Gryffon

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TheRingess 06:30, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello Gryffon

Thanks for editing the typo on my Hurworth Grange page. From one American (now living in the UK) to Another, CHEERS!

Hello Gryffon. The block you referred to has been released; if there should be a resurgence of vandal-activity from this network, we will replace it with a {{school block}} which allows registered accounts to edit. Thanks, Can't sleep, clown will eat me 05:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

67.115.220.195

Hey fellow Cerritos editor! There was persistent vandalism coming from 67.115.220.195, so the admins blocked it like five time. The latest block was especially long after some kids had the great idea to randomly vandalize a whole mess of pages. The IP address does belong to Whitney, but it's probably also shared with other schools in the ABCUSD. It's great how you contacted an admin and had the whole issue sorted out quickly! =D Jumping cheese ^Cont@ct 09:35, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

oops...you go to Artesia HS, so that's in Lakewood. We still go to school in the same district though. Hope to see you around. ^_^ Jumping cheese ^Cont@ct 09:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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Time zone

Hey, this is really minor, but on your User page, one userbox says your time zone. If you live in Los Angeles, your time zone is -8. +8 is for China! ALTON .ıl 23:33, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Artesia_High.jpg

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Hi, Gryffon - thanks for replying. Could you have someone from the school send an e-mail to "permissions AT wikimedia.org" stating that photo is released into the public domain? Please include a link to the image (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Artesia_High.jpg) in the e-mail. Thank you again! Kelly ^hi! 04:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Berlin

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I would like to add my $0.02.... except if the subject of the article is inherantly more appropriate to a specific variety of English other than what the article was first written in. For example, in an article about Prince William, it would be acceptable to brittishize the article, and in an article about Richard Nixon, it would be acceptable to merkinize it. Also, when adding direct quotes to any article, the variety of English should not be changed from the actual quoted source, regardless of the variety used in the Wikipedia article. Otherwise, for non-nation-specific topics, the first variety of English should be maintained for future edits to the article. No reasonable person would expect you to be familiar with all the nutty little ways another variety of English spells everything, so if you add some text in your variety of english it is usually okay, although subject to correction by others; but in no case should somebody else's previous edits be modified to your preferred variety in an article that is already using a different variety of English. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 15:57, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

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Pandemic (South Park)

Hi. Thanks for fixing the article. As a suggestion, however, it is best not to refer to the prior edit as "vandalism", unless it is unambiguously so. It's possible that User:DOSTRES may have accidentally deleted the closing brackets of the Infobox (something that I've accidentally done once or twice), and was under the impression that the episode was the first of a two-parter (an impression that I immediately had when it ended myself). Assuming it to be vandalism could be construed as not in keeping with WP:Civil and WP:AGF. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 04:34, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

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December 2010

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Bunaka - seriously what were you thinking? Fortunately though, page view statistics confirm that almost no one looked at it. --Merbabu (talk) 10:44, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

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