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Lennon

It shouldn't and they should be changed too.--Crestville 18:58, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

If you are interested in working on Beatles articles, put your name on this: List of Beatles Participants. You will be very welcome! --andreasegde 17:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

date formats

I have notices you changing dates in lots of places to the format you like. How you spend your time working in wikipedia is your choice, however, when a date is part of a citation template there is a specified format and the template only recognises one style. In the Isobelle Carmody page I corrected the dates for the citations so that they do not display as red-links. Where the value "accessdate =" is used in a template, the format must be entered as "yyyy-mm-dd". This is documented in the citation template page WP:CITET. I do prefer the date format of "Month dd, yyyy", and always have written dates that way. If you change dates in the articles I work on, mostly I will not correct your changes back to my preferred style, because it is a trivial thing, and have only done so in this instance because you broke the template. Stellar 12:50, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

British spellings

Please don't change American spellings to British ones. By long consensus, we leave these as the original author of an article put them, in order to avoid conflict. As the poster above says, this applies to dates as well. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Chick Bowen 17:13, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Please heed the above, and do not change American to British spellings, or vice-versa. Thanks. - Special-T (talk) 19:36, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah - I had scanned the article for Brit/Yank spelling issues and hadn't found any. You seem to indeed have done the right thing - checked for a preponderance of one or the other and standardized (-ised) the article. Obviously with an article that has no particular relation to the US or GB, either choice is suitable. My apologies. - Special-T (talk) 19:48, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Seems fine to me. Thanks for being civil when faced with an undeserved warning! - Special-T (talk) 19:09, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Date format in Opera roles table

Hi, I noticed that you changed date format for opera articles in "Roles table" section with remarks "Made the date style consistent and corrected incorrect date formatting". FYI, the format is per our guideline - Refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Opera/Article_styles_and_formats. The format MM DD, YYYY is our standard format for roles table (not for dates in article's paragraph) and has been done to almost all articles which have "Role table" sections - therefore your changes made them inconsistent with hundred other opera articles. Refer articles for noted composers such as Verdi's, Puccini's, Wagner's, Handel's, etc. I have undo all your changes. Thanks - Jay (talk) 14:09, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

In Project Opera, we work based on consensus. I will post your reply in Project Opera talkpage, and lets see what other members have to say. If majority agree to change the date format, then it is fine with me. Refer here. Before that, please dont make any changes because it involves more than 100 articles. If we want to change, we will change all of them too. Thanks - Jay (talk) 00:06, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi there, I will amend our format guidelines to use DATE MONTH YEAR format. For that, you can change back the date format that I undid from yours. Perhaps, if you have the time, you can also help us to change other articles that have been set to MONTH DATE, YEAR. Thanks - Jay (talk) 17:13, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Lauren Jackson

I noticed the spelling change of center to centre as far as her position goes. This is more simply me asking than criticizing your change. In Canadian English, of which I write/speak, centre is spelled centre in everything but sports. In basketball, hockey, football etc. the position's name is center. Is this the same in Australia? I'd imagine it is as this is a proper noun describing the name of the position, and not a common noun describing a position in relation to everything else. But again, just asking for my own curiosity's sake more than anything. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 09:31, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Vandal

I checked one of his edits, didn`t check all. Thanks for sorting it.andycjp (talk) 13:43, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Battlestar page

Please stop changing the spelling on the Battlestar Galactica page, it comes off as nothing but vandalism, akin to an American going to the Doctor Who page and changing the spelling over there. Pyro721 (talk) 22:58 July 21, 2010 (UTC)

Battlestar

Hi. I noticed your recent edit(s) to Battlestar (reimagining). If you have a strong opinion on which variant of English should be used in this article, please discuss it on the talk page. While the article was first written using American spelling, and might be said to have "strong[er] national ties" to the U.S. than to the UK, the article has evolved smoothly into British English (and arguably, being shot in Canada may give it strong enough national ties to use British/Canadian spelling). Consensus should be established as to which variant to use, and then that use should be kept. I don't believe you've behaved improperly, I just thought I'd try to preemptively avert a more serious dispute. Thanks! ☯.ZenSwashbuckler.☠ 03:02, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Stanton Welch

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