User talk:Sarregouset

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Barney & Friends

Thanks for catching that. They vandalise several articles but they seem to have a special thing for Barney & Friends. It's sneaky vandalism but they are gone for a month. Cheers. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CambridgeBayWeather (talk • contribs) 23:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC).

Not going to waste my time with Wikipedia again!

I received the following "Please do not add unhelpful and unconstructive content to Wikipedia, as you did to Xaverian College. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. –Sarregouset (Talk) 21:09, 3 May 2007" from 'Sarregouset', but would like to object.

1. I do not think the content I had added was unhelpful, nor unconstructive as I was merely adding to, not creating the Alumni Section of Xaverian College. 2. I had created a page for my father, best-selling author Billy Hopkins but which has since been deleted and wanted to add a link to his page from the Xaverian College page. The Alumni section was already there. (Though the page I created for my sister, best-selling author Cathy Hopkins has been allowed to remain). 3. I had been asked to create a new Wiki page for my brother Steve Hopkins, of MADchester Music fame (and also ex-Xaverian College) as he is mentioned on so many other (Wikipedia) Manchester music pages, but with no links given to his own page.

Now I don't think I'll waste my time with Wikipedia again, as [1] seems like a much better place to go for information! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lordnum (talk • contribs) 09:26, 21 May 2007 (UTC).

I am sorry you took it that way, as it was not my intent. I may have associated your edits with others’ vandalism on the same page. Or perhaps I should have said spam instead of vandalism, as Cathy Hopkins is a candidate for deletion under CSD#A7 and CSD#G11. Unfortunately, you waited several weeks to mention this, and I can't say for sure. If you plan to edit constructively, please do not let this scare you away. –Sarregouset (Talk) 23:19, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Template:Units of energy

I've just noticed you tagged the Units of energy template for speedy deletion. Unfortunately it was deleted over the weekend before I had a chance to review it. From memory, it was created in the style of another "Template:Units of ..." which I can't locate now. It was designed for use on pages like Energy and Work and Joule and so forth, but I think it was a combination of it not being complete, and the Energy page being in quite a state of flux, that meant it was not referenced anywhere by the time you came across it.

I now believe it, or at least the information it contained, could be quite useful on Units of energy. From your deletion comment "does not contribute any additional information" I'm hoping that the information it contained actually appears elsewhere. Do you know where that might be? Can you comment further whether you think the template would have been useful on Units of energy? LightYear 03:12, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

I’m sorry; when I noticed it, it had not been edited substantially since January, so I assumed it was dead in the water. All it contained, if I remember correctly, was the conversion of calories and watt-hours into joules and a bunch of ‘≡ 1’s across the table diagonally. This information (and more) is on pages such as Joule already.

You are right in that Units of energy could use an organized set of conversion factors; I had not seen that page before. Perhaps you can create something that fulfills the purpose of the deleted template. –Sarregouset (Talk) 11:48, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

As you'll see on Units of energy, I found there actually does exist a page with all the conversions, at conversion of units. There's no matrix of handy conversion factors, but at least all the info is there. LightYear 01:29, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree; that will do for now. It had a need for some kind of table with that information, and you fulfilled it. –Sarregouset (Talk) 22:11, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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RE:It took me two hours

What do you mean? Sorry for the misunderstanding. Meldshal42_{Comments and Suggestions}^{My Contributions} 12:01, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Why, it took almost two hours for the first person to find your SSSSP. I thought you might be disapointed. –Sarregouset (Talk) 19:30, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, well, I'm not disappointed. The last one took about 5 minutes, so I had to switch it. You are the only one to have found the new one. Meldshal42_{Comments and Suggestions}^{My Contributions} 21:43, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

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That's because I orphaned it. Why so uptight? –Sarregouset (talk) 01:27, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Motto of the day

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When you get a chance between your normal editing, could you stop by our nominations page and leave a few comments on some of the mottos there, especially those that do not have any comments yet? This works very simply; you read a motto, decide whether or not you like it, and post your opinion just below the motto. That's it - no experience required, just an idea of what you personally like and what you feel reflects Wikipedia and its community. If you do have past experience with the project, then please close some of the older nominations once they've got a decent consensus going. There are directions on the nominations page on how to do this.

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Re: CSD I1: Redundant to another image

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Flagged Revs

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I noticed you voted oppose in the flag revs straw pole and would like to ask if you would mind adding User:Promethean/No to your user or talk page to make your position clear to people who visit your page :) - Thanks to Neurolysis for the template   «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk) 06:46, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

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invalid alt text

Hi, Can you tell me why the alt text your removed with this edit was invalid? I've used similar on lots of church pics & I wondered what was wrong?— Rod ^talk 16:27, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I apologise - you were right - the alt was against the title not the image - hopefully fixed now.— Rod ^talk 16:50, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

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