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Cheryl Cole

Hi there. Please do not keep adding unverified information into the Cheryl Cole article. You may not be aware, but there are official rules surrounding this, and if you continue to insert the sentences I have had to remove again, you may receive a warning for it. There is also a three revert rule which is designed to prevent repeated insertions of either incorrect or unverified information. You may fall foul of this soon if people have to continue removing the things you are inserting. Wikipedia does not do rumours. While this whole sorry situation is still unconfirmed, the various media reports remain rumours. Please just wait until an announcement is made. This is not a warning, this is just a heads up about why I have removed the comment. I will continue to keep an eye on the article, so hopefully you will understand why I am saying this. Best wishes. Sky83 (talk) 11:07, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Explanation re template

What I meant: When you change the parameter from season_name to series_name, it no longer refers to a part of the template, causing the title to disappear from the infobox.Zythe (talk) 19:02, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Courtois

Maybe because he was confirmed as an Atletico player last week? Just because Chelsea haven't confirmed it doesn't mean the deal isn't done, they aren't the most important team in the world you know... It's quite obviously done, and if you want proof, here are some pictures: http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2954/courtois2.jpg and http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/1820/courtois.jpg

And here he is training on Sunday: http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7898/26716310150266811037389.jpg

Believe me now? So yeah, how about you stop changing it and get your facts right. Also I think you owe me an apology for saying things such as 'I hope you are proud of yourself', when it's you who has the wrong information. Thanks. --Summerfield29 (talk) 12:34, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Aguero and £38m.

There is no definitive source for £38m. Some sources are reporting £35m. Surely it's more helpful to point readers to the reports than to make a judgement about which one might be correct? The source you keep trying to put in is just a set of photos from the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail source that I used is much better and goes into details - saying £35m with add-ons to £38m. That, rather helpfully, explains the two different numbers being reported. The reversion that you keep making gets rid of one source (presumably because it's inconvenient) but still leaves a source (The Independent) reporting £35m. Also "thought to be" is in no way encylcopedic. Probably we shouldn't have a figure at all, but at the very least we should be accurately reflecting the reporting of this, not just plumping for one figure and ignoring all sources that don't back that one. Please, take the time to read the references in my version and hopefully you'll see that it's a more accurate account of what has been reported. If you're going to keep on edit warring about this (and I am also guilty here) then I think we should ask a third party. Honestly, though, I'm baffled that you are sticking with £38m on the basis of a single source when a more detailed article in the same newspaper says £35m rising to £38m. Cheers. Maccy69 (talk) 00:07, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

I don't understand your point. Formula One is returning to the US, but not to IMS - to a new track in Austin, Texas. The contract for the US Formula One race in Austin runs until 2020. What's the problem? Denisarona (talk) 10:36, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And yes, I read the edit before I reverted it - there's no need for offensive comments. Denisarona (talk) 10:42, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You said "Did you EVEN look? This is offensive. Another race has ben confirmed, but not at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the article is about IMS, not Formula One in the US. Denisarona (talk) 11:50, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh good, now I can reverse the offensive comment. Did you even read the information on Indianapolis Motor Speedway? The information stated that there wouldn't be a Formula One race at IMS until at least 2021. It didn't say there wouldn't be another Formula One race in the US. Denisarona (talk) 11:59, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Nicolas Anelka

Thank you for your correction. Happy editing. --Alexchen4836 (talk) 14:08, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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February 2012

Please don't change the format of dates, as you did to Heinrich Hertz. As a general rule, if an article has evolved using predominantly one format, the dates should be left in the format they were originally written in, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. Please also note that Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes (e.g., st, nd, th), articles, or leading zeros on dates.

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It is a violation of WP:DATE to change format without a substantial reason unrelated to preference, and without discussion. If you have such a reason, please seek consensus for change on the article's talk page. Hertz1888 (talk) 11:04, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Hi. Please do not add unsourced material or original research to articles, as you did with this edit to Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, as this violates Wikipedia's policies of No Original Research and Verifiability. Wikipedia requires that all material added to articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here. That information has already been removed from that article several times already for this reason. If you wish to add it, then please include a citation with it. Nightscream (talk) 01:14, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is not my responsibility to find cites for all the information that others wish to add to articles. I already do so, to a certain degree, as a courtesy, but strictly speaking, if you want to add the material, then you have to include the citation. Not me. As for my edit summaries, the comments were indeed polite the first five times I had to revert that material. The sixth time, I was a bit more critical, which is rather understandable. Nightscream (talk) 19:13, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of The Real Hustle episodes

I didn't change the format of the dates and i haven't edited that page since 28th of November 2011. All i did was format the episodes.
Version before me - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_The_Real_Hustle_episodes&oldid=462178718
My Version - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_The_Real_Hustle_episodes&oldid=462927812

I only did the first two series so that hopefully someone reformatted the rest (which did happened) --Fob Upset (talk) 15:17, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, sorry i didn't know that. Thanks for reformatting all the dates --Fob Upset (talk) 15:31, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Juan Gris, Spanish artist active in France

For your convenience here is useful information concerning date formats, excerpted from the WP Manual of Style:

Articles on topics with strong ties to a particular English-speaking country should generally use the more common date format for that nation. For the US this is month before day; for most others it is day before month. Articles related to Canada may use either format consistently ... If an article has evolved using predominantly one format, the whole article should conform to it, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. The date format chosen by the first major contributor in the early stages of an article should continue to be used, unless there is reason to change it based on strong national ties to the topic. Where an article has shown no clear sign of which format is used, the first person to insert a date is equivalent to "the first major contributor"

The entire text may be seen here.

Juan Gris has no strong ties to a particular English-speaking country. A glance at the article's edit history reveals consistent use of the current date format since the first appearance of dates there on July 21, 2002 (translation: 21 July 2002). It seems consistent with the cooperative spirit of wikipedia to retain the format preferred by the editors who actually wrote the article. Can you explain your motive in changing it? Ewulp (talk) 10:17, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The argument for formatting dates according to the style used in any given country makes a kind of sense, but the consensus in wikipedia is for non-interference with existing formats as explained above. If you would like to argue for changing the rules, Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers is the proper forum, not Juan Gris. Ewulp (talk) 00:01, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Use of 'season' not 'series'

You'll have to be a little bit more specific in future as to when I've used 'season' instead of 'series' on British articles, but I'll make a mental note to try and avoid doing it again on Wikipedia; cheers. AlligatorSky (talk) 18:00, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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British-English

Hi. I'm sorry I didn't used the British-English date format on Didier Drogba's page. Ever since I use Wikipedia, I used the American date format and had no issues.

Thanks for the tip, I shall keep the British-English date format!

May 2012

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is invited to contribute, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to List of Merlin episodes, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Please stop vandalizing the Merlin pages. I understand that in the UK "series" is used in lieu of "season" but you need to pay attention to context before unilateral changing these pages to use "series". For example, you changed a column heading from "# in season" to "# in series" when there already was a column with the heading "# in series". On the List of Merlin episodes pages, you "corrected" the title of a DVD used as a reference. Dave (djkernen)|Talk to me|Please help! 22:23, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Merlin (series 4). Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Please cease edit warring on List of Merlin episodes and Merlin (series 4). Regardless of the dialect used within an article, you cannot change 'season' to 'series' when it is the title of a DVD. Likewise, in the context of the table you are editing, the word 'series' is used already with a different meaning. Your changes would have resulted in two columns with the same headings but with different values.

Finally, you are incorrect in asserting that 'season' is not used for British TV shows because non-British viewers of those shows use that word often. Merlin, like Wikipedia, has an international audience and it would behoove you to be less parochial in your world view. Dave (djkernen)|Talk to me|Please help! 14:43, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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New Discussion Topic

I have opened a new discussion topic at the Merlin (series 4) talk page. Your participation is requested. Dave (djkernen)|Talk to me|Please help! 15:47, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#WP:Bite

Where is the vandalism? Tom Pippens (talk) 21:49, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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 I have opened a [[Talk:Merlin (series 4)#Repeated Disruptive Edits|new discussion topic]] at the [[Merlin (series 4)]] talk page. Your participation is requested. Dave  ([[User:Djkernen|djkernen]])|[[User talk:Djkernen|Talk to me]]|[[WP:Community Portal#Open tasks|Please help!]] 15:47, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
+==[[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#WP:Bite]]==
+[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_Bosingwa&diff=494206772&oldid=494166000 Where is the vandalism?] [[User:Tom Pippens|Tom Pippens]] ([[User talk:Tom Pippens|talk]]) 21:49, 24 May 2012 (UTC)