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Image recreation requests
Greetings. I just started the Image recreation requests project, and I thought you might be interested. Your help would be greatly appreciated. (I got your name from the list at Wikipedians/Graphic Artists.) Best regards, – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 03:13, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)


 * Sure, I'll drop by when I'm in the mood to do some doodling. Unfortunately I can only access the web at work, and my tools are on my laptop.   &mdash; PhilHibbs | talk 10:35, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Graphics Lab
I saw your name listed on Wikiproject Illustration or  the list of graphic artists, and I thought I'd let you know that a Graphics Lab has been created on EN. Based on the highly successful French and German graphics labs, it seeks to better organise and coordinate our graphic design and photo-editing efforts. Up until now, there has been no common space on EN where users could ask for maps, charts and other SVG files to be created. What's more, the Graphics Lab has discussion boards, tips, tools and links; in sum, a good common workspace. Come help us out! The infrastucture is already in place, and now we need participants. :) -- Zantastik  talk  02:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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AfD: Ctime
FYI, I've nominated ctime for deletion. — Loadmaster 15:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Test
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[:Image:Halo jones.png]]
Is the permission fromarly filed with the relevant part of the OTRS system? ShakespeareFan00 10:48, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

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 * FYI, I restored the redirects. I found your argument perfectly reasonable, and the existence of the term on the article page sealed the deal. &mdash; Scientizzle 16:21, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Kung fu master mame.png
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Frank Gasperik restored
Done. I restored the page to its revision directly before my deletion. Good luck! Jmlk 1  7  08:30, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Help desk inquiry
No, Wikipedia has whole website duplicates, that do not link back here. They copy the very framework of the site. Anyways that information is totaly free, and we have a statement somewhere that says something about that. But it's the FREE encyclopedia, and only the logo is trademark.-- Kkr ouni  /Ккроуни  /ΚκρΩυνι  16:54, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that doesn't help. My example is of someone who doesn't want to clone the database, just wants to link to an article in order to conform with the GFDL (the link provides attribution to the authors), but then the article is deleted and so the content is no longer attributed and so the GFDL is violated. — PhilHibbs | talk 09:00, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

WP:PUNC
I don't think WP:PUNC says that commas should go outside quotation marks every single time. That rule only applies when quoting what somebody has said. It doesn't mean that they also have to go outside the quote marks around titles of books, films, articles etc.. Richard75 19:15, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Well the title of the book doesn't contain a full stop or a comma, so it's misleading to put one in there, I think that's the principle. Accuracy over style. — PhilHibbs | talk 20:37, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Well OK then, I don't want to mislead anyone. Richard75 18:26, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * And as to the "I am the law," I had a suspicion that the comma was in the song title but I checked the article on the album and didn't see it there - is there really a comma in the song title? — PhilHibbs | talk 20:40, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
 * No, that was a mistake on my part, rushing an edit. I have changed it back. Sorry about that. Richard75 18:26, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Cell (biology) protection
The protection expires on Friday. Tim Vickers 15:18, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

User:Richardb/colour in Wiktionary
Feel free to delete this. --Richardb43 09:35, 2 October 2007 (UTC) (Ricahrdb in Wiktionary)

Wikipedia for Schools
If you send me a postal address using my wikipedia email I will mail you a free copy on a physical DVD. --BozMo talk 15:04, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your kind offer - I have found a torrent of a .tar.gz that seems to have more peers than the .zip version, if I run into problems though I'll ask. — PhilHibbs | talk 11:04, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

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Your edit of Christopher
You should have checked it, here is what you did. You weren't the only one though. dougweller (talk) 13:22, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

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Not aardvarks?
How can you not like aardvarks? Where has order tubulidentata failed you???--Varkman (talk) 14:36, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Your draft article, Draft:Txikipedia


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