User talk:Hebrides

Thanks :) Hebrides (talk) 21:45, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Hebrides. A. M. Nair founded the restaurant in 1949. And now his son G. M. Nair is the master. The restaurant is very famous as authentic Indian food. Ok? See [3]--Bukubku (talk) 08:31, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for contacting me. I've replaced the link with a little more explanatory text so that nobody else makes the same mistake as I did! Best regards, Hebrides (talk) 08:37, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your understanding. He also published his autobiography book in Japan.[4] And his son published book about curry.[5] They are famous.--Bukubku (talk) 08:40, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hebrides, please take a look at Albert Einstein Medal. When my friend did a Google search and got to this page, she was shocked. It seems like the anonymous edit 2 revisions ago did the vandalism. I'd undo the last 2 edits, but one seemed to be done by a bot. So, I thought I'd better double check with an expert. Or should we report to an admin? --EJohn59 (talk) 03:27, 8 October 2009 (UTC)EJ[reply]

Thanks to your friend for spotting this one. I reverted it. I’ve added this page to my watchlist so that I’ll know when it’s been changed, and can keep an eye on it. The bot edit that also got reverted in the process had just added back all the links to other language wikis that the vandal had removed. The anonymous vandal is the IP address of Manor Independent School District, Texas (see their talk page for all the warnings and blocking), and I've also just reverted their edit to Allen Brown. Cheers - Hebrides (talk) 05:45, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Einstein owes you one, for action at his relativistic speed!!--EJohn59 (talk) 19:36, 8 October 2009 (UTC)EJ[reply]

I don't understand what you did on the last two revisions. The explanation is written in a shorthand that is not familiar to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Centennial%2C_California&action=historysubmit&diff=323242991&oldid=322639021 . Sincerely, your friend,

Sorry about that. I was using AWB to try to sort out the spacing around punctuation, which was somewhat inconsistent. I tried several regex search/replace pairs, like for example:

\s*([,])([^\s0-9+”<'_"\)\{])    →    $1 $2   (makes sure there’s a space after a comma and removes spaces before a comma)

Unfortunately, when AWB applies this to the whole page it just quotes the first specific instance in the edit summary (things like Replaced: ,T → , T (6)). What's more, the presence or absence of spaces or multiple-spaces isn't obvious in the edit summary, hence the rather confusing result.

I do check the changes very carefully before committing them, because there are some exceptions (like, for example, some URLs that have commas in them). But unfortunately the usual Wikipedia diff display doesn't highlight spaces that are inserted or deleted. After looking at the diff display I can understand why you were puzzled. Best regards, Hebrides (talk) 06:45, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to ask this question regarding Buckeye, Arizona; thanks for the detailed explanation. Nyttend (talk) 15:31, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Hebrides. You have new messages at Irbisgreif's talk page.
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My pleasure. ---Irbisgreif-(talk | e-mail)-(contribs) 09:17, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help! --Lecen (talk) 12:54, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! That's what Wikipedia is all about. -- Hebrides (talk) 12:58, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya. I thought I would point out that you tried to move their statue. It's a little heavy, I think, to take across state lines. Do be sure to check for context when wikilinking. Cheers!

Oops! Thanks for spotting that and carrying it back for me. Concentration must have lapsed a little :( Cheers! -- Hebrides (talk) 18:19, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, just to let you know that this page has been nominated for deletion using

Thanks for your note. However, by the time I had logged in, the page had disappeared. Speedy indeed! No chance for me to say whether it was "work in progress" or whatever. Was it actually an orphan as the tag says? -- Hebrides (talk) 20:19, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work on "Polywell"  :) KitemanSA (talk) 14:06, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure. -- Hebrides (talk) 12:42, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do they exist? Steinbach (talk) 11:37, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

LOL! -- Hebrides (talk) 12:41, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That means not, I presume? :p Too bad, I am a musicology student and I would have loved to order some... Steinbach (talk) 15:23, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hebrides, with your usual perspicacious quick wit, perhaps you can uncover what's going on in Aerospace. Look at the several suspicious language choices. It's suspect. EJ--EJohn59 (talk) 04:09, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting… Doing a comparison of 23 October 2009 with today's version shows most changes have been reverted. All that survived is addition of a mention of MacDonald Dettwiler and of BAE Systems, and the removal of eo:Aerokosma flugadiko – which I have replaced. The reverted changes seem to be variants on commercial interests, spam links and purposeless vandalism. Did you have any hypotheses in mind? -- Hebrides (talk) 12:46, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm more intrigued with the language pane. Suspect that someone vandalized by taking out the French, German, Chinese and Japanese versions, and put in the less popular languages, one of which is totally bogus. Absence of those other major languages is too surprising. EJ--EJohn59 (talk) 05:36, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hebrides, thanks for correcting my new article

This is what I like about Wikipedia – we can work together, correct each other's mistakes, work in harmony – that's the way it should be. I know how you feel – I'm always very relieved when I write something on French or German wikipedia, and some kind editor goes through and corrects all my language errors! Best wishes -- Hebrides (talk) 14:51, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for correcting so quickly. There are many sights in Hildesheim, but few articles in English. I intend to write and to translate some more and I'll ask you to correct them. We don't have many tourists from the English speaking world and I hope to attract some more by publishing more articles with photos. Thanks in anticipation,--Torbenbrinker (talk) 20:33, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be happy to do that. Hildesheim looks to be a very attractive city. Let me know when you have translated any pages and I'll check them. This will be interesting. Regards, --Hebrides (talk) 22:31, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hebrides, I have just finished a new article on the Historic Market Place, Hildesheim Please correct it if you have time. Thanks a lot, --Torbenbrinker (talk) 22:34, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Really good article, and a beautiful place: you make me want to visit Hildesheim! I have made a few small changes, nothing major. Your English is very good. -- Hebrides (talk) 22:52, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the compliment. If you managed to visit my city I would be pleased to show and to explain you all the places. Now I am working on an article on the Butchers' Guild Hall. Regards, --Torbenbrinker (talk) 12:11, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hebrides, I wrote an article on a castle in Hildesheim and on the Butchers' Guild Hall, Hildesheim. Please correct them if you have time. Regards, --Torbenbrinker (talk) 11:41, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've done that – just a few small changes. This is another fascinating article. Thank you for all your hard work. Regards, -- Hebrides (talk) 22:20, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You recently changed the Anketell (disambiguation) page to remove spaces in the years of birth and death, and you reference the WP:MOS. However, I looked at the referenced page, and I do not see any such directive. Would you please enlighten me further? Thanks in advance. Raymondwinn (talk) 12:04, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Raymondwinn, and thanks for getting in touch.

I was basing my formatting on

MOS:DOB

patterns should be followed for all date ranges, not just birth to death.

I also find that the well-established tool AWB always suggests reformatting year ranges into this standard format – for example, it suggests changing (1974 - 1996) into (1974–1996).

I have no strong opinions either way – I just like the formatting to be consistent. So when I find a formatting recommendation in the MOS I generally try to follow it as far as possible.

Thanks for your work on Wikipedia, and best wishes, -- Hebrides (talk) 12:33, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hebrides, I have just finished a new article on another castle in Hildesheim. Some sentences are similar to the text of Marienburg Castle, as the architecture and history are very similar. Regards, --Torbenbrinker (talk) 20:07, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Another excellent article. I just made a few small changes. Your articles read well, they are logically structured, and the good range of photographs really makes the descriptions come alive. Thank you. -- Hebrides (talk) 20:56, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the fixes to my new article. You might want to look at this article too.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:22, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That's it for me today.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:45, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to help :) --Hebrides (talk) 20:38, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you just do those nbsp fixes, or do you look at content as well? I have added to one of those articles you fixed.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:37, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes I do some serious content editing; sometimes I create a few new pages; other times I'm tired after a day at work, and just do a bit of gentle search-and-replace editing. It also depends whether the subject is something I'm into. I did a quick search/replace scan through some pages you've been working on, but there was not much to change. As for content, your articles aren't really my area of expertise, so I'll leave that to subject-matter experts :) — Hebrides (talk) 20:00, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I'm no expert beyond reading the articles, and I'm not really good enough with the information to do much. I split some content and I'm not really sure what to leave in each place, but one article was getting too wordy.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 13:35, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, saw you sorted out some of my mistakes on Élisabeth Thérèse's article! Thank you very much lol i dont always see everything! Would you do it again as I just added some more info! Merci, Monsieur le Duc LouisPhilippeCharles (talk) 17:31, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to hear from you. I looked again, but only found one thing to amend. --Hebrides (talk) 20:40, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

thanks so much! It was impossible to change it for me. regards--DEDB (talk) 16:34, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I met her briefly once and she was an amazing character, full of life, you are right: she deserve to be in wikipedia. thanks for your kindness--DEDB (talk) 16:56, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

great!--DEDB (talk) 18:21, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed a lot of articles I edit lately have your contribution to making certain information fit some format which I don't really understand. Since I don't know anything about that stuff, it would be nice if you continued watching my contributions anyway and fixing those details.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:15, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An article that you have been involved in editing, Wilderness Air, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wilderness Air. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Whenaxis (talk) 11:50, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I must admit that Wikipedia does not have a set of guidance on the naming conventions for articles of wives of British knights and baronets, but as she was commonly referred to as “Lady Walton” (see the obituaries in the Telegraph[6] and the Times[7]), I don’t see why the name of the article should refer her as the less known “Susana Walton”. Since there is not a clear guidance to follow, I believe it is appropriate, as it is the case of

If you look at the last couple of edits to that article, someone removed those nbsp additions that you've been putting in a bunch of articles I've edited. Also, I've been corrected about the proper capitalization/CamelCase/iPod with mHz.

Do these need fixing? Thanks.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:16, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I left him a message and he responded below, so I have nbsped them again. — Hebrides (talk) 06:13, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

4G — No, my bad. Please revert those back as needed. Jimthing (talk) 21:31, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey thanks for cleaning up my errors. I've done wiki pages for towns, schools, etc but Traylor is my first attempt at an actor, so I'm bound to make a few formatting screw-ups til I get the hang of it. Its still a work in progress, but I appreciate the help. Sector001 (talk) 21:30, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure. Thanks for your appreciation. Cheers — Hebrides (talk) 05:49, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You created Ypthima, of coarse there isn't a problem with that. But just out of curiosity: Did you create it because you saw my page? Co-incidentally I created the "to do" section on my user-page just yesterday. And at then it was a red link, (but obviously now it isn't). So did you make it because you saw it on my page? And even if you did or didn't know, I've got a link to all the Ypthima species (309 i think it is) in-case you wanted to know. but I assume most of them don't have articles.

Anyway, thanks for creating the page for me. --

I wondered if you might like to look at List_of_butterflies_of_India_(Satyrinae)#Ypthima_-_The_Rings and possibly update that with any others of the 309 that are appropriate. — Hebrides (talk) 10:38, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well I'm not sure if I could get the right species in the Indian list, I don't think the page says where they live and I don't know if they live in India or not. So I think it would be pretty difficult.

I realized

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Hello Hebrides

Thanks for cleaning up the redundancies in the Wiki links at Pirmin Meier. Among other things, I wasn't sure whether the umlauts would be recognized properly, so I was kind of trying to make sure the links would be working. Turns out I overcomplicated things. So, again, thanks.

(And while I'm not really sure why or if en dash characters are a better solution for displaying "from... to..." numbers – pages, years etc. –, I can certainly live with these changes.)

When will the New unreviewed article template be removed? I really looks ugly and is detracting. Would you be authorized to remove it?

Regards – ὁ οἶστρος (talk) 17:19, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done, somebody else removed it, so this paragraph is not needed any longer. Should I delete it, or does it stay for archival purposes? Regards – ὁ οἶστρος (talk) 06:54, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, nice to hear from you. As for dash styles, I was sticking to

MOS:DOB as I don't have any particular feelings about n-dashes but it's more a matter of being consistent throughout WP. I have taken the liberty of editing your paragraph slightly so that it doesn't display the template, but I'll leave your text. Thanks for your work on this article. Regards -- Hebrides (talk) 14:12, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply

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Dear Hebrides. I think you remember the page Arthur Sarkissian (artist) that you helped me to create and we decided to add that page without (artist) I checked that page and it's not blocked. can we also add a new page Arthur Sarkissian. sincerely Vahan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Henmor (talk • contribs) 15:56, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Vahan, Nice to hear from you again. I just tried to move the page to become "Arthur Sarkissian" but I got the error message: "You cannot move a page to this location, because the new title has been protected from creation". So there is protection in place to stop a page called Arthur Sarkissian being created. — Hebrides (talk) 18:21, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! and is there any possibility to unblock that page Arthur Sarkissian can I contact with blocker and ask him to unblock taht we can add... Sincerely Vahan! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Henmor (talk • contribs) 07:07, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have left a short message for one of the administrators who was originally involved, asking her to enable me to move the

Arthur Sarkissian (artist) page to become Arthur Sarkissian. It seems a perfectly sensible thing to do. Leave it with me. I'll let you know when she replies. — Hebrides (talk) 07:37, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply

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The good news is that the page is now moved to Arthur Sarkissian. I have been through and edited all the links from other Wikipedia pages too. The bad news is that you seem to have been blocked for using more than one username. I have written to her about it. You can read the conversation at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Moonriddengirl#Arthur_Sarkissian – she agrees with me. Let's give her a little time to see what she can do. — Hebrides (talk) 14:17, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message! I traced back the problem and fixed every article with the same problem (7 edits). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:47, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Krisztián, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://xn--krisztin-fza.com. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.)

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I just got a similar bot message, for Florence Ita Giwa, referring to a web source I can't even access! But the one on Krisztián seems entirely reasonable to me. The webpage contains "Krisztián ... Krisztián ... Krisztián", and your article contains "Krisztián ... Krisztián ... Krisztián ... Krisztián ... Krisztián ... Krisztián". Clearly a multiple violation. :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 20:39, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

LOL! I just left Coren another message – that bot actually obliges the accused to visit a particular webpage it has found. I was actually quite dubious about the one it sent me to.

BTW I just read your userpage and totally agree with your “style guidelines”. It's also nice to meet someone else who enjoys contributing to articles on subjects they know nothing about. There's a great satisfaction in gathering, assessing and correlating information and then constructing a coherent little article, citing all the sources. — Hebrides (talk) 06:35, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

for your clean-up at Russ Savakus. I was surprised to discover that there was not even a stub on him, though a wikipedia search finds him all over the place. I need to follow up on that. Then the "No Source" folks showed up (it is interesting {opinion{) that wikipedia will not accept its self as a source) and I scrounged around and found something, and then you showed up and now it's legit. Life is good. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 17:32, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just put in 9 more links to the Russ Savakus page from other articles on WP. Can you find a copyright-free image to go on the page? I haven't found one yet. I also looked on other language wikipedias, but he doesn't seem to have a page anywhere else we can link to. Cheers — Hebrides (talk) 17:53, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. :) I've responded to your message at my talk page (User talk:Moonriddengirl#CorenSearchBot), but wanted to drop by to thank you for pitching in at Awaaz, here. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:22, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

		The Guidance Barnstar
		For your friendly and patient assistance with a user in need of assistance. Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:07, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm so glad to see you helping him out. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:07, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's really nice of you – thanks. — Hebrides (talk) 21:17, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for saying that you are happy with my contribution. but iam surprised that you have made some changes which are of no importance. why have u asked for clarification near mulochand?? my article i have alredy showed to administrator she was happy. Rajesh khanna is a superstar so please do not edit the word before his name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shrik88music (talk • contribs) 17:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

i have always been showing my artciles to Moonriddengirl -- she is an administartor. i wonder why and who is this Shshshsh who keeps changing the articles contributed by me —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shrik88music (talk • contribs) 17:59, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

His close friend Amit is an honest police inspector who brings many of the goons part of gang of smuggling head Mulchand Malhotra but they are let off by the court as using his skills and knowledge about the loopholes in law ,Jayant helps his client Mulchand in setting his workmen free from jail. Later Amit gets killed and this motivates Amit's brother Vijay to join the police force. Meanwhile Priya falls in love with Vijay and both decide to marry. But one day while going on a picnic Anu and Priya get into trouble as their car tyre gets punctured on a road near a jungle. There a drunkard who happens to be Mulchand's son rapes Anu and injures Priya. Unable to handle humiliation Anu commits suicide. Jayant now gets a clue that the death of his friend Amit was not accidental and that the rapist is a person known to Mulchand and his gang members. Jayant tries taking help of Mulchand and Meerchandani in finding the real culprits but realises that they are not responsive.

Jayant belives that as he has helped them in carrying on their activities by fighting their cases in court inspite of knwing what kind of henious crimes these Mulchand's gang members are doing . —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shrik88music (talk • contribs) 18:34, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Respond as to why are you making wrong changes to artciles.

i dont mind u asking me doubt s, but why dont u ask me doubts in my page. I would be happy if u improvise the article. But deleting word Superstar is just plain baised view.

Most of the films of Mr. Khanna are before 2000 and after 2000 only india became computer literate. so online resources about films and thier real fan following is very less. unless we write the right facts then how will the next generation come to know the facts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shrik88music (talk • contribs) 18:37, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for correcting the spellings but please mention the words Superstar before the name Rajesh Khanna in the first scentence. i think you are cooperative. but a user named ssshhh has been deleting words suuperstar , and has been showing a baised attitude towars Khanna. Hence forth lets discuss with eachother , but without consulting me please dont make drastic edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shrik88music (talk • contribs) 18:42, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Advocate Jayant (Rajesh Khanna) a criminal lawyer believes that a lawyer's duty is to do service to his client alone and to bail him out of his trouble even if his client is in reality a criminal. His close friend Amit is an honest police inspector who brings many of the goons part of gang of smuggling head Mulchand Malhotra but they are let off by the court as using his skills and knowledge about the loopholes in law Jayant helps Mulchand in setting his workmen free from jail.Amit Gupta asks Jayant to be more responsible when he defends criminals, who are repeat offenders. Later Amit gets killed and this motivates Amit's brother Vijay to join the police force. Meanwhile Priya falls in love with Vijay and both decide to marry. But one day while going on a picnic Anu and Priya get into trouble as their car tyre gets punctured on a road near a jungle. There a drunkard who happens to be Mulchand's son rapes Anu and injures Priya. Unable to handle humiliation Anu commits suicide. Jayant also gets a clue that the death of his friend Amit was not accidental but was a delibrate attempt by some goons and that the rapist is a person known to Mulchand and his gang members. Jayant tries taking help of his clients Mulchand, Meerchandani in finding the real culprits but realises that they are not responsive. Jayant has vowed to find the assailants, but before he could attempt anything his daughter, Nandita, is kidnapped. The kidnappers want Jayant to represent Mulchand's son, and get him acquitted and he gets his client out on bail.What Jayant does not know that his client is the one who had raped his wife and sister, and when Jayant does find out - what can he possibly do - with his daughter still under the control of her kidnappers.The rest of the story is how he single handedly brings all of them to justice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shrik88music (talk • contribs) 18:54, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think it probably best if you tell the story in the article. I'm sure the plot is easier to understand for someone who has seen the film. — Hebrides (talk) 21:15, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ya it seems shshshsh this user has a baised view about Rajesh Khanna so he deletes the word Supertar. then i dont know the same artciles are edited by you.

be in touch , do gimme suggestions, but as far as awaaz is concerned do edit the story as u said u got confused. also consult me if you have any doubts in future about any artcile contributed by me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shrik88music (talk • contribs) 19:28, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Hebrides. I saw your contributions to the Hinduism in Indonesia page. I am currently working on a research paper for Graduate school that will be looking into Balinese Hinduism. Do you know of any good resrouces (books, online, whatever)? The only problem is that I can only read English! I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks! Jameslunderwood (talk) 16:25, 19 July 2010 (UTC)jameslunderwood[reply]

Hello James, and thanks for your message. Actually the only thing I did on the Hinduism in Indonesia page was spelling, punctuation and expanding references, which I do on a very wide variety of pages. Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't know anything about Balinese Hinduism.

I just did a quick search, however, and came across a fair bit of background reading (some of it rather ancient) by doing a Google books search, choosing only entries that give full view – you might find some stuff of interest there. You'll have to pick and choose (but you will also accumulate an impressive list of cited references!)

You might also like to try a Google scholar search. (Forgive me if this is all familiar to you and you've tried it already).

And have you tried Copernic (the basic version is a free download from http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html)? It submits a search term to lots of search engines, then correlates the results. I've used it for years and it finds things that Google doesn't find.

Hope that is some help. — Hebrides (talk) 20:23, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much Hebrides! I really appreciate the help. Thank you Jameslunderwood (talk) 00:02, 20 July 2010 (UTC)jameslunderwood[reply]

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Hello. In June you added a citation to a book from the "Webster's Quotations" series published by Icon Group International to this article. Unfortunately,

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I undid your recent change to

Thanks for correcting me. That was something I wasn't aware of, but I'll watch out for it in future and make sure I don't do it again. — Hebrides (talk) 11:48, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings Hebrides. I noticed that you edited an article I created,

Nice to hear from you. It is suggested in

WP:NBSP that the non-breaking space should be used to prevent things like 4 mm or 25 kg or 2 am from being split over two lines. I replace them using the AutoWikiBrowser tool. I know it makes the text less readable when you're editing it, but it does help readability when people read the articles in whatever size of browser window they choose to use. Cheers, Hebrides (talk) 16:55, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply

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OK thanks for your explanation. I will adopt this procedure too. Best Antarctic-adventurer (talk) 08:16, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Hebrides, some months ago you corrected several articles on my home town Hildesheim which I had written in English. I spent wonderful holidays in Cabo Verde, a former Portuguese colony in Africa, where my Portuguese improved a lot. My English, however, did not. I added some information and photos to the English article on the historic city of São Filipe, Cape Verde, the place which I liked most. Please, correct the text if you have time. Thanks a lot, --Torbenbrinker (talk) 20:12, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think there's been a mistake with this edit. Changing "practiced" to "practised" is neither a minor edit nor a cleanup. I see on your user page that you prefer British English, which is the norm for British articles, but the American spelling "practiced" should be preferred here. I don't know if you are using AWB for other such changes, but please be careful to respect

I'm surprised. I had no idea that Americans had different rules for practice/practise. Do you also have different rules for advice/advise and device/devise? What is the American spelling rule? Here in UK, the noun forms are advice/device/practice and the verbs are advise/devise/practise. Thanks for contacting me. I look forward to your reply. — Hebrides (talk) 05:28, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There's certainly a consistent logic to the parallel cases you cite in the UK spelling. Advice/device/practice are the same noun forms here, too, and advise/devise are the verbs. But there is no "practise" in American spelling; it's always "practice" for all parts of speech. I'm sure it looks quite strange to you. I have no idea why it doesn't follow the pattern of advise/devise in the US, but that's language for you. -Phoenixrod (talk) 03:19, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a throwaway thought: Maybe it has something to do with the pronunciations, since practice/practise ends with an "iss" sound rather than "eyes", so despite the spelling similarity to advise/devise, it's not a true parallel. -Phoenixrod (talk) 03:23, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Phonetic spelling? In English? Now there’s a novel idea… ;) Seriously though, thanks for spotting and reverting this one, and for explaining. — Hebrides (talk) 05:33, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for corrected the spelling on the article I created to "contains".

cheers,Bruinfan12 (talk) 07:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure :) — Hebrides (talk) 08:36, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not sure you used the right tag there. The one you used {{spam}} puts a message up which looks more appropriate to a talk page. I've tagged it db-inc now. Peridon (talk) 14:17, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I have moved the correspondence about the Rajesh Khanna article to User:Hebrides/RK for convenience. Please use that page for any discussions about Rajesh Khanna. Thanks. — Hebrides (talk) 20:09, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Many well-meaning, educated, intelligent and mature people contribute their time and effort into the Wikipedia project, supporting its "neutral point of view" policy, and assuming each other's good faith. Edit warring is childish, counterproductive and supremely frustrating and has no place in Wikipedia. Let's build this encyclopaedia together, working towards a shared goal. ---this same thing u should have sent to activebanana

as i had provided 76 references after checking whether all are relaibe... in this version http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rajesh_Khanna&oldid=387376122.

if u observe this version of http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rajesh_Khanna&oldid=387502966 -- edited now by activebanana --it clearly says that he now has gone through my references "Honestly" and has found that what i was writing was facts.infact references are the same.iam happy with the artcile now. infact i always insisted him that contribute to the article fruitfully.

i have spend daily 2 hours serching for 76 references and he was plainly deleting evrything.see his edits earlier to the date 27th september. all were just plain copy pasted.

now he has accepted my references tats all. hope now he doesnt create any furthur problem and defame me. Shrik88music (talk) 14:59, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Responding here to the message Shrik88music left on my talk page, because I'm not sure he would see it there: Thanks for the message. On a cursory glance, this edit looks better than the one that was posted to the

reliable sources noticeboard, though some of the wording could use some work. I don't know anything about your questions 1-5 as I am not following the editing on the article; I'm sorry I can't be of assistance with that. One final point, please try not to discuss other contributors in a demeaning way; saying Active Banana is collaborating with you "out of fear" is insulting and unfair. — e. ripley\^talk 15:23, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply

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I did not find a message from you on my Talk page. Shipsview (talk) 10:32, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure. An interesting little article. I've just added some categories too. Thanks for your contribution to Wikipedia — Hebrides (talk) 18:49, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for fixing grammatical mistakes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laslo_Sekelj&action=history

--Santiago84 11:45, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Happy to help. I've also put a few internal links into the article, and added a reference to the book you mentioned. Thanks for your contribution to Wikipedia. — Hebrides (talk) 19:15, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've never been able to work out that trick to make a multi-used ref appear once in the Ref list with a, b, c etc. You just fixed it here. How do you do that ? -Sticks66 13:08, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It’s explained in

WP:REFNAME. Give the first instance of the reference a name in the ref tag (as in <ref name=foo>Reference text goes here</ref>) then for all subsequent instances, just put the shortened form (in my example, you’d just put <ref name=foo />) as the whole thing. Hope that helps :) — Hebrides (talk) 13:21, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply

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NEED UR HELP in inserting a column where the name of actresses can be put. i have given u thier names against the respective film. here its needed to be incorporated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._G._Ramachandran

1961 Arasilangumari Anjalidevi 1961 Nallavan Vazhvan Rajasulochana 1961 Sabaash Mapillai Padmini 1961 Thaai Sollai Thattadhe B. Sarojadevi 1961 Thirudadhe B.Sarojadevi Watch 1961 Paasam B. Sarojadevi Watch 1962 Kudumba Thalaivan B. Sarojadevi 1962 Maadappura Rathna 1962 Raani Samyuktha Padmini 1962 Thaayai Kaatha Thanayan B.Sarojadevi 1962 Vikramaadhithan Anjalidevi & Padmini 1963 Anandha Jodhi Devika, Kamal Haasan as child artiste Watch 1963 Dharmam Thalai Kaakkum B. Sarojadevi 1963 Kalai Arasi Banumathi 1963 Kaanji Thalaivan Padmini 1963 Koduthu Vaithaval V. Saroja 1963 Needhikkuppin Paasam B. Sarojadevi Watch 1963 Panathottam . Sarojadevi 1963 Parisu B. Sarojadevi 1963 Periya Idathu Pen B. Sarojadevi Watch 1964 Dheiva Thaai B. Sarojadevi 1964 En Kadamai B. Sarojadevi Watch 1964 Padagotti B. Sarojadevi 1964 Thaayin Madiyil Jamuna 1964 Thozhilali K.R.Vijaya 1964 Vettaikkaaran Savithri Ganesan Watch 1965 Panakkara Kudumbam B. Sarojadevi Watch 1965 Aasai Mugam B. Sarojadevi 1965 Aayirathil Oruvan J.Jayalalitha Watch 1965 Enga Veettu Pillai B. Sarojadevi Watch 1965 Kalangarai Vilakkam B. Sarojadevi 1965 Kanni Thaai J. Jayalalitha 1965 Panam Padaithavan KR. Vijaya & Sowgar Janaki Watch 1965 Thazhampoo KR. Vijaya 1966 Anbe Vaa B. Sarojadevi Watch 1966 Naan Aanaiyittal B. Sarojadevi 1966 Mugaraasi J.Jayalalitha 1966 Nadodi B. Sarojadevi Watch 1966 Chandhrodhayam J.Jayalalitha 1966 Parakkum Paavai B. Sarojadevi 1966 Petraalthaan Pillaiya B. Sarojadevi 1966 Thaali Baagiyam Jamuna 1966 Thanippiravi J.Jayalalitha 1967 Arasakattalai B.Sarojadevi & J. Jayalalitha Watch 1967 Kaavalkaaran J.Jayalalitha Watch 1967 Thaaiku Thalaimagan B.Sarojadevi 1967 Vivasayee KR.Vijaya 1968 Ragasiya Police 115 J.Jayalalitha 1968 Thaer Thiruvizha J.Jayalalitha 1968 Kudiyirundha Koyil J. Jayalalitha Watch 1968 Kannan En Kadhalan J.Jayalalitha & Vanisri 1968 Pudhiya Boomi J.Jayalalitha 1968 Kanavan J. Jayalalitha 1968 Oli Vilakku Announced as MGR's 100th film - J.Jayalalitha & Sowgar Janaki 1968 Kadhal Vaaganam J.Jayalalitha 1969 Adimai Pen A unusual plot set in a fictional medieval European kingdom - J.Jayalalitha (dual role) Watch 1969 Nam Nadu J.Jayalalitha 1970 Maattukaara Velan J.Jayalalitha & Lakshmi 1970 En Annan J.Jayalalitha & Muthuraman 1970 Thalaivan J.Jayalalitha 1970 Thedi Vandha Mappillai J. Jayalalitha 1970 Engal Thangam J.Jayalalitha 1971 Kumarikkottam J.Jayalalitha 1971 Rickshawkaran MGR got Best Actor National Award - Manjula & Padmini Watch 1971 Neerum Neruppum J.Jayalalitha 1971 Oru Thaai Makkal first film with damaged voice due to inset bullet wound - J.Jayalalitha 1972 Sange Muzhangu Lakshmi Watch 1972 Nalla Neram KR.Vijaya Watch 1972 Raaman Thediya Seedhai J.Jayalalitha 1972 Annamitta Kai J.Jayalalitha 1972 Naan Yen Pirandhen KR.Vijaya & Kanchana 1972 Idhaya Veenai Lakshmi 1973 Ulagam Sutrum Valiban MGR's second venture as Director,Ran for 217 days, Shot mostly in Foreign location - Chandrakala, Manjula, Latha 1973 Pattikaattu Ponnaiya J.Jayalalitha 1974 Netru Indru Naalai Manjula, Latha & Rajasri Watch 1974 Urimai Kural Latha 1974 Sirithu Vazha Vendum Latha Watch 1974 Meenava Nanban Latha 1975 Ninaithadhai Mudippavan Manjula & Latha 1975 Naalai Namadhe Latha Watch 1975 Idhayakkani Radha saluja Watch 1975 Pallandu Vazhga Latha 1976 Needhikku Thalaivanangu Latha & Radha saluja 1976 Uzhaikkum Karangal Latha 1976 Oorukku Uzhaippavan Vanishree 1977 Navarathnam Latha

Shrik88music (talk) 16:06, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

When I read "inserting a column" I expected there would already be a table there, and you wanted one extra column. I have examined the page to which you refer: M. G. Ramachandran and there is no table of films. Your request is unclear. – Hebrides (talk) 21:50, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._G._Ramachandran_filmography see the link again....insert the actress coloumn ..names of the actress ii have given u from 1963-1978 u may incorporate them tooShrik88music (talk) 19:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I resent your behaviour. You changed the link in your original message after I had replied to it – this makes my reply seem ridiculous, and makes it appear that I didn't read your question properly. If you had simply replied "my mistake, I meant to type http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._G._Ramachandran_filmography" I would have respected you for it. But to try to cover up your mistake, implying that I made the error, is despicable. I'm sorry but I cannot work with behaviour like this. When you find someone else who will add the extra column for you, please don't deal with them as you have with me. — Hebrides (talk) 23:15, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

you r taking it too seriously.... the reason i had earlier copy pasted the mgr main page was to indicate who was the person....i thought that u will urself understand that iam referring to the filmography page of this person whose link i have given...but when u messaged me saying u didnt get where i was asking u to insert actresses column ...i thought of again giving u the link ..but this time directly the mgr filmography.... in spite of having discussed lot of matters with u yoy still feel quite uncomfortable in solving my issues...i doing everything enthusiastically....so dont take it to heart...y would i delibrately copy paste with the intention to show that u had overlooked etc...y wud i do that...main purpose is improving that artcile and not to show u down or sumthning ..!hope now u understood wht exactly took place Shrik88music (talk) 19:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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		Super work with your dabbing efforts. They are more important for the encyclopedia than many often give credit for. And you work so smoothly and efficiently and consistentally. Keep up the great work!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:25, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks – really nice of you. I didn't even know this dabstar existed! –Hebrides (talk) 20:26, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. What's the chances of you being able to help with dabbing for Burmese settlements. Check out

I'm trying to get a handle on this. So – I look on your Repeated place names and see, for example, that Ywathit has a count of 55, so I create a geodis page with 55 links, one to each of the 55 Ywathit pages…

But as far as I can see, there is only one Ywathit page for me to link to. Where are the other 54? Do I create pages for each of the other places called Ywathit? If so, where is the source data from which to create these 54 pages? Sorry, but I'm missing something. — Hebrides (talk) 20:38, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

you'll see it linked 55 within the various

OK. So it’s about creating dab pages full of redlinks. Where will the actual village pages come from? Is there a script to generate them from geonames? I'd rather create the village pages first, then create dab pages full of blue links… — Hebrides (talk) 07:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I downloaded the entire database from geonames – looks a relatively straightforward task to write a few lines of code to generate village pages from that. Is somebody else doing that, or would you like me to have a go when I get time? Life is pretty busy till after Dec 1, but I could look into making a start on it after that… I just don't want to spend time on it if somebody else already has the task in hand. — Hebrides (talk) 21:57, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Great job on that, Oh please do help. Plastikspork is away on business and said the dabbing would be delayed. It would be awesome for you to do this and would mean I can freely go from township to township and start anything, especially those settlements with some scraps in google books.As long as you can also dab the given templates at the same time when generating the dab pages to fix the links and that they match up. First of all can you help me create the remaining templates. They are linked by region in

Can you create a dab page at Aage? It could also be compiled from Norwegian wiki which has missing "Aages".♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:14, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've put one at Aage – a bit of a rushed job (got deadlines in real life at present) but it’s a start. Rgds — Hebrides (talk) 15:43, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, definately needed eh? I'll resume with making the Burma templates later. Are you still up for it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:05, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated

P.S. As I see you've got a disambiguation barnstar. Congrats. ... So you guess I didn't have to educate you in guidelines about disambiguation (and

WP:NOT about arbitrarily listing various superficially related stuff, such as List of people named after saints :-). Lom Konkreta (talk) 17:07, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply

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Thanks for your reply. The {{given name}} template (see Template:Given name/doc) exists specifically for pages such as those you deleted, and puts such pages into the Category:Given names, which contains over 4500 similar pages. It is part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy. These are not disambiguation pages and do not claim to be (unlike the hndis pages, which are disambiguation pages). Whatever your opinions of them (and even if you think they are “silly”) they are an established and respected part of Wikipedia. In view of this, I’m restoring the pages and linking them to the Gabriel page in the normally accepted fashion. Please feel free to discuss further if you disagree with my action after familiarising yourself with the Given names category and its application. Best regards, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia — Hebrides (talk) 21:01, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please allow me to disregard your exceedingly polite speech, which I see in stark contrast with your quite impolite actions of reverting my edits without finishing the discussion. I see no harm in such pages, only non-encyclopedic nuisance, therefore I will not continue this discussion with a person who appear to respect only their own opinion. Good luck in further b-star accumulation. Lom Konkreta (talk) 02:24, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, Lom – I didn't mean to act impolitely. Let's rewind a bit … here's how it went: I created two pages; you removed their content; I reinstated it, explaining my rationale for doing so – I really didn't intend to be impolite. I know your edits were in good faith, and I do appreciate the time and effort you're putting into Wikipedia. Sincere apologies for making you cross – I do my best to get on with other editors, but sometimes I don't quite get it right :( – Hebrides (talk) 21:41, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK.Let's rewind this. My suggestion is to rethink whether it is necessary to list people by first name. I see two extreme situations. Consider the name "John". Do you really think it is useful to have a page which lists several thousand Johns? In many languages? On the other hand, I may readily believe that it would be interesting to have a list of known people with some rate first name, such as, e.g.,... er,... Alexandrina . [WOW! landed on red! ... filled; left Alexandrina (name) for you] What's your take? Lom Konkreta (talk) 01:07, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hebrides, I wrote two short articles on sights of my home town:

Nice to hear from you again. I've done as you requested; once again there was hardly anything to correct, but I made a few small adjustments. They are delightful and interesting articles, well written; and your English is better than many native British writers! It's a pleasure to work with you. — Hebrides (talk) 09:49, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the compliment. It's an incentive to write some more articles. Best wishes for the New Year 2011. --Torbenbrinker (talk) 10:57, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hebrides, I wrote an article on Moritzberg (Hildesheim). It's the part of Hildesheim where I live. Please correct it if you have time. The article became longer than I had expected. Can you make the photos on the right side of the article smaller? I would like to add one or two but I think there is no space left. I wrote a shorter article on Hospital of the Five Wounds, Hildesheim as well. Thanks a lot, --Torbenbrinker (talk) 19:43, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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HI. Are you still up for the Burma dabbing as I intend starting the villages in due course?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:30, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll willingly dab them after the pages have been created. If you let me know when all the pages that share a particular name have been created, I will create the dab page with links to all the pages and brief descriptions. BTW, good to see that you’re back :) — 21:34, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

This is exactly what I mean. Pages like Namkut needing moving and a dab page setting up in its place, Namkut, Mu-Se Township and Namkut, Ke-Hsi Township etc and for the templates to be properly piped to the correct links. You see?♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:48, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Where do you find the township data? I have downloaded the geonames dataset for Myanmar, but it only gives the state (Sagain, Shan, etc), not township. Is there another source gazetteer? — Hebrides (talk) 11:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Maplandia. Search for a place name and it will come up with all the places which might be helpful. All of the places should have entries in the geonames database which can be used as a source. Maplandia was drawn up using geonames I think. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:43, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See User:Dr. Blofeld/Burma for the duplicates.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:43, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Too much of a task eh? Shall I just start creating them?♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:09, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've been scoping the task, and also looking back through your discussions with other users. What I would like to do is to write code to recreate your navboxes with all the necessary piping inserted into the links. For example, name conflicts within a state would be piped to <town>, <township>, name conflicts in different states to <town>, <state>, and names which are unique in Burma but occur elsewhere in WP would become <name>, Burma. It would make it much easier to write the code if I had the raw table of data which was spidered from Maplandia – otherwise I would have to write extra code to reconstruct that table first. Can you get me that table please (one row per town, with as many columns of data as possible for each town)? It would probably be possible to slip in a few extra lines of code to create all the disambiguation pages too. What do you think? — Hebrides (talk) 22:38, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dunno what table of data you mean. Plastikspork was the one who downloaded them, perhaps ask him?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:14, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was referring to the narrative at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Plastikspork/Archive_6#Infobox_C.C3.B3rdoba about the downloading process. Some way through that long section, he says, “I have all the information for all the levels in a large 41,000 line file, so this post processing doesn't take very long. All I have to do is create another file with level 4 removed, and push level 5 down to level 4, and the same script would work. That is, if this is what you want.” The 41000-line file is an obvious starting point for producing a proper disambiguated set of navboxes with a standardised naming convention – before we start creating all the articles.

You’re much more experienced with this sort of thing. Isn’t it worth spending the time to get all the 41000 names fixed and correct at the start (before creating the articles)? And I'd rather spend a little time getting the strategy right and writing a few lines of code to automate the whole thing, instead of trying to do them one by one – better to whizz than plod :) — Hebrides (talk) 06:59, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I'd rather get them fixed initially.

See Plastikspork's talk page.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:46, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm working on it. The list he gave has 37824 settlements, and so far I have the code working to give them all unique names. I'm just developing the part that then checks each name to see if WP already has a page, then checks if that page is a Burma page or is something else (like Ale for example). Those that are something else, I'm appending "Burma", so Ale becomes "Ale, Burma". The final stage (yet to do) will be to churn out the navboxes and disambiguation pages, which should be fairly trivial. This week is fairly busy, so I'll see what I can fit in. Maybe finish it off at the weekend. — Hebrides (talk) 21:43, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

cheers. I just noticed I'd been doing them in the wrong format, so thanks for fixing them Kathodonnell (talk) 03:37, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pleased to help :) — Hebrides (talk) 06:33, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for putting the polish on the article I wrote. It's always the little things that I overlook that detract, plus I could do a little better in the spelling department at times. I don't know how many times I proofread the article and still missed a few things; you were that fresh set of eyes...Thanks again. Cheers. Cuprum17 (talk) 21:58, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You’re very welcome – pleased to help :) — Hebrides (talk) 22:05, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I see you're currently (or at least very recently) using AWB to change article to list references. To be honest most editors don't use list references and they're much harder for newbies to understand, so I'm unsure why you're using AWB to make this change. Could you please explain why you are doing this, or point to somewhere that says it is ok to do this with AWB? Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 12:42, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was just trying to make articles easier to edit and maintain. Inline references, particularly long ones, make it very difficult to work with the text of the article, especially for newbies, because a paragraph may get bloated out by references into many disconnected parts. List-defined references make it much cleaner. However, I was unaware that I was transgressing a sentence in the rulebook I didn't know existed – see Binksternet’s comment below. I’ll stop. Cheers — Hebrides (talk) 13:20, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks for replying. As you may have guessed, I'm not a huge fan of list-defined references, as I personally feel they make it even harder for newbies to understand how to insert references. Anyway, I note that you stopped as soon as concerns were raised and I thank you for that and understand you were acting in good faith. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 15:26, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted your reference style changes to

If you wish to continue with this path you ought to have the guideline at CITEVAR changed. Binksternet (talk) 12:52, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. I read the description at Template:Reflist#List-defined_references and thought these were a brilliant idea for uncluttering reference-laden text, making it much easier to edit and maintain. I should obviously have searched the rulebook before starting to use them. Thanks for pointing this out. — Hebrides (talk) 13:09, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your quick response. Binksternet (talk) 16:32, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's OK. Thanks to you for pointing it out. I looked again at

WP:CITEVAR refers to what I was doing. But since two people raised objections, it is obviously open to different interpretations. Sincere regards — Hebrides (talk) 17:57, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply

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Hi, your recent AWB edit of the above article has broken the refs for some reason & it is appearing in the missing reflist category. I'm not familiar with the ref list system so dare not try to fix. Are you aware of the problem? Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 12:57, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, cancel that. I'm going to revert. - Sitush (talk) 12:58, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I was just going to revert it myself. Having a bad morning :( – Hebrides (talk) 13:00, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No probs. I had a bad week, just gone ;) - Sitush (talk) 13:03, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hebrides. This is KaboomXXL. I saw your comment, and my best answer to you is that I am still trying to get a grip on how to create an effective wiki article. Should you have any suggestions, please, feel free to let me know how I can make improvements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KaboomXXL (talk • contribs) 07:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's OK. I removed the interwiki links because they go nowhere (but when you’ve translated the article into all those languages and put it on all those other Wikipedias, do put the links back ;).

You’re right – learning to write a good article is a steep learning curve. I've been editing since 2006 and I still get things in a twist! But you’ve already got the basics and have done really well with Toni Jeričević – and the nice thing about Wikipedia is that other editors will come in and do their bit too. The "orphan" tag is just because other articles don't link to this one, so if his name occurs in other articles, do go in and link from there, then remove the orphan tag.

Thanks for contributing your time to building Wikipedia. — Hebrides (talk) 09:09, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Excellent work. Thanks. I believe the convention is to drop the district and township names from the end. E,g Abaw, Ye.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:33, 29 March 2011 (UTC)♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:15, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain. My column 4 shows the proposed unique names. I didn't propose Abaw, Ye. I was proposing Abaw because it's unique. Do you mean that I am right? — Hebrides (talk) 14:13, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome, thanks for taking the time to do so, look forward to you running it. BTW do you have a special interest in Malaysia or something, I've noticed a lot of places were started by you.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:32, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah sorry I though Abaw had mutiple place names. What I mean is that we don't generally add State or Township on the end. DO if a made up village say Kyun was located in Bago Township amd another in say Myeik Township it would be Kyun, Bago and Kyun, Myeik.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:34, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What;s the current status?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:06, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please read the long message I left on your talk page about place names... Cheers, – Hebrides (talk) 19:34, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Did you have time to check and confirm? I'd value your input before I go ahead… – Hebrides (talk) 17:26, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

\duh. Sorry!. Wow that would be excellent. Go ahead! Looks good to me. Although when the articles are created of course the township templates will feature at the bottom.19:45, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

So what's the plan now then?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:14, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Got to write the code that cross-references the maplandia data with the data from geonames. I'm inclined to filter out places that aren't on both lists – is that OK with you?

I am also inclined to interpret places with the same name that are less than 1km apart as being the same place – do you agree?

The next job will be writing the code to generate approx forty thousand pages, then running it. When I have all the pages prepared on my hard drive, what is the standard method of uploading 40,000 pages?

Life is very busy this week, so will aim to get started in May. Would be grateful for answers to my three questions above. — Hebrides (talk) 20:33, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely,I fully agree. I'm always dubious about places with the same name in very close proximity anyway.. In the meantime I'll try to get the nav templates for Shan State made, I've done the rest. Mmm uploading 40,000 pages would require approval by BAG if you are running a script. I guess I'll have to try to convince them of articles like Gwebin etc that it is definitely worth having the stubs create on the pathway to the "sum" LOL. As long as they are veriable and can be expanded at a later date I can't see why it should be a problem.. As long as you can create them with a reference to geonames and a map and coordinates in an infobox.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:18, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The nav templates will change after I filter out the ones that are not in both lists. They will also need re-creating to incorporate piped links to all the <name>, <state> kind of titles. Maybe I generate those at the same time as generating all the pages and the disambiguation pages too. What do you think?

Regarding verifiability and references, maybe I will create a sample page the way I envisage them to look – and you can tell me what, if any, further features it should have. — Hebrides (talk) 20:35, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Any developments?♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:05, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, very busy in RL over the past days. Before that, I was working on a boilerplate page format. Would be grateful if you could take a look at User:Hebrides/sandbox2 and give me a crit. I've been meaning to search the rules, regs, guidelines and MOS for anything that impacts on this, but haven't had the time. It would be a shame to break some rule or other on 40000 new pages! I'm not sure about the See also section – whether it is valid to put similar place names in a section like this. I vaguely seem to remember that there is a rule that you mustn't link to a dab page from a See also section but cannot remember where or why. Maybe I should omit the See also section? The only additional ingredient I would put in would be a DEFAULTSORT on pages whose titles have diacritics. Your comments on this sample page would be greatly valued. Be as critical as you like ;) Cheers — Hebrides (talk) 06:20, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. A couple of things though. Get rid of the see also section and if possible put the neighboring settlements in prose in line form rather than bullets, I'm not fond of bullets in articles unless it is like a long list of neighborhoods or people! I think you've included too many nearby places I've updated it in prose and I think we should cut it to only include 8 nearby settlements. Also the name xxxxx is located in southwestern Burma I think is useful. Also the links should be there in the infobox. There infobox box is way too short and is missing the timeozone and image skyline and map parameters should it be found later. If you can please try to add an infobox with the parameters you see in Gwebin, I've updated the infobox in the article. Is is possible though you could use DMS rather than decimal for the coordinates?Also it would be good if you could leave a Search google books link in the external links so hopefully some of them can be expanded later... One last thing. Before creating the entire lot of the nav templates need to be made and slightly different transliteration names redirected... oo is usually given as -U for example. Also you had the district wrong its in Sittwe District, Mapandia doesn't include the second level division it skips from state to third level township. In creating them you'd need to have the townships listed under each district so you know when to change it and they should be sub categorized as Category:Populated places in Sittwe District for example and also a township category should be created for each township. If you just follow the changes I've made to your sandbox 2 as closely as possible it should be OK. . ♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:28, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Many excellent suggestions, including:

• add extra infobox parameters and wikilinked names in infobox – yes, no problem
• use DMS co-ordinates – can easily do this
• trim list of nearby places from ten to eight – easy, no problem
• delete See also – yes, I had almost come to the same conclusion

Some questions arise:

• "xxxxx is located in southwest Burma" … I cannot see how to work out the "southwest". What point are you taking the bearing from? Where does "southwest Burma" change to "central Burma"? I would need mathematical criteria if I were to implement this change.
• Google books search – can you point me to the policy on this please? It seems highly dubious, because you could put a Google books search in the external links on every wikipedia page!
• transliteration naming – this sounds like a problem. How should my software choose a name, if it is not simply taking it from the dataset that I have? Where can I get a gazetteer with the correct transliterations please?
• I do not understand how to convert the maplandia data into District. You say I had the district wrong. What algorithm should I use to get the district right?

And finally, I disagree with you about the bulleted list. Your prose version is clumsy, difficult to read, inordinately repetitive (lots of "which is located" and "to the") and cumbersome. It has nothing to recommend it. I favour clarity and ease of access. No hard feelings – just being honest with you.

Hebrides (talk) 11:58, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why its because when i come to expand the geography I would do exactly that, cut the bulleted list to just a few and add geography and google books link is there to retrieve information, although I have it linked in my itinery so its not a problem. If you want to keep a bulleted list that's OK. I;m not sure there are any "correct" transliterations but http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs6/MIMU001_A3_SD%20&%20Township%20Overview.pdf lists them. However I can no longer access it for some reason. I am aware you can't use maplandia for districts. What I am suggesting then is that you manually list the districts and their townships on wikipedia; they are listed in

OK? When do you plan to start?♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:57, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Busy I gather.. Its now June!Tibetan Prayer ^᧾ 21:58, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

...for your many article contributions and your charming userboxes. Drmies (talk) 20:44, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You just cheered my day :)) thanks! — Hebrides (talk) 20:55, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I gather you scrapped the Burma idea? I haven't heard from you in two months.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:27, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. Had a shedload of RL for most of June. Should have left you a message. Still busy but happy to pick it up and try to remember where we got to. I seem to remember that two problems remain:

1. geonames seems to use some non-standard transliterations
2. how to get an enormous quantity of articles onto WP

Cheers. Hebrides (talk) 14:46, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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LOL! You cannot be serious! — Hebrides (talk) 14:14, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Oops! Sorry about that. Must be more careful. — Hebrides (talk) 11:26, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the new dab page

Good idea. I've added them. Thanks for getting in touch. — Hebrides (talk) 21:26, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hebrides
I see that you corrected my lousy spelling on 3 August, (it was late, thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it), in the

(Don't get me started on the pronunciation: "lootenant" - American English and "leftenant" - British English; incidentially in this case it would be pronounced "loytnant" in German).

Regards

RASAM (talk) 19:54, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see. It was because "leutenant" was close to "lieutenant" that I "corrected" it in the wrong direction! Thanks for repairing the damage. — Hebrides (talk) 21:41, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you created a detailed dab page for this, syou might use google translate from Russian/German wikipedia to help. Generally in English it is spelt Zyryanka or Zyrianka.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:12, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You've become strangely aloof.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:18, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey thanks for that. Why though aren't you speaking to me. Have I upset you?♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:06, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're imagining things! Life is still busy, but I do grab a bit of time to unwind by doing some odd bits of mindless WP tinkering. I guess I'm feeling a little guilty that I put aside all the Burma stuff a while ago, and haven't picked it up again yet. Must have a look and see if I can find the folder with all the files. At the moment this task seems to stay at the end of my "to do" list. I still have visions of spending an enormous amount of time writing, testing and debugging code to generate forty thousand pages and then having no way of uploading them. Your communication about Zyryanka mystified me to the extent that I couldn't think what to reply. I thought disambiguation pages were for words that have lots of meanings, like Bonk or Hoo. As for your imaginings, I don’t do "aloof" – and life's definitely too short to spend time getting upset. — Hebrides (talk) 10:47, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to hear it. Well I gathered you have been busy... Please do consider the Burma settlements as I was wondering "sub stubbing" them which would likely be much worse than if something was coded to produce something half decent as a stub.. Time though as you say may be a constraint.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:09, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See Zyryanka now.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:27, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I understand now. I don't do redlink dabs.

Re Burma, yes, I will dig out all the stuff I did earlier in the year, as it would be worthwhile to create a set of decent pages with all the basic page-furniture in them. — Hebrides (talk) 19:19, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great find with MIMU. In fact I think I'll start an article on the organization itself. Yes if you could use those xcel sheets and find a way to efficiently generate articles with adequate initial pages this would be a massive stepping stone. Of course we should have articles on the sub townships and village tracts as well perhaps. You can use the ready made templates made by townshiup to go in the footer but I suspect many places will have different name transliterations or many duplicates missing or present etc. I would say though that if you stick to the MIMU lists you can't really go wrong as the names and coordinates are there for the taking. I want the infoboxes to be debloated though like this without the unnecessary baggage you see in a lot of articles. You'll need though to add sub township and village tract parameters of course.. Care to make a BAG proposal? I'll also comment.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:55, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I can't get the Burmese script to show up on WP pages. Any ideas? — Hebrides (talk) 15:21, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That is fine. Don't worry about the Burmese script if you can't get it to show up. WP:Burma is basically me, User:Hybernator and User:Hintha, not much of a project in which it could be discussed.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:38, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd only go with those which have coordinates for now for verification purposes, unless the coordinates can be found from geonames or whatever at a later date and Anomebot can add them. If you are confident that the coordinates can be foundat a later date then it would be worth it. It would be a pity to ignore 11,000 villages of course!! .♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:19, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Any progress on this? I'm tempted to just get on with it myself.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:53, 17 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I wrote code to read the MIMU Excel files in their entirety, then sort all settlements into order. (To be honest, I've never written C# code to read Excel files before – a useful learning experience.) I then ran the code I wrote which constructs unique page names for all settlements by adding Township and/or State name to the settlement name as necessary to resolve ambiguity. (This is the program I wrote which previously produced all the unique names on User:Hebrides/Burma/1, User:Hebrides/Burma/2 and User:Hebrides/Burma/3).

With the MIMU names this strategy is insufficient, because many settlements now have the same name, the same Township and the same State. I need to re-craft my name-construction algorithm to construct a unique page name from a minimal combination of (village name | village tract | township | district | state) – just sufficient to make all villages with the same name have a unique page name. To give you some insight into the problem, township names themselves are not unique, so some sets of villages with the same name may have two with the same township name but different states, but also have other instances in those states in different townships. I resolved this in my code by including, in those unusual cases, the (village name + township + state). Now with the MIMU naming some villages have the same name, the same Township and the same State, so a name based on (village name + township + state) is still not unique. This is a non-trivial algorithm, but is fundamental to getting a set of unique page names for the whole dataset before creating the pages. If any of the names are wrong and need changing, all the hyperlinks will be wrong too.

When it comes to what MIMU calls Towns, the spreadsheets show the names all including the word "Town", as in Falam Town, Rihkhawdar Town, Hakha Town, Thantlang Town, etc. I presume we will follow the same convention with the WP page names. This at least will avoid name clashes between towns and villages. Falam Town is a town, within the Township called Falam, which is in the District called Falam in the State called Chin.

Within Towns there are entities called Wards, but again their names are all qualified by the word "Ward", as in Cangbong Ward, Khoboi Ward, etc. I presume our page naming will follow this.

Incidentally, it was strange to get your message when I logged in this morning, as I had just been puzzling over this "unique names" algorithm over breakfast. Regards — Hebrides (talk) 07:47, 18 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Calliopejen is good with excel sheets. I've requested her to generate lists of settlements by district, rather like List of populated places in Peru. That would be a start I hope.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:12, 18 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ms. WP expert, I am a neophyte who has heard praises about you. Anyway, I'd like to request your help on this page which is based on solid official credentials by

Btw, I'm most impressed that you write in British English. I also learned your style of English in Hong Kong, and am very puzzled by Americans saying, "Me and Bob went to store." or "Between Bob and I, " Good thing the UN specifies that their official English is British English.--QES girl (talk) 21:43, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, QES girl, and nice to hear from you. And thanks for joining the band of Wikipedia editors. Sorry for the delay in replying. The Ken P. Chong article is a good start, and shows you already have a good grasp of the Mediawiki syntax and the Wikipedia principles and manual of style. I've made a few edits to it, just to complete the basic ingredients a page needs – categories and defaultsort, persondata, and inline references. For the latter, I prefer the "list-defined reference" syntax because it causes less disruption to the text of the article when in Edit mode, and is easier to maintain. I also created several links to the page from other Wikipedia articles – important to avoid the page getting an "Orphan" tag.

Lots of new articles get notability and primary sources tags early in their development. When trying to establish notability, here's a possible approach. First take a look at

WP:SOURCES

) that confirm these criteria. Finally, write the article in such a way that the chosen criteria are very clear from your text, and use inline references to direct readers to the independent sources.

Sorry again for the delay in replying – life has been very busy this week. Hope some of my comments and edits may be of some help. Best wishes — Hebrides (talk) 20:10, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Ms. Hebrides. What a difference when it was touched up by an expert! I'll follow your suggestions, and be a faithful student. Many thanks.--QES girl (talk) 21:17, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted your edit to Wikipedia:Help desk, as it deleted all recent traffic from the help desk. You may wish to try again. - David Biddulph (talk) 14:06, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you create pages?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:28, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, as soon as the naming is agreed. — Hebrides (talk) 20:28, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you create a dab page for Krešimir?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:09, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great job, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:58, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you create a dab page at

Too many – it's in the thousands. — Hebrides (talk) 19:13, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you check

Checked, didn't find any others :) Hebrides (talk) 19:13, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. I was looking for some people with the surname Chopra. There is no listing. Can you add it to the page/dab?♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:03, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nice one. Can you do a dab page for Baud too, I'll add some later from Dutch and French wiki..♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:30, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you do one for Michałowski and redirect Michalowski?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:07, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :-) Hope you don't mind me writing over your work - but I did try to integrate your original article rather than merely overwrite it. I'm going to list it for a DYK today hopefully. Wittylama 08:55, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

every wiki article has a number of editors, but i wanna know "how to find the author of the article who started the article/page??" and if possible please answer on

TCO (talk) 23:12, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TCO, I have no objection whatsoever. Looking back, I do wonder whether my describing these lists as disambiguation pages was valid – they are really list pages. I presume the pages in question are Monofluoride, Trifluoride, Tetrafluoride and Pentafluoride. Feel free to develop these in whatever direction is useful. They are over a year old, so likely to be incomplete too. Thanks for asking :) — Hebrides (talk) 07:57, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, man!

Thank you very much! I have been expecting this moment when those warnings at the top are removed for one thousand years. Now, the moment finally came! Best. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nnu-12-22100538 (talk • contribs) 10:50, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nice article - I've taken the liberty of nominating it for DYK at Template:Did you know nominations/Léon Azéma. Prioryman (talk) 16:30, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great, and thanks for your contribution to the article. — Hebrides (talk) 06:46, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You certainly missed something. Please read: "At the start of articles on people..."

At 49th New York State Legislature, why do add "&nbsp" in a small column between (number) and "years"? Please don't. Forget the guideline, if there is one. Anyway, please give me a link, if there is one. Kraxler (talk) 15:01, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's what I thought, it prevents things like "3 a.m." from being separated at the end of a line, which is quite helpful. But this is not text, it's inside a narrow column of a wikitable, I think it's not necessary there. Anyway, thanks for the cleaning up. Kraxler (talk) 15:26, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:04, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply