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Hi Altercari, I am Jamie. I've just sent you an adoption offer. I am on Wikipedia the majority of the time, and am very familiar with this site. if you do decide to let me adopt you I'm sure I could be of great help.Dominoooo&#39;s (talk) 19:34, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Bells, thanks for your reply, in reply to you question I have been coming off and on for the past two years now. I don't claim to know everything about Wikipedia but I do know quite a bit, I'm quite willing to share what I do know with you. --Dominoooo&#39;s (talk) 19:54, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Duncan Pescod


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 * I've undeleted the article, removed all the copyright violations, and then redeleted those previous copyvio edits. I've also added the deletion review tag to the top of the page. Feel free to take this article back to deletion review. Best, --SouthernNights (talk) 19:22, 21 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I have done so. — A L T E R C A R I ✍ 03:21, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Duncan Pescod for deletion
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Deletion discussions
Hi Altercari: To answer your question, "Am I allowed to participate in the survey if I have recently edited?" that you posted at this deletion discussion: yes, you are allowed to contribute to deletion discussions regardless of whether or not you have worked on the article being discussed. North America1000 12:29, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for clarifying, ! —  A L T E R C A R I  ✍ 12:46, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. Happy editing, North America1000 12:48, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Regarding Diocese of Hong Kong Island
Thank you for making fruitful contributions to the article! As a reminder, I had made several changes to the article. If you have any queries about those changes, please feel free to drop messages on my talk page! — Phillip  Let's discuss it.  14:00, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Franzi
Hi! I'll admit I'm not totally pleased at – I've already spent a certain amount of time researching and cleaning up that page. Anyway, I'm interested to see how much of the new material remains when you've finished doing the same. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:17, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Your sig
Your sig is unreadable. Please fix it, per WP:SIGAPP. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:13, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * , what do you mean? Like you can't read the word? Or the hand icon? —  A L T E R C A R I  ✍ 15:27, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Both. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:27, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * The purpose of a signature is to identify and to link to user talk. Mine is extremely distinctive, and includes a link. If you want me to change it, please be specific with both what you want me to change and why, because your one word response didn't make it clear to me. Is it the colours? Do you want me not to use icons at all? Many others use icons in their signatures. But first, please consider if this conversation is worth the bother. It does not create a very welcoming environment. —  A L T E R C A R I  ✍ 04:13, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

RfC about opening sentences at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section
I thought about requesting closure of Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section. At first I thought one closer should suffice, but the mixture of opinions would make the discussion more complicated. Are you sure that one should suffice enough? --George Ho (talk) 20:11, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * , I'll leave the number of closers to your judgment, but why close so soon? Conversation is still quite active. —  A L T E R C A R I  ✍ 22:30, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry for being unclear. I'm not going to request closure yet. But thanks for letting me use my wisdom and judgment about this. I'll wait until 30 days are up. :) --George Ho (talk) 22:36, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, well sorry for misunderstanding! Have a great day! —  A L T E R C A R I  ✍ 01:02, 3 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Would you please consider withdrawing this RfC and working to frame a better one? There are much bigger issues here as I noted in my !vote here (it is really strange that User:Kaldari's op-ed didn't discuss the action the WMF reading team took to try to deal with the clutter, and the community's subsequent reactions), and people are !voting on the RfC based on the notion that the RfC proposes to actually delete content.   De-cluttering the lead is an entirely different issue from say removing IPA altogether, but people are making it about that, which is just... unfortunate.  Jytdog (talk) 20:59, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think this RfC was structured well enough to lead to any specific changes, but it was certainly useful for gathering ideas and opinions. I think the logical next step would be take some of the specific ideas from the RfC and create new, narrower RfCs about those specific ideas. For example:
 * Modifying Manual of Style/Lead section to encourage editors to put pronunciations in the infobox or a note, rather than in parentheses.
 * Modifying MOS:BLPLEAD to suggest using birth and death year instead of full birth and death date.
 * Adding new wording to WP:BEGIN to discourage clutter in the lead sentence and emphasize readability and context.
 * Let me know if you'd like any help on this. Kaldari (talk) 21:49, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * If closure is unnecessary, I have no objections to your withdrawal, like others suggested. Would that do? --George Ho (talk) 22:01, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * All: feel free to do whatever you like. I have a new job and never had any interest in Wikipedia bureaucracy anyway. Discussion is one thing, but this... —  A L T E R C A R I  ✍ 15:28, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
 * [[User:Altercari (pinging you in case you are not logged in and receive email notifications). I hear you that you don't care about bureaucracy but sometimes process - especially RfCs on issues with wide-ranging implications like this - are really important to building consensus, the bedrock of this place.  No one but you can withdraw the RfC.  If you want it withdrawn but don't know or don't have the time, please post at the RfC that you would like to withdraw it but don't know how or have the time or whatever - then someone else can do that for you.  If you don't withdraw it or do that, it will run its course and then be closed like normal.  Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 17:33, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Letter from Wikimedia User Group Hong Kong
Dear Altercari,

Thanks for your interest in our user group. We would like to invite you to an IRC channel or its Telegram counterpart for discussions on community matters, as you wish.

To obtain status as a Wikimedia User Group, we have to decide our name and our logo. Discussions on this matter is now undergoing on Meta. You're welcome to submit proposals for our name and logo. Feel free to voice your opinion on Meta or our chatroom on IRC / Telegram. We are looking forward to your reply.

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Letter from Wikimedia User Group Hong Kong
Dear Altercari,

Thank you for your interest in our user group. To obtain the status as a Wikimedia User Group, we have to make a decision on our name and logo. You are welcome to view three sets of names and two logo proposals that members of the user group have proposed over the past weeks, and vote for the best proposal, in your opinion, until Wednesday, 8 November 2017. (link) We look forward to your reply.

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Letter from Wikimedia User Group Hong Kong
Dear Altercari,

Thank you for your interest in our user group. To obtain the status as a Wikimedia User Group, we have to make a decision on our mission. A member of the user group put forward a motion to amend the provisional missions proposed in March 2017 since i) it is unable to reflect the user group’s actual operation and social situation and ii) it has never been endorsed by a majority of members of the user group. You are welcome to endorse or discuss on this motion on Meta (link.) We look forward to your reply.

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 * The consultation on the proposed amendments to the user group's mission will end on Sunday, 20th May. You are encouraged to comment on our meta page. As a reminder - two-third majority is require to have the motion passed. Regards, -- Spring Roll Conan ( Talk · Contributions ) 14:07, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The consultation on the proposed amendments to the user group's mission has ended. However, the results can't be confirmed instantly due to errors in my statement. You are welcome to comment on ways to deal with it on our meta page. Regards, -- Spring Roll Conan ( Talk · Contributions ) 14:30, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

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Letter from Wikimedia User Group Hong Kong
Dear Altercari,

Thank you for your interest in our user group. We have started the process to request for recognition of the WMF. However, the Affiliations Committee consider that our name is not following their guidelines and ask for renaming. A member of the user group put forward a motion to choose a new name for the group with three options provided. You are welcome to endorse or discuss this motion on Meta (link.) We look forward to your reply.

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Renaming of Wikimedia User Group Hong Kong
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Online Conference call for Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong in 2020
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North Bend, Oregon
You left this edit summary stating "NEEDS FIXING BC OF APP BUG". What app bug are you talking about? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 19:10, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

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