User talk:Ewx

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Ely Cathedral

Hi, thanks for pointing out the error on the page, although if you do see an error, it's perfectly acceptable to be bold and change it. Bob 18:20, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Play.com

Thanks for your edit regarding VAT taxes. I'm not at all familar with how VAT works, which is why I put the ^{[citation needed]} tag on that line. Do you believe that tag can be removed? --Mdwyer 20:29, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Belligerent

A stoic defences against a repeated unwarranted attack, well done. If it gets hot and it looks as if you need to revert more than once every so often let me know. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 10:04, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Binary Search

There is a long and deplorable history of incorrect code fixes being applied in wiki stuff, since anyone can edit and does, to the result that no computer code example can be trusted. The flowchart, being an image, is rather less easy to fiddle, but I await adjustments there also. Even simple algorithms can include subtle faults, so checking requires care. If the unknown fiddler had read the whole article, especially the descriptions of variations, there should be no problem, but. User Dcoetzee is suggesting in Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#All code samples should be transcluded that some tricky fiddle should be done to make it more difficult to mess with correct code, but one problem is that code thought to be correct may not in fact be so, as with the error in most textbooks for decades for the Binary Search. Regards, NickyMcLean (talk) 22:20, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1 revert rule restriction

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2 lines of K₃₀₃ 13:19, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Err, what? I've made exactly one change ever to that article. I'm happy to not touch it further.Ewx (talk) 14:25, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ramesses II

In the past you've been involved in discussions at Talk:Ramesses II about moving the page. A formal move request has been opened for the page here. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 09:02, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Reverts (#!/bin/bash example)

Hi Ewx, could you please join the discussion and explain your revert here: Talk:Shebang_(Unix)#Reverts_(#!/bin/bash_example). Thanks, --RainerBlome (talk) 12:49, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Unblock request

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Ewx (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My home network's IPv6 address range is 2001:470:1f09:11ed::/64. Place any further information here. Ewx (talk) 09:46, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

You have edited successfully since making this request. If you are affected by a similar block in the future, you may need to request an IP block exemption per the instructions at WP:IPECPROXY, or demonstrate that the owner of the range offers residential internet services, because it does come up as a webhost. 331dot (talk) 10:46, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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331dot The /64 is just my home network, connected via an IPv6 tunnel. (My ISP doesn't do IPv6 natively yet.) I expect anyone else using the same tunnel provider (Hurricane Electric) would be impacted. I can modify individual devices to prefer IPv4 over IPv6 but it's an annoying workaround at best. Ewx (talk) 14:37, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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