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Agree = it's a bad example. If the doll actually sold for 5500, it is hard to justify a market cost of the doll at 6000, and if you did do that (ie that was the replacement cost to the purchaser) then his "profit" trade is now a five hundred bucks loss!, so rather than adding to his damages, they would detract from it, seeing as the plaintiff has admitted the most he expected to make out of the trade was 500 bucks. Works much better if the trade to the COllector is at MORE than the replacement cost - say $6500, not $5500.
Analysis is this - assuming the doll is a fungible commodity:
- Contract stipulates a doll having characteristics XYX must be delivered. Contractual damages are the cost of putting P in the position he'd have been in had D performed as promised, i.e. the actual "replacement cost" of buying a doll XYZ elsewhere minus the £5000 that P had agreed to pay for it. Let's say the replacement cost was $6000: The damages are $1000.
- Now two things can happen:
  - (I) Collector C has a binding contract with P to purchase a doll at $6500 which P risks breaching (because he hasn't got a doll from D).
    - P buys the doll on the market for $6000 and delivers the doll to C at $6500.
    - Instead of being up $1500 ($6500 - $5000) as he expected, P is only up $500 (ie $6500 - $6000).
    - Therefore P's total loss is still only $1000. There are no consequential damages - the ordinary damages claim gets you where you need to be.
  - (II) Collector C does not have a binding contract with P and walks away from P (because he bought the doll directly from D).
    - In this case D's action (selling the doll directly to C) is NOT a breach of P's contract (no-one said he couldn't sell an XYZ doll to someone else - they're fungible remember), so we are left with the contractual damages claim of $1000.
- The consequential damages claim is that D wrongfully (& in breach of contract) caused P to miss the opportunity to sell to the Collector. Unless the doll was a unique artifact, I don't think you can make out that claim.
If the doll is unique
You could argue that selling that doll to someone else is a direct breach of contract. Effectively it wasn't P's doll to sell

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Finchley Common[edit]

Im glad to see someone has had a go at this, I've meant to for so long. I'm going to make a few amendments, hope you don't mind. Hugh Petrie

I've placed a revision of the article on the discussion page of the Finchley Common article. Any feed back? If I get none in the next two weeks I will take it as read. Hugh

Hatfield Forest[edit]

I'll gladly restore it, if you were planning on working on it further? --Merovingian - Talk 07:18, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, the article has been restored. Happy editing! :) --Merovingian - Talk 15:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing. --Merovingian - Talk 16:55, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All Blacks[edit]

I am aware that the team are called the All Blacks. I left the page alone without moving it for over two years whilst still being a major contributor to the page. If, however, there is going to be avote on what the page should be called, my vote is for New Zealand national rugby union team.

I have yet to see a scoreboard with 'All Blacks' written on it nor are New Zealand referred to as the All Blacks in official fixture lists in tournaments such as the World Cup.GordyB 13:24, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest that you read the talk page of the All Blacks. GordyB 19:51, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sociology vs Law[edit]

Thanks for your comment - I get what you're saying but it still doesn't really work for me. I'm not a student of sociology, but I can't see the interactions of governments and of political units of Maori as a sociological phenomenon - Treaty politics was historically about the exercise of legal and military power. Sociological phenomena fuelled the interactions - depopulation, breakdown of traditional kinship groups, massive Pakeha immigration and so on. And again, post war Maori urbanisation brought the education and population growth to enable the Maori renaissance and generate the political will to do something about Treaty stuff. But it's leadership to leadership, not a grassroots thing. I think we're coming at it from quite different angles. --Tirana 08:34, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Trivia" sections[edit]

ElectricRay, you recently removed the Trivia section from the page discussing Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, and relocated it at its own page. You may be interested in reading the comments I've left on the talk page elaborating why I think the two pages should be (re)merged. --Todeswalzer|Talk 18:29, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Geoffrey Sampson[edit]

Hi I have just created an article entitled Geoffrey Sampson, and note that you deleted one with this title in May 2006. My Wikipedia skills are not such that I could determine the reasons for deletion (I couldn't find the discussion). The chap seems easily notable enough for inclusion (he is already referred to in several other mainspace articles), but if I'm missing something, please let me know. Regards ElectricRay 10:54, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The version I deleted was comprised of nothing other than "Geoffrey Sampson is a big stinky poo face", so I think we can safely assume your version is somewhat better. :D Looks great, and keep up the good work. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 12:26, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pinker[edit]

Please see my user talk page for my response. ThAtSo 20:23, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Responded again. ThAtSo 23:02, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion[edit]

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My mistake! If I was going to tag it with speedy it should have been for little or no context and not "importance". In that case I should have just labeled it as a stub, and not a speedy. It definitely has enough importance; thanks for the notice. jj137 (Talk) 00:13, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem- it was a mistake that needed clarifying. jj137 (Talk) 00:19, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Creovation[edit]

And under 1000 Google hits is impressive because? JuJube (talk) 16:40, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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not every tiny fact on this wiki needs to be, or is, cited. Not going to get into an edit war on it; just sayin'. ElectricRay (talk) 14:50, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but big juicy opinions about sexual fetishism *do* need a citation, otherwise it's still just original research. - JeffJonez (talk) 22:49, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Ray,

The naming of these particular close catching positions may not make sense when compared to where an orthodox square leg or point would stand, but if you asked any cricketer, professional or amateur, what these two positions are they would say silly point and short leg. Its a matter of convention rather than logic.

Silly mid off and silly mid on tend to be straighter and further away from the bat - about half way up the pitch, and a few feet either side. Wider of them would be short cover and short midwicket, the positions you describe would be denoted as short point and short square leg. Py0alb (talk) 09:00, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ok - but you should know I *am* an amateur cricketer!!! ElectricRay (talk) 13:23, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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