User talk:Bezapt
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[edit] Welcome
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Hello, Bezapt, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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[edit] DYK
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--Gurubrahma 03:57, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey Gurubrahma! Many thanks for the welcome, and for making my article a DYK! As a new Wikipedian, I was surprised and honoured to see one of the first of my few creations (so far) linked to the Wikipedia front page. :-)
Best regards! Bezapt 14:45, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Page moves
Hi there - a quick request: In future, when you move a page (like you did with Dan Lewis), after doing so could you please be so good as to check the incoming links to its former location and update the relevant wikilinks to the new location? It saves other editors from having to do the necessary cleanup work instead. Thank you. Qwghlm 11:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Qwghlm, I'm actually working on the Dan Lewis restructuring at this very minute! (Writing article for the newsy Dan Lewis (newsreader)). Was intending to check on the redirects next, but thanks for reminding me (could've slipped my mind after getting sidetracked, writing an article!) Cheers :-) Bezapt 11:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
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- Cheers, didn't know you were in the middle of sorting it. Thanks for dropping a note on my talk page. Qwghlm 12:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] redirects
Sorry! I may have missed a few double redirects. There used to be a bot that ran every night to automate the process, but I see now it has been disabled. Its a delicate balance between consistency and the most well known names for and actors. The best strategy when you want an author to appear under a truncated name: J.R.R. Tolkien is to add the full name as a redirect, that way the fullname is already occupied and no one can move the article without first deleting the redirect. I have been working to fill in missing middle names for people by going through the obituaries in the New York Times archive, using Google (which isn't always useful, "John J. Smith, US Army" searched for as ["John Smith" Army] gives way too many results) and using the census. Lets move the name back to the truncated version. Cheers. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 15:38, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] its and rogue '
Thanks, that will be the grammatical death of me yet. rootology 03:55, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Chain weapon merge comment
Hello, I moved your comment [1] about the Chain weapon merge proposal to the Talk page [2]. -- Gogo Dodo 03:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dan Lewis - KOMO news anchor
I can partly see where you're coming from, but as a former reporter myself (some freelance work for KOMO TV's weather department in the late '90s), I can firmly say that the use of "news presenter" is not a term used in the United States. I think that if you're going to write an article about an American journalist, you should refer to them as they would be in American terms. Even the vast majority of the American public itself refers to such persons as Dan Lewis, Kathi Goertzen, etc as "news anchors" not "presenters."
In the near-decade I spent in the business, the use of the word "presenter" was unheard of, and on the standard-issue portrait-type photos KOMO uses as autograph material, it lists Dan Lewis as "Anchor/Reporter" - which is his official title at KOMO.Srosenow 98 05:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Location of the German artillery piece
The M96nA I photographed is actually on display in a war veterans' retirement home here in Sydney, Australia, just outside the home's museum. It's next to a Bofors AA gun, which I also photographed and uploaded to Wikipedia. If you're in Sydney yourself, I could give you an exact address if you'd like.
Sorry it took me so long to reply to your question. —DO'Neil 02:56, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DYK
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