User talk:Lousyd

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Welcome to Wikipedia, ! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:


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I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. We can use all the help we can get! Have a nice day. Sincerely, Ryan. 05:37, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

-- Please don't remove comments and posts from article talk pages, and most especially don't ever reword the comments of others and sign your own name to them, as you did here on the Buffalo, N.Y. talk page. -EDM 01:49, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not so much being new as is having a blank talk page. It's almost a sin to have a clear talk page, so the welcoming committee comes in and fills it up. :P Ryan 09:08, August 3, 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry about the rewording. But about the removing of comments... what if the comments are irrelevant?  I just removed a comment on the Adam_Smith talk page questioning statements on the article page about Adam Smith's sexuality.  But there were no longer any statements about sexuality.

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Far Manager
Hey,

Just to let you know, your edit on Far Manager replaced all Cyrillic characters with question marks. I've reverted the article to its state before your edits, and attempted to reapply successive edits on top of that. You may want to review your editing setup to avoid introducing errors in articles again.

Also, did you move the page to Far Manager (software) because Wikipedia was preventing you from moving it to Far Manager? Because "(software)" is unnecessary in this case because the software's name is unambiguous.

--Vladimir (talk) 05:01, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Decorah, Iowa
Please do not readd any content about the critter until you are able to add a reliably sourced reference stating unequivocally that it was named after the city. Thank you. John from Idegon (talk) 02:50, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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