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If I reverted your edit in error, I apologize – please leave a message at the bottom of the page. The standard vandalism warnings are very harsh (I rarely leave personal messages), but trust me - I don't hate you.

Sir Anthony Mason

You have twice undone my edits to the page on Sir Anthony Mason. I changed the words "naval officer" to "Royal Australian Air Force officer". Sir Anthony was never in the Navy (see http://www.hkmla.org/events/0001011.pdf, particularly page 4). The page I attempted to edit even mentions Sir Anthony's Air Force service further down the page.

I can't understand how you could possibly say my two attempted edits were improper - they were both the correction of an error (and a contradiction) in the article.

Please change it back.

You're correct, and I apologize - but I only reverted this page once. I'm not Australian, and most of the time when a biographical entry is changed from 'Air Force' to 'Navy' (or other such service-switches) it's done as a prank. I've been dealing with a lot of genre- and occupation-switching tonight - folks moving the genre of a kids' music album from 'pop' to 'torture' or 'female' to 'gorilla' (and those are both actual reverts I've done) - that kind of thing.

Feel free to revert my edit, and I apologize for the inconvenience. (I'll do it if you don't want to, but it's a good task for a novice Wikipedian to learn, and it's not at all hard. Here's the how-to guide. Also, be sure to sign your posts, on talk pages like this one, with four tildes like ~~~~ .)

I now know that Sir Anthony Mason flew, and did not swim. Thanks for the message, and welcome to Wikipedia. Please let me know if you need assistance. Baseball,Baby! ^{take a swing} 08:40, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Ian Callinan

I made amendments to the biography of Justice Ian Callinan and you reversed them. Currently there are links to two of six books on the page. I deleted the two current links (which are to Amazon pages that say nothing) and inserted a link to the publisher's information page for each book so that people could actually see what the books are about, as opposed to a useless Amazon page that says little more than they do not stock the book.

The changes should be allowed, I can't understand any objection to them, they simply provide more information to readers.

I am not responsible for edits to Ian Callinan. Go to the article page, click the "History" tab at the top, then look down the list to see who reverted it. 'Twas not I.

It looks like he thought your URLs promoted a bookstore instead of going to a neutral vendor or site (such as Amazon.com, which also provides reader reviews and other such stuff). There's a <ref> tag that is used for footnotes and references and the like, and it uses the ISBN number instead of a link to a particular vendor, and it would probably be better to use it in a case like this. If you're interested and have a basic understanding of HTML (as it seems you do), you can find it via the 'Help' link over to your left.

Let me know if I can help you further, especially if you have trouble with the reference system - I had to spend a while working with it before I got it to work well. Why not register for a user account and stick around? If you do, be sure to leave me a message on my talk page with your user name.

Thanks again for the messages, and I'm really sorry I wasn't the Ian Callinan culprit. I am, however, repeating the phrase 'Mason = RAAF" over and over to myself. :) Baseball,Baby! ^{take a swing} 08:54, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

hey

the dropper thing deleted my writing and posted wrongly

I assume you're talking about Dropper, because that's the only dropper I can find in my recent history. I reverted your edit because, as you state, you inadvertently blanked the page. The note on your talk page was just a reminder to be careful and hit the 'Show preview' button to make sure you're not saving something (or, in this case, nothing :) ). We RC patrollers are always checking behind you, just to make sure.

Stuff like happens to the best of us from time to time, so don't sweat it. Just repeat to yourself, "Preview is my friend. Preview is my friend." :) Welcome to Wikipedia - I hope you register for an account and stick around! Baseball,Baby! ^{take a swing} 14:51, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

dropper person again...

i try to add to the page but it doesn't work! Im scared i might delete something again...i think the chemical use of dropper should be added. Thanks.

Hello again!

Is this kind of dropper what you're trying to add? If so, take a look at the top of that page - it's the entry for pipette, but eyedropper redirects there and that shows under the title - see where it says 'redirected from eyedropper'? It's wiki magic!

If that's not what you're trying to say about 'dropper', drop (no pun intended) back by my talk page and give me a couple of sentences about what you're trying to say, so I can help you edit it in. Also, a great way to ask for help is to just put {{helpme}} at the top of your user page and someone will stop by within moments to help (see up there where, in red, it says 'user page'? just copy and paste this {{helpme}} tag into the edit box and save).

And don't be afraid about making mistakes – just take a look at all the people on my own talk page who think I've made mistakes. Be bold - it's okay! If you hit the 'Show preview' button before you 'Save page', you'll be fine. And be sure to put in an edit summary – if you're not sure about an edit, just say so in the edit summary and someone will come along behind you and fix it. You'll be an experienced editor in no time - I believe in you! - Baseball,Baby! ^{take a swing} 03:13, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

... for reverting vandalism to my userpage. JFW | T@lk 18:59, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem. He was going at it hot and heavy for about 20 minutes – he even accused me of vandalism in an edit summary because I reverted one of his rants on another editor's user page. Thanks for the thanks - I sure needed some! :) - Baseball,Baby! ^{take a swing} 03:21, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

WHY DID U DELETE MY EDIT??????? IT WAS CORRECT!!!!!

HERE'S THE SITE MAN: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-obit-odomsson&prov=ap&type=lgns NOW CHANGE MY EDIT BACK!!!! 69.229.173.99 05:37, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

(duplicate, abusive message removed, but available in the edit history for those interested)

Thanks for the message. I reverted the edit because there is no evidence in the citations for any kind of police investigation for child endangerment. The encyclopedia can't say something that isn't verifiable, so I reverted down to the last version without a claim of child endangerment. Regardless of your protest, the Yahoo URL to which you refer and the ESPN article (the [1] citation in the current version) are identical. Take a look for yourself.

When published, verifiable reports come out about the actual cause of death, as I'm sure they will soon, the facts can be included in the entry and you're free to do so. Until it's a fact, however, it can't go in this article. I stand by my edit. Baseball,Baby! ^{take a swing} 06:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

add some MOJO

Hey BaseBall,

I added a link yesterday and you removed it ( Logo-Mojo.com ). I felt that it was an interesting section that related to the topic of the page. It revolved around logo designs and displayed many worldwide bands. Anyone starting a business and was thinking of creating a logo would only benefit from the information on that page.

However I can understand your point in not wanting to have sites use Wikipedia to advertise their own web site, I do feel that it was a content related and infomational page.

Having people learn about what they want to buy before they buy it is important, which is why I joined Wik.

Thanks, Robert

Hi - This exact issue was discussed on the article's talk page quite some time ago. If you want to revisit the decision, the talk page is the place to go. I did look at your submitted site before I acted, and I saw that it's clearly commercial. When a home page boasts of thousands of "satisfied clients," it's commercial and not allowed. If yours was permitted, the spam bots probably wouldn't be far behind to add more.

I guess you could look at it like this: your preferred site isn't listed, but no one else's is either. Wikipedia really isn't the place to go to make a buying decision anyway. As I said, feel free to discuss it on the article's talk page. Thanks for the message, and happy editing - Baseball,Baby! ^{take a swing} 09:56, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Brisbane Grammar school

Excuse me, but there are verified sources on the bottom of the page. please look before you leap to conclusions. --138.130.216.179 10:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not going to respond to this. Everything I would and could say can be summed up by looking at the talk page and edit history for that entry. It's got to be the most controversial grade school in the southern hemisphere. Baseball,Baby! ^{take a swing} 11:28, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

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George Washington Religious Section Deleted

If you look at the discussion section under George Washington you will find that there is much discussion about deleting the section entitled Religious Beliefs. I made the decision to delete the section altogether due to the many biased and ignorant data input by many liberals and atheists. It is a well known documented fact that George Washington was a Christian and was very strong in his faith. There is much evidence supporting this fact and I put that information in yesterday. But, someone deleted all of that information. Please do not put the information about Deist beliefs back in unless you allow the information about his strong Christian faith to be put back in as well. Be objective.

Whatever has to be done to stop those liberals has to be done. Baseball,Baby! ^{take a swing} 16:18, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

LOL --Gbdill 17:16, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Reno

Nice job on the Reno bio. You are using a dramaticaly different style of Notes than other ACW articles and although I won't ask you to change them, I'd ask that you keep our style in mind if you work on future articles in this space. I have summarized them in my "style guide", User:Hlj/CWediting, and there are recent examples in William T. Sherman, George B. McClellan, and Battle of Antietam. We cite the books in the References section and use the Notes to briefly identify the pages for citations, like real footnotes. We also rarely use See also to show links already in the article. Hal Jespersen 16:21, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. I used the style outlined at Wikipedia:Footnotes, but I'll edit the entry later to conform to the ACW style. I want to start another one on the North Carolina Expedition, because there's a category for it but no entry. The Maryland Campaign has an entry, so I was surprised not to find one on Burnside's expedition. I have to do more reading first, and I'll change those footnotes before I start to get up to speed. Thanks again - Baseball,Baby! ^{take a swing} 16:33, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm doing a minor edit on your article, so wait 20 mins before proceeding. Thanks. As you do the NC Ex article, check out Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. I've written a lot of these campaign articles, but never got to that one. Hal Jespersen 16:39, 4 July 2006 (UTC)