User talk:Jeandré du Toit

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2003: Welcome, username, Afrikaans, Mahatma, bold links, homepage 404, interlang order.
2004: Minor planet designations, acute, zaNA election, cat sort, Iraq protests merge, username history merging, CT meetup, za collaboration, image tagging, Lawler questionnaire, article licensing, old wikipedians list, sources namespace.
2005: Internet access, sandbot, Nation subscription, Africa report, Soundgarden, Wikimania, Streep/Foster, Wikijunior solar system, Iraq invasion protests, admin Jcw69, Poor/Wagon misquotation, 196.25.255.242, fictional Elvii, Robert McHenry, Swahili checks, green wikipedians, meet up.
2006: Template:User allow fairuse vote, commercials in linked videos, geo-tags, German nobility copyvio, Brooklyn Tech, template too many red links, Lord Chelmsford/Gandhi (film).

Current discussions.

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Kirby Puckett.

Re [1] -- Jeandré, 2006-03-18t20:29z

What's your problem? My edit to ther Puckett thread was absolutely 100% legitimate. he died yesterday. As soon as I saw the first report I posted to that effect. Someone decided to revert. I dont appreciarte being termed a vandal when the edit was accurate. 165.230.196.125 14:08, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Apology. -- Jeandré, 2006-03-07t14:24z

Accepted. 165.230.196.125 17:40, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Descriptive edit summaries.

Re revert at Sedbury. -- Jeandré, 2006-03-18t20:10z

Aside from the pretty clear copyvio, this section was an attack on a person:

It is home to Wyedean School the school attended by Joanna Rowling author of the Harry Potter Books. She lived in the neighbouring village of Tutshill. Her mother worked at the school and her character Professor Snape is said to be based on a teacher of the school called Mr John Nettleship.

While I agree that she did attend Wyedean School, she has never said anything about her basing the character of Severus Snape on anybody. In fact, she addressed this issue when rumors arose about the inspiration for the character Gilderoy Lockhart. Notice how she says "For obvious reasons I am not going to identify the person in question - however irritating he was, he does not deserve that..." She is more consistent than anybody and does not give away her inspirations easily. Here it says "One of the influences for Snape was a 'scary' teacher she had when she was 9 years old (Tutshill, near Chepstow, South Wales)." Conversations with JK Rowling, p.17. She does not mention the name of the teacher and any such mention on Wikipedia is either spiteful or unresearched. That, plus the fact that the person spelled her name wrong made it seem like the editor was uninformed and the edit deserved to be reverted. Next time, however, I will look to retain any good information. Thanks for the message, but I reccomend you suggest to this user to use better (or any) sources to back up his information in the future. JHMM13 (T | C) 19:49, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Answer. -- Jeandré, 2006-03-18t20:10z

You are, of course, absolutely right. Thanks for the discussion, and I'm glad this is now clarified! JHMM13 (T | C) 20:19, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Sourcing from the Respublika newspaper.

Re: [2] -- Jeandré, 2006-03-25t17:57z

I'm living in United Kingdom as described in my user page, so I can't help a lot about Respublika newspaper. But thanks for the request wykis 15:05, 25 March 2006 (UTC)