User talk:Karanm

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Karanm, Welcome to Wikipedia!
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Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:13, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] So be it

Ah well Mel. This is a "standard" Wiki message I see. Anyway I guess the redirect was not to your liking. Perhaps I was wrong in directing "Impulsive highlighter" to "Impulsive highlighting". Karan 08:28, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

No, not standard — my welcome message, distinctive in form and content. As for Compulsive highlighting, unless I did it in my sleep, the redirect wasn't my doing. It's impossible to tell from the page history; what happened? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:05, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I don't know anything about Compulsive Highlighting, though it should redirect to Impulsive highlighting now that you've mentioned it, because it seems to speak of the same activity. I had put a redirect from Impulsive Highlighter to Impulsive Highlighting and that was speedily deleted. And that's what I thought your message was about. Was it not? Karan 09:37, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant Impulsive highlighting. I didn't speedy-delete tag the article, in fact (I panicked in case I'd done it and forgotten, but checking my contributions list, I didn't lay a finger on it). I may have added the 'experiment' message because I saw that someone else had added the tag. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:22, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

So be it then

I don't know the reason for the speedy delete; if you could find the person who added the tag, you could ask them. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:02, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

How should I do that?

The only way that I can think of is by looking at the 'recent changes' (link on the left) and paging through until you get to about the right time. The page name, user, and edit summary will be there. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:32, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the info but I don't think it's worth the effort.