User talk:Daniel Lawrence

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Hi Daniel,

Sorry for the obstruction. As explained in my email reply, it looks like you are unfortunately sharing an IP address with an anonymous vandal at User:82.3.32.75. That anonymous IP has previously made plenty of fine edits relating to the Singapore Navy in the past, but that was probably a different person. I'm guessing this IP is shared between several people on the same ISP. I've lifted the block early so that you can carry on editing. -- Solipsist 16:45, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks for removing that ban. It seems highly likely that my ISP shares out IPs, as you suggested. If this happens again in the future, or continues to happen, what would be the best plan of action? Daniel Lawrence 18:01, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
At the moment, there is no perfect solution, but I believe the developers are looking into one. The interim solution is to put a notice about the shared IP on the IP-user page, so that other editors are aware of the problem in case further blocks are necessary (for example User talk:210.0.177.84). Do you know the name of the ISP, school or business which might be using this address? It looks like it might be an NTL proxy. -- Solipsist 10:25, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
NTL is the ISP. I don't know about their policies of assigning IPs, but it seems to me that they're shared, and often changed. Not brilliant, is it. Makes me wonder what would happen if the British Phonographic Industry or similar wanted to prosecute someone for illegally downloading, for example. I don't know how they'd get the right person, or more importantly, avoid getting the wrong person.
And thanks for the welcome. Very kind. Daniel Lawrence 10:56, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -- Solipsist 00:31, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Edit summary

Dear contributor, first I would like to say a big thank you for your time, care, and enthusiasm in editing Wikipedia articles. I hope you find it just as much fun as I do.

I am writing with a small suggestion. I wonder if you could write an edit summary every time you make changes to an article (or when you start a new one). Even a short summary helps. To see how often you have done so in the past, you may go to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=YOUR USERNAME.

Edit summaries are important for a number of reasons. Every time you change an article, a record of that change propagates to every single person who has that article on their watchlist. Most people have an article on their watchlist because they care a lot about it, so they would like to be informed about what is going on with it. Accurate summaries help people decide whether it is worthwhile for them to check a change. This is why your edit summary, which will take you maybe 15 seconds, is a time-saver and a great act of candor to the other people interested in the same article as you. Accurate edit summaries are important because they create trust regarding your contributions and help resolve disputes.

There are other, very convincing reasons for putting an edit summary. More information is available at Wikipedia:Edit summary. If at any point you have any questions about this rule (or anything else for that matter), please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you and happy editing! Hyacinth 23:51, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Actually, if you went to Wikipedia:Edit summary, you would find that you should:
  • "Always fill the summary field. Even a short summary is better than no summary. Accurate summaries help people decide whether it is worthwhile for them to check a change. Summaries often pique the interest of Wikipedians with an expertise in the area. This may not be as necessary for "minor changes", but (e.g.) "fixed spelling" would be nice even then."
Forgetting or neglecting to provide edit summaries is counterproductive. Hyacinth 20:03, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I did not send the request to you randomly, nor did I just happen to notice a blank edit summary on my watchlist. The specific edit was: [1]. Thanks. Hyacinth 20:10, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Hoobs

The 'bias' template isn't appropriate for this article, especially as you're added no explanation on the Talk page. The gushing tone should be dealt with by the cleanup & wikification. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:57, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure what more I can say. It's an overenthusuastic article about a children's television programme, probably written by a child. I felt bad enopugh putting the 'cleanup' & 'wikify' templates on it, and I plan to do the work myself as soon as possible; 'bias' is overkill. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:01, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Posting Copyvios

Daniel- apologies if you know this, but make sure to post links on WP:CP when you flag something as copyvio. Just doing the squiggle-bracket tag in the article itself does not post it to the copyvio page (I was making the same mistake until a few days ago). Feco 20:56, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

yeah... the text makes you think it was an automatic-post. Sadly, no luck. We've been spoiled by the {}, which usually do something cool and automated.Feco
I've now made a suggestion at Template_talk:Copyvio to change the text of the template warning to be less confusing and remind users that they must manually post to WP:CP.Feco

[edit] Cassius

Since I made the change without discussion, and since it was lack of discussion I that I objected to, I will revert it. The original change, however, was still made without appropriate discussion, as no discussion of the proposed move took place on the page's talk page. If such courtesy had been shown, I and possibly others could have registered our objection to such a move, as "Cassius" refers far more often to Caesar's assassin than to any other meaning, and in accordance with Wikipedia:Disambiguation should therefore carry a disambiguation notice at its top, linking either directly to the other articles in question or to a disambiguation page.

Of course, as you apparently did not note (but could have had pointed out, had you proposed your page move on the article's talk page), Gaius Cassius Longinus already has such a notice at its top, linking to Cassia (gens), which contains a list of a number of other Romans named "Cassius", all notable enough for inclusion in an encyclopaedia but nevertheless, like the band Cassius, are far less well-known than the assassin—and who were not listed on your disambiguation page, either as a group or by a link to the Cassia article.

Regardless of the disambiguation updates you made (though your diligence is greatly appreciated), Cassius remains better as a redirect because

  1. When a Wikipedia reader types the word "Cassius" in the search box, they should go directly to the article on the assassin, as that's by far the most likely article they're looking for.
  2. Links to Cassius are going to continue to be created in other articles, as users expect it work in accordance with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ancient Romans) and because it has worked for years.

I also fail to see why you would assume that User:Mark's acceptance of the change would constitute acceptance by anyone else. Binabik80 23:27, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pocket Dragons

Yay! Thanks for letting me know - thats nifty, and a good start too. I had thought of doing a pocket dragons page, but I get overly excited about it and start to take pictures of all my dragons, then I start to envision a Pocket Dragon WikiProject happening, then articles for each individual dragon along with Category:Pocket Dragons, then I get overwhelmed and give up :) I'll certainly watch this and expand it some soon. - Trysha 16:58, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Short articles

Hi, I noticed some of your new articles, like Daddies, Paxo, and Bisto. Without much context, I wonder why these are important. Do you think it would be appropriate to merge them into the main articles of their manufacturers? It's possible someone may come along and decide to try to delete them, since they're so short. Friday (talk) 20:37, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Sun-Pat

Firstly, I tweaked the wording to make the article encyclopedic. I removed information which was arguably irrelevant. More than one stub tag looks messy, so I chose to remove the least directly appropriate one. The article title (at the start, where it says Sun-Pat) needs to be italicised because it is a brand name. The accepted norm is for External links to be pluralised regardless of the number of links. Whether "links" ought to be capitalised is up for some debate.

I do hope this rationalises some of my edits and meets your concerns. Rob Church Talk | Desk 20:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] amens

hello, this is random task. I understand that we got off on the wrong foot over the mutato muzika article, and would like to apologize. I was a tad bratty I admit, and I do clearly need to work on the mechanics of english, but you are clearly a reasonable and intelligent man, and I think we could do very well together.

-spencer

[edit] Diva cleanup?

Hi there. I noticed you placed a cleanup tag on Diva. I would like to help, but it is unclear to me what needs cleaning up. Could you tell me? Mareklug talk 22:40, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dawn Fellowship

Hi Daniel,

I was rather annoyed that you went & deleted the 'Dawn fellowship' page as 'spam', which I had just started work on (that night!!!). Please note that the 'Christadelphians' page in the discussion section an editor says that the different fellowships should start their own wiki page if they want to have more info on their history/beliefs. I had just emailed a friend for their suggestion on what to put for our history/beliefs & was going to get back to it today, but found your insulting comment about 'spam'. We have now started a new page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Christadelphians, and I hope you won't go & delete that too, and please don't go calling my religious beliefs 'spam' again.

Jean jean@amyloidosisaustralia.org

Unsigned comment from User:147.10.55.50

I'll put my response on here page as well, in case your IP changes, and you can't view your talk page.
I did not (and can not) delete your page. Special:Undelete/Dawn Fellowship shows that:
10:46, 12 October 2005 AllyUnion deleted "Dawn Fellowship" (spam)
In future, please ensure you are accurate in your accusations. --Daniel Lawrence 08:36, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: DragonBooster Article

Hello. My name is Sean. I saw that you edited some stuff on my DragonBooster article such as some "vandalism" thing. I just want to know what that is you edited because I worked really hard on the article at first and I want it to be 100% accurate. Other people did work on it too and that was nice of them.

Unsigned comment from User:204.38.191.99
In case your IP changes, and you can't find/view your talk page, you can find my response here: User talk:204.38.191.99#Re:Dragon Booster. --Daniel Lawrence 15:46, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: DragonBooster Article 2

Hello again. I recieved your response. i don't mind that you edited stuff on the article but I consider it to be "mine" because I was the first one to improve upon it and give it the stuff it needed. I would appriciate a bit of help here. someone called 3rkat as been editing my article since last month or way farther back (I heven't been on very much...) and i would just like to know what sort of vandalism occured on "my" article because it said that you reverted vandalism. I'm sorry if i was being inconsiderate and I apologize with all my heart.

[edit] Re: Dragon Booster Article:Mystery IP...

Hey. I went over the response you showed me and saw what you wrote about another IP vandalizing the article. I thank you for telling me. I am not responsible for the vandalizim. I don't know and I don't know how my article could have been used for vandilism. I would really like to be friends with you and would like it if you helped me investigate this a bit. I want to have lots of fun on Wikipedia!!


[edit] cleaning up after vcxlor

Thankyou. I am not sure whether trawling random pages and slapping things on them is such a good idea after all.vcxlor 23:53, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stub sorting

Sorry about that – I misinterpreted 187 Lockdown's "garage act" as "garage band" which performs "garage rock", and hence the {{UK-rock-band-stub}}. --Bruce1ee 09:54, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kilby/Kirby

Well spotted. As you may notice from my contribs list I am on a bit of a place disambiguation frenzy at the moment ;) Morwen - Talk 13:36, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dragon Booster

Please didn't change the new article of the Dragon this page have 47 kilobytes This may be longer and the compuers slowly and For most long pages division into sections is natural 200.119.53.233 21:23, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sigmund Article

Sorry I didnt see there was a good article, plus there was a bunch of discussion on the subject, so i didnt want to revert without input from someone else. I figured the npov tag was a good step towards a real bio and not a slanderous article. I have reverted the article to your previous edit. As well I have asked the members of nola.us (the offshoot forum of mgno.com) to contribute to the article. Onthost 00:00, 9 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image Tagging Image:Mike Batt.jpg

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[edit] Image:SPAR logo.jpg has been listed for deletion

Just thought I'd let you know I've listed this image for deletion. The reason is I converted it into this vector. - RedHot 16:24, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Steve Henifin listed for deletion

An article that you have been involved in editing, Steve Henifin, has been listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Henifin. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Adambiswanger1 01:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Europages

Yes, I've deleted several articles, and I was too fast, this explanation was my fault, sorry for that. The original reason was: "it is an article about a person, group of people, band, club, company or website that does not assert the importance or significance of the subject. (CSD A7)". Thank you for your appreciation! NCurse work 20:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Guilty removal

That's fine. As you can see I have already replaced it at the main Streisand article with a free image.

I will remove the tagging now. Daniel Case 18:30, 11 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image:Eurythmics.jpg

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