User talk:Jonathan Cardy

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Jonathan, thanks for catching the typo from my submission in "Baseball in 1994". Ever since I hurt my finger I have had a hard time typing "t-h-e" properly, and try as I might, I miss a few. I hope all is well in the London area .... it is a great city!TeganX7 03:59, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks TeganX7, I had a fascinating time when I searched for hte in Wikipedia, it made for some very eclectic reading.Jonathan Cardy 18:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Ancient astronaut theories

Hi.. I noticed your edits at Ancient astronaut theories[1] , and feel that they were a bit misguided. In Robert Temple's section you changed the wording from criticism, to 'rebut', why? That is considered a weasel word first of all and secondly it isn't neutral since Sagan's views were challenged. Also, there is no need for an extra section on Dogon Astronomy in a "refuted ideas" section since nothing about Dogon astronomy has been refuted. One of the people you cite in James Oberg even suggests that the evidence against the Dogon is mostly speculation, same conclusions were reached by Griaule's daughter. So I just wanted to inform you to please watch your edits as some of them seem a bit over zealous.Taharqa 04:33, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

This user has chosen to withdraw from the Dogon - Ancient Astronomy v http://skepdic.com/dogon.html debate and would appreciate no further discussion of the issue on this talk pageJonathan Cardy 14:13, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Boonyay.jpg

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Image:Boonyay.jpg, which you proposed for deletion, because the page you proposed for deletion was not an article, user page, or user talk page. If you still think the page should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to it, as proposed deletion is only for articles, user pages, and user talk pages. Instead, consider using Images for deletion for this page. In some cases, a speedy deletion criterion may apply. Thanks! -Interested2 03:05, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

OK Fair enough, actually I think its a great picture of a baby rabbit with a credit card for a scale, perhaps I was a little harsh and should have just changed the comment to it needed another justification for being in the public domain than being over a 100 years old. It was really the series of love letters that were posted on it that I thought not fully appropriate for an encyclopedia Jonathan Cardy 14:21, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ray_Toro_at_Event_2007.jpg

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Image:Ray_Toro_at_Event_2007.jpg, which you proposed for deletion, because the page you proposed for deletion was not an article, user page, or user talk page. If you still think the page should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to it, as proposed deletion is only for articles, user pages, and user talk pages. Instead, consider using Images for deletion for this page. In some cases, a speedy deletion criterion may apply. Thanks! -Interested2 03:06, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I've removed the comments about the subject of the photo being Fugly and replaced with Images for deletion as you suggest.Jonathan Cardy 06:46, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You!

The TomStar81 Spelling Award
Be it known to all members of Wikipedia that Jonathan Cardy has corrected my god-awful spelling on the page Iowa class battleship, and in doing so has made an important and very significant contribution to the Wikipedia community, thereby earning this TomStar81 Spelling Award and my deepest thanks. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 23:46, 7 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Architecture of Mongolia

Hi, Jonathan Cardy. Thank you for correcting the typos in the article Architecture of Mongolia. I didn't realise before that there were so many typos. Have a nice day! Gantuya eng 23:03, 3 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] My Wife is 18 (Thier - Their)

Thankyou for fixing up the article My Wife Is 18, your efforts are appreciated!! How did you come across the article in the first place? =D Dengero 14:14, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi Dengero, I did a search for thier, which can be a place or a surname but mostly on Wikipedia was a typo for their. It has given me some interesting reading ranging from sport, cinema and the history of Assamese tribes to schools and rock music.Jonathan Cardy 17:08, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Cybernetics

Thanks for your recent improvements of the New Cybernetics article. I'm still learning to write articles in English, and checks like you made, are more then welcome. - Mdd 20:30, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Texian

"Legendary Texians" was correct. See http://www.amazon.com/Legendary-Texians-Davis-Joe-Tom/dp/B000UDX22K/ref=sr_1_2/105-7572984-2123641 Studerby 23:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moai

An article doesn't become protected by someone putting a template on it. It takes an admin action to set the protection, and a non-admin can make a request for protection at WP:RFPP. However, I suggest we don't protect this article, although I acknowledge most anon edits to it are not constructive. The levels of vandalism are not particularly high (compared to the levels that the daily featured article gets, for example) and are best dealt with by encouraging a range of editors to include the article on their watchlists. See also Wikipedia:Protection policy.-gadfium 00:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jemima Condict

I really appreciate your correcting the misspellings in my Jemima Condict article. Thank you! Tim Ross 14:37, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hipólito ruiz

Thank you for your corrections, best regards Mirtuscommunis 18:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Matt Parkman

diffuse -> defuse. Good catch! I wonder why that sillyness was in there so long? RussNelson 18:38, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I did a search for "diffuse the situation" and got 24 hits across Wikipedia, mostly from articles that were otherwise good quality. I suspect errors like this where the wrong word is used are harder to spot than ones that a spellchecker can find. Jonathan Cardy 19:54, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Award

Image:CopyeditorStar7.PNG The Copyeditor's Barnstar
For your work on continuous copyediting of all article (specifically spelling), I award you this Barnstar as a matter of thanks. Chris 01:27, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
You are welcome. Chris 21:51, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Football hooliganism

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Football hooliganism, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. This is especially important when dealing with biographies of living people, but applies to all Wikipedia articles. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are already familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add your original reference to the article. Thank you. ♦Tangerines♦·Talk 17:47, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

My tidy up of football hooliganism didn't add a new point re sectarianism being a cause of football hooliganism - it was already there and still is, though I gave it more prominence. Not sure what your point is about biographies of living people as I didn't name anyone. However as you haven't restored the typos I fixed I'm unlikely to return to that article.Jonathan Cardy (talk) 19:27, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HNoMS Stegg

Hi Jonathan. Thanks for your very constructive edit to HNoMS Stegg. One small issue, though: April is written "april" in Norwegian, with a minor "a". The book title that included the word "april" is a Norwegian book title and was clearly marked with to avoid being mistaken as English and having "corrections". I'll fix the book title now, but if you use a bot to make language corrections you might want to make it ignore words inside a language tag. Keep up them good work and be well. Manxruler (talk) 01:58, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out, I stand corrected Jonathan Cardy (talk) 23:18, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thankyou!

Thankyou for cleaning up my edits. I really am too sloppy. Larklight (talk) 21:16, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Easter Island

You added some material on geology to Easter Island in this edit, but the ref on seamounts was never completed. Someone else has recently reorganised the refs for that article, and this is now tagged as "citation needed". If you still recall the source, could you add it please.-gadfium 19:44, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for pointing this outJonathan Cardy (talk) 10:20, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Flyboys

When you edited the article, why did you not checked the vandalism done and not reverted the vandalism [2]. This kind of poor article patrolling is doing no help in building an encyclopedia. If you really want to do some clean up tasks in articles, do it constructively and more carefully. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 22:29, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I changed webiste to website, a non controversial fixing of a typo. You may not regard that as constructive or helpful but it wasn't careless, if there were other things wrong in that article they were out of my expertise and I left them unaltered.Jonathan Cardy (talk) 22:46, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

The question of carelessnesses arises as you did not readded the categories which were deleted by the previous user [3] and did not changed the inaccurate information in the infobox. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 22:58, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I think the issue here is whether an editor can make a change that improves an article without checking every detail in the rest of the article. My understanding of the way Wikipedia works is that one is allowed to improve an article even if you can't perfect it, and my changing webiste to website was an improvement. If there is a Wikipedia policy somewhere that one can't edit an article without checking every detail in it, please post me a link to that policy.Jonathan Cardy (talk) 23:28, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thankyou

For correcting my spelling mistakes over at union soemthingorother. :) Larklight (talk) 20:51, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem, that's what I like about Wikipedia, I get to spend the occasional hour searching for and eradicating a particular typo, and in the process get some very eclectic reading.Jonathan Cardy (talk) 21:34, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] S. Kumarasamy

Dear Jonathan Cardy, Thank you very much for spending your valuable time in spell correcting my article. --Logic riches (talk) 04:39, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dutch paintings

  • Also from me, from Holland. At first I did not understand how you got to the website, but reading your talk page I do. It is impossible to check every word on spelling. Then I have to write my text each time in a wordprocessor. Or is there another solution? Taksen (talk) 17:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Dear Taksen, I use a Linux PC with wordprocessing software that is set to spell check in English. So when I'm editing in Wikipedia I have the advantage that typos are underlined in red. I'm afraid I am just a user of the technology and don't know how to change settings, but I'm sure it would be possible to get your PC set up so you could use an English spell checker or a Dutch one depending on the language you were working in. Alternatively just go on putting in that interesting Art stuff you submit and leave the tidying up to people like me.Jonathan Cardy (talk) 18:26, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barn Star

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
This is for your reports to WP:AIV, keep it up ·Ãḍď§ђɸŗЄ· Talk 17:15, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Do I follow people around?

Do you help everyone by cleaning up sloppy edits, or am I special? =) You always seem to cover my sweeping but poorly-spelt changes, thanks again. Larklight (talk) 09:44, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Bit of both really, if someone thanks me for fixing their typos, and I found their stuff interesting I often go and look at other contributions they've made. Also some people have a blindspot for particular words and if their blindspot creates one of the typos that I search for then our paths will repeatedly cross. In your case looking at the last time I edited something after you, I think you write "becuase" rather than because, plus we both have an interest in British Politics so we may have similar reading material.Jonathan Cardy (talk) 21:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re Jim Stanton

Hi, I did PROD it originally, but then changes were made to the article to make me not at all sure if it should be deleted. I then added the tags to it then left it for the community to sort out. As I originally wanted to delete it I don't honestly have an opinion at this time. -- roleplayer 23:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)