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Civic Center, San Francisco article

How is a vendor setting up at the Civic Center relevant to its history and why is it notable enough to warrant mentioning at all in the article? To me, having this paragraph in the article smacks of advertising for the vendor and that's a definite no-no on WP. --sanfranman59 (talk) 02:15, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

And your unilateral removal of my writing smacks of facism. I left a longer note regarding your false charge on your talk page. --Br77rino (talk) 00:43, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Wow ... fascism?? ... Come on. We're both just trying to build an encyclopedia here, no? I apologize if I was heavy-handed. I should have given you some time to respond to my note before I removed your text about the vendor. It's definitely not my habit to jump on new editors' work. I think if you check my edit history and talk page, you'll see that I'm not one to indiscriminately remove others' work. In this case, since I thought there was a reasonable chance that the edit was made by the vendor himself, I decided to be bold and remove it. That type of thing happens all the time out here. I was evidently mistaken in this case. Again, my apologies. --sanfranman59 (talk) 00:54, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Global warming

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Complex numbers

I've just reverted two of your edits to this article as neither made sense. The first was mathematically incorrect, the second grammatically so. And there's no need to explain commutativity - that's what the wikilink is for (as most readers will know it). Please be more careful with your edits of mathematical articles: if you are at all unsure ask on the talk page first. --JohnBlackburne_deeds 22:04, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Commons question

Hi Br77ino, did you notice my reply to your question on commons ages ago? Smartse (talk) 21:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

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The recent edit you made to David Weigel constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to vandalize pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Alansohn (talk) 14:54, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

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That is the second time you've made that edit. Etheridge is still in office. Please don't add inaccurate information to Misplaced Pages, especially after it has been removed. Cresix (talk) 21:59, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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Blocked 12 hours

I've blocked your account for twelve hours due to this comment. I don't think there's anything that needs explaining. Don't do that if you want to stick around here.--Chaser (talk) 04:28, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you for trying to keep Misplaced Pages free of vandalism. However, one or more edits you labeled as vandalism, such as the edit at Tragedy of the commons, are not considered vandalism under Misplaced Pages policy. Misplaced Pages has a stricter definition of the word "vandalism" than common usage, and mislabeling edits as vandalism can discourage newer editors. Please read Misplaced Pages:NOTVAND for more information on what is and is not considered vandalism. Thank you. – S. Rich (talk) 00:36, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

I struggled with the wording, and was very hesitant to use "vandalism" but couldn't think of anything better at that moment. I thought of something better right after, but didn't know how to change my edit comment. I think I should have said "specious section removed." As you can see, the section had a "citation needed" on it, and for good reason. The section is more a thing of polemics than of facts. If you read that Misplaced Pages article, The Tragedy of the Commons, it is overlong to a great extent, and the reason is people keep adding sections that are comment-like in nature. They have disagreements with the idea, but that should not be in an article meant to explain the idea.Br77rino (talk) 00:56, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

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Preston Sturges

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GMT and summer time

According to Dennis McCarthy and P. Kenneth Seidelmann, in their 2009 book published by Wiley-VCH TIME—From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics page 17, "GMT can be used in the United Kingdom as the name for daylight saving time, so it is UTC plus one hour. So, since 1925 the use of GMT has had different meanings and its use can be very confusing. Thus, it is recommended that for any precise timekeeping, the name GMT should not be used." My experience is that outside the UK, GMT does not observe summer time. I will look for a reliable source to confirm GMT outside the UK does not observe summer time and edit the articles concerned accordingly. We should not claim in an article that GMT does, or does not, observe summer time, but rather point out the conflicting practices. Jc3s5h (talk) 11:10, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

A reliable source, the American Heritage Dictionary 3rd ed.

Greenwich time n. See universal time.

universal time n. Abbr. UT The mean solar time for the meridian at Greenwich, England, used as a basis for calculating time throughout most of the world. Also called Greenwich time.

So there is no support for the idea that GMT or Greenwich time ever observes daylight saving time in the United States. Jc3s5h (talk) 01:34, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

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possible error

Could you please check Talk:Coma Berenices. You were the one who seems to have added the information; if it is erroneous, please fix it. DGG ( talk ) 19:54, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

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