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Architect

I agree with the person below, thanks for your effort to keep Architect clean from advertisements, but I urge you to be more careful with removing references: you removed the source for Finnish architects salaries (The profession database of Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy) which hardly could be identified as an advertisement ;-) --piksi (talk) 09:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Using 'Undo' to revert vandalism

Hi! Thanks for all your good work on reverting vandalism. Undo, though, works best when used on edits that are farther back in the edit history. If the most recent edits on the page are the vandal's, the simplest way is to open the revision immediately before the vandalism took place, click 'edit' and then 'save.' The reason for this is that if the vandal makes more than one edit to the page, as the anon you reverted on Tobacco smoking did, it's easy to miss the other vandalism. If you check the diff of your and the anon's edits combined, you'll see that you missed a few things. Please do be careful when reverting, and always check the edit history to make sure you didn't miss anything, because vandalism that's overlooked in this way often stays in the article for some time before it's caught. Thanks! -- Vary | Talk 18:21, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Thnks. I guess I'll leave the vandalism reverting up to the specialists... Lars 06:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Not at all! I'm just letting you know how to avoid these problems in the future: please, don't think that I'm telling you you shouldn't revert vandalism if you feel like it! Nobody starts off as an 'expert', remember; everyone's got to learn somewhere.

As for my user page, of course you can, just cite it the same way you would cite anything you didn't write yourself. (Since it's GFDL licensed, I'm not sure I could stop you even if I wanted to, so long as you comply with the terms, hehe.) But thank you for asking! -- Vary | Talk 13:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Thnks! When it's done, I'll send you an invitation!

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Would this do:

L_ars

? ~ Dreamy ^§ 03:35, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Quite interesting I´d say, but maybe a bit difficult to read if one has some kind of colorblindness. BTW, good luck with your editor review if I may say so. Lars 17:56, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Elizabeth

Which? [1] His daughter or his mistress?--Patrick (talk) 10:29, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

His daughter I am convinced. Lars 10:35, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Then I wonder why you say the opposite in your edit. I corrected and clarified this.--Patrick (talk) 11:02, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Must have done something very wrong here, don't know what but thnks for fixing it and informing me. Lars 11:28, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok.--Patrick (talk) 22:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

301-400, etc

I've noticed you're making a lot of list articles like 301-400, without explaining what they are. At present they look like indiscriminate info. Please address if you can, thanks, Marasmusine (talk) 12:21, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: 1-100, 101-200, 201-300, 301-400, 401-500, and 501-600

Hi, what is the meaning of creating these articles? This list does not seem like it is in any kind of particular category. Please apply the proper categorization in addition of what the objective of these articles are before continuing. Thanks. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 12:22, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

After EC, I see you already did what I was trying to tell you and ask for: Only wanted to split the page in different sections. Is there a way to undo this apparantly wrong editing in one step ? Thnks and sorry for the hassle Lars 12:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm still not sure what exactly you are trying to do, but if you want to self delete articles you edited, you may apply <db-self> to the articles. Until you settle down with what exactly you would like to do, may I suggest using the WP:SANDBOX in your userspace until you are ready? Have a great day! - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 12:32, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Thnks and once again, sorry for the hassle. Lars 12:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

1-100

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101-200

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201-300

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301-400

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401-500

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501-600

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I have restored it for you. Please keep in mind that if you don't give a good enough reason to keep the page, it could be deleted again. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:28, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Thnks. This is all too difficult editing for me. I'll think I'll wait and see from the sideline what happens next. (smile) Lars 07:32, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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Jasper Vinall

Could you please explain your thinking around the citations that were given? I do not see how the three that you have removed are irrelevant since they are the verifiable sources of the statements written. Without the citations, the statements themselves could be removed. Thank you. --Jim Hardie (talk) 07:38, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Was checking on the source of this citation (jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk) without success. So I deleted it because I thought it to be a a dead link. Maybe I was too quick on that one. I'll try to find a better source. If you like to undo my edit, please feel free to do so. Lars 07:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I think the site may have down for a time but has been restored during the last few days according to its modification dates, so it might have presented itself as a dead link during that time. I had linked to its contents page previously so I'll improve that by linking to the pages that contain the actual references. Thank you very much. --Jim Hardie (talk) 06:58, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Well thank you for your assistance. Lars 07:02, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

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List of atheists

Thanks for your edits to this list. I noticed that you changed a word in a Mitch Clem quote from all caps. I restored the all caps, because misspellings and other errors in written quotes need to be preserved as written. Thank you. Nick Graves (talk) 15:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Thnks for informing me. Lars 15:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and wikifying years

I responded on my talk page Colfer2 (talk · contribs). I also noticed you have wikified solo years, like 1911, etc., on many articles. I think WP:DATE advises against that, unless it is specifically relevant. That is, if the 1911 article would reasonably link back to the article in question. That's how I recall it. Or, here's another way to look at it: MOS:UNLINKYEARS. Note MOS:UNLINKYEARS#Dates of birth and death has specific examples where those dates are only wikified if the full month, day and year are known. -Colfer2 (talk) 14:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Your edit on Alpha Kappa Alpha

Those links weren't outdated. Please be more careful. miranda 04:55, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I'm so sorry. Please apologise. Lars 04:56, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Woodsy Owl

I did NOT vandalize that talk page as you asserted in your revert. I merely took out an extra space that was making the first few words of somebody else's statement appear as boxed text. Go back and look and don't be so quick to call an editor a vandal. That article and especially the talk page is subject to actual vandalism so its best not to throw that accusation at folks who have been trying to preserve the sense of the article and the talk page.LiPollis (talk) 13:54, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Systems

Hi, next time you wikify an article in the field of systems and systems science you better take a better look at what you are doing. You made several mistakes in the system article, which I corrected. I know, some of those things are arbitrary. But I wikified about 500 to 1000 articles in this field an I keep one system here.

But, anyway it was a good thing that you took a look at the systems article because I made some mistakes myself to. Good luck with your work. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 13:26, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Thnks for your support. Lars 13:28, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I just checked your last edit of Transcendental Meditation, and I always put the "external links" at the end and the "further reading" section just behind the "reference" section. What ever..!? Good luck. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 13:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Wiglaf

I noticed that you changed some accessmonthday parameters in Wiglaf of Mercia from "26 October" to "October 26". I don't mind which way it goes, but I was wondering if you were working from a style guide or some part of MOS. Can you tell me why you changed it? Thanks. Mike Christie (talk) 12:39, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

This is how I have been told to do some time ago. Are there different opinions to this subject? Lars 13:56, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, "26 October 2007" is (I believe) the British standard. I think "October 26, 2008" is U.S. style. In parameters such as this accessmonthdate, I don't really think it matters very much, but as a general rule I think it is best to understand whether an article is written in British English or US English before making a change like this. If an article is in one variety of English, it should be kept consistent, so changing the dates is not a good idea in that case. I'll leave Wiglaf as is, but I'd suggest you don't bother changing dates any more -- it would give you quite a bit of trouble to check out which variety of English each article is using. (There usually isn't any kind of tag you can look for.) Mike Christie (talk) 16:26, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

This sounds perfect. Correct me if I am wrong, an article should have or British or English dates, consisteny throughout the entire article. I'll follow your advise. Thnks! Lars 17:50, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

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Edit window formatting

I noticed you did an edit on ISO8601, just modifying the edit format, removing blanks adjacent to markup codes like bullets and section headers. Why are you doing that? It reduces readability. −Woodstone (talk) 14:43, 22 July 2008 (UTC).

If you think it reduces readability, please feel free to undo my edit. Lars 14:49, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

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Reflex (linguistics)

Concerning the edit of [2] , a "reflex" in the linguistic sense is not the same as a reflex in general sense. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 22:10, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

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