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2604:2000:70B4:F300:A4AE:25D8:4258:50DB (talk) 07:16, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

King Kong

Hello Gadfium, I am the most recent editor of the King Kong 2005 film article. I would like to apologize for what may have come off as persistent disruptive editing. I have never made an edit to a Wikipedia article before, and simply did not understand how it all worked. I only included something I thought was relevant to the plot of the movie, but saw that my addition was getting removed soon after being inserted and did not understand why this was happening, nor did I know how to go about it. 2604:2000:70B4:F300:A4AE:25D8:4258:50DB (talk) 07:28, 12 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:70B4:F300:A4AE:25D8:4258:50DB (talk) 07:26, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-life_care

My insert on Nov 11 2015 of the word "diseases" mostly was removed by you saying, "This doesn't seem to be needed."

I fail to see the reasoning why it was removed. Would you mind explaining please why you did this? My justification to insert the word "diseases" was to bring some clarity to this rather than leave doubt in the minds of the readers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tvcv (talk • contribs) 09:36, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

To the layperson word "diseases" is more understandable than "symptom", Google results has "disease" 7.5 times more than "symptom". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tvcv (talk • contribs) 10:31, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

In the lede, the article mentioned "those with a terminal illness or terminal condition", and you have changed it to "those with a terminal illness or terminal disease condition". I don't think there's a difference between terminal illness and terminal disease, but there is a difference for terminal condition. For example, someone dying from physical trauma suffered in an accident would not normally be considered to be suffering from a terminal disease.-gadfium 17:52, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Kia Ora Sir.

Well been on for almost 3 months now, here to ask about the school article: Ross Intermediate School. Is there any reason there is no infobox on it?? Probably a dumb question...

Regards Sirpottingmix (talk) 09:13, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

No other reason than no editor having bothered to add one. But if you would like to work on that article, it's more important that some references be added. :) Schwede66 17:13, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

I see you added one yourself. Well done.-gadfium 21:16, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Mountain Goat (motor cycle)

I've copied the article to my sandpit for working on NealeFamily (talk) 00:28, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Great, but watch out for copyright. Having a copy of that article, even in your userspace, is a breach of Puke Ariki's terms.-gadfium 00:38, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks - I have already substantially changed the text to the point where it no longer reads the same - I'll be working on it over the next few days adding referencing and further data so should be well away from any copyright NealeFamily (talk) 02:58, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

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Block evasion?

Hello Gadfium, when I look at the editing behaviour, use of grammar, and areas of interest of User:Angry Bald English Villian Man, I cannot help but think of similarities to User:Bettifm. Your thoughts? Schwede66 20:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

No, my grammar is poor i uses to be good at grammar, not a troubled Bettifm. --Angry Bald English Villian Man Chat 20:57, 10 December 2015 (UTC)