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While I don't agree with the "Combined 9/11 'perpetrators' and 'victims' death lists", it'll work since your edit makes it clearer that the perpetrators are not grouped under the victims tag as well. Thanks for the correction. Take Care and Happy 4th (for the next 16mins)...NeutralHomer ^T:C 03:43, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your comment on Empire: Total War. I thought it was rather amusing, so I reported the user, they are now indefinitely blocked. Granted they were spamming before that on an IP - but this _might_ slow them down. Just for your record. If they vandalize (in this case, spam) after a "final" warning is left on their talk page, you can report them to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. --ShakataGaNai ^Talk 04:02, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks. I've never had to try and get someone blocked before and didn't have time to figure out the process when I made the edit. - ExNihilo (talk) 22:50, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You reverted some clarification I added to the mIRC article without clearly reviewing the info. The reference already in the article explains why other client authors must guess and the link you gave http://www.mirc.co.uk/help/color.txt also shows where the guessing must happen. The mIRC color article even has a specific section saying "Note that if you want to give color to NUMBERS this syntax could mess up if used improperly :-)" and never goes on to say what mIRC itself will do if the users do use it improperly.

In addition the current comment is completely wrong as is because Onno Tijdgat is clearly more concerned that the mIRC method is flawed than he is about it being "non standard".

Whether the criticism is valid enough to even be left in the article is another discussion but as is it MUST be changed.65.27.0.10 (talk) 12:54, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Well there's absolutely no guessing involved. It's quite clear what happens if numbers follow colour codes. Whether the behaviour and the format is a good idea is another matter, but it's already acknowledged in the article that the format is flawed. As far as the 'no common standard' line goes, that's undoubtedly part of Onno's argument. Later in the page he goes on about the flaws but that doesn't mean the other counterpoint isn't relevant. As far as the flaws go there's not really much of a response to have is there? The format is flawed, but it's been implemented in dozens of clients and even a few IRC daemons so changing it now is unlikely to meet with success. I suppose that could be put in the article, but for now at least it's better to have an incomplete summary of the criticism and the points surrounding it then to have a false statement (that there's guessing involved). ExNihilo (talk) 13:16, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. You've reverted my edit on

Aside from that though, HTML parsing needn't mean parsing an entire HTML document. In practice I often see HTML parsing being used for data scraping as a second stage after a simple string search is used to find the location of data to be taken. Usually it's just a small string which can then be parsed directly in text variables.

-- ExNihilo (talk) 17:02, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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