User talk:Gryffon

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TheRingess 06:30, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Hello Gryffon

Thanks for editing the typo on my Hurworth Grange page. From one American (now living in the UK) to Another, CHEERS!


Hello Gryffon. The block you referred to has been released; if there should be a resurgence of vandal-activity from this network, we will replace it with a {{school block}} which allows registered accounts to edit. Thanks, Can't sleep, clown will eat me 05:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 67.115.220.195

Hey fellow Cerritos editor! There was persistent vandalism coming from 67.115.220.195, so the admins blocked it like five time. The latest block was especially long after some kids had the great idea to randomly vandalize a whole mess of pages. The IP address does belong to Whitney, but it's probably also shared with other schools in the ABCUSD. It's great how you contacted an admin and had the whole issue sorted out quickly! =D Jumping cheese Cont@ct 09:35, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

oops...you go to Artesia HS, so that's in Lakewood. We still go to school in the same district though. Hope to see you around. ^_^ Jumping cheese Cont@ct 09:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Bunaka east beach.jpg

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[edit] WP:WLA

Wikiproject:WikiProject_Los_Angeles This user wants you to join WikiProject Los Angeles.

(♠Taifarious1♠) 02:04, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Time zone

Hey, this is really minor, but on your User page, one userbox says your time zone. If you live in Los Angeles, your time zone is -8. +8 is for China! ALTON .ıl 23:33, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Artesia_High.jpg

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Artesia_High.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kelly hi! 14:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Gryffon - thanks for replying. Could you have someone from the school send an e-mail to "permissions AT wikimedia.org" stating that photo is released into the public domain? Please include a link to the image (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Artesia_High.jpg) in the e-mail. Thank you again! Kelly hi! 04:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Berlin

When you edit an article please make sure that you keep to the national spelling already in use (See WP:MOS#National varieties of English) in Commonwealth English "centre" is correct as is "south west" and "authorised". Please also see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Autoformatting and linking. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 21:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I would like to add my $0.02.... except if the subject of the article is inherantly more appropriate to a specific variety of English other than what the article was first written in. For example, in an article about Prince William, it would be acceptable to brittishize the article, and in an article about Richard Nixon, it would be acceptable to merkinize it. Also, when adding direct quotes to any article, the variety of English should not be changed from the actual quoted source, regardless of the variety used in the Wikipedia article. Otherwise, for non-nation-specific topics, the first variety of English should be maintained for future edits to the article. No reasonable person would expect you to be familiar with all the nutty little ways another variety of English spells everything, so if you add some text in your variety of english it is usually okay, although subject to correction by others; but in no case should somebody else's previous edits be modified to your preferred variety in an article that is already using a different variety of English. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 15:57, 26 April 2008 (UTC)