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Response to my edit of Idaho.

Dear AlexiusHoratius.

Please forgive my erroneous edit of the Idaho article.

I am an elementary librarian and was merely teaching my 5th grade class a lesson about how anyone can edit wiki pages. We were discussing research, and are learning to evaluate websites and how to determine which information we can trust. I have edited the Idaho page before, as an example for class. I always revert the page back to the correct information, and I absolutely DO tell my kids that what I did was wrong and does constitute vandalism. The point I am trying to get across to them is that there is no internet police who checks all the information out in the web. I really wish you hadn't reverted the page so quickly because it is more effective for me to make the correction and apologize. (The class becomes very quiet and solemn when I tell them that what I did was wrong - believe me, they understand by my serious tone of voice.) I am certainly not bashing wikipedia in front of them. We do discuss that there is a place for wikipedia in our lives, and that there are people who use the internet to try to make the world a better place. But it is very important for me to make this point and every year this lesson has a huge impact on my students. Young students will retrieve wikipedia results in their searches and they need to understand WHY teachers do not allow them to use it as a source in school projects. I believe in explaining and demonstrating my research rules rather than just "because I said so".

I hope you understand my reasons for doing what I did.

I wish to keep on editing Idaho (or any other state), and I hope that I can continue to do so. I promise that I will correct any changes I make as I also want to make it clear that vandalizing a webpage is wrong. Indeed, if you look at Idaho from last year and the year before, you will see that I made the same changes and then reverted to the correct information.

Thank you, Clariline November 1st, 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clariline (talk • contribs) 21:35, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

I appreciate you taking the time to explain the situation and I agree that Wikipedia is not a perfect source for information. It is indeed easy to vandalize (although in my opinion a larger problem is with neutrality on contentious issues). However, there are a couple of things I disagree with. First, any vandalism I see, or many other Wikipedia editors see, isn't going to be left in an article, even if the vandalism is being used as a teaching tool. The reason for this is that others use the site in addition to your class, and they deserve to see non-vandalized versions of articles. If your goal was to show kids how easy it is to change information in an article, this can be done without introducing incorrect information into an article, in this case Idaho being the 65th state. Second, do you see the problem with the statement "I wanted to warn kids that there was no-one else checking over my work, but you reverted my vandalism too quickly". As I said, I agree that Wikipedia has an issue with vandalism, but it isn't as bad as many think - much of the vandalism is either reverted automatically by a computer script or is reverted within a few seconds by someone such as myself. Some vandalism does stay, but a great deal of it is removed in a short period of time. I also revert vandalism because I and many others have spent a great deal of time and effort here, and appreciate vandalism as much as you would appreciate it if I showed your students how easy it was to rip pages out of library books. I've come to the realization that Wikipedia isn't infallible (and will probably never be) but it is useful in ways traditional books and encyclopedias can't match. As fond as I was of my old World Book Encyclopedia, my local libraries and my local bookmobiles, as valuable as they were, none of them would have been able to tell me much about what the ten largest US cities were in 1820, what the Union order of battle was at Gettysburg, or allow me to zoom into images of the Mitchell Map or original US Constitution. AlexiusHoratius 23:10, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Sioux Falls Elementary Schools table

Hey, Alexius. It was a good call on putting the elementary school table I created into a collapsible form. However, next time please check the table before saving your edit. You added a random column and broke the table completely. Sorry to bother you...it just annoys me a little bit. --TCN7JM 19:26, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

I thought it looked better to get the "show" out of one of the title boxes, but I see what you mean in that it pushed everything over to the wrong column. I'll be more careful next time. AlexiusHoratius 19:41, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

California Gold Rush article

A quick note of thanks for your amazingly tireless patrol of the California Gold Rush article - which is very much appreciated! As you probably know, all California fourth-graders study "California History" during the year, and I can usually tell when many of these fourth-grade classes have reached the 1840s/50s by the spike in fourth-grade vandalism of this article. Moving the article into protected/semi-protected status always seems like a good idea to me! Again, many, many thanks for the work that you do! NorCalHistory (talk) 03:01, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome. I've never thought about correlating a historical timeline with the school year, but I actually think you may be on to something. At the very least, there are certainly a lot of articles that start to get hit at the start of September and calm down again in May. AlexiusHoratius 03:34, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

A little help, my dear friend...

My dearest AlexiusHoratius, please, I ask you a little help. Please: can you go in my Talk Page and try to understabd whatìs the advice that's arriving to me? I tried to go unto the link, but I don't want to make trobles, please, can you help me? It will take you anly 2 minutes, please...

Thank you very much, ... have a nice week-end!!!

Rex Momo (talk) 12:12, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, my dear to take care of me. You are very sweet! No, I think for now, I don't have any more quastion.... only Gianni Ambrosio: why there's red link for bishops of 21st century? Because there aren't in EN Wiki? Thanks a lot, my friend Rex Momo (talk) 23:11, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Orlando Drummond

Hi Alexius, how are you? I made this new page of the Brazilian voice of Scooby Doo, Gargamel and Oliver Hardy. Please, can you take 5 minutes of your precious time to read for me?

Thanks a lot, and happy week end.

Rex Momo (talk) 16:36, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

I did a bit of work on it but wasn't sure what to do with "Seu Peru dans l'émission Escolinha do Professor Raimundo". If the whole thing isn't a proper noun the part that isn't a title should be translated into English. AlexiusHoratius 18:55, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank youuuuuuuuu, dans l'émission means in the series of, I corrected it. Thanks a lot! Rex Momo (talk) 19:35, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Waldemar Esteves da Cunha

Hi Alexius, how are you? I just made this new page, about Brazilian Carnival. I ask you, when you'll have 5 minutes, to correct for me, please. Thank you very much for your help!

Rex Momo (talk) 15:24, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay (I've been really busy lately and am about to take a long trip for Christmas). Anyway, I did a bit of copyediting on it but some of the parts are still unclear, in particular the current 4th and 5th paragraphs of the main body. Like I said I'll be away for a bit, but will take another look after I get back in about a week. Have a good Christmas and a happy new year. AlexiusHoratius 16:10, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much and Merry Christmas!!! Rex Momo (talk) 16:12, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Luiz Carlos Prates

Hi Alexius, how are you? I made this new page, and I ask you the help for a short relecture, please.

Thanks a lot, and have a 2013 full of happyness!!!

Rex Momo (talk) 14:56, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

I did a bit of work on it - generally "announcer" works better than "speaker" if you're talking about someone who calls games on the radio. Other than that it looked okay, although you may want to take a look at the last edit I made, as I didn't know what the original version was speaking of exactly. Also, the final sentence isn't very clear. AlexiusHoratius 21:23, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, end Happy New year again! Rex Momo (talk) 18:33, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Paolo Poli

Hi Alexius, how are you? Me very fine, this is my last article for January (yeeeeaaahhhh :-) because I'll travel next Thursday in France for holyday.

Please, can you read for me? It's a great thetre actor, I like him very much for his avant-gard and for his sweetnes. Thanks again for your help.

Rex Momo (talk) 14:30, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

I took a look and made a few changes. I wasn't really sure what "sweetness" meant - that is, I know what it means but it didn't sound encyclopedic - so I just removed it for now. There's probably a better word for it. AlexiusHoratius 20:28, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Richard Manitoba / Caribou

I see you were involved earlier in the content dispute on Richard Manitoba and protected the article. It does not appear to be resolved. I have just had the article protected again. Please come and add your 2c. Perhaps we can settle it. Thanks. Wwwhatsup (talk) 12:32, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Sons of Merciful Love

Hi Alexius, how are you? Please, do you have some minutes to read this new page I just made? Your help is so precious to improve my poor English!

Thanks a lot!

Rex Momo (talk) 17:29, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you!!! Rex Momo (talk) 23:42, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

No problem. AlexiusHoratius 00:10, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

RfA: thank you for your support

Alexius, I wanted to briefly thank you for your support at my RfA, and let you know that I left a brief explanatory note regarding my talk space edits under your "support" comment. Fingers crossed, Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:03, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry about it - like I said in my reply on the RfA, I probably should have said "percentage". In any case, good luck. AlexiusHoratius 23:35, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Alexius, my RfA did not end as hoped, but I am thankful for the support of many long-time editors such as yourself. I will work to treat it as a learning experience to better my future editing. Warm regards, Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:26, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of List of papabili in the 2013 papal conclave for deletion

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