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Jaime Bergman

has recently changed her name to that of her husband, hence the edit — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.79.108.178 (talk) 17:16, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Seems to be correct, thanks for clarifying. Widr (talk) 17:20, 21 February 2013 (UTC)


K-tel article

You left me a message about recent edits I'd made to the K-tel article. Most of them were formatting edits, primarily putting album titles in italics. To the best my knowledge, album titles are not put in quotes, but rather italicized. (Song titles are put in quotes). Look at nearly any music-related article, and you will find this to be the case. --134.174.110.7 (talk) 17:30, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

You received that message from another editor. I left you a message regarding the Capacitance article and this edit. Widr (talk) 17:41, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for getting rid of that vandalism on my user page :) Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 18:02, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
You're welcome! Thanks for the star. Widr (talk) 18:13, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

RC is hard work at this time

Hi! Do you have those lags in Huggle aswell? It's not funny - you have about 300 edits per minute to look through, and sometimes it takes about 5 seconds to show one edit. When it's loaded I often see that the edit has already been reverted by ClueBot. That means I have spent waiting for nothing. Regards, --Avoided (talk) 18:24, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

I've noticed occasional laggings too, but I've become quite good in guessing whether the reverter is CB or another human being. The bot is still usually a little bit quicker. ;-) It has happened to me a couple of times during the past few days, though, that Huggle starts to revert the next article when I have clicked the revert button on the previous page. Then I have an edit summary looking like this, and I have to rush back to revert myself. Widr (talk) 18:51, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I know that. It can be annoying if you don't notice right away that you have reverted the wrong page. People might think you are careless. Regards, --Avoided (talk) 19:00, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Federico Moccia

I'm Italian and I've corrected the title in my language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.46.131.19 (talk) 22:27, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

That might be true, but the rest of your edit was inappropriate. Widr (talk) 22:34, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

So why have you corrected everythings? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.46.131.19 (talk) 22:45, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Kevin Bridges

You keep undoing my edit on the Kevin Bridges page. If you follow his official Twitter page, you will see that the changes are accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.222.36.108 (talk) 23:06, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

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sorry could not undo the "Anti" hope you like it dick (talk) 12:20, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Not sure what happened, but something seems fishy about some recent edits here. I'm undoing my revert and hope someone else can fix this.  little green rosetta(talk)
central scrutinizer  14:59, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Lucy Young

Well done for finding and removing vandalism on what looks like a very obscure page, but I'm afraid I don't have a static IP address and this is news to me. Don't really see the need to comment on the talk pages of anonymous IP addresses myself, but I suppose it's no stranger a thing than randomly inserting "poo" and "gay" into people's pages.
Happy editing,
Simon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.175.179 (talk) 22:59, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. You might want to consider creating an account to avoid getting those IP warnings in future. Widr (talk) 06:01, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Fawr

You keep undoing my corrections and it is obvious that you do not know the mistakes you are making. His name is Gruffudd not Gruffydd — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.112.134.204 (talk) 18:46, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

According to what source? Widr (talk) 18:53, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

According to the fact that I'm Welsh, it's in all Welsh books regarding him and that I'm his decendant — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.112.134.204 (talk) 19:36, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

You need a reliable source for your changes. It's not helping that most of your other edits seem to be vandalism. Widr (talk) 20:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

I belive that the fact that all welsh books and his grave have his name spelled as Gruffudd are reliable sources. And I have no idea what you are on about with other edits, I have only made one spelling correction on another page.

I would like to point out that under section "King of Whales 1055-1063" there is a direct quote from historian John Davies spelling the name Gruffudd. This is in fact a reliable source. And if you took 10 minutes to ask the internet, it is shown that Gruffydd is a modern spelling of the original Gruffud name. 74.113.110.1 (talk) 18:36, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

You might want to consider creating an account. Those other edits I was referring to were made by the IP address you previously used. Widr (talk) 18:40, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Trevor Eve's siblings

No problem with the removal. Just couldn't resist making the joke. Didn't intend for it to be taken seriously. "not constructive" I love you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.23.232.174 (talk) 00:23, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Doncaster

I have been aware for a while that some of the information on the Doncaster page is incorrect, and I have amended it numerous times only for it to be continuously changed back. The whole section about Doncaster being part of Scotland is incorrect, and further research into this will prove this to you. I know the man who originally supposedly said this and at the time he was misquoted. See below;

“My academic credability is in tatters thanks to a string of news stories (misquoting me and presenting their version of the facts) relating to an interesting and little known fact - that the manor of Doncaster was from c1135-1157 in the hands of the Scottish Royal family (starting with King David) - However with Scottish Devolution being big news the story and facts have been corrupted to Donny being part of Scotland!!! The worst bit is it has gone global Arrrgggghh”

If you still are doubting this then feel free to email Peter Robinson at Doncaster Museum.

Itsellie (talk) 01:23, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

If that's the case, then you should try to fix the content of the article or discuss the issues on the talk page. But you shouldn't write commentary (such as "THIS IS NOT TRUE") in the article. Widr (talk) 06:00, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
As you know I did fix the content by removing it. Now that you understand the mistake made by the media can I now take off the false writing in the article without it being replaced? Itsellie (talk) 16:38, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
It should be fine, especially if you explain your changes in the edit summary. Widr (talk) 17:11, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

List of trials of peers in the House of Lords

In this list, f someone was sentenced to death but he was not eventually executed, we put the reason in brackets.--94.65.145.7 (talk) 18:51, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

And you also reverted my first edit. Why?--94.65.145.7 (talk) 18:52, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. This was an honest mistake for which I apologize. The program automatically reverted both of your edits when I hit the button. Widr (talk) 19:43, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Reverted edits

Hi, you recently reverted an edit from this IP address. Thought I'd let you know that this is an IP address associated with Tacoma General Hospital, which may be why so many edits appear from it and are reverted for vandalism. Bored employees I suppose. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.79.112.254 (talk) 04:17, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Widr (talk) 12:05, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

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You keep beating me to reverting! I don't think I need to give a reason to why I think you need one (more) of these. Keep up the excellent work! :) Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 16:32, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

The Stick People

Hello,

I am M.'. d'Ziur, the current bass player for The Stick People. I updated the wiki page to reflect this change and it was changed back to the old bassist. This is an easily identifiable and verifiable change in membership as most of our web assets have been updated to reflect this change. The page I updated was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stick_People. Any editor can easily see this change in all of our Madness album press releases (although the publicist mispelled my last name), http://thestickpeople.com and our facebook page. My personal facebook profile and page also reflect my membership in the band.

I don't see HOW the changes I made to update the WIKI to reflect this IMPORTANT change in membership is "not constructive".

Thanks, M.'. mdziur@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.227.181.211 (talk) 01:39, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction, and I apologize for the error. I see that you've fixed it now. Widr (talk) 01:52, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Nastja Čeh

Hello,

I got a message that you undid one of my corrections. Why are you doing this? I would really like to let you know that if you do not have any conrete reasons to undo "the controversies" section in Nastja Ceh topic, please do not do it again, because the info stated in cited media is not true. Insisting to post wrong information, can follow to a big business losses, which is about to occur very soon. Please stop undoing the changes because your actions may result in a law suit against you and the newspaper.

Kind regards,

Kama — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.142.82.224 (talk) 16:29, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

If you have issues with the content of the article, you should discuss those on the talk page, or if you decide to remove content, please explain your reasons in the edit summary. Otherwise it is considered disruptive editing. And please, refrain from making legal threats in future. Widr (talk) 16:44, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

95.166.204.177

Are you aware that 95.166.204.177 was typing in Danish or Norweigan, and may not even be able to understand English? I just put a "Welcome to Wikipedia! There's a Danish Wikipedia available!" welcome template on the talk page. --I dream of horses @ 18:22, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the effort. Those edits are unfortunately unconstructive and include some vulgar language. Widr (talk) 18:36, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Do you know what's xe's actually saying? --I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 18:41, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Google Translator will help. Widr (talk) 18:42, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Widr!

I just saw a message about my Desmoche updates, I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to updating wikipedia, so I'm not sure which changes you flagged as practice. I am Nicaraguan and have been playing Desmoche for the past 23 years, so I have been updating the entry because it was missing some key details and had a few other details slightly askew. (If I am using this talk page improperly, please let me know. Kevin Kevinpr81 (talk) 22:24, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Kevin. Sorry about that. It was a mistake on my part and I already reverted myself. I tried to remove the message quickly, but I guess I wasn't quick enough as you noticed it. Happy editing. Widr (talk) 22:31, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

OK, glad to hear that! I was worried I was doing something wrong. Kevinpr81 (talk) 22:39, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Endogamy

Oh, you shouldn't have! That whole line needs to go. Don't even worry about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.111.169.45 (talk) 11:10, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

It would be better if you could provide a reason for removing the content. Widr (talk) 11:28, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

New Page Made

I had to redo a page I made because the original title was misspelt. I deleted the original and created a new page for it (Victor Ciardelli). Not sure if this was the best way to do it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Npgates24 (talk • contribs) 17:08, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I see, thanks for the info. The misspelled page should be deleted soon, as it's been tagged by now. Widr (talk) 17:14, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Silk Road

Thanks for reverting the vandalism today - I've seen so much recently I've semi-protected it again. Dougweller (talk) 18:35, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

No problem. It seems to be one of those popular pages. Widr (talk) 18:38, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

March 2013

Hello! You just made a mistake. Someone had put together parts from articles Soviet partisans in Latvia and Latvian national partisans and made article Latvian partisans. It should be deleated not to litter wikipedia with duplicates! Dukurs (talk) 20:37, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Please explain your edits in the edit summary. You just blanked the article, and blanking can be mistaken for vandalism. Widr (talk) 20:44, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
OK. By the way what could we do with the title of redirected article Latvian partisans? Dukurs (talk) 21:03, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
You mean the title of the article or the article itself? If you want the article to be deleted, you could nominate it for deletion. Widr (talk) 21:11, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

User 156.110.38.82

This IP address belongs to a public school. I'll be sure to tell one of the english teachers someone objected to doing a story on Odysseus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.110.38.82 (talk) 18:24, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Linda Hazzard

Hi,

I deleted the page for Linda Burfield Hazzard as the whole article (apart from some references to newspaper articles of the time which really don't tell us much.) has obviously been gleaned from "Starvation Heights" a rabid, sensationalist account of Burfield's trial - a smear job. The article uses "starvation" and "fasting" interchangeably. (As a matter of interest it takes 75 days to starve to death.) Also, it has supposed ex-patients of Hazard talking about having one orange per day or some thin tomato broth every day. No fasting practitioner gives any food during a fast. A water fast is just that - no food! An orange or tomato is the sort of thing used to break a fast. Food has to be re-introduced gradually. I know because I have done a self administered fast of 42 days 6 years ago and a 12 day fast around a month ago.

This is from Hazzard's book: "Scientific Fasting" "..........During a fast that is to be prolonged until hunger returns, food of any kind is an intruder, for the energy of the body is being directed through the organs of elimination toward cleansing the system of self-manufactured poison.........When toxic elimination has reached the vanishing point, the juncture at which rebuilding of cell structure is demanded lest the body die, hunger will definitively appear.......... (note that in this passage Hazard does not sound like the crazed, power mad sadist that she is portrayed as. The book was obviously written by a clever, rational woman and is very interesting. From readin her book I can tell you that Hazard was not the lone loony she is portrayed as in this article and in "Starvation Heights". ) She was taught by Dewey, one of the two pioneers of therapeutic fasting.

As someone who has done a long fast myself, I know that hunger disappears after around 3 days. While it is true that when fasting, one thinks constantly of food, it is not because of hunger per se. I would regularly cook for the freezer while fasting, with no inclination at all to eat what I was preparing. So accounts of "inmates" begging for help because they were starving is just not credible.

It is true that Hazard did practice vigorous enemas and massage (unlike Dewey her mentor). Some other therapeutic fasting practitioners also used enemas but this practice fell out of favour around 80 years ago under the influence of Shelton and enemas are no longer thought to be necessary.

I am writing a book about alternative medicine, including the history of therapeutic fasting. I will be writing a critique of "Starvation Heights" in a few days time and will be happy to post an objective, sensible article on Hazard on Wikipedia when I have finished it. I will be carefully dissecting the book "Starvation Heights" page by page. I can tell you now though that there are very few verifiable facts in it. It reads like a horribly overwritten novel, full of purple prose. It certainly is not objective!

If the author of the original article wants to disagree with me, let him/her post some verifiable facts with references and sources that can be checked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rawbeetroot (talk • contribs) 22:15, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Deleting most of the article without explaining why is usually considered vandalism. That's why you should always remember to use the edit summary. Widr (talk) 22:22, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

I have been trying to edit the first para for a little more objectivity. I have only succeeded in editing the first sentence. The rest of the edit seems to be blocked. Is this because some kind of bot has been put in place to block my edits? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rawbeetroot (talk • contribs) 10:07, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Nobody else has been editing the article, besides you. No bots or other human beings. Widr (talk) 10:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

OK. I am fairly new to writing/editing on Wikipedia. Why are my edits not working? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rawbeetroot (talk • contribs) 10:22, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

I see that you've made some edits to the article. If you don't see the outcome when you save the page, you could try to refresh the page. Maybe that would help. Other than that, it's hard to figure out what the problem could be. Widr (talk) 10:52, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

For the record: I am currently readying Starvation Heights and it is an excellent book. Its very well researched and Olsen uses his imagination to reconstruct the events. It is fairly well balanced and is sympathetic to all of the characters involved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.246.35.164 (talk) 18:06, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Edit to Nintendo

You recently fixed an edit that came from my IP address on the Nintendo page (Edit to Nintendo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo?diff=540306730). Having done a little bit of investigation I've discovered that this edit came from my 11 year old son who couldn't resist the impulse to see what happened if he edited something. I've now discussed with him that the point of Wikipedia is to share accurate information, not to be silly. Sorry for the inconvenience; hopefully his future contributions will be more constructive. 212.159.46.81 (talk) 12:44, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate your approach to this. Widr (talk) 13:22, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Fenriz!

What do you mean, not constructive? Fenriz most certainly IS the most beautiful man in all of Scandinavia! Ask any Darkthrone fan anywhere!

LOL I'm joking. I know what you mean. By the way, a few of my friends messed up a few more pages...you may wanna check the pages Euronymous, Hillel Slovak, Aidan Turner, and the list of dwarves from Middle Earth. Make sure you scroll down to Kili. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.192.47.120 (talk) 16:33, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Joseph Muscat

Why is Joseph Muscat's page saying he is Prime Minister of Malta at 1pm GMT on 10 March 2013?

Voting hasn't finished yet. Has the outgoing Prime Minister resigned yet? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.143.115 (talk) 13:44, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

I reverted your edit because of YOUR SHOUTING, not because of the content. Widr (talk) 13:48, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

petr

how come you placed that warning on my talk page? i don't recall editing that article in fact. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 20:52, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

It was this edit. Seems to have been just a mistake. It was over a month ago, but the warning came automatically, so I removed it as soon as I noticed it. Widr (talk) 20:56, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Abe Q

You recently undid my edition of the Blaq Poet - Tha Blaqprint section of the DJ Premier production discography page. Bearing in mind that the same article lists all the entire albums produced by him even if it bars a few songs which the article notes. I was just trying to keep the article in context, and I view that as constructive. Kindly respond. - Abe Q, 21:08, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Please use edit summary when you are making these kind of edits. Removing a large amount of content without explaining the reason can be mistaken for vandalism. Widr (talk) 21:09, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for creating Felix Krohn, Widr!

Wikipedia editor Anne Delong just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

I hope that youwill add more information about Felix Krohn. —Anne Delong (talk) 08:42, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

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For beating a fellow Huggler to reverting vandalism, and for all your anti-vandalism work on Wikipedia. Thanks!
Arctic Kangaroo 15:15, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! Don't worry, you've beat me several times by now. ;-) Widr (talk) 15:19, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
It's just about who clicks first. Arctic Kangaroo 15:20, 11 March 2013 (UTC)