User talk:Landroo

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[edit] AfD notice

Hello, and thank you for your valuable contributions to Wikipedia! I am contacting you here to notify you that an article you created, Undernet Philosophy Channel, has been listed for possible deletion because it does not seem to meet Wikipedia's minimum notability requirements for articles (and specifically for web-based ones). A discussion will take place on the issue at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Undernet Philosophy Channel, and, if evidence can be provided that the topic is noteworthy enough for its own article (such as reliable references), it will be kept.

Sorry for any inconvenience, and we hope that you will not be discouraged if the article ends up deleted, as Wikipedia must maintain fairly high inclusion standards in order to avoid being swamped with trivia. Have a nice day! -Silence 01:34, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] signing your comments

Hi Landroo. It's helpful to other readers if you sign and date your comments. Wikipedia has made this easy to do: just type four tildas (~~~~) and the wikipedia software will automatically convert it into your signature. See WP:SIGN for more info. Bucketsofg✐ 13:30, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling and "oops!"

Hi. Because I watch the article Evolution for vandalism, I noticed an editor had reverted your edit. I think I see why, but then that tickled me to check your other edits today. I'd like to say that I always keep a dictionary site window open, like www.dictionary.com, because sometimes spelling corrections are more difficult than you'd think. (And it saves me when all the words start to look wrong.) I hope you'll pardon me commenting ...

• Delta Burke

"Desiging" -> "Designing"

perfect

• Disneyland Resort Paris

"jewellery" -> "jewelery"

That other editor correctly pointed out that it is either "jewelry" or "jewellery". Actually it was only the other day that I found out that "jewellery" could be spelled with one 'l', as "jewelry" - I'd always used the form Also, especially British, jew·el·ler·y. Anyway, the 'problem' is that we are supposed to be sensitive to "which English" is used predominantly in an article, and not simply change everything to 'murican.

• American Broadcasting Company

"cancelled" -> "canceled"

-celed, -cel·ing or (especially British) -celled, -cel·ling

As above, the two-'l' version is also 'correct', just differently so. ;-)

• Charles Darwin

"Dariwn" -> "Darwin"

Oooo, how embarrassing (now that editor can be embarrassed in private)

• Evolution

"focussed" -> "focused"

-cused, -cus·ing or (especially British) -cussed, -cus·sing

Just like the two-'l's, two 's's are okay, and considering the article's relationship to Darwin, an Englishman, it could be argued the British spelling is 'better'?

"Aegilops" -> "Aeoccurredgilops"

I think this is what drew the interest of the other editor, who probably should have asked you what happened. Any idea what, umm, occurred? :-)

I'll have to plead a computer glitch of some kind, because I really don't know what happened. I seem to recall a computer crash in the middle of one of my edits.Landroo 01:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you, but like I said, after looking at more than a couple pages I have to have dictionary.com open - it all looks wrong. Maybe you could do this also? Shenme 05:51, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I'll try to bear in mind that there may be more than one spelling, after all there are many versions of English around the world. Too bad the IE spellchecker plugin I use doesn't seem to account for any dictionary other than American English.Landroo 01:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)