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{{helpme}} how do I actually warn a user of possible breaches. A new user gets no clues.

Hi Nasnema, try place a warning template on their user talkpages. Check out WP:WARN for details. :) Blodance (talk) 21:34, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

thanks - I'm still learning how this site works for active content.

{{helpme}} OK - I've put a warning message on a page for a registered user - fine. However, there is an IP for a university that has already received it's final warning and vandalised Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (205.214.198.1) - do I need to be an admin to block or do you need to do it?

Hi Nasnema, you might check out WP:AIV for admin intervention. Hope this helps. :) Blodance (talk) 22:31, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi!

Thanks for the praise. Atif.t2 (talk) 21:55, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

World domination/New text

Please explain yourself in talk:World domination. - Altenmann >t 22:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

No thanks

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RE:Norman Wisdom

It's because it's an article about Norman Wisdom, not about the mistakes of journalists in citing the article that it is, if that makes sense. Also, the source is a little inappropriate in criticising a Misplaced Pages editor, as if there's some sort of grudge. Bob talk 20:53, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

No matter, it caused an incident that is relevent that may stick. This is why it is important to keep it in the article. Who cares if some anon vandal caused it in the first place. Nasnema  Chat  20:55, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Okay, we must stick to the subject at hand so you're right Bob Nasnema  Chat  21:17, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Brenda Cowling

Excuse me but there is something seriously wrong with your editing practices. You had the gall and audacity to revert back 22 edits -- not all by unregistered users -- on the Brenda Cowling page because, according to your edit summary, and there was nothing on the talk page, you disagreed with a few words (re whether or not she had a stroke). Are you serious?? While it is pitiful that no one else caught this, fortunately I watchlisted the article. I will be reviewing your edits and will not hesitate to file an official complaint with WP:ANI over any future incidents remotely resembling the abusive nature of this one. I may file one anyway. Outrageous. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 18:59, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

it's a simply matter of following WP:BLP - there must be reliable sources presented and it is insensitive to report someone dead or having a stroke when they may not be. This is an encyclopia, not a rumour mill. Thank you. Nasnema  Chat  20:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Listen, I have been on Misplaced Pages since 2006 and I know perfectly well that rumours have no place on an encyclopaedia (not "encyclopia") and I do not need such advice from you. However you do not seem to comprehend that you are not supposed to revert 22 edits wholesale without a valid reason or a talk page notation simply because you contest a portion of text or because you are too lazy to simply correct the section which is erroneous and leave what was/is correct. Your refusal to leave talk page comments when engaging in such reckless behavior shows a disregard if not contempt for other editors. You are a relatively new user and have already been asked to explain yourself (on your own talk page) by one fellow editor and gotten into a colloquy with another in which you defend the use of information proffered by anonymous vandals. Be advised that this has not gone unnoticed. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 22:37, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

why don't you go back and read WP:BLP where it says there need be no discussion when reverting unsourced, or poorly sourced, claims. Those 22 edits I reverted fitted the bill perfectly, because they were all about her being dead, which may well be, but we need proof. We know nothing about this person and I have my doubts that the reference to the birth is for the same Brenda Cowling, where all the other sites take 10 years off. Nasnema  Chat  06:27, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

On vs. at, question

Greetings, fellow Mensan (presuming that's what your username means -- forgive me if I'm wrong). Regarding Carter being "at" vs "on" a faculty -- are you sure about that? I've been in academia in the U.S. and have a doctorate, and "on a faculty" is the only usage I've heard, here. Googling a bit, I wonder if it is a difference betwen U.S. and UK/Australian usage. Every time I think I've got all the differences down, I'm surprised by a new one. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 00:29, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

You're at a doctor's not on one. Hopefully. And, very astute, you're the first Nasnema  Chat  00:32, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

"At" a doctor's, yes, but a doctor is not "at the staff of a hospital". Antandrus is correct: in America, at least, a professor is "on" the faculty.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 01:19, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I can see it could be US usage in that a faculty can mean on staff. However, the university can be the faculty and we say at university here in the UK. The oddities of the English language, eh? Nasnema  Chat  14:01, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

It has occurred to me that there may be a better way of dealing with this particular case. Would the conflict of regional English not be avoided by saying "he is a member of the faculty of the …"? Or does this just postpone the problem ("… of the faculty at the …")?—Jerome Kohl (talk) 21:51, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

AIV

Hello

This is to let you know that I have denied your request at WP:AIV to block the IP. The reason it was declined is because the IP had only been warned 3 times so has not had the level 4 final warning. Also the warnings were issued 3 days ago so would therefore be stale and warnings would need to start fresh again from level 1. Any questions feel free to ask me on my talk page.--5 albert square (talk) 00:45, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

English

this is what is wrong with wikipedia, you people follow this guidelines without any common sense. I said his nationality is British, however he has referred to himself in many radio shows (as do most English people) as English. In the introduction it would not be incorrect to state he is a English....

Every comedian/writer from Wales or Scotland is referred to as Welsh or Scottish. May I ask where you are from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.66.175.71 (talk) 23:59, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

It's very simple really: he's British but born in England. You can't get any more plain than that. Nationality is British, county England. Nasnema  Chat  00:01, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

I don't know what country your from but you don't seem suitable to comment. He has claimed in many shows as being English. Isn't this article supposed to be about Gervais not your opinion of him. Judging by the other comments on your page it seems you have a habit of making unhelpful edits. Maybe you should see this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeBlGiqSlc8. Ricky Gervais's guide to the English, He refers to himself as English throughout the whole thing. 194.66.175.71 (talk) 00:09, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm English and you from Staffordhire Uni should know something about nationality and countries. If you are native then you are British born in England. Nasnema  Chat  00:16, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Did you bother checking out my source? Or is it just a case of ignore all evidence and stick by your own opinion. Seems you do that alot as many people have been on here complaining about your edits. Also don't insult my knowledge. I'll think your find the OED still officially recognises English as a nationality. 194.66.175.71 (talk) 00:24, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Now I think you are a drunk Staffordshire Uni person. Go to bed. Nasnema  Chat  00:28, 9 April 2011 (UTC)