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Thank you
is a good example of fair-mindedness - obviously, since you agreed with me :-) Actually, it really is. Guy (Help!) 22:28, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
- You're welcome! JoeSperrazza (talk) 22:30, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Makkah Conquest Edits
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Hi,
I've seen the edit history and you have reverted all my edits on the 'Conquest of Mecca' page. Can you elaborate? Occupation is more of a recent term for disputed territories (mostly). Besides, I visited this page back in 2013 (i saved it on my PC) and at that time, it was 'Conquest' and not 'Occupied'
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Wished we had more WP editors like YOU, deserving many barn-stars
Joe - This is to truly THANK YOU (see below). To get going after the recent turmoil, I have updated and submitted "neovandalism" project as final for review, assuming it will eventually be deleted, and happy to accept any outcome, and added the note: "This project was discussed heavily both now and 3 years ago. I agree it is a highly controversial topic and may be perceived with high level of sensitivity, and understand that it is high risk for deletion, and I am happy to accept the outcome trusting the judgement by balanced and fair editors such as C.Fred and JoeSperrazza. Thank you for the opportunity.". I am still working on the BO-diabetes project and have already revised it rather extensively and will try to prove its notability and exceptional significance in a few days and will submit. I wished more WP editors were like you, Joe and Fred, and thanks. S.Burntout123 (talk) 20:16, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
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Cited sources described as "unsourced"
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Hi, Joe. You reverted my edit to Julian calendar. I'm not sure what the problem is here. Do you dispute that the Catholic Church is wrong to claim that if the epact is 25 and the Sunday Letter is C then Easter falls on 25 April? See Computus#Tabular methods where it is clearly stated that on epact 25 the paschal full moon falls on 17 April. Somewhere in that article it will state that Easter falls on the Sunday following the date of the paschal full moon, and if the paschal full moon falls on a Sunday Easter is the Sunday after. So the latest Easter can fall is when the paschal full moon falls on a Sunday. If the paschal full moon is Sunday, 17 April Easter is 24 April. Epact 25 cannot produce a 25 April Easter. 156.61.250.250 (talk) 15:31, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
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Why do you think that my IP appears to be shared thus justifying that template of yours
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Title. 78.68.210.173 (talk) 21:25, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
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About WP:OWNTALK
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About what you said on User talk:Wowee Zowee public, yes, it's true that users can remove messages from their talk page, however WP:OWNTALK states
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A barnstar for you!
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| In appreciation of your vigilance and concern for the treatment of Wikipedia editors/users! Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:38, 14 March 2015 (UTC) |
Hi, JoeSperrazza. I truly appreciate your removal of the vitriolic personal attack on my own talk, but I don't delete comments there as I prefer to have them archived for future reference should there be an incidence in the future where it may be useful to retain instances of language usage, and any other tell-tale signs that the same user has returned (should there be need of an SPI, for example).
I am, however, very grateful for your concern and decency, and am more than happy for you to revert vandalism to my actual user page. Cheers for your considerate removal of the offensive comment. I'm sure that a lot of editors (particularly newcomers) would be happy to know that an experienced editor is looking out for them. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:41, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
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Firstly, I'd ask you to raise any copyright issues with me directly rather than forcing myself and other contributors to argue the merits of the track in various places. Flightradar24 says in their press section "Screenshots from Flightradar24.com or any of the Flightradar24 apps may be used for free by media if screenshots are attributed to Flightradar24. Websites publishing screenshots must link to Flightradar24.com." The use of GPS data is no different here than in Malaysia Airlines 370, which FlighRadar24 explicitly gives permission to use. AHeenen states "Since the location of the aircraft is a fact, not a creative work, and the map traced purports to show the path that Flight 370 traveled based on primary & secondary radar, the flight path is not subject to copyright" I'll add a similar copyright justification. Additionally, FlightAware, which I checked the flightradar24 data against in an unpublished graph, has a second set of GPS co-ordinates, and state "Accredited news outlets and members of the media may reproduce or redistribute FlightAware content... contingent that FlightAware is cited..." BEA permits their photos to be used copyright-free with attribution - the same will happen for charts when they have a full report. These images will be replaced when BEA puts out their final report. -- Aronzak (talk) 16:10, 27 March 2015 (UTC) Further to this, look at the stats for the number three story on ITN. I don't take kindly to placing tags on files seen by 166,000 people a day. I've killed the tag because the admin says he's happy for his file to be used, and spent an hour talking with a CNN journalist about it. There is no copyvio. In future, I must stress that you should understand that it is likely to be perceived as insulting if you add a tag to a file viewed by 166,000 people a day, in a way that is likely to be perceived as a false attack on the competence or intelligence of the person who produced it Please do not re-add the tag.-- Aronzak (talk) 18:11, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
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Close your AFD
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Joe, looks like there's a consensus to keep the image Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2015 March 27. c1cada, B, and Nyttend all support keeping the image. The image has evidence of the two it is based on, and there's evidence provided that the company wants information about major flight losses released to the media. If you have no further justification for the deletion tag please remove it. -- Aronzak (talk) 03:25, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages. Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. See also:
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Thank you !
hello, thank you very much for your kind message. Actually I'm not fluent in English (I'm French) and I will not be able to make many contributions. I did it only in very basic cases. Anyway I will try to do my best... with caution. thank you again, --Otto Didakt (talk) 19:57, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
- Otto, you are very welcome. If you need anything, please contact me. JoeSperrazza (talk) 20:56, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Happy Easter!
For a good of the cause
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that http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=1741703 29.06.2014 + http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/1085256/ next 17.07.2014 shotdown (after a month). Is elementary to simple question. Why Are? (for what purpose). The Government of Ukraine+not closed the sky Civil Aviation. good night. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.218.182.27 (talk) 16:58, 7 April 2015 (UTC) |
WWE 2K (Mobile Game) listed at Redirects for discussion
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect WWE 2K (Mobile Game). Since you had some involvement with the WWE 2K (Mobile Game) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. RichardOSmith (talk) 12:35, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
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New proposal
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pls see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Ban Chealer from Wikipedia altogether -- Moxy (talk) 16:13, 13 April 2015 (UTC) |
Craig Button
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Mr. Sperrazza, I had left you a message about my recent posting. And, yes I did notice it was removed and I re-entered it the second time (repost) because I didn't think I saved it properly. The second entry was in a different sub heading. Therefore, after all that I will not violate the policy of Wikipedia and I will not reattempt to post it again. My original message was to explain that my entries were accurate and that the claim that parts of a body were discovered and the fact that the MK-82 bombs were never found led me to the belief my evidence was appropriate and timely since the recent announcement to prolong the retirement of the A-10 Attack Jet program. I cannot produce a third party reliable source to the already stack of news coverage. I am the source. <name redacted> |
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I had to sign off shortly after so never got to ask, what was with this revert and the one that followed? Twice you restored inappropriate content, in what does not appear to be machine error. Please be more careful. Thank you — MusikAnimal talk 15:29, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
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Wiki labels edit quality campaign kickoff.
Hi JoeSperrazza! We're officially kicking off the Wikipedia:Labels campaign for edit quality. You should be able to load the interface by going to Wikipedia:Labels and clicking "Install the gadget". Once you've installed the gadget, the "Install the gadget" button will be replaced by the "campaigns" listing where you can request worksets from "Edit quality (20k random sample, 2015)". The software is still a little rough around the edges. We'll be on the look-out for your bug reports & feature requests throughout the week. I'll post progress reports on the campaign talk page. Thanks for your help and let me know if you have any questions. --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 05:52, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
AHLM13
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<elide>. If you have time go through the details I mentioned at Occultzone's talk page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:OccultZone#AHLM13 --C E (talk) 14:46, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
using abusive language "jahil ka bachcha" nonsensical comment with hatred using "Munafic" in edit history reverting user's own talk page unblock request calling me names after i pointed out his canvassing Anti-bangladeshi sentiment I didn't notice this before. ethnic comment on a sockpuppet C E (talk) 15:24, 9 May 2015 (UTC) User:CosmicEmperor, you need to stop to following and accusing me. Even other users told you to be calm.-- AHLM13 talk 16:15, 9 May 2015 (UTC) |
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The user is a nightmare to WP, but still got lots of supporters --- @Ravensfire: @Nafsadh: @AsceticRose:
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Detective Willy
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A beer for you!
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Counter attack
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What makes you think that counter attack is correctly concatenated to counterattack and not to counter-attack? See OED counter- prefix if you do not have access to the OED see counter-attack in oxforddictionaries.com -- PBS (talk) 21:44, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
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en dash
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Hi there, just want to let you know that changing a hyphen to an en-dash for a page number range (as you did in Caffeine) is unnecessary within a {{cite book}} reference, as that template automatically renders the page range with an en-dash. Tayste (edits) 00:06, 8 June 2015 (UTC) |
arabs
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Your bot keeps capitalizing the word "arabs" in contexts like Canis lupus arabs. Please fix! Many species are named "arabs". Chrisrus (talk) 17:33, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
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Persondata
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Hello. You're clearly not aware that WP:Persondata has been deprecated, so we shouldn't now be adding it to articles. The relevant RfC is HERE. And there's a request in to remove AWB's persondata-adding/updating functions, see Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Persondata deprecated. So when you're using AWB to clean up articles, please would you reject the addition of persondata. Thanks, Struway2 (talk) 07:05, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I didn't know about persondata being deprecated. I certainly won't add henceforth. I do wish AWB had been updated such that it would not be added, but I'll ensure not to do so henceforth. No need to mention blocks, however @Lugnuts: a cursory review of my work here should show I scrupulously follow the rules. (Is there a "please don't bite the old-timers" essay, somewhere?) Thanks again. JoeSperrazza (talk) 09:14, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
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some day I'll learn to spell
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Please retain this page Comment
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Hello Joe, We have been trying to improve the information on this page since the last month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditi_Staffing This page has been around for a long time, we will be adding relevant citations and secondary sources to this article as well. We understand wikipedia guidelines and will be doing our best to improve the quality of the article by conforming to its guidelines. Please extend the timestamp for this article so we could edit the page appropriately with a lot of due diligence. Zuhebsmbota (talk) 12:08, 16 June 2015 (UTC) |
style query: ten minute → ten-minute
Hi Joe,
Looking at your recent revision of the page Be-Bop Deluxe... I wasn't sure whether your talk page was the right place to post, but I've posted here because I think this is probably more an issue of style than of content.
Firstly, thanks for cleaning up some references I've put in, great improvement.
Secondly, I've a query about another change you've made in the same edit.
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Latest revision as of 00:25, 15 June 2015: ten minute → ten-minute, 40 year → 40-year
I don't understand why you've added in the hyphens - I don't believe they should be there. Please explain why you believe they're needed. I'd like to know your reasons.
(I'm not going to hit undo as that would lose the cleaning up of references you did, which is an improvement. But my gut feeling is, take these two hyphens out.)
Thanks,
Alterations (talk) 01:09, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the very nice note. See http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/hyphen, rule 4:
Rule 4. Hyphens are often used to tell the ages of people and things. A handy rule, whether writing about years, months, or any other period of time, is to use hyphens unless the period of time (years, months, weeks, days) is written in plural form
- This seems to apply to the examples given. These rules are just one of many documented at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos JoeSperrazza (talk) 01:35, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi again Joe, thanks for this.
I stand corrected; one lives and learns.
I subsequently spotted another 40 year you missed, in the discography; have now hyphenated that too.
Alterations (talk) 08:07, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
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Many thanks for reinserting James Lafferty's name in the Empire, Wisconsin article. I have to admit that I am getting burnt out trying to correct Packerfansam's articles. Again my thanks-RFD (talk) 12:26, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
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I'm fed up...
... with the whole pile of nonsense associated with editing here. Disruptive editors get treated very sensitively (I guess WP:AGF is a suicide pact), but trying to help gets you criticism. Why do I bother? JoeSperrazza (talk) 02:29, 21 June 2015 (UTC)







