User:Princess Janay/Department of Conversations



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April 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to Wikipedia. However, please know that editors do not own articles and should respect the work of their fellow contributors. If you create or edit an article, know that others are free to change its content. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Beeblbrox (talk) 18:35, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

''thanks. the complaining stops here. no complaints below this line! :-)''


 * You might want to check out this google search to help you research and write your article: . There are dozens of reviews here.  I would try to pick and choose the 2-3 most reliable (those that come from reliable sources such as well respected magazines, newspapers, or journals), and cite them in your article.  Also, be sure to give a neutral overview of the device.  It looks like you are on the right track on this, and try to avoid original research, such as providing your own opinions on the pen.  If you need ANY more help with this, drop another note at my talk page.  --Jayron32| talk | contribs  17:06, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Help with your userpage
You look interested in pretifying your user page. This may be helpful to you: --Jayron32. talk . contribs  22:02, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Leaving messages
By the way, thanks for helping out with New Page patrolling. Your work is very much appreciated. However, a few tips: We are SO glad you are helping out with Wikipedia, and your work is greatly appreciated... --Jayron32. talk . contribs 22:02, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Be certain you leave the messages for users at their User Talk: page NOT at their User: page. Its an easy mistake to make for someone new to the project, but messages like you have been leaving rightly belong on the User Talk page...
 * Don't use UserBoxes in your signature, like the one you have been leaving referring to yourself as a New Page Patroller. The NPP is a VERY unofficial organization, and to represent yourself as a member of the group in your talk page comments implies that your comments carry some official weight.  They don't... Userboxes properly belong only on YOUR userpage... See WP:SIG for more information.
 * No problem. Thanks for coming to Wikipedia. --Jayron32. talk . contribs  19:19, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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:-)
As you said on my talk page - HI. If your new and want help with anything ask me. I've been around wiki for a while. Dixonsej (talk) 16:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Cure
Hi. You mentioned at the Award Center that you were writing a Cure article. Please copy what you have done so far to User:Princess Janay/Drafts/Cure. I'd really love to take a look at it. Cheers. The Transhumanist 23:48, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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I have responded to your remarks on my talk page
Beeblbrox (talk) 18:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Princess Janay
Princess Janay, a page you created, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Princess Janay and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Princess Janay during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.  weburiedoursecrets inthegarden  19:02, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey there Princess Janay, no worries, you made an honest mistake. I've moved this page to be found now at User:Princess Janay/Userboxes.  You can edit, change, and do whatever you'd like to it.  Soon, the page that starts with "Wikipedia:" will be deleted.  Thanks for your editing, sorry if we came off a bit harsh here.  Keeper   |  76   |   Disclaimer  19:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem, we've all had bad days. Glad you're here.  You can ask any questions you want on my talkpage, it's always open!  Keeper   |  76   |   Disclaimer  19:16, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Terribly sorry, Janay, didn't mean to come across blunt or bitey. You can find information on userspaces here.  Apologies.  You can ask me anything too, if Keeper's not here.  Regards,  weburiedoursecrets  inthegarden  19:32, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Cure (medical)
I've reverted cure (medical) to one of your edits. Then I did some copy-editing to bring it into line with Manual of Style. In particular, there were too many capital letters in section headings and the title word was not set in bold at its first appearance. I added a link to cure (medical) on the cure disambiguation page. It would be a good idea for you to find other pages that ought to link to it and put the links there. Among other things, that will help bring the page to the attention of others interested in the topic so that they can also contribute to it.

Notice that if you click on "history" you see the page's edit history, and that identifies you as the initial creator of the page. That's the proper place for such identification; it should not be within the article itself. Michael Hardy (talk) 19:09, 4 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I've moved the disambiguation page to Cure (disambiguation), and have merged Cure (medical) with Cure. Medical cure is the main context of "cure" and what people are most likely to be looking for when they type "cure" in the search box.  The article still needs work, but it is a good start.  Please see WP:CITE and Template:Citation for instructions on how to handle references.  The Transhumanist  20:13, 4 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I copy-edited the whole article, but Michael Hardy deleted the page to move the original page which you wrote to cure, then added my edits back in here, but it looks like he wrote it all. I'm just letting you know that I did the copy-editing there.  For more info, see the thread at User talk:Michael Hardy.  The Transhumanist  21:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I've added a task list to Talk:Cure. All you need to do for your barnstar is fix the references to inline citations.  ;) The Transhumanist  21:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

It's cool
Hey. I hope you don't feel you are being ganged up on or anything here. That is certainly not my intention. It is clear you are contributing in good faith and I would encourage you to continue to do so. It seems you had a lot of problems all at once, but if you learn from them, and apply what you have learned, both Wikipedia and yourself have benefited from the experience. I have found that the best, most concise guide to what Wikipedia is and how it works is the five pillars, I know understanding it has helped me quite a bit in my short time here. Good Luck and don't let it get you down. Beeblbrox (talk) 21:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Princess
Someone mentioned that you wrote a message in all caps. That really got me in trouble once, because in this type-written medium it is considered yelling. It took me awhile to realize just how seriously people take Netiquette and the quirky common courtesies that have evolved in this virtual in-print universe we call the Internet. Wikipedia even has some polite customs of its own - see Etiquette - such as filling in edit summaries.

I noticed you mentioned that you are interested in becoming an admin one of these days. I'm impressed. Keep in mind that nobody who fails to use edit summaries makes it through RfA ("Requests for adminship"), as that is seen as an indicator of inexperience and immaturity (lack of regard for others) - many editors, especially admins, carefully analyze every edit made to articles, and edit summaries help them immensely to understand what is going on without having to go in and view the diffs of every single one.

Following Wikipedia's Five Pillars and being civil at all times (like refraining from yelling) is the hallmark of a good candidate for RfA.

Another link you might find helpful is Staying cool when the editing gets hot.

Don't worry about it too much - there's a lot to learn - initial stumblings are disregarded once a user has learned the ropes and has been wikified. :) But whatever you do, don't go for RfA until you've racked up a few thousand edits, and have conferred with an experienced Wikipedian first.  The most common mistake at RfA is bad timing (premature nomination).

Is your head spinning yet? :) Welcome to Wikipedia!  The Transhumanist  15:25, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Learning the ropes
I wrote a lesson called Learning the ropes to help people get up to speed here on Wikipedia. Please let me know if you find it useful.

The Transhumanist 15:42, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi there
Hi there, I was browsing contributions and was intrigued by your username. I'm impressed by your dedication and if I can help with any science stuff you come across (eg is this vandalism? is this a hoax article?) please drop me a note on my talkpage. All the best Tim Vickers (talk) 01:46, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Holy ####, you're 12?!
I am very happy to see people add material on fungi to wikipedia. Welcome. There are a bunch of us around who edit alot of biology articles. If you have any questions, drop me a line. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:12, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

As a note of caution, on Wikipedia, just as in real life, not everybody has good intentions. If anybody starts being creepy towards you, asks for personal details such as your phone number or address, or invites you to meet them in real life, please notify an administrator at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. I don't want to come across as overprotective, but there is a chance that putting your age on your userpage might attract the wrong type of people. Anyway, all the best Tim Vickers (talk) 18:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

VMK
Hi, some IP user deleted the article "just for fun", this happens often and is called vandalism. There is no need to re-write the entire article, just click on "undo" and revert it to a previous version. Valerius Myotis (talk) 22:04, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh. I didn't know that.--Listen to your Princess, dear Wikipedians. (talk) 22:05, 6 April 2008 (UTC)


 * If you look at the "History" section all the edits to an article are preserved. Nothing can be deleted by normal users. Tim Vickers (talk) 16:03, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

399 to go
We are almost done, Category:Articles lacking sources from June 2006 is down to less the 400 articles to find references for. I would like to thank you for listing yourself as a volunteer at Unreferenced articles and would like to take this opportunity to invite you to visit the project again and work on getting the last few articles referenced. We started with 5,572 and we are in the home stretch, please come and try to do a couple a day and we can finish it up in no time. Jeepday (talk) 02:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Good day your Highness
hello i'm new here I was just suggesting an idea for a Wikiproject when i saw your name. it's an honor your Highness ~bows~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.244.187.222 (talk) 03:59, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

K12 Inc.
The key to writing about commercial companies is to avoid any appearance of promoting their products or services and include lots of third-party sources. Try Google news and Google scholar for references. Also avoid using "puff words" ie instead of writing "They provide excellent computer services that enable schools to maximise their achievements." just say "They provide computer services to schools". Tim Vickers (talk) 15:54, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * See Coleman Company as a reasonable example. Tim Vickers (talk) 15:58, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Heh figures
ifgures you were right miss i didnt even notice thanks heh as always a pleasure your highness ~bows~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tnu1138 (talk • contribs) 16:14, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

"Hi" to Her Highness ;)
Hi Princess Janay!

I noticed your nice exchange of letters with my friend Tim; he's great, isn't he? He's always been really helpful and good-natured to me, and I count him as one of my best friends here. :)

I hope you have a very happy time here at Wikipedia! It's a wonderful place, and there are many more wonderful editors to get to know. There may be a few ups and downs, and ornery people now and then, but I hope your royal dignity and serenity will carry you through. Today is my 2nd wiki-birthday, and I haven't regretted a moment. If I can help make your time here a little more cheery now and then, please write and let me know. I've worn the crown, too, but I think it suits you much better. ;) Your signature is excellent! :D

Kindly Willow (talk) 18:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Egyptology
I've archived your proposal as there is already one here. I like your name better though, propose it there if you wish. +Hexagon1 (t) 02:59, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Userpage
Maybe a little help on mine, please? KC109.
 * Hey, I'd really like a red border around the page and my userboxen (there's a lot of them) in a drop down section. Thanks.  K C  109  01:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC).

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Spelling bee project
I think you probably meant to put this in the Wikipedia namespace, so I've moved it to WikiProject National Spelling Bee. NawlinWiki (talk) 21:50, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

New Focus at Unreferenced articles
The huge set of unreferenced articles from June of 2006 is finally completed. Thank you for your contributions. The new focus at Unreferenced articles is Category:Articles lacking sources from July 2006 which as of May 28 is only 1,322 articles and should go much quicker. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and listed themselves as a volunteer. Jeepday (talk) 12:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

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VFK
The article wasn't speedied initially; it was deleted after an AFD discussion, and speedied a few times after that under G4 as recreated material. So the qualifications on CSD don't really apply here. If you want to create an article on VFK, you need to review the afd and find out if you can address the concerns that were raised there. If I remember correctly, the primary problem was that the article did not pass WP:WEB. There has been no substantial press coverage on the article, and thus there are no reliable sources. If you feel you can prove that the article now does pass wp:web, and can supply reliable sources for the article, you'll need to file a deletion review and make your case there. -- Vary | Talk 17:15, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi. I've deleted the VFK article again.  I know we talked about sources before, but the one you used was already present in the article at the time of the afd, and it wasn't found to be enough to help the game pass the criteria in WP:WEB.  Those are:
 * The content itself (in this case, VFK, and not anything else related to it, like the company that makes it or the game it was based on) has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself.
 * This criterion includes reliable published works in all forms, such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, television documentaries, websites, and published reports by consumer watchdog organizations except for the following:
 * Media re-prints of press releases and advertising for the content or site.
 * Trivial coverage, such as (1) newspaper articles that simply report the Internet address, (2) newspaper articles that simply report the times at which such content is updated or made available, (3) a brief summary of the nature of the content or the publication of Internet addresses and site or (4) content descriptions in Internet directories or online stores.
 * The website or content has won a well-known and independent award from either a publication or organization.
 * The content is distributed via a medium which is both respected and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster; except for:
 * Trivial distribution such as hosting content on entertainment-like sites (GeoCities, Newgrounds, personal blogs, etc.)
 * If you think the game meets any one of these three critera, or if it meets one of them later on, then you can try filing for a review of the previous decision to delete the article. Other than that, right now we can't have a Wikipedia on VFK.  Sorry, but I hope you understand. -- Vary  Talk 01:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Of course I read the article before I deleted it! I know you've done a lot of work on it, but honestly, the only thing you can do is look for some more sources, or wait for people to start taking notice of VFK and writing news stories about it or give it a major award.  Moonriddengirl's given you some good pointers below.  Good luck! -- Vary  Talk 02:26, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Just a heads up
I thought you might like to know that the Awards Center page has been deleted, along with its newsletter. :(

So, where do we go from here?

To new and even more interesting projects, of course!

As announced in the newsletter, I've been preparing to co-coordinate a large collaboration/competition called Around the World. It was going to be run at the Awards Center, but since that no longer exists, the collaboration will be hosted somewhere else.

Around the World will begin July 15th as planned - it's location will be announced soon.

It'll be a blast. In the competition, participants will be helping to develop over 200 pages (drafts, which will be moved to article space once they are ready), using advanced tools to edit every single one of them!

This is going to be interesting.

And the event shall have awards which are being created specifically for it as we speak!

If you would like me to keep you informed of this and other interesting collaborations I'll be working on and/or organizing in the future, please drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll be happy to keep you in the know.

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

The Transhumanist 21:48, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I need your feedback...
Which of the following medals looks better. This one:



Or this one:



Which one do you like better?

Please let me know on my talk page.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:42, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

What is Around the World?
It's a collaboration!

A collaboration using advanced wiki-tools!

If everything goes according to plan, it will begin on July 15th.

The event is being co-sponsored by Wikiproject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia and perhaps beyond) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."

The set of pages we are working on is currently located at WikiProject Lists of basic topics.

Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of Wikipedia's contents system.

The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than getting stuck on a single country trying to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!

For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees. :) The energy is contagious.

And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.

The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.

For an example of what a nearly complete page looks like, see these:


 * List of basic Albania topics • List of basic Argentina topics • List of basic Australia topics • List of basic Canada topics • List of basic Ecuador topics • List of basic Egypt topics • List of basic France topics •  List of basic Germany topics •  List of basic Iceland topics •  List of basic India topics • List of basic Indonesia topics • List of basic Iraq topics • List of basic Republic of Ireland topics •  List of basic Italy topics • List of basic Isle of Man topics • List of basic Israel topics • List of basic Japan topics • List of basic Macau topics • List of basic Mexico topics • List of basic Russia topics • List of basic Taiwan topics •  List of basic United Kingdom topics •  List of basic United States topics

There are only about 200 more pages to go!

During the collaboration, co-coordinators will be standing by, to lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators will also be using advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.

Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.

The Transhumanist 08:55, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Virtual Family Kingdom
Do you have other sources for this? Currently, what you have is the same source that was in it during the AfD, here. If there are not additional reliable sources sufficient to overcome the consensus of that AfD, the article will be deleted again under criterion WP:CSD, and I'd hate to see you continuing to invest your time in it in that case. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:38, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You should probably go ahead and add your sources soon, then, as I know that the space is watched. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:42, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * What other sources do you have? The new one may not be helpful, I'm afraid, since the source is not independent of the site. The page says they're the company that created the world. We need independent reliable sources. If you have them, I'd be happy to help add them. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:48, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi. I noticed that it had been deleted again. I'm afraid that the only usable new source that you added was this one. As I said, the first source was already in the article, and the second one was by the company that made the game. If a website does not meet one of the other standards of WP:WEB (for instance, winning an award), it needs to have "been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself." Two is probably insufficient for that. If I were trying to re-establish an article on this subject, I'd be looking for a number of news stories that mention it. It still gets a lot of hits on google, but I didn't get anything that would help at google news I think you did well to find the one you did! Sometimes having a lot of google hits is a problem, because it makes it harder to find the reliable ones. Vary suggested above that you might take it to deletion review if you think you assemble enough sources to meet WP:WEB. That might be a good idea. If you get together a list of sources, it should be easy enough for contributors there to determine if the article should be restored. If I were doing it, I'd probably be looking for about five solid sources that aren't connected to the company. Obviously, the more the better, but with five I think you'd stand a good chance. Obviously, if you found a fantastic source, like a review in The New York Times, you'd be more likely to succeed with less. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:06, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

←(duplicating from my talk page; should have posted it here, to be sure you'd see it. :)) Yes, if there's substantial new evidence. Are you sure it was up for deletion review, though? I don't see it in the links at Special:WhatLinksHere/Virtual_Family_Kingdom or Special:WhatLinksHere/VFK. Perhaps you're thinking of the AfD? In case you aren't familiar with it, deletion review is a special process where contributors decide if a deletion debate was closed properly or "if significant new information has come to light since a deletion and the information in the deleted article would be useful to write a new article." It's also appropriate to use DRV when the article has been "salted", or protected against recreation. That space was protected, but the protection expired. Since multiple contributors have recreated this article, I've gone on ahead and reinstated the protection. This could make the deletion review process easier, as unless the space is salted contributors there may not wish to consider the matter and the creation-WP:CSD deletion cycle will continue. But, again, I wouldn't go to deletion review without some really good sources. Personally, I think it would be easier to have strong sources and have the article restored on the first try than to have to come back again later, after a first DRV has failed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:02, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

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 * It is not in your page.--OsamaKReply? on my talk page, please 14:33, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * C'mon! It will be kept. However, do you really want to use it in your user page? no one add such this image in hir user page, even with no comments. It's yours after all, but please help us cleaning Wikipedia.--OsamaKReply? on my talk page, please 17:41, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Status report on the Country outlines (Around the World) project
Penubag has been hard at work developing awards for this project. He has completed a very professional looking medal, and is almost done with a trophy that is truly awesome - both of these awards are visually stunning.

I and a few others have been working steadily on the country outlines - one for every country of the world! They're shaping up nicely. So far, 28 of them have been moved to article space - these aren't complete, but they are complete enough to be made available for readers to benefit from them. The rest of the set still includes temporary data that was generated by template (because it matched most but not all of the countries), and before the lists can be moved to article space, all the temporary data needs to be checked for accuracy, and if incorrect it needs to be replaced with correct information.

The effort on the lists has been on 3 fronts:
 * 1) Working on the lists in article space to complete them so they will be good examples for editors working on the rest of the set.
 * 2) Adding or correcting other data (fixing redlinks, filling in blanks, etc.).  The main type of work participants in "the contest" will be doing.  The reason we're doing this is to get a feel for it, to develop the fastest methods for each type of task, etc.
 * 3) Improving the overall design and implenting changes on all 247 pages, whether in article space or not.

There has been some opposition to us running the contest based on edit counts or iterations. The concern is that we should reward quality work and not quantity, for fear of crappy edits done quickly without thought. I pointed out that the collection of pages are drafts in the Wikipedia namespace (therefore posing no danger to article space) and that most of the work needs to be done with power tools like AWB and Linky (which are specifically designed for repetitive work), but the reply was that we shouldn't set the precedent of rewarding barnstars for numerically-based tasks, and implied the threat of continuously MfD'ing the contest if we attempted to do so (like they did with the Awards Center - I was very surprised and disappointed that participants didn't step up to defend it). So we need to be careful in determining what exactly the awards will represent, and how they will be awarded.

Since rewarding iterations (passes with AWB on all of the pages in the set) are out, we really don't need the globe in stand anymore. Two awards should suffice.

Once we get started with the contest, I'd like to kick the whole thing off with a round of medals for those dedicated few who have worked hard on the project so far.

What do you think of all of this?

Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.

The Transhumanist 23:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Userpage
The code for the blue border with rounded corners and the grey background is: ".


 * So, while a WikiProject works on a particular subject or problem continuously, it's "weekly collaboration" (sometimes they are monthly) would focus on their chosen article of the week (or month), bringing people together to improve that specific page.


 * To create a collaboration, simply set up a collaboration subpage for the sponsoring department or WikiProject, and then add a collaboration subheading on that department's main page with an explanation and a link to the subpage. You can also provide a template that users can display on their talk page which announces the latest article in the collaboration.  There are plenty of examples to model your collaboration idea after.


 * Here's a link you may find especially useful for obtaining copies of deleted pages so you can work on them:


 * Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles


 * Good luck.


 * And have fun!


 * The Transhumanist 22:10, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Deleted my picture?
The image was nominated for deletion and you were notified above but made no response to keep it, so the image was deleted. -Nv8200p talk 01:29, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The image has been restored. The only way an admin is going to know that you want to keep and use the image is to make your wishes known at the IFD discussion. -Regards, Nv8200p talk 02:02, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Want power?
See this: Linky tutorial

The Transhumanist 05:31, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Your talk page is amazing
Your talk page is HUGE!!!!!!!!!--What!?Why?Who? (talk) 22:43, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of WikiProject National Spelling Bee
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