Hitchhiking

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Hi, messages should be put on Talk pages, not in the article body, I've reverted your contribution, please consider readding it to the Talk page. - FrancisTyers 18:02, 22 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

People who are watching the hitchhiking page will also be watching the talk page. If you click on the watch link at the top, then on "my watchlist" you can see that it doesn't matter if an article or talk page is changed it will appear on your watchlist. Comments, requests etc. should be added to talk pages, you could also suggest an alternative sentence that removes the ambiguity... - FrancisTyers 18:20, 22 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hi

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To undo multiple edits, go to the history tab, select which revision you want to revert to, edit and save. There is no way to revert multiple edits with an automated summary that I know of. If you are concerned about an unencyclopaedic section, the first thing to do is mention it on the talk page. I will add the page to my watchlist so I can discuss with you (and any other participants) there. WP:V is an important policy to read on this matter. Glad to see you around Wikipedia again :) - Francis Tyers · 11:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

WP:U and real names

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I wouldn't worry about changing your name to your real name, since you have already revealed what your real name is, it's not like it's going to make a big difference. If someone is interested in harassing you they already have the ammunition. Mangojuicetalk 16:48, 10 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Update cycle

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About the update cycle, have you tried http://totovoto.com? It's different —Preceding unsigned comment added by Totovotofan (talkcontribs) 20:32, 4 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Rollback

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OK, I gave you the permission. Friday (talk) 05:27, 24 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Latham appliance, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from , and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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It seems likelier to me that the non-Wikipedia page (http://hubpages.com/hub/about_cleft_palate) was plagiarized from Wikipedia. Another article (http://hubpages.com/hub/Eiffel_Tower) published three years ago by the same author contains text appearing in Wikipedia four years ago.
FWIW, the text in the Latham appliance article came from Cleft_lip_and_palate#Cleft_palate_treatment, so if Wikipedia was the plagiarist then that article requires scrutiny. —Christian Campbell 02:44, 3 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for that. I couldn't really tell, which is why I listed the page art WP:CP rather than asked for deletion straight away. I didn't notice that it had been split from the other article. Looking at that, it looks like the text on Wikipedia pre-dates that from hubspages. As you say, it looks like the same author is just taking stuff from Wikipedia. I've added this detail to the listing at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 September 1 and asked a more experienced editor to take a look. It may be that Latham appliance will need to be deleted & recreated to give attribution to the article it came from. Anyway, thanks for letting me know.--BelovedFreak 09:47, 3 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
You'll see the issue has now been sorted. Thanks for your help! --BelovedFreak 08:37, 4 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

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WikiProject Cleanup

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Articles without clear national ties

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I noticed that you changed 'half mast' to 'half staff' in the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 article. Per MOS:RETAIN, please be careful not to assume a preference for American English. If you check through the article, you'll find that there is no clear evidence of its written in American English. With copyediting, particularly on articles currently being developed, it is best to leave anything outside of obvious spelling mistakes, punctuation and syntax as written.

Cheers! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 00:00, 3 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

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"Password hint" listed at Redirects for discussion

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