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October 2012
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 * So I just went through and undid every edit you made with the summary "Removed Dead Link(s)", and I saw that you made a lot of edits and put in a lot of time (and effort) in doing so. I think it's great that you were willing to do that, and I don't want you to get discouraged because I undid so much of your work. I hope that you continue devoting your time and energy to making this encyclopedia that much better. Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions. Cheers, -- Irn (talk) 00:27, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It's not a problem. I'll go back to those pages again and try to replace the links with valid ones instead of delete them. Also, just so you know, some of the pages had only one link to delete, and those edits were labeled "Removed Dead Link" instead. Cheers, --Freebirdthemonk (talk) 00:33, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Glad to hear that. Good luck and happy editing. -- Irn (talk) 14:10, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

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Freebirdthemonk, good luck, and have fun. --Horologium  (talk) 00:30, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

I reverted your edits on Virginia Foxx. Even though the links are dead, the information included in the citations can be used to find the information elsewhere. Although both of the citations are not particularly well-identified, I was able to find an Internet Archive copy of the first link, and it does support the article; I will attempt to find a working link for the other citation. We have the deadlink template as a note, not as carte blanche to delete the citation. Often, there are other means of getting the information from citations, including (in some cases) actually finding a hard-copy version of the citation in a library somewhere and finding what is written on paper. The other citation is from The Winston-Salem Journal, which is a regional newspaper with a circulation area comprising three states; I suspect that someone will be able to find a cite somewhere. Horologium  (talk) 00:30, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * Hi Fut.Perf. -- When I uploaded File:10.2 Surround Sound Speaker Configuration.png I was simply converting the JPEG version (File:10.2 surround sound speaker configuration.jpg from 10.2 surround sound to a PNG format and copied the content in the description verbatim. The JPG version does not have a fair use policy violation listed, so is it still applicable to the PNG version of the same file? Cheers, --Freebirdthemonk (talk) 21:50, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

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Hi there. Thanks for your very thorough copy edit of Loyalism. Just one thing: please could you have a read of WP:OVERLINK? Regards, --Stfg (talk) 18:48, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Stfg - Thanks for the heads-up. I'll be sure the links are used correctly when I finish the article I'm editing now. Cheers, Freebirdthemonk (talk) 19:16, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's a lot better. A tool you might like to know about is User:Ucucha/duplinks. I use it all the time and it works splendidly. --Stfg (talk) 17:55, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * This tool is great! Thanks for the help! :) Cheers, Freebirdthemonk (talk) 03:16, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

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Hi. Are you planning to complete that today, as it's the last day of the drive? --Stfg (talk) 14:48, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Yup! Just got on now to finish it up. Freebirdthemonk (talk) 15:24, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Update - I finished it about two hours ago, so now the December 2011 backlog should be clear. Cheers, Freebirdthemonk (talk) 22:15, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * Yes, that's fine. I was planning on creating new pages from 22nd Texas Legislature to 44th Texas Legislature, but I guess leaving them all as redirects isn't helpful for the time being. Freebirdthemonk (talk) 12:18, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, dear editor mister freebirdthemonk, I have been working in the article list of jewish communities in the usa, and I did order it by states and counties, so please do not remove my headlines, thanks..
 * Gylatshalit, my sincere apologies for deleting any of the headers on your page. I edit errors using WikiCleaner, but it isn't very good at accounting for works in progress. PS - Make sure none of your headers have only one "=", especially in the "References" and "See Also" sections, as they should always have two "==" on either side of the header. Cheers, Freebirdthemonk (talk) 14:05, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hi. I noticed your edit of a link in a tree that pointed back to the page that the tree is on. I had especially left the links there, so that it automatically emboldens the text to indicate where the individual falls on the tree and for all the trees to be uniform so that inconsistencies don't develop in the tree on the different respective pages it's found on. I would like to inquire if it's necessary to remove the link, ie, is it a WP requirement? If not, I'd like to revert it back for the reasons I stated. Thanks. (The edit I'm referring to: Chen Wanting) ~ InferKNOX (talk) 21:35, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi InferKNOX. In most cases, we want to remove links to the same article because they aren't useful and don't really contribute anything to the article. However, in the case of your tree (which is a fantastic addition to the article, by the way), it only makes sense to keep the link. I already went back and reverted my edit so the article should be fixed. I'm usually making these types of edits using WikiCleaner and can only see the markup instead of the actual preview, so it looked to me like a table (where these types of errors generally occur). I looked over the markup of your tree so that, if I see it again, I won't delete your links. However, if I do end up deleting them on any of your other trees by mistake, feel free to just revert my edits. Cheers, Freebirdthemonk (talk) 00:21, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
 * PS - I have added an exception for your charts in WikiCleaner. As long as your HTML formatting is the same as in Chen Wangting, you should have no further problems with anyone using WikiCleaner undoing your work. Cheers, Freebirdthemonk (talk) 02:16, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks Freebirdthemonk. I just wanted to be sure, just in case WP found it unacceptable to have such links. I am quite a novice editor, so am not too familiar with the various regulations. I appreciate your help and your liking the tree too. ^_^ ~ InferKNOX (talk) 12:10, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * Mephistophelian - I tried looking for copyrighted information (as a majority of the text appears to be from a story book or informational text), but have not been able to find anything similar. Since it is possible that I was wrong and the text is just written in a storybook style, what do I need to do in order to withdraw the article's NfD? Cheers, Freebirdthemonk 18:11, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Freebirdthemonk, first of all thank you for helping with a copy-edit of this article. It's appreciated. However i am not sure, if your latest date changes comply with Wikis Manual of Style MOS:DATE (section "Dates"). It seems to be either "month day comma year" or "day month year" (without comma). I have no preference either way, just pointing out the possible minor issue. GermanJoe (talk) 09:11, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi GermanJoe - thanks for bringing this to my attention. You are absolutely right - I didn't realize I had left all of the dates wrong. This was the very last article I edited last night, at roughly 11PM Central US time, so I guess I must have simply overlooked it. Before I change any of the other dates, however, I'd like to ask if you have a specific preference between regular dates, month-day-year (mdy) dates with commas or day-month-year (dmy) dates without commas. Personally, I prefer dmy dates without commas, but it's your call. Cheers, Freebirdthemonk Howdy!  11:59, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * After spotchecking a few other German and non-German emperor articles, it seems like DD month YYYY is slightly more used. So let's use this format for now, although both are valid. No hurry with the article, i know it's a lot of text to check. If you need further information, feel free to ping me anytime - or perhaps better leave a note on the article talkpage, where some of the other contributors occasionally post. GermanJoe (talk) 12:20, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Also, once I finish the copy edit and date changes, I will add a reply to your thread in Talk:Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor. If you have any questions, or if I make any more mistakes, feel free to post them here. I will leave this thread on my talk page until the copy edit is finished so all of the discussions can be kept in one place. Cheers, <i style="color:maroon; font-weight:normal; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Freebirdthemonk</i> <sup style="color:orange; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Howdy!  17:21, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

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Could you point to exactly what you thought was wrong in the tone or wording - I've added a few quotes marks to emphasise the point that each statement made is taken directly from the sources and is supported by in-line references <font color="green" size="1px">nonsense <font color="BF1BE0" size="1px">ferret  18:54, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for reviewing my article. However, I wouldn't have submitted the article w/o presenting "verifiable references." Did you check the Reference section to the article? It provides the links straight from where I found the information. The website is an official U.S. Army website and as such used as a primary reference. As an officer who serves in that unit, I wouldn't have an amateur mistake of not providing a reference to the article of the unit.Shovonma17 (talk) 02:30, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
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Please take another look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/James_Lawrence_(footballer) I'm reluctant to add more narrative - what's there is accurate and it can develop over time. I trust the Guardian article is sufficiently verifiable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chemical287 (talk • contribs) 20:58, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for your time to review my article, its been rejected by you and you said "This article needs cleanup and organization in order for it to be added." Can you please explain so that i can do what needs to be done to get the article published.. What sort of cleanup you mean, Thanks user: irajeevwiki  — Irajeevwiki (talk • contribs) 05:30, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
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 * Hi irajeevwiki - I looked at the article and sent it in for approval, but unfortunately the article name "Thiyyar" has been blocked from being created. It looks as if the article was in the mainspace in April 2012, but was then deleted. According to Articles for deletion/Thiyyar, it seems that the editors who commented on the deletion said that the Thiyyar caste is a fork of the Ezhava caste. Honestly, I don't know very much at all on the subject, and I'm sure you're quite knowledgeable on it (being that you wrote the article about it). I would read the AfD discussion linked above, and if you think think the editors were wrong in blocking the article from creation, tell me why and i'll be glad to send a message to an administrator to try to get your article created. Cheers, <i style="color:maroon; font-weight:normal; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Freebirds</i> <sup style="color:orange; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Howdy!  15:54, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Freebirds, Thiyya is a different caste from Ezhava, the only common thing between these two groups that they belong to Other Backward Communities in India. Thiyya has got different culture and history. I had a look ezhava wikipedia page and found many errors. Thiyyar is independent and they got their own culture and even they look different from Ezhava people.   This link is from a book would tell you the difference, Thiyya people mainly living in Malabar in Kerala state.  and Ezhava is living in Travancore region in Kerala.  There are many links in my wikipedia article describing about thiyya.  Thanks for your help and highly appreciated.  Please send a message to the administrator to get my article published.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Irajeevwiki (talk • contribs) 02:36, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Irajeevwiki. I submitted a query to Bwilkins (the admin who blocked the article back in April) but I have yet to receive a response. I just wanted to make sure you were updated on the situation. If I hear anything, I will post it here. Cheers, <i style="color:maroon; font-weight:normal; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Freebirds</i> <sup style="color:orange; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Howdy!  14:38, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Freebirds, Thank you so much for updating me, much appreciated — Preceding unsigned comment added by Irajeevwiki (talk • contribs) 10:01, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Freebirds, another user called Gwickwire just declined my article (reason is Cleanup ) I remember that you had checked my article and the only reason why we cant get this published was just because of the POV fork issue with "Ezhava" and we were communicating with Ezhava admin,. I had a look the communication between you and Ezhava admin and noticed that he / she is not responding to the messages you left in his talk page. Would you please advice me what i can do now to get this article published. This was my first article and i am bit desperate here. Spent a lot of time on this article. Thanks for your help, hope you can help to get this article published soon. Irajeevwiki (talk) 04:50, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Irajeevwiki, since I have not been able to get a response from Bwilkins (the admin who blocked the article back in April), the best option would be for me to ask for help from another admin. Tomorrow I will send the same message to another admin I know and maybe they can help you out. In the meantime, feel free to improve your article or even create another. If I know any more information, I will be sure to inform you here. Cheers, <i style="color:maroon; font-weight:normal; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Freebirds</i> <sup style="color:orange; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Howdy!  05:37, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

SeekFast article
Hello Freebirds,

Just to ask you what reliable sources should I provide, in order the article about SeekFast to be approved?

Actually, the software has been tested and approved by the most authoritative software sites. It is also used by thousands of people worldwide. I am also using it for several years.

Thank you very much in advance, Dimitar Stamenov e-mail: pamir@abv.bg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.242.134.67 (talk) 14:05, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Dimitar, and thank you for submitting your article. First of all, I would like to say that your article is very well-written and deserves a place on Wikipedia. My only concern was with the references. First, the references you have now I would list as External Links, since they are not cited in the article itself. Next, you want to add reliable sources to the article (these would include newspaper articles, magazines, news reports, etc. about SeekFast). Articles from blogs are OK as well, but just make sure they are reputable. After you have your sources, you want to use ref tags to cite them directly in the article. Other than that, everything else looks fantastic. If you have any other questions, or would like me to look over the article again, please feel free to leave a message here. Cheers, <i style="color:maroon; font-weight:normal; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Freebirds</i> <sup style="color:orange; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Howdy!  23:10, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

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New article for creation awaiting your feedback
Hi Freebirds, thank you for your time you took to review the first draft of Wikipedia article for Lindsay Levin. I have followed your feedback and updated the leaded and added additional information and references to third party sources. When you get a chance, please review. Many thanks, Kt1502 (talk) 20:55, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Kt1502. I have reviewed your article and accepted it into the mainspace, and it can now be found at Lindsay Levin. If you have any other questions or concerns, or would like me to review another article in the future, feel free to leave a message here on my talk page. Cheers mate, <i style="color:maroon; font-weight:normal; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Freebirds</i> <sup style="color:orange; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Howdy!  00:50, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Just to let you know - I've sent this to AFD as I can see no evidence that WP:BIO is met. That's not to say that you shouldn't have moved it to mainspace, but I thought I should let you know in case you want to !vote. Cheers SmartSE (talk) 11:32, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I've speedily deleted the article under WP:CSD. There's not much different from the article that was deleted under Articles for deletion/Lindsay Levin.Toddst1 (talk) 13:28, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Toddst1: Understood. I didn't notice that the page had been previously deleted. To respond to SmartSE's comment above, I felt that the article was well-written and could be improved more in the mainspace with contributions from other editors that may be able to meet WP:BIO. Cheers, <i style="color:maroon; font-weight:normal; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Freebirds</i> <sup style="color:orange; font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;">Howdy!  14:31, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

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Tevahine just wondered what happened to their draft: You un-submitted it from review with this edit because we had an older, stale, unrelated draft on the same subject at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ofer Zur. Firstly, the existence of another draft that isn't submitted for review at the same time is not a valid reason for declining a submission. Secondly, you didn't even notify Tevahine and left them with very little opportunity to determine what happened to their draft. I've given Tevahine a lengthy explanation, both of what happened and of why the draft can't be accepted in its current state, but I'd ask you to be a little more careful the next time you un-submit a draft without formally declining the submission - at the very least, please notify the author. Huon (talk) 02:50, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
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