User talk:HarryHenryGebel

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Hi. Can you make an edit from 68.82.179.108 to confirm that this IP is you? Thanks  &mdash; Kate Turner | Talk 07:47, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

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I assert to be the same user as commons:User:Hgebel Hgebel 01:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Ordnance
You seem to be replacing some links to the disamig page ordnance with a Wikitionary link. Wouldn't it be better to replace these links with a more suitable Wikipedia article, for instance Royal Army Ordnance Corps? I'd welcome your opinion. -- MightyWarrior 19:37, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * MightyWarrior, I am trying to, but many of the articles are using ordnance in a very general way that does not correspond directly to any individual wikipedia article. For example, when referring to an ordnance depot, (ordnance depot does not have it's own article) would I link to Ammunition, Weapon, Artillery, or Bomb? An ordnance depot can contain all of these.--Hgebel 19:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * For example, you replaced my edit at Didcot with a link to Royal Army Ordnance Corps, labeling my link as "not useful". However, the RAOC no longer exists, and in any case I don't think it would cover the RAF ordnance depot that the article states is located in Didcot, so I don't know how a linkto the RAOC is more useful than my link.--Hgebel 21:26, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

John Smart
Hi Harry; thanks for letting me know! I have the page on my watch list anyway. Yeah, rather sneaky of Denni to put in the the deletion tag without notifying me. Anyway I'll have the page fixed in a day or so. Cheers M Alan Kazlev 01:09, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:66.202.73.102
I'm afraid that I've removed your "final warning" notice, as you added it immediately after my block notice, and it looked a bit odd. I hope that that's OK. --Mel Etitis ( Talk ) 17:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem, I think I must have been typing it in while you where doing the block.--HarryHenryGebel 18:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning, but…
You just posted a warning on my talk page about "unhelpful" changes to Dental caries, but all I did was revert an incorrect grammatical fix. I'm not sure how you found it unhelpful and decided it needed reversion, but the change I reverted was the problematic (but minor change). +Fenevad 03:06, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Dental caries
Hi HarryHenryGebel. Regarding this edit, please note that dental caries, while ending in an "s", is a singular word. Fenevad's edit to the article was correct and was certainly not vandalism (I'm not a dentist myself, but I know the dentist who wrote the caries article; please note the consistent use of the singular throughout). Please be a little more careful before accusing an editor of vandalism. Thanks! · j e r s y k o talk · 03:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I have left an apology on Fenevad's talk page, and logged the edit as a mistake.--HarryHenryGebel 04:17, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I figured you just hadn't noted the edit summary, and if you didn't know caries was singular, it certainly would look like I had made an act of petty vandalism. No harm done though, and I suppose the occasional happening like this is the price of catching real vandals. Best +Fenevad 16:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

82.42.5.178 vandalism
Still at it. Some people have got way too much time on their hands. RoyalBlueStuey 15:32, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * We'll just have to keep an eye on them, their block expired.--HarryHenryGebel 18:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Cromwell
Hi. I can't see why my edits should be considered unhelpful. They're accurate and I'm gathering reference on them. Why should they be reverted? One of the most interesting thing about Cromwell in history is the difference in view on him on the two sides of the Irish Sea. In Britain (mostly England) he is widely admired. In Ireland his memory is despised. It's a fact. Hughsheehy 19:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, I agree that the difference's in view are interesting (and I am of Irish descent and am not fond of Cromwell myself), but when adding the a highly charged phrase like genocidal murderer, I think you should add the references at the same time as the the phrase.--HarryHenryGebel 19:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Probably true. However, I don´t have everything in the same place at the same time, so I guess if someone reverts it I´ll just come back in when I have the refs to hand.  A day or so won´t change the facts or the refs.  Hughsheehy 20:41, 23 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi again. I put in some refs on Cromwell in Ireland, which describe the actions as genocidal or near-genocidal. There are lots out there but after the MarkThomas revert I just put in one Irish and one non-Irish (Polish, I think, published by Cambridge University press and apparently quite respected).  Also, please note that the Reilly book now referenced at the end of para 1 is seemingly highly challenged by at least one 17th century specialist in Cambridge (or Oxford...i can never remember which is which) as being a very "selective" book.  I'm no Cromwell expert but have a look.  Hughsheehy 07:55, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

User:NewtLivingston
He went nuts yesterday on a similar list. He wouldn't communicate, he just kept yanking the speedy templates off his page, until he was banned. The only reason I haven't noted him as a sockpuppet is that I'm at work and for the life of me cannot remember what his name was yesterday. --Mhking 03:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * He's definitely an annoyance, thanks for changing back to the correct db-tag, I misremebered the first one that had been put up.--HarryHenryGebel 03:16, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

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CfD
Whoops! Thanks for correcting that for me. I'm always confused by the deletion/renaming process...people like you help make it a bit easier Paul 19:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Ali
Hi, Thanks for your help with Portal:Islam/Selected Muslim(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal%3AIslam%2FSelected_Muslim&diff=160658232&oldid=158940224). Can you please correct Ali as well.-- Sa.vakilian(t-c) 02:22, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Commonwealth postal orders
I didn't write this article, but thanks for the notification anyway; I see its been deleted (which is the action I would have prefered anyway, due to lack of content, and banned status of the actual author). --Kiand 22:10, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation
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February 2008
In a recent edit, you changed one or more words from one international variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For subjects exclusively related to Britain (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. If it is an international topic, use the same form of English the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to the other, even if you don't normally use the version the article is written in. Respect other people's versions of English. They in turn should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any queries about all this, you can ask me on my talk page or you can visit the help desk. extra-curricular  Double Blue  (Talk) 21:05, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I apologise. I presumed the Australian spelling would be the Commonwealth form. I should have been more careful and checked. I have reverted myself back to your version. Cheers! Double Blue  (Talk) 22:19, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Jimmy Stayton
Hello Harry, I'm a user from the German-language wikipedia and currently I'm workin' on a article about de:Jimmy Stayton, but there's not much I know about him. I found out that he lived in Milford, DE like you. Maybe you know some older persons in Milford who know Statyon (he was a local star back in the fifties and did barn dances). I hope you can help me a little bit. And I'm sorry for my bad English... The yodeling cowboy (talk) 07:38, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories
Dear User:HarryHenryGebel,


 * I really appreciate your interest in the UN list. It's very refreshing. I also like the idea of beautifying the article to improve legibility. Unfortunately, I believe your recent changes may have done so at the cost of functionality. You see, Wikipedia sortable tables like the one on this article currently do not distinguish between numbers and text strings. As such, leading zeros are necessary to allow the reader to sort a table sensibly by numbers; removing them makes 11 confusingly seem larger than 100 but smaller than 2. On a different point, the tailing decimal points on both the entries for Tokelau and Turks and Caicos Islands were intentionally inserted to convey that each tailing zero was a significant figure. I do not mean to disrespect you and I am happy to research a way to fix that sortable table glitch this week but failing such a revelation, I will probably revert those edits of yours. Have fun!

Sincerely, :)--Thecurran (talk) 12:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I found out how to sort out the sorting, so I fixed it and brought back the two decimal points.:)--16:09, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

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Presbyterianism
Thank you for restoring the Characteristics section in the article on Presbyterianism. I too get frustrated by vandals. I was amused, however, that the section as you restored it still had some vandalism in it: it claimed that Presbyterians are governed by a "Book of Kittens." If I am to be governed by kittens, it will have to be the actual kittens and not a book. Sterrettc (talk) 18:45, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

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Merge of Futurist
Hi,

There is currently a discussion about merging Futurist into Future Studies. I notice that you withdrew a similar proposal back in 2007. I don't know the history of that but I thought you might like to comment on this occasion.

Yaris678 (talk) 16:50, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest
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Scaphe Page
Hi-

I see that you were one of the last people to edit the scaphe page. I have been working on it in my sandbox. I am about to post the new scaphe page, would you help me out by looking it over and improving anything I didn't quite get right?

Thanks--Gaurd.vanforlife (talk) 00:18, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

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User category proposed deletion
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