Princesskirsty

Re Jonas Armstrong

Looking at the revert I did to the site, the only thing I can thing why I changed it was #1 - no link to another article and #2 when it comes from an IP numbre instead of a user's name I thought it was vandalism. I over did it with the editing after all it is an odd name. Sorry, if go into history and save the one before my edits the infomation will return. Bluetooth954 00:13, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Scottish parliament election, 2007

I reverted because the descriptor "Scottish" is unnecessary when referring to a Scottish election. The Conservative Party doesn't use the term "Scottish" in their Scottish election literature, and that should be enough. Similarly, there is no need to add "Scottish" before the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats, though both have separate branches in Scotland. The Scottish National Party, Scottish Socialist Party and Scottish Green Party, however, use the identifying term "Scottish" in their literature and in their names, and it is thus appropriate to leave "Scottish" there. The proper use is always what the party uses colloquially rather than the official name; yes, the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party exists as an entity within the Conservative Party (UK), but their literature never uses "Scottish" (which is, when used in literature, is generally a trademark of the nationalist parties, the SNP, SSP and Scottish Greens). —Cuiviénen 21:10, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Election literature - pamphlets and whatnot, as well as campaign websites. —Cuiviénen 13:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

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Moved Comments

Thank you very much! Yes, am frustrated with the childish amount of vandalism on the Dima Bilan page. Many thanks for your comments. InternationalHit2 21:14, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments! Another page that is vandalised almost daily is Mawi. There seems to be a vendetta against this poor singer! I just cleaned it up today again. InternationalHit2 16:38, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

- leave me messages here rather than my userpage plz

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Gregory Michael

It's sometimes hard for someone not involved to determine who copied whom. Sometimes Internet Archive dates are helpful with determining priority but not always. Generally I have found that Wikipedia copies IMDB much more often than the reverse, so this is unusual. Anyway I just flag possible copyright violations when I encounter them, I have no stake in the matter. Quatloo 23:05, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I've cross my complaint off the copyvio page and remove the notice. Since I am the submitter, this is certainly OK. Quatloo 23:17, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

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Barnstar Mockery

On May 7th of this year, at 14:37, the user page User:Dr Spam (MD) was created. Within a period of 48 hours, User:Dr Spam (MD) had placed approximately 55 barnstars on user pages and user talk pages. Many recipients doubted the sincerity of the sentiments behind these barnstars, in part because of the comments placed by Dr Spam on the barnstars. A sampling of the reasons that Dr. Spam offered for presenting barnstars to editors:

• Hi - I am putting this here in case there's trouble later. Please accept this tireless barnstar thing for all of your wiki-activity. Thanks. User:Dr Spam (MD) 16:08, 11 May 2007

• nice one! User:Dr Spam (MD) 16:51, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

• Hi I am leaving you with this barnstar for you to reflect carefully on. I will provide the citation in a few days once you have had the opportunity to consider why I might think that you deserve it. Peace User:Dr Spam (MD) 16:50, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

• Well done for all of your fantastic editing / writing: you are obviously a genius of our day, shining like the brightest barnstar against a dark barnnight in these new and difficult wiki-times. I therefore award you the surreal barnstar (I can't get the other barnstars to work properly - my apologies.) Please note that you have no right to remove the barnstar, for it is sacred. LEAVE WELL ALONE! Many thanks.

• awesome contribution to this web site! have a lovely barnstar thing User:Dr Spam (MD) 12:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

• cool editing

• Awesome

• Cool.

• I am awarding you a surreal barnstar because you obviously deserve it! Keep up the good work - don't slacken off, it'll get harder before it gets easier!

• Hy my cat (the fat white one) is awarding you this barnstar of diligence because he doesn't eat fish either. He just likes to eat biscuits - or so he says. But how then does he get so fat????

Occasionally Dr. Spam's comments did appear sincere (if vague), but a review of the record indicates that sincere-appearing comments were generally generated during a massive cut-and-paste session. There were also many barnstars presented with no comments at all, and even more that User:Dr Spam (MD) presented without signing his name to indicate from whom the award was coming.

In response, once this pattern of apparent insincerity was established, a few experienced editors asked Dr. Spam to desist from barnstar spamming, in the belief that randomly awarding barnstars devalues the entire barnstar program. (Indeed, so random was the placement of barnstars, that some were even placed on wiki accounts that had not been active for over a year.) Dr. Spam has now stopped, presumably recognizing that his efforts were not appreciated by the majority of editors.

Most of the barnstars placed by Dr. Spam during his May campaign have been voluntarily removed by the editors on whose pages they were placed. You are receiving this notice because Dr. Spam's barnstar still remains on your page. If you feel that Dr. Spam's barnstar spamming was a form of mockery, you may choose to remove it yourself. But if the way this barnstar was "awarded" does not bother you, you are of course free to keep it on your page. After all, it is your page. This notification was simply for your information. HuskyHuskie 13:33, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

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References

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Gregory Michael

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Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland

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