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Launceston

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i used to live in Launceston - Launceston, Tasmania that is! My edits to the Launceston, Cornwall article were just formatting changes. -- Chuq 22:04, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)


Well, I actually do live in Launceston, Cornwall - in fact I'm right behind the Lidl you took a photo of. That was a bit startling, seeing that place used to illustrate the company in general to the entire world. Applemask 00:22, 15 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

It was a little startling to some of my friends when i showed it to them. I wasn't aware that there were any other regular Wikipedians in Launceston. :) -Benbread 19:17, 15 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Pot noodle

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Hi Ben, I noticed you trying to get some work done, between an anon IP vandal and my reverting the Pot noodle article today, hope I didn't give you an edit conflict. I've 'vandalised' your user page with a [[Category:Wikipedians in Cornwall|Benbread]]. Please remove it if you don't want it. Alf melmac 14:57, 21 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hey there. Thanks for those reverts, it doesn't help that the people vandalising it were three computers away from me (I was editing at school). The person vandalising was only fooling around but it really does get annoying sometimes - Thanks though :) Also thanks for adding me to that category, I didn't know we had a category under that name so it'll be interesting to know who lives where --Benbread 15:13, 21 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

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Benbread..are you..

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Were/are/whatever you the Benbread who played Unipets before it ended up being shut down? --Bobadot 06:02, 8 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Launceston

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Please don't take offence, but I have reverted your edit to Launceston, because according to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Places, country names should be left unlinked. CarolGray 08:16, 25 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Not a problem, thanks. Wasn't aware of that particular guideline so i'll make sure in the future i wont do that again :) -Benbread 09:46, 25 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

KDE4 article

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I see that you started the article on KDE4 and are the original author of the this claim - "KDE 4 will include major backend updates, including the port to Qt 4, which will result in an expected 20-30% performance increase". Can you cite a source for that percentage? Not that I don't believe it (I'm an occasional KDE user myself and looking forward to KDE4), but looking through the external links on the page doesn't reveal any specific percentage of speed increases. It would probably be more factual to simply remove the "20-30%" from the sentance, unless you can provide a source. Thanks! --Philipacamaniac 17:41, 31 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to VandalProof!

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Talk:Class of the Titans

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Sorry about that, I was just responding to David John's question.

Not a problem, i felt quite bad actually about reverting that, but it seems for the best -Benbread 22:01, 4 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for your understanding.

How the hell am I vandalizing the 50 Cent page?

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I sourced the text with a credible link. Quit calling it nonsense. If you want to add something to my text to give it some perspective then fine. However, don't call it vandalism when I have proof that he said what he said. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it vandalism.

You're most likely right, sorry. Please though cite your sources inside the article to avoid mixups. -Benbread 23:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
Also looking again at the source, it states noware that he called GWB a "nigga", for that i'm keeping that statement out of the article, unless you can provide an accurate quote. -Benbread 23:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

I've posted the 50 Cent article. I'm confident that it meets Wikipedia's high standards. Everything is well-sourced with independent and credible links.

That's much better, well done :) I hope you'll be editting Wikipedia in the future -Benbread 09:12, 5 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the praise. I'm taking Wikipedia a lot more seriously now than I used to. I have to admit that a few months ago I did silly things like vandalize articles. I never really didn't anything slanderous, just silly and stupid stuff. Recently, I've been doing my best to contribute positively to Wikipedia and I've even been correcting the same sort of vandalism I used to take part in.

BTW, there's this dipshit (his name is LILVOKA) who keeps on deleting the article saying that I didn't cite my sources (which is a complete lie). He pretty much admitted to me that he doesn't LIKE what I posted so therefore that's grounds for deletion. I thought you weren't supposed to interject your POV into how you correct or type articles.


The choice to add information to challenge politcial views instead of music use it for the support, is bias, right? Is the user:24.35.15.107 using weasel words when describing 50 Cent. Please cite your sources. Thanks for your cooperation. Note: The rapper said that he would support Bush for the fact that this man is not a snitch. Despite of all the controversies the president gets into since he been in office, it's been tight-lipped, guns, vile and violence. Not saying politics but that's what 50 Cent meant. It's basically why he said what he said. It's pretty much irrelevent towards the article.LILVOKA. 23:34 5 June 2006 (UTC) See Here

This user used does express possible conservative bias. Here an example: - 50 Cent has also apparently shown support for U.S. President George W. Bush. -When 50 Cent was at the premiere of his semi-autobiographical film "Get Rich or Die Tryin", he stuck up for the president:

  • Listen up....I said "apparently" not to show bias but to do the opposite thing. "apparently" means, in this case, "from I what we can tell from his words". Also, the "stuck up for the president" line is in an article that shows no political bias whatsoever. I made a point of not using links from left-wing or right-wing websites.

BTW, I'll just keep re-posting it, LILVOKA. I've already had a Wikipedia watchdog (Benbread) say that what I posted passes as NPOV and acceptable for Wikipedia standards. You still haven't provided any proof that what I posted is false and un-true. All you do is say that you know that 50 Cent didn't mean it like that. How the hell do you know? Do you talk to him or something? As I said before, if you can post a credible link that says what you say he says then DO SO ALREADY. If you can't then back the fuck up.

Please be civil -- 9cds(talk) 05:24, 6 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
Whoa! This i Not the place to discuss problems arrising, please talk about this in the articles talk page, not mine! ;) -Benbread 18:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Non sense warning

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Hello. Why did you put a nonsense warning on my user talk page?--Dakota ~ 00:15, 5 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

I'm assuming this was an honest mistake? Thanks for reverting vandalism to my user page earlier, by the way. :) Regards, Sango123 00:16, 5 June 2006 (UTC)Reply


Sorry, that appears to be a problem on VandalProof's part, sorry about that :( -Benbread 00:17, 5 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Reversion of edit to User:Nimur

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Hello Benbread! Thanks for your vigilance / automated vandal reversions. However, your bot incorrectly reverted an edit by myself [1] - I was not logged in at the time! Thanks for your efforts in any case! Nimur 00:21, 5 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for cleaning that up, looked a little suspicious! Hope i didn't cause any inconvienience -Benbread 00:23, 5 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

UT2k7

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If u wated the Interview with the UT2k7 developer he said the game will NOT ship for the Xbox360, only PC,Linux and PS3

If you want to contribute that, please cite the source inside the article and provide a Neutral-Point-Of-View description. Thanks -Benbread 18:38, 5 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

http://previews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/1399/Unreal-Tournament-2007/p1/

http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html?sid=6150473&pid=928117

Press the "Unreal Tournament 2007 E3 2006 Stage Show Demonstration" on the bottem

Please don't post those references here, i suggest you post them in the article discussion page so if you can't add the references someone will be kind enough to do it for you, or discuss the news further. Have fun editing Wikipedia! -Benbread 18:52, 5 June 2006 (UTC)Reply


so i can remove Xbox 360 from it?

I suggest you start a discussion in the talk page, that way you can make sure that your edit is correct and wont be just reverted. -Benbread 18:55, 5 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

the 2nd source clery stats that that it has only been annonced to the PC and PS3, thats within the first 3min

Ok, go ahead and remove it, but please put an edit summary with the sources to avoid any confusion :) -Benbread 18:57, 5 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Vandalism

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Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. :) Nephron  T|C 06:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Subst

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Re: Pot Noodle

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When I added [[simple:Pot Noodle]] to the article last night, that meant I was adding an interwiki link to the Simple English Wikipedia. Interwikis serve as links to WP articles in other languages, and are shown below the toolbox on the left side of articles that have them. Hope you've understood. --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 15:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Fridge

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I personally deem this to be slightly unecessary as it is just an annex for two very cool sub zero cars and add a whole new section and disrupts the symetry on the cool wall section.--Lucy-marie 11:50, 26 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

I don't think you can get cooler than sub-zero.--Lucy-marie 18:41, 26 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Now you are just being silly with the wording and anyway sub zero would be cooler than absolute zero.--Lucy-marie 13:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Hi!

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Just saying hello to a fellow bread :P. Ryubread 10:19, 4 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Thankyou

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Thanks for correcting my spelling Larklight (talk) 20:08, 10 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

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