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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, PoliceChief! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Signature icon.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 13:56, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
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—Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 13:56, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editing..

Do you like causing inappropriate nuisance?? You seem to edit every single article, particularly relating to what I've edited using my extensive police knowledge. You seem to have edited the article 'Peter Clarke' using my comments, you appear to grasp no concept for anything pertaining to the Metropolitan Police Service. You may well be an Administrator, but I can guarantee that you probably were elected so through Wikipedians electing you. One of my most favoured intellectuals once said, "a Prime Minister may be elected, but he can also be kicked out".—Preceding unsigned comment added by PoliceChief (talk • contribs)

Perhaps you could tell me what your problem is? If you are unhappy with one of my edits please outline your view and we will sort it. Please also take time out to read WP:CIVIL and stick to the editing issues rather than make personal characterisations. BTW I thought your contribution on the spelling/title of Peter Clarke was very helpful, which is why I amended related pages. TerriersFan 16:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blanking this page

Please do not blank this page while a discussion is ongoing since it makes it hard to follow the conversation and for other editors to contribute. Your interest in Wikipedia is appreciated, and I have added some links that you might find helpful in gaining an understanding of our policies. TerriersFan 16:27, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proceeding..

So because I have decided to comment on you, you have decided to deface my talk page?? You are not the only administrator, and I'm sure that you exercise your administerial powers often, particularly when approached about yourself and your actions. I proceeded to blank/clear my discussion page after due reading of the Wikipedia regulations that you so kindly placed a link to on your previous comment, I have read them and wish to bring up that they state 'do not reply', so I considered this and therefore consequently erased your comments. I would like no further interruptions/hindrance on this account. And I would also like to point out, did you 'lock the database for further editing', because I annoyed/aggrevated you with my prior comment?? Also, you are now starting to check back at my edit summaries, you may think you are very high and mighty with you elected administerial position, but you are just a person behind a computer, you do not get paid for your editing, you may get some generic "awards" for your services and time but it is not 'appreciated' when you think you can exercise the right to do whatever you want, as you think just because you've got this position, you will be keeping it..!!

Undoing the blanking of this page did not involve the use of any administrator tools; it was an action that any editor could have carried out. Unblanking is also not defacing - it is normal to leave talk pages to be developed, archiving them when they get too large. I did not 'lock the database for further editing' - this is a system message that you get when the server is rebooting, is overloaded or a server problem is being sorted. I have not 'checked back at your edit summaries' - again I am finding it hard to see the issue, Finally, I am neither annoyed nor aggrieved about your prior comment - I am still struggling to see which edit about which you were unhappy so that I can fix it. TerriersFan 16:47, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Your edit of numerous of my edits has aggrevated and annoyed me, seeing as you are of administritive privilidges, you may feel it is your right or "job" to edit articles of which you think are irrelevant or too long or digressing, I am of the opinion that you enjoy "editing", but for the sake of using up valuable wikipedia database space, I propose to reevaluate my opinions and wish to proceed with editing articles which I deem incorrect or misleading, so I am happy to back down from this tension.. and wish to put any unpleasantries behind me.

[edit] Diana, Princess of Wales

Hi. It's good that you have a contribution to make to this article, but please be very very careful to observe the Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policy. This page is a controversial one, and I wouldn't want to see your good contributions lost because of failure to word them carefully enough. This is not a warning, by the way, just a bit of friendly advice. Deb 19:01, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi. It's not the nature of your contributions that concerns me, more the wording. It's good that you've provided some citations, but I do think you are in danger of adding your own slant to things. For example, you say that blood analysis showed that the driver was intoxicated "whilst driving at immensely high speeds". Apart from the fact that blood analysis can't show how fast he was driving, the phrase "immensely high" is subjective. At what point does "high" become "immensely high"? Do you see what I mean? Deb 20:08, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I guessed what you meant to say. But it's a rule that we try not to include "non-NPOV" statements or comments in articles. Just be aware that, if you are not careful with wording, other people may not merely change what you've written, they may delete it altogether. Good luck with future contributions, anyhow. Deb 20:24, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Danny Wallace

Hi PoliceChief. Did you check the talk page before your recent move of the Danny Wallace article from "humorist" to "comedian"? This had already been discussed in talk and moved the other way. I think, therefore, that it would be appropriate to move it back again, since that was the (limited but no longer contested) consensus reached. I've not gone ahead and done this yet because I wanted to check your reasoning, but if it's just as you give in your move summary ("he's better known as ...") then essentially the discussion on the talk page begs to differ ;-) Please consider undoing your move. – Kieran T (talk) 09:36, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks very much indeed for your swift response. – Kieran T (talk) 15:23, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Christopher Geidt, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Excirial (Talk,Contribs) 00:49, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Privy Council

I agree that prefixes such as "The Right Honourable" should be allowed to be used. Unfortunately, however, Wikipedia policy forbids that. That policy has been argued several times and it appears that it will not be changing any time soon. It is also common practice that commoners do not use the post-nominals "PC."--Ibagli rnbs (Talk) 01:54, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sara Cox

Please see edit note--Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 22:24, 19 November 2007 (UTC) to my reversion of this article.

I see the problem. We may well get HIGNFY a week later in the West Country- you'll be aware we're a little behind here. I suggest we take out the date & leave it as "November 2007". --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 22:33, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
No tension. It's sorted. --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 22:37, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minor Edits

Thank you for your contribution to Titular ruler. Frankly, I can't believe that no one had noticed before the absence of a concrete example, and the article is much stronger as a result of your edit.

I did want to mention one thing, however. Your edit showed up in the history as a "minor edit". As such, I almost didn't look at it. But it clearly was not a minor edit. I am wondering if perhaps by marking it as a minor edit you intended to be self-effacing. I appreciate the attempt at modesty (and can use the example myself), but in actuality, the term minor edit has some pretty specific qualifications, which you can see here. This is in no way intended as a criticism of your edit. I just wanted to pass along something which took me a good long while to learn myself.

Keep up the good work! Unschool (talk) 22:01, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prime Ministers

We need to address the growing tide against the use of titles, legal titles, in infoboxes. --Counter-revolutionary (talk) 08:53, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] December 25

The page for December 25 said the following "Do NOT add videogames, videogame consoles, movie, TV or album releases, as they WILL be deleted." I would consider the queens christmas message being released on YouTube insignificant and related to a TV release. If you disagree restore it please tell me why. --Smallbig/Anonymous101 on Wikinews 20:19, 6 January 2008 (UTC)