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I just wasn't sure if your comment was born of national sensitivity or if you had something quite different in mind, though I suspected the latter. Anyway, please do try to get a hold of the series I was referring to; it's an excellent piece of work, quite revolutionary for the time. And thank you for setting things straight! Very best wishes. Clio the Muse 23:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to add my welcome to Wikipedia. Some of your thoughtful answers at the Ref Desk caught my eye, so I dropped by to read your mini-bio. Please keep up the good work, and if you ever need any administrative assistance, feel free to ask on my talk page. Best, Rockpocket 18:16, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the informative and beautifully written post. 70.181.41.1 (talk) 23:51, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That was the most awesome description of the Dewey and LOC systems I've ever seen! Adam Bishop (talk) 07:32, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see you've been busy answering questions at the Reference Desks. We're always glad to see fresh faces, and I'm glad you've decided to help out. I thought I'd drop you a couple of pointers, though.

You might want to have a quick look through Wikipedia:Reference desk/guidelines and Wikipedia:Reference desk/guidelines/Medical advice when you have the time. For the protection of our readers' health, to avoid getting ourselves sued as individuals, and to prevent harm to Wikipedia's reputation, we try to avoid offering any sort of medical advice on the Reference Desks. If someone comes to us with a description of their symptoms and asks for a diagnosis, the best thing for everyone is to refer them to a qualified medical professional.

I mention this because of your comment here, where you were asking for more information about another poster's symptoms; you'll want to stay away from that sort of question in the future. If you have any questions, drop me a line or ask around on the Ref Desk talk page.

Have a good weekend! TenOfAllTrades(talk) 18:14, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. In general, we try to avoid giving guesses as to the likely severity of a symptom or its underlying causes when someone asks for medical advice, too (as you did here). Trying to decide how much we should try to 'scare' someone into seeing a doctor isn't a good idea. If you're looking for a relaxed-in-tone explanation for our policy in this point, I can also recommend my very own essay on the topic: User:TenOfAllTrades/Why not?. Thanks again, TenOfAllTrades(talk) 20:20, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks also for helping out at WP:AIV via this edit; you'll be pleased to know that the vandal has been blocked.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 03:11, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FYI: strive – strove – striven (next to regular strive – strived – strived).  --Lambiam 00:39, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was referring to this: [1]. Curiously, your original posting is timestamped "12:21, 18 December, 2007 (UTC)" but shows up in the page history at 17:23, December 18, 2007 (UTC).  --Lambiam 08:47, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you could help me with this. I have been having all kinds of wretched problems trying to gte the dang Username Signature thing to work right. I might have screwed things up in my Preferences or something - although I went back and reset them, but it still acts screwy. If I either click on the Sign Your Username with the 4 tildas in the editor tool bar, or manually enter the 4 tildas on my own, it kicks me into a page where I'm still in editor mode, except now there are two editor frames opened and it tells me I have to copy and paste from one to the other. It's a HUGE HASSLE to do this. So instead I just manually enter my own timestamp for whatever time it says on my computer, which is my local time. Is there some way to get this all to work right? -- Saukkomies 09:44, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Have you specified a signature under the "User profile" tab of "My preferences", and is the "Raw signature" check box checked? Based on how you sign manually, you should get the same effect by entering the following text in the "Signature" field:

-- [[User:Saukkomies|]]

and checking "Raw signature". If that doesn't help – you can experiment at your ease in the Wikipedia:Sandbox – I've no idea what the problem could be; you could try asking the people at the Wikipedia:Help desk.  --Lambiam 18:11, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]