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Thank you, Mr Bot. I'm happy to receive the messages and will correct my errors forthwith. --Old Lanky (talk) 18:48, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

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Ambrose GAN

I think I've either fixed everything, or explained why I haven't. Feel free to argue on the review page! Thanks for the review, I was expecting a long wait. On another note, I see that you nominated Australian cricket team in England in 1884 for GA. If no-one else gets there soon, I may step in to review that one. Just one suggestion, from a cursory glance; your list of players is currently text; maybe look at Somerset County Cricket Club in 2009 (or, to be honest, anything like this by Harrias (talk · contribs), who is brilliant at these) which uses a table to give this information. In addition, maybe the results could be colour-coded as in the Somerset article (although I'm rubbish with the mark-up for tables, personally, so I can't really help on that one). And if you haven't already joined WP:CRIC, you would be extremely welcome to do so. We are rather short of people who write about 19th century cricket, and it is always nice to see new faces. Sarastro1 (talk) 19:03, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for responding to the review so quickly. I'll look at it again soon, perhaps at the weekend. I've just taken a peek at the Somerset players' table and agree it looks much better than a wiggly text list so I'll adopt the method. I realise there is a cricket project that does a lot of good work but I do have many interests and I'm not sure if I will concentrate on cricket long-term, although it's certainly staked its claim on my time for the present. I'm just looking around, really, but I became committed to the 1884 article as it was the first series to feature Old Trafford and then it was a case of "I've started so I'll finish". Thanks again. --Old Lanky (talk) 19:21, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again for the review. Sarastro1 (talk) 09:34, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Template:Infobox cricketer

I agree that the template is poorly designed at the moment, but we've not managed to find any consensus at WT:CRIC to significantly change it. I also appreciate the technical change you are attempting, but please, please, please test it before trying it for a third time, twice now you've made changes that have resulted in significant red-linking on all women's cricketers articles. I don't currently have the time to look into the specifics of what has caused this, so I've had to undo your change as a whole. I'll try and have a more detailed look tomorrow and sort it out if you haven't managed to get it working properly by then. Harrias 22:35, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Okay, but the number of permutations make it extremely difficult. I suspect the root cause is the lack of a standard for international team names, though I accept that West Indies and England, for example, are not "national" teams in the strict sense. --Old Lanky (talk) 09:55, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Back Again

You do try John, you really do --109.144.245.13 (talk) 12:49, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Moved your message here as the talk page is the correct place for messages, not a user page. I presume your message is a windup but it looks as if you've got the wrong address as well as the wrong page. If you think I can help you in any way, though, do let me know. Thanks. --Old Lanky (talk) 19:14, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Turnitin Plagiarism software - Old Lanky (sample 300 words) Blackjack (same sample) (Taken from Aus 1884 in your case. Match - 95.17. Usual match causing referral to academic board 93.5 (from a larger sample). It is the most accurate software in use in UK institutions on this level of sample. (That is the registered rather than the freeware programme) Oddly, Blackjack came out higher (96.44) with a user called Jim Hardie - you, Old Lanky only matched at 92.7 there. As a control I took a sample from Associate Affiliate (same size) and against all three aforementioned editors scored 25 which is the base score. Error coefficient is about 1.2%. One accepts that statistics are fallible but this type of evidence will usually see a student sling his hook so it has some credibility. Only you know why you do it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.165.134 (talk) 14:00, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Are you some kind of nut? Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence. Three times and your IP addresses go to the police. I don't mess about with idiots like you so fuck off. --Old Lanky (talk) 17:11, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Well there we are John - as we always used to say at ACS - you need help. You edit like Blackjack, edit the things Blackjack edited, use the same tags - your Blackjack and your ill - seek help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.83.50 (talk) 09:57, 5 January 2013 (UTC) I note also your style of referencing, type of reference and overall set up of your approach. I don't know why you can't operate like normal people but then that's never been your style has it? (JamesJJames etc etc etc)

I think you should read WP:MOS and get into your thick skull that most editors on here edit according to set standards and therefore article style is consistent. Referencing style is a case in point: e.g. cite web, inline, bibliography, etc. Plagiarism is a completely different concept: it means copying text verbatim albeit with minor tweaks as attempted disguise. Unless your "samples" were using the same basic text there is no plagiarism, only a similarity of style arising from compliance with strict editing standards (e.g., no original research, everything has to be verifiable, etc.).

By "normal people" I suppose you mean sick, inadequate, pathetic little internet trolls like yourself. Sorry, but people like you are anything but normal. How many people do you know of who go onto the internet to wilfully disrupt sites and attack people they don't even know? Is that sort of behaviour normal? And even if your allegation should be true that I am operating a dual account, what harm is there if the edits are bona fide? I daresay a lot of people do it because they get fed up of their old username, or perhaps to escape the attentions of scumbags who have become a persistent nuisance. Running two bona fide accounts hardly compares with harrassment, does it? I also sense a certain hypocrisy in your crap as, although IP addresses change out of your control, I'll bet that a thorough investigation would find that you have hypocritically used numerous userids yourself. You are a complete bullshitter. Now, seriously, fuck off. --Old Lanky (talk) 11:50, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you again, Mr Bot. Will rectify at once. --Old Lanky (talk) 19:07, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

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