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Just figured out how to reply on here and wanted to thank you for the edit you did some time ago on the Alan Dufty article. Alan is a friend of mine and he did not know or could not remember all the dates and competitions that you skillfully collected. He was impressed and is happy so that makes two of us. Thank you again and all the best. Analytical Historian. Analytical Historian (talk) 09:47, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Graham,
I know that some Page Managers have a problem with me putting links to a rare disease online community as an external link on a rare disease Misplaced Pages page. But so far it has been about 5% of all links I have added that express a problem. So your interpretation of the Misplaced Pages Policy is just your opinion. And since you have a lot more experience on Misplaced Pages, I respect your opinion and many contributions, but disagree here. When a family is diagnosed with a rare disease, the first thing they do is go to Google. A lot of times, the limited Misplaced Pages article on the disease appears as a top result. While reading through that article, I want to add a link to the communities to let people know there are other patients they can connect with. Many times that thought does not even cross their mind. They read medical information above their comprehension and get depressed and never find others. So that's why I add a link to the communities. If it gets me banned, I'm okay with that. Thanks for reading. Final note: I work for a charity, all of these community links I add do not make us any money or give information to 3rd parties. They are just for international rare disease patient conversations. Do you know how hard it is to find someone else to ask questions when you have a rare disease?
Rob — Preceding unsigned comment added by RobP46 (talk • contribs) 08:52, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Onslow compared to Schubert
As you recommended, I compared George Onslow to Franz Schubert. Both are known by a shorter name than the birth name. In Schubert's case, there's a middle name, fine, I understand. In Onslow's case, there's a preceding name in straight brackets and a middle name without brackets. I don't recall any article starting with a straight bracket and find it irritating, also don't understand why one of the extra names is in such brackets but not the other. The article is under expansion, and I trust that there will be more of a lead eventually, explaining, right, Smerus? Then I will look again. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:14, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
@Gerda Arendt:. I agree the lead needs expanding. As regards the name, I presented it as it is in Grove - it implies, as I understand it, that the 'André' was never used. But if this is confusing, delete the square brackets by all means. Best, --Smerus (talk) 16:24, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Now compare Gwyneth Jones and see why I think McCartney is "wrong": an honorifix prefix or suffix such as "Sir", "Lady", "Dr." is not part of the "name" as defined as an infobox parameter, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:07, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for the trouble. Thanks for the info and fixing the link. I will endeavour to do the 'right thing' next time (and I'll read up on proper practice in the meantime). Isedev (talk) 15:06, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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I deeply and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that I caused you. It was entirely my fault. I intended to revert to your revision, not over your revision. It has never happened before and I assure you, I will do my best to make sure it never ever happens again.
I hope you'll find the current state of affairs to your liking.
I noticed that the FOXP1 page was edited a few weeks ago to remove a link to an external support group that I helped set up. This group, hosted by RareConnect, has been very successful at helping bring families together that are dealing with FOXP1 mutations. The link from Misplaced Pages has been instrumental in driving this, and I'd love to restore the link. I understand there's a policy about external links - can you help me understand how to revise the link to our group so that it conforms to the policy and can stay on the wikipedia page? For now, I'm just going to suggest an "undo" to the edit, but I recognize that this is not a real solution.
Thanks for your help
Karl
01:29, 29 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karlitoes99 (talk • contribs)
I'm Graham Pearce from Perth, Western Australia, now living in Busselton, about 220 kilometres (140 mi) south-west of Perth. I'm interested in music – mostly classical music, number theory and the history and geography of Western Australia. I'm totally blind, and have been so since birth, due to retinopathy of prematurity. I use the screen readerJAWS, with a speech synthesiser, to access the Internet. Most of my contributions to Misplaced Pages are copyediting and article cleanups, but I also make more substantial edits. I've written a timeline of my activities on this site.
My page history work
I enjoy checking through old history entries in Misplaced Pages and fixing cut-and-paste moves where needed, also known as history-merging (see the paragraph below for how I can do this as a non-admin). I've noted some observations about page-history anomalies at User:Graham87/Page history observations, and I've written some notes about getting information out of old database dumps at User:Graham87/SHA-1. I also enjoy importing old edits from the Nostalgia Misplaced Pages and other old database dumps; I've written some notes about the procedure I use at User:Graham87/Import.
I became an administrator in 2007, started the discussion that enabled transwiki imports on this site in 2009 (with old Misplaced Pages history, rather than other language versions of Misplaced Pages, in mind), became an importer in 2013 (with the ability to import text from any MediaWiki database), and lost my adminship in 2024 due to over-aggressive blocking. After losing my adminship, I was still able to do database imports of all types because I kept my importer user right and the use of the history merge special page was added to it shortly afterwards. As of the time of writing this (27 November 2024), there is only one other importer on this site (who is an admin among other things), so I am the only non-admin without global userrights who can do history merges here.
Articles I've started or expanded
I especially enjoy it when other people make constructive edits related to these articles. The articles are listed chronologically:
special:contributions/217.168.172.202, over 5,000 contributions between June and October 2002, all the while getting only 1 message addressed to them – haven't times changed?
I hereby award this Minor Barnstar to Graham87. Minor edits are often-overlooked, but essential, contributions to the Misplaced Pages. This Minor Barnstar is awarded for making many minor edits of the utmost quality. (KC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
I thank you very much for your tremendous help wikilinking and correcting my Trivia page. That must have taken you a long time to do, and I'm glad you helped me so much. I hope you liked it a lot! For this I award Graham87 this kindness barnstar. Reywas92Sigs21:57, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
For all your help and patience over the past few months, I am delighted to award you this barnstar :-) John Sloan (talk) 07:51, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
For this. Wow; who knows how long the issue would have been debated if you hadn't pointed out something obvious that everyone else apparently missed. Nice work! Artichoker02:24, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Home-Made Barnstar
For being there at the right time to restore old revisions of the article Apple.
You have been awarded the Sewer Cover Barnstar because you can read through anything. You don’t know the meaning of attention deficit disorder, laugh in the face of boredom, and are wasting your talents if you don’t become a patent examiner.
The Invisible Barnstar is awarded to users who make significant and helpful contributions to the project, but have kept to the background without seeking recognition or reward for their work.
This Barnstar is awarded to Graham, for going the extra mile to help other editors in need. Helping the project be better and grow. Thank you so much Graham. I really appreciate your fine efforts, you are a great admin! Ikip (talk) 02:50, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
A kitten for you! For all your editing work on my DYKs! :D Trust me, the kitten is cute. Everyone loves cute kittens as a reward for doing good work. and yes, you do good stuff. :D
Thank you for helping me to English my Germanic wording, to make me create articles instead of interwiki-links, and for moving articles sensibly. I award you a Yogo sapphire, sparkling and rare, on the day when the other Graham's string quartet Chinese Whispers (new article today) receives a prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:39, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello Graham87, Eduemoni has given you a shinning smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shinning Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy!
Thanks for your support and help with the Joan Armatrading articles! Still a lot to do, new ones and expansion of existing ones - but getting there. Really appreciate the help with all the editing. Gold star from me too! J.12:50, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
I just wanted to say thank you for welcoming me to Misplaced Pages even when I had joined 3 years before your message! Your tips have helped me proudly call reverting vandalism on Misplaced Pages one of my interests in a school presentation. I owe you but I don't know how, so this barnstar will do for now. Thanks for being such a great admin! K6ka (talk) 02:18, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
We haven't worked together much, but I saw someone on IRC describe you as "a general ray of sunshine", so you obviously deserve this. Thanks. EpochFail (talk • contribs) 16:22, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
The Emperor of Import
You were, are and would remain the Emperor of Import. The import tool seems to have been made purely for you. Thank you for making use of the tool to contribute magnificently to Misplaced Pages, to such an extent that more than 95% of usage of the tool since it was made, is credited to you! Wifione18:08, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
At a loss for words after reading about your condition on your userpage, and yet how that doesn't hinder you from doing what all others do. You really are a special person :) Although I still may not be able to entirely comprehend how that works, it really is motivational. Keep up the good work. Mar4d (talk) 11:55, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
The Accessibility Barnstar
I had to make sure that this new barnstar went to the one Wikipedian who most deserves it. Thank you for all your cheerful help and support. --RexxS (talk) 23:47, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar
Thanks for the advice on my talk page and the other helpful resources. I'm new here and I am learning about the basics of creating wiki's in general. So thanks and good luck! Svoboman (talk) 17:43, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
This is rather belated, but in looking over the process of getting Miriam Makeba to FA-status, I am struck by the enormous amount of work you did with respect to grammar, sourcing, and accessibility. Many thanks. Vanamonde (talk) 12:11, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, Graham87 for your infusion of civility into the discussion. Appreciated! It's the kind of thing sorely lacking as of late, especially from some of the old-timers that should know better. It's what Misplaced Pages needs more of these days. GenQuest20:00, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
For showing that, no matter what kind of disability one may have, they can always improve Misplaced Pages. While I may never understand what it's like to be blind (in the sense that not even glasses can help), from what I do understand it makes Misplaced Pages a bit more difficult, and yet you still manage to pull through. Keep up the good work. ― Blaze WolfBlaze Wolf#654505:02, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
🎶 Thank you! 🎶
Your support and participation were instrumental to the Wikimedia Sound Logo contest. Thank you for playing a major role in the global call for the Sound of all Human Knowledge!
Hi Graham87, I wanted to award you this barnstar for your excellent efforts dealing with the less obvious vandals, such as that Guatemala date-changing vandal. You even reverted edits that became superseded by later edits from other editors. All this while you have a vision impairment - awesome! — AP 499D25(talk)07:31, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
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. I saw that you made a reversion to vandalism , but the rollback went to a revision that also had vandalism. I went ahead and rolled everything back to a good revision for you :-) Cheers! ~Oshwah~03:04, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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