User talk:Macbookair3140

Don't expect an instant reply.
I only come here and do 1-5 edits per month due to me semi-retiring.

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Happy New Year
Dear Macbookair3140, I just wanted to wish you and your family a happy new year, however you're celebrating it. Whether 2008 was a good year for you, or if it wasn't the greatest year, hopefully 2009 will be better. Cheers, and happy editing in 2009 :-),

 A s hb e y  Ӝ 00:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

time zone error (I'm on UTC-5) --macbookair3140 (talk) 00:34, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * So am I, but it's 2009 in UTC (which is the time Wikipedia uses) Cheers and keep up the good work :-),--  A s hb e y  Ӝ 00:35, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Checking talk pages
Before you add a tag to an article (such as the "very long" tag to Line of succession to the British throne), it's usually best to look at the talk page. In this particular case, this issue has been discussed at enormous length already. Everybody who uses the page knows that it's long. In this case, a tag is not useful. Noel S McFerran (talk) 20:05, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

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Careful
Don't give admins warning messages for having tried to clean up pagemove vandalism.

Aside from that, keep up the good work. DS (talk) 02:49, 10 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok, --macbookair3140 (talk) 18:37, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Your request for rollback
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Edit count
Ridiculous Yeah, I have a nonsensically high edit count. Special:Preferences says that I have 458,634 (right now), but I know that I have about 53,000 deleted edits as well... If you need to review my edits about something or don't understand what I did, please let me know. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:16, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh! You tacitly did ask me a question about my edits: I have mostly done maintenance lately and in the past year, that involved categorization of album articles for about six months and tagging talk pages (from all talk namespaces) for the past six months or so. I have made substantial edit to the following articles lately:
 * My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
 * Live Show
 * Magnapop
 * List of The Smashing Pumpkins band members
 * George Orwell bibliography
 * Small Craft On a Milk Sea
 * If you want to see what I've done in the article namespace, you can check my userpage: I have some topicon-style stars that lead to my most substantial article edits and I have a table about halfway down of article that I have created or expanded. Anyway, if you have more questions about my editing--explicit or implicit--please let me know. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:20, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Weldon Henson I am worst about writing prose--especially biographical prose--so I'm really not sure if I can be of assistance in editing this article. Allmusic doesn't have a biography for him, I don't immediately see anything useful from Google, and Google Books has nothing. Simply put, he may not meet notability requirements. Do you have any good sources who have written about this guy? How did you find out about him? If you want help, you can try posting to the talk pages of related WIkiProjects, but that might not be fruitful for you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:25, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Barbie
Hello, regarding your question at Talk:Barbie, there's really no need to bring up such an old issue (over two years old) to discussion (see WP:DENY and WP:BEANS.) If you think protection is necessary, it's better if you report it directly to WP:RFPP. Regards, Siawase (talk) 20:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

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MacBook Air photo nominated for deletion (Template:User MacBook Air)
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