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you are currently violating the 3 revert rule on Wario. Please refrain from edit wars or you will be temporarily blocked from editing.  Sasquatch  t|c 04:50, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

Untrue! according do version history, I had 2 reverts on September 9, and 3 reverts on September 10.

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Penultimate?
On the Mario Kart page, I noticed that you changed "next to last" back to "penultimate." I seriously doubt that a lot of people would know what penultimate means; I myself had to look it up to find out what it meant. I think it would just be a lot easier to say "next to last" instead of the fancier term. What do you think? Hbdragon88 20:39, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

To me, "next to last" sounds a bit long (as in a lot of words), or perhaps un-educated. Maybe it's different where you come from, but where I come from, while a six year old wouldn't know it, it isn't too much of a fancy term. Sorry this was so late in coming. The- 12:35, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

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That is now under the title PSP. The- 12:52, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh I am terribly sorry. I've striked out that warning. - iGod 12:53, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

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I noticed that you essentailly reverted my reduction of solitary year linking (i.e. from 1997 to 1997. I probably should have explained – I was delinking the years in accordence to Wikipedia's Manual of Style; specifically, making links relevent to the context.  According to the guide: "Months, days, years" should not be linked; only full dates, like those that include the month and day, should be linked. - Hbdragon88 21:19, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Crash Nitro Kart
How different are these games? I don't see why they need two different titles if there is some connection between them. Cheers! BD2412 T 17:55, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

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Jeremy Clarkson
PLease see my previous edit summary. IMDB is not a reliable source for biographies. Rodhull andemu  15:49, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

F1 track maps
Hi The-. Thanks for fixing all those track maps in the F1 race reports - it's been on my "to do" list for a long time, but I just never got around to doing it. Thanks again. 02:16, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

1982 Austrian Grand Prix
Hi The-. I just wanted to say thanks/congratulations for the great job you did updating 1982 Austrian Grand Prix. Any chance you feel like doing the same for the other 600-or-so F1 race articles which don't have race reports and qualifying tables? :-) But seriously, keep up the good work. DH85868993 (talk) 01:42, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

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Template:2013–14 Football League One table
Hi. I just wanted to let you know that in your edits at Template:2013–14 Football League One table you made a few mistakes. First of all you forgot to update the date at the bottom of the table as of when the matches was played. Secondly you did not move the entire  row so the bolding got wrong on the team pages, since for example Crewe got the shortening for Sheffield United (SFU). I corrected it here. On the upside you did very good not moving the switches and you did update the helper template, which many forgets so keep up the good work. QED 237  (talk)  14:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

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Category:Football League clubs

 * First of all - sorry for incorrectly reverting your edits on QPR, Reading and Mansfield. I just assumed that, because the edit on Southampton was wrong, all your edits at the same time were wrong. Mea culpa. My understanding of the basic structure of categories is that once an article belongs to a category, it stays there permanently. Thus, we don't have a Category:Former Premier League clubs. IMHO, the Category:Former Football League clubs should be deleted and all its contents moved back up to the Category:Football League clubs. The separate Category:Defunct Football League clubs should be retained, as long as it only includes defunct clubs who had once been in The Football League. I am copying this discussion to WT:FOOTY.  Best wishes.  --  Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 06:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

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Places of birth and death in infoboxes
Hi The-, I noticed you have been making edits of the type here and here, replacing country names with links to articles about specific earlier constitutional forms of the countries involved ("Germany" → "Nazi Germany" and "Greece" → "Kingdom of Greece" respectively). Can I ask you to please not make such edits? The purpose of these infobox fields is to answer the question "where?", not the question "under what political system?". We should give the reader the article that most easily identifies the place, and that is the top-level main article about the country, not a sub-article about a specific political phase of its history. Giving links to earlier historic states sometimes makes sense when countries have changed completely, but that is not the case here: "Greece" in 1854 was already "Greece" just as much as it is today, and "Germany" in 1945 was already the same "Germany" it is today. These are the same countries, merely under different political systems. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:01, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

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Do you have a citation for the recent changes, then? That was one section I couldn't find a cite for... Mabalu (talk) 13:33, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

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1979 Basildon District Council election
Hello The. You seem to have missed off the main reference from this article. Well done on completing the Stevenage set btw. Number  5  7  22:30, 9 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Fixed, thanks for pointing out. The- (talk) 23:28, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Historical election maps
Hello! I'm impressed with your work on council election result articles—I have Plymouth council elections on my watchlist and you've really done a lot to improve them. I was wondering where you got hold of shapefiles for historical ward boundaries? I've looked for them myself in the past but never had any luck. Ralbegen (talk) 19:11, 26 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks, it's good to know my work is noticed and appreciated. Most of the old ward maps come from the Local Government Boundary Commision for England website. If you look through the archived reviews of ward boundaries that took place in the late 1990s/early 2000s they will show a map of the previously existing ward boundaries as well as the proposed new boundaries. Sometimes it will all be in the same document, and sometimes the old boundaries will be shown in a separate map. For the 2001 Plymouth review, it's the latter. Here is the Plymouth page and here is the map showing the pre-existing boundaries. Here is an example of where they are shown all in one.


 * It is also possible to find some old ward maps on archived versions of council websites, for example here is a map of the same ward boundaries on an archived version of the Plymouth Council website. I used the other map though as it is more accurate. Full maps of the old county council boundaries are unfortunately not available on the LGBCE website, but they can sometimes be found on archived versions of the County Council website. The- (talk) 20:11, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * That's some great research. Thank you so much, this is really useful! Ralbegen (talk) 23:58, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

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