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Battles
Hi Poppypetty! Welcome to Wikipedia!. I saw your question on Village Pump about the Battle of England and British Battles, I believe.

Well, if these are articles and you find them to be similar, you can always use the page to merge. Something similar happened to me recently with the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. page. I agree to the edit counter opt-in terms Thank you and God bless you!!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Puerto Rican Invasion Martin

Antioch
Oh, sorry, I see now! Adam Bishop 01:46, 16 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Don't worry ;-)
 * Poppypetty 01:49, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Changing user name
Your user name has now been moved. All the best with your new name! Warofdreams 12:14, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Photo of Red Slate Mountain
Poppypetty: your photo of Red Slate Mountain on fr is very nice. Can you put a copy on Commons, so we can include it in the article here on en? Where did you take the photo? (from Lake Wit-so-na-pah?) -- hike395 06:33, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Rabi and Kharif
It was nice to receive your message. I thank you for your interest in India. Perhaps you are referring to these words in the official website of district administration of Hardoi : ''All three main crops Rabi, Kharif & Jaiyaj are the main crops of the district. Most of the farmers grow paddy,sugarcane,wheat, vegetable, pulses and oilseeds in their fields.'' I would try to explain - In India most of the crops grown are divided in two major groups, namely Kharif crops and Rabi crops, and these terms denote the two major groups of crops shown and grown during particulars seasons in a number of Indian states. Kharif (variously spelt including as Khariff) season would generally cover months of summer and rains (sown during April-July, and harvested by October). Most important Kharif crop is paddy. Rabi crops are generally sown between October to February and harvested by June. Most important Rabi crop is wheat. With expansion of irrigation and green revolution, traditional pattern of cultivation has changed in India, still paddy and wheat remain the major Kharif and Rabi crops respectively. Other Kharif crops include sugarcane, groundnuts, maize, and a variety of pulses. Other Rabi crops include barley and a variety of oil seeds. As regards Jaiyaj crops, I am not sure, but they may denote crops sown and grown between months of gap arising between Kharif and Rabi crops or vice versa. In case, I could find the exact information, I will surely pass on to you. --Bhadani 15:58, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Sommerfeld
Thank you for bringing that to my attention! I did not know about Arnold Sommerfeld before- interesting reading. Thank you for creating the disambig page! Olessi 05:47, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Isthmus de Tehuantepec
Is there a way to move an image and its description to the Commons without re-uploading and recreating the description page? -- Kbh3rd 20:50, 27 October 2005 (UTC)


 * It looks like someone else already copied it there a week or so ago. -- Kbh3rd 21:44, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

drake passage maps
I am happy to put my maps on the commons.

I added the creative commons liscense to the drake passage maps.

Can you fill me in on anything else I need to do to upload them to the commons? -- Geo Swan 22:44, 29 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Hello again. No, I don't know how to upload to the commons.  Yes, I would like to learn how to do it myself.


 * Do I need to worry about the implications of releasing the image under both the cc and gfdl? After I added the cc lisence I looked up the liscence.  I found that the debian guys said the cc and gfdl were incompatible...  --  Geo Swan 19:18, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Wishes
I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. --Bhadani 15:43, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Reply to discussion
You claim there is no "real" French diaspora and the statistics on the French people page have no factual basis ? Have you ever been to Lousiana, Quebec, Nouveau-Brunswick (in Canada) ? There is a significant French diaspora (even if not in the same numbers as neighbouring nations). There are several people of ethnic French descent in South America, Italy (Valle D'aosta, Belgium, Switzerland, as well as in North America (including the US). Large numbers of French huguenots, French from Quebec as well as Acadians/Cajuns from eastern Canada (fleeing British persecution) migrated to the US since the 17th century. While Lousiana was still a French posession, numbers of ethnic French from France indeed immigrated there as well. Although the government policy doesn't allow the usage of the term "français de souche", it doesn't go to say the indigenous ethnic French (langue d'oil and langue d'oc peoples) don't exist. Basques, Bretons, Catalans and Corsicans don't identify as ethnic French or even "French" (citizen of France) at all in some cases. With this is mind, there is obviously an idigenous ehtnic group responsible for the creation of the French (Gallo-Latin) culture, language and identity even if government policy does not wish to speak of such a group of people. I mean before the creaton of the republic, it was even forbidden for ethnic French and or any citizen in France not to be a Roman Catholic. With this in mind, to say there is not a unity among the indigenous ethnic French is out of place, even if it is the French Republic government POV (the same POV which wished to see the asssimilation and cultural elimination of other indigenous groups like the Bretons). 69.157.109.6 14:06, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I will reply to your comments :
 * About the supposed French diaspora : I disagree with you on the use of this term. All the people you quote aren't from French origins (see Switzerland as an obvious example, even if they have been closely related to France). As for the others (South America, Louisiana), some of them are definitely from French origins, but it was so long ago, that they don't have anymore linked with France (even if as USA citizens, they affirm their French origins). I think that diaspora is a misused. It's USA-oriented because that the way they see their origins but they are wrong.
 * As for the "Français de souche", I think it's just terribly difficult to exhibit them (well it's not a question of governement policy, but it's all about French history and ethnicity). I would like you to define clearly who do you call as "French people" (I mean in this ethnic sense). The fact is they don't exist. You can't define a real French before the WWI because the country was really splitted before that, with different languages (not only in Britanny, Corsica and Basque people, but also North of France, South-East (Savoie, Nice), ...). After WWI, it's also impossible because there have been so many immigration and mixing of population that this term doesn't make sense neither. My point is that they have been united by being ruled by the same people (Kingdom of France and then the Republic) over being united by being a common ethnic group. It's not a common religion, nor a common language which was the cement as for ethnic groups, but a common history as for nations. So, I am waiting for your definition.
 * Poppypetty 15:55, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Boris Diaw
There are a lot of articles that don't follow the subject's "real" name:


 * Eminem
 * Bo Jackson
 * C. S. Lewis

Obviously there are many many more. Also, there is Wikipedia policy on this matter (Naming conventions (common names)). I think we can agree, at least in the English language, that Boris Diaw is a more common name. I've moved it back.  zellin  t  /  c   01:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Images
There are probably hundreds of images of mine that need moving to commons. One day I'll sort this out. In the meantime, please feel free to upload them there yourself, just say that they were made by en:User:Morwen. Morwen - Talk 09:43, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Mes Compliments
Excellent work translating the Battle of Lugdunum article into French. Wikipedia needs more of this sort of inter-language cross-pollination. Bien Fait, Monsieur!--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 18:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. It's actually pretty impressive to see that History of France (facts and biographies) are often much better in the wiki en than in the wiki fr. Poppypetty 19:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Radhanite map
Thanks for your message. I came accross your translation through the link on the English page. While I don't speak French, I am told the translation is very skillfully done. The map you have prepared, while incomplete, is beautiful and vastly superior to the existing one. I would definitely like to see it replace the current map once it is complete. Your points regarding the routes are well-taken. Obviously there is no map existing today that definitively shows the various routes taken by the Radhanites, so I had to create my map based on a number of sources, including ibn Khordadbeh's account, secondary sources, my knowledge of the Silk Road, etc. Regarding the route that goes through southern Iran, into Pakistan, across India and over the Himalayas- this comes from ibn Khordadbeh's statement "Thence they go [overland] to ar-Ramla, visit Damascus, al-Kufa, Baghdad, and al-Basra, cross Ahwaz, Fars, Kirman, Sind, Hind, and arrive in China." Fars and Kirman, as you know, are both in southern Persia. In Elmer Bendiner's book he describes merchants crossing over the Himalayas, loading their cargo onto goats because horses couldn't traverse the mountains. The exact point of crossing over was my own conjecture, based on the description of "crossing Hind", and in light of the absence of topographic overlay on the map I used, perhaps it was ill-chosen. I've taken the map you drew and added some of the trade routes for Central Asia, southern Iran, etc, you can view it at Image:Radhanite1.jpg. Does that look better to you in terms of the course of the routes? I am not a particularly skilled graphic artist so you will probably have to redraw. One question- would it be possible to do the map as a .png instead of a .jpg? That might eliminate some of the distortion I see in the map. I look forward to hearing back from you. --Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 22:22, 22 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Check out the new map (Image:Radhanites.png). I think you will like it better. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 20:02, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

AID
-Litefantastic 17:45, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Latin America won!
Joyous | Talk 18:36, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Anti-Stub
Thank you for your contributions to WikiProject Anti-Stub. General Eisenhower 20:03, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

My Signature
Dear Poppypetty, I have changed my sig to make it only 3 lines. Can you change your vote at Signature Poll/GeorgeMoney to oppose?

Below is a box that shows how my poll is doing:

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Thanks, -- George Money  Talk Contribs 02:59, 8 May 2006 (UTC).

Radhanites
Congratulations on having the French version featured! It seems like there might be some info on the French version that isn't on the English version (though my knowledge of French is very limited). Is that the case? If so, would you be able to translate some of the missing stuff? Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 13:49, 19 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Great! One of my limitations in writing the article was being limited to English (and to a lesser extent, Hebrew) sources when I know that there are numerous works in French, German, Russian etc. that may give further information. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 15:51, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Cactus photo
Hi Poppypetty - thanks for the query; it is a species of Opuntia, not sure which at the moment (there are several similar ones), but I'll try to find out - MPF 09:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

"National" football teams
Actually, these teams act like national football teams. They may not be recognized nations, but that doesn't mean they should not be called that, if they consider themselves that. They compete against other nations (or in some cases, against other unrecognized nations). They don't play as provinces or states or whatnot. They've been considered "national" on Wikipedia for some time now. └ O z L a w y e r  / talk  ┐ 17:21, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I notice that you created a redirect for "New Caledonia football team" to "New Caledonia national football team", and moved "Tahiti national football team" to "Tahiti football team". You may note that both of these entities belong to FIFA, and within France, the country they belong to, they have similar status.  Although "Tahiti" is officially "French Polynesia".  One cannot be "national" while the other is not.  Actually, I'm going to revert your changes removing the "national" from all the articles you have.  As noted above, they play as nations (and, actually, by the definition I assume you're using, England (and the other British "home nations") is also not a "real" nation, so we'll have to remove "nation" from that article, as England is part of the independent nation of the United Kingdom). └  O z L a w y e r  / talk  ┐ 17:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * But Wikipedia isn't considering what is and isn't a nation. It's simply presenting what purports to be a national team as a national team.  Honestly, England is not a nation, if by nation you mean an internationally recognized country that is usually a member of the United Nations.  But nobody would try to move "England national football team" to "England football team", now would they?  If Greenland, which is not an internationally recognized country but a posession of Denmark, plays against other nations, and calls their team the national team of Greenland, then that is how we present them on Wikipedia.  It has nothing to do with considering Greenland a nation or not. └  O z L a w y e r  / talk  ┐ 17:55, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Please revert your reverts back again. I can assure you that others will agree with me.  As I said before, this does not have to do with considering something a nation.  It has to do with considering a team which plays international football as an international team.  It's as simple as that. └  O z L a w y e r  / talk  ┐ 17:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * National teams play other national teams. Calling them by what they call themselves is not claiming that they are nations.    You seem to believe that New Caledonia is a nation, for some reason, while French Polynesia (called Tahiti, but still French Polynesia), is not.  How do you justify this? How do you justify England or Wales or Scotland being a nation? └  O z L a w y e r  / talk  ┐ 18:04, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * We don't take our cues from the French Wikipedia. What you read into calling the teams what they call themselves isn't my problem.  I've asked twice now, and I'll ask a third time: Why is New Caledonia a nation, but French Polynesia (as Tahiti) not? └  O z L a w y e r  / talk  ┐ 18:07, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, so let me get this straight. First you care about whether something is or is not a nation, but ignore the fact that there are several teams in FIFA which are not nations being called nations.  Then you care about whether people are calling something a national team but claim that even though people aren't calling New Caledonia a nation you have to leave it being called that because some referendum on independence came up 50/50, and finally, well, finally what?  What's the definition of "nation"? Independent nation?  By the criteria used on Wikipedia of what a "country" is, "French Polynesia" is one, while England is not.  I strongly recommend that you do not change this list according to your beliefs, since it's been discussed greatly as to what a country is, but check out List of countries.  └  O z L a w y e r  / talk  ┐ 18:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, there are some instances where a team may not be considered "national", although, for instance, I cannot see how Tahiti, which is considered a country on List of countries, and is a FIFA member, should not be a nation (that's like saying that Wales does not have a national team). French Polynesia is clearly a nation.  Yes, it "belongs" to France, but that doesn't mean it's not a nation.  However, even where you may be correct, the proper thing to do is to discuss it somewhere where many people will see it and be able to comment on it.  Unilateral moves of pages like you're doing is undoubtedly going to create conflict (as you can see by my showing up). └  O z L a w y e r  / talk  ┐ 18:24, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I suggest you revert yourself and then mosey on over to WikiProject Football and discuss your proposed changes. └ O z L a w y e r  / talk  ┐ 18:30, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

You said: OK, let's three Indians, four Americans, two Canadians and two Japanese decide if Guadeloupe has a national team or only a regional team. The democratic way would be much better. I am quite sure of the outcome of this one (but let's go for it anyway).
 * I don't know what else we could do. Do you want to be in a constant edit war?  As for your question about Guadeloupe and Martinique being nations byt not England and Wales, I never said that I would want the French ones over the British ones.  In fact, I do not consider that Guadeloupe or Martinique are nations.  Since they're integral parts of France, in the same way that England and Wales are integral parts of the United Kingdom, they are not nations I (actually, let's use "countries", since it's a better term). New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna, however, are a different matter.  As non-integral parts of France, and in a sense, more "foreign possessions", they have somewhat more of a right for self-determination, and more of an identity outside of France.  In the British sphere, Bermuda and Gibraltar would fit the bill.  In Denmark, the Faroes and Greenland.  Non-integral parts of nations, which should be decolonized are what you could consider "countries". └  O z L a w y e r  / talk  ┐ 18:41, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Quick response
Merci, Poppypetty. I'll look at those links re Barnard's star but I was pleased to see your sig on my talk otherwise. Did you translate Planetary habitability to .fr? J'ai visite Paris cette été...and I did random searches on French google which turned up (what I think was) a user page of yours. I noticed you're other language link here, and had a nice moment of serendipity. Anyhow, thank you, if you did translate. Literally, my best Wikipedia moments have been noticing various translations of that page (it's a Spanish FA now, I've noticed).

Back to Barnard's star--buzz me further on anything you can help with. I'll write more fully re that page later, but I'm off to bed soon. Marskell 00:33, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

XML image
It needs to be deleted from the commons end as it is a commons image. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:28, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * In fact, it has already been done and the image you can see is Commons' image. Thanks anyway. Poppypetty 19:40, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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 * Hello,
 * Thanks for telling me. Please leave me about 1 month (I remove the tag) to ask to the copyright holder if he is OK to put the picture under the GFDL/CC licences. Thanks in advance. Poppypetty 07:57, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

On Allegations of apartheid
You wrote:
 * I am very marginally involved but as a French wikipedia contributor and sysop, I have a strong opinion on it. I just have a few remarks on these users. It is clear in my opinion that a group of pro-Israel users have created a whole bunch of "articles" following failed RfDs for Allegations of Israeli apartheid. This is a clear violation of WP:POINT. Then, if you look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of Chinese apartheid and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of French apartheid, you have a good number of votes "keep or delete them all". This shows that there are many users whose only goal with these articles is to obtain the Israeli articles deletion.
 * I don't know how things are done in French Wikipedia, but this entry is a clear breach of WP:AGF in addition to the fact that you claim to know what is in "many" editor's minds and what their "only" goals are. When you preface the whole entry on the premise that your French involvement is somehow significant to your interest, it's hard to understand an argument that we need more neutrality. --Leifern 23:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't mean that you didn't create them by (?) good faith, feeling that the Israeli article was unfair. I just think you created them in opposition to POINT and that needs to be punished. I talked about the fact that I was French to explain my possible bias. As for the Israeli apartheid comparing to the French one, I just don't put the same weight on allegations made by two Peace Nobel Prices and a good number of very recognised people (and roughly 200 000 answers on Google) comparing to pseudo-allegations made by a group of left-wing extremists (roughly 242 answers on Google / American has around 200 000 answers on Google as well but was deleted). Poppypetty 23:20, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Allegations of Chinese apartheid AfD
Following your recent participation in Deletion review/Log/2007 July 30, you may be interested to know that a related article, Allegations of Chinese apartheid, is currently being discussed on AfD. Comments can be left at Articles for deletion/Allegations of Chinese apartheid. -- ChrisO 15:30, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I already voted :P. Is there any chance that I can list Allegations of French apartheid for deletion another time ? Poppypetty 16:24, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Allegations of French apartheid proposal
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East African Campaign
Hi. You mentioned you were looking for a copy of the chapter on Keren in Eastern Epic by Compton Mackenzie. I can do this for you. Could you give me an email address to send it to? Regards Stephen Kirragetalk - contribs 08:41, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * that would be really great. Could you send them at hereherehereherehereherehere ? Thanks in advance. Poppypetty 17:23, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Your welcome - good luck!. You might be interested that I have just done quite a lot of work on the english language Battle of Keren article using Eastern Epic and Ball of Fire as my sources. Unfortunately I have no Italian sources. Regards Stephen Kirragetalk - contribs 00:02, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Allegations of apartheid
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Re: IK Pegasi B

 * The figures you mention are radii, not masses.
 * In the reference,, which you cite, the middle paragraph of the second column on p. 520 is about IK Pegasi, and gives a radius of 0.006 solar radii for IK Pegasi B. The two succeeding paragraphs, which continue on to the first column of p. 521, pertain to HD 15638.  (The second paragraph starts with the phrase Following the approach outlined above, for HR 8210.  This means that HR 15638 is being analyzed with the same method which was used for HR 8210.)  The second paragraph gives a radius of 0.0091 solar radii for HD 15638B.
 * Spacepotato 18:45, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

re: Mistake by your bot
Poppy, that error has since been fixed in the bot configuration. The edit that you pointed to was made in August before the fix. Thanks for bringing it up though. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 15:02, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Mickaël Piétrus
Bonjour,

You moved Mickael Pietrus to Mickaël Piétrus about two years ago. On the French Wikipedia, it is spelled Mickaël Pietrus. Also the article about his brother is spelled Florent Piétrus. Should the French article about him be corrected? Bash Kash (talk) 21:19, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Ceres
I don't think that the disagreement between these two values is serious. It is less than 1σ. I replaced '4±5' with 'about 3' because one reviewer in FAC complained that the former number looked odd. Ruslik (talk) 07:38, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Planetary habitability
Hello, can you explain why you removed the picture ? Thanks Poppy (talk) 11:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

I moved it to the talkpage along with the reasons why it should not be in the article: Please take the time to look at the chart at and the discussion at. Please confirm that you understand the reasoning, thank you. GabrielVelasquez (talk) 11:43, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

That's an incredible number of pictures you have uploaded. I myself have just begun. May I ask, what is your interest in the over-edited photo that I deleted from the article? GabrielVelasquez (talk) 12:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

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Alpha Lyrae
Hello,

sorry for the mistakes I make. I am translating the article into French and there is a sentence I don't understand : " Models fitted to the dust distribution around Vega indicate that it is a 120 AU-radius circular disk viewed from nearly pole-on". I don't understand what the "viewed from nearly pole-on" mean in English. Is the disk seen transversaly or is the line of sight parallel to the disk plane ? Does pole designate the "star's pole" ? Thanks for your help. Poppy (talk) 20:37, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi. "Pole-on" means viewed from along the axis of rotation; perpendicular to the disk.&mdash;RJH (talk) 16:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * OK. Pretty obvious afterwards :). Poppy (talk) 21:06, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

The Dinniyeh Group
Why did you move Dinniyeh Group to Takfir wa al-Hijra? They are not the same thing. al-Takfir Wa al-Hijra was founded in Egypt in 1971. 1 2 3 4 SJSA 12:39, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * I changed that. Could you verify in Dinniyeh fighting which one of Dinniyeh group or Takfir wal-Hijra should be mentionned in the article. Osbat al-Ansar seems to indicate that they are different groups. Thanks. Poppy (talk) 00:15, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Allegations of apartheid deletion notification
Some time ago, you participated in a deletion discussion concerning Allegations of Chinese apartheid. I thought you might like to know that the parent article, Allegations of apartheid, was recently nominated for deletion. Given that many of the issues that have been raised are essentially the same as those on the article on which you commented earlier, you may have a view on whether Allegations of apartheid should be kept or deleted. If you wish to contribute to the discussion, please see Articles for deletion/Allegations of apartheid (fifth nomination). -- ChrisO (talk) 17:52, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Palin/Pregnancy
No problem. I'm not making a judgement as to the claims' validity, but a user generated report on the matter won't suffice. If this is true you can bet you'll see it in the Times soon, and I bet you won't even have a chance in being the first to add it! Joshdboz (talk) 23:45, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Collaboration
Hi Poppy, It is clear Aliesin is another case but I would like to ask you a question anyway. Despite the fact we contribued to topics closely linked, you often didn't even answered questions or comments I asked you. The most amazing was maybe you didn't comment the pAdQ : fr:Massacre de Qibya (+ ou -, doesn't mind) while you contributed to it and created fr:unité 101. Are there good or bad reasons for that ? Rgds, Ceedjee (talk) 10:27, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * rien contre toi, je suis juste très irrégulier dans les réponses aux questions, notamment sur mes pages de discussion. Poppy (talk) 21:14, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok. C'est plus "agréable" ainsi.
 * Bonne continuation ici et là-bas ;-)
 * Ceedjee (talk) 15:06, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: Blocked
I have replied to your question at my talk page. CIreland (talk) 13:19, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Strange email
I got a very strange email from someone purporting to be you, sent at Sat 5/23/09 1:39 AM: "Tonight, you’re all gonna be a part of a social experiment. Through the magic of hacking skills and steward powers, I’m ready right now to blow your minds sky high. Anyone attempts to block me or revert, you all get desysopped. Each of you has a button to block another editor. At midnight, I desysop and block you all. If, however, one of you indefinitely blocks as many constructive editors as you can, I’ll let that admin keep their admin powers. So, who’s it gonna be? Wikipedia’s most-wanted scumbag collection or the sweet and innocent contributors? You choose. Oh, and you might wanna decide quickly because the other administrators may not be quite so noble. — The Joker -- This e-mail was sent by user "Poppypetty" on the English Wikipedia to user "Bearian"."

- The Joker What does this mean? Bearian (talk) 19:55, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * User:Poppypetty is different user, who was blocked recently. Ruslik_ Zero 20:15, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

École Polytechnique
Hello. This is a kind invitation to a civil discussion of the two issues we have both addressed on the École Polytechnique talk page, namely:  “engineering school” or “scientific school”? and  selectiveness. If you are agreed, I suggest that we continue the discussion on that talk page by providing evidence that will help clarify the best way to describe the school. --MyPOV (talk) 22:19, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Battle of Antioch (218)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Perijá tapaculo


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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Biogeochemical cycle
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