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Contents 1 Edit on Slaughterhouse-Five 2 United Kingdom Laser pointer limitations 3 Huggle/AtLUE 4 Truth 5 Wrong Accusations 6 PHP 7 Re: Davros 8 Oh sorry

[edit] Edit on Slaughterhouse-Five

Hi there. You may want to review your last edit on Slaughterhouse-Five. I haven't reverted it, but I think the rationale you gave isn't quite correct, and you may want to revise your decision. If you look at the history of edits, the edit you reverted actually made the sentence make more sense (that is, the user had made what I think is a beneficial change). You may think that the entire section needs work (as I do), but I don't think that particular edit was egregious. Thanks for your attention! Victorianist (talk) 01:36, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. I actually removed the two edits that user had made (sorry I failed to make that clear in my justification). The second edit he did was to correct his first edit; BUT this first change was some nonsense about a hidden message contained in a previous users entry and it was this I removed. Brian R Hunter (talk) 22:38, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh! OK. Sorry about the confusion. Keep up the good work. Victorianist (talk) 02:36, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] United Kingdom Laser pointer limitations

on 7 March 2008 Mahdig asked the following question on the Laser pointer article

which paragraph of UK Health Protection Agency?

Hi Mahdig, I assume you are asking which paragraph documents the UK restrictions. Near the bottom of the HPA page the heading HPA advice gives the advice and references the appropriate regulations and enforcement route.

--Brian R Hunter (talk) 11:25, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Huggle/AtLUE

My internet was really sluggish at that point, but when I looked at that revision (one of the only ones to come through), I didn't see the anchor in the link. I just thought he was linking to the article itself without anchor, which is in effect removal of text (especially for that quote, which is sourced) Will ^(talk) 09:56, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Truth

Some of the people I introduce to wikipedia have difficulty with factual information being changed. Here is my take on Truth.

• Observable Truth

An idea or concept which can be independently verified. e.g. The number three.

The word three is an invention but the number concept of an integer one bigger than two is an observable truth.

• Agreeable Truth

An idea or concept that a group of people agree to be The Truth. Other groups may have a different view.

The symbol for three i.e. 3 (a line with three end points) is the commonly used symbol in modern times. In the past (and today?) other symbols have been used.

In wikipedia we have a combination of Observable Truths and Agreeable Truths. --Brian R Hunter (talk) 10:41, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong Accusations

Thanks for your support, how can one tell between a bot and an actual user, I would think that human administrators are capable of distinguishing between vandalism and cleaning up. I noticed that when I logged in, and stopped editing under an anonymous IP, the accusations stopped; is there a bias against people without accounts?Storms991 (talk) 01:17, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Some editors have noted that most vandalism is done by anonymous users so they habitually check those edits. Sometimes they get it wrong. Vandalism is a big problem but it does not excuse the false positives that careless editors make which can cause a lot of ill feeling. Good bots like ClueBot (talk · contribs) have details on how they are used and seem to make few mistakes. Real people sometimes use tools to help them like Huggle; indiscriminate use can lead to mistakes. --Brian R Hunter (talk) 06:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] PHP

Thanks. The Link Checker tool used the Dutch site because the tool is based in the Netherlands, I suppose, so PHP automatically redirected it to the Dutch mirror of http://php.net/ . Gary King (talk) 01:50, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

There really isn't much point since PHP is the only major site that I am aware of that does this. Gary King (talk) 02:12, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Just an FYI, but please use the {{cite web}} template when entering references. Gary King (talk) 02:39, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Davros

I know - could easily be Dalek Sec. Anyway, did you catch the Remembrance of the Daleks reference in my edit summary? Sceptre ^(talk) 18:42, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

What I mean is the Seventh Doctor says to someone from the army: "There's your problem. [The Daleks] aren't even remotely human." Sceptre ^(talk) 18:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oh sorry

May you adopt me? I will check more carefully in the future