User talk:Cyrus Grisham

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Good luck! Renata3 20:25, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your email

You haven't done anything wrong. I've unblocked the IP address you were using earlier. Unfortunately, it seems that someone else, probably at your university, was vandalizing Wikipedia by removing text from articles for no reason, and he/she appeared to have some sort of agenda, and had been committing the same kind of vandalism without reprieve for some time, so I blocked the address for a week.

Since you are using a more-or-less open network, you will probably run into this problem again. Unfortunately, there is no way in the current version of the software to block an IP address without also blocking the usernames that end up using the address after it's been blocked. This is usually referred to as "collateral damage". This problem is currently being worked on, as far as I know.

If you are blocked again in this way, your best course of action is to contact the blocking administrator by email. If the turnaround is too slow for you (as it probably was today – my apoologies, I have been very busy!) you can contact any administrator that has their email enabled. Explain the situation calmly and clearly and, if that particular admin is online, I'm sure they can help you out.

I hope this doesn't discourage you from editing too much. Vandalism is a serious problem on Wikipedia, and sometimes it's hard to tell if we will be blocking legitimate users from editing if we block a vandal's address.

Let me know if you have any questions, and happy editing! android79 23:10, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your hard work so far!

I wanted to thank you for your recent contributions (i.e. marker assisted selection). One pertinent comment would be that titles and subheadings should adhere to the following guideline, taken verbatim from the Wikipedia style manual: only the first letter of the first word, letters in acronyms, and the first letter of proper nouns are capitalized; all other letters are in lower case (Funding of UNESCO projects, not Funding of UNESCO Projects) (see: Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Article_titles.2C_headings_and_sections for more info.). Thanks again. --Seans Potato Business 17:10, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

THX. I "just" merged two articels together and searched for some wikilinks. OK, took me quite a while and yes as a German I sometimes use Capital letters (for me it looks just better, but I'll work on it :-) and just look at Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style :-) I'll never understand this... :-) ). Time to go to bed here. Talk to you. --Cyrus Grisham (talk) 22:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] La Sapienza

I think your edit is slightly irrelevant, Ratzinger was going to give a speech as a religious, not a state leader. And that's what University staff opposed to. Abdullais4u (talk) 09:39, 18 January 2008 (UTC)