User talk:NigelR

Welcome!

Hello, NigelR, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --Doc Tropics ^{Message in a bottle} 04:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nigel, that's a "boilerplate welcome" above, but I wanted to compliment you for taking the time to revert the external links you had asked about at the Help Desk. You were Bold! I tend to keep several articles on my watchlist which seem to attract commercial links from Anon IPs fairly often. Reverting spamlinks isn't very glamorous, but it helps to maintain the credibility of WP as a whole. Thanks! --Doc Tropics ^{Message in a bottle} 04:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Biscay

Nigel - thanks for the message - I have just got back from a journey to the Bay of Biscay myself so I was inspired to write about it. I am fairly new myself on Wikipedia (certainly no expert!)

Tony

National parks

Those links you mentioned on the help desk are commercial spam. Please, feel free to remove them. If you feel uncomfortable doing it yourself, please let me know the article titles (and link title) and I will do it for you. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:25, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You can go ahead and revert any link that you left in there. If anyone questions you, just tell them I said it was okay. :) - Mgm|^(talk) 16:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: 62.25.109.194 block

Thanks for pointing this particular user out. I agree that 3 hours isn't enough. However, it is a shared-ip address, meaning that other legitimate editors use it, so it will have to do for now. Once again, thanks for helping out in this one, and welcome to Wikipedia. Happy editing. --Jay(Reply) 15:37, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

geocaching

Not sure why you sound so offended about a small edit that left most of your addition, and just trimmed it a bit. Are you sure you're not confusing me with somebody else? - DavidWBrooks 21:29, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're right: I did remove the entire edit, not just part of it (my error). I put an explanation in the "Edit summary" box when I made the change - did you see that? Geocaching is already a long, cumbersome article, so we want to keep peripheral material to a minimum, and the history of a different pastime (which is available on that pastime's article, of course) doesn't make the cut, it seems to me. - DavidWBrooks 10:32, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for editing my Talk page and removing those links. I didn't even know they were there, I appreciate it.

Reikon 09:41, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for editing my talk page :-) Myanw 12:49, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

He's been blocked, I think the day will be good after all - Myanw 13:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I use IE at work (yeah, I do edit wikipedia while I'm supposed to be working, shame on me), I have no choice, I can't install anything on my "computer" there, heck, I can't even fix the delay the clock displays - Myanw 13:20, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome!

Getting a second opinion that agrees is always heartening; you're very welcome. Good spam-hunting to you! — Saxifrage ✎ 20:16, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cape Verde Edits

Hi, just contacting you about the cape verde links i added, the website is a non profit site and is just for the english speaking public to gain information about Cape Verde and to chat about it on the forum, it is not a tour operator or anything like that if that what you felt it was. I hope you will see the site for what it is, thank you.

Mark — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.159.184.222 (talk • contribs)

Hi Mark - I'll place this answer on both talk pages in case you miss it. Given what is now on your talk page you will probably understand that it is not just my view that these links constitute spam as far as Wiki is concerned. A problem you have is that while you continue to only add external links from an IP address rather than an account you will be seen as placing spam by almost any editor. If you want to get an account and join Wiki and contribute your knowledge - fine, if you continue to place links they will probably get removed (and you might find you IP address blocked). -- Nigel 07:45, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mark -- Well it isnt spam but lots more content is going on next week and i hope that will be better for wikipedia, but on the other hand is the forum ok. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.159.184.222 (talk • contribs)

Well thanks you for getting back to me Mark. The question that occurs to me (other than why you don't get an account) is are you interesting in people learning more about the Cape Verde area or in bringing people to your website? I'm sure you have a great deal of knowledge about the area so to get an account and put useful information into the pages concerned would be good. However otherwise any number of editors on Wiki will merely take the links out again - I guess it's your choice. It would be good if you would sign your posts to talk pages to - it is quite simple -

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also push the signature button

located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you!

Thanks -- Nigel ^(Talk) 13:22, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Churchill revert

why did you remove the change i made to the churchill page? is there a way of chatting to you about this website? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.9.94.149 (talk • contribs)

Eastern Mediterranean University

I added that the Eastern Mediterranean University is situated in the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, because the readers will assume that the university is situated in the legally recognized Republic of Cyprus. The university itself is also probably unrecognized due to its geography.