User talk:RunningBlind

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Muggles' Guide apparation
I hope you'll forgive my asking, but why?

The correct spelling, as seen repeatedly in the UK HP books, is apparation, to distinguish it from "apparition" which is equivalent to a ghost.

I don't like to revert so large a change without at least some understanding as to why it was done, and agreement on the correct course, so as to prevent an edit war. Chazz (talk) 18:55, 27 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Actually, having looked at the books, I will concede your point. But: I will ask you to revert your edits to that page, and ask for a quick delete of the page you created, or I can do that if you'd rather; and then I will move the page and correct the many references to it. That way we retain the edit history. Chazz (talk) 21:49, 27 November 2011 (UTC)


 * That would be great! Thanks. RunningBlind (discuss • contribs) 01:06, 28 November 2011 (UTC)


 * No problem. I have reverted your edits partially (enough so we won't get redlinks on Apparition when the page gets deleted), and will move the page and correct the links once the delete is done. After you've been editing for a while, you'll automatically get Move permission as well... and also will be able to mark pages for quality. One of the advantages of having a named account. Chazz (talk) 04:54, 28 November 2011 (UTC)


 * All right. RunningBlind (discuss • contribs) 04:58, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * This will take some time -- there are over a hundred uses of the link to clean up. But we're started anyway... Chazz (talk) 01:11, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
 * And that looks like that has it. I hope. Chazz (talk) 18:21, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Great! I'm glad that I helped bring this up and it feels good that it's fixed. RunningBlind (discuss • contribs) 19:26, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Muggles' Guide quality
Just a quick note -- I see you now have your reviewer tools, congratulations. I should mention that PNW Raven, while very good at drawing out connections and coming up with deeper meanings, has an awful habit of scattering typos and fragments throughout. While I appreciate your additional eyes, I would like to suggest that the top grade not be applied to an article until you've cast a careful eye across it for grammatical errors on Raven's part, and mine -- I'm usually pretty good, but things always sneak by. I assume you know already how to use History to compare versions... Chazz (talk) 07:05, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * That's what I've mostly been doing and I'm pretty good at catching grammar and typos as well as having a very good knowledge of obscure details in the books to catch small mistakes. RunningBlind (discuss • contribs) 05:32, 29 December 2011 (UTC)