User talk:Soap/Archive 3

Revert
That's fine, I'll check it out later. It's what revert is for. Rich Farmbrough, 23:45 3 February 2009 (UTC).

Do you have IRC?
We might want to discuss certain things in private. There'd be some facts I wouldn't want to have seen in a public view. --Let Us Update Special:Ancientpages. 02:15, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Grandma's Gifts
Hey! I just wanted to say thanks for taking a loot at the page and making the spelling changes. I'm embarrassed that I never caught those problems. I went back to change what was 'Grandmas Gifts' and 'Grandma's gifts' to 'Grandma's Gifts' and must have misspelled the find/replace.

If you see any other problems, please let me know (or make the changes yourself, obviously). Thanks again for your time and help. Ol Yeller '''Talktome 04:10, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

“insure” → “ensure”
I quite agree that “ensure” is typically preferable where one is not referring to a contract for compensation in case of loss, but I would note that “insure” is not actually incorrect. —SlamDiego&#8592;T 06:30, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

This does seem to be a difference in British and American English. I believe some Americans do use insure as a synonym for "be certain that". Ensure may therefore seem strange to some Americans and be taken (wrongly of course) as a spelling error. I personally prefer to keep the distinction between ensure "be certain that" and insure "hold an insurance contract", but I suspect that your edits will be edited back by some who feel strongly the other way. This will be especially true in articles where the subject matter is principally U.S. oriented because Wikipedia has rules about this (somewhere).--Hauskalainen (talk) 18:31, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, American English does recognize “ensure”, but also uses “insure” in its original sense, as a meaning ensure. (Has British English indeed forgot?) The advantage is that American English does not use “ensure” in the derivative sense of contract for compensation in case of loss, so that “ensure” is less ambiguous. —SlamDiego&#8592;T 05:40, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I think I did the right thing. Even if insure isn't incorrect, it's given only as an alternate spelling in most online dictionaries if at all and a manual on professional writing that I have says that it should be avoided.  I live in America and I believe that ensure is the preferred spelling even here.  Note that I was careful to avoid changing quotes and a few cases where I wasn't sure which meaning of the word was intended.  Soap Talk/Contributions 13:53, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I'd just recommend a different edit summary. Instead of referring to “insure” as a “typo”, how about something such as “Used less ambiguous spelling”? —SlamDiego&#8592;T 18:48, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Robert Titzer
Thanks for catching this egregious mistake! Best, Cunard (talk) 00:24, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Ƿynnþorneð
Now unprotected -- my mistake from several months ago. NawlinWiki (talk) 23:35, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
 Staffwaterboy  Critique Me Guestbook Hate Comments 02:14, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Revert
Could you tell me what exactly is "irrelevant", on a encyclopaedic reference page about nappies, about an external link to to a page with good informative content about cloth nappies on a website dedicated to the subject? revision 275342264 02:55, on 9 March 2009. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.96.45.1 (talk) 12:05, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Cloth Nappy Tree
In what sense do you qualify clothnappytree.com as a commercial website? This site's main goal since it's inception has always been to inform and aid parents in the use and choice of cloth nappies as a viable alternative to disposables. Whilst there is a certain amount of advertising on the site (if this is what you are refering to) it exists solely to pay for hosting and development costs associated with the website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinkdjinn (talk • contribs) 23:24, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Rangersarecool
Pardon me if I disagree but rangersarecool is a very smart 4th grader and would not make a account called rangerarecool1234. do you know who would? someone who wanted rangersarecool would. do you know who that is? davidthedograt. How do I know? im in his class. im also in david the dogman's class im also in foxcows, jeffhardys, and rangersarecool. if it wasnt for davidthedograt rangersarecool wouldn't be blocked. darknesswolf is another account used for cantributions, not vandalism! he was trying to get away from niv, who new what rangersarecools password was. (he found out while he was typing it in class) then he made darknesswolf. then a classmate comes and says ooooh lets make a account called rangerarecool1234 and create vandalism so they'l think im rangersarecool! oh and for good measure, he says he is rangersarecool on your talk page. hes not that dumb. hes in a gifted class, we all are. (exept sometimes I wonder about davidthedograt...) enyway hes a straght A student in gifted 4th grade and loves wikipedia. he always talks about it! sorry to disturb you, im just angry at the people who blocked him, and didnt unblock him. Jinxyouowemeasoda (talk) 13:31, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Signature REply
Thanks, yah I though"user"world would be funny. BTW, I like your Saop Status (In your bathtub) World (talk • contributions) 15:43, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

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You are absolutely correct...
I bagged that poor user's entry after it had been previously tagged for vandalism. When I saw the username, I assumed it was a returning vandal. Boy, did I assume wrong. I've unblocked him with my most profuse apologies. Thanks for letting me know about the mistake. I feel positively awful about it and I hope to heaven I haven't scared this guy away. Doggoned vandals have me jumping at shadows. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 23:35, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

you should...
become an administrator! seriously! AgentSpy101 (talk) 12:10, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Louie Louie
Sources that you find through a books.google or news.google or scholar.google are generally considered reliable. -- The Red Pen of Doom  00:34, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Re:
The source I have given provides its own sources. I haven't had the time to integrate them; my initial plan was to cite each individual source, and then remove that one. What I shall do once I find the time is to add a new column to the table, citing references. Additionally, I shall also find sources from alternate locations. Also, just a note for you to sign your posts, it took me a while to find this page. Thanks. --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs 22:08, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Flamewire
Yes, I am Flamewire2. I wanted to usurp Flamewire, but it didn't work, so now I requested "Zapple". Flamewire2 (talk) 01:05, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

ACC
I have requested an account on the ACC interface website and this is my confirmation of that request. Soap Talk/Contributions 21:20, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

-- FastLizard4 (Talk•Index•Sign) 00:06, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Hamid vandal
Since the edit you found was two days old and had already been reverted, I don't think there's much left to follow up on that lead. Now, if he starts vandalizing again today, that's another matter. —C.Fred (talk) 03:59, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

My RfA
Thought I should point out that when I used the term "Forgive me for refactoring your comment" I meant in terms to correcting him in my reply, not actually changing his post. Thanks. — Cyclonenim | Chat 22:23, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

to Soap
Soap: with all due respect the quotes that I placed in the previous version of the article were signed off by one Ian Jobling on his own website White America. My version of the article provides an honest and clear representation of his views. Rather than just deleting all my changes, would you next time please be specific and indicate exactly what quote or section you find unacceptable. Thank you.

Please read through the original link I provided. It was a link to Jobling's own website and the comments I included were signed off by one Ian Jobling. Clearly it is inarguable that Jobling wrote those comments as he has complete control over what appears on his own site.

Comments about white privilege and his views on the place of blacks in the US are indisputably his.

For his comments on blacks 'undermining' the US refer to his post at 1/23/09 at 11:45 am at the page http://whiteamerica.us/index.php/Blog/Blog/am_i_an_equal_opportunist/

Ausbright (talk) 23:50, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Braces
I have no idea what you are talking about and why you are even posting this random thing on my accountRockiesfan19 (talk) 01:55, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes I am not using the flicker version(I don't even know how to access that). I just clicked on the picture, tried to save from there and it didn't work. So I clicked again to get to where it displays the "Braces_smile_purple.jpg" image only and save, but still the same problem. I have tried in two different browsers(IE and Google Chrome) and the copy image feature doesn't seem to work either. I'm on Windows XP by the way. Strange it's not working for me. I also I tried the other images on the page and they saved with no problems. Bluesoju (talk) 03:27, 13 April 2009 (UTC)