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Re: User:Shrik88music

I agree that Shrik88music hasn't abused other accounts or IPs. So, I agree not to restore the sockpuppeteer tag to his talk page. I don't think he realizes the importance of logging in every time he edits. Perhaps you could explain that to him. You are correct that I have lost a lot of patience with him, especially because he has stated (diff) that he is fluent in English and yet he continues to communicate in sometimes unintelligible textspeak. --Geniac (talk) 01:01, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rajesh_Khanna&oldid=397498516 contains correction by me , data which were missing in bits and i dont know why SpacemanSpiff is removing

i wrote in """as rightly pointed out by quicklight i wonder whats the issue when everything is already refernced.... http://www.screenindia.com/news/the-original-superstar-rajesh-khanna/327356/ also this piece of article no one has ever disputed also wiki link for j.om prakash has been given. plus tina munim has acted with khanna in eighties and not till 1979 so changes made were in best interest but u are deleting them unnecessarily if at all there are ny errors let me know"""Shrik88music (talk) 19:01, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

GOCE elections

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GOCE Year-end Report

Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 503 editors 2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives Our encounter with Jimbo Wales Guild home pages reorganized and redesigned Report on our inaugural elections Guild Plans for 2011 New barnstars introduced Requests page improved Sign up for the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011! – Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast.

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Rajesh khanna

does the incomplete sentence make any sense ? He formed on screen pairs with many actresses but his pairing especially with actresses like Sharmila Tagore, Asha Parekh, Mumtaz, Hema Malini, Tina Munim, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil and Poonam Dhillon.......what? it needs to be mentioned that these were the most popular as they delivered big hits as a pair... references have been provided by me ....just see the wiki page of my last versionShrik88music (talk) 19:04, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

HI there

Looks like our friend is back to old tricks with J.G. Wentworth page. I filed a sockpuppet report, not sure what else I should do. I am certain it is the same editor with different users as the edits are the same as they were before. I want to make sure I follow proper procedure... Anything else I can do?

Mr. Finance (talk) 18:06, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Tree shaping

There is a proposed Topic Ban for Blackash and Slowart on Tree shaping related articles at the Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents As you have had some involvement with these editors in question, you may wish to comment. Blackash have a chat 00:22, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

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The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page. We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting. This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated. We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". >>> Sign-up now <<<

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Tree Shaping -> Arborsculpture RFM 2

A second request to move the article "tree shaping" to "arborsculpture" has been opened. Since you have previously been involved in the subject, you may wish to participate in the discussion. AfD hero (talk) 19:19, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

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GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261 Report on coordinators' elections Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives Guild Plans for 2012 Requests page report Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012! – Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

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Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello E. Ripley. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. Many thanks in advance for your comments and thoughts. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 23:43, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

The Olive Branch: A Dispute Resolution Newsletter (Issue #1)

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New Wales Coast Path WikiProject

As a member of WikiProject Wales, WikiProject Cardiff or an user who has contributed to Welsh articles we invite you to contribute to a new project, Living Paths!: articles, images, translations... Lonely Planet rated the coast of Wales "the best region on Earth" in 2012, yet there is a very low number of articles on the history and culture of places along the Coastal Path. This promises to be an exciting project as it gathers momentum with many Users joining in across the world.

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Nomination of Witness accounts of the Roswell UFO incident for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Witness accounts of the Roswell UFO incident is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Witness accounts of the Roswell UFO incident (3rd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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section break

Thanks for your intervention in re John Peter Grant. You and i and Sitush have made contributions since, some of which have disappeared from the talk page. The last one I made on the additional page this morning vanished after i saved it. The aim was let Sitush know that the 1827 date can't be edited out just now on the face of what the British Library, whom I've contacted about it, says about the file I mentioned in a previous one, already also removed. If you know any way these entries can be recovered, please let me know. I have so far, out of politeness, - of which I do not have a great store, admittedly - not drawn the attention of either of you to another fundamental rule of Wikipedia, which probably derives from George Orwell. It says that if any rule prevents you from improving Wikipedia, ignore it. Just now I think I am making use of this rule, but it could be that the result will be an improvement, if the notes I make on talk pages don't vanish without explanation.Delahays (talk) 13:07, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

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--SergeWoodzing (talk) 22:00, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Inspiring 3O

Thanks a lot for inspiring incessant and continuing personal slurs like this and this ! --SergeWoodzing (talk) 12:21, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry you feel that way. One of these diffs could certainly have been worded better. If you have concerns about a user's conduct, you're always free to look at dispute resolution options. — e. ripley\^talk 15:07, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

I cannot accept your apology as long as you have caused relentless and unsubstantiated personal slurs like this (yes another one) and refuse to do anything about it yourself. It's like the kid who totally fowled up some lady's kitchen, making it practically impossible for her to cook anymore, and then ran away and hid. You have given that user substantial support in continuing to be obnoxious and to keep infesting our enWP articles with often incomprehensible Swenglish. Happy? --SergeWoodzing (talk) 04:35, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

And just so you know whom you have supported, and continue to support in your total silence on his mischief, it's someone who out of revenge and spite and frivolity does things like this and this and this and this, all because I've asked him to be more careful with his Swenglish. Since you don't know Swedish, you can't clean up the mess he leaves time and time again in enWP articles ("Notes to self"), because you can't figure out what he means. That leaves me, and the slight possibility of someone else who knows Swedish and cares, to go on doing so. Lovely! --SergeWoodzing (talk) 13:17, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

The paranoia knows no bounds. The Commons deletions were legitimate test cases as to how Commons interprets to its own policies. I resent your exclusionary remarks to the effect that I am either hounding you and/or purposely out to destroy “your” enwp. E._Ripley has been quite judicious IMHO, in rendering his 3O and for that; he has earned my sincere appreciation.RicJac (talk) 02:34, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

"Paranoia" is another one of your irrelevant personal insults to add to the list. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 06:42, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Adoption

Hello, I am looking to be adopted as a new Wikipedia user. Would you available to adopt me at this time? I would like to become involved in copy editing articles and editing pages that I have knowledge regarding. Nutshell9 (talk) 05:12, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. I have also recently been using the Hatnote Recent Changes map to view recently edited pages and check to see if vandalism is happening (and revert edits if it is). Is there a group I could get involved in that is related to that? Thank you! Nutshell9 (talk) 17:53, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

John Peter Grant

I am sorry that you got dragged into the John Peter Grant saga but also very appreciative of how you handled it. It looks likely that the other party has decided to withdraw, which is a shame but perhaps not unexpected. Some day, I'll find the time to pursue some of the lines that they mentioned and expand the article generally. I've just gained access to Questia and there seem to be quite a lot of mentions of him in the Jamaican context. - Sitush (talk) 21:00, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

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Home Decor Products

I did not make the change to the article. Would it be possible for someone to hijack my IP address if I edited other articles on wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.98.148.215 (talk) 02:02, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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SITUSH - this editor, having responded with abuse to my previous attempt to sort out his treatment of John Peter Grant as Governor of Jamaica (included in the abuse was a statement - still there I think - that he wasn't going to study Jamaican history, which from a Wikipedia editor insults Jamaica, even if it is within some guideline or other he has invented, perhaps) has now reverted a modest attempt to improve it I edited in, claiming that it is unsourced. I actually used one of the three books in his booklist, mentioning I had done so - he clearly hasn't read it. As it happens I live in Inverness, and knew one of the last generation before the current one of the Grants of Rothiemurchus, slightly - now dead alas, a friend of my wife's. I also have a history degree of sorts and have been working on the Highland connection with Jamaica for about ten years. I don't dispute that Sitush may know about Bengal which Grant also governed, but the article in its current state has only a bare mention of the fact. This sort of thing destroys any reputation Wikipedia may claim, and to ask for subscriptions while permitting it is fairly close to fraud. I'm not asking you to get involved - just putting my side in case you are dragged back in. - DelahaysDelahays (talk) 10:16, 24 January 2017 (UTC)