and or other health-related articles. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please reply via my talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance. Hydra Rain (talk) 12:30, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

my signing
Dear Graham,

i thought, if i take my tildes to sign with my name this would also function in the english wikipedia, which it obviously doesn't. Do i have to register as a new user then to the english wikipedia although I already have a german account? Friendly greetings  18:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC) This is Gyanda from the "Ivo Ringe"-article (where i had this page import request).

Undelete
Hi Graham. How are you enoying Canada and the States? Could you undelete a page for me, User:Slightsmile/Sandbox. No rush. I was a bit hasty with the speedy (U1) and then realized I would have liked to refer back to its history from time to time. I want to move it to another name because it's too similar to the default sandbox and then re-delete again. I've noticed you since I was new here and it's nice to finaly meet you. Slight Smile  16:03, 18 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I'm still deciding on a name so it will be while before I do the move and re-delete. btw I see your talks with Gyanda above. I did a post on someone's German talk last February and wondered why it put my username and date stamp but no link to my talk page. Five tildes. That's another thank you. I just did a test preview on a German talk page and now four tildes seems to work the same way as here - username, talk page and time stamp. Five tildes on the German site gives only a time stamp. Slight  Smile  01:05, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello. I finally got around to renaming my old sandbox and am now ready to delete User:Slightsmile/Sandbox. Again, thanks for the help. Slight  Smile  00:23, 20 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. You have fullfilled my desire. Slight  Smile  02:30, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Nostalgia Wikipedia
There are some comments over at village pump technical about a missing import from Nostalgia Wikipedia that maybe of interest to you. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 16:52, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

About a month to 6 weeks ago
you were talking with hughesdarren about the Trove refs coming up with caps and things - I have had someone take issue with my simply copying over trove wiki refs which leaves the caps - they (the Trove or NLA refs have caps and a few other foibles) - have you had any response to any of the issues you had at that time? - they seem a very helpful bunch usually... cheers SatuSuro 13:55, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikimania goodness?
Hi Graham! I hope you had a great time at Wikimania! Was the place accessible enough?

I would be interested to know what your thoughts are about the accessibility conference. Maybe other will be interested to know, so could you give your impressions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility? Cheers, Dodoïste (talk) 08:17, 29 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Dodoïste, yes, Wikimania was amazing, and so was the rest of my trip! Some presentations were great (such as the panel about the treatment of newbies and the presentation about motivations for editing Wikipedia) and some were not so great, but it was definitely worth the trip! I received a braille program which was very useful to me, so I knew where each presentation was. I've written my thoughts about the accessibility presentation at the accessibility WikiProject's talk page. Graham 87 10:36, 29 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. I'm happy to learn that you had a good time there. I also enjoyed Wikimania 2010. You received a braille program! Incredible, that's so thoughtful. You know, I would also like to meet you and RexxS in real life one day. Studies are taking the better of my time, but maybe next year at Wikimania! Cheers, Dodoïste (talk) 17:53, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Knowing that you can ask such special equipment to the community and that they would happily make it must feel good, right? I'm not sure how to print braille. I guess it needs a special print machine that is able to carve these dots into the paper or something, right? Or maybe they asked a dedicated enterprise to print it for them? Ah, Hong Kong is surely a place that I would like to visit one day, if's been ticking my curiosity for some time. I'll see if I will be free in August, I hope I'll be able to attend and meet you there. Cheers, Dodoïste (talk) 19:40, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

2012 Australian Summer Paralympians
Hey. I've created a number of articles about 2012 Australian Paralympians and nominated them for DYK. As I'll not be available to do much Wikipedia work during the Games, when I've asked these DYKs to run, and given my problem with some Olympic DYKs running afoul of oversourcing and grammatical problems, can you work on copy-editing these articles? --LauraHale (talk) 01:39, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics is pretty much the list of sorts. I'm still working my way through them.  (I have about 30 more to move to the main space.)  Articles should be clear that they were on the list because they would say in the lead something like "was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics" in it.  Understand the need to other Paralympic work. :) Just been working on these ahead of the 2012 Games. --LauraHale (talk) 02:22, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Misuse of PDFlink on Signpost
This edit of yours inserted a bunch of PDFlink tags, each of which is displaying as PDFlink must be run with an argument. The syntax/usage of that template changed a few months ago--check its docs for current details. DMacks (talk) 08:03, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

page history
Thank you very much for your moving. One more thing. Is it possible to restore the page history of User:Pengyanan and User talk:Pengyanan? If yes, could you please restore them for me? Thanks! --Neo-Jay (talk) 02:14, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

User talk:Pengyanan has a deletion log at 08:20, 2 August 2012 although User:Pengyanan does not. Please at least restore User talk:Pengyanan's page history. Thanks!--Neo-Jay (talk) 02:25, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Oh, I see. It will be great if they can be put back at Pengyanan talk page. Please do me this favor when it is convenient to you. Thanks! --Neo-Jay (talk) 03:25, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Great! Thank you so much! --Neo-Jay (talk) 04:11, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

File:02 Calma Pueblo.ogg
If I understand you rightly, you meant to delete the newer version of this file itself but to keep the original revision; is that correct? I just now restored the original file revision (leaving all others deleted) and all revisions of the description page, but I'd be more confident that I did it rightly if you were to look over what I did. Nyttend (talk) 15:27, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Template mistake

 * Sorry, I tried to notify that user. It was a mistake. I fixed it. Best regards.--Reality 15:16, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Mick Hucknall
hello i am very sorry for the trouble you had to go to to remove text on mick hucknalls page. i am a huge simply red fan and am new to wiki. the text was based on personal knowledge supported by his book and videos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simply tom (talk • contribs) 16:47, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you
I had no idea there was a term for it, let alone that it was a foundational concept in analytic philosophy. :) --Anthonyhcole (talk) 04:43, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Accessibility experiment
Hi Graham, I'm interested in testing a few things out. Because it's rather difficult to get (accessibility) changes into MediaWiki core, I was thinking what if we just used Wikipedia as a playground to test some of these things, before we actually merge them into MediaWiki proper. I have created the script User:TheDJ/wai-aria.js to experiment with adding landmark roles for instance. So if you would be interested in helping and providing feedback, I'd welcome it. It will be a slow process, but it is something we can do right now. In terms of landmarks for instance, i'm wondering how to deal with the multiple navigation sections. I'll probably also try to use 'aria described by' attributes to give the landmarks better titles. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 14:22, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Blindness
You reverted my recent edit to the blindness article on "onchocerciasis" since as you stated this was already linked in a previous section. I would find it clearer if there are two links to this article since the picture sticks out (and personally to find out what onchocerciasis is, I googled it, since I didn't see the other link at first; and thus found it cleared when the link was put under the picture). Furthermore in the article there are two links to "guide dog", "North America" and "visual field" so I don't really see why there cannot be two links for onchocerciasis, especially since the other link highlights river blindness (instead of the Latin name). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kreutznaer (talk • contribs) 09:11, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Re: Apitherapy
Thanks alot. I wish somebody would accept it. But thank you for contacting and guiding me. --MansourJE (talk) 14:14, 12 August 2012 (UTC)Mansour Jourabchian Esfahani

LAKSHYA
Hey Graham87 it's me twiter is   the best  thanks for telling me the right way. --Twiter is the best (talk) 12:26, 18 August 2012 (UTC)LakshyaTwiter is the best  (talk) 12:26, 18 August 2012 (UTC)--

Wikitravel/Wikivoyage/WMF Travel Guide
I see you have already expressed your support for the WMF Travel Guide! I'm just checking to see if you are also aware of the more immediate proposal to move Wikitravel content over to WikiVoyage as a precursor to the big move to WMF. It turns out that, due to the spambots, lack of patrolling, security bugs, etc., edits to Wikitravel are no longer being backed up. The Migration FAQ on the Wikivoyage site explains the situation in greater detail. Eco84 | Talk 22:38, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Your opinion on image alt text and captions
Hi Graham ! There is a constructive discussion on alt text going on now. Truth is, we don't precisely know how to write efficient alt text and captions. A vast number of users seems to have it completely wrong, and even accessibility project members - including me - are unsure on several details.

You are directly concerned by the outcome of this discussion, and you have certainly much experience and thoughts to share on this matter. Could you provide a detailed explanation of what you consider to be helpful and efficient alt text? Please provide several examples of good and bad uses.

For example, what should we think of alt text in Istanbul or Anne Francis? Here are a few examples of questions to give you a few ideas if necessary.
 * 1) Is the alt text just right?
 * 2) Needlessly verbose?
 * 3) Should it be summarized to the most crucial information?
 * 4) Or should alt text be empty?
 * 5) Is it easy to understand?
 * 6) Is it meaningful?
 * 7) Does it feel out of place regarding the subject of the article?
 * 8) Are some information redundant with the caption?
 * 9) Could the caption be improved too?

We're not in a hurry, you can take your time to prepare an answer. The more accurate and detailed advice you can provide, the more we can improve our guidelines and guide editors in producing sensible alt text. Thanks in advance! Cheers, Dodoïste (talk) 13:49, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Maria Montessori
Thanks, Graham. I should have thought of this. Looks like you were all over it. Article seems to have weathered the storm, thanks to you.

Dave — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dave Ayer (talk • contribs) 16:08, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Maria Montessori
I left a stern warning against personal attacks for the requester. A boat  that can float!   (watch me float!)  06:10, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Categories on userspace pages
Thank-you for deleting the categories. I will remember not to use them in the future. -Thoughtfortheday (talk) 09:50, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks Re: Farmington
Graham87, just wanted to say thank you for looking over my shoulder on Farmington, NM. Every edit is just great. Thanks for the attention! AbstractIllusions (talk) 18:50, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks :)
Thank you for this - I was being a bit slapdash... :) Fayedizard (talk) 11:31, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Article about Gabon
Hi Graham,

I just created an account, I added an external link to the country page of Gabon to the site: http://www.factfish.com/country/gabon from the IP adress 84.152.41.87 You deleted this link and classified it as linkspam and mentioned that "it didn't appear constructive". I don't doubt in any case that you did this for a good reason and want to maintain the high quality of wiki. However let me do some additions to the link: The site factfish.com contains free data and statistics for many countries, it has data from many sources and therefore more and better data than most of the other sites. There is many functionality like country comparsions and drill down which are not available on other sites. Let me give you an example: The CIA World factbook contains only current data and no historical data, Factfish contains historcial data for most of the data sets plus forecasts for the population data until 2050. So putting this all together I think this site offers some unquite benefits and is e.g. clearly better than the CIA World Factbook in many areas (which is linked for every country) so it makes sense to link in this page.

So I kindly ask you to rethink your decision and if you still think this link doesnt belong there give me some hints in which way you are checking links, so I can consider this when potentially adding links.

If you want more information from me I'm happy to answer your questions.

Best regards

Bernhard

Wiki9313421 (talk) 15:56, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Whymsical text on the Main Page
--PFHLai (talk) 23:00, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Apologies re MfD
I'm sorry I missed the instructions at MfD and got it wrong; thanks for fixing it. – Fayenatic  L ondon 13:09, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Visa Paralympic Hall of Fame
Of course. I corrected the others who had the same "mistake". Thank you. ;-) --Kasper2006 (talk) 15:32, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

About the link to "add to your watchlist"
Hi Graham. There have been a change fairly recently with the "add to your watchlist" feature. The link next to the "edit" and "view history" links. When on click on it, the following messages are displayed in a box that appears and vanishes quickly. I'm wondering if it is accessible, and if you are able to use it. You might not need it as an experienced editor, but I believe it is useful for new users. The messages displayed are:


 * 1) The page "example" has been added to your watchlist, which will list edits to this page and its associated talk page. The page title will also appear in bold type in the list of recent changes.
 * 2) The page "example" has been removed from your watchlist.

Thanks for your feedback! Dodoïste (talk) 07:58, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, these messages have been there for years. But the way they are displayed changed. A few years ago, when adding a page to the watchlist we would be redirected to another page. That other page contained the message. Then developers displayed these messages on top of the article (without any change of page).
 * Now the messages appear in a floating box. If the mouse is hovering over the box, the box stays. Otherwise it disappears in a few seconds. I find it quite nice for my personal use. But I guess people who need more time than average to read might have trouble with this time limit.
 * Apparently you do not experience any trouble with this feature. I was expecting troubles to use it with a keyboard. I'm glad to hear that it's not the case. Cheers, Dodoïste (talk) 16:19, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Newbie Here
Graham:

Many thanks for your warm welcome and your useful tips on my first edits. I knew I would have a lot to learn, but figured the best way to start was....to start!

I will be reviewing your suggestions, including the helpful articles you provided on using Wikipedia. I'm considering writing my first actual article later this month, but want to get accustomed to Wikipedia (and it's traditions and rituals) before doing so.

Cheers.

CrystlBluPersuason 13:35, 14 September 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CrystlBluPersuason (talk • contribs)

Thanks for your help at WP:Unusual requests
I didn't realise that I should have redacted a bit more of the request, mostly because I couldn't make any sense of it and partly because I had thought the phone number was the only personal information the person had given out. Thank you for doing that! A boat  that can float!   (watch me float!)  16:38, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

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Accessibility question
Hello, Graham. I saw a recent posting by you on VPT in which you mentioned that you use a screen reader. I would be interested in your view on whether having article titles that differ only in capitalization poses an accessibility issue. There is currently an RFC at Talk:Quantum leap discussing whether the titles Quantum Leap and Quantum leap should lead to different pages. One issue that I have not seen in the discussion is whether users of screen readers would have any difficulty in distinguishing between the two titles. If you have any thoughts on this, I'm sure they would be most welcome. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:54, 19 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Russ. Thanks for letting me know. I've commented there. Graham 87 15:26, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

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Newbie Here Again
Graham:

Thanks for your useful tip on my recent edit. I'm still getting accustomed to the Wikipedia format and appreciate your help in getting it right.

Cheers. CrystlBluPersuason (talk) 20:38, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation newsletter
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Honey Bee Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis
Hello Mr. Graham I had written an unbiased article for "Honey Bee Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis(MS)" Then they said in the box that it is proposed for the article to be deleted and being merged in treatment of multiple sclerosis article. I did so myself and deleted my article's page and merged it to the "Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis" article. after 1 month I see that even in alternative therapy section I had written, again they deleted it. I don't have the original script with myself, but I think it has been saved in wikipedia's big hard disk. May you please assign it to the blanked page of treatment of multiple sclerosis or my original's page? for the last 1 month I was absent. Please help me. Thanks in advanced, Mansour MansourJE (talk) 17:01, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Guide Dogs
Hi Graham87, thanks for info on Nikolai and guide dogs. I can still read the screen OK but will join the group as you suggest. IcannotC (talk) 21:38, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for tip on citations - very helpful! --IcannotC (talk) 08:53, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Copyedit
I was wondering if you could copyedit Helen Turner for me? Thanks! Thine Antique Pen (talk) 22:04, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Thine Antique Pen (talk) 13:43, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Account
I looked at what you're referring to. My sister probably did that when I left myself logged on. I told her in no uncertain terms not to do it again. Robert (talk) 02:11, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Bees
Hi Graham. I don't really understand why you and others make changes like this. (1) Yes, the BBSG may have been founded technically in 2011, but it only started to become active in 2012. (2) Removing the external link diminishes the usefulness of the piece I added in my opinion. It certainly puts me off spending time contributing further. Paul — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.11.91.36 (talk) 16:03, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Sometimes it's more than just being a Policeman
This is my reply to you concerning your reversal of talk page edits that I removed in the Sun Talk Page: I did remove comments I made hastily in the Sun page just a few days after I was mentored by a user I respect, who enlightened me to the fact that those comments would be better said in another forum. You should not have put them back. Sometimes your job needs to look past being a Policeman; and you should look deeper into the intention of the deleted remarks. I was an Admin on other sites for many years, and learned that lesson the hard way. 2nd: I removed the photos in the Sky talk page because one ended up in the Gallery, and the other I decided didn't fit the criteria. Bot comes in and removes old settled discussions and photos all the time. Am I to believe that my photos are to remain in that talk page forever? No need for a reply. If this is the way business is conducted here, you will never see another talk page comment from me in the future. Pocketthis (talk) 15:26, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Concertino for flute and orchestra (Chaminade)
Hi Graham, Could you have check Concertino for flute and orchestra (Chaminade) for me please? I just created a stub for it as part of the Classic Countdown effort and I want to draw the attention of the Gender Gap people to this composer's works. Thanks, Whiteghost.ink (talk) 08:26, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for the improvements to the Concertino article. I don't know how to add in one of those media files and you have taught me some things about layout. The article itself is now much better. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 10:28, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Hidden revision on Didgeridoo
Hi Graham, I noticed you hid a section of the Didgeridoo page and am intrigued. I had not seen any material there which could be considered potentially libellous or defamatory, so was wondering, was it a new edit today? Since you hid it and did not revert it I am unable to see what it was of course and so am unable to determine whether I agree with your action or not. I had not encountered the hide option before. Cheers,   Djapa Owen (talk) 12:37, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

That sounds like a perfectly sensible thing to do then. I was just puzzled. Thanks for the explanation.   Djapa Owen (talk) 13:10, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Re: poll
Yes, I um-ed and ah-ed about that for a while. But if you think I should change it that's a good sign a made the wrong choice :) Changed. - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 14:09, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
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Robert C. O'Brien
Hey,

I've already tried to get a message to you, but if that did not work I will try this. You wrote me concerning my revisions to the Robert C. O'Brien page, and suggested I give footnotes. Robert C. O'Brien (really, Robert L. Conly) was my father, and so what I've added is stuff I know from personal experience--how my mother's name was spelt, who finished Z for Zachariah, etc. So, I don't really know how to footnote that, but it's all correct.

Thanks for you help; I've never done this before.

Sarah O'Brien Conly — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sobconly (talk • contribs) 14:53, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Re: Z for Zachariah article, and contact with Sarah Conly
Hi Graham. Thanks very much for the message about your discussion with Ms. Conly. I am doing research about Z for Zachariah in particular and would love to contact the writer's family if possible concerning any of his remaining notes about the story. In particular, I'd like to find out the author's view of Ann's reliability as a narrator. Related to this, I'm interested in notes about many story details, including references to Ecclesiastes, "Epitaph for the Race of Man," Gray's "Elegy," and Pride and Prejudice--all of which seem very relevant to the themes that seem suggested by Ann's egotism and paranoia, the elaborate structure of ironies created by her bias, and the ease with which readers are drawn into her first-person POV--beautifully illustrative, I think, of the problems of personal bias and irrational fear. Seoulseeker (talk) 17:04, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

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My First Article (Needs Help)
Graham: You were helpful to me in my first editing attempts. Since that time I have written my first article about I subject I am keenly interested in -- oxygen diffusing enhancing compounds. However, before posting it for the whole Wiki world to see, I am seeking some advice. THe article cites a fair number of sources, including a US patent, a textbook and various varieties of scientific journal articles. I doubt I can do all the required formatting correctly the first time. Would you be willing to look at it and give me some advice? I could put it up in a sandbox or get it to you in some other way. I don't mean to burden you with this, but you seem very knowledgeable and perhaps you can at least point me in the right direction. CrystlBluPersuason (talk) 18:17, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Graham: I got up my courage and created the article after testing it a bit in the sandbox.  It is at oxygen diffusion-enhancing compound.  Comments/edits will be appreciated!! CrystlBluPersuason (talk) 15:49, 24 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Graham: Thanks for keeping an eye on me! I appreciate the help on the Diffusion Pharmaceuticals page.

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Tagore
Thank you for dealing with the Tagore article move. And also, that was a very nice article in Wikimedia.--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:06, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I saw your message after posting the message above. No, your comment is not at all harsh. I myself feel I am somewhat technically challenged, and often do wrong or not-ideal things so far as technical aspects are concerned. Indeed, I had a wiki break for nearly three years, and became further incompetent :)
 * anyway, thanks for dealing with the move. And I really loved that wikimedia blog entry.--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:12, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Sexual reproduction
Dear Graham87, Thanks a lot for your kind comment on our additions to the Sexual Reproduction page!! I appreciate your fixing our citations, and I will try to improve my citing in the future, following the links you suggested. Bernstein0275 (talk) 18:51, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Dear Graham87, I am sorry that I used the term "our." I am responsible, alone, for the edits I am doing. I do work with my husband when preparing what we jointly think should be edited, since we have worked together in the areas of aging, sex, cancer, DNA damage, DNA repair and bacteriophage T4 genetics for the past 50 years (he is 77, I am 71). My husband does not edit on Wikipedia. Thanks for yours concerns and your help!!! Bernstein0275 (talk) 18:57, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Medals earned
I would respectfully disagree that this word is non-neutral. In all my time editting sport articles, this is the first time I have ever heard this. There is no consensus to your statement. It falls a bit into the range of absurd to imply that medals are not earned. If you have other sport editors who have arrived at this and consensus on it, I will take steps to avoid using this. Until sport editors arrive at consensus that this is a non-neutral phrase, I'll continue to use it. --LauraHale (talk) 08:50, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm prepare to revert you if you use it more than in a small minority of cases. It's just lazy writing to make it a default formula. Tony   (talk)  09:32, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm prepared to take you to ANI for harassment. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:19, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Tony, I have always found you to have aggressive behaviour against editors whom don't agree with you (you've been blocked for it) and you've shown that with your on going bad faith edits towards Laura, so I suggest that you stay clear (self imposed topic ban) from areas that she edits in. Bidgee (talk) 10:38, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Way to shoot the messenger--Laura (and the rest of us) have a lot to learn from highly knowledgeable editors like Tony and Graham. Taking someone to ANI for copyediting your article seems like a bit of an overreaction, no? Mark Arsten (talk) 15:27, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Mark! Graham 87 01:45, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It would be more appropriate to take Hale and Hawkeye to ANI for harassment. Those editors should treat others with a little more kindness. Tony   (talk)  08:15, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * This is a vendetta and you know it. If you had any sense at all you would drop it and back off. You have been asked to leave us alone. But I can see that an indefinite block is inevitable. You deserve no kindness whatsoever. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:23, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * 'Inevitable'? Not. Your charges cannot be proven based on the paucity of evidence presented. --  Ohconfucius  ping / poke 12:27, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe you try some more rope. Hawkeye7 (talk) 12:58, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Re: Misidentification of edit as test/vandalism
Ahh yes, an error on my part - I do understand what is/isn't on, wasn't born yesterday. It didn't look right to me, at all, and did not help that I had been reverting continueously vandalism on other articles, seconds prior. Thank you though, for bringing this up with me, -- MST ☆ R  (Chat Me!) 04:02, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Hello
Well, i'd just like to thank you for giving me that advice. I didn't really know how to be a recent change patroller from editing under my ip, so I just deleted anything that I thought looked bad and only warned users sporadically. I think I can do it right now. Also, i'm about to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro via the $40 Windows 7 Upgrade offer, i'm downloading the last of the executables (to reinstall my old programs) and will be restarting and installing shortly. If something goes wrong, I may never be on Wikipedia or any website ever again with this computer. Wish me luck :). -- Free   Wales Now!   what did I screw up?   23:32, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Reverting vandalised page Lucy Ward (musician)
Thank you for the Help:Reverting tip – I've used it just now. 82.9.26.163 seems annoyingly persistent... Headhitter (talk) 07:39, 12 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you: glad to know that there won't be any more disruptive edits from 82.9.26.163 for a while though I suspect he or she is also using the 62.200.54.9 IP address – see similar edits for 1 November. Happy to pass for now in taking up your kind offer of the rollback feature – let's see first how I get on with my new Reversion skills (and I'll try and do it properly next time!) Best wishes Headhitter (talk) 08:08, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

RE: Annie Ross
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Watching the Lucy Ward (musician) page
Hi Graham: Sorry you've had so much hassle with the Lucy Ward (musician) page. I was away for a few days and didn't have computer access so wasn't able to keep an eye on it: will try to do do now. And, having thought about it,perhaps it would be useful for take to take up your offer of rollover access too. You can then take it off your watchlist if you like! Best wishes Headhitter (talk) 07:56, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Suppressing edits about art
Hello Graham,

We are French students. We are trying to write in English new aspects about art, history or philosophy. Apparently, you have suppressed our addings about "art". Did we made a mistake ? Please explain it to us

All the best

PlurofuturoPlurofuturo (talk) 11:32, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

yo mayn
yo mayn why dont you be eceptin ma pages mayn they be good — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noobsailboat (talk • contribs) 22:14, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Michael Jungura
DID YOU GET OUR MESSAGE RE CHARLIE LETTER ....SARAH BUNGARRA  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koodamunda (talk • contribs) 12:54, 21 November 2012 (UTC)


 * FYI - this edit here, which I had reverted for civility concerns. Left a note about that on the user's talk page regarding that (and a suggestion to turn off caps lock).  Also invited them to repost the letter without the incivility.  --kelapstick(bainuu) 13:03, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

WE HEAR DONT UNDERSTAND, HIS NOT MY BROTHER IN FAMILY HIS A ABORIGINAL BROTHER ,MAYBE WE WERE ANGRY AND SAID A BAD WORD, BUT MR YOU TOO ARE MAKING US FEEL LIKE MORANS IN A DIFFERENT WAY BUT THE SAME , YOU WRITING FANCY WORDS TO US, YOU DIDNT GIVE OUR LETTER TO THE OTHER BLOKE EVEN THOUGH IT TALK HRS TO TYPE, HE ASKED US FOR IT , YOU CANT STEAL HIS MAIL WE DONT UNDERSTAND ABOUT WHAT YOU SAYING... SORRY  AS CHARLIE EXPLAINED IN HIS LETER THAT WE SENT , IT DONT MATTER MICHAEL JUNGURA DOESNT KNOW SO WE THE BUNGARRA FAMILY WILL STOP NOW BECAUSE TYPING IS HARD , ISABELLA COE SHOULD HAVE DONE IT , WE DONT NEED YOU SMART PEOPLE TO MAKE US FEEL LIKE IDIOTS ANYMORE. OUR LETTER SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE OTHER GENTLMEN WHO WE SENT IT WE HAVE TO DRIVE INTO TOWN AND SIT NEAR BASE STATION TO DO THESE THINGS BYE  SARAH BUNGARRA  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koodamunda (talk • contribs) 13:20, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

WE SENT YOU A LETER MR BUT SOMEONE STOLE IT SORRY WE UPSET YOU AND A NAME  SORRY WELL WE PRAY TO GODS FOR YOUR EYES BUT THE SPIRIT OF A MAN CAN SEE THE WAY AND THE TRUTH, BUT THEY SHOUD NOT HAVE STOLE YOUR LETER IT WAS A MR KELAPSTICK YOU SHOULD TELL THE POLICE CANT STEEL A MANS LETER..SARAH AND WILLIE MELISSA BUNGARRA  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koodamunda (talk • contribs) 13:33, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

dont worry about it brother the letter you got was from the brother that was in charge back in 1972 charlie perkins everyone lauughing at your wiki cause all the brothers who was their we were all charlie frieds   my sister auntie coe was their charlie was there where were your historians they only looked at the photo who took the photo, lot of people scared in 1972 some didnt give their names some were wanted by the police some were underage, many name not recorded writers dont understand it was a war black vs white  ask the brothers they will tell you people were scared bash locked up in jail spate on, we are the historians we were their michael jungarra was there he took photos  any one under 18 gave false names some name on the bus were not the rights name, if you got arrested once you gave a different name, some brothers names on the bus were not on the bus we know we are the historians, some names some people  at our embassy were  not the right names or the right people we know 3 brother in my family werent their but they gave their name to others so theiy didnt get arrested,,, we the historians,,  they dont these stories it was bad bad days maybe your brain doesnt understand the way it was, what historians know  nothing, they not no that 6 maybe more brother were not their NO they just gave false names,, the police were watching us all the time but we were lucky they thought all blacks look the same,  you seem to be a nice boy let the brothers teach the truth, ask us how it was in them days, the hate, despise,the cruelity was bad,  we tell u something no one know charle says no good we some Black elders black black so we get them from reserve charlie says we need them for the world press we not black enough, this not many white people know because the elders didnt even know what they were doing there, they were puppets that didnt no and they didnt care true now you brother something no historian going to tell,  excuse me mr  when we send you letter where it go,we cant our letters  when u read the names in wiki, we laugh, we say to each other hey brother you werent their brother ,he say yeh macka gave me his name the pigs looking for me,  it dont matter no-one change there name now in your wiki book But we say mr to you their werent there at the embassy maybe in pub drunk or in gail, their name there but they were not WE WE KNOW THIS WE HISTORIAN PEOPLE, thank you you dont need to see to see feel the truth, dont tell about the 3 the old men please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koodamunda (talk • contribs) 03:53, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

what happen brother you get shock no reply, dont mean toi make put you brother but you did not not reply to us i get you didnt relise we were their, some people not their only names you only boy lot to learn, how repect for my brothers you tell you the about bus and embassy me gary foley me sister sarah tell you things wthat not white many know now she worry cause to dont reply no repect for old brothers we as willie say we there we the historans omly trust the black man why u no spessk to and sister  Gary Foley historian  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koodamunda (talk • contribs) 11:25, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, as always
Correcting my typos could be a full-time job! Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 15:17, 27 November 2012 (UTC)


 * No worries! :-) Graham 87 15:31, 27 November 2012 (UTC)