User talk:Spudtater

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Gunpowder plot

I saw your post on User:Pwqn's talk page about the uncredited source for his large text dump into Gunpowder plot, so I went looking for it. It's from here. It is, indeed, public domain, and the authors appear to be anon., but I added some info about the source just for GPs. -- Mwanner 21:35, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Help

Oh, I saw your copyediting in the page Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong. Nice job! :-) Another article Flag of Hong Kong may need your attention as well. I'd like to promote this article to be a featured article, so your contribution to this page is very important. :-D -- Jerry Crimson Mann

Yima

Thanks for the Yima article, you reduced my infinitely long Zoroastrian articles to-do list by one - good job. Can't go wrong with Avesta.org, and SBE are free domain, (though Joe standardizes spelling and so-forth). I hope you might consider helping me in the future. I thought about tweaking the article a little, but decided it was good as is and just to link it to the Jamshid article, which might be merged in the future. Khirad^talk

Salome article

Hey, great work on the Salome (disciple) article. -Acjelen 03:20, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Freedom of Infomation Act

Just to let you know, I listed your article, Freedom of Infomation Act, for speedy deletion. --Descendall 01:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Oops! Didn't even spot the missing r there.   8^P   --Spudtater 09:50, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome!

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Tarot

Just so you know... you added the 'magic-stub' template to a bunch of tarot articles. The proper stub template is 'occult-stub', which will help editors who are into tarot spot the article faster. Magic-stub is for Magic (illusion). Thanks, welcome, help if you need it, message my talk page etc... Cheers! User:Pedant 04:22, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Referendum of November 6th, 1999 in external Australian territories

I request to you as to I think that you are Cocos Islander. So I request to you with one brief question. Please give me some information about Australian Republican referendum of November 6th, 1999 on Cocos (Keeling) islands and reference on source (on this page). Beforehand Thank You CrazyRepublican (talk) 01:11, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello

I just discovered your existence. Feel free to visit the pages I created of boxing: I love historical boxing. Anything, just let me know. Pedro ~~Io_Wiki2007~~ (talk) 23:00, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Kristin Cashore

A tag has been placed on Kristin Cashore requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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Hi User:Jenuk1985. The speedy delete tag was removed by a subsequent editor. I take it this means I don't need to contest the deletion? –Spudtater (talk • contribs) 13:13, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

University of Valle

Hello. I've noticed that you made some corrections to the University of Valle article. It seems to me that the rewording produced a incorrect explanation of the accreditation process, since the accreditation procedure has not being given eight times, but one time for an eight year period, from 2005 to 2013. Andes and Antioquia universities have a nine year period. Also the 30 undergraduate programs were accredited as 2009, not in 2009. Finally, I'm not sure if its convenient to make a list for the degrees of the faculties, although I can eventually create a table to put the data by years. I've not made any corrections of the text, because I prefer that a native speaker does them. I would like that you review your corrections and my suggestions and see what you can do. Thank you for your collaboration, and I hope I can see more of your work in the article. Regards -Andremun (talk) 14:42, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for the feedback. I've updated the article, and hope I've now corrected my previous misunderstandings! With regards to the list, I can't think of an easy way to put it in a single sentence, so if it's okay I'd like to leave it at that for now. Finally, don't feel you have to have a perfect grasp of the english language to make corrections to the article! Most articles like this are going to be a collaboration between people who know what they are talking about but don't have perfect english (like you) and people who are fluent in english but don't know very much about the subject (like me). All we can do is hope that with repeated edits the article becomes both clearer and more accurate. Thanks – Spudtater (talk • contribs) 22:35, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello. I've noticed your edits. Thanks for the help! Regards -Andremun (talk) 01:33, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello again. I would appreciate if you could check some other sections of the article. I've noticed that some parts of the "Student Profile" may be a bit confusing. Please let me know were more work should be done. Thanks -Andremun (talk) 04:45, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, since you asked nicely I've gone over that section. In fact I've now been over the entire article making changes! I've also left a note in the talk page, as I'm a bit confused about some of the faculty names. I think I'm largely done with this article now, as it's already taken several hours of my time! Good luck with future developments, and thanks for getting it to the point where it was already. –Spudtater (talk • contribs) 19:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for your help, I've noticed several edits that have made the article flow a lot better. Also, I corrected the part in the history about the faculties. I made a note in the talk page answering it. At the student profile section, there is still a bit of information that is tricky (top 10 place, I don't know if you remember it). Let me see if I can explain it, so we can retouch it. Let's put it in this way, there is a different test for each mayor, and not a single standardized test for all the mayors. In overall 40 persons of the whole university get one of the top ten places in its mayor test, making in average about two students per mayor get a top ten place. I don't know if this makes it easier to understand. Please let me know if you can find a better way to put it. Regards -Andremun (talk) 00:44, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi again! I've made some more improvements in the article. Could you please check it out. Regards -Andremun (talk) 16:44, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the template you made for me! I am not good with html, and I didn't know that it would show up on that page about lacking sources. Thanks for taking it in good humor and making me one! Nameless9123 (talk) 18:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

No problem! I doubt that this would have been obvious to most people. – Spudtater (talk • contribs) 08:57, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Request for help

I thought it might be a good idea to run a contest or two through the Countries WikiProject to attract editors to improve country coverage on Wikipedia, especially the country outlines.

I noticed you are a member of the WikiProject, and was wondering if you could help.

I've posted a message at Countries WikiProject talk page to get discussion started on what the awards programs should be and how they should be run.

Your ideas and feedback would be greatly appreciated.

The Transhumanist 23:41, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Grand National

Hi, I have reverted most of your edit to the Grand National section on horse welfare and fatalities. I have left an explanation on the talk page but hope that we can work together to resolve the issues and to make this article as neutral as possible. I have to say that I have severe concerns over the reliability of the Animalaid website, but will be very willing to include fatality numbers from more reliable and unbiased sources, such as [1]. I also have to say that the information about how Aintree has improved their facilities is clearly very relevant and adds a great deal of balance, it is an aspect of this emotive subject that I think many people will be unaware of. The title of the section is very debatable, too. I am happy to suggest a compromise and go with "Horse welfare and fatalities". Thanks, --TBM10 (talk) 12:58, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

See the talk page of that article. I've accepted your compromise section title for now, and as for its content, I'll refrain from deleting content about veterinary care if you refrain from deleting content about equine fatalities! I think a better eventual solution would be to split "equine fatalities" out into a sub-section of "horse welfare"; this would allow the fatalities to remain the main focus of one (sub-)section, while at the same time presenting them in a more balanced context. –Spudtater (talk • contribs) 13:54, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Your opinion would be appreciated

As a member of WikiProject Countries, I'm seeking your opinion on a possible issue identified at List of sovereign states. If you have some spare moments, please contribute a comment at the Discussion of criteria. Best regards, Nightw 06:47, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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