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Scarian^{Call me Pat!} 01:53, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: IP blocking

Hi, sorry I haven't had time to reply and a welcome message was the best I could do. In regards to your concern, I do apologise but I appear to have blocked the wrong IP address and I do apologise for any inconvenience caused. By now, the block on your IP address has been lifted and it should be good to go. I still think it'll be a good idea for you to use your current account though, as IPs can give away your location and aren't exactly advantageous if you're a bit wary of your privacy/anonymity. Thanks and apologies again. If you have any queries about anything on Wikipedia, please do not hesitate to contact me. Regards and take care, Scarian^{Call me Pat!} 12:07, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Headlight, perhaps you can start off by reading various policies that we have surrounding the articles that you enjoy editing :-) (for e.g. WP:DISCOG, WP:MUSIC, and WP:BAND). Reading those will help get you started and then you're a step closer to making the best edits Wikipedia has to offer ;-) - An important thing to watch out for is WP:3RR/WP:EDITWAR; Wikipedia can be a frustrating place where editors just revert your edits for no reason [I'm not making a reference to the above], so it's important not to lose control. Anyway, these are just a couple of key policies that'll help you get along on Wikipedia. Oh, and my User talk:Scarian, here you can always leave a message if you need help! :-) Scarian^{Call me Pat!} 07:30, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Yep, that's fine. Just make sure they comply with policy and I'll be fine with it! Scarian^{Call me Pat!} 10:46, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Kings of Leon discography

Hey, if you go onto the User's talk page that removed all that, you can see my tirade. I refrained from giving it a proper revert, just to avoid him undergoing his crappy edits a third time. Thanks for noticing though. k-i-a-c (hitmeup - the past) 10:20, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Query

Hi, first of all welcome and thanks for the certifications on Bloc Party's discography. I reverted your reference changes as redundant. Did you change them for any particular reason? If so, it's probably wise to discuss it so that, if there are any problems we've missed which you picked on, they can be ironed out. Cheers. RB88 (T) 13:29, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Alright, I'll have a look soon and get back to you. RB88 (T) 17:59, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

OK, in order:

1. EveryHit has been proven FA and FL reliable whereas Chartstats hasn't (it also has both albums and singles menus).
2. Chart-Track is a better known and more reliable media source than irish-charts.com., hence has to be picked as first choice regardless of search or no search.
3. For Beta pages like the new Billboard, I tend to link a single page rather than all the separate flash menus. I think it simplifies the reflist.
4. Thanks for the compact idea of singles and albums and all the new refs, especially certs. Much appreciated. If you find any more, you're more than welcome to add them.

If you've got any outstanding issues, pop a message my way. PRB88 (T) 21:53, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Stone Roses discography

Hi. I notice that you amended the Stone Roses discography to state that their first album was released in July 1989 but did not cite your source. A number of other sites show the album to have first entered the charts in May 1989. I have reverted this change pending verification. Cheers, Longwayround (talk) 11:59, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Template:Sheffield Council elections‎

Hi, I'm just letting you know that I raised a comment at User talk:Veganfishcake#Templates about his re-adding the sequence boxes to the Sheffield Council election pages. As a result of that discussion I amended the Template:Sheffield Council elections that you created so it defaults to be uncollapsed (and did the same on similar templates I have created). You may want to give your opinion, either on Veganfishcake's talk page or on my mine (where he has replied to me).

By the way nice work on the Sheffield Council election pages. Davewild (talk) 19:40, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I can't take all the credit (blame?) for the new design, most of it was a development on edits Woodgreener made on the Brighton and Hove local elections page back in 2010 here. I have seen your comments on Veganfishcake's talk page and we shall see what his response/thoughts are. Davewild (talk) 21:03, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Wow

Thank you so much for the Wigan election article. Brilliant. doktorb _words^deeds 06:06, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

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Wigan Council election, 1976 (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)

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Swings

Hey. I knew this would come up :)

In short, it is more accurate to compare like-for-like. We don't think twice about comparing like-for-like with general elections or County Council elections, or those Met Councils which elect "all out" every four years. For those which elect "in thirds", Mr Councillor who won in 2006 is next up for election in 2010, so his vote share can only be accurately compared like-for-like. It can be done year-on-year, as some media outlets tend to do, but this distorts the swing.

Consensus has not really be formed, to be honest. I agree with Harry because we're both traditionalists and obsessed with keeping things "proper". From a project point of view, I'd much prefer to compare like with like - obviously an article can say "The change in vote from the previous year was X" and make it clear that the ward results are being compared with the previous tranche for statistical purposes only.

All that said, I can see why there's a problem with doing it this way. There's accuracy and then there's pedantry, and for the generally curious it must seem strange without additional explanation. It's very, very time consuming to "correct" so many articles, which is why I can only do it in bits and pieces.

What do you think is the best thing to do from here on?

doktorb _words^deeds 06:49, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

...swings and roundabouts!. As it happens I've spoken in another place with the editor currently working on Broxbourne elections here; his preference is year-on-year, not like-for-like. I respect his reasons for that and won't change them. I think the consensus position would be to put very clearly at the top of each article a explanation/disclaimer. As you say it would be better to get a wider view, though if/until, what do you think of just carrying on case-by-case with a clear explanation that some articles are different to others? doktorb _words^deeds 08:50, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Sheffield Municipal election, 1966

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Some stroopwafels for you!

Thanks for all your work adding past Green shares to the Opinion Polling for the Next UK GE article. Perhaps your doing Opinium 2013 helps you understand why I've concentrated on one pollster at a time - I hope that me doing that hasn't been too annoying! I know just how much work you have put in. Thanks. DrArsenal (talk) 22:08, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the continued efforts. There are precious few gaps in the coverage of Green shares that can be filled now, and it seems we are both discovering as many completely absent polls as missing Green shares now.

Oct 2011 YouGovs seem to be the biggest problem, but try as I might, I can't find them. Techniques that have found all sorts of others don't work with them.

So, time to ask impru20 to change the 'Graphical Summary', I think?

DrArsenal (talk) 07:58, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Cheers!

	Time to share a beer!
	I thought those of us who worked to backdate Green shares at Opinion polling for the 2015 United Kingdom general election and clear up the mess of the UKIP 2011 shares there should share a beer to celebrate 'mission accomplished'. DrArsenal (talk) 20:10, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

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