User talk:Iph

Welcome!

Hello, Iph, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay.

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Again, welcome! Inge 20:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I made my first contribution in 2005 though I haven't memorized all of the vast amount of Wiki "how to" stuff yet. Iph 21:03, 10 May 2007 (UTC)iph

Also welcome from the Opera Project

Please feel free to join us! --Kleinzach 01:16, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

I will try to take in some of what you are up to. Iph 21:03, 10 May 2007 (UTC)iph

The Haunted Manor

On 15 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Haunted Manor, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Wizardman 04:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Unexpected "voice" change in Mistakes on the User:CmdrObot page

Tiny niggle: Paragraph text begins, 1st sentence, with (presumably) bot voice: "If my owner does screw up and miscorrect something, please let him know ..." but then 2nd sentence is owner Cmdrjameson voice: "Alternatively, my bot is exclusion compliant, so you can get my bot to ignore your page if you like. I'd prefer that you let me know if my bot causes any problems though, as I'm keen to fix any bugs it may have."! Iph 18:32, 22 May 2007 (UTC)iph

Ah, excellent point! I guess you can tell that I added the second sentence relatively recently and didn't take enough care to fit it in to the surrounding context. Cheers, CmdrObot 20:59, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you very much Iph, my User Page is a mess and I plan to change it with a more detailed version on my views and hopes for the future and would be pleased if you could have a qiuke look at it. My grammer, spelling and phisical cordanation is very bad im told this is mainly bacause I was diagnosed with Developmental Dyspraxia when I was young. Normaly I have to rely on the spell checker in Microsoft Word to get it right, but this as you can see it is not working, I use comas all the time as a way to try and break up my sentances which are very fradgile, ive recently discovered that my tallent it a “amazing” imagination , and im currently working on a Role Playing Game (RPG) with a small group of friends from college, using Dark Basic and 3DS MAX 8

Sorry about the spelling, and i will not be affended if you remove this from your talk page I just felt like talking --Climax-Void ^{Chat or My Contributions}

Oh yes i noticed on your page User:Iph/Userboxes you want to "Reform the UN" may i ask in what way?

Great!

Wow you even added links to Wikipedia articles! Thanks. If there’s anything I can help you with let me know --Climax-Void ^{Chat or My Contributions}

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Ok, hope to talk again --Climax-Void ^{Chat or My Contributions}

Placeholder articles

Hi. I noticed that in the edit summary of your creation of the Robert Marsham article you stated that you were creating a placeholder article. The article looks like anything but a placeholder to me. However, I just want to tell you that per Wikipedia policy on blank articles, placeholder articles are deleted on sight. As a matter of fact, there is no reason for them to even exist, as pages can be moved to new titles when two or more notable people have the same name. --Blanchardb-^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}-timed 17:42, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

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Sangorski & Sutcliffe and copyright

See my copyright subpage

Unreferenced BLPs

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1. J Duncan M Derrett - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Sorry but I do not have any more information. That is why I created it as a stub. The man is obviously a writer and scholar worthy of note for the number of books written on serious subjects.I have not found any secondary or tertiary sources. Iph (talk) 17:54, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Gary O'Donoghue.JPG

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The fact that this appeared here within moments of me uploading the file shows a problem with the uploading page. That page says:

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Note that the box says "If you own the copyright ..." and "finally If you are prepared to do this, and are logged in to your Wikipedia account, click here". Well, I had just made the JPEG image and expected that when I clicked "here" it would be taken care of. But I just got the "Upload file" page which has a browse button to select the image file locally and a blank box into which the page gave no clue that I could see what to put or how.

I had to find another page with an image, go to the wikicommons page for it and pretend to edit that, to find that I needed to use the \{\{information ...}} macro and all that stuff.

The page for uploading a file needs to have right there on it specific examples with the guidance on what to put in that box, if this reaction(above, this page) is going to appear so quickly. At the moment all it says is "Indicate what the picture is of, who took it, and when it was taken as accurately as possible. Include the name of the article it should be in." Iph (talk) 23:48, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

I have now found another article about a TV news person, Trevor Macdonald, that has a photo, and copied the photo's page. Presumably that is enough to stop the photo being deleted. Iph (talk) 18:54, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Gary O'Donoghue.JPG

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Annie Jessy Curwen

Hello, IPH. Just thought I'd drop by and say thanks for creating the Annie Jessy Curwen article. I've added a few odds and ends to it – I hope you don't feel my edits have spoilt it in any way. Having done a bit of background reading since spotting the new article this evening, I'm convinced she merits an article in Wikipedia, so thanks again for addressing this. Best wishes — Hebrides (talk) 21:23, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Chupacabra

I've reverted you. Google searches cannot be used as sources, and of course the first edit was not a minor edit so should not have been marked as minor. Maybe discuss it at the talk page and try to get consensus? Dougweller (talk) 15:28, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

In too much of a rush, I've changed the lead. But my points above are still relevant. Dougweller (talk) 17:06, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Tuppy Owens 1998 1.jpg

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Proposed deletion of H. W. Horwill

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Beatrice di Tenda

Hi Iph. I'm wikignoming my way through the list of opera-related articles needing cleanup, and found something that you added way back in 2007 -- a synopsis for Beatrice di Tenda (change here). One of your sources has been tagged up as follows:

• Davenport, Guy, Performance programme text based on English libretto.

Do you have any ideas/ memories about where/ when/ who the programme notes were for? Scarabocchio (talk) 16:58, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Hundreds-and-thousands listed at Redirects for discussion

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JavaScript RegExp problem

I noticed you have experience in JavaScript. I'm hoping you can help me with a problem I've run into writing a userscript.

Please see my post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject JavaScript#Nested RegExp.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 12:20, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

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Deletion discussion about Anno Domini (band)

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Oranmore (disambiguation)

Hi Iph, I have reverted your edit to Oranmore (disambiguation) because Oran Mor is an intentional link to a disambiguation page. According to WP:INTDABLINK, intentional links to DAB pages should always go through the '(disambiguation)' link, even if it is a redirect. Leschnei (talk) 13:20, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Beauty and the Beast: Ugly Face of Prejudice

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Current source is just the network's site. Zero hits on GNews. All results on ProQuest and Newspapers.com were TV guide listings. While GBooks did return one magazine article in Indonesian that may be reliable, it means little in the absence of other reliable secondary sources. This article has barely been touched since 2011, and given its obscurity I don't think it's a worthwhile candidate for redirection or merging

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