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Contents 1 MY OLD MESSAGES 2 Vandalism warning master copy 3 How to AfD 4 + barnstar 5 Space suit 6 Taking liberties with speedy deletion 7 Frogperson 8 Hveragerði 9 Talk:Water cannon 10 2000 AD glossary 11 JasperReports 12 Industrial breathing sets category 13 Rothammel 14 Falklands War 15 An Automated Message from HagermanBot 16 New Zealand cricket seasons 17 Sentence that mentions Tony Terran on page 56 chapter 6 (Phil Spector & The Wrecking Crew) in Hal Blaine's book 18 War of the Worlds 19 Basin Groups on AfD 20 Your request in the german WP 21 Image:Dumper_workman_2of.jpg 22 Pillar valves 23 Battle of Als 24 Hi Anthony 25 -lev 26 Schleswig 27 Principal Teacher 28 Sprevjane 29 Primary Life Support System 30 Vibraimage 31 Gas chamber 32 TOC 33 Image:Aa_savox1.jpg listed for deletion 34 Scottish falconry firm 35 missing license information 36 Primeval 37 Pah 38 Guard dab page 39 CB Radio 40 License tagging for Image:Aa gully emptier 01 rear end.jpg 41 Dumpers 42 Meerkat Manor 43 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Newark Airport Interchange 44 Question 45 Jurassic Park 46 Oxyhydrogen flame 47 Whips and crops 48 Modern maps always call it Helsingor 49 Punctuation 50 Gyrfalcon 51 Wikilink in List of rivers by length 52 Image: Electroshock baton 53 Radio Times table

[edit] MY OLD MESSAGES

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[edit] Vandalism warning master copy

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[edit] How to AfD

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[edit] + barnstar

i was looking over my eronous edit of the frogman article, & i saw how much you did for it; yey on you :> —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cannibalicious! (talk • contribs) 10:19, 3 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Space suit

Thank you for your extensive work on the article Space suit. Many of your changes were helpful, though some conflicted with the Manual of Style, and I have reverted these changes. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 20:20, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Taking liberties with speedy deletion

Anthony, in what way was this appropriate? Under which CSD criterion would you have deleted it? Even if A7 were applicable to books, does it not assert plenty of notability on its very cover? If I had seen this at the time of your RfA, I would not have supported. - crz crztalk 14:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• I would not have deleted it. Since I do not yet have power to delete, I felt it safe to mark it and let someone else decide. There are so many routine novels. Anthony Appleyard 15:49, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Frogperson

I replied at Talk:Frogman. •DanMS 21:50, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hveragerði

Hi. I have removed the "Hurdygurdy" reference in the above article. It is irrelevant what the (no-longer present) US soldiers called the town. This info is probably better presented in the Naval Air Station Keflavik article, if at all. Please leave a message on my talk page if you want to discuss this further. But if you have any other information to add to the article, feel free! Apologies for the misplaced signature also...Pikiwedian 15:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Water cannon

Hi, fair enough you were tired, so what you put is valid as opposed to the sarcastic comment it looked like, but please don't delete the history of the discussion. I guess you're in the same position as me, the article is blatently all good, but there's no sources cited for any of the claims. Any idea where to start with sources for it? --RedHillian 17:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC) (also in the UK).

[edit] 2000 AD glossary

As you've done some editting of this entry I'd value your input on the transwikying and deletion process - see the talk page for discussion. (Emperor 02:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC))

[edit] JasperReports

• Hi, I completely missed this Afd due to holiday festivities. I see that during the Afd you removed the advertising language, and I was wondering if you would be able to do the same to User:Jayvdb/Saved pages/JasperReports, a copy of I have restored from the google cache. John Vandenberg 10:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
• Since then, User:Jayvdb has worked on User:Jayvdb/Saved pages/JasperReports, including putting many references in: this should settle the WP:V query; and I feel that I should wait until he has finished his work on it. Anthony Appleyard 11:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Industrial breathing sets category

Hi, is the category for articles related to industrial breathing sets or just for makes (brand names) of industrial breathing sets? Of the 10 other articles in that category 5 of them aren't makes, and I'm unclear why mine rescue and Gas Control Equipment Ltd should be separated out from being alphabetized if the others are not. If we did separate everything that wasn't a make, that would leave only 5 of the 12 articles alphabetized. This isn't important to me one way or the other, I'm just curious and don't know of any Wikipedia style policies one way or the other. Dragomiloff 12:34, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for pointing this out. Category:Rebreathers has 20 members which are types of rebreather and 5 which are not, and I separated them. Category:Industrial breathing sets seems to have less % of members which are types of rebreather, I have now put all its members back into alphabetical order. Anthony Appleyard 14:26, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rothammel

I see you are interested in the history of radio. Any chance you can add some perspective on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rothammel? John Vandenberg 23:16, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Falklands War

• I had just removed some of the content over to that article yesterday; its over 90kb long, and it was recommended in the peer review that the article be split off. Any chance you can revert it back and get rid of the redirect? RHB 14:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
• User:SqueakBox wanted Falklands War Argentine surrender merging to Falklands War. so I followed his wishes. See Talk:Falklands War Argentine surrender, and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Falklands_War_Argentine_surrender&action=history . I have left a message in User talk:SqueakBox asking User:SqueakBox to look here, so this can be discussed. I did not know of the peer review: please what link is it at? Anthony Appleyard 18:00, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

The peer review is here - Wikipedia:Peer review/Falklands War. I would say much of the article needs to be split off as it is, and it looked like a section it was possible with - 85KB when it was the peer review, but 94KB or so now. RHB 18:14, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

The article was already becoming a focus of contention for more genralised naming issues, it also seems that we could do better in terms of splitting off a section, though personally I think 94KB is pretty small, anyway I see their is contention so I will reflect a bit before seeing if an afd would be appropraite. Cheers, SqueakBox 19:19, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] New Zealand cricket seasons

For your information, the WikiProject Cricket is establishing a season review article for every first-class season worldwide. A summary of trophy winners is okay as a quick lookup but there is a need for detailed information per season. At present, we are concentrating on getting the articles in place and the best way to do that in a reasonable time is by creating "lookalike" stubs that can easily be copied and pasted; the next phase (which is already underway re England) is to expand the stubs and provide the details. The English seasons to 1787 are no longer stubs, we intend to enlarge all the others also but it will take several months to do it. --BlackJack | ^{talk page} 10:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I cannot see any future use for this article. I doubt if anyone would wish to expand it especially as we already have lists of trophy winners. Would you please Afd it? --BlackJack | ^{talk page} 10:37, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

• do you come from new zealand anthony? 04:18, 25 March 2007 User:203.118.176.206
• I live in England. Anthony Appleyard 06:11, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sentence that mentions Tony Terran on page 56 chapter 6 (Phil Spector & The Wrecking Crew) in Hal Blaine's book

"Steve Douglas was usually on sax along with Nino Tempo (April Stevens and Nono had the big hit Deep Purple), Jay Migliori and Roy Caton on trumpet along with Ollie Mitchell and Tony Terran." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Daveterran (talk • contribs) 19:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] War of the Worlds

I suspect you've worked out what is going on but we are taking drastic measures to fix some horrible meddling with all the WotW entries (largely just copy and pasting entries and in the case of the novel leaving two parallel versions sitting round. You can see the discussion and progress here. Its all nearly done but needs some admin intervention to sort the mess of the films out. (Emperor 13:56, 15 January 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Basin Groups on AfD

Basin Groups, which appears to be a subdivision of Pre-Nectarian Luna timescale, has been placed on Articles for Discussion for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 January 15#Basin Groups. --Bejnar 00:43, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your request in the german WP

Hello,

The IP 84.114.137.105 edited the Page last on 18. Feb. 2006. it is highly unlikely, that the same user will get the same (dynamic) on on his next visit on this pages. Your request should be filed on the Discussion-Page of the article. --P.C. ✉ 13:06, 16. Jan. 2007 (CET) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.64.224.249 (talk) 12:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Image:Dumper_workman_2of.jpg

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• I have replaced the licence by {{GFDL-self}}, as I made this image by CGI. That was my early days, and I got the first licence wrong. Anthony Appleyard 18:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pillar valves

That was why I added the disclaimer. Far be it from me to want to make the whole world pronouce fractured (and sometimes ugly) American English. But the reason I ask is that we always say PIE-lar here, accent on first syllable. Not like piler (like one who makes piles), or pillar (the support column). How do you say it in the UK? SBHarris 22:08, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

• Here in England I have always heard "pillar valve" pronounced as "pill" + unstressed "-er", same as a pillar which is part of a building. Anthony Appleyard 22:34, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Interesting. Thanks. SBHarris 22:37, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Als

Nice job on the Battle of Alsen. If you can help out with other Denmark battles, that would be great. --Ineffable3000 22:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Anthony

I just noticed that you've created a list of places in Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg copied from a different Wikipedia. Please don't add links to other wikipedias directly in article space. If you wish to make lists of interwiki links, please do it on the talk page of the article in question. In some cases, this will mean that this wikipedia will only link to a non-existing (redlink) article, but this is how the system works. On the other hand, a redlink will make others notice that an article is missing here, and it will hopefully lead to its creation. Most of the readers of this website can't read either German or Danish anyway, so they have no use for any such links. I also noticed that you add links from article space to images on other websites. If you wish to include images here, you need to upload them images to either this Wikipedia or to Commons and add the correct image license. Alternatively, you can make a link to them under the "external links" section or you can link to such material from the article's talk page. However, in actual article space, we're only allowed to use images on Wikipedia's own servers. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Happy editing. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 16:33, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] -lev

-lev is a very old and common ending in Danish placenames. It is at least 1,000 years old. The first syllable is normally but not always a man's name and -lev is derived from the verb "leve" which means to "live". E.g. Haderslev = "where Hathar lives", Marslev = "where Mar lives" (in both cases, the "S" is a genitive). Hartlev = "where life is tough" (in German, this name would have been "Hartleben"), Haslev = "where hazel grows" (Hassel = hazel). Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 17:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Schleswig

It will take a little time but I'll try to look for answers to your questions, but I can start with those that I know of for sure:

- Mysunde. Mysunde is located on the north side of Schwansen, near a very narrow part of the Schlei. Any army wishing to outflank the Dannevirke would have to cross the Schlei here. Outflanking it to the west would not be possible under normal conditions since the area between Husum and the western extremity of the Dannevirke was marsh land which was flooded in times of war. Mysunde is located on the road between Kosel and Brodersby. See [1]. It is located in the north-western part of Kosel municipality, see a location map of the municipality at de:Kosel. If you read German, there is a bit more information here: [2], click "Die Gemeinden" and click "Kosel". The same location was the scene of battles during several wars.

- Railways. The Danish railway network was still in its infancy in 1864. North of the Kongeå, only a rail link between Copenhagen and Korsør existed as well as a railway from Århus leading to the north west. Had the Dannevirke been held, potential reinforcements from Copenhagen would have been transported by rail to Korsør and sailed the rest of the way to Flensburg. Such an operation would take a maximum of 2-3 days. The railway network in the duchies was much better: railways linked Hamburg, Kiel, Altona and the city of Schleswig. Less than 10 years before the war, railways opened from Eiderstedt and Husum to the city of Schleswig and from Schleswig to Flensburg. The duchies had no railways north of this point. More interesting is that the railway was never properly used during the evacuation of the Dannevirke with the result that great amounts of artillery, most importantly heavy artillery, were left behind by the Danish army. One explanation is that this was done so the Prussian army wouldn't notice the retreat. A more popular story claims that a waiting train had been instructed to head north at a specific time, which it did, but that the army had not yet arrived to the station due to heavy snow. The equipment transported to Dybbøl was essentially pulled there by soldiers and horses during very poor conditions, as the weather had changed to a snow storm. An iconic image exists of this retreat, and I'll upload a copy one of the days. The city of Schleswig, Flensburg, Sønderborg and Dybbøl were all connected by a road paved with crushed rock and this was the route the army took. The same road continued from Flensburg to Fredericia and Århus and this was the route later taken by the Prussian army when it invaded Jutland. The Dannevirke was abandoned at the orders of the commander, Christian de Meza, who feared that the poorly-repaired fortress couldn't hold out against a bigger foe. Even more so as the Schlei and the wetlands west of the Dannevirke were freezing. His calculations might have been correct, but the decision was not popular, and it is still considered almost a miracle that the army wasn't destroyed when the weather changed for the worse so the army had to march most of the way through a snowstorm. Except for the artillery, it arrived almost in one piece at Dybbøl. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 13:36, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Anthony. Unfortunately I can't find any really good sources regarding your questions about Arnæs and the thaw of 1864. As I remember the story, thaw came soon after the army's withdrawal to Dybbøl, but I haven't a good source at hand. Sorry. Around 600 men were caught or killed in action during the retreat and 10 men died of freezing. A number of Schleswigers left the army during the withdrawal, but according to one soldier, most of these returned in less than a day. [3]Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 20:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Principal Teacher

There is a difference between a Headmaster/Headteacher and a Principal Teacher. A Headteacher is incharge of running the school, but a PT is only incharage of one or more departments.

[edit] Sprevjane

Recently, there have been problems with an anonymous editor adding sometimes spurious, sometimes POV and counterfactual information to articles on Old Prussia, and I decided to examine the his other edits to see if he was making similar edits to other articles; in doing so, I noticed that he took the entry Sprevjane and moved it to Sprewanen. As you recently edited the Sprevjane article, I thought I'd give you a heads up. The edit may reflect a German POV on the part of the contributor, who also added unreferenced etymological information (most likely folk etymology) linking Spevjane to Spree-wohner. You may wish to move the article back, or simply cite/clean up the etymological information. ---- Beobach972 01:56, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Primary Life Support System

Again, I have removed several of your changes, this time to Primary Life Support System. Firstly, according to the manual of style, prose is preferable to lists where possible. In addition, you removed important text and made the quality of the writing frankly poorer. I really recommend that you take some time to carefully look over the manual of style and its subpages, and read Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles before arbitrarily changing articles around for the worse. Not only have I had to correct numerous innaccuracies, wording problems, and style deviations from you on several articles, but I have read several complaints about your editing style from other editors. If you want to contibute helpfully to the project, you should consider taking this as constructive criticism, read over the relevant policies, and try to edit more carefully and deliberatively in the future. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 18:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Discussion continued in Talk:Primary Life Support System#Alterations of Feb 2007.

This discussion does not really belong in article talk, because it is not particular to a given article, but is a comment on your editing habits in general. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 21:08, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Again, please quote specific examples, that I can reply to. Anthony Appleyard 21:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

A recent admin candidate, in responding to questions during RfA, cited you as an example of a user who was difficult to deal with. This was several weeks ago, I can't find the question today. But for the most part, I was referring to the messages on your own talk pages, which presumably you have read, many of which express confusion and frustration with your edits, as well as the work I have done on Space suit and Spacesuits in fiction cleaning up your problematic edits. I don't mean to attack you, but I think you really should consider editing more carefully and discussing changes before you make them. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 22:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks. I have started a discussion in Talk:Primary Life Support System#Alterations of Feb_2007: a reply there would be appreciated. Anthony Appleyard 22:53, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

As I said, this is not a discussion particular to that article. It belongs in user talk space. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 05:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vibraimage

• G'day. I notice that you are interested in some of the articles dealing with ultrasound and the electro-magnetic spectrum. I wonder if you could have a look at Vibraimage and tell me if you think it is a hoax or some pseudoscientific gadget. It achieves less than 300 Google hits and I'm inclined to AfD it but I'd like a few more opinions first. Thanks Maustrauser 07:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• Discussion moved to See Talk:Vibraimage#True or hoax? Anthony Appleyard 07:57, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gas chamber

Hello.

I can't understand or believe that you would call my adding fact tags to the Gas Chamber article a type of holocaust denial. I find this very offensive. I add fact tags to many articles, and nobody has ever tried to skirt WP:CITE in such an irresponsible and childish way.

I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but you don't just throw around an accusation like that, especially when someone is going through pages trying to help by adding fact tags where appropriate and the article is in flagrant violation of WP:CITE.

I didn't consider that these fact tags could construed as controversial, and I was not thinking of them in the context of the holocaust denial debate. I was simply adding tags where settled policy says they belong.

I don't know if you are actively involved in the holocaust history issue - it's not a main area of study for me. If you are, I would suggest that you take a more reasonable approach when dealing with people, like myself, who have not looked into the issue. While I know enough about the documentation and study of the holocaust to know that it obviously occurred, I am startled by the level of aggression you have displayed in this instance and I fear it may provide ammunition for the very people whose deceits you seek to mitigate or eliminate from WikiPedia.

Good day. RadicalHarmony 22:55, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

• I was not calling this {{fact}} comment a type of holocaust denial. My edit comment "(rv ... a totally unnecessary "{{fact}}" tag.)" merely meant that so many people know about the Holocaust that surely a reference is not needed. Simiarly with "(rv deletion of a sentence that I put in to counter Holocaust-denial-type queries)". As it is, I have put in a link to Yad Vashem's web site as a fact link. Anthony Appleyard 10:07, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TOC

Please stop moving around the TOC on Spacesuits in fiction. See Help:Section#Floating the TOC ("If floating the TOC, the TOC should be placed after the lead section for consistency. Users of screen readers do not expect any text between the TOC and the first heading, and having no text above the TOC is confusing." ), Wikipedia:Accessibility#Article structure ("Avoid floating the table of contents if possible, as it breaks the standard look of pages.") and the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 17 for why this wrong. Floating the TOC is inconsistent and unnecessary, and removes from the quality of the encyclopedia. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 18:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Aa_savox1.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Scottish falconry firm

Appreciate your comment at Talk:KKK#Scottish firm which sells falconry supplies. Cheers, cab 00:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] missing license information

Hello, Image:Aa 2 sefas from side.jpg was transfered to wikimedia commons with a missing history. While I was up to fix it, I've noticed there's no licence information at all. Please provide it at the image page or directly at commons. --32X 01:06, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

The problem is already solved, the user who has moved it to commons just deleted the complete text ... --32X 01:26, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Primeval

Hi, thought a full cast list was too much, but I've split into main and other sections for now. See the talk page. Jihg 13:23, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pah

AA, do you have any references for "pah" as an alternate spelling for "pā"? I was cleaning up the mess of two disambiguation pages for "PAH" [with and without the (disambiguation)], when we edit-collided. I put your addition in an invisible comment, for now. The Pā (Māori) article shows "pa" as an alternate spelling, but not "pah". It seems to me that the article itself should list all valid spellings (and even common invalid spellings). I'd appreciate any light you can shed on this. Chris the speller 21:37, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

• http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/b/4/9/doc/b49158.shtml
• http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Heritage/Photos/Disc20/IMG0124.asp

etc etc Anthony Appleyard 22:30, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the education. I clarified the alternate spelling at Pā (Māori). Happy editing! Chris the speller 02:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Guard dab page

Nice job! I was actually going to suggest that you create a list of military guard units! Perfect timing and good work! Dreadlocke ☥ 17:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CB Radio

Why retabulate the list of frequencies? I liked them the way they were. Squidfryerchef 13:01, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Dumpers

• AA, I seem to have reverted your reversion to the disambiguation page. I had forgotten that I had already changed it once. However I think there is a difference between simplification and 'dumbing down', and my initial changes were not made without thought. I would suggest: up to 10 tonnes is not that 'small'; 'one-man' is irrelevant to a disambiguation page entry, which needs to be give as brief a description as will suffice for the purpose of disambiguation; not all dumpers are diesel powered and anyway that is also unnecessary detail; and the final 'around' is also superfluous and not, if I may be so bold, terribly good English. In so far as it may be relevant, I happen to have 40 years experience of construction plant. Bill F 23:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

"up to 10 tonnes is not that 'small'": vehicles called "dumpers" (rather than "dump trucks") that I have seen here in England do not go up to the 10-ton range.

"not all dumpers are diesel powered": OK, I have inserted "usually".

"one-man" eliminates vehicles designed to carry one or more passengers.

"off-road vehicle designed for carrying bulk material" in my opinion is by itself not specific enough.

"I happen to have 40 years experience of construction plant": which country in? We again seem to have run into UK/USA differences in word meanings and in work practices. I am in England.

Anthony Appleyard 07:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

"10 tonne": You have not been looking hard enough. Please see the Thwaites [[4]] website, to which the main article refers.

On the next two points, the question is whether this level of detail is needed to distinguish this usage of 'dumper' from all the other usages of the word, not whether it is necessary to a complete dictionary definition. I refer you to Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(disambiguation_pages)#Individual_entries See the penultimate bullet point before section 5.1.

What entitles you to assume I am in the USA? A Check on my user page would have revealed that I am in England too. Does my English read like an American's? Bill F 19:09, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meerkat Manor

Hi Anthony, I didn't delete your summary points of the 3rd season thus far....not sure if someone did, based on your comment? In any case, while I agree that other news sites and websites may have reported on some of these things, people may be coming to Wikipedia as a resource, so to be fair, information about unseen episodes should be between spoiler tags - and right now, the article does indeed have spoiler tags. I did delete an earlier mention of Flower's death that was placed in that lead information area, which was NOT within the spoiler tags. NickBurns 02:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Me again...I did (at least temporarily) delete the 3rd season points...mainly because I have not been able to locate the info on Flower that you were talking about.....can you locate a link to the info about Flower's death? NickBurns 17:13, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Newark Airport Interchange

You commented at the AfD, but did not make an explicit vote. If I may suggest revisiting the Newark Airport Interchange article and the concerns raised in the AfD and voting explicitly either way to ensure that your voice is heard. Alansohn 06:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

• OK, I have now altered my answer there. Anthony Appleyard 07:18, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Thanks. I assumed that was the case, but it helps to be sure. Alansohn 07:19, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

• Hello Anthony,

I have a question about your two edits to Hypospray here diff. I mentioned in my edit summary when I deleted the sentence that the text I was deleting failed WP:OR. Did you find a source for the text? Thanks. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 15:25, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

• Google search finds uses of the verb forms "hyposprayed" and "hypospraying". E.g. "B'Elanna was Klingon. She knew. She knew it with ever fiber of her being, and had wanted to deactivate the Doctor again when he hyposprayed her into unconsciousness." in [5] Anthony Appleyard 16:51, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jurassic Park

I just read the statement that you posted on the Isla Nublar talk page. Are you the one who has read the script review of JP4? If so where did you find it? If not who wrote that? Thanks User:Quinlanfan

• I know nothing about plans for a JP4. Where is information about it? Anthony Appleyard 19:12, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
• On the Isla Nublar talk page someone right above you said that they had read the script. I cant figure out who it is, Quinlanfan2 17:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
• It was User:82.20.2.177 at 19:43 on 12 November 2006. I found by trawling the history entries. Anthony Appleyard 17:51, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oxyhydrogen flame

Hi, i would request rhat you revert the merge on Oxyhydrogen flame, [6], there is more to say about it, and next time please step into the discussion. cheers. Mion 10:45, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I've just removed your Oxyhydrogen link on Canals because I couldn't see the relevance. Have I missed the point, somewhere? Apologies if so. --Old Moonraker 10:59, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

• German Knallgas used as an English word, could be misheard as "canal gas". Anthony Appleyard 11:36, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Missed that one, certainly. As I said, apologies! Is it ever used as an English word, though? --Old Moonraker 11:44, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

• See Oxyhydrogen. Anthony Appleyard 11:47, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, and don't get me wrong, i appreciate the work you're doing on the subject. Cheers. Mion 11:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Whips and crops

I'll go over to the article and try to clarify what I wrote. I don't think it's a USA vs UK thing so much as a riding discipline thing: In the US, a "crop" is usually used for what we call Hunt seat riding and show jumping. It is short (under 24" in some cases), fairly stiff, and has a little popper on the end. A similar tool is used by jockeys in horse racing where the words "crop", "whip" and "bat" are used interchangably for the same item, possibly a regional variation there. Rodeo people call their crops a "bat." A "whip" is longer, what may be seen in Dressage or Saddle seat riding, up to 43" in dressage, longer in other disciplines. It also probably isn't all that cosmically important! ;-) Montanabw 07:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I do think "bat" as a word interchangable with "crop" is possibly an American thing; we too normally consider a "bat" the wooden stick used in baseball or cricket! <grin> But then, most people think a "crop" is somethig that you grow in the ground for food, too! But basically, in the world of horse whips, think of a crop as a short whip or about 24 inches, or think of a whip as a slightly longer, more flexible crop, whatever floats your boat...everyone says "dressage whip," for example, referring to the riding whip that is no more than 43 inches long; no one says "dressage crop." Hope that clarifies things, sort of... Montanabw 07:42, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Modern maps always call it Helsingor

This one doesn't: [7] - ∅ (∅), 23:25, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

By the way, my edit summary was tongue in cheek. :p - ∅ (∅), 23:26, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Punctuation

I've noticed you frequently use a colon and a hyphen (":-") in places where only a colon should be used. Please note that this is incorrect punctuation. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 21:19, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gyrfalcon

For the english stuff of the war,I cann't find by google.All the source about the war come from chines source.--Ksyrie 04:36, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilink in List of rivers by length

I see that you relinked Canada in this list. I don't have a problem with it, but I removed the link because that was one of the reason the list failed at FLC last month. -Phoenix 18:57, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image: Electroshock baton

There is an argument about your electroshock baton image. I backed you up, but you may want to defend your position. --Defender 911 01:37, 5 April 2007 (UTC) P.S. Heres the link: Talk:Electroshock weapon

[edit] Radio Times table

I notice you have revised the 'wikitable'-class table I recently created on the Radio Times page to include cell-spacing, border, and background colour variables. While the former table conveniently adjusted its size according to browser and screen resolution, the new table looks (to be brutally honest) ugly in both Internet Explorer and Firefox, leaving a large space above.

Having studied WP:TABLE and related pages carefully, I know of no guidelines which suggest the original layout was incorrect. If I am wrong, please correct me on my talk page, but for now I have reverted your edits, if only for æsthetic reasons.

Many thanks for your time - Silver Nemesis 15:00, 8 April 2007 (UTC).