User talk:Pandion auk

March 2010

I believe that the edit I made to the article "The Streets of Cairo, or the Poor Little Country Maid" (my edits here) was indeed constructive. (I made the edit while not logged in, from IP 98.149.72.10) I added the lines:

Yet another variant includes the lines:

There's a place in France where the ladies wear no pants

And the men go around with their weenies hanging down.

These lines are an excerpt from an alternative version of the folksong. As the piece concerned is a folksong, I believe their use and remembrance by a US individual is legitimate to justify their validity. (The US individual concerned is not myself, but someone I know.) If it is the vulgarity of the lines that is of issue, you will note that it is hardly out of line with the content of the lines already cited. Note the page where you left a note: [1]

By the way, this is the first time I have had any of my edits contested... so I hope I'm getting the etiquette right. --auk (talk) 17:51, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Apologies, warning removed. Typically, when an anonymous user edits using the word 'weenies', 'weenie', or some similar child-like term, alarm bells ring. I've seen hundreds of such cases. Anyway, I did a search for the expression and turned up only one instance like the above, and it was in an archived forum. I believe you, but I don't know how to establish verifiability.  Mephistophelian † 18:12, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

In addition, stating that the information was obtained second hand from someone known to you isn't valid, since there's no way for anyone else to verify it. An independent record, of some sort, is required.  Mephistophelian † 18:23, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Science lovers wanted!

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Hi! I have just seen your contributions to the wikibook for Gujarati in the present tense and found it to be the best resource I can find on the internet (after a lot of searching!) for english speakers trying to learn Gujarati grammar. It would be incredible if you would be able to add to other sections to help people like myself to learn! If you do manage to update the wikibook or know people who would enjoy doing so and get round to doing it please let me know and I'll be straight there to learn more! My email is akhimaa@hotmail.co.uk if you want to get in touch. Thanks so much! Tamari sahayathi hum Gujarati sikhu chhu :) Aashish.Khimasia (talk) 00:57, 24 December 2019 (UTC)