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Susvolans (pigs can fly) 17:37, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi,

My Gaelic is almost non-existant, but should not Bishopton be "Baile an Easbuig" instead of "Baile an Easbaig"? 86.134.9.25 21:58, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Possessive Apostrophes

To create a possessive singular noun, add apostrophe "s". The only exception is the "s" apostrophe required for a noun ending in an "s" that sounds more like a "z", as in Jesus' or Texas'. Ichormosquito 11:16, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Operation rare outside of North America

Thanks for your edits to Cat. But please, just take a moment to summarize your edits on the summary line, just to make life easier for your fellow editors. Also, when I read something such as "the operation is rare outside of North America," it would be reassuring to see an endnote to support that statement. Do you have something you could add to back up that statement? Thanks very much. Reward 18:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Regarding your edit to Talk:Kalman filter: Please stop removing content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Ral315 WS 17:44, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WE177

Hello. You raised some issues about WE.177. I have checked the facts and referenced my source which is an authoritive book on Cold War weapons and infrastructure. As such I have removed your note: "This article contains many factual errors. See 'Discussion'". If possible could you check it again and raise any objections at the discussion page. If you feel the need to add another warning, please use one located here: Wikipedia:Template messages/Disputes, as this will draw the subject to the attention of other editors and is also more aesthetically pleasing. By the way I couldn't agree more about getting this subject 100% right, especially given the massive duplication of Wikipedia articles which would have the effect of spreading disinformation. Thank you. Mark83 19:49, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] No thanks

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[edit] Barnstar

For his excellent work on creating Winged cat, the most bizarre article I have ever seen on Wikipedia, I hereby award this belated Oddball Barnstar to this champion of the strange. If only he had a proper user page... Kafziel 05:24, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
For his excellent work on creating Winged cat, the most bizarre article I have ever seen on Wikipedia, I hereby award this belated Oddball Barnstar to this champion of the strange. If only he had a proper user page... Kafziel 05:24, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] List of British Narrow Gauge Railways

A quick thank you for your all the improvements you've been making to this article. They're greta. Best, Gwernol 15:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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[edit] Warning

Don't vandalise user pages, don't make personal attacks. — Matt Crypto 14:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inappropriate comments on article talk page

I have removed your personal comments on one of the contributors to the article 'Pentagrid Converter'. Your personal comments have no place there, and I would suggest that you refrain from making such comments in the future. I refer you to the Wikipedia page on article talk pages Wikipedia:Talk page.

I have sent the same warning to the other offenders. 20.133.0.14 11:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to repeat myself. "When discussing the quality of articles is seen as a personal attack, we might as well abolish talk pages altogether because they are there for, you know, exactly that. Referring to other editors as "children" or "wet behind the ears student[s]" is a personal attack, saying that an article's quality is not great is not a personal attack." The article in question has serious stylistic issues; saying so is not a personal attack. It is a comment on the content of the article. Do not remove such comments in the future. -- Jonel | Speak 13:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] "Outside of" problem

Are you so sure that "outside of" should always be replaced by "outside"? One of the definitions of "outside" that google finds is "the region that is outside of something". Do you have a reference to show that this is incorrect? I'm going to revert your change for now. Dicklyon 02:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that "outside of" should always be replaced by "outside", but I do think it should in the context of the sentence in this article where it is being used as a preposition and not as a noun. For example, I wouldn't use "inside of" or "beside of" in this context either. ("Beside" is a useful yardstick because it is never a noun.)

"Outside of" would be correct in "Paint was applied to the outside of the house", where "outside" is a noun.

My reference for this is traditional printed English dictionaries and usage textbooks. I'm sure Google will turn up many sites with definitions for "outside" that are grammatically incorrect in my opinion. However http://www.answers.com/topic/outside seems to have the same opinion as me. Other online references that I would respect include: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=outside*3+1&dict=A http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=56393&dict=CALD http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=outside http://www.wordreference.com/definition/outside

You say: One of the definitions of "outside" that google finds is "the region that is outside of something". I have just checked and found this (somewhat recursive) definition at http://www.thefreedictionary.com/outside where it is in the Thesaurus section using "outside of" as a preposition, and yet just above it the Dictionary section gives three correct (in my opinion) examples of the use of "outside" as a preposition.

Another webpage, this one by a Professor of English: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/of.html and http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/comprised.html

Having looked into this, my opinion is that "outside of" in our example under discussion: "places its optical centre outside of its physical construction", is an American colloquial usage that is now appearing in print. So I expect that it's only a matter of time before it becomes the world standard :-)


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[edit] Regarding edits made 26 February 2007 to Earth's gravity

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[edit] History of Sri Lanka 09:43, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Great job!!

Thanks for the references to Fiber Bragg grating! I've formatted them for you. Think outside the box 10:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] July 2007

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[edit] List of battleships of the Royal Navy

I'm not entirely sure why you are using the <small> tag on the page List of battleships of the Royal Navy, there is no reason to decrease the size of the font, as the page is not width-constrained. The over-use of this tag, which should be avoided if at all possible, simply serves to increase the page file size, make the article more complicated for others to edit and format, and makes reading sections of this page more difficult. Emoscopes Talk 13:57, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Token (railway signalling)

I pared a little of this back because the detail on the Liskeard to Looe branch seemed too detailed for this general article about the signalling method. Ideal material for the article about the line itself, though. --Old Moonraker 14:01, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] August 2007

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[edit] Regarding your edits to Signal passed at danger:

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[edit] Notability of Artemis (software)

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