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If I knew the way/I would take you home. 19:16, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! You know all the rules by now, and the fire from the ice. Alec Sanderson (talk) 19:21, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Hey, Alec, I saw your request on the Saloon bar, so you're autopatrolled now. Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 21:02, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Much obliged. Not answering a CAPTCHA feels like freedom. Alec Sanderson (talk) 21:12, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

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[edit] Revert?

Hi! I was wondering why you reverted my edit adding [citation needed] to the article Kangaroo court. Thanks! --Lixxx235 (talk) 21:05, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

This isn't Wikipedia. Add citations if you like, but {{fact}} tags on uncontroversial statements just clutter up the place. Alec Sanderson (talk) 21:13, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup in produce aisle

Every wiki-gnome should have a mop for when things get dropped on the floor. To be on the safe side, ask somebody before using it for anything you might consider drastic. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 22:14, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll be careful with it. Alec Sanderson (talk) 22:36, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

[edit] Dino-sawrs

The hadrosaurs are cool and all, but the best dinosaurs are definitely the theropods. Case in point, Therizinosaurus (honestly this is just my personal opinion, not any kind of community backing it). TheriziπosaurusG (talk) 20:32, 19 May 2014 (UTC) P.S. Feel free to delete this section if I committed some sort of faux pas creating a section on someone else's talk page. I'm new here.

I like theropods. I had a theropod salad sandwich yesterday. It tasted just like chicken. At least Therizonosaurus (no way to type that one quickly if my life depended on it) doesn't need to deal with "short arms lol" comments like T. rex does. Alec Sanderson (talk) 22:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
I tried eating a hadrosaur once, but I broke all my teeth and then the museum security arrested me for messing with the specimens.TheriziπosaurusG (talk) 20:39, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

[edit] How's your Portuguese?

I can parse a little tiny bit from studying Brazilian guitar for a number of years, but that's it. Letting a guy, whom I'm sure has nothing but good intentions, write pages in a language that nobody else reads or writes and branding those pages as RW canon is problematic, in my view. Collaboration is rendered impossible. Peace. AgingHippie (talk) 04:01, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

I agree about the good intentions, along with the difficulty of collaboration.
There was a time when I could understand and be understood by speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, mostly learned by workplace immersion. Blue-collar stuff, not literary at all. Nowadays I make use of google translate, filling in the gaps with common sense.
If I see something, I will try to fix it, but that will be hit-or-miss, given my spotty attendance. Alec Sanderson (talk) 04:39, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

[edit] Crop circles

How are my comments counter-productive? "Crop Circles" rrstuv 01:25, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

The "counter-productive" comes as part of the standard drop-down menu item for edit warring, in the page protection dialog box. It is the edit warring that is counter-productive, not necessarily your comments. Make a case for your changes at Talk:Crop circles, and things may go differently. Alec Sanderson (talk) 01:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi - why were my changes to the article on crop circles reverted? These changes attempted to un-bias the writing. rrstuv 01:36, 28 February 2015 (UTC) Please see [1] for the changes. Edit warning for editing that is counter-productive - can you explain in what way, or why? — Unsigned, by: Rrstuv / talk / contribs

Not edit warning, but edit-warring. Alec Sanderson (talk) 01:50, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

[edit] You know that I am Foster the Cruel, right?

Of course you do. Peace. AgingHippie (talk) 15:28, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

No you aren't. You're Hokusai the Protean. Alec Sanderson (talk) 15:29, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

[edit] Argument from first cause

Hi, you reverted my edit to the Argument from First Cause article. That's fair enough because I should've brought the issue up on the Talk page instead (I'm not used to editing wiki pages). I've now posted in the Talk section for that page. I think it's an important point because I believe the argument given in the article is a strawman. — Unsigned, by: 149.160.204.233 / talk / contribs

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I see discussion being engaged at Talk:Argument from first cause. Of course, I will keep an eye on it there. Don't worry about getting used to editing wiki pages; it comes by osmosis. :) Alec Sanderson (talk) 19:20, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting pages

When deleting pages, especially those created by trolls, please make sure to clear the default edit summary, which is an excerpt from the article. Otherwise you risk immortalizing vandalism in the deletion log. (An example.) --ZooGuard (talk) 16:12, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

OK, that makes sense. My thinking was that the default edit summary would give some evidence as to why the page was deleted. Alec Sanderson (talk) 16:34, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
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