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Leaving wikipedia?
I know you reverted this, but I'm just wondering if everything's OK? I sure hope so! G1 gg  y  !  Review me! 03:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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RfA / Checkuser
Hi, just wanted to let you know that a checkuser has been completed on the SPA who supported my RfA, they were sockpuppets of User:Molag Bal. Best wishes/ Pax:Vobiscum 06:00, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

good boy
Hi, Funpika! Being a good boy? (to others: inside joke, a few are still mad). I've decided to follow your footsteps for now as far as your checkuser clerk career. Maybe again some other time. VK35 17:01, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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Mediation Cabal
I see you are the mediator on Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-06-15 WikiProject Baseball. You want to double team and cover the former case and this one together? ~  Wi ki her mit  01:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

m:User:Funpika
Since your user page doesn't say you have a page on meta wiki, lack of authentification proof, the endorsement submitted by that account will be removed. Just for your information. --Aphaia 05:12, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes it does. Did you look at my userboxes. One of them should link to my meta page. Fun  Pika  13:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Unstable (song)
So, let me understand this...you've decided to delete it or not?

My test worked? Does that mean I'm in the clear? It has been reverted? Its still there?

I'm sorry if I don't understand it, as I've said I'm new.
 * Here is the test edit. Fun  Pika  00:05, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Well done. You've given me faith that Wikipedia is actually a reasonable source of information.

All the best

PS I am responsible for the greenest university in th UK - search the Times Higher Education web pages.

Cheers

Mark.

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I reviewed you. Shalom Hello 05:30, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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Tecmo deletions
Hi. While you are mediating the baseball matter, Tecmo is back deleting the ELs that are the very subject of the discussion. See This is highly disruptive. Can you please address? Thanks. --Epeefleche 17:45, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

MedCab
There is an ongoing discussion at Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-06-26 List of Mario series enemies, and you are listed as an involved party there. Would it be okay, if you would like to be involved in the mediation there, if I mediate the case? Cool  Blue talk to me 20:08, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, you're better off taking that up with the guy that started the MedCab case. You don't have to participate. Cool  Blue talk to me 21:55, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

MedCab: Spoiler
Noticed you signed on as mediator, for this. You may want to see Requests for arbitration. Currently at 0/1/0/0 to decline the case, but it's got a good number of statements from involved users, and I always hate being in the dark when trying to mediate, so thought you might like to know. – Luna Santin  (talk) 21:30, 28 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey there. Thanks for taking the case on. I hope you know what you're getting yourself in for, as the amount of discussion on this issue probably exceeds the length of the collected works of Shakespeare. Literally. Anyway, good luck, and I hope we can come to an amicable conclusion. -Kieran 01:49, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Asking for help on MedCab Spoiler
I see you've decided to try and handle it on your own. I did drop a message at Addhoc's talk page asking for help, so let's see what happens with that. I think it's likely to be a tough case, and asking for help could be quite wise, but let's see how we go? -Kieran 02:49, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I will put the message back on. Fun  Pika  11:42, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, I didn't look before saying that. He is already helping. Fun  Pika  11:44, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

VIP
Hey FunPika. Thank you for your help at User:Salaskan/Vandalism is pointless. I see you placed an "essay" tag on top; however, this page is intended at potential vandals and if they read "this is not necessarily true, merely an essay", they may just take it less seriously. I had already included it in the Category:Wikipedia essays so we can easily find it, though. What about this kind of construction? It is also used at other pages intended for a more general audience, like WP:10T.  Sala Skan  13:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

LULU and Curtis Doebbler Edits
Dear FunPika, You posted concerns about my adding to Lulu and Curtis Doebbler pages. As concerns Lulu you claimed that the addition of text indicating that Lulu provided printing and distribution services to small publishers was not supported. In fact this addition was based on my research which determined that [cdpublishing.org], a samll publisher, uses Lulu for printing and distribution.. As concerns Curtis Doebbler you claimed that a link that was added did not meet the Wikipedia requirements, can you be more specific? I do not understand your last concern enough to be able to respond to it. Thank you in advance and thank you for your contribtutions to Wikipedia. --Robert 07:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

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RfB story
[] make that two promoted.  Kwsn (Ni!) 03:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey FunPika, do you mind company writing the RfB story? I'm following everything, but not really participating. Some of the recent developments (narrow promotion for Andrevan and extension for Ral315) make everything more interesting and add a layer of complexity that makes me think it would be interesting to write about. Cheers!--Chaser - T 05:37, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you!
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Your warning tag on my discussion page...
Well, I don't know what to say, really. I haven't yet ever been tagged for anything and that certainly wasn't the first time that I had done something like that when someone seemed to be a persistent vandal to me. That said, Wknight94 already addressed it in the edit summaries, and I already responded here. I appreciate your diligence, but I'm removing your tag from my talk page unless you have a serious objection. I think if you check my edit log, you'll see that I'm pretty active in fighting vandalism. Douglasmtaylor 15:33, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Fine with me. :) Fun  Pika  20:32, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

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VK35
Because I have been inactive for about 3 1/2 months I have not noticed whats been going on. I noticed VK35 was blocked indefinitley because of sockpuppeting. Do you know what made this go on? I used to be a sockpuppet at one time also. I suppose I could have helped bail him out of this mess but I wasn't here. Its to bad because he made me a good user and gave me my Wikismarts. Also I AM NOT VK35, I almost got banned from Wikipedia and would not try it again. I just want to know why this happened.69.145.163.26 20:03, 6 August 2007 (UTC) and [user:Wiki-wikify]

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Dont worry pika, look in talk:runescape's archives, you'll see me down to 6 *i think*, you'll find that im no wikinoob and i know what im doing, just trying to get some information. Glad to see you care about the well being of the page though. Thanks ya, <font color="Red"> → p00rleno (lvl 88) ← <font color="Green">ROCKS CRS <Font Color= "light blue"> 00:27, 21 November 2007 (UTC)  </Font>

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Image notice and subsequent notice removal
Might you explain this edit? Had I not been in the practice of checking my watchlist, i might have missed it being posted, and would not have known to visit the image and explore what sort of issue was occuring. Perhaps you could explain it to me, so i don't arrive at a misconceived conclusion. - Arcayne   (cast a spell)  01:54, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, that makes sense. And I see that Melesse resized it. Out of curiosity (and ecause I typically upload a lot of images), how big is too big? - Arcayne   (cast a spell)  02:03, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

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