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Cadell/Sinden trivia
Hi, I'm happy to be corrected, but isn't an apostrophe after the name 'possessive'? So surely it should be correct? Manxwoman (talk) 00:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I stand corrected and your explanation's'(!) were very clear. Thank you! Manxwoman (talk) 16:56, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Baron
What a lovely article on Baron. I've been meaning to create it for a while. Do you know of any more sources for Marcus Adams? Gareth E Kegg (talk) 11:02, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * * http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-Plutarch.html Plutarch: excerpt from Numa Pompilius

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Fermat's little theorem
Your edit preserves exactly the meaning of the sentence, so if you believe it's right now then you should also believe it was right before. (I think that your edit has probably made it clearer.) --JBL (talk) 14:58, 17 September 2015 (UTC)


 * In the statement "X if and only if Y", the "if direction" is "Y implies X" and the "only if direction" is "X implies Y". So, to abstract slightly, the previous version was "in the expression 'X if and only if Y', the implication 'X implies Y' is true but the implication 'Y implies X' is false."  You've changed it to "in the expression 'Y if and only if X', the implication 'X implies Y' is true but the implication 'Y implies X' is false."  So you have not changed the content at all.  However, I agree with you that the previous wording was a confusing way to express this content, and that the way you've rephrased it is clearer and less confusing.  --JBL (talk) 18:36, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

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Reign of Cleopatra
Thanks for spotting that. Apparently the page was vandalized by "74edit86" on 22 November 2019 and nobody bothered to revert his edit or fix the damage until now. You only spotted one of his bits of vandalism, though, as he also changed the reign dates for Ptolemy I Soter and Alexander the Great, along with changing several words in the main body of the article, such as "exile" to "ecstasy" that nobody has noticed until now. I'm rather embarrassed that I didn't even catch any of this given how I'm the creator and nominator of the article for "Good" status. Pericles of Athens Talk 09:43, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Glad if I was of some help. Well done for spotting those other vandalisms. Silas Maxfield (talk) 23:32, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

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