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Hello! Thanks for dropping by... please feel free to leave me a message below. I don't have a convention as to where I'll respond, be it here, your talk page, or the talk page of the subject we're discussing - but I'll do my best to keep things clear. Let me know if you have a preference... now, get typing! Ckatz

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Why were my spelling changes reverted?

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Spam Link

Hi, I have been engaged in an effort to revert a series of edits that link to [1]. As you can see from Special:Contributions/70.79.114.83 this link has been added to a variety of articles that seem to be calculated to promote the outside web page rather than to develop Wikipedia. Seems to me to violate WP:LINKSPAM. You added the link back to Steveston, British Columbia when the source of this link added it and then deleted it. You commented that there was no explanation given for the deletion. I am not sure why the spammer backed down. My own view is that such sites are link farms under the guise of information sources and that wikipedia should not be used to promote them. Could you have a look at the situation and let me know what you think? Thanks. -- ````

Hello... yes, we've been tracking and reverting the same person/link. However, the revert you're referring to actually involved the URL www.steveston.bc.ca; the spammer (after having his/her handiwork removed yet again) deleted that link out of what I can only assume is spite. --Ckatz^chat_spy 08:17, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I see that. So you have added it back after he deleted it. Why?--KenWalker | Talk 08:21, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see, it is a different site. Scrap my questions/concerns. Sorry! --KenWalker | Talk 08:23, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, always happy to answer questions. Thanks for getting rid of today's spam, by the way. Cheers. --Ckatz^chat_spy 08:25, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Prohibitions in sikhism

Please see my input on 13th of May.

Firstly, yes rules are rules. But I do not use the rules to create pov, if anything I wish to put facts straight.

Can you kindly refer me to how and why and where and who included or mentioned any references of Judiac or Kosher in Sikhism?

I ask this because the Sikhs throughout their medieval history have never come into contact with the Jewish people (when such rules were created)

Throughout medieval Indian history, the muslims had come into direct confrontation with Sikhs and as a result their Gurus faced constant persecution from the Islamic authorities, the sikh commandment to never eat halal food did not imply or state any OTHER ritualistic form of slaughter because if that had been the case, then it would have existed before any Islamic confrontation had occurred. Something to think about ?

external link removal

I added an external link which you deleted

Whistler Region 3D Maps

As I read the policy

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links

the external link was well behaved. It does point to a great deal of 3D mapping for the region. Also, while the target is not GPL, it is free of any charge and so less commercial than, say,

 http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/

a totally commercial site designed to promote and accept payment for Intrawest's resort services.

Could you please explain if I misunderstand the policy?

Ata.