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Wells's
Greetings, Quicksilver. Thanks for addressing me directly via my talk page on this matter, which has been discussed repeatedly on the “H. G. Wells” talk page as well as other related pages; e.g. that on “The War of the Worlds”. You'll note in the editing history that many others have changed the possessive form one way or the other. No, I don't write the possessive of the plural "boys" as "boys's", and were I referring to a plurality of Wellses I would punctuate the possessive as "Wellses' ", following “The Oxford Guide to English Usage” : "Nouns ending in s add an apostrophe for the plural possessive, add apostrophe s for the singular possessive" – so "Wells's". When I wrote ”established form” I meant to say established in the context of the discussion on the talk page; I think that the “apostrophe s” case is better supported at the moment. Support for Wells's is also given by The Chicago Manual of Style and The Australian Government Style Manual and by all of the printed biographies that I've consulted, and Wells himself used 's in his “Experiment in Autobiography” as in, for instance, “Henry James's”. Regards, --Mabzilla (talk) 14:49, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Organ Club - AfD discussion
You are invited to join the discussion at Articles for deletion/Organ Club. —Waldhorn (talk) 06:02, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Cultivar names
In case you didn't notice the reversion at Narcissus (plant), please note that cultivar names are enclosed in single quotes as per MOS:QUOTEMARKS, based on Naming conventions (flora). Peter coxhead (talk) 11:39, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Meteor Crater
Hi, Hydrargyrum. On the Meteor Crater article, you recently made a couple of edits (nice catch on the Moon). In the first sentence of the lead you changed the primary "miles" to "km". If you glance through the article, I think you'll see that the non-scientific data (such as distance from Flagstaff to Meteor Crater, and the acreage of the land patent) are expressed in US customary units. Accordingly, I changed it back. Cheers, Richigi (talk) 02:46, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

re: your message
Hi Quicksilver, I've replied to your message here -- Marek  . 69  talk 23:31, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Quicksilver, I've replied to your message on my talk page -- Marek  . 69  talk 00:05, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

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Personal attack
I don't know if you meant to do this, but I have just noticed this edit, in which you call me a Marxist-Atheist... StAnselm (talk) 04:02, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

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 * Note to self: Another instance of someone attempting to substitute File:Villainc.svg for the Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties cast in the Snidely Whiplash article. It already has been reverted and corrected. &mdash; QuicksilverT @ 22:57, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Oh shit
Disregard that. I've been awake too long and tend to mix up users. Yabopomonofonomopo bay (talk) 10:34, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

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Sole Survivor
Since you made this edit, I'm curious. Were you planning on writing an article about Sole Survivor? I had intended to once I thought it was notable enough. I believe it is now but didn't want to write it if you already had anything in the works. I've already created an article about Dickens' other film Fish Out of Water. Dismas |(talk) 00:30, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Got it. Thanks!  Dismas |(talk) 03:19, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Eydie Gormé
Why did you blank the page Eydie Gormé? Your edit has been reverted, I assume that you did this by accident. Please be more careful when editing next time. Andrewpmk | Talk 15:19, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Latvian help needed
Hello Hydrargyrum, I'm contacting you because we need some Latvian translators to help with the deployment of the new VisualEditor on lv.wikipedia. There are help pages, user guides, and description pages that need translating, as well as the interface itself. The translating work is going on over on MediaWiki: Translation Central. I also need help with a personal message for the Latvian Wikipedians. If you are able to help in any way, either reply here, or head over to TranslationCentral. Thanks for your time, PEarley (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

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Re: US units come first?
Hydrargyrum, I'm puzzled as to why you contacted me. Are you asking me to revert my edit to Clifton Court Forebay? Or are you asking me to use a different style in future edit summaries? Since I don't know you, Hydrargyrum, I'll simply assume you're seriously concerned about these issues and try to address all of them. I hope that addresses your concerns. —Stepheng3 (talk) 18:44, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) The general issue of how measurements are presented in enwiki is addressed by the WP:UNIT style guidelines, which state that In non-science US-related articles the main quantity is generally expressed in US customary units.
 * 2) When I wrote "US units", I was referring to the traditional system of measurement commonly used in the United States. This system is derived, though slightly different, from the traditional system of measurement used in England.  To the extent that the two systems agree (as in feet) it makes just as much sense to refer to them as "US units" as "British" or "Imperial units".  In the context of the style guidelines, the phrase "US customary units" is used, so it seems reasonable to use similar terminology when referring to those guidelines.
 * 3) You're quite right that the Metric System is legal for use in the United States, but I don't see why that matters here. Wikipedia is an international project, so its style would not be dictated by U.S. law, even if U.S. law specified a single system of units.  (And it doesn't; the United States has been officially bi-unitary since the 1970s.)
 * 4) In my experience "U.S." and "US" are used interchangeably, even in the United States. Not that this should matter in an international project like enwiki.  I notice that WP:ACRO admits either form of the initialism in enwiki articles.  What's acceptable in articles should certainly be acceptable in edit summaries, which tend to be more terse.

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November 2013
Hello, I'm Baseball Watcher. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Get Smart, Again! because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, you can use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. The reverted edit can be found [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=582455950 here]. Baseball  Watcher  00:50, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * My apologies, I happened to jump the trigger a little early. Sorry and thank you for your understanding. Baseball   Watcher  00:51, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:The_Pink_Panther_(1964_film)#Release_year
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:The_Pink_Panther_(1964_film). Eric talk 15:24, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

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Mirror edits on de = Seltsamkeit!
Hi Hg- I noticed something odd that I wanted to run by you. In the course of looking into the possibility of taking over the username Eric on de.wp, I noticed that five of that account's eleven edits on de.wp are mirrors of edits I made to identically named articles on en. They occur at the same time and have my edit summaries. Do you know how that could happen, and if it's by design or glitch? Danke im Voraus--ich bin ahnunglos! Eric talk 21:40, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * (copied from my talkpage) Hi Hg- I just thought I'd ask you because of your long experience, especially across wikis. Didn't mean for you to do so much work! But thanks for taking a look at it. I agree with your conclusion that the duplicate edits are the result of some machine activity. As for the edit timestamps, I was assuming the edits were actually simultaneous, as mine are listed in UTC, and I was assuming the German ones were in CET. I was in touch with Folkvanger when I took over his commons:User:Eric account (see above section); maybe I'll check with him to see if he knows what might have made the mystery edits. Eric talk 00:07, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Semi-Protected article, registered user
just made this account because a user who seems ridiculously possessive of an article, and doesn't want changes to his choice of colors of the charts he made for the article, got the article semi-protected after reverting my edits, probably by using sock accounts to vandalize it. So I want to know how to register this account. (I'm copying this over from the talkpage of the "Why create an account" article because you have experience with this editor) There is nowhere that explains this at this article, obviously missing information. Anonipus (talk) 23:56, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm refering to this by the way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Walking_Dead_(TV_series)#Characters

And the possessive user who revered everything without any discussion (even though a discussion was started) is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Walking_Dead_%28TV_series%29&diff=583526087&oldid=583524754

Anonipus (talk) 00:02, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

At the time you posted your comment on my Talk page, I had only a single encounter with user Drovethrughosts, and since I don't feel passionate about articles dealing with current television series, I decided at the time not to challenge him or insist on getting my edit incorporated into the article. If you feel strongly about it, drop him a line and suggest he participate on the article talk page and work on a group consensus about the way the table colors should appear. If he refuses to participate in the discussion, revert his changes to what the group resolved until he steps over the 3-revert-rule limit. If he's belligerent and uncooperative enough, the matter may be elevated to administrative arbitration, and depending on the findings, he could get his editing privileges temporarily suspended, or be permanently blocked from Wikipedia. In my experience, editors who repeatedly bully you also do it to others, so by the time they get to arbitration, they already have a long list of offenses and have accumulated quite a few enemies. What may seem a relatively small personal affront to you may just be the last straw that gets that user suspended or banned. As for your part, the best policy is to play it straight and keep the discussions civil. Note that I am not a Wikipedia Admin, just a regular user, so other than giving some advice, there's no more than I can do. — QuicksilverT @ 05:46, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
 * (back to your talkpage)
 * Thanks for your advice anyway. Anonipus (talk) 17:03, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Reviewing your edits
Just a heads-up, it's useful to review your edits using the "changes" button before posting them, so mistakes like this don't happen ("Response to Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship" in lead). -- intgr [talk] 11:46, 24 December 2013 (UTC)