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I noticed all the hard work you've done. Keep it up. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Jason Quinn ( talk) 20:38, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my spelling error on the Judika Illes article. The article has not yet been reviewed. Would you like to review it? (As the article's creator, I'm not allowed to do that.) Folklore1 ( talk) 00:37, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! Your contribution may be small, but it moves things in the right direction, and is appreciated (it was my error you fixed!!!). Tom Cloyd ( talk) 17:34, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
I thought I got it taken care off some months ago, but in these last few days it's popped up again, thank you for sorting it out I appreciate it. MPJ -DK 18:29, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi John, Thanks for nominating this article for deletion - as it's clearly a hoax I've deleted it. In case you're not aware, articles that are probably hoaxes can be nominated for speedy deletion under criterion for speedy deletion G3 which is quicker and saves needing to go through the articles for deletion process. Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 01:31, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your small typo edit on the Salsburgh wiki, I do however like how you fixed University but totally missed Gobtained lol, no matter I caught that but thanks for your input. -- 95.146.5.125 ( talk) 15:26, 3 April 2010 (UTC)KaraokeMac
Thank you for catching the typo in the Levett entry. Best, MarmadukePercy ( talk) 05:49, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
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Congratuations, John of Reading! For your tireless contributions to the Typo Team, I hereby award you our barnstar. You've earned it! Jason Quinn ( talk) 16:45, 12 April 2010 (UTC) |
You may want to check your edit summaries.-- Rockfang ( talk) 11:26, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
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I think that I need to top Jason :) You've been doing a fantastic job with the Typo Team, keep up the good work. Hi878 ( talk) 04:16, 2 May 2010 (UTC) |
![]() | I agree completely. :) Hi878 ( talk) 22:18, 2 May 2010 (UTC) |
Just out of curiosity, what is the diffrerence between blank and the template ? Cheers. Nedim Ardoğa ( talk) 14:29, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I am here to inform you that your userpage or talk page has been conquered by the Earth Cabal. Please don’t panic; there is nothing you can do about it. You are hereby invited to join the Cabal, and help conquer other pages for our cause. See User:Hi878/Earth Cabal for more information. Thank you, have a nice, irregular weather day, and welcome to Earth. Hi878 ( talk) 04:34, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I do not know who has been responsible for bringing the above-mentioned entry into its present form, but since you have been the last editor, hereby I should like to bring the following to your attention: The entry in its present form is nothing short of a most unfortunate Wikipedia entry one can think of! The entry is supposed to be about a historical building complex in Tehran, but starts by examining the notion of Paradise --- the elements that in my original version constituted footnotes, have now been turned into the main part of the entry! It is impossible to even suspect that the entry is supposed to be about a building complex! In all sincerity, I could not believe my eyes when I saw the present version of this entry! I may revert the entry to its original form; the present form is even worse than farcical. --BF 21:33, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for helping iron out the typos on the Elizabeth Scott page. I was told some of the sources used were not entirely reliable, so I'm carefully re-checking them and rebuilding the article one paragraph at a time. Keep it up, and God bless! Wikibojopayne ( talk) 00:38, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi John. I have a question and I'm not sure where to start. I'm trying to get an article made, and have a draft on my subpage and made a suggestion, but since I have a COI, I don't want to break rank and post it myself. I didn't know who to ask, so I thought I'd just throw the question out there to someone with experience. Any tips? And sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, I'm still new at this. ( Jordan.labelle ( talk) 20:37, 24 May 2010 (UTC))
John, I noticed your update of User:John_of_Reading where you give your AWB settings. Do you tick the Unicodify whole page? If not, why not? Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 17:41, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks you very much John for you response from the helpdesk and the link to the relevant section. After I posted there was some more doubt about the spelling of the name and I found some article with hats in the title so for the time being I though to investigate some more and didn't want as has happened previous that editors sometimes make the desired alterations in the help desk question. Regards. Off2riorob ( talk) 11:54, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi John of Reading,
I have now reduced the size of my signature. Is this okay now? Thanks! – Shannon Rose Talk 14:47, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
I know you're just a random user but do you know how to "Vanish" indefinately blocked accounts? 84.148.145.31 ( talk) 20:26, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi- I will re- read the guidelines in the next day or so then get back to you. Thanks-- Uvghifds ( talk) 16:56, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Moved here from my user page...
Thanks for fixing my silly spelling error in the Andrew Russo article! Hekerui ( talk) 16:50, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I confess I've made some edits with duff edit summaries this week:
-- John of Reading ( talk) 06:14, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
I have seen that you edited some volleyball articles. Some players articles, most of them looks outdated. I would like to improve players by country. Could you please choose a country to contribute with? Please take a look on Yekaterina Gamova, Hélia Souza, Serena Ortolani and Kenia Carcaces for a model to follow. Please can you please improve some volleyball players with infobox and some addons? References are very important. Let me know. Oscar987 23:12, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
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{{
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There's a very upset contributor at
Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#donny_logn_wiki_page, and I am well out of my depth. Since the issue has been to
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Donny Long,
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John of Reading (
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10:31, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. I had looked at his stuff earlier, in more detail that it probably deserved. I got stuck trying to come up with a polite, within-policy way of saying that it's a bunch of incoherent crackpottery. I suppose if nobody else pops up in the next couple of hours, I'll have to take a shot at it. Anyway, thanks again for the reminder. -- ArglebargleIV ( talk) 14:15, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Initially there was no article on Distributed Operating System. So I took some time to gather information and published my article on Distributed Operating Systems. So heres my article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_operating_system . Can you please suggest any further improvements to my page please. Thank you very much in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ksudhir01 ( talk • contribs) 22:26, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. I'll find a medium/low resolution version of the image and provide an explanation like those other pages did. Also, just let me know if you want me to glance at any articles for proofreading purposes - your articles or people you're helping out. I don't know a whole lot about Wikipedia formats and stuff, but I do know a thing or two about grammar and sentence structure. Cheers. Jordan.labelle ( talk) 14:26, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Metallurgical education, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metallurgical education. Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Fiddle Faddle ( talk) 17:58, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I've started a discussion on the matter here. Would you please participate? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 02:26, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
What i mean is when i look at the page it says 2 goals for arsenal but when you go on the edit page it say 1. Gobbleswoggler ( talk) 12:15, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
FYI, I've reverted this edit because it's in a direct quote from a source. Do you know if there's a way for AWB to recognise that text is in quotes and thus avoid modifying it? Nyttend ( talk) 22:31, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
I do not often raise my head from my passion (obsession?) of Wikipedia correcting to look around WP much, but in response to your recent heads-up I took the time to see what you were doing. I am impressed with your work, particularly the methodical approach to alphabetically checking the frequent typo list. Your user page is very instructive and I found that we have a very similar approach to using AWB.
The inspiration came from my realization that you are probably better versed in the guidelines and framework of WP than I am even though you seem to have been editing for a shorter time. I have resolved to edit a bit less and study a bit more. Thanks.
Keep up the great work. I love barnstars, but have never given one. You should be getting one now, but I hope you will consider this sincere and rare timeout from my typo-correction to be an award. -- LilHelpa ( talk) 11:09, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
I hope I made your day somewhat better with this WikiCard, SwisterTwister ( talk) 19:57, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
While current flow was induced directly underneath the magnet, the current would circulate backwards in regions outside the influence of the magnetic field. If current can't flow, surely it can't circulate either? Just how far should we go in reforming English usage here on the Wikipedia? -- Wtshymanski ( talk) 14:07, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, John, Glad to see you still on the "the the" team. I thought I was correcting my own mistake when I ran across this edit which should have been "the the --> to the", as I fear I do this at times and don't catch it. -- LilHelpa ( talk) 14:56, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind doing a more complete Copyedit on 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States) Damon.cluck ( talk) 12:50, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, John. I noticed you've been busy lately changing occurrences of the awkward phrase "due to the fact that" into the shorter and better "because." Most of these edits are spot on. However, there are a few cases ( [1], [2], and [3], for example) in which I think because is grammatically incorrect. These are cases in which because follows is (or another form of the verb to be). The word because is a conjunction, so I don't think it's proper to say, for example, "The high price of platinum is because platinum is a very rare element in the Earth's crust." Since due is an adjective, the alternative sentence "The high price of platinum is due to the fact that platinum is a very rare element in the Earth's crust" is grammatically fine, though it is still quite an awkward sentence. A sentence like this can't be fixed by simply changing "due to the fact that" into "because"; it should be rewritten. In this example, "The high price of platinum is due to its great rarity in the Earth's crust" would be better. Alternatively, "Platinum is expensive because it is a very rare element in the Earth's crust." Do you agree? — Bkell ( talk) 05:21, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, there. Thank you for fixing my Keith Olbermann citation. I was in a hurry, am on holiday, and hadn't been able to get back to fix it. Cheers. Mrs. Peel ( talk) 14:28, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Greetings, John. I noticed you fixed the file: syntax by adding double brackets at the beginning. Finally found the WP article that outlines the syntax. What I don't understand is why when I look at a version of the Watson article without the correct syntax, the picture, caption, etc. looks exactly the same to me as it does now. Any ideas or am I missing something?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 21:44, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the touch up. For reasons I haven't been able to fathom the new-fangled vector theme, while very attractive, screws up the cite javascript for me, so I have to type 'em in by hand. :( Wwwhatsup ( talk) 06:40, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing this error I introduced. Blackworm ( talk) 07:24, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
D'you know what JoR .... I think, re my edits, that you are GOOD NEWS! Tolesi ( talk) 20:52, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Regarding your comment here, I think that you could try one of two options: namely, that you either delete (or merge or whatever) the article, since the nominator would be the only one who !voted with his/her rationale/suggestion in the deletion discussion and there is no opposition toward him/her, or you could {{ relist}} the discussion (which is more preferable than deletion by AfD standards) "to generate further consensus" and so on and so forth. :| TelCo NaSp Ve :| 22:45, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Template:The CW Television Network (The CW) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you.
Bisbis (
talk)
03:01, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
As a robot is planned for periodically correcting CAT:AWBC, see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HersfoldCiteBot, I thought it would be best not to correct those errors for a while so it would have some material to test on. -- Muhandes ( talk) 16:53, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
We need your help in filling up the column of directors - which you can get from http://www.citwf.com/person241842.htm in the article rajesh khanna filmography in wikipedia.As you seen to be interested in working in wikipedia articles we would be gald if you contribute in filling up the DIRECTORS cloumn and in the NOTES column fill up the awards won and nominations won by khanna against a particular film. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shrik88music ( talk • contribs) 14:32, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
It's difficult to fix a page when you keep reverting it. Don't be a nazi. They aren't paying you for this you know. —Preceding ( Chadwickschool ( talk) 20:46, 20 September 2010 (UTC)) comment added by Chadwickschool ( talk • contribs) 20:37, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the Message on My Talk page ECat200 ( talk) 07:35, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
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I know you've had these before, but the amount you've done since surely warrants another one -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 17:05, 26 September 2010 (UTC) |
...for improving Berber calendar by fixing my typos and translation errors. It is much better now! -- Gengis Gat ( talk) 16:19, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for your reply on WP:AWB's talk page. I tried your command (with replacing english words to Slovene: \(\s*\[\[\s*Angleščina\s*\|\s*angleško\s*\]\]\s*\'\'([^\']+)\'\'\s*\)), but with no success. Can I give you example article (like sl:Kraljevi astronom) with "the problem": ([[angleščina|angleško]] ''Astronomer Royal'')? Regards, -- Klemen Kocjancic ( talk) 16:08, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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Just wanted to thank you for your continued help. Let me know if you want me to look at any articles your working on or if you need help with anything. Cheers! Jordan.labelle ( talk) 19:10, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
thank you for the much needed advice! ( Dreher1980 ( talk) 19:58, 19 October 2010 (UTC))
Dear John,
as per your conversation of notability, find hereunder the link where his name is mentioned in all the projects and links.
some are press releases, some are official like DIFC, some are joint ventures and some are websites. these links are not helpfull to have notability on Imad Abulaban?
( Samour72 ( talk) 07:30, 20 October 2010 (UTC))
Dear John,
how can we put up a biography about Imad Abulaban without have it deleted or having notes on it. an example would be good to copy and paste ( Samour72 ( talk) 08:19, 20 October 2010 (UTC))
Hi John,
After reviewing your notes, i would like to expalin one thing that maybe you didn't consider, which is Imad Abulaban is the owner, cofounder, President and CEO of Polystar, Projacs and CapitalStone. so any conversation that talks about the projects or the companies mentioned above would be giving natability for Imad. is it true or not?
as for the links mentioned above also, we would like to aknowldge you the following:
thats more than 40 words said by Imad Abulaban.how come it dosn't quote what IA said.
and last but not lease Bloomberg is well known internationaly, here is a press release about McGovern+Moriarty and CapitalStone (again is owned by Imad Abulaban) http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4393659
if there is a way to contact u over the phone as well that would be helpfull to ask for. ( Samour72 ( talk) 08:01, 21 October 2010 (UTC))
Talk:List of Sonny With a Chance episodes needs a visit after 25th oct. -- John of Reading ( talk) 11:20, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Why do you keep deleting most of the material me and my teacher made on the Creekland Middle School article?
I understand now that I can't put the criminal thing on the article, but I don't know why the rest of the stuff had to be removed. You even took off the Creekland logo that my teacher worked HARD to upload. I'm kind of new here, so I need a bit of help.
Please reply back ASAP.
Sincerely, Jaiman1998 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaiman1998 ( talk • contribs) 12:46, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Ok, thanks! ;)
Jaiman1998
Darren LaCroix ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Hi John. I added more links to the page (see subject line). Could you please take a look and let me know if it's enough to remove the tag or how else I can improve the article. Thank you for the feedback! Google Child ( talk) 06:50, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
John, thank you for the feedback. I added links where you put citations needed and looked through the style a bit. Could you please take a look and let me know how it looks now. (sorry replying you with new section, couldn't find how to respond on original message) Thank you. Google Child ( talk) 05:22, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Thank you John! Google Child ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:18, 5 November 2010 (UTC).
I see you were working "in in" with dates today. I couldn't figure out how to get AWB to make a list for me. How'd you do that? -- LilHelpa ( talk) 02:21, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- (batted|brought|called|came|coming|compete|competed|fenced|filled|filling|gave|involved|joined|jumped|lived|marched|move|moved|moving|participated|phased|sent|starred|stepped|swearing|sworn|traded|turned|turning|voted)\s+in\s+in\s+(early|late|Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec|18|19|20|the spring|the summer|the autumn|the winter)
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Whereas you have continued to make steadfast, effective attacks against typos in a thoughtful, thorough way while displaying the finest ideals of Wikipedia in your conduct. I am inspired to raise my head from the battle and yield to you my first graphic award. -- LilHelpa ( talk) 11:31, 7 November 2010 (UTC) |
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Thank you for contacting me about this article. Where should we discuss this? On your talk page or mine?
As I am clearly a new editor and you appear to have had a lot of experience, I suggest we use your page, because other visitors to your talk page may find any discussion useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack Greenmaven ( talk • contribs) 21:28, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
User:Jack Greenmaven/Jackaroo Draft
I was still puzzled at the size of the discrepancy - and while the main factor is non-mainspace pages, there are about 4,000 that are false positives... due to the last edit summary being "the the -> the using AWB"...
Rich
Farmbrough,
14:22, 12 November 2010 (UTC).
I'm poaching from your sandbox. It's probably not cool, but at least I decided to tell you :) I'm working downward from TS King Edward. -- LilHelpa ( talk) 23:46, 15 November 2010 (UTC) Working the sorted list up from Z instead - LilHelpa ( talk) 01:15, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your help! Pais ( talk) 10:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
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I noticed all the hard work you've done. Keep it up. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Jason Quinn ( talk) 20:38, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my spelling error on the Judika Illes article. The article has not yet been reviewed. Would you like to review it? (As the article's creator, I'm not allowed to do that.) Folklore1 ( talk) 00:37, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! Your contribution may be small, but it moves things in the right direction, and is appreciated (it was my error you fixed!!!). Tom Cloyd ( talk) 17:34, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
I thought I got it taken care off some months ago, but in these last few days it's popped up again, thank you for sorting it out I appreciate it. MPJ -DK 18:29, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi John, Thanks for nominating this article for deletion - as it's clearly a hoax I've deleted it. In case you're not aware, articles that are probably hoaxes can be nominated for speedy deletion under criterion for speedy deletion G3 which is quicker and saves needing to go through the articles for deletion process. Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 01:31, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your small typo edit on the Salsburgh wiki, I do however like how you fixed University but totally missed Gobtained lol, no matter I caught that but thanks for your input. -- 95.146.5.125 ( talk) 15:26, 3 April 2010 (UTC)KaraokeMac
Thank you for catching the typo in the Levett entry. Best, MarmadukePercy ( talk) 05:49, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
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Congratuations, John of Reading! For your tireless contributions to the Typo Team, I hereby award you our barnstar. You've earned it! Jason Quinn ( talk) 16:45, 12 April 2010 (UTC) |
You may want to check your edit summaries.-- Rockfang ( talk) 11:26, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
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I think that I need to top Jason :) You've been doing a fantastic job with the Typo Team, keep up the good work. Hi878 ( talk) 04:16, 2 May 2010 (UTC) |
![]() | I agree completely. :) Hi878 ( talk) 22:18, 2 May 2010 (UTC) |
Just out of curiosity, what is the diffrerence between blank and the template ? Cheers. Nedim Ardoğa ( talk) 14:29, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I am here to inform you that your userpage or talk page has been conquered by the Earth Cabal. Please don’t panic; there is nothing you can do about it. You are hereby invited to join the Cabal, and help conquer other pages for our cause. See User:Hi878/Earth Cabal for more information. Thank you, have a nice, irregular weather day, and welcome to Earth. Hi878 ( talk) 04:34, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I do not know who has been responsible for bringing the above-mentioned entry into its present form, but since you have been the last editor, hereby I should like to bring the following to your attention: The entry in its present form is nothing short of a most unfortunate Wikipedia entry one can think of! The entry is supposed to be about a historical building complex in Tehran, but starts by examining the notion of Paradise --- the elements that in my original version constituted footnotes, have now been turned into the main part of the entry! It is impossible to even suspect that the entry is supposed to be about a building complex! In all sincerity, I could not believe my eyes when I saw the present version of this entry! I may revert the entry to its original form; the present form is even worse than farcical. --BF 21:33, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for helping iron out the typos on the Elizabeth Scott page. I was told some of the sources used were not entirely reliable, so I'm carefully re-checking them and rebuilding the article one paragraph at a time. Keep it up, and God bless! Wikibojopayne ( talk) 00:38, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi John. I have a question and I'm not sure where to start. I'm trying to get an article made, and have a draft on my subpage and made a suggestion, but since I have a COI, I don't want to break rank and post it myself. I didn't know who to ask, so I thought I'd just throw the question out there to someone with experience. Any tips? And sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, I'm still new at this. ( Jordan.labelle ( talk) 20:37, 24 May 2010 (UTC))
John, I noticed your update of User:John_of_Reading where you give your AWB settings. Do you tick the Unicodify whole page? If not, why not? Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 17:41, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks you very much John for you response from the helpdesk and the link to the relevant section. After I posted there was some more doubt about the spelling of the name and I found some article with hats in the title so for the time being I though to investigate some more and didn't want as has happened previous that editors sometimes make the desired alterations in the help desk question. Regards. Off2riorob ( talk) 11:54, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi John of Reading,
I have now reduced the size of my signature. Is this okay now? Thanks! – Shannon Rose Talk 14:47, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
I know you're just a random user but do you know how to "Vanish" indefinately blocked accounts? 84.148.145.31 ( talk) 20:26, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi- I will re- read the guidelines in the next day or so then get back to you. Thanks-- Uvghifds ( talk) 16:56, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Moved here from my user page...
Thanks for fixing my silly spelling error in the Andrew Russo article! Hekerui ( talk) 16:50, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I confess I've made some edits with duff edit summaries this week:
-- John of Reading ( talk) 06:14, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
I have seen that you edited some volleyball articles. Some players articles, most of them looks outdated. I would like to improve players by country. Could you please choose a country to contribute with? Please take a look on Yekaterina Gamova, Hélia Souza, Serena Ortolani and Kenia Carcaces for a model to follow. Please can you please improve some volleyball players with infobox and some addons? References are very important. Let me know. Oscar987 23:12, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
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There's a very upset contributor at
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WP:ANI in the past, can I ask an admin to look at it please? See
Donny Long,
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John of Reading (
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10:31, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. I had looked at his stuff earlier, in more detail that it probably deserved. I got stuck trying to come up with a polite, within-policy way of saying that it's a bunch of incoherent crackpottery. I suppose if nobody else pops up in the next couple of hours, I'll have to take a shot at it. Anyway, thanks again for the reminder. -- ArglebargleIV ( talk) 14:15, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Initially there was no article on Distributed Operating System. So I took some time to gather information and published my article on Distributed Operating Systems. So heres my article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_operating_system . Can you please suggest any further improvements to my page please. Thank you very much in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ksudhir01 ( talk • contribs) 22:26, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. I'll find a medium/low resolution version of the image and provide an explanation like those other pages did. Also, just let me know if you want me to glance at any articles for proofreading purposes - your articles or people you're helping out. I don't know a whole lot about Wikipedia formats and stuff, but I do know a thing or two about grammar and sentence structure. Cheers. Jordan.labelle ( talk) 14:26, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Metallurgical education, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metallurgical education. Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Fiddle Faddle ( talk) 17:58, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I've started a discussion on the matter here. Would you please participate? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 02:26, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
What i mean is when i look at the page it says 2 goals for arsenal but when you go on the edit page it say 1. Gobbleswoggler ( talk) 12:15, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
FYI, I've reverted this edit because it's in a direct quote from a source. Do you know if there's a way for AWB to recognise that text is in quotes and thus avoid modifying it? Nyttend ( talk) 22:31, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
I do not often raise my head from my passion (obsession?) of Wikipedia correcting to look around WP much, but in response to your recent heads-up I took the time to see what you were doing. I am impressed with your work, particularly the methodical approach to alphabetically checking the frequent typo list. Your user page is very instructive and I found that we have a very similar approach to using AWB.
The inspiration came from my realization that you are probably better versed in the guidelines and framework of WP than I am even though you seem to have been editing for a shorter time. I have resolved to edit a bit less and study a bit more. Thanks.
Keep up the great work. I love barnstars, but have never given one. You should be getting one now, but I hope you will consider this sincere and rare timeout from my typo-correction to be an award. -- LilHelpa ( talk) 11:09, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
I hope I made your day somewhat better with this WikiCard, SwisterTwister ( talk) 19:57, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
While current flow was induced directly underneath the magnet, the current would circulate backwards in regions outside the influence of the magnetic field. If current can't flow, surely it can't circulate either? Just how far should we go in reforming English usage here on the Wikipedia? -- Wtshymanski ( talk) 14:07, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, John, Glad to see you still on the "the the" team. I thought I was correcting my own mistake when I ran across this edit which should have been "the the --> to the", as I fear I do this at times and don't catch it. -- LilHelpa ( talk) 14:56, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind doing a more complete Copyedit on 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States) Damon.cluck ( talk) 12:50, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, John. I noticed you've been busy lately changing occurrences of the awkward phrase "due to the fact that" into the shorter and better "because." Most of these edits are spot on. However, there are a few cases ( [1], [2], and [3], for example) in which I think because is grammatically incorrect. These are cases in which because follows is (or another form of the verb to be). The word because is a conjunction, so I don't think it's proper to say, for example, "The high price of platinum is because platinum is a very rare element in the Earth's crust." Since due is an adjective, the alternative sentence "The high price of platinum is due to the fact that platinum is a very rare element in the Earth's crust" is grammatically fine, though it is still quite an awkward sentence. A sentence like this can't be fixed by simply changing "due to the fact that" into "because"; it should be rewritten. In this example, "The high price of platinum is due to its great rarity in the Earth's crust" would be better. Alternatively, "Platinum is expensive because it is a very rare element in the Earth's crust." Do you agree? — Bkell ( talk) 05:21, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, there. Thank you for fixing my Keith Olbermann citation. I was in a hurry, am on holiday, and hadn't been able to get back to fix it. Cheers. Mrs. Peel ( talk) 14:28, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Greetings, John. I noticed you fixed the file: syntax by adding double brackets at the beginning. Finally found the WP article that outlines the syntax. What I don't understand is why when I look at a version of the Watson article without the correct syntax, the picture, caption, etc. looks exactly the same to me as it does now. Any ideas or am I missing something?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 21:44, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the touch up. For reasons I haven't been able to fathom the new-fangled vector theme, while very attractive, screws up the cite javascript for me, so I have to type 'em in by hand. :( Wwwhatsup ( talk) 06:40, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing this error I introduced. Blackworm ( talk) 07:24, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
D'you know what JoR .... I think, re my edits, that you are GOOD NEWS! Tolesi ( talk) 20:52, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Regarding your comment here, I think that you could try one of two options: namely, that you either delete (or merge or whatever) the article, since the nominator would be the only one who !voted with his/her rationale/suggestion in the deletion discussion and there is no opposition toward him/her, or you could {{ relist}} the discussion (which is more preferable than deletion by AfD standards) "to generate further consensus" and so on and so forth. :| TelCo NaSp Ve :| 22:45, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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Bisbis (
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03:01, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
As a robot is planned for periodically correcting CAT:AWBC, see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HersfoldCiteBot, I thought it would be best not to correct those errors for a while so it would have some material to test on. -- Muhandes ( talk) 16:53, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
We need your help in filling up the column of directors - which you can get from http://www.citwf.com/person241842.htm in the article rajesh khanna filmography in wikipedia.As you seen to be interested in working in wikipedia articles we would be gald if you contribute in filling up the DIRECTORS cloumn and in the NOTES column fill up the awards won and nominations won by khanna against a particular film. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shrik88music ( talk • contribs) 14:32, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
It's difficult to fix a page when you keep reverting it. Don't be a nazi. They aren't paying you for this you know. —Preceding ( Chadwickschool ( talk) 20:46, 20 September 2010 (UTC)) comment added by Chadwickschool ( talk • contribs) 20:37, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
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...for improving Berber calendar by fixing my typos and translation errors. It is much better now! -- Gengis Gat ( talk) 16:19, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for your reply on WP:AWB's talk page. I tried your command (with replacing english words to Slovene: \(\s*\[\[\s*Angleščina\s*\|\s*angleško\s*\]\]\s*\'\'([^\']+)\'\'\s*\)), but with no success. Can I give you example article (like sl:Kraljevi astronom) with "the problem": ([[angleščina|angleško]] ''Astronomer Royal'')? Regards, -- Klemen Kocjancic ( talk) 16:08, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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Just wanted to thank you for your continued help. Let me know if you want me to look at any articles your working on or if you need help with anything. Cheers! Jordan.labelle ( talk) 19:10, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
thank you for the much needed advice! ( Dreher1980 ( talk) 19:58, 19 October 2010 (UTC))
Dear John,
as per your conversation of notability, find hereunder the link where his name is mentioned in all the projects and links.
some are press releases, some are official like DIFC, some are joint ventures and some are websites. these links are not helpfull to have notability on Imad Abulaban?
( Samour72 ( talk) 07:30, 20 October 2010 (UTC))
Dear John,
how can we put up a biography about Imad Abulaban without have it deleted or having notes on it. an example would be good to copy and paste ( Samour72 ( talk) 08:19, 20 October 2010 (UTC))
Hi John,
After reviewing your notes, i would like to expalin one thing that maybe you didn't consider, which is Imad Abulaban is the owner, cofounder, President and CEO of Polystar, Projacs and CapitalStone. so any conversation that talks about the projects or the companies mentioned above would be giving natability for Imad. is it true or not?
as for the links mentioned above also, we would like to aknowldge you the following:
thats more than 40 words said by Imad Abulaban.how come it dosn't quote what IA said.
and last but not lease Bloomberg is well known internationaly, here is a press release about McGovern+Moriarty and CapitalStone (again is owned by Imad Abulaban) http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4393659
if there is a way to contact u over the phone as well that would be helpfull to ask for. ( Samour72 ( talk) 08:01, 21 October 2010 (UTC))
Talk:List of Sonny With a Chance episodes needs a visit after 25th oct. -- John of Reading ( talk) 11:20, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Why do you keep deleting most of the material me and my teacher made on the Creekland Middle School article?
I understand now that I can't put the criminal thing on the article, but I don't know why the rest of the stuff had to be removed. You even took off the Creekland logo that my teacher worked HARD to upload. I'm kind of new here, so I need a bit of help.
Please reply back ASAP.
Sincerely, Jaiman1998 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaiman1998 ( talk • contribs) 12:46, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Ok, thanks! ;)
Jaiman1998
Darren LaCroix ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Hi John. I added more links to the page (see subject line). Could you please take a look and let me know if it's enough to remove the tag or how else I can improve the article. Thank you for the feedback! Google Child ( talk) 06:50, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
John, thank you for the feedback. I added links where you put citations needed and looked through the style a bit. Could you please take a look and let me know how it looks now. (sorry replying you with new section, couldn't find how to respond on original message) Thank you. Google Child ( talk) 05:22, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Thank you John! Google Child ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:18, 5 November 2010 (UTC).
I see you were working "in in" with dates today. I couldn't figure out how to get AWB to make a list for me. How'd you do that? -- LilHelpa ( talk) 02:21, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- (batted|brought|called|came|coming|compete|competed|fenced|filled|filling|gave|involved|joined|jumped|lived|marched|move|moved|moving|participated|phased|sent|starred|stepped|swearing|sworn|traded|turned|turning|voted)\s+in\s+in\s+(early|late|Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec|18|19|20|the spring|the summer|the autumn|the winter)
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Whereas you have continued to make steadfast, effective attacks against typos in a thoughtful, thorough way while displaying the finest ideals of Wikipedia in your conduct. I am inspired to raise my head from the battle and yield to you my first graphic award. -- LilHelpa ( talk) 11:31, 7 November 2010 (UTC) |
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Thank you for contacting me about this article. Where should we discuss this? On your talk page or mine?
As I am clearly a new editor and you appear to have had a lot of experience, I suggest we use your page, because other visitors to your talk page may find any discussion useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack Greenmaven ( talk • contribs) 21:28, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
User:Jack Greenmaven/Jackaroo Draft
I was still puzzled at the size of the discrepancy - and while the main factor is non-mainspace pages, there are about 4,000 that are false positives... due to the last edit summary being "the the -> the using AWB"...
Rich
Farmbrough,
14:22, 12 November 2010 (UTC).
I'm poaching from your sandbox. It's probably not cool, but at least I decided to tell you :) I'm working downward from TS King Edward. -- LilHelpa ( talk) 23:46, 15 November 2010 (UTC) Working the sorted list up from Z instead - LilHelpa ( talk) 01:15, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your help! Pais ( talk) 10:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)