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Hello there Tango, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, thanks for starting class M planet. Cheers! --maveric149
Ahh, a fellow h2g2er - welcome! (although you've been here for a couple months now, so this is a bit late...) Has BBCi fallen to the Glorious Revolution yet? :) Martin 23:28 Apr 19, 2003 (UTC)
Which one? ;-) -- Tango
In reply to your remarks about "standard English", I have put the following on the Little's law discussion page:
- No -- over the last few centuries English has become international. Many regional variations exist and England, like all other places where English is spoken, has usages that are only local (in some cases used throughout all of Britain and Ireland but not elsewhere, for example, and in some cases used only in the southern part of one county or the like) or ephemeral. England has imported lots of usages from France that have replaced more traditional English usages that remain standard in America ("6 September" instead of the traditional "September 6th", and lots of others) so that current American usage and Samuel Johnson's 18th-century usage may coincide where 21st-century British usage has been Frenchified or otherwise changed (e.g., the British no longer often use "gotten" as the past participle of "got"; Americans still do). I would say it would have to be more international and less ephemeral than "OAP" before I would call it "standard English". Michael Hardy 22:18, 11 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I saw it, thanks. -- Tango
All in and safe now? :) Dysprosia 09:17, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
For future reference, when you block an IP address it blocks *all* users accessing the site from that IP, not just anonymous ones. I don't mind though, i wasn't doing anything on wikipedia anyway at that time, i only came on to apologise for my friend. (i showed him the site, so i feel kind of reponsible) -- Tango 20:06, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- I don't think it should... let me check. Blocking should only stop someone from editing. Dysprosia 23:33, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Blocking an IP should prevent all users of that IP address from editing only - a blocked anonymous user should still have been able to browse. But, you should still have been OK to edit, as that IP address is still blocked. In any case, after 24 hours, the block disappears.
- Hope you didn't get too put out because of it, but I'm sorry if you did :) Dysprosia 23:36, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- I could still browse, but couldn't edit, same with the anonymous guy. When i posted that message i was at home, so on a completely different IP address. I could browse, so could see the question asking if i was logged in now, but couldn't reply. Ironic really... -- Tango 12:52, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- That's quite weird. Maybe I didn't give you enough time to log in? Everything I've seen so far says that if you log in you should be okay if the previous IP is blocked... hmmm... Dysprosia 04:18, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Commented at User talk:212.219.142.161, if you missed it :) Dysprosia 10:33, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)