User talk:GWhitewood

I first logged in as User on July 2, 2006 GwenW 06:32.

Help please

I have been blocked from editing apparently because I am an AOL user. I even tried to use a secure bypass that someone suggested. Can anyone release these blocks? Here is a copy of one of the block messages. Thank you. GwenW 05:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC) -- notice, not Eleanor of Aquitaine.[reply]

Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by User:Pschemp for the following reason (see our blocking policy): Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Prnstr6996". The reason given for Prnstr6996's block is: "Your username (Eleanor_of_Aquitaine) has been blocked indefinitely because it is either inappropriate or too similar to an existing username (see our blocking policy for more information). Your IP address is 207.200.116.134.

This is not because you are an AOL user, but because you were caught in the autoblock. At the moment you are sharing the same IP as a vandal. When vandals are blocked, it blocks the underlying IP. Your misfortune in being assigned the same IP is the problem. I have unblocked the underlying IP, you should be able to edit normally. pschemp | talk 05:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Muhammad Ahmad

I don't know if you've looked into this further already, but the claims and achievements of Muhammad Ahmad have a section devoted to him here. That article was created to distinguish the subject of Mahdi from the people claiming to be the Mahdi. This is similar to there being a page for Messiah which is about the figure, and a separate article for the List of messiah claimants. I wasn't trying to thwart your concerns for including him, but he is already included in the list of other Mahdi claimants in their respective article. I believe the section you're concerned about could be cleaned up, and or deleted, but it does provide a snippet about where the first claimant appears in history, as well as a link to the claimants page. Jeff 08:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Solipsism syndrome

Excellent work on revising the article. It looks much better. Take care. Icemotoboy (talk) 05:41, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I guess. Didn't do much. GwenW (talk) 02:34, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Caroline and Charles Todd - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 08:13, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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