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I've been trying to find more info on Ross Eckler. Do you know where I can find his publications, esp. re: centenarians? Thanks. Fruits 16:39, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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Please type a space after periods and commas. I have corrected this in a number of your edits. --Wik 04:44, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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By now you should realize that NOT typing spaces after punctuation marks is a habit I have had for decades,and stick to fiercely. The centenarian researcher A. Ross Eckler Jr. (son of the census bureau official who died in 1991) can be reached at [e-mail].

Hi. You should create a user, and log on. Your contributions are very useful. Once you create a user you will be able to move pages without cutting and pasting and it generally makes life easier for everybody. Mintguy (who was in the Wimbledon end at the 1988 FA Cup final).

Cut?...Paste?

I use the Lynx browser,I'm not one of those mousy types who cuts and pastes.Everything I type,I type by hand. Thanks for your view that my contributions are useful...I note that my "Tel Aviv" comment that it's controversial that other countries should get to decide what a given country's capital is has not only been deleted but the page has been protected against this comment being restored. Anyway,I never register for registration-required websites,as a matter of principle.Part of the whole "free content" ethos,IMO! Louis Epstein/[e-mail]/12.144.5.2

You mis-understand my comment about cut & paste. As for "registering" it's not a question of registering, it's a question of creating a user handle that is more identifiable with an individual than an IP address which no-one ever remembers and that could be used by many different people. Other than a user-name and password no other information is required. In fact you are more anonymous with a user-handle than an IP address. Also contribtions from IPs tend to be viewed with more suspicion than named users. Which may explain the Tel Aviv, Jerusalem problem. BTW you could have tried discussing the problem on one of the talk pages, that's what they are for. Mintguy 05:07, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Departure...Have You Seen the Last of Me!

Once on Tel Aviv,three times on Jerusalem.

Since Wikipedia refuses to tolerate the statement that the idea of countries deciding what another country's capital is is unusual.let alone controversial,I will not be making any further contributions. My email address is above for any who care to write to me.

Update Well,it looks like the edit war on Jerusalem today concluded with the language I deemed essential restored after all. So I may be banging around for a while yet unless the other side forces bias through again.

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Hi, I liked your contributions for List of chiefs of mystical organizations! Feel free to make more contributions and participate more in Wikipedia. Best wishes, Optim 22:47, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Would you please learn to use spaces correctly? This isn't optional. I challenge you to find any serious website that doesn't. Evercat 00:54, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

If I thought the convention of waste space after punctuation had any merit,I would have adopted it many years ago.

Optim,thanks for the kind words. L.E./12.144.5.2/[e-mail]

It's pretty selfish to expect others to fix problems caused by your laziness. Evercat 20:28, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

It's not laziness,it's objection in principle.I'd much prefer that others DIDN'T impose orthographic conventions I dislike,on what I write the way I write it.--L.E.

It takes a lot more effort for others to go through your stuff fixing it than for you to use spaces properly. You're being a pain. Evercat 20:36, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

So. I have fixed your stuff. Poor Yorick has fized your stuff. Wik has fixed your stuff. Zundark has fixed your stuff. Michael Hardy has fixed your stuff. Are you seeing a pattern here? Other people are having to do a lot of work because of your pig-headedness. Stop being a prick. Evercat 23:02, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Yeah,I see a pattern...people who think spacing after punctuation makes sense are out to sabotage the work of those of us who use space more efficiently.I am not "making" anyone have this prejudice,and it's their problem if they can't bear seeing stuff typed without that waste space.--L.E.

You have no space restrictions: Wikipedia:Wiki is not paper. We have a Wikipedia:Manual of Style too that Wikipedians are expected to adhere to. If you don't want to adhere to standard convention - fine, but in doing so you actually are having to make other people fix your work so it adheres to Wikipedia convention. Dysprosia 00:24, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Look: you won't have it your way anyway. People are going to go after you and repair every article. It'll be like you have typed it the "right" way. You're not objecting in principle, you're just annoying people. So please, pretty please, when editing, stick to the conventions of this site. Zocky 00:58, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Hi again. Just to say that I enjoyed reading your Grand Lodge article. By the way, it is true that leaving no space after punctuation saves space, but I think there is no need to do that in Wikipedia. You can open a thread of discussion in some wikipedia page, like for example the Village pump, present your ideas and propose to change the style of wikipedia so that there will be no spaces after commas and dots, and follow the usual wikipedia style until other wikipedians agree with your views (something not very possible). Your idea about no spaces after punctuation would be very useful for articles intented to be read from old or thin-client equipment such as PDAs, mobile phones, old PCs or computers with limited Internet access (old dialup modems or wireless GPRS Internet where you pay based on how much data you download). But, Wikipedia as it is now, is intented to be read with modern PCs, so there is no consideration about space. Also consider that wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Have you seen any other encyclopedia with some articles following style X and some others following style Y? I dont think so. In wikipedia the style is important and we try to have a common general style across all the articles. When somebody (including me) edits your texts and places spaces after punctuation, it's not mean that we don't appreaciate your contribution, we do that only because we want each article to conform to wikipedia's style so that the reader won't be confused while reading our encyclopedia. My personal opinion on this subject is that space after punctuation is good because it makes reading easier (so it's good for the reader). Keep up contributing to wikipedia and please consider conforming to the community's standard style (space after punctuation); your contributions are really good. Peace. Optim 03:01, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)