User talk:Winchelsea

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I am on a wikibreak, I had to remove my email contact to deter my stalkers with their argumentative personal agendas. I hope to be back in the future.

hendon pigeon society

hello there, I fail to see why you have reverted my edits to the Hendon page regarding the real english pigeon appreciation society. there has been no advertising of external links, i am citing a reference in regard to the information that i have quoted about the pigeons. If you are to remove this link then you should also do the same for the archeological society too? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcus didley (talk • contribs) 21:41, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

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Surrey

I notice that you reverted changes to Surrey. I had looked at it myself, but came to the conclusion that the previous editor was right. I thought of the Wraysbury area, but that has moved from Bucks to Berks, and then I looked at the area round Colnbrook and Poyle and I see that boundaries have changed there too, so I can no longer see anywhere that Surrey and Bucks have a common boundary. Berks seems to come between in the places where Bucks & Surrey used to border. I see also that the Bucks article doesn't include Surrey in its list of counties with which it has boundaries. I do struggle when trying to follow the seemingly endless list of changes to county boundaries, and I might well be confused, so I'd be grateful if you could clarify for me where the Bucks/ Surrey boundary now lies. - David Biddulph (talk) 00:27, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

STiki false positive

I don't think the edit that you reverted with STiki here can be reasonably interpreted as either an editing test or vandalism. The sentence could possibly do with tidying up and being given a more encyclopedic tone (in fact, so could the whole section) but it's clearly a good faith attempt to add information. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:27, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

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False test/vandalism revert to Yamuna Nagar

Hi Winchelsea,

Your changes http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yamuna_Nagar&diff=484528188&oldid=484511895 don't seem fine.

in fact, addition of that particular text seems vandalism. The text advertises a karate institute in the city. It was added by a user named 'Sandy94kumar' and talks about 'Sandeep Kumar Yadav'. I hope you can see this is a clear case of vandalism.

The user before you removed it in goodwill, which you added back using STiki.

I am removing it. Please be more careful using STiki. Contact me if you feel otherwise.

Mittgaurav (talk) 05:15, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Regarding your reverting deletions from Chief Ministership of N T Rama Rao Article.

It looks like you suspected vandalism or test edit in the article when there was a deletion of 11000 + words from the Chief_Ministership_of_N._T._Rama_Rao article. I agree that it is a valid suspicion, but in this case, please allow me to make the case that it is an important edit for that article.

The chronology of events with the article are as follows:

The article had been in very stable well regarded and rated state for over an year without the deleted material. There were an average of over 1000 page views for it.It seems an edit war was started in another article (N T Rama Rao) and it spilled over to this article. Some one moved some of the material from the N T Rama Rao article to this article during those wars. Now edit wars in both the N T Rama Rao article and this article seem to have subsided. I did not participate in any edit wars, was just an observer. In the current state of the the two articles, top three sections are being duplicated (first term, second term, third term and palace coup). More importantly, the material that made this article well used is below the fold and I suspect it is causing a minor dip in its viewership.

Hence, if you find it sensible, please allow for the deletion of this redundant material. I don't think it is a good idea to delete this material from the other article because, that article was always the home for that material. This removal from this article will revert it back to when it was stable and un-controversial, and heavily used..

STiki: A new version and a thank you!

Greetings Winchelsea. As the developer of the STiki anti-vandal tool, I would like to thank you for recent and non-trivial use of my software. Whether you just tried out the tool briefly or have been a long-term participant, I appreciate your efforts (as I am sure does the entire Wikipedia community)!

I write to inform you of a new version of the software (link goes to list of new features). This version addresses multiple long-term issues that I am happy to put behind us. Try it out! Provide some feedback!

The STiki project is also always seeking collaborators. In particular, we are seeking non-technical colleagues. Tasks like publicity, talk-page maintenance, advertisement, and barn-star distribution are a burden to technical development. If you are interested, write me at my talk page or STiki's talk page.

As STiki approaches two significant thresholds: (1) 100,000 revert actions and (2) 400 unique users -- I hope to have your support in continuing the efficient fight against unconstructive editing. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 00:03, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:20, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Sussex

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