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Welcome from me too. If wondering what else your USER page can do, try adding a "ToDo" list and your quicklinks near the top so you can reach them in one click from elsewhere in the English WP. Enjoy! Robin Patterson 01:12, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Lapine

I see you've been busy. Told you it was addictive. ;3

Anyway, I've, er, finally gotten round to editing the Lapine article. It reads more like an encyclopaedia article now, although admittedly it doesn't look as impressive. :3 Spottedowl 21:13, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Heh, yes indeed. There's so much to do just on cricket that that alone could keep me occupied forever! And of course, this is one place where my little spelling nit-picks are (so long as I'm aware of Americanisms and so on) a good thing! =;)

As for the Lapine entry, I think it's considerably better now, though maybe just a little bit too short. I also think saying that Mr Adams' Lapine has "a hundred or so words" is rather an overestimate - even including personal names, I'd be surprised if it were more than half that. I'll not change that for now, though, at least until I've had a good rummage through the book. Loganberry 16:53, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comment on Medicare in Canada Page and Question on how to approach politically hot issues

Hi, i guess first i'll just cut and past my response to what you put on the talk page:

I'm aware that the P3 (or Foundation Hospitals) are not all that cut and dried in the UK but i read a fair amount of British Press. I'm still not sure how you put forth the way things are controversial on the Wiki without getting into POV arguments (as to the above...i didn't write it and i guess no one has gone after the Gremilin that added it yet)[i'm putting this on the talk page as well of Loganberry as well].

I'm curious about how you would go after discussing the issues that are politically contentious such as the P3. If you look at my page you'll see i'm very aware of politics but i still have yet to figure out generally how to get it dealt with best on wikik pages...although i'm getting better at it. Any good suggestions would be welcome :-)--Marcie 00:11, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Well, I've explained my specific concerns as to the Medicare in Canada article on its own Talk page. As to the more general point, I ought to make it clear that I've not been on Wikipedia all that long myself, so am still finding my way to some extent. But I think the point is that this is an encyclopaedia, rather than a newspaper editorial column, so opinions should be confined to cases where they are strictly relevant and made by a named and verifiable source - for example, if a prominent politician had said, "This follows the usual story arc of socialism" in a widely-reported speech on the subject, it would be perfectly fine to say so, but as much as possible we the editors should keep our own opinions and prejudices to ourselves (or Talk pages!). Loganberry 01:53, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

If an article is substantially anonymously created, then chances are it will never be terribly useful for multi-licensing. That isn't to stop someone from the difficult process of manually removing the incompatible edits. I'm not trying to get all articles available, just as many as possible, because I have to be realistic. Often in practice anonymous users tend to make somewhat minor edits. For those times when they don't, we'll just have to live with it! FWIW, I'm not a lawyer. – Ram-Man ^{(comment) (talk)}[[]] 13:36, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket

I see you're a fellow cricket-lover (even though you are misguided looking at Kent and Worcestershire - Surrey's a much better county to follow!) I thought I'd invite you to Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket, a corner of Wikipedia where cricket-loving Wikipedians can chat about what they're doing on cricket articles, etc. jguk 23:45, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Well... you've very nearly blown your chances by going on about Surrey, but if only I can get the time I'll certainly think about it. (Oh, and I only follow Worcs; Kent comes above it only on alphabetical order!) Loganberry 03:58, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hi

I've seen your very useful contributions to some of WP's cricket articles, just wondered whether you'd be interested in signing up on Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket. It's the place where WPians who edit Cricket sometimes highlight their work or seek advice on how to develop WP's cricket-related pages. You'd be more than welcome. Kind regards, jguk 07:21, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

By all means, yes. Actually I meant to do that a while ago, but never got around to it, so thanks for the nudge. Loganberry 14:33, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi Loganberry, nice to have you in the Cricket WikiProject! I thought you might be interested in this. I have made a proposal to create a WikiReader for cricket. Perhaps you could comment at User:Smoddy/WikiReader Cricket on my suggested content. Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 16:24, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Actually User:Smoddy/Cricket_WikiReader =;) I need to brush up a bit on how Wikireaders work, but my initial reaction is that it looks a nice idea. Loganberry 23:36, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Martin Rosen

I have deleted the redirect from Martin Rosen to Moishe Rosen. Someone originally wrote that article under Martin Rosen's name (his birth name, not the name he is known by now), and I moved it to the name that he now uses. That created a redirect. Seeing you want to write an article under that name, I've nuked the redirect. It's all yours now. :=) David Cannon 06:20, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. After a bit of thought, and looking at the "What links here" on Martin Rosen, I've decided to move the director's page to Martin Rosen (director) and set up a disambiguation page on the plain "Martin Rosen" article, since it seems to me that the director will be much better known in some circles, and Moishe Rosen in others. Loganberry 13:49, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Whinges

Ah, sorry about that. I have never seen that spelling before. ✏ OvenFresh² 15:10, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

UK Police

That was my fault, I didn't even realise I'd done it until you corrected it there. Cheers. I'm going to edit in the more specific Leicestershire Constabulary just for info's sake. Sockatume 19:53, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

MCC

Nitpicking, but it looks like MCC's last tour was to Australia, which happened a few months after the one to India [1]. Waiting for you ack before modifying it.

You're right; I probably missed that as there was only one match (WA v MCC) that was played on the tour other than the Centenary Test, which of course was England. Go ahead and change it; thank you for spotting that. Loganberry (Talk) 13:01, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Test match

At the time I did that I did not look at all of the links. I was in the process of changing the redirects to test cricket. I'll stop doing that since it appears that there was some discussion on that. Do you want me to switch the redirect and the disambig back? Vegaswikian 18:41, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I'll continue to remove the redirects. It does no harm and can help new pages get created without needing a redirect at all. The DAB move could then be left along. Vegaswikian 19:30, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you; most useful and appreciated, and as I said on your own Talk page, I'll now use [[Test cricket|Test match]] where appropriate. Loganberry (Talk) 22:32, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I have it mostly finished. I don't touch user pages. There were several articles with Test cricket as the text with a link to test match which redirected back to test cricket. Vegaswikian 22:36, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi! I've just gone and vandalised your user page, ignoring your comments about adding stuff to the page. :) =Nichalp «Talk»= July 2, 2005 07:50 (UTC)

*grins* I've done a little editing to that comment now, under the circumstances... thank you! Loganberry (Talk) 2 July 2005 14:58 (UTC)

Cricket on VfD

Hiya. You previously voted 'keep' on the VfD for Nottinghamshire_v_Yorkshire_26_June_2005 and other subarticles of 2005 English cricket season. I just wanted to let you know that these pages have promptly been put back up for deletion, this time at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Essex_v_Glamorgan_15_May_2005. Those of us who have worked on these articles would value your continued support. Thanks and best wishes. --Ngb 19:47, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Furry Wikipedians

Heya. You don't know me, but I've seen you about on Wikipedia, and I'd guess you would be one of the best-known (or at least, one of the most visible) furries here on Wikipedia. Just for fun, I'm trying to get as many furry Wikipedians here as possible to show up in [[Category:Furry Wikipedians]] ... if you'd copy and paste that into your user page so you show up as well, that would be wonderful. Almafeta 16:24, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

from Talk:Arfid

This page meets Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion. The given reason is: WP:CSD A1 context.

Which means what, exactly? I'm not quibbling with the speedy nomination, but some plain English would be nice! Loganberry (Talk) 23:44, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

The key for these mysterious codes is at WP:CSD. A1 means the first item in the Articles section. --cesarb 00:01, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Aha. Thanks! Loganberry (Talk) 00:04, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Please check for Copyvios before adding the wikify tag

I noticed that you added the {{wikify}} tag to Allan McCollum, which is a copyvio from the artist's homepage. Many un-wikified articles are actually copyvios; so it will save everyone lots of time if, rather than putting wikify on pages, people could do the google test (copy a random 7 (or so) word phrase from the page, and search for it, in quotes, on google) first, and only put cleanup tags on if it comes up empty. Thanks for all your work on Wikipedia! JesseW 01:26, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder there; I normally do that check but it slipped my mind on this occasion. Loganberry (Talk) 01:30, 9 August 2005 (UTC)