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Thanks

非常感謝關於希伯侖Nishidani (talk) 12:45, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome! --HappyInGeneral (talk) 13:13, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Ice diving

I was surprised by this edit you made. I assume that you thought you were reverting vandalism, but as you can see, you put the vandalism back in - and then warned the IP user, 194.81.80.52 (talk · contribs) who had actually removed vandalism. I would strongly suggest you apologise to 194.81.80.52, strike the warning, and then carefully review your use of WP:MWT to check for other errors. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 22:48, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Good catch! Sorry, and thank you! I'll try to be more attentive next time. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 09:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

To our newest Rollbacker

I have just granted you rollback rights because I believe you to be trustworthy, and because you have a history of reverting vandalism and have given in the past or are trusted in the future to give appropriate warnings. Please have a read over WP:ROLLBACK and remember that rollback is only for use against obvious vandalism. Please use it that way (it can be taken away by any admin at a moment's notice). You may want to consider adding {{Rollback}} and {{User rollback}} to your userpage. Any questions, please drop me a line. Best of luck and thanks for volunteering! upstateNYer 01:53, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! --HappyInGeneral (talk) 09:03, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

New Moon (2009 film) and Eclipse (2010 film)

Both these two articles were recently submitted for a name change. I did agree with this name change in February, however, now I am a strong opposing factor in why the name should ramian New Moon and Eclipse with the signifigant other name in the first line of the articles.

WP:NCCN and WP:PRECISION both state the title should be "terms most commonly used", "A good article title is brief and to the point", "Prefer titles that follow the same pattern as those of other similar articles", "An article can only have one name; however significant alternative names for the topic should be mentioned in the article, usually in the first sentence or paragraph". "And despite earlier reports that the movie would be known as The Twilight Saga's New Moon, the title will remain New Moon according to the movie's rep. They just have Twilight Saga in the artwork to identify it for anyone less devoted than your average fanggirl."Source.

Also see WP:PRECISION. I quote from there: "Articles' titles usually merely indicate the name of the topic. When additional precision is necessary to distinguish an article from other uses of the topic name, over-precision should be avoided. Be precise but only as precise as is needed. For example, it would be inappropriate to name an article "United States Apollo program (1961–1975)" over Apollo program or "Nirvana (Aberdeen, Washington rock band)" over Nirvana (band). Remember that concise titles are generally preferred."

However, I personally do not think we have had enough input and would like input from people who might not like these movies, or just edit them to help wikipedia out. The pages are: Talk:New Moon (2009 film)#Requested move and Talk:Eclipse (2010 film)#Requested move. Any help/input would greatly be apriciated.ChaosMaster16 (talk) 22:06, 7 December 2009 (UTC)ChaosMaster16

OK, I'll take a look. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 18:13, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Quick warning about rv of vandalism

I noticed you reverted vandalism on the History of banking article. Just make sure after you revert it, that somebody didn't revert before you thus you would be reverting to the vandalized page. Great job fighting vandalism, by the way. TheWeakWilled (T * G) 13:49, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

No problem. Heh, looks like we both realized it at the same time. TheWeakWilled (T * G) 13:56, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

"BTW in the RFA in needed a |} to close the table" ah thanks. TheWeakWilled (T * G) 13:57, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome! --HappyInGeneral (talk) 13:58, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

I have been working on a Misplaced Pages project on an enzyme Hexosaminidase A which is an isozyme of Beta-Hexosaminidase, but you just reported my partner (SarahBarker) and I for vandalism. Originally, we were trying to update the Hexosaminidase (as a search for Hexosaminidase A directs you to Hexosaminidase), but after you and Boghog2 made changes to the last "good version." We decided to update the HexA site with all the information on the Hexosaminidase page which was information that we created, but it is now misinformative information now the way the Hexosaminidase site is formatted. I'm just curious why you reported us for vandalism or why you keep reverting all the changes we make? We needed to research an enzyme for our end of the semester chemistry project, but we can't even publish our work online because of you. Im really confused? I wouldn't have a problem if you made minor changes, but accusing us vandalism? Deleting all of our work? Thats ridiculous - especially when the whole page of information and figures on the Hexosaminidase site is our research and created by us about the enzyme Hexosaminidase A. I'd really appreciate it if we could just update a page for atleast a few days, so then our professor could atleast accurately grade our project.

---Codyshafer_2011

I left a reply about WP:OR, but you gotta be more careful with that Huggle-stuff. Cheers! Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 03:06, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick reaction. I also left him a note. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 10:01, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

hey

glad to see you vandal fighting. --Guerillero (talk) 21:44, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

easy :) --HappyInGeneral (talk) 21:47, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank You :)

I would like to say thank you for your message on my talk page :) Experting (talk) 23:05, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your help, i think i requested it now :P --Experting (talk) 23:14, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome! --HappyInGeneral (talk) 23:14, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Well there is one thing :P, Could you check to see if i have requested it the correct way :) --Experting (talk) 23:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Hope my answer helped you. Best Regards, --HappyInGeneral (talk) 23:28, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Iraq War edit

Hi, could you please explain, why did you revert an edit about Independent magazine in "effects of the troop surge" section of Iraq war article? Thanks in advance. --unsigned by User_talk:194.44.21.134, 14:31, 11 December 2009

Hello, here is the edit that you mention on Iraq War. I did not like the way it was formatted, but on a second thought you are right per WP:Attribution it is better to specify, so I did that, see here. Thank you very much for pointing this out. Best Regards, --HappyInGeneral (talk) 18:59, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! The way you put it is better. Best Wishes, --—Preceding unsigned comment added by Oleg 194.44.21.134 (talk) 19:40, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome! And also thank you too! --HappyInGeneral (talk) 20:05, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

SM U-18

Me I was the creator of the article, I wrote "abcd". The another user deleted one sentenc. Result "ab_d". Then me and this user agreed a new design, now "ab__". Then you came and declared it vandalism. Where is the vandalism here ? --Hans Joachim Koerver 22:47, 11 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by AchimKoerver (talk • contribs)

Here is another post from you. Anyway I'll review the issue. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 05:23, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Here is the disputed revert. Sorry, as I saw it back then it was removal of content, and in no way vandalism, and I would like to apologize for the miss-characterization. In any case I removed my warning. Best Regards, --HappyInGeneral (talk) 05:39, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

AIV on IP:98.242.220.34

Is unclear - looks like good-faith attempts to correct (+shared IP). Just one example - some of those might indeed be private (sorry, my first time with this topic). Materialscientist (talk) 03:28, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

They are private, but that is the type not their affiliation, which was changed. To check go to the institution link and look for their affiliation. You will see that their affiliation is not private but of different religions. Would you like to check and revert? Thank you! --HappyInGeneral (talk) 10:41, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I restored your revert. Sorry if I sounded hostile: I've had a few AIV cases recently when anons were actually right and were reverted simply because they provided no summary and deleted material. Tricky situations at times - they don't talk and don't listen, but believe they are acting in good faith (and they often do). Then they get reverted, blocked and started hating us. Never mind. Happy editing Materialscientist (talk) 10:53, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry I can perfectly understand, and I might have some false positives from time to time too unfortunately. Do you know perhaps how can I change the default comment on WP:Huggle saying something like, "If you think this revert is a mistake, please let me know about it"? This would help a lot per WP:DONTBITE. What do you think? --HappyInGeneral (talk) 12:30, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I never used Huggle or other vandal scripts - entirely manual operation. It is really tricky at times to understand at high speed whether the edits were right/wrong good/bad faith. Even auto-tagging fails sometimes. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 12:34, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

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Falun Gong "alert"

I'm just notifying everyone involved in the Falun Gong articles lately, regardless of stance or opinion. We have a new SPA RoyalRook with absolutely no clue about no interest in NPOV who inserted phrases like "Huge BS" and "Can you say crazy cult for 100?" into the main article. I reverted. You're welcome. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 16:51, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

I see you engaged him, thanks. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 11:12, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Planck's law

There were no references in my comment because the comment referred only to the content of the article. At the moment the article contains appalling omissions and should be fixed as a matter of urgency. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.111.95.41 (talk) 11:36, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello, I reverted this edit of yours because comments regarding the article should go on the talk page and not on the article's page. I'm glad to see that you did that, and I would also like to welcome you and to congratulate you for your wish to improve this Encyclopedia. Welcome! --HappyInGeneral (talk) 11:45, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

And a smile back

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List of Volkswagen Group petrol engines

Hi - I'm just trying to understand if I did anything wrong in the List of Volkswagen Group petrol engines article? Or is there a problem with 'HG' ?? Kind regards. 78.32.143.113 (talk) 20:37, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Regarding this edit, first I had the impression that there is an unjustified content removal. After I reviewed a bit better I notice that I might have been mistaken so I did restore your version. Sorry for the confusion. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 20:45, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

For reverting vandalism to my talk page. Cheers, 76.248.149.51 (talk) 23:27, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome! --HappyInGeneral (talk) 13:04, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Response

I was reverting vandalism to the first pre-vandalized version. Simonm223 (talk) 21:14, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

If you object to any content and think you can improve this encyclopedia, please put forth your arguments. Labeling something as simply vandalism while removing well sourced content, is not constructive. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 21:18, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

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