Adam Brink

Dealing with Vandalism

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It seems you also need a new welcome, as you seem to have a new user name now.

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Thanks for letting me know. I'm sorry to see Ethnopunk has reverted your work - it seems an unconstructive, defensive and rather knee-jerk approach. From what I can see, your work seemed to make sense without dramatically altering it in a new direction. I've left a comment to that effect on the talk page, but I'm not going to join the discussion at this point, though, as I am trying to take a wikibreak at the moment. Zaian 11:45, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

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Image:Dolos.jpg

Hi, is there any reason you replaced the high-resolution version of Image:Dolos.jpg with a lower-res version? Wikipedia prefers to have high-resolution images wherever possible. User:Angr 15:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Bronze Medallion/Star

No probs on removing the speedy delete, I was going from the photo captions of the heroic guy, where it was described as the Bronze Star - But that was just bad journalism it seems. I will move the article to Bronze Medallion, New York City award, which is more in line with naming conventions. Thanks for following up. --Steve _(Slf67) ^talk 22:25, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Wesley Autrey, was selected for DYK!

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 22:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

re: "Manners, dude"

eh...what?ever. Tomer^talk 23:20, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Uromycladium

Hi,

I was under the impression that Uromycladium was introduced to control Acacia cyclops not Acacia saligna; at least, that's what I wrote in Acacia cyclops and Invasive plants of Australian origin a couple of years ago.

Hesperian 00:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Note on Hesperian's page: "Hi. The article I cite states that '[t]he rust fungus was introduced into South Africa from Australia in 1987 for the bio-control of Port Jackson, and has successfully established itself throughout the range of this weed' (my emphasis). Are you sure that it also tackles A cyclops ('Rooikrans')? Adam --Adam Brink 06:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)"

http://fred.csir.co.za/plants/global/continen/africa/safrica/biocontr/agenttbl.htm lists Uromycladium against A. saligna, and Melanterius against A. cyclops. I should say I've probably got it back to front in invasive plants of Australian origin. Carry on. Hesperian 07:09, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Re United Nations

I object to the United Nations because amongst other things it has helped George W Bush fabricate evidence in the alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction case. In case you object as an Administrator I have removed the said Userbox.Kathleen.wright5 13:40, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Rewrite of Rock hyrax

I see you've made several contributions in the past to the page Rock hyrax. I've pretty much rewritten the page, putting things on a much more encyclopedic basis, and rationalising a lot of stuff that was scattered around the article. I'll leave it in my sandbox User:Arikk/Sandbox/Rock_Hyrax for a couple of days before replacing the existing page (although I think it's already much better), but if anyone wants to comment, please do so on my talk page. Arikk (talk) 14:13, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Pruning of Robert William Kentridge

Hey, regarding what you said on Talk:Robert William Kentridge - i assume you were referring to me when you thought that the article had been self-edited, seeing as i had edited it a lot recently. I am not Robert William Kentridge, although i admit on hindsight that i allowed that article to grow too long. To be honest i agree that having so much irrelevant information (esp. regarding his motorcycles) was unencyclopedic. Just clearing things up. Michaelmas1957 (talk) 17:08, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the message on my talk page. I don't doubt your good faith. My suspicion fell on TroutprincessHK. I thought it was probably the subject himself because the address was created at 20h54 on 27 August 2010 and by 22h08 had created the Robert Kentridge article - and done nothing since. In fact, though, if you look at the first edit by that user it was to insert an inappropriate reference to Robert's daughter, Hannah, (a student, learning Japanese in her spare time) into the Sydney Kentridge page, followed by the burst of activity with respect to Robert Kentridge. Is it too far-fetched to imagine that the HK stands for Hannah Kentridge, and that she loves her Daddy? I will copy this onto my own page. (talk) 09:25, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello. I actually am Robert Kentridge and I've just discovered that I have a page on Wikipedia! I have added a few references. I have no idea whether I'm actually allowed to edit my own page. If I am then I could update it a bit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.43.49.71 (talk) 19:24, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

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