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-Poli (talk • contribs) 22:04, 2005 July 25 (UTC)

Color correction?

Regardless of your personal feelings about a page, do not remove requests for unprotection, and certainly do not put blatant lies in your edit summaries. That's equivalent to vandalism.--Scimitar ^parley 21:51, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

My sincerest apologies, the blanking was a total accident, and I'm not sure how it happened. I never hit delete, so I have to assume it was a browser problem. As for blatant lies, there are none. My edit summary refers directly to the edit I made. And my personal feelings are irrelevant. I was merely linking to a bit of reformatting I had done on a protected page. Cheers, and Please remember WP:AGF. Mistercow 21:56, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

• Did you have an edit conflict by any chance? I just rechecked your edit, and what happened was you somehow deleted the earlier request while posting your comment (I only noticed the blanking, as I was reading it and when I came back it was gone). Sorry for jumping on you; I'm sure it was an accident. All the best. --Scimitar ^parley 22:00, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

• • That's probably it. I checked the preview a few times to fix my link, and I must have missed the warning. I'll be more careful in the future. Mistercow 22:04, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

User:Smacksoftruth on WP:WQA

Thanks for bringing the problem to the attention of WP:WQA, Mistercow. I have reviewed some of the edits made by Smacksoftruth and I have determined that the ones I looked at seemed to be done with a bit of POV slant. I left a {{NPOV user}} message on this user's talk page, and if he/she continues to make POV edits, please contact me on my talk page and I will try to convince the user to discuss potential changes before making edits and before the problem gets out of control. Thanks, JHMM13 (T | C) 05:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Gnostic Movement

I have some overall concerns about this article. Primarily the notablity of the subject matter. There are very few links from other sites to the external references, and often the primary links are only to each other. I am eliciting comments since you have edited on this page. See my comments on the talk page. Trödel 23:01, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

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threaded code

The edit you recently made to threaded code was usually true, in isolation. Alas, I reverted that edit. I hope that Talk:Threaded_code#some_redundancies_cannot_be_eliminated_by_subroutines explains why. --68.0.124.33 (talk) 01:15, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Mistercow/Jesus format

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Notes to Self

Fix Federal Communications Commission#Consolidation permissivity.2C indecency crackdowns

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