User talk:Mbecker/Archive 6

Fundraising data formatting
Michael, Many thanks for offering to help with the data formatting. Is there an address where I could send you a sample text file? Basically it would be most useful to me if you could great a tab-separated text file sort of like this:


 * Date 	Time 	Name 	Subject 	Currency 	Gross 	Fee 	Net 	Note 	Anonymity 	Comment
 * 02/17/05 	07:39:56 pm 	Anonymous 	One time donation 	AUD 	20.00 	-1.10 	18.90
 * 02/17/05 	07:50:23 pm 	Anonymous 	One time donation 	AUD 	30.00 	-1.45 	28.55
 * 02/17/05 	09:04:54 pm 	David Mills 	One time donation 	AUD 	20.00 	-1.10 	18.90

where the tabs are between the fields on the first row above, and a space is blank if a datum is missing.

Do you think this would be possible? Thanks! Jeremy Tobacman 22:49, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

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Fundraising committee
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I was clearing out Wikipedians/Pennsylvania. I added this template to your page. Feel free to remove it, and thanks for understanding. --evrik 04:26, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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Hello, thanks, and a question
Hello, and thank you for helping with the article on Stanley Zietz. I hope others will help to improve the article on this genius who died too young, helped others, and was optimistic, strong and worth noting.

Question: why was my editing of Philadelphia (magazine) vandalism? I truly do not understand. I added only true statements and supplied references; indeed, I could provide more references. I read what vandalism is and what it is not, and what I added/changed clearly was among "what vandalism is not". I want to do no harm, but I believe in presenting the whole truth, not just partial truth, albeit controversial. Please advise; I want to know, so that I can supply information, the whole truth, yet not do anything wrong. What criteria of vandalism were involved? Please list them, and let us discuss this in a civil, friendly manner. Thank you again. Alfred Legrand 11:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikimedia Pennsylvania
Hello there!

I'm writing to inform you that we are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:
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Thanks and I hope you join up!  Cbrown1023   talk   03:48, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

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 * Since you hadn't edited the page since 2005, you might have forgotten that it existed; it looks like something you created in response to situations that have long passed. I deleted it under CSD G10 and closed and delisted the MfD, since it seems silly to draw a lot of attention to a page that hasn't been edited for 2 1/2 years. I hope that any remaining issues with the page can be resolved with talk page discussion between the nominator, you, and me. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 12:26, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

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