Static sprinter

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3RR

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Virginia Tech massacre‎. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution.

Please read my response on the Talk page. [EDIT:] Additionally, your change breaks the image link for the infobox photo. --Dynaflow babble 22:10, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Google-testing

Hi, again. Ah, the joy of 18-hour shifts...
When doing the "Google Test," you'll want to enclose the phrase you're looking for in double-quotes, so that Google only returns hits with the exact words in the exact order you've typed into the box. Without the quotes, Google will search for all pages that contain all or most of the words you have searched for, regardless of where on the page or in what order they appear, hence the higher hit count you observed. --Dynaflow babble 10:56, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I've added that to the talk page to clear things up. --Static sprinter (talk) 13:04, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Vriginia Tech massacre RFC

The 30-day period has expired on the RFC that you started and the bot has come along and removed the RFC logo and linkage. It appears to me there's still little consensus for a change in the article title. However, as one of the long-time editors to this article with a stated opinion in the discussion, I hesitate to add a closing comment. You started the RFC, so could you please add a closing comment? --Sfmammamia (talk) 20:15, 20 May 2008 (UTC)