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Contents 1 Welcome! 2 PVLAS 3 Haytor 4 Thanks! 5 Bwamba virus 6 Thanks for removing 7 Thanks for the link 8 Proprietary colleges

[edit] Welcome!

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[edit] PVLAS

Thanks for the corrections. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up ®} 19:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Haytor

Hello. Thanks - Yes, you are quite correct. I took it from a spelling HIGHTOR in one of the old guides I listed in the references. I have now looked at my copy of Gover, Mawer & Stenton. I was really 'surfing' Wiki sites looking for ways to enhance my articles & came across the 'Etymology Box'. I am more practiced at the Scots language of late. Rosser.

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for trying to revert the vandalism to my user page. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 18:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bwamba virus

I would like to point out that both ways of spelling dependent/dependant are correct. Wikipedia rules say that once an article not specifically linked to one place, eg New York, has been started in one laguage, eg American english, then the same method of spelling should be used. I don't like this rule as I am british, and everywhere I go I come across american spelling, but a rule it is nethertheless.

Thanks in general for correcting spelling, but make sure its not just justifiable American english first.

Bacteria boy

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Hi Bacteria boy, and welcome to Wikipedia.

Thanks for your message on my talk page about the spelling of dependent/dependant in the Bwamba Fever article. Well, I don't want to make a big thing of this, but according to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993 the adjective is always spelt with an e. The Guide also says (though not relevant here) that the noun - usually spelt with an a in British English - is nearly always spelt with an e too. Only a minority of sources disagree with this opinion.

I should say that the corrections were made using Lupin's Live spellcheck tool, which uses Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings/For machines. If you think that the entry in that list is incorrect you can (in the spirit of Wikipedia) remove it.

By the way, I'm British too (see my User page). Every time I see or have to write Wikipedia, it hurts, but I do it :-)

--Smalljim 16:59, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

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This is dreadfully embarressing for me. I've only just looked where the spelling change occured in the document. Its part of the phrase "RNA dependant RNA polymerase". This is actually a recognised biological term (I'm a final year Microbiology student) and the spelling is with an "A".

This really isn't a big deal to me I feel I should point out - I have no intention of reversing the change as that would just be really petty/pointless. Incidently, my Collins dictionary has it as -ant, and the Oxford Dictionary as either, so I don't think that either version is more correct than the other.

BB

(I appologise for any spelling mistakes above!)

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Good point, BB! I hadn't considered that it might be part of a recognised biological term. In that case I must bow to your specialist knowledge. But I do also have to point out that on Google:

"RNA dependant RNA polymerase" gives about 398 hits

whereas

"RNA dependent RNA polymerase" gives about 294,000 hits.

And I've just discovered that there is an entry in this very encyclopedia for RNA dependent RNA polymerase (we should both have checked for that first!).

Anyway, as you say, enough of such trivia - let's get back to doing some "useful" work on the encyclopædia!

Good luck --Smalljim 20:13, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for removing

the "wrong link" in the Angel of Grief [1] picture . Actually it was not so much a wrong link as an attempt at humor on my part to clarify that I did not know exactly where I had taken this picture. A dear friend of mine, when referring to my sense of humor once said that I frequently mistake obscurity for subtlety. This is likely a good example. In any case, better is better, Carptrash 14:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Hope I didn't cause you any concern. As you may have guessed, it was part of my tidying up of the Somewhere article - according to unbiased observers, that's a foolish name to give an organisation anyway (or is it actually very clever?) --Smalljim 16:26, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the link

Thanks for linking to Maya (illusion), a very interesting article I had missed till I hit your link. Cheers! Hoverfish Talk 23:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

My pleasure - it's always good to know that wikignoming (in this case doing a spot of WP:DPL) is actually useful. Smalljim 09:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proprietary colleges

Hi there. I edited the Virginia College site. I cut out all links to Proprietary schools, and changed it all to Proprietary colleges. I made a few other edits. I wish to create NPOV articles on such colleges. How much more work is needed to take off the tag for reads like an advertisement? Bearian 13:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi! My only interest in that article was when I whizzed past it and dabbed the word Maya as part of the WP:DPL fixup project, so I am actually less familiar with it than you are. It's not a subject that I know anything about. However, now you've brought it to my attention I can see there's quite a lot wrong with the article, even without considering its advertorial nature. So I'm going to be bold and have a go at cleaning it up too. I'll put explanatory comments in the edit summary so you can see what I've done. Maybe between us we can get it into decent shape? Smalljim 20:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Later... I've done some edits and put a comment on the article's talk page: Talk:Virginia College, where I think any further discussion on it should go. Smalljim 22:39, 3 April 2007 (UTC)