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Happy editing

I wish you all the best on the anniversary day of your first-edit. --Bhadani 16:33, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I'd totally forgotten! Thanks so much for your kind message _└ ^UkPaolo/talk^┐ 16:40, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

SYED AHMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what have u done with the page!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it took quite a long time to make and can u restore it please!!!!!!! Bobo6balde66 17:24, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid not. The article on Syed Ahmed was deleted in accordance with our deletion policy following a discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syed Ahmed. If you disagree with this decision you should post at Wikipedia:Deletion review. I would ask you to consider the notability of this individual in a worldwide encyclopedia, however. Personally, I feel that useful information should be included in the The Apprentice (UK series 2) (I merged useful content from the old article there). You'll note that a similar approach was taken for candidates in other reality TV shows such as big brother. Please don't take this personally: good contributions to the Syed Ahmed article are still available in The Apprentice (UK series 2). _└ ^UkPaolo/talk^┐ 18:12, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

QUOTES

Ok, so why is Charlie G Hawkins page not allowed quotes but Jade Goody page is? *rolls eyes* HelterSkelter88 13:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

• *sighs*... it's not a case of not being "allowed quotes", it's a case of what is sensible. Please remember that this is an encyclopedia, a few appropriate and well known quotes may well be appropriate, particularly in the case of Jade Goody's page where several of those statements are often quoted about her. I didn't think that the few quotes included on Charlie G. Hawkins page added anything at all to the article — they are not particularly well known, gave no encyclopedic value, and are also unsourced (and thus unverifiable). I personally don't think that the article merits such quotes to be included. Wikiquote may be more appropriate if you want to create such a list of quotes (this could then be linked to the article on here). _└ ^UkPaolo/talk^┐ 13:15, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Fixing news article to British English

I must say I find the fact that you deleted my argument in Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors very offensive. Someone wanted something fixed, I stated that he was wrong and that there is no reason for such a fix to occur, and then you come in and "fix" it by removing the entire argument, including my reasoning, and say "I agree", before doing what he asked. Do you really know what the situation outside of the UK in Europe is when it comes to the usage of English? Do you realize that due to the media, which most people learn English from, usually use American English? Surely, I don't care about the fact you edited one news entry to British English, even though I'm sure it's stated somewhere that edit (wars) should never be about which spelling to use, but I do think that assuming that everybody in Europe outside of the UK speaks British English is narrow-minded. I think that saying "I agree" with no further reasoning while you yourself are from the UK is no way to end such an argument, and I'd have expected differently from an admin. —Michiel Sikma, 15:14, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Whoa... I can only apologise that your argument was seemingly deleted and disregarded, I an assure you this was not intentional and I would, too, feel aggrieved in your position. I never read your message, nor intended to delete it, the fact that this happenned was accidental. In fact, it would seem I accidentally deleted a number of users replies: something I shall rectify in a minute. To be honest, if I had have read your message, I wouldn't have made the change — I only did so since one user had requested it, I agreed with it, and nobody had voiced any opposition. I can't really explain further what happenned, perhaps I mistakenly edited an old revision of the page. You have my apologies. _└ ^UkPaolo/talk^┐ 15:22, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

PS — just to let you know I have now restored the deleted comments on Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors. I fully support your suggestion of linking to 2006 Champions League Final and have changed the template accordingly. Sorry again for my mistake! _└ ^UkPaolo/talk^┐ 15:32, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad that my findings were mainly due to an accident. Sorry for the accusations! Thanks for the quick and good-natured reply. I appreciate it that you're willing to apologize. In case you're wondering, I don't think that the changes you have made should be reverted, since I think edits that just change which international spelling is used are (usually) moot. —Michiel Sikma, 15:43, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your understanding. I apologised, actually... (just kidding!) Yes, I would agree with you that British/US spelling changes are normally not worth worrying about! _└ ^UkPaolo/talk^┐ 15:55, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for taking care of the Forest matter; I appreciate the response and hope there won't be any more conflicts from now on. ' ^{(Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!)} 15:25, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Not a problem, I do too. _└ ^UkPaolo/talk^┐ 15:34, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

There really never is a time

There is really never a time where I can get into a conversation without hearing from you within a day. Is there some reason you keep getting into my conversations? I know conversation's are supposed to be more than two people if wanted or needed or if a user wants to say something, however I think were going over that which has made me decide to take a Wikibreak until next Wednesday and do something else. For instance you say: "It is good practice to leave useful edit summaries". Another admin tells me you should never remove vandalisim warnings plus, Apostrophe has got to control his use of edit summaries as you can see when he was first blocked. Bad use of edit summaries....Furthermore, if I really start thinking about it I might be leaving Wikipedia for good! ForestH2

You know it seems as though I should quit...ForestH2

And....please see my user page for a better follow up. ForestH2

Forest, I'm confused and somewhat saddened by this message. Firstly, I'm not too sure I understand your comments regarding User:Apostrophe. I am correct when I say that it is good practice to leave useful edit summaries, and you are correct in quoting another admin as saying that vandalism warnings should not be removed from talk pages. I'm not quite sure why you brought these points up. From what I can see from the block log Apostrophe never was "first blocked". I think you'll find that whilst his use of edit summaries is not perfect, he does use them some of the time and to be perfectly honest, even if he never used them I don't think that would ever be considered grounds for blocking in its own right and you certainly have no right to make such threats to him. As I pointed out above, if you really want to discuss things which could be considered a blockable offence, your seeming willingness to disrupt Wikipedia to proove a point to Apostrophe by continually reverting his change simply due to his lack of an edit summary is something which is far more likely to merit a block (see WP:POINT).

I'm not sure there's much to be gained from discussing this issue further. I'm sorry if you were annoyed by what you seem to consider my interfering in this matter but I would point out, that since both Apostrophe and Chris had posted at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts and (allbeit wrongly) Wikipedia:Requests for mediation and as an admin I felt it absolutely appropriate to intervene. You are mistaken in saying that you cannot "get into a conversation" without hearing from me "within a day". I have only ever intended to give my guidance in places where I have felt you are mistaken.

Please don't get so disheartened by all of this and accept the criticism. You have made many valuable contributions to Wikipedia, and I hope that after your break you will come back and continue to do so. _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 13:47, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Your saying it's good practice to leave edit summaries. You are correct. It is not good practice to leave bad edit summaries. Please see Apostrophe's talk page where he had been blocked before for bad usage of edit summaries. This was a while ago. You'd have to go way back in the block log as I am sure you an other admin's block users/IP adresses 1,000 times a day or so. If he removes vandalisim warnings or decides to put some rather bad stuff in edit summaries. He gets warnings. Removing them....well. I was waiting for him to get his act together and actully put in a good edit summary which he rarely does. Chris and Apostrophe, I know posted to the Wikiquette alerts seemingly they did not know about there bad use of edit summaries. It is O.K if you get into my conversations.....However, in the last two major ones, with Touth and Apostrophe I have heard from you in so quite a while. Well I'm going to take a little time off this weekend I think making some edits and return on Monday instead. And why is there a rule called "You can only revert 3 edits once in a day" That seems to be a rule that....I don't know. It's O.K if you intended to give your guidance in the places where you felt I was mistaken. I'm going to come back after Monday while making several edits over the weekend. And I guess it's O.K to interfere with my conversations...and post new conversations so my knowledge of Wikipedia can get better on the talk page. I may just take a day off...I don't know what at the current time. ForestH2

And it just got tiring have to play a game with Apostrophe's name. Where does a user report a supcious user to be banned? I know it's not where you can request a block. I would assume you know. Do you? Oh and about my name, RadioKirk says he was going to contact the software people and talk to them why my name was coming out like this: ~~~~ForestH2 00:03 19 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2

Best Regards, ForestH2

Please see my talk page. We still have a lot of not answered questions needing to be closed. ForestH2

You can keep doing as you are...to expand my knowledge of Wikipedia. However.... ForestH2

IT People

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from IT People, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. I have nominated the article for deletion instead; the debate may be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IT People, which overrides the need for a {{prod}} tag. I have explained my reasons for doing this in my nomination. Thanks! Mangojuice^talk 12:53, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate you having taken the time to let me know, I've added my comments to the AfD. Thanks! _└ ^UkPaolo/talk^┐ 13:20, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

The Whole Treehouse (Drake and Josh episode) thing

If you would like to make a comment or two in my conversations that is fine. But not if it you don't have a relevant comment-well that's where I was concerned. As far as I know we still need to clear up this thing about the Treehouse (Drake and Josh) episode, wether we are nominating it for deletion, keeping it etc. ForestH2

Game

Feeling Chatty? Yeah. Many people sign there name differently but going up to edit history. Seeing there's no Feeling Chatty clicking on the verisons to actully see wrote that message? That's a game. And it's a complete waste of my time. ForestH2

And please explain to 194.80.32.11 that you can have a wikibreak sign up there and still be editing. He keeps vandalizing my page by taking it off. ForestH2

User Page

Is it O.K to have: "User's that I like, Users I don't like, Users I admire" etc....on your user page? I would think it would hurt ones of feeling if they showed up on the page and saw there name on the don't like list? ForestH2 ^{(discuss | contribs)}

why you are destroying my auto?

angelrada 14:42, 23 May 2006 (UTC)