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Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my user page :-) ~ Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem - hope you get a break from the vandals for a while at least. --Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 07:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for reverting the change to my userpage on February 14, and sorry I only just said so! Well spotted - I only just noticed that you'd done it myself! :) matt.smart ^talk/contribs 13:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Happy to help - I've had it done to mine a few times. --Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 07:08, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Cheers

Thanks for reverting that blanking of my userpage. Much appreciated! Will (aka Wimt) 22:20, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem, but looks like you did the same for me about the same time, so thanks also. --Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 22:28, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

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You still didn't undo my edit to The Bully (SpongeBob SquarePants). —Flatts 23:00, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Alfa Romeo in motorsport

Yes, the same book. I might revise the precise page numbers given though. Cheers. 4u1e 07:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I see you've already made some of the updates. --Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 07:58, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the same book, as already confirmed by 4u1e above. Apologies for the delay in replying. DH85868993 12:52, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I should be able to use Doug Nye's History of the Grand Prix car to flesh out and ref the 1979 - 1985 works F1 Alfa effort as well. On a (sort of) related note, you don't know of a good online reference for sports car racing (ideally 1960s - 1990s) do you? I'm interested in the context of Mario Andretti and Clay Regazzoni, both of whose articles could use some referencing in that department. Cheers. 4u1e 22:30, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Andretti and Regazzoni, I've been focusing more on articles on cars rather than drivers, but you might want to take a look at the Car Guides on QV500.com. In the Ferrari Guides they mention Andretti in the Ferrari 312 and 512 pages and Regazzoni is mentioned on some other pages. Try a google advanced search for Regazzoni using site:qv500.com. --Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 05:58, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Intifada naming

Hi Xagent, You raised a good point in your last comment, but I'm not sure that I agree to its application here, since it seems to me that an equally popular name not tied to either position exists - "Second Intifada". That its use is of an equal order of magnitude as "al Aqsa Intifada" appears to me to be plain based on the combined results of title searches of Google Scholar (68:62 (58 4)), Google Books (519:558), and the queries of major news providers, which makes further reference to plain Google title searches seem somewhat puzzling. That the position opposing a move to "Second Intifada" has integrated it into its counter proposals ("Al-Aqsa Intifada (Second Intifada)" etc.) suggests that others also appreciate these points to some extent. Regardless, I appreciate your enlightened comment. Cheers, Tewfik^Talk 07:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

There is a mediation case that has been opened on the issue of the title of Al-Aqsa Intifada. Considering that you were involved in the discussion, you may be interested in participating; see here: [1]. Tiamut 17:01, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Tewfik and Tiamut for your comments. I've been away from Wikipedia a while, hence the late reply. Tewfik - your links seem to point to posts on the Al-Aqsa Intifada talk page. If I remember rightly, these posts have already been somewhat discredited on the basis that some or most of those searches, did not restrict to searching the title, so the phase second intifada in page text or footnote would be given equal status as the article/book/page title. You need to use the title search.

For example, google books searches limited to the phrase in article titles:

• http://books.google.com/books?q=allintitle: "al-aqsa intifada"&btnG=Search Books (al-aqsa intifada) current total = 17
• http://books.google.com/books?q=allintitle: "second intifada"&btnG=Search Books (second intifada) current total = 7

--Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 06:03, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

The strength of many horses

I'm told by Typ932 of a discussion you and he had on the Guiletta (old one) talk page about automobile horse power definitions. I've tried to spell out my understanding of the British approach on my talk page (final item). You might be interested to take a look. If you're sufficiently interested to think I might have misconstrued something, I'd be interested to be corrected! Regards Charles01 (talk) 18:44, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for stopping by and leaving this comment about automotive horsepower. Yes, it's a confusing subject - since you have already started this discussion on your own talk page, I will leave a note there. Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 01:08, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Tony Veitch

Thank you for adding sources I am not very confident with this and as I have updated would you please do so too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tshiels1 (talk • contribs) 06:10, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

I will reply to this on your talk page. Let's continue the conversation there. --Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 06:23, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

For actual article editing

		The Original Barnstar
		At the Olympic Games, there is an influx of editors who edit articles shallowly, without doing the necessary updates to the article text. They categorically leave the real work to others. But this star goes to you for making the first actual update to a biography (namely Misleydis González) that I personally have seen during these Olympics. Punkmorten (talk) 17:32, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar. I appreciate your comments too. --Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 12:23, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

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history of formula one regulations

what does this page need to be A rated? (Gdogg371 (talk) 16:10, 22 April 2009 (UTC))

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It already updated thanks, maybe your cache needed refreshing. -- Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 15:20, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

No it hadn't, I checked it at the time. irma.ie had updated with the peaks then, not irishcharts.ie. You did this on a Friday. Irishcharts.ie never updates that quickly. Ss112 09:37, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Melodrama (Lorde album)

Thanks for your concern, but I have the page watchlisted. Melodrama has stayed on the Australian charts since its release, and it will probably continue to be on there for a while, at least until the ARIA archive at aria.com.au updates. Ss112 09:37, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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