User talk:Kotiwalo

Welcome to my talk page. Feel free to leave a message if something concerns you.

Oh and dear vandals, I wouldn't recommend expressing your frustration or superior lack of better things to do here (use the Sandbox). Belive me, reverting is awfully quick, so you're really doing nothing more than piling feces for you ego to stand on. Of course repeated vandalism or personal attacks will lead to warnings and blocks, but probably won't offend me very much, so I wouldn't bother if I was you.

Yours truly, Kotiwalo (talk) 15:05, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much

I don't know how I managed it, it looked like I was reverting a blanking when I did it but then something went terribly wrong. When I hit show preview after my last edit to make a correction it showed the page back so I thought I had fixed it. When I hit saved, the talk page was there. Very weird but I did screw it up accidently, so thank you for putting it back. I am doing vandal patrol and missed it was a talk page at first. Oh well, thanks for assuming good faith on part. Very much appreciated. --CrohnieGal^Talk 14:42, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. If you check out my contribs you'll find about a dozen cases where I have been in edit conflict with myself due to initial problems I had with popups =) Kotiwalo (talk) 14:45, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe that's where I went wrong, arguing with myself in the edits. :) I should have corrected myself with the easier way that you did it by reverting back to the other editor. But I freaked a bit knowing I just blanked a page that I never edited before and thought someone was going to think I vandalized on purpose. I'm glad you understood that it was an inocent accident. Thanks again,--CrohnieGal^Talk 14:51, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Thank you for your Speedy Deletion request on the one character. May I request you do the same to Marta Matos - also added to the cast list of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and had a page created for them. I personally believe this is the name of the person doing the edits. They have used numerous names, and I have been trying to fix their bad edits without being caught by 3RR myself (as I could use several different names myself - but refuse to knowingly violate rules, even to repair vandalisation). Thank you very much. TristaBella (talk) 18:46, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You can add speedy deletion tags yourself, too, but I checked Marta Matos. Neither character nor actress produced Google hits, which is unrealistic since CSI is very popular. I'll warn the users. Kotiwalo (talk) 18:51, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, Kotiwalo. This has been an ongoing problem, and I do try to revert the edits as quickly as possible. I am sure you know that some admins will ignore reports if they are not done perfectly - which makes people like myself want to give up. But I am committed to keeping the CSI pages a good resource, so I do keep trying. Cheers! TristaBella (talk) 19:47, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thank you for reverting vandalism on my user page.--Just James ^T/C 09:05, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thusly

I will stop removing it if it bothers you, but M-W fails to mention that it was a word that was invented to make fun of uneducated people. I consider its use to be non encyclopedic do to this fact. M-W often includes words which are non-academic without usage notes. I could find several other dictionaries which would disagree that it is a word or at the very least mark it "informal". If your inclined to keep it, I would suggest that all uses of it on a page be "thus" or "thusly" but not both.--24.24.142.225 (talk) 14:47, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I beg to differ. I don't wish to be mean, but I, unlike you, am a native speaker. I happen to know that "thusly" is an Americanism and not even an accepted one for formal situations. Any use of the word "thusly" can be written equivalently with the word "thus" or the phrase "this way". I am not disinclined to accept that editors are going to use it. But realize that it sounds bad to many readers and also to pretty much anyone who didn't learn American English. "Thus" is already an adverb and there is no need for such a word as "thusly". I have read several modern style guides that recommend against using it even in informal cases in favor of "this way".--24.24.142.225 (talk) 14:59, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Anyway, not an important point. We wouldn't even be having this discussion I guess if I hadn't used such an inflammatory edit summary. Also trying to change it on Wikipedia will be a losing battle considering how many pages use it. What it comes down to is sometimes it bothers me to encounter a certain usage in Wikipedia to the extent that I will go on a spree of changing pages if it is easily searched for. I'll limit it to more casual edits from now on so as not to arouse suspicion on the recent edits page.--24.24.142.225 (talk) 15:08, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reference formatting

Thanks for adding the references to Subaru and being patient and understanding over the minor edit skirmish. One thing you might want to do is take a look at {{Cite web}} which is a really useful template for formatting references. Ideally you should give the URL and TITLE (which are compulsory) but also the PUBLISHER and ACCESSDATE. Ping me if you have any questions. --Biker Biker (talk) 16:07, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

67.82.174.147

Apologies. I checked back far enough and you were right, he had been final-warned. I thought you might be complaining about him removing the warnings from the page, since some people think that's vandalism (and it's not, although I think in this situation it was disruptive and thus I handed out a longer block than the usual 24 hours). Daniel Case (talk) 16:15, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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