User talk:Grandad

Welcome!

Hello, Grandad, 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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! -- KHM03 15:57, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS - I see that you've been here for a while but were never properly welcomed. I hope your involvement in the Wikipedia project is positive, enjoyable, and fruitful!

Sorry[edit]

I mistook you for another user and blocked you without enough consideration. That was wrong, and I'm sorry for any inconvenience I caused you. Tom Harrison ^Talk 21:31, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back![edit]

Hello, Grandad. I see that you registered some time ago and made a couple of edits and then took a hiatus. I'm glad to see that you're back. Lbbzman 23:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An older person[edit]

Grandad: Could you please take the time to ask User:Jnc to return to Wikipedia? He is an older and accomplished person like yourself. His communications on the talk pages is consistently constructive, his work is excellent and I miss him. BTW: Are you a bridge player? -- 209.234.96.194 23:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Adolf Hitler[edit]

Please return to the talk page of this article where an attempt to reach a compromise between the two "consensus" positions is being made, rather than just reverting. Camillus (talk) 01:21, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

shrewing[edit]

Why did you remove the link to the wiktionary article on "shrewish" from The Taming of the Shrew article? The definition itself didn't add a whole lot now but that's only because the wiktionary article is basically a stub. It seemed like a strange edit. --mako ^{(talk•contribs)} 16:44, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I hesitated over it, but I felt that it was slightly patronizing the reader to provide a link to a dictionary definition of a word that the reader was very likely to know. I'm sure as a child I knew the word "shrew" long before I knew "pirated", "induction" or "mercurial", none of which is linked to a definition.

Also, I found it odd to have an external link in the main text of an article. I asked about it at the help desk Wikipedia:Help_desk#Linking_to_Wiktionary_in_articles, and the person who answered seemed to think also that it was bad form to link to the definition. I don't have particularly strong feelings about it. Grandad 00:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents[edit]

Sorry about this, I did not mean to roll you back. My apologies (but I did remove the edit), and happy editing! Prodego ^talk 01:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. We both had the same intentions (to remove Cplot), but you were more successful! Grandad 01:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

input sought[edit]

In a message to several recent editors of Schiavo-related pages, I write that: Input is sought here: Talk:Government_involvement_in_the_Terri_Schiavo_case#Edit_War_between_me_and_User:Calton.

--GordonWatts 15:53, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]