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Welcome!

Hello, Carre, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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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!  Lcarsdata (Talk) 12:35, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Bedfordshire infobox table

Thank you for joining the WikiProject and I would like to give you a warm welcome.

Also you put the infobox table into alphabetical order, although this may seem correct, we ideally want the table to be in order of infobox status and then alphabetical order so a work list is created that we can go up in order of articles in need of most attention. Lcarsdata (Talk) 12:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Rugby World Cup

Hi Carre, I saw your message on the talk page, please feel free to make any changes, especially the spelling/grammar errors that you found. Don't hesitate in making changes to improve the article. Cheers. Cvene64 04:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

No personal attacks

While I'm aware you are doing a good job reverting vandalism, please try and remain civil and avoid personal attacks such as you made in this edit summary. Cheers --Pak21 17:56, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, since an IP address isn't a person, it's not a personal attack... but since the arsehole using that IP address is a person, that does come under personal... :) Seriously, I get the point, and thought much the same to myself just after I hit save. Oh well.

Help me! Deleting pages

Just going through the recent changes, and came across this page, that seems a vanity page and a subject of vandalism to boot. Was just wondering how the hell you delete, or nominate for deletion.

Ta.

I haven't looked at the page myself (shall do so in a second) but if it is a vanity page then you can flag it for speedy deletion as such by adding the tag {{db-bio}}. For other categories for speedy deletion, see Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion. If you're not certain that it falls under a speedy deletion category, see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion. Angus Lepper 14:27, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Yep, looks like a candidate for speedy deletion with {{db-bio}}. Good catch. Angus Lepper 14:30, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Cheers for the prompt reply :) Carre 14:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem :-) Angus Lepper 15:15, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Rachel Parish image deletion

Thank you very much for letting me know. I already contacted Miss Parish for further detail on the ownership and copyright of the image, and will clarify when I have this. If the image gets deleted in the meantime, this is in accordance with Wikipedia policy and I will certainly not complain. If I get the appropriate formal acknowledement of permission, I will either update the tags on the image, or (if it has already been deleted) re-upload the photograph. Thanks, Stelio 11:50, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Rating and reheading for The Antipope

A response, to your comments. I was attempting to bring the headings in line with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate guideline. So some of the nature of the headings might not work completely. Perhaps your could bear this pattern template in mind when writing.

On subject of the major themes - it probably means you have sunject matter for a seperate "styles" section (perhaps placed after the "Major themes" one as well.

Also if you have information to populate a more comprehensive ==Literary significance & criticism== that would be good as the more balanced treatment of issues that directly relate to notability are often overlooked. "Sales figures", "reviews", "criticisms" and "appreciations" could all be included. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 15:55, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Ernest Hemingway

Hi, in this edit you reverted to the version in which I had added a request for citation{{fact}} , but removed the request for citation. Was this intentional? If so can you add you reasoning to Talk:Ernest_Hemingway#Inconsistency_in_Text. GameKeeper 22:41, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Bedfordshire WikiProject

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User:Carre/Short Message Service

You asked me to have a look at this. I think you have made a good start on it. I should say that my SMS knowledge is mainly pre 3GPP, but it doesn't seem to have changed at this level. Having said that it is a good start, it may be too much detail for WP - it would however answer some of the questions I recently answered on the Talk page, which migh be a good thing. Of course you need to look at improving the formatting if it is to be used - for example, in the MO section the text for signal number 4 is split by the diagram. SMeeds 15:26, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Help me! Adding a note for future editors to prevent page moves

I recently requested a page move from Customized Applications for Mobile networks Enhanced Logic to Customised Applications for Mobile networks Enhanced Logic (-ised versus -ized spelling). The move was done by an admin, since it was potentially controversial, and also needed a move over a redirect page. The article was originally titled as it is now, following the move, but was moved to the -ized spelling in good faith back in January, presumably by someone who isn't aware of en-GB spelling. I would like to add a note at the top of the article requesting that people refrain from moving it back to the -ized spelling again - reasons given at Talk:Customised Applications for Mobile networks Enhanced Logic#Requested move. I know there are templates for "see also", "disambiguation" etc, but was wondering if there's an equivalent for generic note where I can just specify the text of the note?

Thanks in advance. Carre 21:21, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Try {{notice|your message}}--Werdan7^{T @} 21:26, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

No, there is no such template for articles, probably because it is not a maintenance template (like the "this article needs..." ones) and it would be a self reference to the project. I think you should probably put a hand-crafted notice at the top of the talk page ({{notice}} is a good idea). The admins who move the pages probably check these before performing the move. -- lucasbfr ^talk 21:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you both for your responses - I've tried the {{notice}} for now; hopefully it will have the desired effect, and since any subsequent move back to -ized would require admin intervention (due to new redirect page at the -ized spelling), hopefully the page won't be moved again. Thanks again. Carre 21:39, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Receiving an SMS

Could you kindly, in that case, explain how anyone sends a Short Message Service from their phone? I don't generally expect to receive an MSC, BSC, BTS or SMSC over the air when I receive a text!... Carre 18:03, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

You are right from a technical perspective, just like when I say my boat has GPS, I don't mean that my boat contains a constellation of 28 satellites orbiting the earth. Bottom line is there is no ignoring that to a significant portion of the world, an "SMS" is a text message, just like a GSM handset is a "cellular phone" even though it doesn't use AMPS cellular technology. It's only fair for Wikipedia to acknowledge that, because its audience is normal people, not communications infrastructure engineers. I have changed the first section of the SMS article to clarify that it's talking about the GSM Short Message Service, and although SMS supports text messaging, that "text messaging" is something else, somewhere else. Reswobslc 18:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)