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Hello, how about a pie for you? :) Thanks for being my first!! And...just continue being the first... It'll be FUN!! NewTypeDivision ( talk) 08:10, 2 August 2015 (UTC) reply

Hi. In the UK, towns are "granted" city status - an area of just a few hundred people can be granted city status if it's important enough yet an area of a few hundred thousand can still be merely a town if it hasn't been granted city status. Despite it's large population, Wolverhampton only officially became a city in 2000.

This should explain it better than I have! City status in the United Kingdom -- Geach ( talk) 22:54, 6 August 2015 (UTC) reply

Geach, thank you for your quick reply. I'm thinking the usage in the article should be changed to "community" as others are likely to see the change, look up the population numbers, and also think that it was too big to be called a town and attempt to change it back to " city" again. Additionally, something probably belongs in the article's talk page to explain this change.  Etamni |  ✉  23:11, 6 August 2015 (UTC) reply

I am not sure I am sending you a message correctly, but after reading the talk page on the moral panic section, it seems that there is community consensus that not only the sources are bad, but the topic in itself is questionable. I believe asserting this as fact in wikipedia is incorrect, however I want to go about this in the right way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.246.206.233 ( talk) 15:17, 14 August 2015 (UTC) reply

I'm happy to discuss this, but the more appropriate place is on the article's talk page since, undoubtedly, there are others who are interested as well. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  18:59, 14 August 2015 (UTC) reply

Well, I'm glad somebody likes what I do. About "via", I just find that word a bit "lazy". It seems to be a word that some writers use when they don't know which preposition is appropriate. You'll notice that I have left it in in a couple of places where the meaning "by way of" (geographically) is intended. Otherwise, either "through" or "by" is almost always preferable. Kelisi ( talk) 15:21, 27 August 2015 (UTC) reply

Thanks for your response to this issue. It's a thorny one, and I suspect there's a lot more edits than I've discovered. I have a dynamic IP, so it's hard to contact me. Can you tell me which admin you alerted to this so I can follow the response? Thanks for your help. 32.218.43.89 ( talk) 15:12, 30 August 2015 (UTC) reply

Gilliam was notified via talk page. As a side note, I hope you know that creating an account is pretty easy. Come up with a username and a password; no personal info required. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  19:01, 30 August 2015 (UTC) reply

Thanks. One of the reasons I approached John from Idegon about this matter is because he respects my decision not to register ... 32.218.43.89 ( talk) 20:23, 30 August 2015 (UTC) reply

No worries on the registration thing. Without knowing your history (and all I had to go on was the contributions from your IP address or addresses), I just wanted to make sure you were aware of the minimal requirements for registration, since some people expect they have to provide identifying info, and may be reluctant to do so for various reasons. I'm all for IP users making positive contributions to the encyclopedia. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  07:25, 31 August 2015 (UTC) reply

Can you fix the link for the image of the New York Wing Civil Air Patrol? Thanks. -- AirportExpert ( talk) 16:49, 30 August 2015 (UTC)AirportExpert reply

It looks like you figured it out. Good job on getting that started, btw! There are additional comments on the article's talk page that you may be interested in seeing. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  19:19, 30 August 2015 (UTC) reply

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Interesting POV. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  05:11, 27 August 2015 (UTC) reply

See next section for more by the same IP user! Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓ 

Are you too stupid to understand what vandalism is? Try reading WP:VAN. Do you know what it is and were simply making a personal attack? See WP:NPA. Either way, false accusations of vandalism are not acceptable. 201.220.242.199 ( talk) 15:40, 9 September 2015 (UTC) reply

As it happens, I do know what vandalism is. I also know the meaning of disruptive editing and also edit warring, which are two other activities you have been engaging in today. WP:Civility is also a subject that I suspect isn't your strong suit. Here are some diffs of your changes today: BBC Canada (you removed info due to unanswered clarification tag -- the info was correct, it appears the prior tagger didn't understand why it was "Category B Services" in one part of the article and "Category 2 Services" in another part -- had they clicked the Category B Services link, it would have been apparent that the designation changed in 2011); Clark Gregg (you changed "best known for his role as" to "He has played" -- a change that is not really meaningful, but is designed to irritate other editors); Ken Kesey (Again removed "best known for" and other language -- reverted by another user, and then just reverted again by you); John Bell (Scottish Actor) (And here again, you removed the "best known for" language of the article, calling it "absurd"); And then finally, you resumed your edit war on Chicken, Alaska, removing material that was previously restored by FreeRangeFrog and stating "no reason given for restoring this nonsensical text" despite the fact that you have been in an extended edit war over this article for quite awhile now, using a variety of IP addresses, and I'm sure you know exactly why administrators are restoring the text you keep blanking. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  16:13, 9 September 2015 (UTC) reply

This is Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Best known for IP; it's being going on for years. (waves to Drmies) Sadly Wikipedia really lacks a good way of dealing with editors who make good (or at the very least good faith) edits but cannot work with others or accept alternative points of view. We've tried all sorts of things but nothing has stuck. PS: I am a big fan of your edit notice. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 17:08, 9 September 2015 (UTC) reply

Ritchie333, thanks for the information about our IP editor; it made an interesting read! As for the template, you can find it at Template:Don't template me. I can't take credit for it, but it just makes sense to me. I like your essay on the subject as well, btw! Personally, I use welcome templates and vandalism templates (since any resolution to a persistent vandal requires demonstrating they were final-warned, and the templates ensure a consistent way of documenting such warnings). Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  17:48, 9 September 2015 (UTC) reply

Good old Ritchie333, can always rely on him to give a spam link to his idiotic attack page. As for vandalism, if you really know what vandalism is then you were just making a personal attack. What a twat. See, we can all do that. I suggest you grow up a bit.

As for BBC Canada, certainly the information was correct. That was not disputed by anyone. Correct, though, is not the criterion we use to determine whether something gets included in the encyclopaedia or not. The person who added the clarification tags didn't actually give a damn about whether the category was called B or 2, but rather wanted to know what the significance of this categorisation was. This is not a hard thing to understand at all. Specified jargon needs explaining. If you genuinely think that "Category B" is understandable without any explanation to the majority of readers, and if you genuinely think that something can be both important enough to mention in the first sentence of the lead and irrelevant enough to not need mentioning at all in the body of the article, you really don't know much about how encyclopaedia articles are supposed to be written.

you changed "best known for his role as" to "He has played" -- a change that is not really meaningful, but is designed to irritate other editors - one is a verbose and unverifiable assumption about what an unspecified demographic thinks of something, which violates WP:NPOV and WP:V. The other is concise and objective and complies with the core policies. This edit was designed to irritate those who don't understand what an encyclopaedia is and see Wikipedia as simply a game where people with user names antagonise and tone police and attack people without user names. Sadly Wikipedia really lacks a good way of dealing with editors who make false accusations of vandalism and otherwise play this idiotic game. 201.220.242.199 ( talk) 19:00, 9 September 2015 (UTC) reply

Your history on this issue appears to go back a long time -- obviously you don't understand that "best known for" is not a POV but refers to what the most people know the person for. I'm not going to waste a lot of time arguing with you about this issue -- it's obvious that you make the changes because you like provoking others, not because you really don't believe that the things people are best known for are really what they are best known for (even when the statement is properly sourced). Likewise, you have an extensive history of edit warring with people over the importance of details that may or may not be trivial, and then breaking WP:CIVILITY when people try to discuss them with you. I no longer wish to be part of your sport. Have a nice day. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  19:10, 9 September 2015 (UTC) reply

You knowingly made a false accusation of vandalism. What possible reason was there for that, except to provoke? And it's really not hard to understand the difference between objective facts and subjective claims about what people think of the facts. Do tell, though, exactly how you know what the population of the world as a whole thinks of 17 year old actor John Bell. Do people in Ghana think the same as people in India? What about Australia? What proportion of the world's population, would you estimate, has never actually heard of him? 201.220.242.199 ( talk) 20:08, 9 September 2015 (UTC) reply

Just following your regular pattern, eh? Even after I sent one of your socks a plate of welcome-cookies the other day? Shame shame. Would it interest you to know that even Encyclopedia Britannica uses the term Best known for from time to time? It doesn't mean that the subject is only known for the listed accomplishments or activities or events (etc.), only that it appears to be what the subject is most widely known for. The really sad part is that sooner or later, all of your available socks will be blocked, and then you won't be able to edit any longer. You obviously have good command of language, and many of your edits make perfect sense, but you just don't seem willing to work for consensus on pages you choose to edit, and you jump right into potty-mouth remarks with editors who've not done the same with you. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  11:16, 11 September 2015 (UTC) reply

As of now, there are 4,726 BLPs with the phrase "best known for" in them. Assuming an average of a day to get consensus on removing that phrase on one of them (balancing the time to do several in one hit against time wasted by being blocked for edit warring and / or incivility), he should get the backlog fixed in a little under, ooooh, 13 years. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 17:06, 11 September 2015 (UTC) reply

Ritchie333, then he (or she?) could start on most well known for and other variations, I suppose. That's quite a backlog! Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  19:10, 11 September 2015 (UTC) reply

	The Half Barnstar
	for your objectivity and civility. Darknipples ( talk) 16:34, 22 September 2015 (UTC) reply

Thanks @ Darknipples:, I really wasn't hungry enough to eat a whole one anyway ;) Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  17:06, 22 September 2015 (UTC) reply

Real life is intruding upon my time here, or perhaps I have it backwards. In any case, if you really, really need to reach me, you can ping me or use the e-mail functions and I should see your message. I'll pop in periodically, but not as often as I have been for the past few months. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  03:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC) reply

Extended wikibreak is over, although the general concept of remaining busy in real life still applies! Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  18:26, 3 November 2015 (UTC) reply

My ISP Clear is shutting down service for all customers effective 12:01 AM local time on November 6, 2015. I will be without an ISP until sometime the following week, when my local cable provider will finally show up to install their service. My IP address will change. I expect to remain active in some capacity during this transition by using my alternative account and accessing it from my cell phone. During this time, I will be unable to see pings, but e-mail notes will still go through. Thanks, Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  18:39, 5 November 2015 (UTC) reply

And my internet issue is finally resolved. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  02:51, 13 November 2015 (UTC) reply

Hi Etamni. Thanks for taking a look on my edit on the M&M's wikipedia page. I wrote a reply on my talk page, but don't know how to @ you, so you can see it also, so thought I send a message here. User_talk:Kozan_Huseyin#November_2015

I found an article on the LA Times site and also confirms the fact, so used that as an additional citation. There are few others, check my reply on talk page for links. Your advice is appreciated. Thank you. -- Kozan Huseyin ( talk) 07:51, 22 November 2015 (UTC) reply

Answered on the user's talk page. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  01:33, 23 November 2015 (UTC) reply

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As template creator, I thought you might have some input. - Tim D. Williamson ^yak-yak 02:43, 7 February 2016 (UTC) reply

Hi, The page for Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia India Ltd was deleted by you in Jan this year. Would like to understand in more detail your reason given for the same, (A7: Article about a real person, which does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject). The article rightly indicates the importance and significance of the subject. There's no mis-interpretation of any kind in the article. Request for your re-review and restoration. Anilchopra1973 ( talk) 05:30, 20 April 2016 (UTC) reply

@ Anilchopra1973: The page titled Pradeep Gupta was not deleted by me. Only an administrator can delete a page, and I am not an administrator. A review of the records shows that the page was deleted by User:Malcolmxl5 on 4 Feb 2016 after this discussion, which I was not part of. If you believe that the article should be restored, you can ask the deleting administrator to restore the article to your userspace where you may work on it to improve it to the point that it will meet Wikipedia's standards. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  11:09, 20 April 2016 (UTC) reply

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Web colors/X11 color chart. Since you had some involvement with the Web colors/X11 color chart redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Stefan2 ( talk) 18:45, 1 July 2016 (UTC) reply

Hi there! Just so you know, I have removed the message you put on User:ClueBot NG/FalsePositives as that page is purely meant for informational purposes. I would encourage you to post on User talk:ClueBot Commons instead as that is the proper discussion site for ClueBot NG. Cheers, <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> ( talk) 22:01, 15 August 2016 (UTC) reply

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Hi, sorry to waste your time. I'm not sure how I manged to change that article. I was scared off by the learning curve when I took a cursory look at the formatting it takes to edit Wikipedia successfully sometime back when flip phones were still a thing. Sorry again.

- Unable to even edit a simple message, some random user who can't can't stand how easy it is to open the wrong link on the mobile site — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.48.89.158 ( talk) 06:30, 5 May 2017 (UTC) reply

Not sure which article you mean -- I've been somewhat inactive of late, so that reply is probably to something from last year. The most important thing is to learn from mistakes, not repeat them, and move on. Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  03:49, 6 May 2017 (UTC) reply

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Hi greetings, I created an Wikipedian association named m:Association of Mesopedianist Wikipedians for mesopedians. Would you mind joining in it? Regards.-- PATH SLOPU ^{( Talk)} 14:20, 29 January 2019 (UTC) reply

Long time. Been busy with a child and adjusting to being a full-time parent. Hope you’re doing well. - Tim D. Williamson ^yak-yak 02:20, 5 July 2019 (UTC) reply

Tim -- I'm not editing Wikipedia as much as I used to. Other than that, doing OK. I wish you well also. --Kind regards, Etamni |  ✉ |  ✓  23:57, 5 July 2019 (UTC) reply

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