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Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. You are changing all the plus signs to daggers in the date pages. In fact wikipedia has been trying to move away from both +'s and daggers because of the Christian bias of having little crosses to mark people's deaths. Instead we now usually use "d. XXXX". SimonP 18:29, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)

Fabiform - I've started helping out with the birth/death year infor on the date pages, starting from the end of the year and moving forwards. I hope to meet you somewhere in the summer! grins - UtherSRG 19:03, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, regarding the note that you posted about Robartin on cleanup: since the text is from the U.S. government, it wouldn't be a copyvio, just unformatted. I've already left him a note. Meelar 07:37, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

• Oh, cheers. I'm glad he knew what he was doing. That didn't occur to me.  :) Fabiform 13:15, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi the user making articles about computer languages! I hope you notice this message. Welcome to wikipedia. :) I was the user who put stub messages on some of articles you created. The stub message isn't a criticism of the articles, but it's a way for other interested users to find your articles and add anything they know about the subject. I have to say I know nothing whatsoever about programming languages, but I imagine there are more things that _could_ be said about some of these languages. For example, regarding Floop programming language another user might add the date of publication of the book, or an example of it in use, or further elaborate on the reason this language was created. Etc. Fabiform 21:25, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I realised what the stub message was - I didn't take it as a criticism. In fact, I started including it in articles I wrote since I noticed what you'd done (e.g. Chef programming language). However, BlooP and FlooP really don't have anything more to be said about them. Details about the book should be on the book's own page, which I linked to. The languages were never properly defined and certainly not implemented - they really were just quick examples to illustrate a point in the book (the difference between a weak language and a fully powerful Turing-complete one, as I said in the articles). I've removed the stubs again from those two pages, though I'll use them in future articles which should have them. 22:50, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Ok I won't fiddle with them again, although you might find that someone else sticks a stub message on them in the future because they're short (it's a reflex action!). Have you seen the easiest way to include the stub message, by the way? Just type {{msg:stub}}. Other useful tags can be found on Wikipedia:Boilerplate text -- Fabiform

What US POV in the Softball article? It was written by an Australian and revised by a Canadian. You are right, though, that the article is too cursory. I added a definition of underarm today, and may try to define some more terms, but don't have the time to write a complete article at the moment. If there are any further clarifications of what's there that could be made, please let me know on my talk page. I think I'll go back now and have another look at the article and see if I can add anyhing else. Trontonian 14:34, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi Trontonian.... sorry, by US POV I meant that the article started by assuming a knowledge of baseball. I didn't realise that baseball was widely played outside of the USA. I still think that the introduction should be more like "softball is a team sport for x players..... the object of the game is.... as such it is similar to the american/whatever sport baseball except for these three things:"  :) I don't know enough (anything) about softball to do this. Don't worry if you don't have the time to edit the article, no doubt other people will read my comments in the future and act on them or not as they see fit. Cheers, Fabiform 15:02, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Fab. So many people don't realize that baseball is played all over the world. To my mind the best player in baseball these days is Japanese – Ichiro Suzuki. Anyway, I added a brief outline of the game, which I hope helps. I also hope someone else will add to the article but the article had lain there unedited for several months till yesterday. Anyway, i think your comments did result in the article being improved (and reduced my guilt at having left the article so uninformative), so thanks from all us softball fans. Trontonian 15:12, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

By doing anything to an article you bring it to the attention of people who watch Recent changes, often a whole load of people will jump on an article that looks interesting to them and start editing it.  :) Fabiform 15:24, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

It's got a little convoluted but I think your suggestions have produced a greatly improved article. If you could have a quick look at it and give me any advice you might have about making it less confusing I'd appreciate it. Trontonian

Gosh it's got quite long hasn't it? It's nighttime here, so I'll read through it tomorrow and tweak it a bit if I see anything that needs it, and ask questions on the talk page if I need to (I know nothing about softball, so I'm a good guinea-pig reader!). Cheers, Fabiform 20:31, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm obsessed with the topic now. Trontonian

The reason I changed the pool link in golf to the ambiguation page is that 8-ball is too specific. 8-ball is pool, but pool is not 8-ball. The disambiguation page seemed like the best compromise. MichaelJHuman

Hello, I put a little precision here : Talk:Islam in France

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Dilettus, non modo sunt lacrimae rerum. Vi coactus vir indignus, non flete meos casus, in tristes rediere tabellae : ) Since:rus tuus, irismeister 13:38, 2004 Jan 25 (UTC)

A request for mediation might do the trick. I'm currently in mediation with another user at the moment though so I don't want to get involved with two at once. If you request mediation, I will support you in any way I can though. theresa knott 19:37, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)