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Peacemaker67
So Ed, what's a "con-nominator support"? Is that mean you're anti-nominator? Your co(n)-nominator decided that cloning your vote was an outstanding idea. --Bbb23 (talk) 01:53, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I blame Ed entirely for my obvious incompetence here. I've fixed his mistake ;) (and thanks!) Nick-D (talk) 02:03, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
 * You weren't supposed to fix it. I liked it the way it was: different. BTW, I would have said "co-nominator support" rather than "co-nomination support", but that's just personal preference. Cheers.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:13, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Look Nick, if I jumped off a bridge, would you follow? No? Then don't blame me. ;-) Good eye, Bbb! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:22, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * How old are you, Ed? You sound like my dad. Parsecboy (talk) 20:07, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Your dad sounds like a cool guy. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Hehe, clever answer. I doubt I would've thought of it.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:28, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, he's a pretty cool guy, Ed. Tell me, when you walked to school, was it uphill both ways, with naught but a pair of hard boiled eggs (the entirety of your lunch) to keep your hands warm? Parsecboy (talk) 00:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Also snow. Never forget the snow. Plus wind chill. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:37, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Well yeah, you Yooper, that's a given. Parsecboy (talk) 00:48, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * So if you're tallying, uphill both ways, hand warmers (sorry, pops, we upgraded from hardboiled eggs awhile ago), snow, and wind. Still better than Ohio. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:55, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Tell that to Harbaugh. Do they even have football in that snow-blasted hellscape up there? Parsecboy (talk) 01:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * YES. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Hard boiled eggs??? Inasmuch as Ed is being coy about his age, how old are you, or, if you prefer, how old is your father? (I had to look up yooper.)--Bbb23 (talk) 00:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm 30 years young - Ed is, I believe, 14. Parsecboy (talk) 01:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah, the truth is out. You are Ed's father. Couldn't you at least have waited until you were 18?--Bbb23 (talk) 01:54, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh dear god, don't say something like that. The horror. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Thanks for your help with our editathon tonight!

Heathart (talk) 04:45, 5 February 2016 (UTC) 
 * Any time! I hope everything else went well! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:13, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * You're quite welcome, Peace. Use them well! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:21, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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Seeking your assistance
Hi, I'm seeking your assistance with the article Kitchen cabinet -- there's a user who keeps inserting Swedish WP:REFSPAM in this article such as here and here and I'm not an administrator; could you please help?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 13:49, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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 *  Come off it mate, it was like 3am. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:11, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't care about your excuses, I care about results :P Parsecboy (talk) 18:04, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

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Signpost tag aliases
Hi there. :) I noticed you updating a few tags in Module:Signpost/index/2014 from "lila" to "lilatretikov". In cases like these, it might be easier to add a tag alias. I have done so for you here, so now any pages tagged with either "lila" or "tretikov" will be treated as actually being tagged with "lilatretikov". (This works for both Module:Signpost itself and for the tagger gadget.) There's a bit of documentation for this system on the gadget's doc page, but it can probably be improved - let me know if anything there is unclear. Best — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 03:22, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I was concerned that another Lila might come along in a couple years—I thought specificity was a better long-term solution. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:08, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
 * That's very true! Good thinking, that. If another Lila comes along we can always re-purpose the alias, but changing it now is better. If you can think of other aliases please do add them to Module:Signpost/aliases, by the way - they will be helpful both for other taggers and for people using the module. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 09:03, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Will do! Thanks again for building all of that infrastructure. It's really cool and is going to help a lot of people someday when they're trying to look into Wikipedia's history. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:40, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXIX, February 2016
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