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As I saw that you edited Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal I would like to invite you to help with conflicts in the article about the "North American Man/Boy love organization" as well. Get-back-world-respect 20:21, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

What what what? Did I? I have no recollection of editing those pages. --AdamM 20:27, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I think the writer Get-back-world-respect might be referring to me, although I did not edit the page Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal to which the writer refers. Hello anyway. adamm 01:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome

As you've already discovered, it's a strange community.... Adambisset

Hehe. Indeed. --AdamM

Something

(cur) (last) 19:24, 6 Mar 2005 AdamM (rv pointless sentence) (cur) (last) 18:02, 6 Mar 2005 Intellact (Something is not nothing and not everything)

This sentence pointing to philosophy is pointless.

tune to tuna Intellact 00:38, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Opal Fruits

Love the comment on Opal Fruits! But I think you may be reading too much Lynne Truss! (If you haven't yet, RUN to the bookstore!!) Iluvchineselit 03:14, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yep, I've got Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Besides my similar love of Opal Fruits, I think I am a bit of a stickler! --AdamM 00:25, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you.?

Thank you for your generous courtesy, but I'd appreciate it if you would reframe from trying to scare me into sounding like a bad person. It was a simple mistake--not vandalism. As for the picture, I'd actually not bother to look at your damn talk page to see about some picture that you have clearly mistaken. As anybody--except for possibly you--would know: publishers change the covers of books to suit the public's eye. In either case, I'd appreciate you not leaving any more rude comments on my talk page! I feel that you have vandalized it with your harsh words--which I will be sure to edit out. And, for future reference, you should sign page after publishing it on my talk page.

Thank you: and I hope you're satisfied. --216.233.169.207 21:47, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

rap metal

Reasons why is does not need to be in the template: - it redirects to rapcore - it's already mostly covered by Nu metal: "The terms rapcore and nu metal are almost interchangeable" Further discuss this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Metal as the template talk page indicates Spearhead 12:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

you can propose a merger with the mergefrom/mergeto templates or just blatantly merge them.... the latter probably results in reversions etc... Spearhead 12:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Circumcision article

I am concerned about the actions of editors of this article who are hell-bent on editing out anything that disagrees with their mindset. In particulat I am concerned about Avi. I do not object to the fact that he supports metzitzah b'peh, but I do object to the way he fights tooth and nail against edits that show that many Jews are against this practice. I have had to endure a bullying warning from him about my edits [1]. I answered his accusation both there and on the discussion page, [2] neither of which he had the courtesy of replying to. Now he has removed two links to articles in the Jewish press on grounds that I find totally spurious. I have replied to this in this discussion [3], but I've had a gutfull of this editor and his nonsense. Please inform me what avenues are open to me to get this editor to behave with a little more fairness, or failing that, to complain about his behaviour. Michael Glass 04:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Rapcore

It would not be very reasonable to have rapcore on the template. Rapcore, or rap metal, is very closely linked to nu metal (apart from some artists), and since nu metal is already on the template, it is almost useless to add rapcore to the list. Also, rapcore is relatively small compared to the other subgenres of metal listed on the template. Please try to discuss the issue if you feel it should go any farther. Zouavman Le Zouave _{(Talk to me!)} 15:05, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

If this is the case, and rapcore is not distinct enough from nu metal, would you therefore assist me in merging the rapcore article into the nu metal article? --AdamM 15:07, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I would be able to help you, but as I said earlier, not all rapcore artists are part of the nu metal movement. I think that rapcore is distinct enough from nu metal to have its own article, but not to have its place on the template. Again this is only my opinion. If you really want to propose a merge between the two articles, I could probably help you set it up, but if I was to give my opinion, I would probably disagree with the merge of rapcore in nu metal. Zouavman Le Zouave _{(Talk to me!)} 15:11, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Well then I'm sorry but this doesn't make sense. Either rapcore is a legitimate subgenre of metal and can go on the template, or it is a subgenre of nu metal and must be merged into that article. You cannot ignore rapcore if it exists, no matter how insignificant it is. --AdamM 15:14, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

A legitimate subgenre of metal does not necessarily have to be on the template. Do you really think that the only legitimate subgenres of metal are the ones listed on the template? NWOBHM, for example, isn't up there. However it is generally recognized as a legitimate subgenre of metal. Rapcore can exist as a separate article without being notable or significant enough to be on the template. Otherwise the template will become enormous. Zouavman Le Zouave _{(Talk to me!)} 15:21, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

CopyrightedFreeUse

{{CopyrightedFreeUse}} was a terrible licensing tag for several reasons:

1. The wording was extremely vague and confusing
2. Over 50% of the images that used it, used it incorrectly, i.e. for "fair use" or just images they found on the web
3. Giving up all rights to an image is the same as releasing it to the public domain. The only questionable aspect to this is the idea of "temporarily" giving up your rights, which some have argued is possible and others say is not. If it is possible, it isn't a "free license" and thus isn't appropriate for Wikipedia. If it isn't possible, then it's the same as PD anyway.
4. {{NoRightsReserved}} is essentially the same as {{CopyrightedFreeUse}} but not so vaguely worded. Although personally, I oppose using {{NoRightsReserved}} as well for some of the reasons mentioned above.

Hope that helps. Kaldari 15:02, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

A copyright notice and a disavowal of all rights are contradictory. If you could give me a specific example maybe I could be more specific. "Copyright" means you are asserting unique rights, "rights of copying" if you will. Disavowing all rights means you can't have copyright. Whether or not the hundreds of images already uploaded to Wikipedia that fall under that definition are unusable is a good question. The licensing terms of {{CopyrightedFreeUse}} were so vague it's impossible to know for sure. You would have to take it to court to find out. {{NoRightsReserved}} doesn't have that problem because it specifically says "irrevocably". Regardless, the wording of {{NoRightsReserved}} is still arguably nonsense (or at least confusing). That's why I would love to delete it as well, but I'm sure I would encounter a lot more resistance. Deleting {{CopyrightedFreeUse}} took over a year of hard work. I don't think I'm ready to try it again :P Kaldari 19:09, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:RarewareLogo.jpg

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Orphaned non-free media (File:The Sun Hillsborough Real Truth headline 130912.jpg)

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The Dark Knight Rises

Hello, thank you for partially restoring your recent edit to The Dark Knight Rises. Apologies for deleting this, I attempt to check back over changes as much as possible, but seemed to miss an instance. For future reference, it might be checking recent edits of a page to see if your changes have been made/reverted before. In the case of the Robin inclusion, this was a bit hard, because the edit has happened so many times, and been reverted so many times, that we've dropped down to saying "previous consensus" or something similar. However, it's good practise to check a couple of previous edits to the section you're changing, just in case. Thanks! drewmunn talk 11:35, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

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I have made some more changes to the article primarily to re-focus the article, as it is was not focused on Egginton, but focused heavily on Rickersey, and Mansfield independent Forum, salon with the post of Mayor of Mansfield.

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