Monkey Tennis

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Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame) 15:46, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Yo Monkey

You have a lovely nick :-) Tintin 09:40, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 Why thank you! Monkey Tennis 12:41, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cricket on VfD

Hiya. You previously voted 'keep' on the VfD for Nottinghamshire_v_Yorkshire_26_June_2005 and other subarticles of 2005 English cricket season. I just wanted to let you know that these pages have promptly been put back up for deletion, this time at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Essex_v_Glamorgan_15_May_2005. Those of us who have worked on these articles would value your continued support. Thanks and best wishes. --Ngb 19:48, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Swedish name for Finland

You asked: Is there a reason why the first paragraph has the Swedish name for Finalnd in it? Isn't this a bit of unnecessary clutter or am I missing something?

If you read the article further, you'll see that Finland is bilingual, and "Finland" is one of the two official names for our country. Greetings from a Finland-Swede, --Janke | Talk 14:48, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Monkey Tennis Deletion

Hi - in July you put Monkey tennis up for deletion, and I assume you were successful. It has reappeared but I can't find the history of the vote or what happened and so don't know what to do this time. Any advice?

BTW - I didn't create the page on either occasion. The fact that Monkey Tennis is my alias is a complete coincidence! Monkey Tennis 21:16, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

The former content of the page was "Popular bar sport played primarily in Lee-on-Solent, UK.". The deletion debate is here: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Monkey tennis; I found it by simply typing in the address.

The new article seems better than the old one, but I can't find any references on the web for the claimed uses, so the new article may need to be deleted anyway. Thue | talk 09:18, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I couldn't find a link to the page on the history or in the AfD/VfD pages so cheers for pointing me in the right direction. The new page was created by a registered user so I'll try and contact them. Word Monkey Tennis 12:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Monkey tennis

I thought you might be interested to know that I had a stab at making a proper article out of this. What do you think? Angmering 00:06, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

That's amazing! I love it thank you! I never knew it was in such wide use (even just in media circles is better than just me and my mates). I have never seen it anywhere but the Partridge episode. Probably could have done some digging myself really...

Anyway, well done. I like. Monkey Tennis 14:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Glad you like it. :-) Angmering 16:09, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Sigur Rós and the grammatical number of collective nouns

In the edit summary unto your recent edit unto the Sigur Rós article, you stated that a band is a singular entity. Not always. The general rule is that collective nouns take the plural in British English, whilst taking the singular in American English. Following either rule strictly can lead unto problems (awkwardness in the former, but down right absurdity in the latter). The best way to treat a collective noun is as a singular when the its members are considered as a collective, and as a plural when its members are considered individually. For the sake of example:

• My family are (not is) sick with the flu;
• My family is (not are) coming unto the event.

Or some such rule... Anyway, what you wrote makes perfect sense as it is; it’s just that collective nouns can’t always take a singular, so be careful with that. Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 14:40, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

The First Album (Ella Guru album)

Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article The First Album (Ella Guru album), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 05:29, 15 January 2008 (UTC)