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Hello, Chris Chittleborough, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Brian Leiter

Hi Chris. I agree with your revision. As it stands, the links section looks fine. Sir Paul 08:07, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

(Responding to this comment, before I added the "Please Note" section above.)

US vs. U.S.

Hi, Chris. Check out Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style#Acronyms and abbreviations. It specifically endorses the "U.S." usage over "US". —Cleared as filed. 00:07, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh. So it does. I should have looked there. -Chris Chittleborough 03:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi! Thanks for your support in my request for adminship (did you know that "adminiship" is not an English word? Unbelievable!). It ended with a tally of (51/0/0). As an administrator, I hope to better help this project and its participants: if you have any question or request, please let me know. - Liberatore(T) 12:43, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

VDH

On Victor Davis Hanson talk page, I wrote a bit about why his response to Gary Brecher's article wasn't particularly noteworthy. Since you re-added the link, I wondered if there should be a better explanation on that talk page of why to include it? Ojw 14:14, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. I should have responded to you, but I never got around to it. I apologise. My view is that VDH was not trying to rebut Belcher, nor even to reply to Belcher's essay, just responding to Belcher.

Incidentally, the main reason that 26-Aug-2005 essay stuck in my mind was the second footnote.

While writing this reply, I realised what I did wrong a month ago, and fixed it: the 26Aug2005 NRO essay is now only mentioned once, with a parenthetical note tying it to Gary Brecher's essay. I hope you approve. (Of course, this now means that anyone who deletes that link to Brecher's essay, like User:71.103.214.70 did, will "break" the article.)

—Chris Chittleborough 16:07, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I probably don't know enough about Hanson to comment, I just noticed that the article was all extremely complimentary, and that an essay with a whole string of very good critisisms was hidden away in the final paragraph, complete with a note that VDH had "responded" in a way which might make people think the link led to a compelling well-reasoned piece-by-piece rebuttal of Brecher's claims, which it didn't.

So I don't want to be editing the page too much in my ignorance, just pointing out some parts that might need further investigation by the experts.

Incidentally, if half the stuff in Brecher's essay is credible, then VDH would appear to be a much more contraversial character than the Misplaced Pages article indicates.

Of course, when the critisism comes from a pseudononymous rant, it's hard to separate facts from opinions but I tried to list a few in that talk page. Ojw 17:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, Brecher's essay struck me as aiming for controversy rather than accuracy, but YMMV. I'm happy with the way we mention Brecher now; it's certainly better than my Feb 19 edit, which was a stuff-up. —Chris Chittleborough 03:19, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

The Game

Thanks for the heads up about the vandals. I'll try to keep on the ball about it. Bkkbrad 22:06, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Scheme pages

Hi. There's still improvements that could be made to Matthias Felleisen—what I did was almost entirely cosmetic. Still, I think that Misplaced Pages is nicer to use when pages look good. I don't really have much to say about the PLT Scheme family, but I can certainly take a look at the articles. I see you've already improved the DrScheme page. Thanks for contributing to Misplaced Pages. 165.189.91.148 16:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Vandalism

is a good place to start.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:56, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Chris: in response to your note, yes, I remember that one well. Looks like that one attack-sockpuppet account was left unblocked so I changed that. Happy editing! Antandrus (talk) 20:17, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

DECUS

The revised article didn't contain any inaccuracies I saw, although my knowledge of the subject is pretty narrow. Thanks for asking. Coll7 01:11, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Euston Manifesto

Thanks. In addition to summarizing it, what else do you think we should add? I'd like to make it a featured article --Tjss 04:47, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to thank both you, Chris, and you, Tjss, for covering the emergence of the Euston Manifesto (EM) online so fairly. As one of its authors, there is an obvious conflict for me in my editing its page.

The manifesto will be launched in the "real world" in about a month. It would be very good for the debate---and we do want a serious and high-quality debate---if this launch could be made a current event and the quality of the entry by then is sufficiently high for it to be featured on Misplaced Pages's front page. I think the EM's sections on open source and freedom of ideas should make the document of particular interest to Wikipedians. Counsell 13:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Chris

I am aware of Dr Eric Salter because of this: ... I'm a medicolegal enthusiast. Thanks for saving the Amiga software piracy article from extinction. It's a good article! - Richardcavell 09:39, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

New article

Hi Chris. There was a stub on Joseph Tkach which quite often got damaged by a particular user. I tried to bring it back to the original stub several times. I have now added a completely new article. As I am new to Misplaced Pages, please take a look and edit it further. Thanks.

RelHistBuff 09:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I've replied at Talk:Joseph W. Tkach — CWC(talk) 10:54, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Photos of the injured Paul Mirecki

Response to comment at User_talk:Reaverdrop#Photos_of_Paul_Mirecki:

I added this link from Paul Mirecki's page to an online article of the Lawrence Journal-World. Since it seems necessary to satisfy the one-sided skepticism of Malkin's defenders, I'll add the link to the blurb on Malkin's page. Thanks for the message. - Reaverdrop 17:12, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I see now you referenced the same photo - it's not just one bruise, it's a nasty blunt-impact mark on his arm plus two horrible black eyes. Are you trying to say that image depicts what an average professor might look like after getting ready to go to work on an ordinary morning? I don't understand your objection. - Reaverdrop 17:16, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi - Yeah, I already noticed your changes. I just looked them over quickly, but they looked fine. - Reaverdrop 17:51, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Vorkosigan Saga Inconsistencies

You might want to cast your vote on the new deletion discussion page. xompanthy 22:57, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Home of the Underdogs

If I remember correctly, Sarinee forgot to re-register the domain (which is odd because, unlike now, she was quite involved with her website). Of course there was a squatter queued up, waiting for the opportunity. Instead of paying the extortion money needed to get back the old domain, Sarinee registered another one, which was the right decision IMO.

BTW, what's the protocol for talk pages in Misplaced Pages? You post questions in my talk page and I answer in yours? ;-) Andran 19:41, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Stairway

Thanks for the copyedit, and I'm glad you think it's good. Just a minor thing: watch the use of quotes in punctuation, especially doing "this", instead of the correct "this," with the comma inside the quotes. See you around! TheJabberwʘck 23:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

That's really interesting. I've always thought the American quotation system was kind of dumb, but I never knew there was another way in English. I agree with you that the British way is better, but I assume most of Misplaced Pages's articles are written American style. Maybe they follow the same rules as spelling: use whatever the article was created with, unless the subject is particularly related to Britain or America. I also agree with you about American spelling, which is (for the most part) more logical than British (e.g., humor vs. humour). TheJabberwʘck 15:40, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Meetup/Adelaide

Hi Chris. There seems to be a bit of a push to get this going. Please tell us how you are feeling about this.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 05:55, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Leave the gate as you found it

I'm not convinced this is an Australia specific rule, as opposed to one that applies the world over in non-urban areas. The english Country Code has this as a rule, and an internet search shows the phrase being used in many U.S. publications. Steve 00:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Manual of style

You mentioned date links in the Manual of style. My position is that in most cases, the date links are unnecessary and only put there by people that misunderstand date preferences. Feel free to remove unnecessary date links.

You may wish to make use of a 'Dates' tab in edit mode that will help with unlinking unnecessary date links. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to your own monobook. Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. It also provides a 'Units' tab. Regards. bobblewik 14:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Request

Before I respond to your latest comments, may I ask that you respond in a fashion similar to the way I do, so that the newest comments are below the older ones and so that the new ones aren't interspersed within the older ones? At least when responding to me, please? This makes things far more organized and it becomes easier to read and respond to your comments. Thanks in advance. Ryu Kaze 20:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. I stuffed up. CWC(talk) 21:12, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

It's alright. I used to try editing that way and then realized that I was confusing my own self, so it must have been worse for the others involved. Thanks, by the way. Ryu Kaze 22:33, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

RE: Michelle Malkin

Hello Chris, A simple message such as "You might have overlooked the phrase "According to Malkin" in your editing, please add any sources where non-liberal or apolitical Asian-Americans have criticized her." would have sufficed. Comments such as "I'm guessing that you didn't notice the words I've emphasised at the start. Don't worry, we all make little mistakes like this." and "Warning: in this case, Google is probably not your friend." might be interpreted as sarcastic, and in turn, uncivil and not in good faith. I personally know many apolitical Asian Americans who think her stance is akin to denying or being ashamed of her heritage, and when I was a member of the Republican Party, I disliked her stance as well. If you would check my edit history, I have a track record of being fair to liberal and conservative personalities alike. If I find any apolitical or conservative sources, I will add them to the article. Happy editing. --Folksong 21:13, 9 July 2006 (UTC)