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Vandal Fighting
If you want to read up more about Vandal fighting I suggest you take a look here  Intinn Talk! 13:26, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

re:lenzie academy notable alumni

Chris russell is notable... if you check out www.redhotchillipipers.co.uk you will see there further info: he has played all over the world, part of tartan day celebrations in new york etc etc please do check out website for more info —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.96.252 (talk) 23:43, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue VIII (April 2008)
The April 2008 issue of the WikiProject Universities newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you for your continued support of WikiProject Universities! &mdash; Delivered on 21:31, 2 May 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)

Wikimedia Commons
Thank you for uploading images/media to Wikipedia! There is, however, another Wikimedia Foundation project called Wikimedia Commons, a central media repository for all free media. In future, please upload media there instead (see m:Help:Unified login). That way, all of the other language Wikipedias can use them too, as well as our many sister projects. This will also allow our visitors to search for, view and use our media in one central location. If you wish to move previous uploads to Commons, see Moving images to the Commons (you may view images you have previously uploaded by going to your user contributions on the left and choosing the 'image' namespace from the drop down box). Please note that non-free content, such as images claimed as fair use, cannot be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons. Help us spread the word about Commons by informing other users, and please continue uploading!--OsamaK 13:26, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Oxford College Infobox
I wouldn't personally object to adding visitors to the infoboxes. Though they're of little day-to-day relevance, and half the students probably couldn't tell you who their Visitor was, they're an important part of how a college is legally constituted and can probably still make a big difference in some sort of rare crisis! If you do go ahead with it, make sure the entry in the infobox is (i) hidden away in the middle somewhere unobtrusive (after the principal or equivalent?) (ii) optional, for those cases where no value is given (yet) and (iii) linked to the Visitor article for anyone who doesn't know what the term means.

Oh, and here's one for the collection: the Visitor of Jesus is the Earl of Pembroke. He's probably younger than the average, leading undergrads to speculate whose side he might take in any dispute they might have with the college.... —Casper Gutman (talk • contributions) 13:57, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * ...though of course Visitors' powers to mediate in disputes between colleges and their students were removed the year after WH became Earl of Pembroke. It's a conspiracy I tell you! —Casper Gutman (talk • contributions) 10:38, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Thumbnail size
Greetings. A couple of minor points. I understand that it is Wiki policy to leave the picture size unspecified as this allows users to set the size they prefer in their user preferences. You do not need to put "right" as that is the default position.--Charles (talk) 19:34, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons
Thank you for uploading images/media to Wikipedia! As you may know, there is another Wikimedia Foundation project called Wikimedia Commons, a central media repository for all free media. In future, please upload media there instead (see m:Help:Unified login). That way, all of the other language Wikipedias can use them too, as well as our many sister projects. This will also allow our visitors to search for, view and use our media in one central location. If you wish to move previous uploads to Commons, see Moving images to the Commons (you may view images you have previously uploaded by going to your user contributions on the left and choosing the 'image' namespace from the drop down box). Please note that non-free content, such as images claimed as fair use, cannot be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons. Help us spread the word about Commons by informing other users, and please continue uploading!--OsamaKReply? on my talk page, please 23:34, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice
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We look forward to hearing from you soon, and we send our apologies for this automated intrusion onto your talk page!

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Peter Mandelson
Just a friendly heads-up but that peerage titles are a complex area and you can't take paper reports at face value. Official sources are far more preferable. The title was correct as was and has been reverted. AllsoulsDay (talk) 17:40, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

144.82.197.201
The ip hasn't edited since the last warning except for the puzzling message on my talk page, so I really can't block the user yet. -- Vary Talk 17:21, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Merging
I left a note answering your question on the helpdesk. In short: merges are supposed to be completed with a Redirect (see WP:MERGE too). If reading the help file doesn't help, feel free to ask me for more info. - Mgm|(talk) 12:14, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Pretty please!
You are an experienced editor and should know better -- please use edit summaries! – ukexpat (talk) 17:11, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I would like to second the remark by Ukexpat. Edit summaries are a very important part of any edit. I had an editor once point it out to me and now I believe that every edit, regardless of how small, deserves an edit summary; if for no other reason than to make it easier for other editors to follow the sequence of edits and to minimize the need to review every edit. Thank you for your participation in Wikipedia Dbiel (Talk) 19:20, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Baronets
Hi ... per Naming conventions (names and titles), item 4, articles about baronets go always either with the form Dick Tracy or Sir Dick Tracy, 99th Baronet, but in no case with Dick Tracy, 99th Baronet. Please take care of this in future. Regards  Phoe  talk  00:48, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Rollback
I have granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see New admin school/Rollback and Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 19:49, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikilinking
Hi, and thanks for your work on the English Wikipedia.

I noticed an article you worked on. Just a short note to point out that we don’t normally link:
 * dates
 * years
 * commonly known geographical terms (including well-known country-names), and
 * common terms you’d look up in a dictionary (unless significantly technical).

(This even applies for infoboxes.)

Thanks and my best wishes.

Tony  (talk)  12:30, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:University of Kurdistan Hewler logo.jpg
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Proposed deletion of Princess Anna of Bavaria


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Nomination of Timothy Simmons for deletion
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Nomination of Hugh Mortimer for deletion
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