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Happy editing! GiantSnowman 15:52, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the friendly Welcome. (I would like to change my user name to 'Griot', used everywhere else. But it's blocked here by an user, blocked indefinitely, but with >5000 edits.) My English is limited, so my contributions will be. Greetings, --Griot-de (talk) 16:18, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Effect of your edit 'Authority control moved from invalid place'?

Hello Griot-de. You made a minor edit to the 'Craig Charles' page on 9 December 2012 (15:26 GMT) stating 'Authority control moved from invalid place'. Can you please tell me what you changed? A recent edit to the page by INeverCry states 'Removing "Craig_Charles_at_Birmingham_NEC_Nov_12.jpg", it has been deleted from Commons by INeverCry because: missing permission as of 9 December 2012'. I would like to get this photo correctly restored. Thanks, Clare ClareGC (talk) 21:49, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello ClareGC, the only essential change, I made for Craig Charles, was to replace the wrong line
{{Persondata {{Authority control|VIAF=56206752}}
by the lines
{{Authority control|VIAF=56206752}}
{{Persondata
That was the meaning of my comment, it has nothing to do with your problems with the photo.
The next and actual last change to the page in question has been made by User:CommonsDelinker (not by User:INeverCry), this 'user' removed "Craig Charles at Birmingham NEC Nov 12.jpg" from the image line, but it's not a man, it's a program. It did it, because INeverCry decided, that there are not enough permissions to free use of this photo. So he deleted the photo – probably, I'm not sure, he deleted it not really, but made it unavailable for us 'normal' users only.
What can you do? Two possibilities: First, you can choose another photo, there are five at the moment:

You could do that by change again the changed image line into (for example)
| image = Craig Charles (03).jpg
The other possibility: The owner of the photo (Paul Aitken - Zombie Headshot?) could declare the lost photo as 'free' (in a special sense). How? Please try to find the way from page Commons:OTRS.
Apologizing for my bad English, I hope, it was of some help for you. Greetings, --Griot-de (talk) 01:37, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much for giving me such a helpful and fast reply. I am in the process of going through the OTRS email system, with Paul Aitken, to prove copyright, and have the photo 'undeleted' from Commons. I just want to make sure I haven't missed any procedures for this photo, and any future photos I upload, as I had thought I may have mistakenly uploaded the photo to the wrong location. Thanks again ClareGC (talk) 09:37, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your request to usurp User:Griot

Hi. Your understandable request to usurp the name "Griot" is causing some scratching of heads at WP:BN. The simplest option is simply to ask you if you'd consider renaming all your accounts to a name that is not taken anywhere. If you're not happy to do this, I'd understand. --Dweller (talk) 10:54, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Dweller. Thank you for this information. It's obviously best, to cancel the request, I have written such a notice on WP:BN now. No, I'm not happy, but the situation is complicated and there are good arguments against my request. I will not for now ask for renaming all my accounts. The situation is not very comfortable, but not too inconvenient. Greetings, --Griot-de (talk) 01:24, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's very helpful, thank you. If you ever change your mind about changing all of the accounts, a Steward can help you rename all your various accounts simultaneously to something that's free. --Dweller (talk) 19:43, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Removing PROD

Hey, just wanted to let you know that I'd removed the PROD for Marlín, Ávila. I do think it's a typo or some other type of error, but redirects can't be deleted with a PROD. They have to go through WP:MfD. It might be speedyable via R3, but you'd have to prove that it's an invalid typo. I'll give it a whirl though. I think what happened is that someone was trying to put an "í" in the title but accidentally put another "í". I can't see where there the misspelling is commonly used, so I'll try speedying it. If all else fails then it'll have to go through MfD.Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 23:31, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Tokyogirl79, for choosing the (let's hope) right way. I had seen the template db-r3, but because of the word 'recently' in its text, I didn't choose it. Best wishes, --Griot-de (talk) 00:09, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Little bot problem with more than 1 redirect on a page

Hello. I use the standard redirect.py script, so any other bot could make the same error. I have no solution for this problem, I'm so sorry.--Avocato (talk) 15:01, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fine, thanks for understanding. Regards.--Avocato (talk) 19:31, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why do this?

I'm puzzled why you exert so much unproductive energy adding and removing spaces to articles. What improvements do you imagine these result in? For example, in a flurry of edits here you have removed the trailing spaces in the citation labels, replacing for example, <ref name="title" /> with <ref name="title"/>. In fact, the first version is the syntactically correct one which the HTML parser expects to see. Since you are misformatting the code, the parser then has to backtrack to correct your mistakes, so it takes longer to parse the code. Then in a following flurry of edits here, you have added spaces to all the section headers, replacing , for example, "==Subheader== with "== Subheader ==". This achieves precisely nothing apart from adding superfluous spaces, and annoying the article authors by imposing your own preference over the top of their preference, even though you have contributed nothing of substance to the article. This fixation on spaces is continued in a following flurry of edits here, where you similarly imposed your own preference on bullet points to an article you have made no substantial contributions to. Well, its a very minor point, and I suppose it's petty bringing it up. Still, I wonder why you bother wasting computer resources and your own time like this, and go out of your way to mildly irritate other editors by riding roughshod over their own preferences. --Epipelagic (talk) 08:25, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Noni Ιoannidou listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Noni Ιoannidou. Since you had some involvement with the Noni Ιoannidou redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. - TheChampionMan1234 06:41, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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