User talk:Bigbenboa

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May 2007

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with the page Hippopotamus on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. JayHenry 18:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

It was not my intention to Vandalize the page Hippopotamus on Wikipedia. I was trying to align the pictures, but it came out badly. --Bigbenboa 18:33, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi Bigbenboa, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mark your edit as vandalism, I was just trying to quickly change the alignment. There's no penalty at all for what you did, don't worry about that! And I'm sorry that I wasn't more careful! I remember when I first joined Wikipedia I made a lot of mistakes. It takes some practice, but you get the hang of it fast, and once you know the ropes editing wikipedia can be lots of fun. Let me know if there's ever anything I can help with and I'm really sorry that I marked the edit as vandalism. --JayHenry 18:50, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks. I am the creator of the file. I'm trying to figure out how to add a free copyright symbol.

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Women's Cricket World Cup

Hi - noticed that you'd added a section for 1973 to the "List of Finals" section of this article. There wasn't a final in 1973, the team at the top of the table after the round robin stage were declared winners, as a note in the introduction to the section states. Andrew nixon (talk) 16:24, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Andrew, you are correct in that there wasn't an official Final in the 1973 Women's World Cup. However the England-Australia match was a de facto final both in terms of scheduling and impact much in the same way that the 1950 FIFA World Cup final match between Uruguay and Brazil was. Wikipedia designates this match as the Final. Clicking FINAL redirects the page to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay_v_Brazil_(1950_FIFA_World_Cup) ).

Bocce/Boules

Might be better to put most of that at Boules (the general game-class article), and highly compress the history material in Bocce or just remove it (beyond the emergence of bocce proper) and point to Boules for game-ancestral history; we don't need to recapitulate history stuff of related games, but rather centralize it and cross-reference. See, e.g. Cue sports#History (which eventually needs to be worked up into a separate article); we don't reiterate that stuff in Pool (cue sports), Snooker, Carom billiards, etc., other than as needed to summarize the emergence of the variation at hand (and we give even less info at specific games articles like eight-ball and straight pool and three-cushion billiards – the article equivalents of Bocce, but in cue sports, which ultimately have the same origin as boules and bocce). Or, from another perspective, the Boules article will be lacking, if the material on its history is tucked away in a corner at Bocce.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  23:27, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

I opened discussion at Talk:Boules#Merge from Bocce#History; I guess it's more "procedural" to discussion on the merge-target's talk page.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  23:31, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution

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August 2021

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