User talk:John

A Note on threading: Interpersonal communication does not work when messages are left on individual users' talk pages rather than threaded, especially when a third party wishes to read or reply. Being a "bear of very little brain", I get easily confused when trying to follow conversations that bounce back and forth, so I've decided to try the convention that many others seem to use, aggregation of messages on either your talk page or my talk page. If the conversation is about an article I will try to aggregate on the article's talk page. If the conversation is on your talk page or an article talk page, I will watch it. If the conversation is on my talk page or an article talk page and I think that you may not be watching it, I will link to it in a note on your talk page, or in the edit summary of an empty edit. But if you start a thread here, please watch it. I may mess up, don't worry, I'll find it eventually. Ping me if you really need to. please note this is a personal preference rather than a matter of site policy

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Discussion There is a discussion here which may be of interest to you. Radiopathy •talk• 23:40, 1 April 2014 (UTC) Thanks. --John (talk) 06:01, 2 April 2014 (UTC) We obviously haven't finished John - please see this addition from Macktheknifeau to Talk:Soccer in Australia. The last sentence is true. He has begun unilaterally changing "soccer" in many Australian articles to "football". A look at his recent Contributions will show the extent of these changes. That's not my understanding of our consensus. HiLo48 (talk) 15:09, 2 April 2014 (UTC) Thank you for alerting me to this. It is certainly too early to make any sweeping changes, as we are still discussing the implications of the new consensus in the talk page. --John (talk) 15:46, 2 April 2014 (UTC) A barnstar for you! The Admin's Barnstar Tedious and needed, the work you did on the Australian football/soccer/whatever naming conventions. Let's hope something positive will come out of your good work. Drmies (talk) 21:14, 2 April 2014 (UTC) Aw thanks, Drmies; coming from you this means a great deal. Heel hartelijk bedankt, meneer. --John (talk) 21:17, 2 April 2014 (UTC) Talk:Edinburgh Trams#GA review Awesome. Would you be able to reply to the awaiting question at Talk:Edinburgh Trams#GA review? —Sladen (talk) 21:27, 2 April 2014 (UTC) Certainly. --John (talk) 21:35, 2 April 2014 (UTC) Please, details (at Talk:Edinburgh Trams#GA review) would be most useful. —Sladen (talk) 22:36, 2 April 2014 (UTC) Talk:Regarding history about people posting irrelevant content on the articles Hello, this has came to my attention that there have been people mentioning people in forums, mention about how people posting fanart, etc. But can I ask you a question, is there any chance that certain articles can have a history reset if it's possible? Because not only is to protect certain people from danger, but certain information being read in history can cause people to post reasons of editing to be controversial. So is it alright if there's once certain article that can be deleted but can be reuploaded in a new format of history? Please let me know when you get this message. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Okolanda (talk • contribs) 21:03, 3 April 2014 (UTC) Revisions can be hidden or deleted from the article's history, Okolanda. It isn't usually done unless there are very serious concerns with the material in the revisions. --John (talk) 21:06, 3 April 2014 (UTC) But is there a possibility to delete the article and reupload it with history being resetted? Because I have seen this with people trying to expose people about previous experiences just so that it can damage their reputation. I do apologise that it may waste your time. --Okolanda