User talk:AllanBz

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Smalltalk
Hi, I was told that you moved Smalltalk from "Academic" to "Industrial" in Template:Major programming languages small. Could you please explain your justification for this? &mdash;Sean &kappa;. &#x21D4; 16:36, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Co-redemptrix
Please see the comments at Talk:Five solas. --Flex 12:57, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cynicism
Finally someone who knows what Cynicism really is. Thanks. Str1977 08:33, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What is BJAODN ? Str1977 28 June 2005 18:53 (UTC)

Ok, done. Str1977 28 June 2005 19:43 (UTC)

You may be interested
You might be interested in this current vote: Votes for deletion/List of Roman Catholics -Doohickey

Your signature
You did not sign your comment/vote at Votes for deletion/List of Roman Catholics ( just add ~ to sign) NoSeptember  02:38, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Have you seen these?
Votes for deletion/List of Catholic Actresses and Actors and Votes for deletion/List of Catholic Criminals Doohickey 16:34, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Regine Velasquez
Just to let you know that Wikipedia style is to place punctuation outside quotation marks (unless the punctuation is part of what's being quoted), and that we use the serial comma. Also, the subjects of articles shouls be referred to by their surnames, not their first names. --Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 10:22, 13 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your response; my apologies for suggesting that you hadn't used commas correctly &mdash; you had of course. However, the placing of punctuation outside inverted commas does indeed apply to titles (even if they did imply full stops, which I don't think that they do, that wouldn't explain placing commas inside inverted commas). I agree, though, that your work on the article improved it immensely. --Mel Etitis  ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 23:18, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Novels
Hi thank you for joining the WikiProject. Being a small group currently there is still plenty of scope for influencing things and making your contribution count. We are about establishing standards for Novel based articles and writing articles that meet our own and others high standards, and to improve Wikipedia's diet of articles on Fiction books, otherwise called Novels. If you have any questions, do ask. Please be very welcome. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  09:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

John Kinnamos
Hi Allan,

I'm sorry to say I don't know for sure. But Iohannes Tzimiskes is listed under John I Tzimiskes, so I suppose John can stay. Thanks for fixing double-redirects - that was slack of me. Cheers, Slac speak up! 23:31, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation style
Thank you for your work on NUC. Unfortunately, disambiguation pages do not follow the same stylistic rules as normal pages.

Please see the disambiguation style guide for more information. If you have any questions not answered there,

or try the help desk. Matchups 12:33, January 26, 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I tried going through the history to figure out who had done what and I think I inadvertently attributed to you issues which had been introduced by subsequent editors. I will try to be more careful next time. I generally sign my posts and probably forgot because I had my handle in the body of the comment; I've corrected that omission above. Matchups 14:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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Byzantine literature
Yes it's the 2007 version and don't worry, I'm not using their text. I rewrote the meaning of their text in my own words. I can't see how this could be cited with greater precision. Btw I kept the sections of the catholic encyclopedia, eventhough I believe they should be removed. Miskin (talk) 15:54, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Novels - 1st Coordinators Election
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Calling all active WP:NOVELS members
 WikiProject Novels Roll Call WikiProject Novels is currently holding a roll call, which we hope to have annually. Your username is listed on the members list, but we are unsure as to which editors are still active within the project. If you still consider yourself an active WP:Novels editor, please add your name back to the Active Members list. Also feel free to join any of our task forces and take a look at the project's Job Centre to get involved!

Next month we will begin the coordinator election selection process. We hope to have more involvement and input this time around! More news will be forthcoming. Thanks, everyone! María ( habla con migo ) 14:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels Newsletter - September 2008
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Proposed deletion of Valesius
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Valesius, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Erik the Red  2    01:58, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Notability tag on Edward Catich page
Hi there! The Edward Catich page was not proposed for deletion. It seems this subject may indeed be notable, but that notability should be established through independent sources, not just through a bibliography of books written by the subject. I therefore tagged it as requiring more sources to establish its notability. Please see the guidelines on independent sources. You mention in your message on my talk page that search engines link to sources that verify this subject's notability. Those may include independent sources that the article could link to. Respectfully, --lightspeedchick (talk) 23:13, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

RTTS
You've done an edit or two on RTTS. It's been nominated for deletion, according to some twisting of WP policy. Could you weigh in on this? --141.160.5.251 (talk) 20:44, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello AllanBz! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created  are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the list:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 00:15, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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All I wanted to do was fix a prehistoric Shasta marine diapsid. Now I’m going through vandalized pages, fixing help pages, reading through templates. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! Gah! Someone is wrong on the Internet! &rarr; AllanBz &#9997; 20:34, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

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