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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Athaenara (talk | contribs) at 09:36, 14 April 2007 (→Article talk page archiving: Replied here to keep the discussion in one location - thanks for replying so quickly! Go ahead & reply here, your talk page is on my watchlist for this.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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Signature

Much better. --Nehrams2020 20:40, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

FYI

Manoeuvring is not a spelling mistake. It is the correct way to spell the word in British English Jooler 19:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

• Please read Misplaced Pages:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English. Enforced homegenisation by majority (a debatable majority at that as most of the readers of Misplaced Pages are probably not native English speakers anyway) is not a tenet of Misplaced Pages policy. Jooler 22:34, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Apology

Don't worry about it - I can understand your frustration :). Good luck - Martinp23 17:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

GA review

The reason that I listed all of the suggestions that should be fixed on the article is because I was reviewing the article. If I was not going to review the article, I could consider making all of the changes myself, and let some other user review the article. One of the criteria for a GA reviewer is that he/she not have made any significant changes to the article, because otherwise the reviewer could be biased in passing/failing in article that the reviewer had involvement in. For example, if you look at the GAC page, you'll see: "You cannot choose an article if you have made significant contributions to it." Or if you go to any of the talk pages for the GA nominations, the GA banner will say: "If you have not contributed significantly to this article, feel free to evaluate it according to the good article criteria and then pass or fail the article as outlined on the candidates page." Besides, by listing the suggestions, the nominator can continue to improve his/her writing abilities for Misplaced Pages, or better understand what requirements that need to be met for future GA nominations. Let me know if this answers your question. --Nehrams2020 00:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been Approved for Trial. Please see the request page for details. --kingboyk 01:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Article talk page archiving

In re "What was the reasoning for deleting the discussion?" in your 07:35 (UTC) edit summary:

• Nothing was deleted: some older sections were archived.

Talk:Christopher Michael Langan had reached 279 kilobytes. Archive 1 was already 131 kilobytes. I opened Archive 2 for this purpose:

"It is customary on Misplaced Pages to periodically archive old discussions on a talk page when it becomes too large. Bulky talk pages are difficult to navigate and usually contain obsolete discussion. Additionally, large talk pages are a burden for users with slow Internet connections. If possible it is better to archive talk pages during a lull in the discussion, as it is best to avoid archiving in the midst of an active discussion so that the full context of the discussion is together." — Misplaced Pages:How to archive a talk page.

There had been no posts in the past three weeks in any of the sections archived.

The main talk page had been reduced to 143 kilobytes before you brought it back up to 231 kilobytes. — Athænara ✉ 08:10, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to undo your archiving. I skipped over the archive box on the side. Would it not maybe be better to center the box underneath the WPBiography box to make it stand out a bit more? Just a thought. --D 09:06, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

I agree with you about the boxes—they're often a formatting problem when they start to stack up like that. I didn't put those there, but they can be moved around. (See Talk:Albert Einstein for an even worse situation.)

Now that you know the inactive sections are intact in Archive 2, is it okay with you if I remove their redundant copies from the main talk page? — Athænara ✉ 09:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)