User talk:Alfirin

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Agar plate

Two items:

First, I've removed your LB agar recipe from the Agar plate article - not because the info is wrong, but simply because specific instructions like this are more appropriate on Wikipedia's sister project, Wikibooks. I've added an explicit link to the Agar plate article - you may want to check it out and see if the LB instructions are needed there.

Second, when editing, you should only check the "This is a minor edit" box when the edit is really minor (say, a typo correction or removal of an extra blank line). Why? Many editors choose to ignore minor edits (a setting the My Preferences menu in the upper right of your screen) and thus would miss these not-really-minor changes. For more details, see Help:Minor edit.

Third (out of "two"...), welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you'll continue to edit - the microbiology links here can use lots of help - and remember, continue to be bold.

--MarcoTolo 00:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

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Hi! I'm really sorry this reply is so late (and you probably won't even be checking this any more!) I only just realised that people talk and reply to each other on talk pages, so apologies for my being rather slow :) I did as you suggested and moved the LB recipe to Wikibooks. Thank you for all your help, and I aim to edit Wikipedia much more now that I've learnt some basics ^_^

Thank you again

Alfirin 23:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

autoblock

Wikipedia software uses so-called "autoblocks", which cause innocent users to be blocked for the actions of other users. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to prevent this from happening. The autoblock should go away after a while. -- Curps 05:05, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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As with MarcoTolo, I'm very sorry that this reply is so late. Thank you for clearing up my query, it did confuse me somewhat :) I've heard somewhere it's to do with a signature from the computer changing between page viewings - I still get strange vandalism warnings but they stop the moment I sign in (which is reassuring ^_^)

Thanks again for all your help, hopefully I'll thank you sooner if we meet on Wikipedia again! Alfirin 23:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image (Image:St Thomas' school logo Grays.JPG)

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I know you're a robot, but in case your owner or anyone else who's looking into that picture comes here then I think I should reply.

As that was one of the first images I uploaded I sort of mucked up the size (I didn't know that the infobox made resizing within it difficult) so the first image came out a bit big. I tried changing it but ended up uploading another instead. The other, sensibly sized. picture is still happily sitting in the article - but the odd sized one is orphaned and I wasn't sure how to delete without creating a blank page. I know what to do next time though :) I should have nominated the superfluous image for deletion - I just hadn't found out about the tags until recently :)

>>goes to delete the repeated image<<

Alfirin 09:30, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free use disputed for Image:St Thomas' Logo small.jpg

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Dealt with :) It's now tagged properly Alfirin 19:41, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What evidence suggests it is licensed under the GFDL? --Iamunknown 19:47, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Input request

Hi Alfirin, there is some discussion currently going on here, and I noticed you have {{User anime}} on your userpage. If you are not too busy, I would appreciate it if you could drop some of your ideas on how to reform the portal on the aforementioned talk page. Thanks! « ANIMUM » 23:05, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School, Grays

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Article

The article is here [1] if you wish to recreate it . It was removed because generally secondary schools are considered notable to have Wikipedia articles (I created this) whereas Primary schools are not. I am indifferent towards the article so go ahead and recreate if you want to. Francium12 03:16, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Orphaned non-free image File:Palmer's crest.jpg

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