User talk:Michael Drüing

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Category:User swg-N
I han do redirects aglegt nach Category:User als-N, gugg amole ob dees paßd so mit selle Kategoria.-- Matthead discuß!    O       14:40, 13 January 2007 (UTC).

It's obvious why it was removed, it was just ramblings and musings. There is no reason for them to be excluded from the list. Artipol 07:44, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Mit sellem sodd mr ebbs do, so wias scheint. Mir sent oineweg bloß drei Kerle, net amole sieba Schwoba. -- Matthead discuß!     O       02:45, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Standupdrama.gif
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Fair use disputed for Image:Stand Up!! school comparison.jpg
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Your chess games
Hello Michael,

I know you asked for no comments about your chess games, but I'm afraid my curiosity has got the better of me! In your game vs. Conni, white's g2 pawn seems to disappear without trace between moves two and three. I assume this is a mistake, unless you're playing some very strange version of chess indeed?

Cheers, Olaf Davis (talk) 18:08, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Stand_Up!!_school_comparison.jpg
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Magazine project
Hi. I don't know if you're still active, but you listed on the Magazine Wikiproject that you had the June 1992 issue of Play Time, a German game magazine. I'm currently working on the Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss article, trying to get it to Featured status, and I'm looking to include reviews from non-English sources. The magazine gave it "Game of the Month", so I assume there was a write-up about it. If you have the time, it would be really great if you could find me the following information about it:


 * The author's name.


 * The issue number.


 * The page numbers for the write-up.


 * If possible, a scan of the write-up.


 * The title of the write-up, in the original German.

The article as of right now probably doesn't have a wide enough range of reviews to pass FAC, so if you could do this, I would be eternally grateful. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 05:00, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I can wait. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 09:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * This is hugely helpful. Thank you so much. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 20:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikiproject for Ultima related topics created. Please join us.
Since you are a fan of the Ultima series, I thought I'd contact you ask if you were interested in our new WikiProject dedicated to improving all Ultima related articles on Wikipedia. If so, please sign up at WikiProject_Video_games/Ultima  D r e a m Focus  15:17, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Revision to Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri articles
I noticed that you have revised either Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri or Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire.

I intend to revise those articles following the WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines. There are more details on the discussion pages of those articles. I'd be interested in any comments you have. It would be best if your comments were on the discussion pages of the two articles.

Thank you.

Vyeh (talk) 02:20, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

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Non-free rationale for File:Stand Up!! Shou-chan.jpg
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Reference Library request
Hello, I noticed that you had listed your name as a contact for the German Play Time magazine, and I was wondering if I could get some information from you regarding the Game Boy version of the game, Gauntlet II as it appears in the June 1992 issue of Play Time. If possible could you please make me a scan, or provide the text or a summary, or anything else. Thanks in advance, -Thibbs (talk) 17:06, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry to bug you again, but if you have it available, can you tell me the page number of this article and the name of the article's author or the editor in chief? Thanks again! -Thibbs (talk) 19:36, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest
I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 03:09, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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