User talk:Arjayay

A Gnome Explains

I became a WikiGnome after I found I had misspelt retrieved, as retreived (ei), three times in one article (one mistake, copied & pasted).
I set myself a "penance" of correcting the "ei" versions in Wikipedia articles, but only intended to do the 100 or so misspellings there were at the time
I then adopted "retrieved" (retreived, retrived, retreved) and then added "rhythm” (rhythem, rhythim, rhythym, rhytm, rythem, rythim, rythm & rythym)

I then got carried away, and adopted the Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings/R - all of it. Don’t do it, it's bad for your health

Broadcasted

The Wiktionary definition of Broadcasted states that the use is proscribed, so it should not be used.
The word also appears on Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/B

Broadcasted appears in some dictionaries, but not at all in others, e.g. Chambers which states "Sorry, no entries for Broadcasted were found".
Broadcast appears in all dictionaries, and should be used throughout, as COMMONALITY - "Wikipedia tries to find words that are common to all varieties of English".

An October 2015 search for Broadcast gave over 166,000 uses, compared with a search for broadcasted which gave just 353.
Of these 35, 14 are redirects to "Broadcast" articles, 5 relate to a 1924 cartoon, and the rest are misspellings in quotations etc.

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Thomaston Building - 8 Bond Street

Why do estate agents write such turgid tosh? Sigh.TheLongTone (talk) 17:07, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi TheLongTone - thanks for your help there - I had to stop, to avoid breaking 3RR (must warn them about that)

To answer your question:-

Because they get paid by the word? - oh no - they are called PR "executives" aren't they

Because they think it is clever, but have never read The Emperor's New Clothes, and wouldn't know an "aspect" from an "apex" even if they were kicked in one and went over the other.

It was so blatant - as my first edit summary - an article (and editor) to keep an eye on - Arjayay (talk) 17:22, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

I forgot to add my usual description of Estate Agents as "second-hand toilet salesman" - This usually confuses them, so they ask why?
"Well, every property you sell has a toilet, and most of the properties are not new, so you are selling second-hand toilets" - Arjayay (talk) 19:52, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

That pesky Guns N' Roses article

Hi, Arjayay. I just wanted to follow up with you to see whether you were going to follow up at Talk:Guns N' Roses; I found several "dead-tree" sources a while back, but so far only one person on the "are" side has responded to what I found and so I'm reluctant to presume consensus based on several people on the "is" side not having changed their minds. If you're tired of the issue and don't wish to comment further, that's fine and I'll seek follow-up comment from someone else. I'm coming to you first because it was your idea to use print references. —GrammarFascist _contribs^talk 19:31, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Sully Historic Site citations

Wrote a bunch of code to change the citations on the Sully Historic Site article from the current version to the proposed formatting. Cannot implement this without consensus. Would very much appreciate your opinion at the talk page. Abel (talk) 02:10, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Associated Television

Hi, you have reverted my changes to this page twice, but I'm unclear why you feel these links deserve inclusion.

The link to www.atvnetworklimited.co.uk claims to be the 'official' website, It's not. It can't be, because ATV ceased to exist in the early 1980s. Google's cache suggests It is in fact the website belonging to the fan club of one programme formerly made by ATV - Crossroads. If it deserves a link (and that's a big if), then that link should be on the Crossroads article page, not this one. The link to www.atvtoday.co.uk is also not relevant. Again Google's cache suggests It is just a general media news website run by the same fan club. (As an aside, I'm still getting the 403 error, on multiple browsers - that alone suggests it might fail the WP:LINKSTOAVOID test.

Neither website is the 'official' ATV website, and as neither justifies inclusion in the article I'm going to remove them again. If you feel that they do deserve inclusion - maybe we should take it to the article's talk page? Cheers. DrFrench (talk) 23:55, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination of Coimbatore-Salem MEMU for deletion

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International School of Samui

Hi. Thanks for reaching out to me. Am new to this. Started to contribute to the school page as I noticed the initial information provided was very brief. I contacted the school and received permission to expand the content. I mirrored the content using the Wikipedia pages of 2 other notable international schools in the region as a guideline. Will attempt to edit again soon keeping to guidelines you have provided. Thank you. LeoLeBlanc (talk) 07:27, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

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on lodhi artecal

could you tell me that what ever i edit is wrong! sir I am from the same community! and i know well my history you people trying to get disturbed and create new history this is the fact. because you people trying to ling with ludiyana from punjab and many more! when i try to give exmple Rani Avanti bhai who is the ruler and lodhi's queen you people deny it! i dint know which fact you useing! Is Rani Avanti Bhai not a Rajput or Kshatriya. And i dont know where you bring this rowsell.My Advice is if you once attande the Akhil Kshatirya Lodhi Sabha its good to make your knowledge more

So my Request is to do more Search and Please make it correct.If Possible to you guys.

Thanks

I have problem to revert here if posible then message me on P.rajput@outlook.com