User talk:Deckiller

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Wait, you're back?!
Cheers! GamerPro64 (talk) 18:16, 6 November 2010 (UTC) oh wow, you back! Welcome back, I'm still on hiatus but saw you on the ff project list and stopped to say hi :) (Renmirir w/o bothering to login) 99.31.117.126 (talk) 08:45, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Re: WP:VG rewording
Thanks. I noticed that the page's writing wasn't nearly up to the quality of WP:MILHIST, and did a little work to bring it closer. Your follow-up really improved the page; amazing work, as always. As for Ryu Kaze, he hasn't edited since October 2006. I check every few years to see if he's back in action, but, sadly, I don't think he's ever going to return. Great to see that you're doing major editing again, though. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 23:45, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Recently, it seems like the number of VG FACs has drastically decreased, and I haven't been doing as much reviewing as I'd like. I'm really looking forward to seeing the results of your work. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 00:50, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Ooh, you're going to work on FF5/4? I got 4 back to GA a few months ago; I'd totally be on board with an FAC push for either of them if you want some help. -- Pres N  04:28, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Srsly though, hit me up if you decide to do an FA push on something, WP:SE has been really quiet for the past few months. (I figure roping you into an article enhancement push is the best way of keeping you around this time) -- Pres  N  04:42, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Re: Hey there
Heh, you know, this is the... wow, fifth time I've been asked. Jacoplane way back in November '06, you in July '07, Wizardman last December, and MuZemike in March. I've turned them all down so far; but against my better judgment I'll go for it this time. I guess appealing to my experience in content creation was the key. :) Let the nitpicking over poorly-worded comments made years before begin! -- Pres N  04:25, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Alright, cool. I look forward to it! -- Pres N  04:30, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm, lets just go for it. If it fails for those reasons, then it would be a clear case of "wait a few months, build up experience in those areas, and try again" anyway, so same deal in the end. -- Pres N  05:32, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll fill out the answers tonight after work. Oh, btw, 2 FAs, 10 FLs, not 12 FAs, though maybe you were combining them. -- Pres N  00:34, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * All right, answers are in, and David co-nommed it. -- Pres N  02:33, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Re: Administrative tools
While I am honored to be considered as possible admin material, I'm going to have to politely decline. My main editing focuses are on article writing (for a very small group of subjects), copyediting and the Online print archive. I've never found myself in need of the admin tools while performing these tasks. Standard admin work—such as vandal fighting, backlog clearing and general maintenance—has never been my forté. On top of that, I have a fluctuating off-Wikipedia writing schedule, which can and has caused me to leave Wikipedia—without warning—for long periods of time. I have tremendous respect for the guys with the mop and bucket, but it just isn't for me. Sorry. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 08:37, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * You make a convincing point. However, I still say that adminship wouldn't suit me. I prefer to work in quiet corners of Wikipedia, and avoid hot button issues and serious problems; I leave them to the people "in charge", so to speak. However, if I possessed the admin tools—even if I didn't use them often—I would be obligated to act in such situatons. Being on call just isn't my style. I'm honored that you asked, and I realize that RfA is having problems, but I'm really not the guy for the job. Again, I apologize. It looks like Guyinblack25 and PresN are interested, though. They're both great editors, and shouldn't have any problem passing. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 08:18, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Re: Hey there... 2
How dire is the situation? As you noticed, I'm technically semi-retired, but still edit a fair amount here and there. I placed the tag there more as a notice of my erratic free time. Because of that, however, I've focused on article writing more and more (sigh... one day we'll have a real compendium of video game history), helping out with project matters when it looks like it is needed. If there is a real need for more admins, even ones that may do very little with the tools, then I can apply. But I have the feeling that I won't live up to community expectations. Just feel that I should state that upfront. (Guyinblack25 talk 15:49, 11 November 2010 (UTC))
 * Sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately, I'll have to decline as I just don't know if I'll have the time to ever use the tools. When my circumstances change, however, I think I would like to pursue adminship. Thanks for the offer... again. :-p (Guyinblack25 talk 17:20, 15 November 2010 (UTC))

Re: PresN
Sure, I'd be happy to help nominate him! I haven't been on Wikipedia that much for the past few months, so I'll have to brush up :) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 17:35, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh and p.s., thanks for the help in polishing up Golden Sun... looking back on my old FAs is somewhat embarrassing these days, I've been trying to clean them up for a while and it's always nice to have some assistance :) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 18:02, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Only thing is I'll prolly not have a chance to be online from early tomorrow (EST) to early Saturday... if you want to run with the nom without me, go ahead, otherwise I'll get to it ASAP. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 22:17, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

November 2010 backlog elimination drive update
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Apologies
For not replying at Requests for adminship/PresN to your question. Just wanted to avoid the ensuing drama for PresN. Voted oppose so PresN does realise the importance many others, like you too, place on leaving edit summaries :-) My warm wishes and regards.  Wifione    .......  Leave a message  07:43, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Commons invitation
Hi, I want to invite you to Commons. On Commons you can upload free images, fix mistakes, etc. and the images or other files are accessible for all Wikimedia projects. You should consider going to Special:MergeAccount and then go on Commons, which will automatically create an account for you there. To learn more check Help:Unified login. Regards Hekerui (talk) 23:16, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I saw you had contributed to video game articles and I remember many video game pictures from Ubisoft were deleted from Commons, so I wondered what if anything you might have uploaded there, since it's difficult to get free content for games. And I saw you had no account which is sad because everyone able to contribute there can help protect the integrity of the Wikis as well, which fits well with being an admin. Best wishes Hekerui (talk) 08:50, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/All I Want for Christmas Is You/archive1
Hi Deckiller. An independent copy-editor has reviewed and fixed up the article, so can you please hop on back and see if you can reconsider your views? Thanks allot :)-- CallMe Nathan  •  Talk2Me   06:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi there. Fixed those issues :)-- CallMe Nathan  &bull;  Talk2Me   10:04, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I'm an admin now
Thanks for nominating me for adminship! I'm happy to have been selected; any rumors that I'm working on ways to delete the main page and not leave an edit summary while doing so are greatly exaggerated. -- Pres N  07:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)


 * A few years back they made it impossible to delete the Main Page. Congratulations, regardless! hbdragon88 (talk) 08:07, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Act on National Flag and Anthem (Japan)/archive1
I do admit that I write a lot of FA's about subject material that can come off as dry and boring. The good thing about it is that I have almost free reign with the article so I can try a lot of things. However, the bad edge about that is when it comes to places like FAC, I get zero help. Sure, my article is under different "big" wikiprojects, but they usually do not send out their troops to help me get the article prose ready (everything else I can do pretty darn well). That is always my issue, even though English is my native language. When I put Flag of Japan at FAC, it took about 10 copyeditors to hack at it before it was passable. With the Russian anthem article, I think I used about 6 people just to do that. There is only so much I can person do and ask and if people still oppose after 4-6 copyeditors, then something is seriously wrong with the people we got or people just use prose as an auto-kill for subjects they don't understand. As I said before, with this article you have done amazing work and I do not mean of this rant to be against you. However, I just feel that no matter what I do, who I beg or what has been done copyediting wise, people will just come by and said "prose is bad, fail" and that's it. Good prose is what is needed at FAC and I do not object to that; however what I ask is to what extent do we get to say "that's enough" when it comes to the prose. 5 copyeditors? 10 copyeditors? If there are people saying the prose is bad and we have 20 copyeditors (exageration I know), then that should be something that needs to be looked at closely when it comes to promotions and failures at FAC. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 07:43, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I addressed your inline issues and I posted a sentence suggestion at the FAC page. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 19:10, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Ping
Featured article candidates/2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl/archive1 Any update? -- Andy Walsh  (talk)  20:49, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I can look at it probably tomorrow if you think it would help. -- Andy Walsh  (talk)  21:02, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I added some comments to PapaJohns—not crazy about the writing in some places. In other news I noticed this comment. Did you mean me? -- Andy Walsh  (talk)  03:40, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Whoops, I didn't get a chance to get to the flag. It didn't seem to generate much in the way of reviews, did it? -- Andy Walsh  (talk)  04:16, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I would want to defer to Sandy on that score. I think the main issue is it had been listed for almost a month with no support. -- Andy Walsh  (talk)  05:24, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

thanks
Too kind! Tony  (talk)  06:38, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2010
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Thank you!
Thank you for your support at my RfA last week. I promise I'll do everything I can to live up to your support and expectations. PanydThe muffin is not subtle 20:57, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Final Fantasy Jobs Page
I noticed that this page is seriously under-representative of the full range of jobs in the series and doesn't include any jobs from the newest release. Is there anything I should know before working on adding new stuff? I would be happy to help clean up what is there as well but my expertise really lies with the MMOs of the series. Moonbug (talk) 00:33, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh, facts. I am pretty good at referencing articles - but my ability to craft a whole entry is limited. I will see what I can put together. Thanks for the advice. Moonbug (talk) 07:29, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Responded to your month old comment at Sandy's page, with long post
Hey, just saw your comment. I really do appreciate engaging with people who care to think about things, so thanks so much. Appreciate your thoughts on my long post (analyzed the thought structure sentence by sentence). Even if I'm wrong, want to learn HOW I'm wrong. Who knows, maybe not too old to get better at something.

P.s. Hope it did not come across as too intense or get me queered for my own FAs!TCO (talk) 03:44, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

FA review of Devil May Cry 2
I'm informing you (seeing that you did make some contributions on the article and are still around) that I nominated the Devil May Cry 2 article for an FA review. Please see Featured article review/Devil May Cry 2/archive1 for details. Regards, –MuZemike 21:26, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Final Fantasy XIII copy-edit
Hey Deckiller, would you be willing to give Final Fantasy XIII a copy-edit? Sjones and I are taking it to FAC, and that's the final step I want to have done before we do. Your editing seems to be slowing down again, so I understand if you're too busy. Let me know! -- Pres N  22:38, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I lost internet at my house for a bit and have been busy between finals at school and now working full time during my time off school. &mdash;Deckiller (t-c-l) 19:31, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem, Sjones put in a request at the GOCE so we'll just go through them instead. -- Pres N  22:20, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Checking up on you
Just checking to see if you are on a break again since you said you would be back on 12/18 and its March now. GamerPro64 (talk) 05:16, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah man that sucks. I hope that you get enough free time for Wikipedia soon. GamerPro64 (talk) 20:26, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Real life... so annoying and intrusive! :) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 20:53, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Main page appearance
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ser
 There has been a major revision of the the Service Awards: the edit requirements for the higher levels have been greatly reduced, to make them reasonably attainable. Because of this, your Service Award level has been changed, and you are now eligible for a higher level. I have taken the liberty of updating your award on your user page.

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Actually, you went up two levels. Congratulations, and thank you for your many contributuions! Herostratus (talk) 06:11, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Idea
Create a mini-project to bring the articles of Neda, Mohamed Bouazizi, Khaled Said, and Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb up to GA/FA status. Possibly expand to include others whose deaths became symbols of war and peace (i.e. Pat Tillman). Would you like to work on something like this? Ocaasit 23:47, 4 June 2011 (UTC)


 * WikiProject_Council/Proposals/HistoryBioLife. Might need a new name, but check it out... Ocaasit 04:02, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Re: Hey
Hey, good to see you! The mop is good, thanks for nominating me. Things are going well; I keep poking around a bit at WP:SE- we absorbed the Dragon Quest taskforce so our scope exploded, though participation stayed about the same. I've started writing more FAs, mainly on indie video games, and kind of bounce between doing that and slowly getting all of the WP:SE articles above stub-class. We're about 90% there, and if we can do it I think we'd be the first project of significant size to do so. I see you've graduated now- plan on sticking around for a bit, or just occasional dropping in? -- Pres N  04:52, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Research into the user pages of Wikipedians: Invitation to participate
Greetings,

My name is John-Paul and I am a student with the University of Alberta specializing in Communications and Technology.

I would like to include your Wikipedia user page in a study I am doing about how people present themselves online. I am interested in whether people see themselves in different ways, online and offline. One of the things I am looking at is how contributors to Wikipedia present themselves to each other through their user pages. Would you consider letting me include your user page in my study?

With your consent, I will read and analyze your user page, and ask you five short questions about it that will take about ten to fifteen minutes to answer. I am looking at about twenty user pages belonging to twenty different people. I will be looking at all user pages together, looking for common threads in the way people introduce themselves to other Wikipedians.

I hope that my research will help answer questions about how people collaborate, work together, and share knowledge. If you are open to participating in this study, please reply to this message, on your User Talk page or on mine. I will provide you with a complete description of my research, which you can use to decide if you want to participate.

Thank-you,

John-Paul Mcvea

University of Alberta

jmcvea@ualberta.ca

Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 21:41, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear Deckiller,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 14:11, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary
Wishing Deckiller a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talk about my edits? 00:52, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Happy Birthday (2012)
Wishing User: a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talk about my edits? 01:46, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

WP Star Wars in the Signpost
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OMG Deck, the Spira page is back ???
It almost look like the one we did at Ryu's time! How did you manage this miracle ?? - Renmiri w/o bothering to login 99.68.28.109 (talk) 01:24, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I actually haven't been around much in a couple years! Not sure how it happened! I've been in the amateur game development field now :) &mdash;Deckiller (t-c-l) 04:16, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Merge discussion for User:Deckiller/Gameplay of Final Fantasy
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Main page appearance: Final Fantasy
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Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi. It centers on a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video games (RPGs), but includes motion pictures, anime, printed media, and other merchandise. The first game in the series, published in 1987, was conceived by Sakaguchi as his last-ditch effort in the game industry; the title was a success and spawned sequels. The video game series has since branched into other genres. Although most Final Fantasy installments are supposedly independent stories with different settings and main characters, they feature identical elements that define the franchise. Plots center on a group of heroes battling a great evil while exploring the characters' internal struggles and relationships. The series has been commercially and critically successful; it is Square Enix's best selling video game franchise, with more than 100 million units sold, and one of the best-selling video game franchises. It was awarded a star on the Walk of Game in 2006, and holds seven Guinness World Records in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008. It has also introduced many features now common in role-playing video games and has been credited with helping to popularize console-based RPGs in markets outside Japan. (Full article...) UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Deckiller/24: The Game
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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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 * Oh wow, surprised it's been that long! &mdash;Deckiller (t-c-l) 11:21, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Terminology of Final Fantasy VI listed at Redirects for discussion
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Global account
Hi Deckiller! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to ping me with. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:31, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

WP:Missing Wikipedians
Saw you've done lots of work here and are an admin, but haven't edited since May 2014. As a result, I've added you to the above page. Remove your name from the list if you ever return. Snuggums (talk /</b> <b style="color:#454545">edits</b>) 07:04, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Precious
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Thank you, veteran editor, for quality articles on video games such as Final Fantasy VIII, for general understanding, for Girl Scouts of the USA and Firefly, for "it took a team of dedicated writers to work on those articles—in many cases, I was not alone", - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (13 May 2007)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:59, 11 February 2015 (UTC) A year ago, you were recipient no. 1120 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:35, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Now two years, - and thanks for your note! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:04, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Today, thank you for Characters of Final Fantasy VIII! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:36, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

... and four years Precious, your day today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:49, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

... and five --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:34, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Fuckers listed at Redirects for discussion
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I've created a page for Square Enix Visual Works
Visual Works <--- I've created the page for Square Enix's CG department, Visual Works. It's an article that's clearly lacking key information: it needs a lot more work done to make it a good article. I trust that you can make all the relevant changes required.Iftekharahmed96 (talk) 12:36, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

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Notification of imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Romney Classical Institute
Hi, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your review and for your comments regarding Romney Classical Institute. I am committed to bring this article to FA status, and I am willing to make any suggested changes. I will leave a formal response on the discussion page for the nomination, and while I know you are very busy, I hope you'll help provide further guidance so that I can improve the article as you see fit. Thank you again for taking the time to engage in this thoughtful review. -- West Virginian   (talk)  19:37, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

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Sloan–Parker House FAC
Good day ! I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you again for your review and suggestions for improvement of Romney Classical Institute when it was a FAC. Unfortunately, it was not promoted due to a lack of momentum, so I will be bringing it back as a FAC in the future. In the meantime, I've nominated Sloan–Parker House to FAC at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sloan–Parker House/archive1. Given your tremendously helpful review of Romney Classical Institute, I would greatly appreciate it if you could do the same for Sloan–Parker House. Your suggestions greatly improved the last article, and I would like to glean your insights and subject matter expertise for this article, too. I know we all have busy schedules, so if you are unable to, I definitely understand! Thanks again for your continued contributions and improvements to Wikipedia! -- West Virginian   (talk)  17:44, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

11 years of adminship
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Nomination of Fear (song series) for deletion
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Help
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Characters of Final Fantasy VIII scheduled for TFA
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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
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Nomination of List of Star Wars spacecraft for deletion
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September 2019 GOCE Newsletter
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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Darksaber der todesstern.jpg
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Nomination of List of rock instrumentals for deletion
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Retail Importance Assessment
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Final Fantasy X-2 FAR
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December 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter
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Precious anniversary
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December 2021 GOCE Newsletter
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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
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How we will see unregistered users
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New administrator activity requirement
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June GOCE newsletter
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Guild of Copy Editors' October 2022 newsletter
 Baffle☿gab  03:06, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter
Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:25, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter error
The GOCE December 2022 newsletter, as sent on 9 December, contains an erroneous start date for our December Blitz. The Blitz will start on 11 December rather than on 17 December, as stated in the newsletter. I'm sorry for the mistake and for disrupting your talk page; thanks for your understanding. Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report
Sent by Baffle gab1978 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:29, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

"Christian Biblical Council" listed at Redirects for discussion
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"Vince McFadden" listed at Redirects for discussion
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"Ermal L. Owens" listed at Redirects for discussion
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"Roger Mitler" listed at Redirects for discussion
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"Mark and Avoid" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Administrative permissions and inactivity reminder
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"Pacific West Fellowship" listed at Redirects for discussion
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"Great Lakes Fellowship" listed at Redirects for discussion
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"The American Fellowship Services" listed at Redirects for discussion
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"Way Cult" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Pinduoduo proposal feedback
Hi, I see that you’re an active member of the Retailing WikiProject and I was wondering if you might be willing to have a look at a proposal I just submitted to fix issues with the article for Pinduoduo. (I have a COI as an employee of Pinduoduo’s sister company Temu and am trying to adhere strictly to the rules, which is why I’ve made a proposal instead of editing the page myself.) As you might know, Pinduoduo is China’s biggest e-commerce company for agricultural produce, so I hope that you might find the subject matter intriguing given your interest in Retail. Thanks very much for your time! Snowy2000 (talk) 17:11, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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CfD nomination at
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Proposed deletion of Harry Ernst Wierwille


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Nomination for deletion of Template:Jedi Apprentice series
Template:Jedi Apprentice series has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Mika1h (talk) 13:57, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Beardfish (band)
Template:Beardfish (band) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. DB 1729 talk 12:08, 7 June 2024 (UTC)