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Now that's a welcome page, had to steal it myself. Thanks Bishzilla! Franamax 02:00, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

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New Section

I am New Sectioning you - and hoping you are well with the season. I enjoyed our Ghadaffi discussion, and the article was improved. xx Wizzy…☎ 21:40, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Battery Clocks

Couldn't agree more about the cruelty of 'battery clocks'. I don't like the idea of having them tied to the wall by a cable either.
Free range clocks I say! --220.101.28.25 (talk) 04:31, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Not only that, I've read on some blogs that those cables are used to deliver ELECTRIC SHOCKS! Franamax (talk) 04:40, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Aha! That explains why those funny cylindrical clock eggs are always so hard, they've been internally hard boiled!. They taste awful anyway!--220.101.28.25 (talk) 17:30, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm torn between responding that I always found those eggs too hard to peel or "Eat them? I thought they were suppositories!!". Franamax (talk) 20:44, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Southern ocean

Thanks for your involvement - it is appreciated - it seems the talk page of the article has been long a place for some very odd opinions to be voiced - at least catz and bazonka seem to be working it out - and yes being an Australian I can see why and how you outsiders might wonder :) SatuSuro 11:37, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

IP 65.25.179.39

You done real good. IP appears to be single-handely trying to create an entertainment background for Vanessa Bell-Gentles, and to a lessor extent, Curtis Blake. Considering the "insistance" of the vandalism, it might continue after the block expires. Worth watching. Schmidt, 23:22, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Have performed more cleanup. For Ms Bell-Gentles, if she even exists, the IP seemed to include "Anaclair" as part of her character name in dozens of projects. I think I got 'em all. Schmidt, 23:52, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the work. The block expires 19:12 14Jan10 UTC. Any further edits of this kind should be met with one request for explanation and if the edits happen again beyond reasonable time after the time of your warning (the second edit after the warning if in close proximity) - request a further block please, AIV, ANI or here. Again, thanks! Franamax (talk) 05:25, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

WP:Related information

I think I have now responded to all the objections (even the silly ones). I would appreciate you taking a look at it with a fresh eye and changing whatever you believe should be changed to make the essay more effective. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 04:07, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Your recent edits on Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith

Dear user Franamax, Thank you for reviewing the Lachnith page created by me. I do concur with some of your edits, but not with all of them. I stated my case on the Lachnith talk page. Cheers! Thomas W. Jefferson (talk) 21:42, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

RFC/U

Hi Franamax. All to angst has become moot since Michael H 34 has returned to editing. I have posted the RFC/U here , in case you care to comment.--Slp1 (talk) 15:59, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

National Ignition Facility

I would like to further discuss the deletion of what I know to be untrue material that is considered to be confidential. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bsure (talk • contribs) 20:04, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Added heading, replied at article talk page. Franamax (talk) 07:17, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Feedback requested

Hi. :) I'm working on the Craigy144 cleanup, and I need opinions on whether or not the paraphrasing at Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset rises to the level of copyright concern (no doubt it's plagiarism, but as you know copyvio requires different and somewhat more aggressive treatment). Would you mind taking a look? I'm also asking User:Tagishsimon and User:Charles Matthews their thoughts. Some of mine are at that article's talk page. --Moonriddengirl 18:33, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Fitznells Manor

Thanks for the help with this. Would using gallery tags for the diagrams work better than the existing code? I haven't tried it, but it would make the diagrams a little bigger and easier to see. BTW I have nominated this for a DYK, see Template talk:Did you know#Fitznells Manor. – ukexpat (talk) 22:13, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

ANI

Let me know what you find out from that user about that weird edit on ANI. I'm starting to think that these two are just trolling and aren't actually here to be productive. See User talk:Neptunerover for more insight on these two. Frmatt (talk) 23:07, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't see a connection. Beyond looks productive, though quite possibly a fresh-start or maybe an incredibly quick learner. For instance they wikilinked the "illegitimati non carborundum" phrase, then evidently looked at the article and went on an edit-spree to fix it up. That's what I do too, link an article to answer a question, then read the article, fix some typos, then find the big problems and start working on them too. Looks pretty standard to me and their advice to Neptune is good. The gibberish thing, yeah needs to be fixed. Is there a further connection between these account edits I'm not seeing? Franamax (talk) 00:28, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm kinda going back and forth (in my own mind) about whether they're working together with Beyond enabling Neptune, but then Beyond goes and makes a productive comment that makes everything I've thought redundant...don't worry about it, I was concerned because of the weird edit but I'm going to AGF and mark it as a computer glitch of some type! I'm not seeing much of a connection either, was just the talk page interaction that made me wonder, so no biggie. (but I am still curious about that weird edit if you find anything out!) Frmatt (talk) 00:44, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Well if it's just the latest bit, no, not a problem. I tried to interact with Neptune in a positive way, he mentioned a phrase from a U2 album which I'm quite familiar with, I tracked it down within all of 5 minutes and poked Neptune because he could have spent those 5 mins instead of me. Editing tends to occur in flurries on Misplaced Pages, Beyond pointed out the origin of the phrase (which ranks up there with "semper ubi sub ubi" as a not-really-Latin phrase) and seems to be the origin of the U2 lyrics. Sometimes you can reach an editor by being light-hearted, sometimes not. Sometimes you can reach an editor by demonstrating that the soul of Misplaced Pages is sources, sometimes not. IMO it's always worth a try to reach out and include people in the group, so long as they accept what it means to work within a group. 'Tis all good from what I see. If the ANI edit was vandalism, man that was pretty painstaking vandalism!! It was much more likely incompatibility between character sets on the browser, a burp in the transmission, perhaps cosmic rays, several million of which have passed through my CPU since I started typing this. No big issue, though I've asked Beyond to keep track of garbly edit results for future resolution. Franamax (talk) 01:09, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

pardon me

Well excuse me if I didn't curtsy before the Queen. She was begging the question. There's a very intricate web here of people practicing to deceive. --Neptunerover (talk) 17:01, 2 February 2010 (UTC)