User talk:Joshua Issac/Archive 1

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Indian rupee
Could you please expand on your recent edit to Indian rupee. Which regions? Dove1950 22:34, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Ogame Edits
as per WP:External

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i am replacing external ogame website links. Anubis1055 18:45, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Novels WikiProject
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Citizendium as a free source?
Hello. Until Citizendium has decided upon a license and officially licensed their articles under said license (and it proves to be compatible with the GFDL), we can't use their material. A shame though, it was a good article. Thanks! henrik •talk  21:05, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Novels - 1st Coordinators Election
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Carlos Castaneda Article
Hi Joshua. Could you talk to me about why you created this section Talk:Carlos_Castaneda on the Castaneda talk pages. It had been marked as "Inappropriate tone|date=December 2007" and should probably been more appropriately marked as "original research" (I wasn't the one who had tagged it). Anyhow, there has never been any conflict over either its marking as inappropriate or its deletion, so I was wondering what your philosophy was here. Thanks. -Tom Mmyotis (talk) 10:39, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you Joshua. Mmyotis ^^o^^  01:07, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Level of Grammar
Could you rate my English with one of those branstar things? I see you have a level of 3. My last contribution is here: Siege of Fort Meigs.InternetHero (talk) 01:12, 16 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know what you gave me, but thanks. InternetHero (talk) 16:31, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. Joshua Issac (talk) 17:43, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

So how's my English? That's what I was talking about in the first place. InternetHero (talk) 01:14, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I think your English is very good. Joshua Issac (talk) 10:45, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. InternetHero (talk) 14:52, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure
Anything is welcome, add as you will.

Spassibo. TK/Pavel —Preceding unsigned comment added by TK002 (talk • contribs) 22:38, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Out of curiosity
I was just wondering, you recently did a revert on the Ben Michell page with the edit summary as: Reverted 1 edit by AlixSays identified as vandalism to last revision by Epbr123. I was wondering if that's something you've written out yourself or it's a template used for vandalism? steve king 89 19:46, 20 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I just changed parts of the default text (Undid revision xxxxxxxx by NAME). It is not a template. Joshua Issac (talk) 21:18, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
Hello. I'm contacting you and other members of WikiProject Books in order to find if you are interested in collaborating to expand and improve The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence article to make it worthy of becoming a featured article candidate, in light of the fact that it is the first book the U.S. government ever went to court to censor before its publication. --Loremaster (talk) 22:20, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

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WP:KERALA
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Re:KamikazeBot
Think you for information, I don't wish to edit from this account, becouse I made only universal account. Perhabs, in the future, when I en-3 or en-4, I should be edit Karol007 (talk) 09:24, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

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+ACC flag
Hi, I have granted you account creator rights so you can continue working in the account creation process. The flag may be removed if your activity ceases - any problems/questions, give me or another admin a shout. Cheers. WilliamH (talk) 13:02, 11 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Joshua Issac (talk) 17:46, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

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Calling all active WP:NOVELS members
<div align="left" style="background: #ffffff; border: ridge; border-width: 4px; border-color: red; padding: 10px;"> WikiProject Novels Roll Call WikiProject Novels is currently holding a roll call, which we hope to have annually. Your username is listed on the members list, but we are unsure as to which editors are still active within the project. If you still consider yourself an active WP:Novels editor, please add your name back to the Active Members list. Also feel free to join any of our task forces and take a look at the project's Job Centre to get involved!

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The WikiProject Novels Newsletter - October 2008

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The Working Man's Barnstar

 * Thank you! Copied to /Awards. --Joshua Issac (talk) 11:25, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

WP:ACC
Regarding:
 * #15736
 * #15744
 * #15743

These accounts are not taken. I left a message on the site notices (the green bit at the top) saying triple-check that the account is taken before marking it as such. Take a look on Special:ListUsers - I can't see any of those accounts, meaning they don't exist. Try editing the user's talk pages - you'll get a message saying they don't exist. Yes, the signup form might state that the account is taken, but it seems to be throwing false positives at the moment, so don't trust it. Sorry if I'm a bit annoyed, but you are the third person I've had to say this to. In future, please can you make sure you read the site notice if you don't already, and actually take on board what it says. Incidentally, #15736 and #15744 have now recieved two "taken" emails, and one "account created" email, while the accounts doesn't even exist; and #15743 has recieved two "account created" emails, and one "taken" email, and their account doesn't exist either. I'm trying to save them from confusion, but I fear it's not working. Sorry for the nag - I'm not usually like this. :-) <font face="Verdana"> Stwalkerster [  talk  ]  19:23, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, I'm sorry. --Joshua Issac (talk) 23:29, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

I also dropped one of the requests when I noticed that Account Creators had already marked them "Taken". -Joshua Issac (talk) 23:32, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I've emailed the people explaining what's happened, as it must've been some bug in the software. Don't worry about it, looking back at the comment I wrote I think I was probabally a bit too harsh on you. Sorry about that - I was pretty annoyed at the time. Hopefully, the issue is resolved now, so there's nothing for anyone to worry about. :-) <font face="Verdana"> Stwalkerster [  talk  ]  23:54, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

The WikiProject Novels Newsletter - November 2008
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Sure
Sure do whatever you want. All the help i can get. Sorry for late reply. -Kygistan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.188.72.187 (talk) 21:54, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Archenemy's
I have often stressed that if there is no reliable third person evidence to support that a statement is true it should be removed as per WP:PROVEIT

Dwanyewest (talk) 14:41, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * Thank you! Copied to /Awards. --Joshua Issac (talk) 02:27, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reminding me about that image on Travian

Stealth (talk)

Moo Mesa
Generally, articles don't need 30-odd fairuse images. This page currently has a photo for every character, which is rather indiscriminate. We're not a fansite, we don't need pictures of everything. At the least we could probably save a couple of the most important character (preferably all the main characters in one shot, like in Chowder (TV series)). I wasn't sure which characters were the most important so I listed them all. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 20:10, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in my RfA
I just wanted to take a moment to say "thank you" for taking the time and effort to participate in my recent RfA. As you may know, the discussion closed 66/0/1 and I'm now a holder of the mop. I will keep working to improve the encyclopedia and appreciate the trust which you have placed in me. - Dravecky (talk) 23:53, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

ACC
Yea, sorry about that. Should be fixed now. Feel free to join us on. Prodego <sup style="color:darkgreen;">talk  00:57, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

De-proding
Where were you until now?... I've had lots of troubles with other editors who claim that IMDb is not a source, at least a good or a reliable one! They've even deleted Jamie Anne Allman's page because despite having about a dozen film participations the only source was IMDb!... G.-M. Cupertino (talk) 18:13, 16 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I noticed the person who was on a ding spree because one of the pages were on my watchlist. I will try add more sources to the article I de-prodded, in the Christmas holidays. Good work with the articles you have created – there are so many of them. --Joshua Issac (talk) 18:18, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks!... G.-M. Cupertino (talk) 15:28, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Germaine Greer's atheism
Thanks for digging up a source, but I'm not sure the Milesian Society meets the criteria of WP:RS, and it's possible that they've just plucked the word "atheist" out of a more complex Greer quote. Can you find anything more reliable? (It'd also be good to actually mention her atheism in the body of the article, if only as a throwaway sentence, rather than burying a reference in an invisible comment.) Thanks. --McGeddon (talk) 15:18, 19 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I managed to find a blog about Germaine Greer, referring to one of her books in which she describes herself as an "atheist Catholic". Greer also appears on the Famous Atheists webpage on the Machines Like Us website, and in the atheists' category in the Celebrity Atheist List. --Joshua Issac (talk) 16:25, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Comparison of historical reenactment events
I have proposed that Comparison of historical reenactment events be merged into List of historical reenactment events. You can leave your comments here Talk:List of historical reenactment events. Thanks, --Patar knight - chat/contributions 01:36, 30 December 2008 (UTC)