User talk:AleXd

Welcome!

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Your edits to Blackrock College[edit]

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Keith D (talk) 11:32, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't make those vandal edits and don't know how I was attributed. See my history for past examples of constructive editing to this page. AleXd 14:23, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Brian Cowen[edit]

When encountering profanity on Wikipedia, please keep in mind that the encyclopedia is not censored. In this particular instance, the expletive appears in a properly sourced quote and its inclusion is not inappropriate. Dppowell (talk) 14:44, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not appropriate though.AleXd (talk) 20:13, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

October 2008[edit]

In a recent edit to the page Harry Potter influences and analogues, you changed one or more words from one international variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

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In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to the other, even if you don't normally use the version the article is written in. Respect other people's versions of English. They in turn should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. If you have any queries about all this, you can ask me on my talk page or you can visit the help desk. Thank you. Jammy (talk) 19:40, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Harry Potter is a a British article, all the Harry Potter pages are written in British English.AleXd (talk) 19:44, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And yet you change it to American English. Jammy (talk) 19:45, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, I replaced the "Z" with "S", American to [[1]].AleXd (talk) 19:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well whatever you may believe, the correct British spelling is "idealized" and "romanticized". Which I checked in a dictionary written by a professor from the University of Manchester. Jammy (talk) 19:53, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Celtic Tiger[edit]

Please note that on wikipedia we do not remove material because its the "opinion of a left wing commentator". By all means supply references supportive of your hero, but no censorship based on the side of the political spectrum someone is from. Djegan (talk) 21:45, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The point was that the encyclopedia based a major substantive and controversial claim in the lead of an important article. That Charlie McCreevy was the worst Minister for Finance ever, shouldn't even have been in the section. I pointed out he was a left wing journalist - not an expert on the topic - who opposed McCreevy's policies for ideological reasons. That's fine, but shouldn;t be taken as fact so promiently.AleXd (talk) 20:12, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi[edit]

Hi! I hope the discussion on the talk page of Taleb can move forward in a nice and calm manner. If the discussion do not improve, we should follow the advice in [[2]] & [[3]]. Hopefully that process can give a calm discussion avoiding WP:PA. Ulner (talk) 19:21, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just saw I have broken this advice myself: Do not respond on a talk page of an article... :) Ulner (talk) 19:23, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Ulner, I think intelligence and good sense will win through in the end. I was about to post something similar on your page. Keep up the good work! --AleXd (talk) 21:21, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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Proposed deletion of Political views of Christopher Hitchens[edit]

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Excessively detailed, redundant with Christopher Hitchens#Political views, and full of original research.

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