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prince frederic

I removed that prod, because of this history : Prince von Ahole. Thought it was a hoax but apparently is used by people. -Koppapa (talk) 07:44, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. The pejorative stuff was removed from the article in June 2011 by an admin. So, I'll go ahead and request deletion of the redirect that you've pointed to.Anythingyouwant (talk) 08:50, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Good work. Thanks. -Koppapa (talk) 13:25, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

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Done.Anythingyouwant (talk) 17:07, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Ben Carson, M.D.

So, just so I understand this? I cannot edit one thing on the Ben Carson page?

You're going to mass revert everything I do? All Carson's books are listed at the bottom in the "Publications" section (as they should be). Yet someone has chosen to place, in the center of the article, a "Publications and appearances" section, in which they redundantly name all his books. (Also, they erroneously say Helping Hands is a biography. They superfluously call Cuba Gooding, Jr. is "Academy Award winning Cuba Gooding, Jr.")

I can't edit this, is what you're saying? Because you're just going to push the mass revert button. And if I do edit and you push the button 3 times, you'll just lock me out? I just want to know, so I can determine whether I'm in wikipedia or conservapedia, to get my bearings.

Thanks--Petzl (talk) 00:00, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I didn't realize that the books were already listed. It would be great if you would say stuff like that in the edit summaries. I still don't understand why you want to remove all the stuff about evolution. Basically, please treat me (and others) like morons by explaining everything, and I will do the same for you. :-) I'm not sure where you get the idea that listing his books is conservative versus liberal. Anyway, let's let this rest for a day or two, so that we're not both in trouble for edit-warring. Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 00:32, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for corrections at Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Equal Protection Clause article

Hi. I appreciate your corrections of my recent edits at the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Equal Protection Clause article pages and your comments at the talk pages of this sites. It helped me to improve those article pages and my additions. Therefore I give thanks to You for helping me to improve myself. --P3Y229 (talk • contribs) 23:39, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for the barnstar. The other editors (and I) may have more to say. Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 00:08, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Wells Cathedral

If you want something like an explanation of "choir" inserted in the article, please leave a suggestion on the talk page. Your edit "that provides seating" is not a good explanation. The writer of the architectural part of the article happens to be online (that's me)

Please give me your queries on the talk page. I realise that you are being as helpful as possible, and have even cropped a photo, but that pic, inadequate as it is, does show the natural lighting of late afternoon, has a pretty sky and signifies that there is quite a good deal of building hidden behind those trees. Your very narrow crop lost that sense of a very big building partly screened.

The period is often omitted from St because the word Saint ends in a t. It is partly convention and isn't used on the Wells site. Also, if the church has a particular dedication, then that is the way thatit needs to be stated. The dedication in not to "St Andrew one of the Twelve Apostles".

Amandajm (talk) 05:24, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

More on the Wells Cathedral issue

I have copy/pasted this from Misplaced Pages:Ownership of articles for your benefit.

In many cases (but not all), single editors engaged in ownership conflicts are also primary contributors to the article, so keep in mind that such editors may be experts in their field or have a genuine interest in maintaining the quality of the article and preserving accuracy. An editor who appears to assume ownership of an article should be approached on the article's talk page with a descriptive header informing readers about the topic. Always avoid accusations, attacks, and speculations concerning the motivation of any editor. If the behaviour continues, the issue may require dispute resolution, but it is important to make a good attempt to communicate with the editor on the article talk page before proceeding to mediation, etc. Editors of this type often welcome discussion, so a simple exchange of ideas will usually solve the problem of ownership.

Such is the case in my relationship with the Wells Cathedral article. I have yet to come across another editor on Misplaced Pages who has a sufficiently in-depth knowledge of English Medieval architecture to contribute in the way I do. I have come across several editors, like yourself and Eric, who appear to think that brevity is better.

NOTE: What this copy/paste fails to say is that, since the primary editor may be "expert in their field", there is a fair chance that the incoming editor who is not expert in the field is more than likely to be the person who is misguided in believing that they know best.

I still have no idea why you decided to come over to that page and harass the principal editor of the architectural material, instead of taking up the matter with the person against whom there has been a complaint of bullying.

I have accepted the majority of Eric Corbett's changes and thanked him for them. Since the remaining matter is one of brevity rather than sense, I do not understand why on earth I (as the principal contributor) should be hounded by people claiming they want a resolution. Your aim was plainly not to resolve anything with the "wounded party", but to inform me that I was "wrong".

Moreover, I have read things that Eric Corbett has written/editted and have gone up for DYK, and some of it, even in a very brief article about to appear on the front page, is very badly and clumsily written with no continuity, and with long-winded sentences strung together with semicolons. He is a poor writer who fancies himself a competent one, and has fooled others into believing that he knows what he is doing.

I cannot help the fact that you continue to believe that his change in the direction of brevity is preferable to my somewhat more considered and nuanced expression. It simply signifies the limitation of your understanding of the topic.

I am writing this to let you know that I am still feeling the effects of harassment at midday Monday and I consider that both your manner and your editting were heavy-handed.

Amandajm (talk) 02:14, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

I may have offended you by siding with Corbett in a content dispute that you described in your ANI complaint against him, but I certainly did not harass you. In fact, I agree with you that he needs to work on civility. I am satisfied that you have addressed content concerns that I had at the article. Thanks for doing so, and have a nice day.Anythingyouwant (talk) 02:46, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Eratosthenes

Hello Anythingyouwant, I am a college student, and the article over Eratosthenes is my wikiarticle. I was wondering if you could maybe give me some pointers? It is a term "paper" and worth a huge portion of my grade. Maybe you could suggest them on my talk page? ToothFairyJenny (talk) 05:27, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Sure, I'll see you over at your talk page.Anythingyouwant (talk) 05:48, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

November 2013

Please do not attack other editors, as you did on User talk:Joefromrandb. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Bbb23 (talk) 23:51, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

I took it to your talk page.Anythingyouwant (talk) 23:57, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Re: Sound list

Hello, that's alright. Yes, they most certainly do! I'm going to try to create a header page for all the sound lists, so the initial text of all of them Is in one place. I've just found several tweaks that need to be done along the way. Graham87 03:52, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

OK, done, at Misplaced Pages:Sound/List/Header. Your table tweaks seem like a good idea. Not sure if we should put the table headings in the header template, though. Graham87 04:02, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

The header template uses the magic word {{SUBPAGENAME}} to customize the header text. By the time I'd gotten your message, I'd already dealt with most of the files, so I'll just continue now. The search index takes a while to update. Graham87 04:18, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Sounds great! Graham87 07:44, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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2A

I know we've been at odds at times, but I just wanted to say that I think you're doing a great job with your recent edits on the 2nd Amendment article. They seem to be decreasing its complexity and increasing its readability. Nicely done... :) --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 23:15, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

Nice string of practical edits on the 2A article. Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 23:16, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Apology for misuse of "minor" flag on edit

Edit warring is bad. Lying about it by marking it as "minor" is worse. Don't lie or I will report you. Got it? MilesMoney (talk) 18:10, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Miles I'm in my car driving speaking into my iPhone thank you for your message. it was minor in the sense that collect I believe has just commented at the article talk page pointing out the ongoing RFC you know very well there's an ongoing RFC you habitually fail to provide edit summaries so perhaps we have both room for improvement cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 18:13, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

If you're in your car and can't edit properly, don't edit. You are responsible for what you do.

Read WP:MINOR. You violated it, effectively implying that you were reverting vandalism. In other words, you implied that I'm a vandal. That's a personal attack on top of everything else. MilesMoney (talk) 18:15, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

I have already apologized, in contrast to your lack of apology for habitually nonexistent edit summaries (and incessant disregard for policy). How many apologies would you like, Miles? I am pulling back into the road now. Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 18:18, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

I do habitually use edit summaries when making article edits, though not on talk page edits. For the talk page, I talk. MilesMoney (talk) 18:58, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Per WP:Talk page guidelines, "In the past, it was standard practice to 'summarize' talk page comments, but this practice has fallen out of use." I did not know it had fallen out of use. So you have a good point. Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 19:55, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Some people still do it, although it seems to be more a matter of making it easier for themselves to find their own comments later. I sometimes do it to explain why I'm making a change, such as when I have to edit someone else's words to fix formatting or whatever. But, yeah, I think it fell out of use long before I started editing.

Let's drop this matter and consider it closed. MilesMoney (talk) 20:00, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

ANI on Andy

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Merge, Political arguments of gun politics in the United States

Hey Any, I'm happy to help out with the Merge since there's so much content to wade through. Are you setting up a Sand Box page or something similar? Thanks, --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 07:22, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

I wanted to do the merge, but am not currently getting ready to edit the merged material. Feel free to do so, if you'd like, per all of the pertinent Misplaced Pages policies.Anythingyouwant (talk) 07:27, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

I took a quick look, so its basically a "cut and paste" right now? --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 07:49, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, except that I will work on the security against invasion subsection right now.Anythingyouwant (talk) 07:50, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Lead

I like the new version, please see my comments on the Talk page. --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 23:49, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks.Anythingyouwant (talk) 00:27, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Reply (spi)

Regarding this, I figured I'd reply here, instead of cluttering that already cluttered SPI. In response to whether anybody asked him about being a sock, the answer is yes, a few people did, myself included. Here are diffs of Roccodrift not responding to the questions: . Assuming for sake of argument that MilesMoney was a sock, the reason MM wasn't blocked as a duck is because the evidence wasn't good enough. Put simply, Miles was more clever and at least initially less disruptive, while Rocco left all kind of tracks. It's always tricky with the block-evaders/fresh-starters because they want to edit and you want to let them edit, but when they fall back into their bad editing habits, there's a balance between treating them as a new user and giving them the benefit of the doubt, or cutting through the disruption, edit wars, and interminable ANI threads with an early block. ~Adjwilley (talk) 23:31, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Well I guess when Misplaced Pages gets a computer with artificial intelligence that can improve its own software (and hardware), then we can all sit back and relax and let the computers run everything. In the mean time, please excuse a little paranoia on my part (paranoia nurtured by experience, by the way). I will still be curious for Roccidrift's reply to my question, and I'm not so sure that he's more of a duck than MM was. Why do an SPI investigation if he's going to be banned regardless?Anythingyouwant (talk) 23:40, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Wells

Thanks for your edits and your support. I am going to put the other images into galleries. It's a lot of stuffing around to size them correctly. I'm in the antipodes, and do need to sleep sometimes, so I didn't finish the job. Amandajm (talk) 23:29, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Sure, take your time.Anythingyouwant (talk) 23:45, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

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I am sitting here...

...10,000 miles from anywhere, wondering how people can make themselves so unpleasant, and why others jump in so readily to defend what is so patently indefensible!

There, that is my whinge, and I will now go and see if the dinner is burning!

and by the way, you are a pleasure to work with..... Amandajm (talk) 07:11, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

I got there just in time and it is delicious.

We have a Bulgarian national who has assured the editors on the Middle Ages page that the Bulgarian Empires (I and II) were highly significant, but largely ignored in Western European histories, since a book was written by a Brit back in 1930. One glance at the map and some knowledge of the rural wealth of the Danube Plain is enough to convince anyone (well, me anyway) that this needs to be taken seriously and that what the person really needs is help with his language. Oh Dear!

I have been to the Danube Plain in Romania. They still employ medieval strip farming techniques, and in the cities, the milk comes along the street on the hoof, and is delivered, frothing, straight into your milk jug. The cows are tethered with a rope. While they graze by the roadside, the rope is tied around the horns but while they are walking along the street from house to house, the rope is tied around the muzzle so that they are not tempted to stop. It is like stepping back in time. Amandajm (talk) 07:28, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, but I haven't got time to get involved right now with the Middle Ages article. Good luck with it. Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 08:28, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Of course you haven't.

Meanwhile, dinner was delicious. I notice you linked "the Crown" to the List of British Monarchs. I agree it needs linking. I wonder if there is a better option. I'll search around. Rod would probably know what would be best. Amandajm (talk) 09:06, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

I am just a little concerned about the introduction to your user page.

Since I am frequently regarded as either "a pompous ass or a raving lunatic" or both simultaneously, you have done awfully well putting up with me. Thank you for your patience! Amandajm (talk) 00:24, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

No worries. It's okay to be pompous and to rave, as long as you are not also an ass or a lunatic respectively.  :-) Anythingyouwant (talk) 00:41, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

OK! I've just been controlled/pompous and now I'm raving lunatic. Need coffee!

1175 through whatever.... that is very American! Do you think the Brits will leave it alone?

Amandajm (talk) 08:27, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

It's not only more concise and less suggestive of uncertainty, but is also a clever double- entendre, given that construction was "through" (finished) at the second date. If Brits object, it would only indicate unsophistication.Anythingyouwant (talk) 16:27, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

	The St Michael's and All Angels' Gong
	for contributions to articles about churches. Thanks for your help! Amandajm (talk) 08:37, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks.Anythingyouwant (talk) 16:30, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

arb resp

Id strike the "conspiracy" comment, i dont read any accusation of that in LBs evidence, and the committee already is on edge for some of the comments in the case. Gaijin42 (talk) 16:24, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

I revised, rephrased, expanded and re-signed my comment to ArbCom. Thanks for the advice. Anythingyouwant (talk) 16:36, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

move from drmies

To avoid cluttering his page.

Not sure what you mean vs US reports? Gaijin42 (talk) 01:31, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

As you know, the US Reports are the collected opinions of SCOTUS. Everyone agrees that the US Constitution takes precedence over state statutes, state constitutions, state judicial decisions, federal regulations, federal agency decisions, treaties, and federal statutes. But does the US Constitution take precedence over the collected opinions of the US Supreme Court?

Lincoln addressed this in his first inaugural address, and said that technically a SCOTUS opinion is only binding upon the parties to the case. Congress proceeded to ban slavery on federal territory, in defiance of Dred Scott.Anythingyouwant (talk) 01:36, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

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