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Self-contradiction of HOF
I have noticed that the article Hypofluorous acid has been tagged as self-contradictory. I have noticed the discrepancy in the bond length in the diagram and the text. Which one do you think is the correct one? --Freiddie 12:45, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

To be honest, I'm not sure. The creator of the graphic explained on the article's discussion page where he got his information, and that bond angles and lengths can change under different conditions. I've not responded to him yet. I'm really not any sort of expert in the field.

Bottle Kicking
Well done. Good article ... a B? Victuallers 07:46, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Your sig
Gloriously understated! Well done, sir! R OGER   TALK 17:16, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * That made me laugh out loud Roger; cheers for putting a smile on my face on this Friday the 13th. I'm always happy to take credit for others basking in glorious understatement. :o) Enjoy your weekend. DOONHAMER |  BANTER  17:25, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

KC Stadium
Hi, I have had a look and rated it. The other projects have gone for Start but I think it is probably worth a B with all of the changes. See comments at Talk:KC Stadium/Comments. May be we could get it ready for GA review though not sure what the process is. Keith D 21:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for looking it over. Good suggestions, will work on those this week. I mostly worked with existing material; might also try to find some new stuff to add. Will look into GA review while I'm at it. Thanks also for fixing those things I missed. Doonhamer |  Banter  22:19, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Just a thought on this - may be the section 'General' sounds more like a Trivia section and it should be renamed to something like 'Stadium detail'. Also think it should be moved above the Football section, as the article is on the stadium then probably these details should be first. Keith D 10:20, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Good points. I wasn't quite satisfied with that section; a mix of useful info with, as you say, trivia. I'd favor removing the trivia, adding construction details as you suggest on the article's comment page, and moving it above the club sections. I'll have some time this weekend to have a go at that, if you like. BTW, I've been looking for the rugby club attendances, without much luck. Super League doesn't seem to archive that sort of information as does the Football League. Doonhamer |  Banter  12:46, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * May be the Wembley Stadium article may give some ideas. I could not locate any GA or FA ones on a quick look, though I expect there to be some. Most of the info looks useful if it could be structured a bit. I am winding down for holiday end of next week so not much time so give it a go if you get the time. Keith D 13:01, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Wembley was a good idea; had some useful formatting, so gave it a first pass this morning. Doonhamer |  Banter  16:09, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi again - there seems to be a problem on the references, but I cannot see what is causing it. There is 2 reference 13's in the Reference section and later references are 1 out from the reference number given in the text. Also, in case you have not spotted, some comments have been added to the comments file. Keith D 21:07, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello Keith, I must say, I'm not seeing the problem with the references, this is what I see:

 I tried to access the Comments page a few days ago and couldn't, thought you'd deleted it. I'll take a look at it now I know it's still there. Doonhamer |  Banter  21:34, 11 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Must be a browser or software problem, as looks fine in preview. Will have to ignore it for the moment. Keith D 22:47, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Doonhamer,

I don't think you'll ever, ever get consensus on who should be listed first, Hull City or Hull FC!

I think there's a problem with this paragraph:
 * In spite of a number of obstacles during the course of the project, including Hull City A.F.C.'s receivership in 2001, the stadium complex was completed on time (in fourteen months) and on budget (at approximately GB£44 million). The stadium opened its doors on December 18, 2002.

It makes it sound as though there were problems during the construction, which isn't the case. Construction must have started in Autumn 2001 (fourteen months before it opened in December 2002), Adam Pearson's takeover of Hull City took place in March 2001 - several months earlier.

If anything, the project couldn't even begin (or move past the planning stage) while City were in financial difficulty.

Other than that, great work, it looks a really professional and well-written article! I've moved one sentence from the Hull City section to the paragraph where 'honours' are discussed - hope you agree.

Beve 11:23, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

KC Stadium
Hello, good work with the article. It looks much better! I would recommend you start a peer review for the article, so people can easily leave comments. But a quick comment is that references should be placed after punctuation and the Concerts section looks a little bare.. Thanks, Mattythewhite 20:57, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Photos
Hi again,

I spotted that you had loaded a photo for the Artic Corsair from the Geography site. How did you get the image from there as I could not find a download image link? The best I could do was a right click and 'save as' but did not give a very good image. Keith D 14:23, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * That's what I did too, for the Arctic Corsair and for all the other Hull-related photos I've loaded to the Commons from Geograph (except the interior KC Stadium photos, which came from a friend). Strange that you're losing quality, the ones I saved seem okay. Doonhamer 15:12, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * May be it was a low quality image to start with that I tried. Keith D 15:25, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

I accidently removed some stuff from Rich Rodriguez.
Thasnk you for the warning on my talk page. I have been reverting vandalism, and accidently made instead. It was a good faith edit, and i apologize if i caused any harm. I did not intentially vandalize. But, thanks for the message. I will be more careful. Adios. 98.161.53.217 (talk) 02:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Ypu are welcome. I wasn't looking too carefully at what i was reverting. Also, unlike other IP's, i will NOT remove the warning from my talk page. It was a good thing. Adios. 98.161.53.217 (talk) 02:08, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Chabot College
Hi, whats wrong with the engineering section of Chabot College ? I am one of the top engineering students there and I am actively involved. Let me know whats on your mind about it. --Robertirwin22 (talk) 06:54, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

what happened to "assume good faith"...?
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--Robertirwin22 (talk) 06:59, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I've responded on your talk page. I'm assuming good faith now since you've contacted me here to discuss the matter. Doonhamer (talk) 07:02, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

You're Welcome!
See I used the apostrophe correctly there ;)

One of my pet peeves as well. I noticed while trolling recent edits you had been busy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Deer (talk • contribs) 04:47, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Kingston upon Hull
Hi, just to let you know I tried to get some further input from the Yorkshire wikiproject but only 1 person came along and found some references for one section. I have also got Jza84 to do a quick peer review on the article to see if there is any thing else needs doing. He has left a number of suggestions on the talk page which I have just started working though. Looks like we have some way to go for a GA nomination. Keith D (talk) 23:50, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello, I did start to revise the history section to try to address the comments that were made about the article.I only got as far as the first couple of paragraphs so will abandon the work as it sounds if you wish to revise it yourself.[[Image:Smiley.svg|20px|]]--Harkey Lodger (talk) 18:50, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you, very generous. I'll try a few references as well.(Though night life is not my scene, nowadays.)[[Image:Smiley.svg|20px|]]--Harkey Lodger (talk) 19:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Doonhamer, When you have time, please can you have a look at the Hull article in my sandbox at User:Harkey Lodger/Hull ? (I'm not sure what to do next and your input would be much appreciated..)[[Image:Smiley.svg|20px|]]--Harkey Lodger (talk) 07:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC) Change to main page location of article--Harkey Lodger (talk) 08:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi there, and welcome back. I would really appreciate your opinion about the Hull article. Keith has mentioned that it failed at GA review Talk:Kingston upon Hull/GA1. We did work on it afterwards but held off resubmitting it until now. Your input would be very valuable. Thanks.--Harkey (talk) 19:07, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Harkey, thanks. I'll try to read through the Hull discussion/history this week and think about where we want to go next. Doonhamer (talk) 04:19, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Great, thanks.--Harkey (talk) 07:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your messages on the 29th.--Harkey (talk) 13:02, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Editor review/Doonhamer
Here ya go, sorry you had to wait so long for it :-) delldot   talk  21:04, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the detailed reply. As I said, I really do think you're doing awesome overall :-)  delldot   talk  22:02, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Rivet
Hi Doonhamer. Your work on that double asterisk drew attention to the sentence that should have been a note, in the reference section! So I hope the revision meets with your approval. This article is a favorite of spammers, so if you have it on your watchlist it could be beneficial. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 03:33, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

What to do about 75.72.161.251?
Hello, I noticed you wrote on 75.72.161.251's talk page awhile back. A few days ago he/she wrote on the same profile again and vandalized it again. This is the fourth time that that ip address has vandalized the same page, and it has not made any other edits. Is there anything that can be done? I am relatively new to Wikipedia so I don't know all the rules yet. I don't expect a response, but if you have any free time I think a short ban or something should happen to that user. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.100.86.123 (talk) 18:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

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CE of Dumbo
You may want to wait on starting this until it is semi-protected. Otherwise the Disney Vandal may hit it while you work on it and mess up your work. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 20:19, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up; I'd not read the article's discussion page (clearly). Will leave it for now then. Cheers, Doonhamer (talk) 23:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Sequence for elections
Instead of added sequence boxes for US House of Reps elections, I suggest removing them all for consistency. They're redundant to the navbox below them.—Markles 20:23, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * True enough, fairly tedious work for 100 odd articles though. How do you suggest proceeding? One painful session to remove them all, or several at a time divvied up? Doonhamer (talk) 21:03, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * There are 100+ articles. None of them are formatted completely identically and they all could use a lot of work.  I suggest just doing them bit-by-bit.  I've actually done that a little myself and that's why I noticed what you'd been doing.—Markles 21:23, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you think we should bring this up at the Wikiproject talk page, or is this minor enough that you and I could handle it ourselves? Doonhamer (talk) 00:16, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Why don't you propose it at the project page.—Markles 01:47, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Doonhamer (talk) 05:26, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

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Kingston upon Hull
Hi again, I spotted that you were editing again and just like you to know that I put Kingston upon Hull in for a GA review if you interested you may want to have a look over it before the reviewer gets round to it. Keith D (talk) 23:49, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

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Profanity
They "Profanity" in question on the West End Theatre article is actually the name of the show, so is acceptable as per ProfanityMark E (talk) 11:26, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks Mark. I went to Broadway.com and also the official site of the show, and didn't see anything at either place indicating that it was part of the name of the show (although I was looking for something obvious and didn't do much digging). I stand educated. Doonhamer (talk) 18:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)