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Marv Diemer
Hi-Marv Diemer died recently. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives. I wanted to ping you on this. Thanks-RFD (talk) 10:23, 25 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you again for keeping an eye on these things! I'm not currently editing much due to RL issues, but hope to be back at it soon. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 06:53, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

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Sorry for the intrusion, but...
Hey, Philosopher, I noticed that you were having some trouble with the CSS. I believe the problem is that you can't use the double-slash method of commenting in CSS; I think it only accepts the slash-start method. I took the liberty of removing it from your CSS page; let me know if it starts working. Thanks! Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 20:20, 3 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks a ton! It's working beautifully now.  --– Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:22, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Notifications box replacement prototypes released
Hey Philosopher; Kaldari has finished scripting a set of potential replacements available to test and give feedback on. Please go to this thread for more detail on how to enable them. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:28, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Cool! Thanks for letting me know - I probably won't be able to try them out in them out in the next couple of days, unfortunately, but will take a look at that page when I can. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:10, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, that's what it's about! Right, posting there very soon. Thanks for sharing! – Philosopher Let us reason together. 05:07, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

It's always nice to get unexpected help...
...I gave my appreciation at my talkpage.TMCk (talk) 22:22, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Lawrence Pope
Hi-I want to ping you about Lawrence Pope who died recently. He taught at Drake University and served in the Iowa House of Representatives. Thanks-RFD (talk) 10:53, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you! – Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:53, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Re: Proofreading please (from the spanish Wikipedia)
Hi Philosopher. Thank you for writing on Spanish's Wikipedia. I saw your page, and an article like this, maybe can be deleted, because a lack of references. I will take your external links section and use it for references. But, if you have other references, please show it. Good luck. Jmvkrecords ⚜ Intra Talk 08:01, 26 May 2013 (UTC).

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Hello. Created your es:User:Philosopher/common.js. Regards, Mercedes Gusgus talk 20:11, 11 June 2013 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gusgus (talk • contribs)
 * Thanks! – Philosopher Let us reason together. 02:36, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

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Automatically assessed
Hallo, just saw your comment here, and as the deletion is closed I can't comment, so I do it here ;-). Nobody knows when someone starts to automatically assess talk pages. It happened for the WP Chemistry project in March (one example here: Talk:W49), but "luckily" the project had a Category:Automatically assessed Chemistry articles :-) (Most of the articles in that category, if not all, is from March). My two cents :-) Christian75 (talk) 20:48, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Since the CfD was about keeping empty categories around, I'd assume that you're free to re-create the categories if they are ever populated. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 02:47, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * Thanks, ✅. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:08, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

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want to recreate category Sandboxes
Years ago, Category:Sandboxes was deleted. I would like to recreate it and make it a redirect to Category:Xn, because it would be easier to remember than the latter. (Category:Xn is new but replaced a prior parent category.) If Category:Sandboxes may confuse readers because of main namespace article/s about sandboxes, then it can be a disambiguation page. Ironically, Category:Sandboxes is already being used as a category destination (scroll down to see a list). I will make a similar proposal to User:Bencherlite for Category:Wikipedia sandboxes because it also would be easier to remember. Thanks. Nick Levinson (talk) 18:21, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * While the CfD doesn't quite apply to this proposed use, I still think this would be a bad idea for the reason you mentioned, that thie really belongs at Category:Wikipedia sandboxes. Because the Wikipedia sandboxes category was speedily deleted as a test, you should be able to just recreate that one yourself, imho.  – Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:05, 3 August 2013 (UTC)