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Is Mr. T's fear of flying real?

Hi Ron. You changed "Fear of flying" thusly. Does this really apply to "Mr. T" or to his character on the "A-Team" who is listed under "Fictional characters"? Cheers, Netizen 08:34, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the actor himself is afraid to fly and bought this fear to his charicter. I recall reading a TV Guide article back when the series was on that mentioned this and several Google hits mention this too. --Ron Ritzman 20:38, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your swift answer. Google let me down. Can you provide a link? Thanks, Netizen 10:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

It's briefly mentioned here.

Dehardwarization

Hi Ron, notice you replaced the prod here with a sources tag. Can't see how that addresses the neologism concerns outlined in the prod, or lack of cited sources. You are of course welcome to object to a prod for any reason but if you dont address the concern by "improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming or merging the page" it's always good practice to be a little more illuminating in your edit summary. Now at AfD. Cheers, Deizio talk 15:27, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

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IRC cloak request

I am Crimedog on freenode and I would like the cloak wikimedia/Ron-Ritzman. Thanks. --Ron Ritzman 00:59, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

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Changing non-US English to US English

With respect, Ron, please could you stop changing spelling to American English where it is not applicable? Many of your edits labelled "spelling" are spelling corrections, for example e.t.c., though many are not spelling "corrections", but rather changing from British, Australian, and other forms of Commonwealth English into American English. This is a good idea on US articles, such as this (and I have made such changes many times myself), but on articles where those spellings are more appropriate, for whatever reason, they should not be changed to US English without a good reason. The changes both I and the policy) are objecting to are these kinds: (aluminium -> aluminum) , and so on (I got bored :P).

Now, from looking through your other edits, and from one of your edit summaries, I am assuming that you are using the Firefox spell-checker, rather than you having some bizarre hatred of all people who aren't American. It's an easy mistake to make. I use Firefox myself, and have it set to British English, and it shows all American spellings as "errors". If so, please remember not to "correct" British English, or Australian English, or Canadian English, e.t.c, just because it appears wrong in your spell-checker. Read through WP:SPELLING, and take a little bit more time when spell-checking articles. Apart from that one minor niggle, the rest of your edits are great, we need more people fixing spelling errors. :) --Dreaded Walrus 11:28, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

It was Firefox and it was unintentional. I installed the "dictionary switcher" extension to avoid doing that in the future. What firefox needs is an expanded multivariant dictionary for websites like en-wiki that only tags words that are misspelled in any version of English. --Ron Ritzman 00:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. (sorry I took so long to respond to this, I must have missed it on my watchlist last edit. And apologies too if my message came across aggressively. :) ) --Dreaded Walrus 04:15, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

No problem. BTW check out my recent edit history. I've come up with what may be a bold solution to the us/uk/au/etc spelling issue.

Prod notices

I would suggest doing a quick search for sources on the subject of the article and then suggesting to the person concerned whether they want it prodded. Certainly, in the Henry case, the BBC source in the article suggested that he was notable so any proposed deletion should have gone through articles for deletion so you did well. It really is a judgement call on your part. Capitalistroadster 03:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)