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Logan family
Hello BigPadresDUDE, I am going to revert your edits which unredirected Brooke Logan and Donna Logan from the page that they belong at. When Logan family was up for deletion, most of the keep "votes" suggested it was a good place to merge character articles that could not stand on their own. That's why I went through all the articles for the characters related to that family, looked them over and saw that not one of them contained anything with real world relevance (no Impact, Reception, Casting, Writing sections), then boldly redirected those articles to Logan family. I felt and still feel that the move was for the betterment of the soap opera articles in general. We soap opera editors already have a bad reputation here on Wikipedia, articles like the ones I redirected just compound that with their overly long plot summaries that are written in the past tense and with inuniverse perspective. All of the character's important storyline information (who their family is, who they marry, who they have children with, who their children are) is already mentioned in the Logan family, but the article has the benefit of not containing an overly long and detailed plot summary. To me, they were a perfect fit there and they can always be un-redirected when someone wants to expand the article.

If you do plan on expanding these articles, then here are some examples of soap opera articles which are at Featured article or Good article status: Pauline Fowler, EastEnders, and Dimitri Marick. Here also are some B-Class soap opera articles which, though they aren't at FA or GA status yet, do go beyond just plot summary and have extensive sourcing: Todd Manning, Bianca Montgomery, and Erica Kane. You should also read up on Soap Opera style guidelines, Manual of Style (writing about fiction)and Notability (fiction).

I hope you are going to expand these articles, but I am going to redirect them until they are restored with notability. See you around. Rocksey (talk) 04:42, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

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I know you've had a number of people jump on you about the edits for the SF/NY Giants. Given what was happening there, I had a look at your other contributions, and it looks to me like you're doing the same sort of thing all over the place. Maybe not every article, but a lot of them are looked after by different projects, like WP:BASEBALL for the Giants, Pete Rose - two you've tried to work on. I know you've said in some of the talk pages that you've looked at what others have said and tried to follow it, but its hard to accept that when there's been as much discussion as there has about the types of edits you've made. Fair enough, the Giants one may not have ben easy to spot if you didn't know about the WP:BASEBALL, but the Pete Rose one had an ongoing discussion about the exact change you made on the corresponding talk page, as well as in WP:BASEBALL.

I've got a couple of suggestions that will help make it easier for you, and less likely to have people angry at you: Hopefully I don't sound like too much of a nag or boring old fart, and hopefully I haven't scared you off from participating on here. Anyone who's willing to help out is always welcome in my opinion. New people joining are going to tend to make mistakes and step on people's toes without realising it. As long as you're willing to listen to advice, and to learn from the mistakes you make, you shouldn't have too much in the way of problems here.  Afaber012  (talk) 07:07, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) When you're writing on a talk page about anything, try to use the same spelling and punctuation that you would if you were writing the text of an article. (The odd mistake's fine, but it should be pretty close.) Writing in "ALL CAPS" is considered shouting, and fairly rude. Writing a paragraph worth of text all in lower case (with the exception of "shouting") and no periods or commas to break it up makes it difficult for others to read, and there's probably a tendancy for people trying to read it to either misunderstand you because they couldn't follow what you wrote properly, ignore what you wrote because it looked too hard to follow, make them think you're not very intelligent and assume you've got nothing useful to say, or some combination of all three. If you want to highlight a bit of text (use it wisely) you can make things bold by surrounding it with three apostraphes like this, italics with two apostraphes like this, or both with five like this.
 * 2) Check the talk page of an article before you make any edits, to see if what you want to add or change has already been discussed. (If an article is looked after by a project, it'll usually have a banner for the project on the talk page. It's a good idea to at least have a quick check with the project as well.) If there is a discussion about your changes and a particular option has been decided, make sure you follow what's been decided there, and don't make a change that will obviously make one side of the discussion unhappy if its still being worked out. If you don't agree with what's been decided, feel free to voice your opinion, and see if you can change people's minds, but do it respectfully and without making the argument personal.
 * 3) If there are topics you're interested in or think you can contribute to - I'm guessing baseball would be one - find the projects that match and join up with them. It'll help to give you an idea of what's expected for certain types of articles, and will help you to find some examples of articles on that topic that have been rated as being of good quality so you've got some ideas of what to work towards. (In case you're not aware yet, "Featured Article" is the top ranking, with "Good Article" sometimes considered to be a step or two away from being made a Featured Article.)
 * 4) Just because someone makes an edit to article that you don't agree with, doesn't automatically mean you should use the undo function. That's generally when someone's vandalised a page, or if someone's made changes that clearly go against a consensus that's been agreed to. If someone's undone one of your edits, and it doesn't have an explanation for why, ask them on their talk page or the article's, don't just redo the change or undo their undo. If you think someone else's changes should be undone, make sure you explain why in the edit summary, and leave a message on a talk page (the article's or their's) pointing to where the consensus was decided for the person to see for themselves. With the exception of people who have fun messing up articles by vandalising them, we're all here to help out: we just have different ideas as to how to achieve the end result - that's why you'll see references to "assume good faith": assume the other person's trying to help.
 * 5) In the case of The Hart Dynasty, when there's already info on here - either in a standalone article or as a section of another article - don't just copy it to somewhere else to create a new article. It's best in that case to expand on what's already there. If it gets to the point where an article gets too big, the section can be broken out into its own article, leaving a summary of the content behind in the old article, along with a links going between the two articles. An example from what I've been working on is Australia national baseball team, and splitting out the info from the Olympic Games and World Cup sections into Australia national baseball team at the Summer Olympics and Australia at the Baseball World Cup. Having said that, don't follow that example exactly, because all three articles are still works in progress, but it should help give you an idea about how its supposed to be done.

Talkback
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Template
I have moved Templete:mlbinfobox to User:BigPadresDUDE/sandbox. Please note that the namespace is called Template: &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 09:05, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Re:Image
Hey, The logo of the Padres is a copyrighted image and thus falls under WP:FAIRUSE, these images can only be used with fair use rationales in certain articles. For the template you wish to use it with you need to use an image that is free to use in any article, like the image File:Petco_Park_Interior.JPG. I'm not good with copyright law and such, so if you have any more concerns I'd suggest you leave a message on WT:BASEBALL and someone else with more experience in the area will be able to answer the question better. Borgarde (talk) 02:50, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello Padres Dude!
While I am a New York Yankees fan first and foremost, I do enjoy the San Diego Padres (and really enjoyed their run to the '98 WS (Ken Caminiti was my fav RIP) before they went against my Yanks of course) and love a good casual project so I am here to help if I can! You can e-mail me at pmvgvt@yahoo.com if you have any questions about the Padres project or general Wikipedia questions as I have been doing this for a few years. -Phil5329 (talk) 03:00, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Continuing from WP:Baseball
Lets continue the discussion here so we dont overrun WP:Baseball with our conversation. Looking at your edits it seems your pretty good considering your a new editor and it looks like you did a good job with WikiProject San Diego Padres--Yankees10 02:10, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

thanks man no one ever seems to be nice to me as i really dont have any friends here which makes me sad i do my best and hope to be good sometime and would you be interested in joining Wiki Project Padres and adopt me? BigPadresDUDE (talk) 02:17, 3 September 2009 (UTC)


 * sure why not--Yankees10 02:17, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

nice man thanks BigPadresDUDE (talk) 02:18, 3 September 2009 (UTC)


 * No problem--Yankees10 02:20, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Watch your spelling and punctuation
I removed your first addition and second addition to the Téa Delgado article due to all the errors in spelling and punctuation, as you know. I will add it back once I have cleaned it up. But in the future...make sure that your additions are better presented. This is an encyclopedia, after all. Flyer22 (talk) 03:17, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hate to be a nag, but your formatting is a bit lazy as well. As the name of a series, "General Hospital" should have been italicized in this edit. You should also use sentence case (capitalizing the first letter of a sentence or phrase and any proper nouns, not every word) most of the time in all areas of Wikipedia, including headings and infoboxes, unlike you did here with "Dissolved by Death" and "Smashed Over The Head With A Bookend" (LOL). It's probably too much to as for you to actual refer to WP:MOS, but you've been very active and have clearly edited enough articles to have seen these sorts of things elsewhere by now.&mdash; TAnthonyTalk 03:46, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

September 2009
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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. &mdash; TAnthonyTalk 04:43, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey, I just wanted to make sure that you understand what the terms "edit war" and "three revert rule" mean. Si quieres, hablo espanol, y te puedo explicar en espanol si necessites. Just let me know. I'll keep an eye on this page. :-) Killiondude (talk) 05:28, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I just noticed that you got two warnings for edit warring in a 24 hour period (or so), and just wanted to make sure you understood the guidelines. I believe you're a good faith editor, so I just wanted to see if you understood. I'm not interested in baseball to much, but thanks for asking. :-) Killiondude (talk) 05:39, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

RE
Nice page. If you figure you can do the research and write well, it is a good project.-- Will C  19:00, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar created
Your request

Just letting you know I created a version of your requested barnstar, hopefully it's what you wanted. :P — raeky ( talk 19:03, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

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Jackson Montgomery and Erica Kane couple article
I saw your query on Rocksey's talk page not too long ago. I am going to tell you what she should have told you: You should not create this article, unless it passes WP:Notability. For a quick layout, WikiProject Soap Operas clearly displays what is needed in order to create a soap opera couple article here. Though winning a major award alone would not be enough for notability. I will go further and say that you should also not create this article...unless it has good or decent grammar/spelling. You have spelling and grammar issues. Your version of this article in your workspace is not anywhere close to being acceptable for Wikipedia. Even the headings are wrongly formatted (seeing as you capitalize the beginning of each word in them). See Manual of Style.

You should study articles such as JR Chandler and Babe Carey, Reese Williams and Bianca Montgomery, etc., etc. to see how a fictional couple or supercouple article should be formatted here at Wikipedia. Flyer22 (talk) 09:19, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Southern Cross Pitch, September 2009
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WP:Common name
Check out that policy. Skye Chandler is best known as Skye Chandler, not as Skye Chandler Quartermaine. In addition, cut-and-paste moves, which is what you did in this case, should not be done. Why not? Because it takes away the article history.

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Carly Corinthos
This is quite possibly the most moved soap opera article on Wikipedia. The long standing consensus has been that the article should remain at Carly Corinthos. A long time abuser and banned editor who desperately wants to edit here despite getting regularly blocked loves to move that article. You'd be amazed at the number of new, male soap opera editors who love to move that article. Please leave it where it is. AniMate draw  03:27, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * That was a really bad move on the Carly article. You moved it to Carly-Corinthos-Jacks. Please take a look at the archive at Talk:Carly_Corinthos/Archive_1. This has been discussed multiple times. Before moving at least initiate a talk page thread, and if you're going to go against consensus, don't do it with typos. AniMate draw  04:12, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

WP:NOSHARE
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Your contributions
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Congarbulations!
oh my god! my first real barnstar thanks alot man !!!! i guess my edits are appreciated i just can be a knuckle head sometimes LOL BigPadresDude 17:57, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Non-free images
Different images aren't the problem. The fact is these are all non-free images, and part of Wikipedia's mission is that we use non-free content as sparingly as possible. All non-free images need to pass all ten criteria of our non-free image policy, and these don't (especially criteria 3a and 8). Merely "wanting to know what something looks like" isn't enough, unfortunately. If a non-free image is critical for the reader to understand part of an article which cannot be explained sufficiently in text, then it may be appropriate, but use outside those criteria is not allowed. Thanks, <b style="color:black;">Black Kite</b> 23:03, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, your edits look mostly fine to me, apart from the bit I mentioned above. Thanks, <b style="color:black;">Black Kite</b> 23:26, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Capitalization and section headers
When titling sections we need to follow some basic rules. One is simpler is better. On Emily Quartermaine you changed Second Chances to The Begining and End Of Emily and Nikolas. That's way too long and detailed and not precisely correct. It wasn't the "beginning" of Emily and Nikolas, and you didn't spell beginning correctly. Secondly, your capitalization is wrong. Generally only the first word and proper nouns should be capitalized. You should have titled it The beginning and end of Emily and Nikolas. "Beginning", "end", and "of" are not proper nouns. <font face="Segoe Print" color="black">AniMate <font face="Segoe Print" color="black">draw  02:49, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Please read WP:Tone. The end of the road for Emily is quite poetic, but this isn't a fansite. It is an encyclopedia. Keep it simple and businesslike from now on. I'm fairly experienced here and have given you good advice, but you often revert me or change without discussing or taking the advice. Please, remember we are here to write an encyclopedia. <font face="Segoe Print" color="black">AniMate <font face="Segoe Print" color="black">draw  05:24, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Reading "The end of the road for Emily" heading and AniMate's response to it (calling it "quite poetic") humored me quite a bit. That is not meant to be humor at your expense, BigPadresDUDE. I always feel that you have good intentions here at Wikipedia, and are trying to improve; it is just that type of heading is so not how things are supposed to be done here and seeing that made me feel better during this crappy day I am having (particularly on Wikipedia). Keep your head up; you can become much better with more practice and familiarizing yourself with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Flyer22 (talk) 21:19, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Pitty.JPG
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Editor review archived
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Invitation for the typeface collaboration
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Orphaned non-free image (File:JacksonErica.jpg)
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barnstar
here is a barnstar for signing my page.

Um question here
Is ur secret page the one where I asked "Is this your hidden page?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by RealityShowsRCool (talk • contribs) 21:55, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think it is. If a page is a red link, it doesn't exist, so there is no way to get a barnstar from it. Remenber: Any red links on the page is not a link to his hidden page. -- Ha dg  er  00:45, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Nope. It's not. You'll know you've found it when if you see a barnstar and a list of people who've found it. If it's all right with Padres, I'm going to go remove the comment as that doesn't belong there. Good luck!--<font color="#6600CC" face="Algerian">Twilight <font color="#0000FF" face="Algerian">Helryx  02:34, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Oh yes, and next time, please sign your comments. You can do so by typing four tildes ( ~ ) at the end. Thank you.--<font color="#6600CC" face="Algerian">Twilight <font color="#0000FF" face="Algerian">Helryx  02:39, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Training Program
I've finally managed to get my adopting program written down. As soon as you are available, please choose which course you would like to take. Here it is:


 * --<font color="#6600CC" face="Algerian">Twilight <font color="#0000FF" face="Algerian">Helryx  19:40, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Southern Cross Pitch, December 2009
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MfD nomination of User:BigPadresDUDE/Secret Page Challenge
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Southern Cross Pitch, August 2010
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Padres
Hey i think the Tony Gwynn article has a chance for GA i think you should have a look at it. Spongie555 (talk) 06:27, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Southern Cross Pitch, November 2010
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Archiving
Just a suggestion, but you might want to think about archiving your talk page a bit; its up over 400K which makes it tough for browsers and bots to edit if they're trying to go through the whole thing. (The newsletter just above this had to be delivered manually when AutoWikiBrowser choked on the page and locked up.) If you check out WP:ARCHIVE, it'll tell you what you need to know about setting up an automatic process you can set and forget. Cheers  Afaber012  (talk) 22:40, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Southern Cross Pitch, January 2011
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Southern Cross Pitch, May 2011
 Afaber012  (talk) 07:40, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Soap Operas alert
As a member of the WikiProject Soap Operas, and in accordance with the appropriate notification in deference to canvassing, I am alerting your attention to several current discussions for deletion pertaining to soap opera characters. This is an invitation to participate in the discussion. Best regards,  Cind.  amuse (Cindy) 20:21, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
Hi BPD. In case you are not aware, there is an upcoming campaign to improve coverage of LGBT-related topics on Wikipedia, culminating with an international edit-a-thon on June 21. See Wiki Loves Pride 2014 for more information. If you are interested, you might consider creating a page for a major city (or cities!) near you, with a list of LGBT-related articles that need to be created or improved. This would be a tremendous help to Wikipedia and coverage of LGBT culture and history. Thanks for your consideration, and please let me know if you have any questions! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:46, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!
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 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
 * When? June 2015
 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa

ArbCom elections are now open!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:06, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2016
As a participant of WikiProject LGBT studies, you are invited to participate in the third annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign, which runs through the month of June. The purpose of the campaign is to create and improve content related to LGBT culture and history. How can you help?
 * Create or improve LGBT-related Wikipedia pages and showcase the results of your work here
 * Document local LGBT culture and history by taking pictures at pride events and uploading your images to Wikimedia Commons
 * Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Looking for topics? The Tasks page, which you are welcome to update, offers some ideas and wanted articles.

This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group's mission is to develop LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. Visit the affiliate's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 19:49, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

New Challenge for Oceania and Australia
Hi, WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Queering Wikipedia 2021 User Group Working Days: May 14–16
The Wikimedia LGBTQ+ User Group is holding online working days in May. As a member of WikiProject LGBT studies, editing on LGBTQ+ issues or if you identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, come help us set goals, develop our organisation and structures, consider how to respond to issues faced by Queer editors, and plan for the next 12 months.

We will be meeting online for 3 half-days, 14–16 May at 1400–1730 UTC. While our working language is English, we are looking to accommodate users who would prefer to participate in other languages, including translation facilities.

More information, and registration details, at QW2021 .--Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group 02:37, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

File:Nikem.jpg listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Nikem.jpg, has been listed at Files for discussion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Hog Farm Talk 19:31, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Hershey for the chocolate master!
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Dogger Knight has given you a Hershey Bar! Hershey bars promote WikiLove through chocolately goodness and hopefully this one has made your day better. Hershey bars are wonderfully delicious! Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a Hershey bar, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

''You chocolate loving freak! Thanks for creating this sweet piece of chocolate!''

Spread the goodness of Hershey bars by adding {{subst:Hershey Bar}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

Dogger Knight (talk) 15:39, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

CfD nomination at
A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at  on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerfjkl talk  09:36, 2 October 2023 (UTC)