User talk:William Avery/Archive 9

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thanks

for disambiguating Cucuron Tom B (talk) 13:08, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

for removing my frivolous entries on shaving and baldness so efficiently: I'm sure accuracy would thank you, even if entertainment might not. You have at least inspired me to get a Wiki ID, though. Hutch 1979 (talk) 13:58, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Would you like to meet Jimmy Wales in Bristol 13th Jan 2011?

As you may have heard Jimmy Wales is coming to give a talk at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol on 13th January 2011 as part of wikipedia's 10th birthday celebrations. There is a possibility of a small group of local active wikipedians to meet him for 20 mins before the talk. If you are interested could you respond on the centralised discussion on the Bristol wikiproject talk page?— Rod ^talk 20:17, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

you reverted my additive edits at Shawn Johnson

1. Better to manually delete the single word by the IP vandal than cut all my work, as well.

2. If you don't agree with the edits, at least a text comment would be good.

TCO (talk) 19:51, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

S.W.

Great job, thank you! 63.131.4.149 (talk) 14:16, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

LGBT articles of Brazil

Hello! Brazilian people love U.S. citizens. Many flights from TX, CA, FL, NY, and GE to Brazil exists. You are very welcome. In FEBRUARY, in the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil will be aproved the *SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN BRAZIL* ([1]), and the pages LGBT rights in Brazil and Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil need of you. Because will generate a heavy traffic on these pages, and we need you to help in the English spelling of these pages, you understand me? Please help me. Hentzer (talk) 23:00, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Henry Doubleday

You must have made a mistake while resolving disambiguation in the following edits: [2] [3]. Mithril (talk) 21:40, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

I changed the existing links from Henry Doubleday to Henry Doubleday (1808–1875). The other Henry Doubleday (1810-1902) was a starch manufacturer and horticulturist who only published works on horticulture. Now that I look a little more closely it is evident that the pre-existing link to Henry Doubleday was wrong and it should in fact be be Edward Doubleday. As in "Doubleday, E.,1842 : Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera". Is this your understanding too? I will try cross checking the Henry Doubleday (1808–1875) attributions with Wikispecies and known publication dates, and bear in mind that it was Edward who travelled to America and worked on the BMNH collection. William Avery (talk) 22:42, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

I only meant that you had put two different authorities to the same butterfly species on that pages. Mithril (talk) 23:56, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

I see, thank you. William Avery (talk) 14:27, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

New Statesman

Thanks for letting me know. Does it sound OK? I haven't seen it so will contact him & ask for a copy.— Rod ^talk 17:45, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the full text link.— Rod ^talk 15:36, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Any pics of Avon Valley Country Park

While I'm here - you haven't got any pictures of Avon Valley Country Park and/or the Strawberry Line (Miniature Railway) that you would be willing to share have you?— Rod ^talk 15:56, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, no. William Avery (talk) 16:24, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Bristol Wiki Academy

Hello William, some local Wikimedians are organising an event in March at which we're going to meet with potential content partners, educators and partner organisations. Your experience with local photographs seems highly relevant to one of the sessions we'd like to do, and we'd very much appreciate your involvement. Are you interested? MartinPoulter (talk) 16:19, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

• Thank you. I've added myself to the list. William Avery (talk) 17:27, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

  Great! I've allocated you to the session on sharing images. Hope that's okay, MartinPoulter (talk) 11:06, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

  OK. I'll stop bitchin' about how PowerPoint rots the brain and fire up Office. William Avery (talk) 07:58, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

  Not compulsory! Fine to show people pretty pictures, discuss policy (what images we want and don't want), and take them through the process of contributing an image. Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 17:20, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Anton Mosimann

Materialscientist (talk) 12:04, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Arnold Elston

Materialscientist (talk) 00:02, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Service award level

There has been a major revision of the the Service Awards: the edit requirements for the higher levels have been greatly reduced, to make them reasonably attainable.

Because of this, your Service Award level has been changed, and you are now eligible for a higher level. I have taken the liberty of updating your award on your user page.

Herostratus (talk) 14:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Actually you jumped two levels, to Master Editor. Congratulations, and thank you for your many contributions! Herostratus (talk) 14:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Roger Scruton

Hi William, I've posted an RfC at Talk:Roger Scruton—see here—to ask whether the neutrality tag should remain on the article. There are a number of issues in dispute; if you could comment even on just one of them, or your overall impression of the article's balance, that would be very helpful. I'm leaving this note because you've edited the article or talk page, but if you have no interest in commenting, please feel free to ignore the request. Cheers, SlimVirgin ^{TALK|CONTRIBS} 20:54, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Hi I saw you just edited Woodhall Lincs (and improved it) thanks! Im a bit new, learnt Infoboxes today - but I edited {Eastville, Lincolnshire|Eastville]] earlier and added the photo with it, and it came up with some ugly markup text and the image is offcentre. Request help in resolving both issues, so I can understand and do this much better. Many thanks Panderoona (talk) 21:28, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I understand now :) Panderoona (talk) 21:36, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:MrSheen.JPG

Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:MrSheen.JPG. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the file description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Kelly ^hi! 22:42, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Completely new abortion proposal and mediation

In light of the seemingly endless disputes over their respective titles, a neutral mediator has crafted a proposal to rename the two major abortion articles (pro-life/anti-abortion movement, and pro-choice/abortion rights movement) to completely new names. The idea, which is located here, is currently open for opinions. As you have been a contributor in the past to at least one of the articles, your thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.

The hope is that, if a consensus can be reached on the article titles, the energy that has been spent debating the titles of the articles here and here can be better spent giving both articles some much needed improvement to their content. Please take some time to read the proposal and weigh in on the matter. Even if your opinion is simple indifference, that opinion would be valuable to have posted.

To avoid accusations that this posting violates WP:CANVASS, this posting is being made to every non-anon editor who has edited either page since 1 July 2010, irrespective of possible previous participation at the mediation page. HuskyHuskie (talk) 20:09, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Removing capitals

Thanks for removing those, I oftentimes forget and capitalize multiple words in a section header. Ryan Vesey Review me! 07:47, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

A cup of tea for you! Neogeolegend (talk) 08:48, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Hello William Avery! I hope you enjoy this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 07:13, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

please help

HI, I found some Anonymous IP adress are Break this article : Kuomintang , please take ACTION to stop it, thanks.219.85.124.116 (talk) 12:33, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Ascot, it's not just a racecourse...

Thanks for disambiguation on Motivator. I will watch out for this in future.Tigerboy1966 (talk) 00:55, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Yo-Yo Ma

Thanks; looks like I botched that vandalism reversion attempt. Good fix. I've requested temporary semi-protection until this photo blows over. TJRC (talk) 21:42, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

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Opinions/wide range of consensus needed

Hi William Avery, we are presently trying to decide where to place various sections on the Thomas Jefferson page. If interested please join us on the talk page to help resolve the issue. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 21:02, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

No ongoing dispute

Thanks for taking care of this. Here's one more tag. -- 207.102.64.72 (talk) 15:13, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

I don't do requests, but if the discussion has become dormant, then the tag may be removed by any editor. William Avery (talk) 18:56, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Anointment

	Order of the Pigeon
	I anoint you a Member of the Wikipedian Order of the Pigeon an impromptu organization to celebrate excellent pigeon-work in it's many forms on Wikipedia. Thanks for defending the content of Columbidae and all your work in the community! Sadads (talk) 16:11, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions, William Avery. SwisterTwister talk 02:52, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Reversion of 'Crane fly' lead

Any chance of a hint about what went wrong there? Richard Avery (talk) 18:01, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Reversion of 'Crane fly' lead

Any chance of a hint about what went wrong there? Richard Avery (talk) 18:02, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

WP:LEAD? bolding of subject; a crane fly isn't "the name of an insect", it's an insect; lead para shouldn't need references, etc, etc. William Avery (talk) 18:04, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

July 2012 Study of authors of health-related Wikipedia pages

Dear Author/William Avery

My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at the University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address edited an article on Nasal polyps. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article and or other health-related articles. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please reply via my talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance.Hydra Rain (talk) 16:56, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello Mr Avery, I saw your survey response. Can you please e-mail me to nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk so we can arrange the interview or alternatively, I can send you the interview questions which you can complete in your own time and send it back to me. Thank you for your interest in my study! Nuša Hydra Rain (talk) 14:59, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Mr. Avery,

isnt it past your bedtime? perhaps you should consider making a rule not to disrupt my editing after midnight. CHeers — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.11.134.217 (talk) 20:21, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

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South Korea

Hello! Thank you for the message. Thank you pointed out my poor English. I would appreciate your cooperation on changes to the correct representation, what how? I hope you look at the truth by using the translation tool. Two Special Places for Koreans 2012 --Anonymous sensible (talk) 12:25, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry for the sorry to trouble you I apologize. Video above is, I will notify so I found the English version. Endangered Japan (Book 2): Sex, Lies, and Comfort Women Two Special Places for Koreans 2012 --Anonymous sensible (talk) 13:02, 17 August 2012 (UTC)