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what is wrong with contributing a little info on henry the 2nd. im sorry i didnt get it perfect but maybe you could try it sometime instead of critisising all the time!!!!!! if you think that you can do better then go on because you dont think mine is right so why dont you do it instead smary pants? answer me that!!!!!! unsigned contribution from 90.206.205.78

You blanked the page and added henry the 2nd was really good friends with thomas becket and they both met in france which is when henry put forward to becket asking him to be the archbishop of canterbury and with the hope that becket would take charge of the church courts but the king was being selfish because he wanted to take charge of the church which is why he put forward the ofer for becket.

dePRODing of articles

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Quick Question from NewOrleansCC

Hello, I have a quick question for you, in order to better understand the reason behind my deletion tag. I currently work for the New Orleans Convention Commission and doing a report on the oldest transportation companies in the city of New Orleans. The reason for creating this article was merely a history lesson of one of the oldest companies in the City. There is great history behind this company dating back to the late 1940's. I have permission from the owner of the company, and explained to him that this was not an advertising stunt but merely a historical aspect of transportation in the city of New Orleans. Is there anything I can do in order to make seem like a non-advertising article. If you could please contact me back with a better understand that would be great. Thank you for your time and hope I didn't cause any trouble for you or wikipedia. Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NewOrleansCC (talk • contribs) 02:18, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I actually don't remember what article you're referring to. I imagine I used either an advertising or a copyright tag. If it was copyright, the issue is articles can't just be copy pasted from other sources for a host of reasons, one of them being copyright. If it was an advertising tag it was probably worded like a promotion. Perhaps you could create the page again in your userspace (a link like this) and then ask another experienced editor to take a look at it. Shadowjams (talk) 03:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

From the guy you just reverted

I reverted it myself.

218.186.10.242 (talk) 09:42, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Maybe there was an edit conflict. Shadowjams (talk) 01:15, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Did you read the change you just reverted?

Or did you just auto-revert because there was no edit summary and you can't be bothered to read? If you actually look at the change you will see that the previous wording was at best ungrammatical and at worst nonsensical. I tweaked it into something that did make sense, and was almost certainly the intended meaning (at least, I can't think what else the author might have meant). Don't bite the newbies - or even those who might look like a newbie but have actually been around for years. 93.97.184.230 (talk) 13:49, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Your anger is misplaced. I read the edit. You changed the word "flow" to "floe". I don't know about iceflows, but that spelling seemed wrong to me. This, from a new IP, without explanation, and I did a simple revert. Once.

As the template says, if it was constructive please explain so and revert it. Reverting and templating test edits is not bitey. You didn't reword the sentence, you changed that spelling (which looks like a test edit to me) and then you changed passed to traveled. It looked like an editing test to me. I cannot magically discern which IPs are long-term editors and which are new users testing edits. Your edit looks a lot like an editing test, and even now there's no explanation as to why that spelling is correct. Shadowjams (talk) 01:12, 3 August 2009 (UTC)