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I wanted to thank you for all your help! I made the changes you suggested, and hope it is good enough to be kept now. Thanks again. Jennmarie25 ( talk) - 09:34, 3 October 2008 (UTC) reply

Hi Beeswaxcandle - there may be some confusion over at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erik Rush (2nd nomination) as to exactly which article has been nominated for deletion. May be as well to keep watching the debate to see whether you need to amend your comments. Grutness... wha? 01:03, 1 November 2008 (UTC) reply

I've added section on merge proposal to Talk:Ratana - along with my thoughts against merge. Thought you might like to add yours. Fanx ( talk) 19:48, 8 November 2008 (UTC) reply

This article should probably be built up significantly! Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kadel ( talk • contribs) 23:17, 15 November 2008 (UTC) reply

Thank you for your notification. One advice, though: Before you tag new articles for speedy deletion, as you did in flame spread, please check "What links here" to see if an article indeed merits speedy deletion. Thank you! Sebastian ( talk) 05:50, 16 November 2008 (UTC)    (I may not be watching this page anymore. If you would like to continue the conversation, please do so here and let me know.) reply

Thank you very much for the cleanup on Luis, Prince Imperial´s article. It was a muche needed assistance! - -- Lecen ( talk) 12:30, 23 November 2008 (UTC) reply

I just want to let you know that the July 29 in rail transport ended in a no consensus. I am currently disputing that decision at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 December 3. If you wish to speak your opinion of the result of the AfD, please do so. Tavix (talk) 00:45, 3 December 2008 (UTC) reply

I have fixed a lot of your missharpened plant stubs over the last couple of weeks. I appreciate you are only trying to help, but if you don't have sufficient background knowledge around the various taxa and classifications, I humbly submit that it would be better not to do that particular job. Hesperian 03:42, 11 December 2008 (UTC) reply

Well that's egg on my face then. I couldn't figure out where you were getting them from, and had started to suspect you were guessing; or else a 12-year-old way out of your depth. I am glad to learn that you were being conscientious about it.

The abandonment of Lamiales is news to me. APWeb has nothing on it. Best to take it to our friends at WT:PLANTS I think. Hesperian 11:04, 11 December 2008 (UTC) reply

I keep on getting warnings I am trying to help but my stuff is getting deleted. Is it ok if I post my school report on here. Sometimes the warnings people give me make no scene. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arojr ( talk • contribs) 22:24, 13 December 2008 (UTC) Thank you for helping me but that blog is my blog should I delete the post on my blog. reply

Sincerely, Andrea Osborn —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arojr ( talk • contribs) 05:09, 15 December 2008 (UTC) reply

I'm trying to contest the speedy. I don't understand how a model with 150 magazine covers, movie roles and tv spots (including The Cosby Show), a recording contract with Blue Note Records all BEFORE creating a hair care line that is still popular with African Americans after she sold it is unnotable? What gives? I have all big name sources for this (no geocities or myspace crap). Tippytim304 ( talk) 06:54, 18 December 2008 (UTC) reply

Okay, sorry. So help me, if you were the admin, what would you like to see to keep it from being speedied away. At least give me some time (lack of notability can be voted on if sufficient info not given, something other than the speedy) Tippytim304 (talk) 07:02, 18 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tippytim304 ( talk • contribs)

I have six sources.....Give me examples of what qualifies (I thought IMDB would be good) and I'll see what I can find. I looking for online copies of magazine articles published about her product. Unfortunately, at the height of her popularity, the Internet was not commericalized (pre-1994) :-(, so it's taking me a minute, but I'm looking. Tippytim304 ( talk) 07:19, 18 December 2008 (UTC) reply

Sorry about the typo with Immunosuppression-associated Kaposi sarcoma. Thank you for correcting that! kilbad ( talk) 04:27, 27 December 2008 (UTC) reply

I have replied to you on my talk page regarding Proliferating angioendotheliomatosis. Thanks again. kilbad ( talk) 15:25, 27 December 2008 (UTC) reply

Looks great! Thanks. kilbad ( talk) 12:39, 28 December 2008 (UTC) reply

Hi! Thanks for noticing! ;) I'm attempting to work through musical instrument stubs in hopes that I can help get the catagory cleaned up a bit. I created the salpinx in anatomy page just so there was somewhere to put the extraneous information not related to the musical instrument, but I haven't fact checked any of it--I just wanted it to have its own home. I was planning on copy editing the anatomy stub I made, but other than that, I have no background in anatomy so I hadn't planned on wading to far into that stub. Anything you can do to flesh it out would be appreciated! Patrickmcg ( talk) 16:05, 27 December 2008 (UTC) reply

[1] -- KP Botany ( talk) 08:15, 28 December 2008 (UTC) reply

I have no particular objection to the picture, but at some point, an article is over-illustrated. This article is at that point.

I would have no objection to replacing one of the existing gallery photos with that one, though. Nandesuka ( talk) 05:07, 13 January 2009 (UTC) reply

Please notice that lists of species/genera and alike are not alphabetical, but taxonomical (i.e. based on relationship, as far as known, or, when not known [as can often be seen in subspecies listings], based on distributions in a NW-SE direction). • Rabo³ • 07:57, 17 January 2009 (UTC) reply

Reply to your message on my talk here. • Rabo³ • 06:16, 18 January 2009 (UTC) reply

I have cut and paste the conversation started by you at AIV and would appreciate you coming to my talk page to clarify - it seems that the you may have the first number incorrect also?

• 61.69.3.10 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is editing the same articles in the same way that blocked IP 61.96.25.208 did yesterday. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 22:50, 31 January 2009 (UTC) reply

Edits are not vandalism. Please ensure recent edits constitute vandalism before re-reporting.-- VS ^talk 23:23, 31 January 2009 (UTC) reply

I wonder also if this report is correct - I can see no evidence of the link between these two IP's.-- VS ^talk 23:25, 31 January 2009 (UTC) reply

Sorry, I've just noticed my typo for the second IP. It should be 61.69.25.208. The particular edits were considered vandalism. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 23:40, 31 January 2009 (UTC) reply

Thanks for coming back - but edits of current IP do not seem to be vandalism - & even more specifically they are edits from 2006.-- VS ^talk 00:23, 1 February 2009 (UTC) reply

		The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
		In appreciation for your diligence in the matter listed for investigation at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2009 April 13. Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:16, 13 April 2009 (UTC) reply

I very much appreciate your noting the problem and taking the time to follow through. It's very important to address copyright matters within process for a number of reasons. Even when text is placed by a copyright holder, as it turned out to be here, that can be very hard to prove down the road if permission is not verified when the contributor is active on Wikipedia. I've seen a number of cases were text placed years ago that did not go through the copyright verification process has had to be removed for just that very reason. (Of course, now that it's cleared, it's up to you and other contributors with interest in the articles to determine how best to handle it. I've found the contributor very easy to work with; maybe you will as well.) I wanted to express my appreciation. Obviously, I value copyright work on Wikipedia, and I admire contributors who go the extra mile to make sure that what we have, we have legally. -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:16, 13 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Hello - I made some revisions and wish to courteously invite you to revisit the Fleet's Hall page. I hope you see through several cited additions, that this is a building and site with great historical signficance. Thank you. Inoysterbay ( talk) 14:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC) reply

I saw over here that you've started taking some of the Oyster Bay articles to AFD. Personally, I think that all or most of these could go without any loss, so I'd appreciate it if you could let me know when you tag one. And if you need any help with the work, just let me know, ok? Dori ❦ ( Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 23:17, 14 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Thank you for the note! I was about to do a simple rollback until the 2000 BC date caught my eye. It took a while to find the most recent clean page. It has since been semi-protected for a week. I'll keep an eye on it on my watchlist, in case it needs further protection after next week (seems likely). Age Happens ( talk) 09:36, 30 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Sorry, I didn't mean to be redundant. I thought it was a totally different area that was not directly linked with the discussion page. Please delete these pages speedily. My bad. I'm having problems finding sources for the Coptic articles. I went to the pages in search of some good Coptic sources I could add to Mark_the_Evangelist, but could not find a single source for the articles. Thanks for bringing this redundancy to my attention. Jason3777 ( talk) 01:12, 14 May 2009 (UTC) reply

I replied to the following on the articles' discussion pages: "This article has been rated but has no comments. If appropriate, please review the article and leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and how best to improve it." Which I did. I don't see why it was deleted because feedback on the articles is requested, twice even, on the top of the page. You should actually remove these request for reviews from the discussion page if they are going to be deleted as soon as they are written. Jason3777 ( talk) 01:32, 14 May 2009 (UTC) reply

No problem, I was just sort of frustrated about not finding any Coptic sources. Jason3777 ( talk) 01:59, 14 June 2009 (UTC) reply

Thank you for your vote/comment

I Seek To Help & Repair! ( talk) 21:12, 18 May 2009 (UTC) reply

Hi, thanks for your message on the Admin noticeboard. I've replied there but I thought I'd drop you a line as well to let you know that as the individual has used three IP addresses over the past month to insert the inappropriate material, I have chosen to semi-protected the article for one month. -- Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 06:48, 22 May 2009 (UTC) reply

I was actually the orignal poster and both the questions were not only unanswered in the Talk Page, but were answered in the article. So didn't see the point of keeping them... 24.141.45.91 ( talk) 17:07, 5 June 2009 (UTC) reply

Yeppers, was all 3. You're right about confusing. So the 2 user accounts are deleted and actually just forgot to sign-in 24.141.45.91 ( talk) 16:39, 6 June 2009 (UTC) reply

Thank you for your comments at WT:PHARM:CAT. If you have any other editors/friends you can bring into the discussion, that would be great too! Regardless, thanks again. --- kilbad ( talk) 13:28, 6 June 2009 (UTC) reply

‘Ian has been more than patient…’

I thank you very much for that comment. I had hoped that that what I was being—I was trying to help them establish a worthwhile article, without quite letting on, because for many reasons Wikipedia is actually not at all easy for ‘foreigners’ to edit. And we need those people. And in this case, even though I was pretty dubious about the article from the start, I thought they should be helped through the heaps of acronyms and bureaucracy.

Still, there were times when I felt my annoyance boiled over visibly! Ian Spackman ( talk) 12:58, 10 June 2009 (UTC) reply

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ok... well.. drat. Um... There was honestly no harm meant by deleting my own note, the issue had been resolved, so I didn't think it needed to be acknowledged anymore. I'll read that 'bad practice' link, but... yeah, that's all I've got to say. And I have no clue how to 'wikispeak' or do anything with all the symbols and what not, so, this'll probably be the last you hear of me, hopefully. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.15.124.155 ( talk) 01:18, 22 June 2009 (UTC) reply

The discussion for Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 June 6#Category:Surnames by country in which you participated was closed as delete and is now under review at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 June 25#Category:Surnames by country. Your participation and input is invited. Alansohn ( talk) 05:14, 26 June 2009 (UTC) reply

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If available, your continued comments at WT:PHARM:CAT would be greatly appreciated. Regardless, thanks again for your help in the past. --- kilbad ( talk) 21:05, 11 July 2009 (UTC) reply

Croatian Army - I have restored but couldn't find citation, I have removed it first trying to edit the thing, I am not sure Croatia bought any Kornet-E, as a matter of fact I am quite sure of it, but I needed to find more info, this is why I posted in the talk page, need info... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.53.72 ( talk) 05:24, 16 August 2009 (UTC) reply

Ok, makes more sense now. 203.59.213.54 ( talk) 09:50, 17 August 2009 (UTC) Sutter Cane reply

Dear Moderator-

This page is a biography of Robin Raina and his work as a CEO and Founder of an International Charity and has references to Robin Raina Foundation site(www.rainafoundation.com) founded by him. There is no copyright violation as I am a senior member of Robin Raina Foundation and head the Public Relations division. Through this email i am confirming that any text content from rainafoundation.com page can be published on wikipedia. We explicitly permit use of the contents under CC-BY-SA and the GFDL.

I have already sent an email from my rainafoundation.com email id approving of the contents. (redacted)

Paul —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avington2915 ( talk • contribs) 23:32, 28 August 2009 (UTC) reply

Subject: subst:article-cv|:Robin Raina http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Raina

Dear Moderator-

This page is a biography of Robin Raina and his work as a CEO and Founder of an International Charity and has references to Robin Raina Foundation site(www.rainafoundation.com) founded by him. There is no copyright violation as I am a senior member of Robin Raina Foundation and head the Public Relations division. Through this email i am confirming that any text content from rainafoundation.com page can be published on wikipedia. We explicitly permit use of the contents under CC-BY-SA and the GFDL.

I have already sent an email from my rainafoundation.com email id approving of the contents. (redacted)

Paul —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avington2915 ( talk • contribs) 23:34, 28 August 2009 (UTC) -- Avington2915 ( talk) 23:39, 28 August 2009 (UTC) reply

Addressed at user's talk page. MLauba ( talk) 23:44, 28 August 2009 (UTC) reply

Greetings!

I received your message and I deeply apologize. It will not happen again.

You're right that I shouldn't have posted my opinion in article's talkpage about that movie but it was late and I didn't have determination to look for a review that confirms my point ;) I ususally wouldn't do such thing but I felt this silly movie just didn't deserve high standard of editing in its wikiarticle. Obviously I was wrong. Best regards. IP user 78.131.137.50 ( talk) 23:50, 27 September 2009 (UTC) reply

Would you like your talk page archiving? :) Also, with the Michael Jackson revert you performed, I'd say leave edit summary as it is (e.g reverted edit ... back to last edit by .... etc) and warn the user with uw-delete1 template, which can be found here, instead of uw-test1 template. Regards, -- Scythre ^Talk _Contribs 15:27, 28 September 2009 (UTC) reply

Thanks for your note.

1. I haven't noticed need to archive this page yet. Despite my involvement in Recent Changes I don't get a lot of talk.
2. Because this was a talk page revert (which is where most of my recent changes work is focused) I didn't use {{ uw-delete1}}. It's a mainspace template and refers to the talk page of the article concerned. This means that when it's used to refer to a talk page, then the receiving user is told to talk about changes on the talk page of the talk page - just too confusing. I usually use the uw-tpv series for this purpose, but in this case I chose to use {{ uw-test1}} because the IP wasn't amending or deleting comments they didn't agree with, they were just putting their two cents in.
3. For IPs who are new to wikipedia I think it's important to give the reason for reverting/undoing in the edit summary as well as on their talk page. This is especially important for dynamic IPs who might never pick up the talk page message. However, I got tired of typing the same thing onto the end of the standard summary, so I've started using the version I used on the edit summary you picked up. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 06:38, 29 September 2009 (UTC) reply

Hello, Beeswaxcandle. You have new messages at Kirachinmoku's talk page.
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I did not delete messages, I've inserted messages deleted from LN activists. Do not delete the messages please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.194.199.13 ( talk) 09:59, 4 October 2009 (UTC) reply

Hi! You proposed splitting {{ pharmacology-stub}} way back, but this was never implemented. While I doubt I'll have much time for sorting the stubs in the near future: What about making a start by creating the templates and categories? Before doing so myself, I just wanted to ask whether you had an idea how to phrase the templates. "This cardiovascular system drug related article..." is too bulky, and "This article about a drug acting on the cardiovascular system..." would exclude articles about groups of drugs (eg. Alpha blocker, though that is not a good example). Regards, ἀνυπόδητος ( talk) 18:18, 22 February 2010 (UTC) reply

Thanks for weighing in on the dispute over the capitalization of "Son of God" with a note of sanity. I'm guessing you're the author of the note dated 10:48, 30 March 2010 (UTC) on the Easter talk page. Ruckabumpkus ( talk) 13:35, 30 March 2010 (UTC) reply

Not sure why you put a warning on my page, I haven't made more than one edit in any given 24-hour period. Anyway, I have better things to do than worry about someone injecting POV into a WP page so I've unwatched it. (The original edit that provoked this "war" proclaimed "Jesus isn't the son of God, he's the Son of God"). Gr8white ( talk) 15:59, 30 March 2010 (UTC) reply

OK, no problem, if you want to send me a draft of your proposed rewrite I'll be happy to give my feedback. I agree this exercise was largely a waste of energy and I'm sorry I got involved. I really have no particular interest in the topic and I was only watching the page because at some point I had gone there to find out how the date was computed, found the existing explanation confusing, and rewrote it in a clearer (I hope) fashion. Best wishes. Gr8white ( talk) 20:10, 31 March 2010 (UTC) reply

Could you do me a favor and take a look at this page? I'm hoping my last edit is the end of this but I'm not holding out much hope. I don't want to get into another situation like I did on Easter so I'll probably just avoid any further involvement (even though at least I'm clearly right in this case).

And since you seem to be interested in these things - you might take a look at the history of Dusha, which consists largely of two users reverting each other's edits. Gr8white ( talk) 16:26, 2 April 2010 (UTC) reply

I'm not sufficiently familiar with the conventions of wikipedia, but wouldn't it have been better for you to have done a page move of Talk:Sweet Calabash? which would have retained the edit history. Lavateraguy ( talk) 08:58, 17 April 2010 (UTC) reply

Sure, if there had been an edit history worth retaining. However, it was created shortly before (ca. 30 minutes at most) I found it up and moved the content. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 01:57, 18 April 2010 (UTC) reply

Thank you very much, Beeswaxcandle, for your kind offer of informal mediation over the "raw data" issue. I certainly agree that it would be best to cool the tone and pace of the "discussion". Informal mediation, or even a RfC, would certainly be fine by me, although I think it may involve wider issues than just reaching consensus between the three editors who have been involved so far. Martinevans123 ( talk) 12:46, 12 June 2010 (UTC) reply

Having checked IPNI, it looks as if Passiflora flavicarpa has never been published, and it may just be slopppy usage for Paasiflora edulis f./var. flavicarpa. (IPNI doesn't have f./var. flavicarpa either, but IPNI is incomplete for infraspecific taxa.) I'm not convinced that the name even merits a redirect. Lavateraguy ( talk) 17:41, 14 June 2010 (UTC) reply

See Bernacci et al, Passiflora edulis Sims: the correct taxonomic way to cite the yellow passion fruit (and of others colors), Rev. Bras. Frutic. 30(2): 566-576 (June 2008) Lavateraguy ( talk) 18:24, 14 June 2010 (UTC) reply

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What's up bro? What did I do wrong? I am new to this. Please correct me. Thanks brah.

It is absolutely vital that this message is conveyed to Randall Munroe through that medium. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.149.116.97 ( talk) 08:29, 19 July 2010 (UTC) reply

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Thanks Beeswax! I would not have figured out how to set up auto-archiving. I took one look at the page you sent me to about Archiving and felt it was beyond me. Appreciate the tips on how to be a better wiki-citizen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.132.236 ( talk) 14:39, 28 December 2010 (UTC) reply

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~ Yo dawg Mokele has thrown insults at me too so stop acting like I'm the bad person and read the entire article before you make crazy assumptions and also check the page you commented on and see the nice little comments he has made too —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.83.100.52 ( talk) 23:23, 21 January 2011 (UTC) reply

Responded on your talk page. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 23:41, 22 January 2011 (UTC) reply

Thanks alot for the message dick. I don't see the need for a reference when it is both public knowledge and evident by the picture in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.79.106.223 ( talk) 02:41, 8 January 2012 (UTC) reply

==

Hi, you had opined on some merge proposals here:

• Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_April_11#Category:Medical_software
• Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_April_11#Category:Healthcare_software

Would you mind looking at my response, and considering whether that might change your mind? While I agree that there is a need to categorize software in this domain, I think it would be much richer to categorize it based on the function, and not on a 'health/healthcare/medicine' split, and instead focus on the functional domain the software covers. In other words, we would still be able to break out software, but there would be less trees to navigate as a result. I haven't found any 3rd party sources which differentiate between 'health software' and 'healthcare software' for example - things are variously called 'health IT', 'eHealth software', 'health software', 'healthcare software', 'medical software', with little consistency in 3rd party sources. -- KarlB ( talk) 20:55, 17 April 2012 (UTC) reply

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_April_11#Category:Medical_software. KarlB ( talk) 00:19, 22 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Hi. I guess consensus wasn't there for merge at this point. I think you had proposed at one point that merging Category:Healthcare software and Category:Medical software would be acceptable; do you still agree? I'm having a hard time figuring out the difference, or finding any sources that make such a distinction. Also, I've started to categorize things - I've created an Category:Electronic health record software, and a Category:Public health and biosurveillance software - though I'm not sure what other categories would be useful within this Category:Health software tree. I'm also thinking of creating a new cat, that would be a subcat of both Category:Health informatics and Category:Health software that would be something like Category:Types of health software, to store the articles that aren't about a particular piece of software, but about a general class of software (like Electronic medical record for example). What do you think? -- KarlB ( talk) 14:04, 27 April 2012 (UTC) reply

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_April_30#Category:United_States_federal_healthcare_legislation. KarlB ( talk) 04:06, 16 May 2012 (UTC) reply

I saw that you moved the page Category talk:Wikipedian usernames editors have expressed concern over back to its original place because I stupidly moved it without moving the project page too. I proposed the move a while ago and, since there's been no protest, would you object if I moved it? Basalisk  ^{inspect damage}⁄ _berate 10:08, 2 June 2012 (UTC) reply

Hi, I meant to drop you a note when I moved the category talk page back to explain but got distracted in RL and forgot to do it. Sorry about that. There is now a discussion on the category happening at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_June_2#Category:Wikipedian_usernames_editors_have_expressed_concern_over (which is what brought the move to my attention), so moving it now would be against policy. Please contribute to the discussion as a couple of new ideas for renaming have been proposed that simplify the category name considerably. Cheers, Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 23:31, 2 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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Respected Sir/Madam, I would like to appreciate your insufficient knowledge regarding Bahria College Islamabad, and adding to it, your opposition towards my correction of the page contents. I happen to have a close association with the college, and keeping in mind an honest feedback, that was the most apt description I could make of it, which I changed. Wikipedia should be kept with factful and credible information. Your version of the page is just to attract people towards the aforementioned institution. And you blame me for vandalism? Its pitiful how the worlds seems to be going. One cannot simply tolerate the truth. Your choice. My attempt was to make Wikipedia reliable. Thanks, H.A.W.T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HAWT ( talk • contribs) 18:12, 20 February 2013 (UTC) reply

I have been defending this article from vandalism (mostly by current and recently past students) for some years and am reasonably familiar with the standard types of changes. Your changes are typical of those standard ones. I will enumerate some of the problems with your changes:

1. Comments on the quality of the PCs in the labs are irrelevant to an encyclopaedia
2. Comments on the ability of staff to control pupils are also irrelevant to an encyclopaedia
3. "Facebook, Twitter and other social sites are barred in the college." and "At the moment there is quite a large number of pages related to the college." These two sentences are contradictory.
4. One canteen <> two canteens (also what about the Cambridge Wing? Where do they eat?)
5. Facebook links are not acceptable under the Reliable sources policy

Additionally, you have not provided sources for any of your changes. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 04:30, 21 February 2013 (UTC) reply

(I'm leaving this here because I can't currently leave a note on your Wikisource talk page).

Per the discussion at Wikisource, you placed a block on Sfan00_IMG at English Wikisource. That is not in contention.

However, having used Sfan00_IMG here at English Wikipedia (for image related matters),I looged out and logged back in again as ShakespeareFan00 and used the link from the English Wikipedia to transfer over to Wikisource, to check on something. I found a possible glitch and was wanting to check if something could be implemented as a fix, only to find that "You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: "Your IP address has been automatically blocked because it was used by another user, who was blocked by Beeswaxcandle. The reason given is:

   Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Sfan00 IMG". 

The reason given for Sfan00 IMG's block is "User request; multiple account confusion"

   Start of block: 19:32, 13 April 2013
   Expiry of block: 19:32, 14 April 2013
   Intended blockee: 80.176.129.180 

You may contact Beeswaxcandle or one of the other administrators to discuss the block.

Note that you may not use the "email this user" feature unless you have a valid email address registered in your user preferences and you have not been blocked from using it.

Your current IP address is 80.176.129.180, and the block ID is #6702. Please include all above details in any queries you make."

I'd switched accounts BECAUSE we'd agreed Sfan00_IMG was an alternate (and thus blocked at Wikisource).

I would appreciate it if you could contact me about this as soon as possible, because whilst Mediawiki is working as designed, it's a demotivater to get an autoblock, apparently for playing by the rules. ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 22:01, 13 April 2013 (UTC) reply

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-- Soman ( talk) 00:47, 5 July 2013 (UTC) reply

Regarding "I have not the faintest idea of what "proly it's a cog" means. This is the English wikipedia. Please use English when responding." - That's a bit over the top. Proly it's a cog is just "probably", whereas a cog is a machine part. The comment that you made was not proportional to the misspelling, probably meant humorously, that the other editor made. If you could lower it down a bit I'd appreciate it, as that page is too heated as it is. Thanks ~ Charmlet ^-talk- 03:30, 6 July 2013 (UTC) reply

Shrug. That explanation still doesn't give any meaning to the phrase used in the context. Just because the individual words are English doesn't mean that when they are strung together they make sense in English. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 04:10, 6 July 2013 (UTC) reply

"Probably it's a cog" = "It's probably a bug/oversight in the code". There's the explanation :) ~ Charmlet ^-talk- 04:31, 6 July 2013 (UTC) reply

Ah, so "cog" is an abbreviation as well and stands for "cognitive dissonance". Now to work out how to get Wiktionary to accept this as an alternative meaning. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 05:03, 6 July 2013 (UTC) reply

Not sure whether it is of interest of not, though I tripped over

• Canterbury papers (1850) by Association for Founding the Settlement of Canterbury in New Zealand

and I cannot find it elsewhere on the web (quick look). — billinghurst sDrewth 03:25, 15 August 2013 (UTC) reply

Umm, amazing which links to sites come up first and one doesn't realise until afterwards. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:26, 15 August 2013 (UTC) reply

Yep, it's of interest as I have family members who were part of the Association. I've bookmarked it and it will appear on WS at some point soon. I must investigate the Talbot collection in detail for other such things. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 05:05, 15 August 2013 (UTC) reply

Lots of snippets there, and I am slowly grabbing those of primary interest/quirkiness to me. I can note those of a kiwi influence if that of use. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:36, 16 August 2013 (UTC) reply

Anything short and quirky for January's POTM would be good. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 05:59, 16 August 2013 (UTC) reply

There are quite a few speeches by W. E. Gladstone available. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:47, 16 August 2013 (UTC) reply

I thought it was great, Beeswaxcandle, that you took the category creator seriously and came up with more appropriately named categories for what he/she was trying to create. No doubt, all of these categories would be swiftly deleted but it was a compassionate response when others were dismissive or mocked. I still don't quite understand the nature of the category he/she created but I think it is admirable that you tried!
Cheers! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:33, 13 September 2013 (UTC) reply

You contributed to the debate at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 November 2#Category:English_Anglican_priests, which I have closed today as "no consensus". (This notice is being sent all participants in that debate.)

Apart from the disagreement in that particular case, there seemed to be no broader agreement on how to categorise of Anglican priests. So I have opened a Requests for Comments discussion about it, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories#RFC:_Categorisation_of_Anglican_priests, where your contribution would be welcome. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:33, 11 January 2014 (UTC) reply

Hello Beeswaxcandle, I wanted to reply to you here to keep the deletion discussion from becoming unreasonably long, as it probably already is. I presume you did not see my comment from yesterday. [2] I would hope, if you had, you wouldn't have felt so strongly that I was in need of rebuke. If it is a sufficient acknowledgment, we can simply move on; knowing that enough has been said. If it doesn't go far enough in admitting my conduct was inappropriate, tell me of its insufficiency, and I will strengthen it to a public apology. Aside from that, please don't presume to know why I was overtly upset; you are welcome to ask, and I'll answer, but it doesn't excuse me either way. Cheers.-- Anne F. Figy ( talk) 09:05, 30 May 2014 (UTC) reply

Hi Anne, there was so much going on in the discussion that I attributed that comment to another editor. Sorry about that. Indeed, had I linked it to you, then I would have reduced my response somewhat. I should also say that I spent about 30 minutes drafting it. My aim is always to try to not say things that I will then stew about in the night. I know what's like to get a stinging rebuke here and I don't want to ever put someone on the end of such from me. I see from your last post on the debate, that you're asking why you're bothering with enWP. I acknowledge that it's difficult here sometimes and it's a pity that one of your first encounters with "the machine" has several of us tramping over your stuff. It's one of the reasons that I mostly hang out at Wikisource, we're a much smaller community there with a focus on resurrecting old books and making them available again. My main project there is the first edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (hence my interest in classical music categories), but I'm also working on 19th Century novels, children's books, and books about early New Zealand. If you happen to be interested in proofreading books you would be most welcome over there. By the way, I see that you ask why watchers haven't reverted your category additions. This is because we're not supposed to take articles out of a category while there's a discussion happening (unless of course the article is spuriously there). A somewhat lengthy response intending to say "let's simply move on." Cheers, Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 09:53, 30 May 2014 (UTC) reply

Thank you for that thoughtful reply. At the end of the day, your lengthy reply will still be appreciated, as it is now. You can sleep well tonight, knowing that you have made someone who is feeling down, feel considerably better. And you may also know that I will never again allow my disenchantment with one, spill over into my mistreatment of another, as did happen with you. All in all, I'm determined to hold that ground. While you may not have required an apology, and I thank you for that, I do want to directly say: I am sorry for my ill manner, especially with regard to my treatment of you. Best regards.-- Anne F. Figy ( talk) 10:45, 30 May 2014 (UTC) reply

Dear Beeswaxcandle, you said you would have a look at the current problematic category structure around Category:Ecclesiastical titles. How is that going? Do you need any help or input? Kind regards, Marcocapelle ( talk) 19:34, 4 June 2014 (UTC) reply

Dear Beeswaxcandle, would you be willing to continue our conversation at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_June_6#Category:Category:Christian_holidays? Thanks in advance, Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:15, 24 June 2014 (UTC) reply

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Hi Beeswaxcandle. I noticed that in this edit a while back, you added "St Vincent Ranui Hospital" to the List of hospitals in New Zealand. I wanted to let you know that I have removed that entry in light of the Medical Council of New Zealand's media statement, which states that the "St Vincent Ranui Hospital" is part of an Internet scam and does not actually exist. I'm sure you aren't part of this Internet scam, of course, but I was wondering if you could provide the source of the information so that we ensure the rest of the entries in the article are verifiable. Thanks! Mz7 ( talk) 20:33, 27 April 2017 (UTC) reply

@ Mz7: I didn't actually add it, I simply undid a stack of changes from the IP editor and then tidied the alpha-sequencing, all in the same edit. I didn't think to check on the Ministry of Health list for the genuineness of any new entries. The Ministry of Health list I linked in the external links at some point in my editing of this list is the only valid source of information on registered health-care facilities in New Zealand. Any unregistered facilities are operating illegally and should not be on this list. Thanks for picking it up. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 07:21, 28 April 2017 (UTC) reply

@ Beeswaxcandle: Ah excellent. Later today I'll cross-check the list. Thanks! Mz7 ( talk) 13:52, 28 April 2017 (UTC) reply

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Hi there, Beeswaxcandle. I came across your comment on removal of the "Sequenced Genomes" category (see here: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_October_10), where you said that Wikidata should be holding the metadata on whether a given species has a sequenced genome, rather than categories or lists.

I've started a proposal on Wikidata ( Wikidata:Property_proposal/has_sequenced_genome for a property to hold such metadata. I'd love your feedback if you are still interested in this issue. Photocyte ( talk) 13:09, 3 April 2019 (UTC) reply

No problem. I'm sure we'll see you along at some point but I know some people are a bit sick of video conferencing. Super excited about the Transactions. I know that User:Ambrosia10 will also be excited about this as well! I'll let the group know Einebillion ( talk) 05:25, 15 September 2021 (UTC) reply

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Kia ora Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) members.

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