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 For the 2007 Rugby World Cup WikiProject Rugby union is launching an Improvement Drive for national rugby union teams; specifically those participating in the Rugby World Cup. We need your help! Here is what you can do: The World Cup is fast approaching and these articles are going to get a lot more hits during the tournament. It would be great if we could have them at a high standard!
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Babe Zaharias
Hey, thank you for the kind words and encouragement! I like your photos, too, but you might want to check the link from your userpage. Looks like a bot gotcha (by accident). Speaking of photos, I'm still trying to get a good public domain pic of her for the piece. -- LisaSmall T/ C 00:40, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

England national rugby union team FAC
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Hi Gareth
Some Zionist thug is deleting my improvements to the Menachem Begin page. I detailed Begin's involvement in the Deir Yassin Massacre and the shock it elicited from many Jewish thinkers and leaders including Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt and others, which is evidenced by a letter they published to the New York Times in December 1948 calling Begin's party a fascist party, accusing Begin of terrorism, and warning the public not to allow Begin to visit the US and not to give money to his party. But the Zionist hooligans on Wikipedia, true to Zionistic smear and intimidation tactics, want to hide the truth. Since I'm new, I need some help: How can I undo their deletions? How can I complain? Thanks, Firstamend 14:38, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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Ato Bolden
I noticed you added the drug allegations to Maurice Greene. I added details of a letter from Ato Bolden concerning Greene to Boldens page, and wondered if you had heard of it? Gareth E Kegg (talk) 23:59, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

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Gareth Owen
Gareth Owen.

Remember 12 December 2001? Creating your own article on Wikipedia, lol. Sorry if this is an unwelcome reminder, I just thought 'blow me, Vales new loan signing is a Wikipedian', obviously I now see that that isn't the case, but 7 years eh? Where does the time go?--EchetusXe (talk) 23:40, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * In my defence, that was two months before the User: namespace. But yeah, 2001 and seems a long time ago. -- GWO (talk)

Your user page
I found your old user page while checking out some old deleted contributions. I have history merged it, so that all edits are in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham 87 04:36, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

disaster ?
Hello Gareth, I left a wikipedia theory theses on my page. May be this is a disaster ;) gr. Paul --Paul Conradi (talk) 11:39, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

disaster II
Hello Gareth, I am a user from Germany. On another user page I found the bonmot "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster" and a link to your page. Is this really from you? It is very true and describes exactly what I try to explain to people who are not familiar with wikipedia. Greetings -- Zigg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.129.105.17 (talk) 13:39, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


 * It does sound like something I might have coined, but to be completely honest, I can't remember anymore. Sorry ;(

Proposed deletion of Rock and roll.


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RfD nomination of Rock and roll.
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Theory and Practice
Gareth, you are sometimes attributed as the source of the statement on your user page: "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster". Is this true, if not, I'd love to know how you came by the statement? --Reagle (talk) 14:20, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Tamim Iqbal profile picture
Gareth, I have no idea why you changed/added Tamim Iqbal's picture to a completely wrong one! The picture you uploaded was Bangladeshi pace bowler Shafiul Islam's, not Tamim Iqbal's. This is a wrong photo of Tamim Iqbal and please upload the right picture. gromell —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gromell (talk • contribs) 19:24, 25 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry, genuine case of mistaken identity. -- 87.115.7.165 (talk) 06:47, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

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 * That's not my picture. I uploaded one of that name -- ooh, about 10 years ago -- but someone has overwritten it with a shot of their own. -- GWO (talk)

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Hi Gareth, I found your user talk page while doing some wikiarchaeology. . I have restored all of its earliest surviving revisions from old copies of the Wikipedia database, so they are available to everyone now. Hope you don't mind. Nice Wikimedia Blog profile, by the way! Graham 87 10:47, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

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Hello There
How are you lol? Runningboy21 (talk) 13:48, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

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