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Swifties

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Hi, Geoduck,

I'm a bit puzzled by your edit on the Swifties article. Want to discuss it on the talk page? I'll put a bit of my thinking there.

best, --Lavintzin 14:34, 28 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Tremors

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Hello there...could you tell me where you put the information about the entire serries? I can't seem to find the information you stripped.
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 06:41, 22 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Jaws

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You did a great job in reorganizing the article and rewriting the lead. From what I've seen in comparison, you didn't lose anything important, either that I or others wrote, and I'd like to thank you for doing a lot of stuff on the article I haven't been able to do correctly.-Dark Kubrick 05:28, 5 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Sir... SIR... SIR!!!!!

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I have to say, I like the way you rewrote the passage about the restaurant scene in the Blues Brothers movie page. Reading that, I can visualize the scene quite well, and your description far more accurately describes it than the previous version did. SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:12, 25 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Dawn of the Dead Remake Plot Synopsis Pruning (And Pruning (And Pruning (And Pruning (And Pruning))))

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I admire your perseverance! I'd have gone postal by now. We should set up some sort of bingo game based on additions people make to the plot section. - Richfife 15:55, 20 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Misleading edit summaries

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Please do not use misleading edit summaries, such as the one at this diff. You marked the edit as minor and your edit summary read only "grammar edits", but you made substantial changes to the text. Please try to be more explicit in the future. Croctotheface 03:00, 24 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Die Hard

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Key issue is WP:NOT#PLOT and the word summary opposed to blow by blow account. My rewrite knocked off 1KB and even I think that's still too long. I only pointed out "suave" as an example; there are numerous other problems with the old plot, including colorful descriptors that are pov (such as "storms the roof" and "incensed"), and again, length. Start with my version and knock it off, or try to pare down the old plot; if neither is done within 24 hours, I'm reverting back to my version. hbdragon88 (talk) 07:20, 23 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for knocking off even more than I was able to. hbdragon88 (talk) 19:46, 23 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

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