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Hello Mus Musculus! :)

Tks for your welcome. I did already made contributions on the portuguese italian and french wikis before, but tk you all the same for ur warm welc. U 2 are recent here I suppose? Greetings from Lisbon. Portuguez 16:14, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Dark Tower
I'd be more than happy to help improve the DT articles if I am able to (I haven't read the series in a while, so some information is a bit hazy). One thing I would like to do is make articles for the main ka-tet...I mean, Patrick Danville has his own article but Jake and Eddie don't?--CyberGhostface 23:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

On Netflix
OK I agree to the finer technical details. But my point was: since Wikipedia serves almost as a free source of information for the uninitiated like me, any information that is there, is likely to be uncritically accepted. Born into Brothels in my opinion is a bad film, whose sole claim to credit lies in the theme of poverty/charity tourism. It is solely meant for an audience who have never been to Calcutta, after seeing it probably they never will. Calcutta is not the only city to have its ills. The slums of Mumbai, Manila, Ahmedabad and elsewhere in the Third World have much worse conditions than those prevailing in Calcutta. Just because Calcutta is liberal enough to allow filmmakers to shoot films like City of Joy or Born into Brothels, does not mean that that city is a repository to everything bad or abhorrent that there can be in the Third World. Contrarily, it is a much better managed and much more humane city. The same claim to liberal outlook can not be necessarily extended to other cities in India (except perhaps Mumbai; even then Mira Nair had to face a lot of trouble while shooting Salaam Bombay), which are not kind enough to many western filmmakers. And yet, its relegation to being the metaphor for everything that there can be negative in this world, has less to do with the choice of its own people than to its unique legacy of history. If you have to give another example on alternative filmmaking, why not try Rent? I was under the impression that Fahrenheit 9/11 would be a good example of alternative filmmaking, that would resonate with the largely US based Wikipedians. And yes, I would a greatly appreciate a better example (than Born into Brothels) in the Netflix article. Thanks LordGulliverofGalben

Your spoiler template fixes for the Conan stories
As your spoiler template fixes to the Conan stories ruin the page formatting for each article, please undo them. Additionally, you sometimes moved the spoiler template to the wrong section of the article. Again, as this does not improve the articles, please undo the changes. --Flask 02:28, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

BF2142
I play on my clan's server: 208.122.9.11:16567 | I haven't been on for a while, cause of PS3! My user name is GOLAASTL24 (clan tag: KoF). Mawfive 06:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That is tight. I might make one! GOLAASTL24 22:30, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

My Userbox
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2142 Discussion
I rather think I will change it to Mid priority and change 1942 to high, because 1942 started the franchise with the Battlefield idea which was copied in many other games (Quake Wars, Star Wars Battlefront, etc. William Pembroke  20:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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Regarding Eddie Dean and future Ka-Tet of the Nineteen and Ninety character pages
Thank you so much for your comment! Stuff like that really encourages you to keep editing Wikipedia and I am currently writing articles for Susannah, Jake and Oy and they'll finally be right where they should be. --Gunmetal2k4 05:42, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Reasons for my reversal reactions
I'v just realized, that I'm not a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. I've contacted Members of that WikiProject page Ccwaters & RGTraynor to review my actions (concerning the 'restrictive' guideline for the HHoF section & the 'Honored Members' section). If you believe my actions were valid, then you may revert my recent reverts or wait to see what the WikiProject members think. Either way, until this confusion (which I may have started) ends, I'm going to stand back and wait until the dust settles. PS - see my message to this WikiProject Ice Hockey member Ccwaters. Thanks for your support. GoodDay 22:28, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

FAC
My replies were calm in their origins, the sarcasm wasn't meant to be taken seriously. I was expecting constructive criticism, and I knew if it didn't go well it would work as a peer review.... it just went too slow for me, and no one seemed to be interested in the article, thus promoting the article would be impossible and I delisted so Raul wouldn't have to. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 05:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Allan Pickard, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions!  Nish kid 64  00:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

My RfA
== WikiProject Ice Hockey/Team pages format== Hello, Mus Musculus. As you may know, a consensus was reached by editors to remove the 'restrictive guideline' for the HHOF sections. As you're a WikiProject members, would you remove that guideline? GoodDay 23:52, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Randall Flagg
Erm--I've tried twice to nominate it for FA, and both times its been rejected. You can view both nominations here and here to see what went wrong and if you have any suggestions for the problems listed. I'd love to see it become Featured Article, but I'm afraid its not quite up to that level yet...--CyberGhostface 21:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Alright, thanks. Let me know if I can do anything to help.--CyberGhostface 02:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for the encouragement
Thanks for the note of encouragement. I really appreciate it. I'm usually not such a nasty person but I felt like I was under attack. I'll still keep contributing to articles and will author any articles that I come across that should be here. However, I'll be a lot more cautious. Thanks again! kaclock March 13, 2007, 19:28 (EST)

Sandra Magsamen
The changes look good, I'm changing my position to Keep. - PoliticalJunkie 22:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Shark Island
I closed as keep, as the discussion offered sufficient independent sources to be considered reliable and establish notability. Maybe the article could be considered as a merge into Bodyboarding but that wasnt part of the afd discussion. Gnangarra 23:59, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Fred Waghorne
I'm afraid I had never even heard of Fred Waghorne. I just added the lacrosse project link because the article relates to lacrosse. I don't know a lot of historical stuff about lacrosse - my specialty is the NLL, and obviously he never played there. If I do find more information on him, I'll either update the article myself or let you know. --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 23:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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HHOF Members / Other Hockey Articles
Hello Mus Musculus,

I'm not sure how new you are to wikipedia or the Ice hockey Project. I't great that you've taken an active interest in Wiki Project Ice Hockey, However I checked out your article on Al Leader and I noticed that you removed his name from the Requested Articles section but did not add his name to the New Articles section. In future when you create an Ice hockey related article be sure to add the linked name to the new articles section under the date of creation.

I'm also curious as to what your hockey specialty is so if I have questions about articles I'm creating and need advice I might be able to bounce it off of you. Just so you know I no absolutly nothing about Barnsley, Manitoba I leave those sorts of things to people who do. And where or how did you come up with the name of Mus Musculus ?.

thanks, Michael Drew 19:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)]]
 * Just so you know most people don't use the New Articles page in the wikiproject. In fact there is discussion to remove that since there is an automatically generated page in the project that already pretty much does that same thing. --Djsasso 20:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Your username
Love your Username - "Mighty Mouse" as titled for the Latin edition no? I don't suppose you have a cape and tights?Skookum1 21:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

IKY barnstar
That was very appreciated by the user who received it, and by any of the (italian) users who saw the barnstar... I proceed to removal, anyway. --Jollyroger 16:34, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

My RfA
Thank you for support in my unsuccessful RfA. I appreciate the support, and am disappointed on being judged by what in most opinions seem to be the wrong things. Until next time, edit on! :) &mdash; RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 03:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

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James Kelly Montreal Maroons
Hello There,

I'm Just wondering If you could help me find any information on an old NHL player for the Montreal Maroons. James (sometimes called Jim) Kelly played for the Montreal Maroons back in the 1920s. I can't seem to find any Information anywhere. If you could help it would be great.

Thanks, Michael Drew 20:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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Stanley Cup Peer Review
I put the Stanley Cup on peer review. I think it's ready for FA status, so I'm sort of spamming you to take a look and please provide feedback. The Evil Clown my contributions 14:40, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

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Move!
Slowpoke... -- Y not? 21:19, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Peer review
Thanks, Mus! I started to get worried that there would be no feedback; it's nice to finally have some comments. I'll address some of the points you raised a bit later; please watchlist the peer review page if you want to follow the developments. Thanks again!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:43, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks
Thanks for looking over the Campus of Michigan State University Article. Your Ideas for making it better, have been Helpful, Should I contact you when the changes you gave have been made. Max ╦╩ 17:48, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

TeckWiz's RFA
Hey Mus Musculus. Thanks for supporting my unsuccessful RFA this week under my old name, TeckWiz. I'm now known simply as User:R. I hope to keep helping and improving Wikipedia alongside you. -- TeckWiz is now R Parlate Contribs@(Lets go Yankees!) 21:26, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Narasimha Rao
Hi. Thanks for volunteering to review this article. I have tried to implement your suggestions. Do you think that the article is ready for a GA status now? Please comment. Cheers--Shahab 12:46, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

My RfA


Hello, thank you for supporting my RfA! I was promoted with a final tally of 68/12/0. Also, please wish a Happy Birthday to Her Majesty the Queen. Vivat Regina!

GA review
Thanks Mus Musculus. Cheers.--Shahab 18:53, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

You do good work
Browsing some user pages, and I spotted your contributions. Good job...

The Original Barnstar &mdash; for your tireless contributions to the encyclopedia, and for working away in your own special way (I've never came across you, but your contrib's are great :) I, Anthony, award you - Mus Musculus - the Original Barnstar. Well done!


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Fighting in Ice Hockey
I'm impressed, the article is really good. The references and the prose are definitely there. If I had to make a few suggestions, I would say that the lead may be a little too long, and that all of the references need to consistently come after punctuation (like a period, or semicolon) but I only saw that not done in a few places. Generally most articles go through the GA process first but if you're feeling bold then I'd say give it a shot at WP:FAC. It's not like you have anything to lose. Sportskido8 08:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Template
Thanks :) It was influenced by User:Tony1's FAR template. &mdash; Deckiller 11:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Fighting in ice hockey
Right, fair enough, I was wondering why those four were selected, but I agree in one sense, however your source is a book, which since people cannot really read the book and cannot see the source material they still won't be discouraged from inserting their favourite hockey fighters as you say. I'm not too worried about that because its not really of question inserting my favourite fighters, those historical ones are probably the five most important fighters to the evolution of fighting in the game. And with favourite fighters, I would say the kinds of people that would insert their favourite fighters would screw around with the modern fighters section, no matter how its sourced in a book. I'm pretty confident that sentence will not really make too much of a difference anyways, however if another source can be found that can better attribute the growth of fighting to the right people (unlike someone like Wayne Cashman or Clark Gillies, who never had more than 100 PIM in a season in his career) then that's awesome. Croat Canuck  Go Leafs Go   15:04, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Image reply
What licence is acceptable? --Krm500 09:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank You
Thank you very much for the barnstar, it is greatly appreciated, it is my first one and I shall treasure it forever. Croat Canuck  Go Leafs Go   16:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Jaromir Jagr
I've moved the page back, to it's Anglonized title (as the consensus at talk: Jaromir Jagr calls for). Actually, alot of Euro-NHL player pages have been 'moved' to diacritical titles (without a consensus, notably Marian Gaborik). GoodDay 22:37, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I hope you were not suggesting my move lacked courtesy. You simply could have reverted it yourself, and informed me: "I have moved Jaromir Jagr's article back, since the last consensus vote decided to leave out diacrtics." If you look at the edits following the Jagr move, you will see that I edited the list of National Hockey League statistical leaders, specifically by changing the wikilinks to point directly at the players' names, not the dull anglicized versions of their names. On that list we have Jean Béliveau, Peter Šťastný, Anton Šťastný, Marián Šťastný, Teemu Selänne, Nicklas Lidström, Dominik Hašek, Olaf Kölzig, Niklas Bäckström, Roman Čechmánek, and Manny Legacé, all of whom use diacrtics in their names, and all of whom have Wikipedia articles that conform to their actual names. I found it strange that Jagr's article did not follow this (apparent) convention, since Jaromír Jágr is his actual name, not Jaromir Jagr. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 16:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)


 * No problem. Reading that courtesy comment almost made me forgot there are no angry mastodons. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 17:17, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Reply
Wow that was quick, have you been stalking my user page? lol... I already kinda miss the mop actually, my reasons for leaving were actually because I honestly thought I was done for good in February so I resigned my adminship, but two months later circumstances changed and I was back on. Having said that, by no fault of my own, I don't even think if I try to get the mop back I'll even be accepted, its crazy how high the standards have gotten these days. Croat Canuck Go Leafs Go 18:07, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah good point, but we'll see. I'm not gonna make a point to try for it, but if someone nominates me I guess I'll have no choice but to go for it (not telling you to read between the lines, I'm just saying...) Croat Canuck  Go Leafs Go 16:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Hey, why not eh? By the way I wasn't implying that you should or you shouldn't nominate me, but if your up to it sure I'll go for it... I'm currently working afternoons so I wouldn't be able to answer the answers until tomorrow morning at the earliest, or maybe when i get home around 2 AM EST, lol. We'll see. But be sure to let me know if you do do it. And you say I'll pass with flying colours eh? Well if I don't, you owe me a coke, haha. Croat Canuck  Go Leafs Go 18:11, 1 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Haha, its no problem, and I got to 5/0/0 which is cool. But I'll check it out. Thanks for all your help. Croat Canuck  Go Leafs Go 15:17, 2 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Alright I'm done, let's see how this all turns out. Croat Canuck  Go Leafs Go 06:25, 2 May 2007 (UTC)


 * hahaha, yeah was Jeremy Roenick being a jerk to you? Oh you poor baby! Here, I'll sign that puck for you. Haha. Croat Canuck  Go Leafs Go 15:29, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

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