Grandad
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PS - I see that you've been here for a while but were never properly welcomed. I hope your involvement in the Wikipedia project is positive, enjoyable, and fruitful!
Sorry
editI mistook you for another user and blocked you without enough consideration. That was wrong, and I'm sorry for any inconvenience I caused you. Tom Harrison Talk 21:31, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Welcome back!
editHello, Grandad. I see that you registered some time ago and made a couple of edits and then took a hiatus. I'm glad to see that you're back. Lbbzman 23:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
An older person
editGrandad: Could you please take the time to ask User:Jnc to return to Wikipedia? He is an older and accomplished person like yourself. His communications on the talk pages is consistently constructive, his work is excellent and I miss him. BTW: Are you a bridge player? -- 209.234.96.194 23:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Adolf Hitler
editPlease return to the talk page of this article where an attempt to reach a compromise between the two "consensus" positions is being made, rather than just reverting. Camillus (talk) 01:21, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
shrewing
editWhy did you remove the link to the wiktionary article on "shrewish" from The Taming of the Shrew article? The definition itself didn't add a whole lot now but that's only because the wiktionary article is basically a stub. It seemed like a strange edit. --mako (talk•contribs) 16:44, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
- I hesitated over it, but I felt that it was slightly patronizing the reader to provide a link to a dictionary definition of a word that the reader was very likely to know. I'm sure as a child I knew the word "shrew" long before I knew "pirated", "induction" or "mercurial", none of which is linked to a definition.
- Also, I found it odd to have an external link in the main text of an article. I asked about it at the help desk Wikipedia:Help_desk#Linking_to_Wiktionary_in_articles, and the person who answered seemed to think also that it was bad form to link to the definition. I don't have particularly strong feelings about it. Grandad 00:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Sorry about this, I did not mean to roll you back. My apologies (but I did remove the edit), and happy editing! Prodego talk 01:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. We both had the same intentions (to remove Cplot), but you were more successful! Grandad 01:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
input sought
editIn a message to several recent editors of Schiavo-related pages, I write that: Input is sought here: Talk:Government_involvement_in_the_Terri_Schiavo_case#Edit_War_between_me_and_User:Calton.