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Thank you for improving! I wonder about the paragraph in the lead mentioning details about the music as rather not helpful at that point. I miss a bit more on Agnus Dei in the article. I could live happily without "The piece can be heard in many TV shows and movies", quite an anti-climax after "full of pathos and cathartic passion", -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:25, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your great copyediting, spontaneous, thorough, engaged, evaluating alternatives, to the point, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:02, 24 March 2012 (UTC) |
Sorry about the mixup on the Allmusic page at [1]. I checked it a couple of times over a period of 10 minutes, it was just a blank bio. Now I see it is working, sort of. At least on my end, it loads, then I reload and it's blank, rinse and repeat. I'm guessing a temporary problem on their website, but the page obviously exists and is a good bio. I've never had their site do that before. Dennis Brown ( talk) 22:59, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Good point! garik ( talk) 01:01, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
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I see you have kindly closed one of my innumerable subordinate clauses that I opened with a comma and then forgot to close. (In the Hubert Parry article in this case.) I was very properly ticked off in the 1960s by my schoolmasters for this dereliction and Heaven save me I'm still at it fifty years later. Thank you for the amendment! Tim riley ( talk) 18:39, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
I would agree with you that, in my experience, The Strand has the definite article and have never met anyone in real life who maintains otherwise. However, frankly to my astonishment, there is a view asserted on the talk pages that the converse view is correct, that there should be no article. It may be worthwhile, if possibly rather tedious, to check the talk pages and their archives regarding the matter. The sum of which is that there is a consensus that there be no article in the initial mention of the street name, and thereafter the definite article in all mentions. By all means pitch in on the debate, but it's as well to know the can of worms you are opening. Best, Mutt Lunker ( talk) 00:43, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Well best of luck with that. I'd taken the view that the considerable time spent arguing over the matter by the users involved might be better spent otherwise and a truce, effectively, was a compromise I could live with, but by all means get wrestling with those worms!
Regarding the talkback template, not sure why that version displays like that but you could try e.g.: {{Talkback | Rothorpe| The/Strand | ts = ~~~~~}}. Mutt Lunker ( talk) 10:06, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rothorpe, hope your well. Having been bitten by the FAC bug with Holloway, I am now keen to list Leno in GAC and depending on the comments recieved, FAC. As a result I would be grateful for your comments in this Peer Review It would be great if you could drop in. Best regards -- Cassianto ( talk)
You are wrong in regards to Rangers F.C.. Please read Formal and notional agreement in UK grammar. "In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular (formal agreement) or plural (notional agreement) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively". The emphasis in the Rangers F.C. article is on the club, not the individuals making up the club. Therefore; Rangers Football Club is a football club. It is a club which plays in the Scottish Premier League. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 00:54, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rothorpe, while peer reviewing Dan Leno the other day I was impressed by your copyediting work there. Would you be willing to take a run through an article I've been working on? The article in question is Elias Abraham Rosenberg, it's not quite as interesting as Dan Leno, but still about an eccentric individual. I'd like to submit it to WP:FAC in a couple months or so, so I'm trying to make sure any remaining prose/punctuation etc. issues are taken care of. No problem if you're too busy/uninterested though. Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 00:33, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Exok objects to the closure of the discussion about whether to split Jeremy Bamber into two articles — one about the murders and one a biography. He has requested that I make a formal proposal to split the articles on the talk page. I'm very sorry to ask this, but it would be appreciated if everyone who commented at the BLPN here or on the talk page could offer their opinion again at Talk:Jeremy_Bamber#Proposal_to_split_this_article_into_a_murders_article_and_a_biography. (Also, for some reason, that link isn't going directly to the subsection, so please scroll up a little to find it.) Many thanks, SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 21:50, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
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That's an honour. Delighted to help. Thanks very much! Rothorpe ( talk) 20:43, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rothorpe, hope things are going well with you. I'm wondering if you would be willing to help with a copyedit of Ahalya? It was unsuccessful in its most recent FAC and has just undergone a significant peer review. The article's creator asked me to help out, so in addition to going over the article myself I thought I'd mention it to a couple skilled copyeditors I knew as well. It is a kind of long article, so if you don't have time/interest enough to go over the whole thing doing a section or too that would still be much appreciated. Mark Arsten ( talk) 23:23, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, just to let you know, the article Amrullah Saleh is now a GA. Thank you for your thorough copy edit which helped the article to reach the status!! I think you can put on a star on your profile. :) JCAla ( talk) 18:23, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Is there any reason, for instance wording in a manual of style, that you feel that brackets should not be italicized? I realize that they are not a part of the title. How do you know that they should not be italicized? (At Eric Dolphy I made this edit and then you made this edit.) Thanks. Bus stop ( talk) 02:36, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
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Please acquaint yourself with the TIGHAR history before adding to the Earhart disappearance saga. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 04:17, 21 March 2012 (UTC).
The article on Dan Leno has been nominated for Featured Article consideration here. Since you participated in the Peer Review of the article, I thought you might like to comment there, and we would welcome your comments, if you have time. Happy editing! -- Ssilvers ( talk) 00:19, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Has he been "playing banjo, mandolin, and baritone ukulele onstage in the hit Broadway show Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre" all of the past three years? (See my comment at Talk:Jay_Berliner.) I was thinking of doing an wp-eo piece on him (based largely on wp-en), and since "PJANB" who added the information doesn't have an active Talk page I thought I'd run this by you. -- Haruo ( talk) 13:27, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Well, I still haven't done Berliner, but I just did an Esperanto article based mostly on your Back-chaining: Retroĉena_instruado. Substituted a couple of Esperanto examples for some of your English. Do you have sources for the unsourced "English" section of the article? -- Haruo ( talk) 00:49, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
I took a look at your other contributions in the Esperanto Wikipedia, Specialaĵo:Kontribuoj/Rothorpe, and made one reversion. You "corrected" «Arianna HUFFINGTON» to «Arianna Huffington». The standard protocol in the Esperanto Wikipedia calls for the initial occurrence of a person's name in the article about them to have the surname in all caps. " George WASHINGTON", for example. This is done to avoid ambiguity, confusion, or misinterpretation in cases like Hungarian or East Asian names where the surname comes first, or in the case of complex Hispanic surnames where the main name is not obvious to non-Hispanophones (and perhaps not even to all of them), or in the case of British names like "Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS" where an American might be strongly inclined to assume "Ralph Vaughan WILLIAMS". So I reverted "Huffington" to "HUFFINGTON". -- Haruo ( talk) 02:37, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Please see this comment. Best wishes, Gidip ( talk) 14:00, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for helping the article improve to FA standards by your copyedit ! -- Redtigerxyz Talk 17:42, 17 April 2012 (UTC) |
Pleasure, thanks. Rothorpe ( talk) 19:03, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure...I used the "email this user" link in the Toolbox. But I can just repost the gist of it here:
I am teaching a undergraduate course on the history of jazz. I have taught the course many times, but this year for the first time I decided to ask my ~20 students to write (from scratch) or revise a Wikipedia page on a jazz-related topic of their choosing. They were directed to the Wikiproject Jazz page and selected their topics from pages that were rated "Start" or "Stub" class, in other words, pages that needed enhancement/improvement.
One such student selected guitarist Jim Hall and began editing/improving the existing Wikipedia page for JH today. This user made substantial additions only to have these changes deleted and the original page restored by you. The student contacted me, afraid that the work was deleted, but I knew enough about Wikipedia authoring to know that the versions were saved in the View History. The student received the note you sent (Talk page) but is unsure why the changes that were made were revoked or what to do to the additions so that they will "pass muster" by the Wiki community.
The students and I are all new to the brave new world of editing in Wikipedia, but we're willing to learn. We have looked together at Wikipedia tutorials and etiquette pages. As a class we talked about the importance of citing sources and maintaining a neutral point of view, and in this case the student did both of these things. As a more experienced Wikipedia user/editor, I'm sure you had a reason for restoring the earlier version of the JH page. Can you help me understand the reason(s) so that I can communicate them to this user and the rest of the class so that we all can benefit?
Many thanks, Kenmusprof ( talk) 14:55, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you so much for your continuous copyedits to Murder of Selena. It is really appreciated! Warm wishes, Jona yo! Selena 4 ever 22:26, 11 May 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for your help on this article. The article is in the process of being knocked into shape and your continued vigilance would be most welcome. Tigerboy1966 19:53, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Considering your vocal deprivation no decent person would have giggled at your edit summary "piling on woe", but I'm afraid I did. Forgive! Tim riley ( talk) 21:03, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up. I've added a reference link. Jisnu ( talk) 02:12, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rothorpe, I recall that you've helped me with a couple articles in the past, I was wondering if you'd have time/be interested in helping with a copyedit or peer review of Clarence 13X? He was a friend of Malcolm X who founded an unconventional New Religious Movement in inner-city New York. Hopefully, the article's in Ok shape at the moment. Mark Arsten ( talk) 20:12, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
I have nominated Hizb El Watan (Libya) for deletion because of the duplicity (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hizb El Watan (Libya)) Your opinion on the discussion page would be appreciated, since you have been one of the contributors in the article. EllsworthSK ( talk) 21:23, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rothorpe. I would really value your comments here as yesterday Leno recieved a number of edits by the community as a result of appearing on the main page. These changes are now up for a discussion with a view of weeding out the good ones from the not so good ones. Hope to see you there! -- Cassianto Talk 07:58, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
What a pleasure to run across you again in the Dan Leno article! I qualify for my Fowler Badge for Conspicuous Pedantry, but I do wonder about "beg the question". It's such a hopeless term as a translation of petitio principii that I think it has forfeited its right to exclusive use in that context. The WP article has it right: the correct English term would be "assuming the initial point", and I propose to go round begging questions when something invites/demands/suggests or begs them. (I'm in favour of splitting infinitives too, though somehow I find I am reluctant to actually do so.) Kindest regards, Tim riley ( talk) 20:23, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for that fix. I will be taking this to FLC in the next few days to see how it fares. Feel free to pop in and offer any criticisms comments or advice. First impressions? -- Cassianto Talk 23:46, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
You were referred to me by User:Mark Arsten as someone who certainly has the skills needed, and who may be willing to help out with some prose and punctuation issues at Paul McCartney, which is also currently at FAC. Thanks, hope this isn't a bother. ~ GabeMc (talk) 04:16, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
There is a straw poll taking place here. Your input would be appreciated. ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 06:56, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks Rothorpe! You assisted in various ways on the Paul McCartney FAC. Thank you! Without your help and support McCartney would not be a FA today! ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 21:28, 9 July 2012 (UTC) |
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Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | → | Archive 10 |
Thank you for improving! I wonder about the paragraph in the lead mentioning details about the music as rather not helpful at that point. I miss a bit more on Agnus Dei in the article. I could live happily without "The piece can be heard in many TV shows and movies", quite an anti-climax after "full of pathos and cathartic passion", -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:25, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
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copyediting |
Thank you for your great copyediting, spontaneous, thorough, engaged, evaluating alternatives, to the point, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:02, 24 March 2012 (UTC) |
Sorry about the mixup on the Allmusic page at [1]. I checked it a couple of times over a period of 10 minutes, it was just a blank bio. Now I see it is working, sort of. At least on my end, it loads, then I reload and it's blank, rinse and repeat. I'm guessing a temporary problem on their website, but the page obviously exists and is a good bio. I've never had their site do that before. Dennis Brown ( talk) 22:59, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Good point! garik ( talk) 01:01, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
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I see you have kindly closed one of my innumerable subordinate clauses that I opened with a comma and then forgot to close. (In the Hubert Parry article in this case.) I was very properly ticked off in the 1960s by my schoolmasters for this dereliction and Heaven save me I'm still at it fifty years later. Thank you for the amendment! Tim riley ( talk) 18:39, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
I would agree with you that, in my experience, The Strand has the definite article and have never met anyone in real life who maintains otherwise. However, frankly to my astonishment, there is a view asserted on the talk pages that the converse view is correct, that there should be no article. It may be worthwhile, if possibly rather tedious, to check the talk pages and their archives regarding the matter. The sum of which is that there is a consensus that there be no article in the initial mention of the street name, and thereafter the definite article in all mentions. By all means pitch in on the debate, but it's as well to know the can of worms you are opening. Best, Mutt Lunker ( talk) 00:43, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Well best of luck with that. I'd taken the view that the considerable time spent arguing over the matter by the users involved might be better spent otherwise and a truce, effectively, was a compromise I could live with, but by all means get wrestling with those worms!
Regarding the talkback template, not sure why that version displays like that but you could try e.g.: {{Talkback | Rothorpe| The/Strand | ts = ~~~~~}}. Mutt Lunker ( talk) 10:06, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rothorpe, hope your well. Having been bitten by the FAC bug with Holloway, I am now keen to list Leno in GAC and depending on the comments recieved, FAC. As a result I would be grateful for your comments in this Peer Review It would be great if you could drop in. Best regards -- Cassianto ( talk)
You are wrong in regards to Rangers F.C.. Please read Formal and notional agreement in UK grammar. "In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular (formal agreement) or plural (notional agreement) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively". The emphasis in the Rangers F.C. article is on the club, not the individuals making up the club. Therefore; Rangers Football Club is a football club. It is a club which plays in the Scottish Premier League. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 00:54, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rothorpe, while peer reviewing Dan Leno the other day I was impressed by your copyediting work there. Would you be willing to take a run through an article I've been working on? The article in question is Elias Abraham Rosenberg, it's not quite as interesting as Dan Leno, but still about an eccentric individual. I'd like to submit it to WP:FAC in a couple months or so, so I'm trying to make sure any remaining prose/punctuation etc. issues are taken care of. No problem if you're too busy/uninterested though. Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 00:33, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Exok objects to the closure of the discussion about whether to split Jeremy Bamber into two articles — one about the murders and one a biography. He has requested that I make a formal proposal to split the articles on the talk page. I'm very sorry to ask this, but it would be appreciated if everyone who commented at the BLPN here or on the talk page could offer their opinion again at Talk:Jeremy_Bamber#Proposal_to_split_this_article_into_a_murders_article_and_a_biography. (Also, for some reason, that link isn't going directly to the subsection, so please scroll up a little to find it.) Many thanks, SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 21:50, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
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I give you this Ukraine Barnstar for copy editing
Family of Yulia Tymoshenko! Editors who perform these tasks should be more appreciated in Wikipedia I do believe! — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 19:55, 24 February 2012 (UTC) |
That's an honour. Delighted to help. Thanks very much! Rothorpe ( talk) 20:43, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rothorpe, hope things are going well with you. I'm wondering if you would be willing to help with a copyedit of Ahalya? It was unsuccessful in its most recent FAC and has just undergone a significant peer review. The article's creator asked me to help out, so in addition to going over the article myself I thought I'd mention it to a couple skilled copyeditors I knew as well. It is a kind of long article, so if you don't have time/interest enough to go over the whole thing doing a section or too that would still be much appreciated. Mark Arsten ( talk) 23:23, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, just to let you know, the article Amrullah Saleh is now a GA. Thank you for your thorough copy edit which helped the article to reach the status!! I think you can put on a star on your profile. :) JCAla ( talk) 18:23, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Is there any reason, for instance wording in a manual of style, that you feel that brackets should not be italicized? I realize that they are not a part of the title. How do you know that they should not be italicized? (At Eric Dolphy I made this edit and then you made this edit.) Thanks. Bus stop ( talk) 02:36, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
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Please acquaint yourself with the TIGHAR history before adding to the Earhart disappearance saga. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 04:17, 21 March 2012 (UTC).
The article on Dan Leno has been nominated for Featured Article consideration here. Since you participated in the Peer Review of the article, I thought you might like to comment there, and we would welcome your comments, if you have time. Happy editing! -- Ssilvers ( talk) 00:19, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Has he been "playing banjo, mandolin, and baritone ukulele onstage in the hit Broadway show Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre" all of the past three years? (See my comment at Talk:Jay_Berliner.) I was thinking of doing an wp-eo piece on him (based largely on wp-en), and since "PJANB" who added the information doesn't have an active Talk page I thought I'd run this by you. -- Haruo ( talk) 13:27, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Well, I still haven't done Berliner, but I just did an Esperanto article based mostly on your Back-chaining: Retroĉena_instruado. Substituted a couple of Esperanto examples for some of your English. Do you have sources for the unsourced "English" section of the article? -- Haruo ( talk) 00:49, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
I took a look at your other contributions in the Esperanto Wikipedia, Specialaĵo:Kontribuoj/Rothorpe, and made one reversion. You "corrected" «Arianna HUFFINGTON» to «Arianna Huffington». The standard protocol in the Esperanto Wikipedia calls for the initial occurrence of a person's name in the article about them to have the surname in all caps. " George WASHINGTON", for example. This is done to avoid ambiguity, confusion, or misinterpretation in cases like Hungarian or East Asian names where the surname comes first, or in the case of complex Hispanic surnames where the main name is not obvious to non-Hispanophones (and perhaps not even to all of them), or in the case of British names like "Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS" where an American might be strongly inclined to assume "Ralph Vaughan WILLIAMS". So I reverted "Huffington" to "HUFFINGTON". -- Haruo ( talk) 02:37, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Please see this comment. Best wishes, Gidip ( talk) 14:00, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
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Ahalya says Thanks |
Thanks for helping the article improve to FA standards by your copyedit ! -- Redtigerxyz Talk 17:42, 17 April 2012 (UTC) |
Pleasure, thanks. Rothorpe ( talk) 19:03, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure...I used the "email this user" link in the Toolbox. But I can just repost the gist of it here:
I am teaching a undergraduate course on the history of jazz. I have taught the course many times, but this year for the first time I decided to ask my ~20 students to write (from scratch) or revise a Wikipedia page on a jazz-related topic of their choosing. They were directed to the Wikiproject Jazz page and selected their topics from pages that were rated "Start" or "Stub" class, in other words, pages that needed enhancement/improvement.
One such student selected guitarist Jim Hall and began editing/improving the existing Wikipedia page for JH today. This user made substantial additions only to have these changes deleted and the original page restored by you. The student contacted me, afraid that the work was deleted, but I knew enough about Wikipedia authoring to know that the versions were saved in the View History. The student received the note you sent (Talk page) but is unsure why the changes that were made were revoked or what to do to the additions so that they will "pass muster" by the Wiki community.
The students and I are all new to the brave new world of editing in Wikipedia, but we're willing to learn. We have looked together at Wikipedia tutorials and etiquette pages. As a class we talked about the importance of citing sources and maintaining a neutral point of view, and in this case the student did both of these things. As a more experienced Wikipedia user/editor, I'm sure you had a reason for restoring the earlier version of the JH page. Can you help me understand the reason(s) so that I can communicate them to this user and the rest of the class so that we all can benefit?
Many thanks, Kenmusprof ( talk) 14:55, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
Thank you so much for your continuous copyedits to Murder of Selena. It is really appreciated! Warm wishes, Jona yo! Selena 4 ever 22:26, 11 May 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for your help on this article. The article is in the process of being knocked into shape and your continued vigilance would be most welcome. Tigerboy1966 19:53, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Considering your vocal deprivation no decent person would have giggled at your edit summary "piling on woe", but I'm afraid I did. Forgive! Tim riley ( talk) 21:03, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up. I've added a reference link. Jisnu ( talk) 02:12, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rothorpe, I recall that you've helped me with a couple articles in the past, I was wondering if you'd have time/be interested in helping with a copyedit or peer review of Clarence 13X? He was a friend of Malcolm X who founded an unconventional New Religious Movement in inner-city New York. Hopefully, the article's in Ok shape at the moment. Mark Arsten ( talk) 20:12, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
I have nominated Hizb El Watan (Libya) for deletion because of the duplicity (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hizb El Watan (Libya)) Your opinion on the discussion page would be appreciated, since you have been one of the contributors in the article. EllsworthSK ( talk) 21:23, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rothorpe. I would really value your comments here as yesterday Leno recieved a number of edits by the community as a result of appearing on the main page. These changes are now up for a discussion with a view of weeding out the good ones from the not so good ones. Hope to see you there! -- Cassianto Talk 07:58, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
What a pleasure to run across you again in the Dan Leno article! I qualify for my Fowler Badge for Conspicuous Pedantry, but I do wonder about "beg the question". It's such a hopeless term as a translation of petitio principii that I think it has forfeited its right to exclusive use in that context. The WP article has it right: the correct English term would be "assuming the initial point", and I propose to go round begging questions when something invites/demands/suggests or begs them. (I'm in favour of splitting infinitives too, though somehow I find I am reluctant to actually do so.) Kindest regards, Tim riley ( talk) 20:23, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for that fix. I will be taking this to FLC in the next few days to see how it fares. Feel free to pop in and offer any criticisms comments or advice. First impressions? -- Cassianto Talk 23:46, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
You were referred to me by User:Mark Arsten as someone who certainly has the skills needed, and who may be willing to help out with some prose and punctuation issues at Paul McCartney, which is also currently at FAC. Thanks, hope this isn't a bother. ~ GabeMc (talk) 04:16, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
There is a straw poll taking place here. Your input would be appreciated. ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 06:56, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks Rothorpe! You assisted in various ways on the Paul McCartney FAC. Thank you! Without your help and support McCartney would not be a FA today! ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 21:28, 9 July 2012 (UTC) |
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.251.125.65 ( talk) 12:31, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
FYI, I have requested formal mediation here to decide the "The/the" issue, hopefully once and for all. ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 22:58, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
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