User talk:Lindsay658

Re: blocking

If a registered user gets blocked (in many cases due to a patently offensive username), and then attempts to edit after being blocked, whatever IP address that user is attempting to edit from gets automatically blocked for 24 hours. This appears on the Special:Ipblocklist as:

• [SomeTimestamp] [SomeAdmin] blocked #[SomeBlockNumber] (expires [SomeTimestamp + 24 hours]) (Unblock) (Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "[SomeBadUser]". The reason given for [SomeBadUser]'s block is: "[SomeGoodReason]")

This is intended to reduce the effect of vandals who vandalize with multiple accounts, whilst still protecting the privacy of their actual IP address. In the future, you can place something on your talk page like this:

{{unblock|my IP address was recently used by [SomeBadUser]}}

That will be get attention more quickly and effectively than e-mail. — Jun. 27, '06 [11:12] <freak|talk>

Category:Murdered Australian rules footballers has been nominated for deletion

Category:Murdered Australian rules footballers has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 03:15, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

His Majesty's Armed Transport

Looking at this edit and presumably many more, may I suggest that you omit "the" before a ship beginning with "HMS" or "HMAS" or similar if the need arises in future?

The reason is that the "HMS" stands for "His (or Her) Majesty's Ship" and it is considered poor grammar to write "the His Majesty's Ship Example". Either HMS Example or the Example will do. See this article for guidance.

It is a subtle point. We can write "the USS Enterprise" or "the SS Normandie" or "the RMS Titanic because we can expand the abbreviation to "the United States Sjip" or "the Steam Ship" or "the Royal Mail Ship" and that reads fine but "the His Majesty's Armed Transport" don't. --Pete (talk) 07:53, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Pete Thank you for the correction, and for the (now obvious) explanation. Most grateful. Lindsay658 (talk) 17:26, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. It's not a big thing. Your work on adding biographical details to Wikipedia is so much more useful. I generally find that if I'm unsure of formats or things I might as well just make the edits anyway and someone else will come along behind and tidy up. There are so many roles to play here! --Pete (talk) 00:59, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Gerard Krefft

The article Gerard Krefft you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Gerard Krefft for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 16:01, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

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