User:DGG/appreciation received

DGG was inducted into The Hall of The Greats

 * much appreciated. I understand the significance. DGG (talk) 21:11, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, you are our prize fighter against deletionists, a blood sport that rivals mixed martial arts. Not to mention all the work you do on sources, improvements, references, the list goes on and on and on....  Thank you, DGG The Great. --David Shankbone  20:31, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Invisible Barnstar
New Focus at Unreferenced articles

The Mensch's Barnstar
I was ferreting around for a Defender of the Wiki award, but stumbled over this one which looked nicer. I was always impressed at what a succinct and cool word mensch was, which has no real less-than-a-bunch-of-polysyllabic-adjectives-equivalent in (gentile) english :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:40, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Well said
Regarding, well said. -- Nealparr  (talk to me) 06:47, 30 January 2008 (UTC)



X clamation point  has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!  Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Here's an image and some sentiment

 * Well said, and seconded : ) - jc37 12:53, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Happy DGG's Day!
It's about time! ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:53, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Awesome Wikipedia Dayn
's Day!

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk  • 00:03, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Mazel tov! Bearian (talk) 00:34, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Can I chime in? Gefeliciteerd! Drmies (talk) 02:09, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Much deserved! --ThaddeusB (talk) 05:09, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Congrats DCG... Keep up the good work :) --  Tinu  Cherian  - 09:03, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Happy your day !!!! Pohick2 (talk) 17:44, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Name dropped in an off-wiki article
Dear DGG...I was reading Where oh where has my trivia section gone? which lead me to "Should Wikipedia include trivia?" which lead me to "The Charms of Wikipedia" where Nicholson Baker dropped your user name in the final section of that article. I just thought you might like to know. Have a nice day! LA @ 20:12, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I am much less patient now. Some of the above messages about failed compromises at fiction and the challenged compromise high schools may give some idea of why. DGG (talk) 23:54, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep up the good work. Bearian (talk) 23:55, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, it seems the high schools compromise still holds. DGG (talk) 06:06, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar notice
Also, have you read User:MZMcBride/Memes? Stifle (talk) 09:57, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Fruit
Happy newish year, DGG, from your evil deletionist nemesis, mwahaha. Hoary (talk) 01:12, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

how to help

 * moved from user:ikip.

You will help much more by adding at least one source and removing the tag, than by being provocative. Don't behave like the opposition.  DGG ( talk ) 10:24, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Dude, You Rock
Thanks for the kind, helpful info about "speedy deletion". I can get refs in the page in 9 days... over this weekend. YOU ROCK!! :D Thanks again, WinkJunior (talk) 23:17, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

A cute kitten for you sir!
Just wanna thank you sir for being unbiased and allowing my page (List of telenovelas of GMA Network) to exist. Again, thank you, sir and God bless:)

Doubledutch781 (talk) 02:40, 15 May 2012 (UTC) 

Congratulations
If you like you can add this userbox to your collection.

```Buster Seven   Talk  13:17, 7 June 2012 (UTC)


 * unfortunately, not as impressive as it might seem, considering that 10 or 20% of them are just to correct my own typos.  DGG ( talk ) 03:43, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Great stuff on your user page! I've never really seen another user go so in-depth into his philosophies and thoughts on WP as yours does. :)

Arjun G. Menon  (talk  · mail) 11:50, 5 October 2012 (UTC) 

Precious
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Thank you for your efforts to keep articles, such as this piece of culture, for your love of libraries, for sharing resources, and for your thoughts on elucidating, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (25 April 2009, 25 June 2009)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:54, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Nice job at Colonial Properties.

Bearian (talk) 22:02, 12 February 2014 (UTC) <br style="clear: both;"/>

A beer for you!

 * ...And if you don't drink I'll gladly offer you a cup of tea or brownie in instead :) &mdash; <b style="color:black;">MusikAnimal</b> <sup style="color:green;">talk 19:58, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * thanks. Brownies are better than tea, but beer is better yet.  DGG ( talk ) 03:49, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Precious again
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Thank you for your efforts to keep articles, such as, for your love of libraries, for sharing resources, and for your thoughts on elucidating, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (25 April 2009, 25 June 2009)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:54, 12 April 2013 (UTC) A year ago, you were the 453 recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:40, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

A beer for you!

 * Ditto! --EEMIV (talk) 18:31, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!
thanks; but which?  DGG ( talk ) 22:52, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
For all the abuse you are getting at AfD.

Bearian (talk) 20:46, 4 August 2015 (UTC) <br style="clear: both;"/>


 * For the last year or two I have been deliberately trying to stretch deletion process a little in both directions, to see if consensus is changing. To keep things responsive, somebody's got to, and better me than someone with a coi.  DGG ( talk ) 22:18, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Has this account been compromised ?
Evidence: You just agreed with me. This is unprecendented. Please relinquish control of this account to the real DGG immediately. Someguy1221 00:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * if you'll look at my deletion log, you'll see my dark side shows itself itself every day, generally when I start editing. After I get that expressed, I go on in the way you normally think of me. DGG (talk) 01:14, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Not only did he agree with me earlier today, he even voted 'Delete' on an AfD (admittedly on one of Billy's articles, but even so...). I agree this pattern of events is most peculiar and warrants a full investigation.<font face="Trebuchet MS"> — <font color="#E45E05">iride <font color="#C1118C">scent  01:20, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

WP:AN post about you
Sorry on behalf of all involved for not notifying you, that was a terrible oversight on all of our parts. If it helps, the conversation, as you likely read, focused not on you but rather on Zscout's block of the editor(vandal?) who complained about you. Good luck with your vandals...--CastAStone//(talk) 17:01, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry I missed this as I was out of town and off line. Bearian (talk) 20:39, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Ha
Ever been accused of being a deletionist before?-- Kubigula (talk) 06:15, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * See . And once or twice before. Makes my day each time, as the saying goes. DGG (talk) 06:17, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * "Hive mentality"? That's a good one. I'll have to remember that. 0:) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 06:47, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

That is priceless. Both the accusation and the phrase. You must be doing something right, David. Thanks Kubigula, that made my day also. — Becksguy (talk) 01:57, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Namecheck
Don't know if you've already been alerted to this? Go and search the text for DGG. Kudos! <font face="century gothic" color="#0E6E2D">Kim Dent-Brown  <font face="century gothic" size="1" color="#0E6E2D">(Talk)  17:52, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

You are famous
(Kim Dent-Brown mentioned this above, a little cryptically, on 29 February 2008)

See here, if you have not seen it already.--Filll (talk) 23:56, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Nice ! --Hu12 (talk) 00:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No fair! I want my own newspaper article mention. :-) Carcharoth (talk) 00:59, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Just vandalize the Signpost.--Father Goose (talk) 10:40, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations
You were mentioned in a book review here Congratulations on it and id like to give you a barnstar but i belive you are the first editor to recive the honor of being in a book review. so id like you to make one........ get back to work now Rankun (talk) 22:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

I hope you don't let all this fame go to your head DGG :) --Pixelface (talk) 08:20, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Fame
seen your NY Book Review usernamecheck? Near the bottom. Johnbod (talk) 18:08, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Old news I see! Why are they online a three weerks before the publication date, i wonder? Better than another barnstar anyway. I'm incredibly patient too, & hope to see something on the Master of the Playing Cards one day! Johnbod (talk) 20:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

You've been invoked
In the New York Review of Books, no less: Nicholson Baker mentions you as a "patient librarian". Cheers! Her Pegship <small style="color:green;"> (tis herself) 03:48, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Funny that among librarians I am considered to have a noticeable lack of patience -- guess it depends on the surrounding environment. (smile) DGG (talk) 03:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

"Webisodes" and the like
Nice to see we can occasionally agree on something! -- Orange Mike  |   Talk  17:33, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Challenge Award - fame at last?
Have you seen the mention you got in WikiProject History of Science/Newsletter/May 2008? :-) Carcharoth (talk) 23:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I was just about to mention this. Thanks for starting Gunther Stent!--ragesoss (talk) 00:00, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Since he was my advisor, I sort of felt guiltt not having done it.DGG (talk) 00:33, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Shameless theft
Hi I have quoted you on my user page. It is attributed, but please remove it if you'd rather it were not there. pablo <sub style="background-color: #ffc; color: #c30;">hablo. 15:31, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * thanks for noticing it ! DGG (talk) 17:14, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

It's been there a while, I've only just got round to confessing! It just seemed to succinctly sum up a way forward away from all the

"Well you would say that because you want to delete everything" "Inclusionist!" "Deletonist!"
 * "You have no standards"

rubbish that forms so much of too many talk pages. Mind you, I won't be arguing in favour of articles about 10lb hammer's toes, left, right or hammer any time soon. pablo <sub style="background-color: #ffc; color: #c30;">hablo. 19:34, 21 May 2009 (UTC) (with respect to: "Until we have AI, we need to use ours —DGG, discussing how to use Google intelligently")

Appreciation
Just a note of gratitude for the fine work you do, as exemplified in your post at WP:EL#Shmoop, and many many elsewheres. You deserve a herd of barnstars, and much emulation. Thanks, repeatedly. -- Quiddity (talk) 06:43, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Superiority Complex?
Instead of going around Wp tagging pages as "may be not notable" in some sort of superior way, why not put some effort in and improve the articles yourself? Albatross2147 (talk) 02:01, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * there are 2000 articles a day submitted to Wikipedia. About 1/2 are  totally unacceptable. Of the other 1/2, probably about 200 need major improvements. I try to fix up one or two a day.  "may not be notable" means that someone has some reason to doubt it. I will add such a tag if, for example, another editor has placed a tag for deletion as hopelessly non-notable, and I don't think its quite as bad as that. But what article or discussion are you referring to--we usually don't work in the same areas, so I'm a little puzzled?  DGG (talk) 02:25, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * AH-HA!!! You're obviously one of them-there evialllllll deletionists, DGG! -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  21:36, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * And see above, the section "Ha." That's why I haven't archived this: I want to display my credentials. DGG (talk) 21:46, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

YouR my hero
I am so impressed with your work on wikipedia. Your thoughtful contributions have been showing up everywhere. The way you carry yourself in conversations is inspiring. It is no wonder that Colonel Warden recently called you a "model of intelligent and discriminating inclusionism...quite influential in forming policy". Thank you. travb (talk) 01:28, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Extinct editors
this must be one of the funniest AfD comments I ever came across! Owen&times; &#9742;  16:35, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Too long, but you read it anyway
Thank you for your very courteous comment of support at WP:RFC/PAID. It's extremely reassuring to find that somebody actually spent the time to read through the "tldr" section, cogitated upon it, and found it worthy of comment (and indeed praise, though for the time I invested in writing it, I would have been pleased even to receive a criticism!). Rather like you, I'm a reasonable person with a studiously considered (but hopefully open-minded) approach to Wikipedia; unfortunately I'm not so good at expressing that approach concisely! I've long admired your tactful and intelligent contributions, so your words were especially appreciated. Regards, TheGrappler (talk) 00:13, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
I want to thank you. In the past week, several people had an opportunity to show the true content of their character. Your conduct was an inspiration. When several others were loosing their heads, you conducted yourself with the highest standard of integrity and dignity.Dave (talk) 03:25, 11 July 2009 (UTC) P.S. I'm well aware that among the chaos were some legitimate issues. Rest assured I will do my best to fix them.

Kudos
I just wanted to compliment you on your tact. Good form! — Ched : <font style="color:#FFFFFF;background:#0000fa;"> ? 02:09, 14 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Okay, and glad it is already resolved. Best, --A NobodyMy talk 05:51, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

You probably know about it
But in case you don't: last "briefly" mention here: Wikipedia Signpost/2009-10-26/In the news. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:23, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Well done
Well stated (and reasoned). //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 00:44, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
I created resource room, and appreciate your help in making sure it wasn't deleted by a newbie who seems to be trigger happy (a self-described "deletionist"). Also, I did read your note on the fact that it needs to be expanded, but I am new to this, and want to make sure it is done right. Just when I lose my faith in this site, a person like you comes and makes sure good articles stay!

Jim Steele (talk) 19:18, 25 November 2009 (UTC)


 * It is messages like your's that help me keep my own faith that my work here is worth the effort it takes.   DGG ( talk ) 20:15, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

A note
Hi David. I haven't had many occasions to interact with you of late, but I wanted to express my appreciation for your good work on the encyclopedia. Take care and enjoy your holidays. ChildofMidnight (talk) 21:52, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
Happy New Year David. I've been reminded of your outstanding contributions to the encyclopedia building effort over the last few days in coming across several of your insightful comments. Thank you very much for your good works. I hope you have a very healthy and happy 2010 ...and beyond. If you're able to go easy on the doughnuts and bacon, (and stay out of the political tussles) I'm sure you'll be fine! :) ChildofMidnight (talk) 18:30, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Appreciation
Thanks for your fantastic contributions. I'm truly impressed by your remarkable stamina. You are a great source of inspiration, I'm unlikely to be the only person thinking so. Power.corrupts (talk) 23:27, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
Great comments. I am so proud to know you and to be your friend. Bearian (talk) 02:50, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

t at the afd. There's also WP:WikiProject Libraries.  DGG ( talk ) 16:42, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Just a small note
Just spent a better part of an hour reading and scanning your user page, I applaud your Honesty, Sincerity, Insight and your Intelligence. I think if there were "required reading" for new editors on WP, your user page would be it. Thank You for your inspiration Mlpearc (talk) 17:51, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * No Sir just wanted to let you know how I felt after reading your page. Again Thanx 71.254.135.106 (talk) 23:16, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry Sir I left the aboved message without realizing I was not logged in, Sorry Mlpearc (talk) 23:24, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

BLP mess
DGG, Thank you for your kind thoughts and encouragement. Maurreen (talk) 04:08, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

About: your eloquent summary of what does and does not improves this project
Hi DGG, or if I may be so bold, David,

You wrote at WP:AN/I Archive691: There is more than one valid way of working here. Some people prefer to create only high quality articles, even though they may do very few of them. Some prefer to create many verifiable articles of clear notability even though they may not be of initially high quality. As this is a communal project, I think every individual person is fully entitled to do whichever they prefer, and the thing to do about people who prefer otherwise than oneself is to let them work their way, while you work yours. The only choice which is not productive is to argue about how to do it, rather than going ahead in the way that one finds suitable. Many editors include a statement about their attitudes to editing on their user pages. I am not one of them, that is until I came across what you wrote. I would really like to include this on my user page. While I can add anything at all I like to my user page subject to WP:USER PAGE, I nevertheless ask for your permission to add the quote. OK with you? I'm fine if you decline this.

--Shirt58 (talk) 12:37, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Of course.   DGG ( talk ) 21:04, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

"What DGG says"
David, that was great. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 20:03, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help about "How to do it and avoid deletions"
Blueena (talk) 04:58, 4 January 2014 (UTC)Though most of the articles I've created are being proposed for deletion, it's really happy to receive your message about "how to do it and avoid deletions". The message includes many detailed suggestions and I believe it must have taken you a lot time. Once again, many thanks!

Thank you
Thank you for the effort you put into the close at WT:MOS. There were a lot of words to read and to write. Keep up the good work. SchreiberBike talk 03:57, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Indeed. It was a sprawling debate that'd been going on in multiple forums for so long it's hard to get a complete sense of it without a lot of reading. Thanks for putting in the time and thinking it through.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  04:00, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Hear, hear! A very generous donation of time to get your mind round a long-long-long meandering debate with loads of distractions, and very brave to tackle one where people feel so strongly. I think you did an excellent job. --Stfg (talk) 10:14, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Right, you're off my Xmas card li- As much as I hate the result, I appreciate with the time and effort put in to possibly one of the most detailed closing rationales I have read. Despite apparent appearances to the contrary, I do support the idea of a global Manual of Style and conformity and am content to abide by the decision. Agree with the idea of some sort of bot to enact this. Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:28, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I would have preferred a different outcome, but your arguments were really well-done and respectful to all positions. Kudos for you. --Enric Naval (talk) 11:26, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

A very most excellent example of gentle mop-wielding, though I am sure that some members of the species Gallus domesticus minoris will consider that the end of the Wikipedia is nigh. Guy (Help!) 19:41, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you, DGG. You've put a very contentious issue to rest, and probably for good. As ever, I'm flattered when people think I'm you. --BDD (talk) 16:16, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Ditto, I just wanted to thank you as well although I followed the discussion from a distance (I think it had more than enough active participants). Admins can get a lot of flack but when one takes on settling such a sprawling debate, knowing that no matter what one decides, there will be some very unhappy editors, I can only say thanks. And providing such a thoughtful rationale (rather than a sentence-long decision), is admirable and helps the decision "stick"...ambiguity would have only resulted in further challenges to your decision. Instead, if individuals do want to overturn this decision, they know that the burden of providing evidence resides with those wishing to change the status quo, and there has to be a substantial case to do so. Liz  <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 19:14, 2 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I am hoping that you won't need to clarify that the consensus finding doesn't only apply to birds, but you might; there's a (smaller and quieter) camp who want to always capitalize moths/butterflies and dragonflies, and another in favor of doing the same with common names of British (and I think Australian) plants. The debate may have focused on birds, but that focus should be scene as license to capitalize non-bird species common names.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  08:39, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Well Written

 * Thanks for the strong and well written argument on Kovesdy discussion. --S.Buntout123 (talk) 04:28, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

RFA
Many thanks! GiantSnowman 20:18, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!
For cleaning up City University of Seattle! Your editing expertise is much appreciated and respected by this lowly Huggle jockey. Cheers! Jim1138 (talk) 00:12, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I have just begun.  DGG ( talk ) 03:43, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

"What DGG says"
David, that was great. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 20:03, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you
It is good to know that my efforts have been noticed... particularly by a user who, when I see his user names on edits and efforts, I have come to simply assume that something necessary was being done properly. --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:43, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Your ANI comment
"the problem will settle itself": that's the kind of thing my father used to say. I don't know how often he was right about that, but given that today is the third anniversary of his death I find those words extra striking. So often your comments are like oil on turbulent water, DGG: keep it up, in good health. Drmies (talk) 05:42, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Hey!
Hi, David, It was a pleasure to meet you, face-to-face, and hear your presentation. Are your slides posted on the Wikiconference page? I'm really interested in the stats you shared about the state of AfC in 2007 vs. 2013. I think it's so important to be aware of the changes occurring on Wikipedia as it evolves over time in order to gain an accurate long-term view of where things are headed. Thanks again! Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 22:03, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you
I just saw a note that you contested the prod of the Talk:Capt. William Bull Tavern. I thank you for that! I've been going about researching different properties and making a bunch of Good Articles in the process, bringing all that I am able to find with my research to bear on these types of articles. It may be small now, but I'll likely have it at Good Article Nominations before too long. Thanks for halting the deletion of a notable and (very much historic) property, I probably would not have been able to recreate it easily if not for your action. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 21:56, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

general

 * You,  DGG, are incomparable. I have seen the range and depth of issues that you contend with, everything from Wikipedia-as-performance-art-NOT, to reining in the young lady who was using Wikipedia to write her autobiography, viz. What Wikipedia is not: Facebook!!! I agree, by the way, regarding those wretched professors who assign their students to vandalize Wikipedia as part of a university-level course. I read one such account, maybe THE canonical account, as I hope there are not multiple instances of professors doing such things, in the Chronicle of Higher Education the other day. You know Magnus. the extraordinary toolserver contributor by way of German Wikipedia, correct? He is of sufficient stature as a scientist that he got his own BLP article, although his countrymen on German Wikipedia deleted it as "not notable"; the temerity of them! It wasn't as though he wrote it himself. Anyway, I noticed on his talk page, that someone was writing some pseudo-science crud article about a ladies food and health book. Remember, I am a lady, so I can say these things. Magnus has a PhD in biochemistry. So, in this message, the WP editor wanted to use a copyrighted image about the ladies food book's author, from Flickr. She asked Magnus to make the account holder on Flickr re-license the image so that she (the WP editor) could use it in her article here on WP! Can you believe that? I mention this because I noticed your civil and courteous response to the young lady's edict to you, "not to mess up" her autobiographical page about her poems. Sigh! You need the "Patience of a Saint" Barnstar. Magnus probably does too. I am so happy I ran across you, and selected others, here on WP! I wish we could all meet one day, you and Andreas and the kindly man who owns pigs and lives in Thailand, and Snowy Susan (whom I've missed), and the good CPA From L.A. and my new acquaintance, the hillbilly, and a few others that I have since triangulated with on the Twitter. We would talk and tell stories of our Wikipedia adventures and laugh and... I will stop now. Again, thank you so much, for all that you do. I wish I could too. --FeralOink (talk) 14:44, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Charleston Conference
David, I'm currently attending my first Charleston Conference. Nearly everyone I talk to here about Wikipedia mentions you. Chuck Hamaker sends his regards. Best, The Interior  (Talk) 23:04, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

You just saved a WP editor
Helsinki_County_Prison. Had already given up on Wikipedia... 88.112.32.173 (talk) 06:42, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Request for guidance

 * Dear Sir, I cannot tell you how happy I am feeling by directly communicating with you. You definitely posses more understanding about WP, its policies and about editing. I will surely take your guidance as there will be need. Till this time in my editing history, I have not met any one who takes pain to explain things in so much of detail. In this whole painful process, I am happy that I got to know a person like you, from whom I can request for guidance if I am stuck up somewhere or if I think that I will get stuck up in future about that particular thing. One thing I got to know while dealing with deletion process is - if there is deletion discussion, or deletion of an article, there is no point in fighting over it at that time. If the article is really notable, someone will propose it sooner or later and the process will take care of itself. Trying to defend a particular article much aggressively is not advised, I would say. Also there is no point in trying to recreate it by the same person again. I will read more of your work and your discussions to find more guidance and will consult you as needed. Thanks a lot once again for you time to explain things in so much detail. -- Dr.Abhijeet Safai (talk) 07:30, 10 October 2017 (UTC)