You're very welcome to leave a message on my talk page to let me know if I need to fix anything, if you have any questions about an edit I've done, or if you think I can help you with something (if I can't I'll try and point you towards someone/something that can) that's probably the place to ask.
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Considering becoming an admin? Feel free to ask me if I think you'd be suitable. When I think you'd be ready (I might provide some suggestions before that) I'd be happy to nominate you. (RFA reviews subpage)
As Femto says: "Male, European, and already paranoid about giving away this much information." Well I'm a bit less paranoid than he is, so I can tell you I'm male, British, and have an age of somewhere between 10 and 100. Also if you're really interested I've released rather more than that out to the big world wide web.
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I award this barnstar for diffusing a situation with an editor (me) in a rage, and making it work Benjaminstewart05 08:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I, EWS23, hereby award Petros471 this Original Barnstar for offering to do the difficult job of helping myself and others with Requests for Adminship. Keep up the good work! 04:20, 24 May 2006 (UTC)➨ ЯEDVERS awards this Barnstar to Petros471 for tidying up WP:AIV to make it usable for both admins and reporters. Thanks!I award you with this PSI for assisting me with my various scenarios on wikipedia.--Andeh 18:26, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Sometimes you may be editing an article and want to link a plural to its singular form. For example, to link "Fred Foo was famous for his study of puddles" to puddle, you could link it like so: [[puddle|puddles]]. However, you can save time instead by writing [[puddle]]s.
This also works with adjectives (for example, [[Japan]]ese), regular verbs in present or past tense (for example, [[dance]]s or [[dance]]d) and any other suffixes or prefixes.
However, this method does not work with spelling changes, for example: [[try]]ied does not work; you have to enter [[try|tried]]. It also does not work with possessives, so you may want to use [[Fred Foo|Fred Foo's]] to get Fred Foo's. Using [[Fred Foo]]'s will look like Fred Foo's, i.e. the possessive suffix unlinked, in plain text, and black instead of blue.
Note: if a redirect exists from puddles to puddle you don't actually need to do any piping, it's fine to link [[puddles]] too.
