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Blues

On 3 Sept you added to blues the following:

Other influences on rock and roll are often cited, especially country music and R&B. It is more accurate to say, however, from a musical perspective, that artists in these musical subgroups adapted blues structure and harmony to their distinctive styles, accents, and vocabularies.

Another editor has not understood what you meant and has changed it to:

Other influences of the blues are often cited, especially country music and R&B. It is more accurate to say, however, from a musical perspective, that artists in these musical subgroups adapted blues structure and harmony to their distinctive styles, accents, and vocabularies.

Perhaps you would like to reword it to reinstate your intended meaning but making the paragraph easier to understand. cheers. Nurg 05:50, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Dachshund

Thanks for your additions to the Dachshund articles. Could you identify the source(s) for the statements about the popularity of the breed in the U.S. and in NYC specifically so that we can have a "Reference" section listing the source? Thanks. Elf | Talk 16:46, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for contributing to nutrition!

You contributed to the Science Collaboration of the Month that has just ended its run. Thanks, and let's keep improving it so it may become a Featured Article!

- Samsara _contrib ^talk 12:08, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey, I just wanted to drop you a note thanking you for your vote (even though it's against me!). But I appreciate that somebody read my points, and took them into consideration. Thanks! --Hyphen5 00:14, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Tip of the day project update

Just trying to get things better organized around there. Toward that end, I've created a task list template for the project. If all the contributors to the project placed it on their user page, we could all keep in touch more easily (with announcements, alerts, etc.). It, and the latest announcements can be found at:

totd task list template

--Go for it! 17:31, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Guilloché

Thank you very much, for bettering the Guilloché page; your good work is highly appreciated.

Bloger 18:03, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Re:Oranges

I'm sorry you're feeling a bit offended, but you shouldn't get too frustrated at it. Yes, I basically just cut out all your work, but this is Wikipedia. Anything you type in can be changed or removed. Also, just because it's valid info, does not mean it should go in that particular section. While reading it, I interpreted the description as an variety that belongs to a very specific region. There are probably hundreds of varieties of oranges out there, and we can't list everything. Giving a small list of the most common varieties seen throughout the world is the starting point. This isn't a US centric Wikipedia. We can't apply some sort of bias at all. This is a fundamental policy. - Zero1328

Affiche rouge

Hello Apollo! You might want to review, if you have some time, my recent NPOVing and copy-editing of the Affiche rouge and correct any mistakes or insert any comments, critical or not. Regards, Tazmaniacs 15:57, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Chewco

I was reading Chewco, and there's a sentence of yours that doesn't parse:

Additionally, as investors became more wary of Chewco, Michael Kopper, an Enron employee who reported to CFO Andrew Fastow.

There must be something missing there. Evercat 23:50, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

• Corrected it and expanded the article. Thanks for the heads-up. Apollo 16:56, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

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RCC or CC

You took part in Talk:Catholic Church/Archive 3#REQUESTED MOVE to Catholic Church there is a new requested move see Talk:Catholic Church#Requested Move --PBS (talk) 08:39, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

The Christophers

You wrote in the article The Christophers,

Devoted to the American constitutional, Fuller avoided theology and philosophy, going "straight for the watcher's heart."

What noun does the adjective "constitutional" modify? — Walloon (talk) 12:05, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

• Corrected 19:58, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

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I don't get it.

The image is accompanied by a full description. I don't get what you want.Apollo (talk) 20:06, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

History of taxation in the United Kingdom

A useful article. As it goes back to Roman times and is mostly not to do with the UK, I'm wondering what we can do about the title. Would you be happy with History of taxation in Britain? Moonraker2 (talk) 01:40, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Sworn vs. unsworn declarations

Would you please take a look at my comments at Sworn_declaration#Isn.27t_this_completely_backwards.3F? Thanks. jhawkinson (talk) 05:39, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

OK

Sorry, I'm not very active on Wikipedia any more and I just got this. I did a full response on the page. In a nutshell, this is a massive headache because the terms are not used consistently across jurisdictions.Apollo (talk) 20:04, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

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Just checking

if you've seen the "new" stuff on Alexandra Land, e.g.

• The Daily Mail
• The Inquisitr No idea if this is an RS
• your 8-10-08 edits

I think I'll post this at User talk:Jimbo Wales as well.

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 20:51, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

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