User talk:Samaritan

My first year's adventures are archived on User talk:Samaritan/2004, 2005's on User talk:Samaritan/2005, and 2006's to April 1st on User talk:Samaritan/2006.

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Ohmagawd...
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2006/db2006-128.htm Bearcat 06:34, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

(Point 12: Eric Cartman filed an intervention?!?) Bearcat 06:37, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Invite to join/help organize Wikiproject LGBT studies
Hello. (Sorry for the form letter) In my various travels in Wikipedia, I have run across your name as someone who takes an active interest in LGBT articles. This is an invitation to check out a new project: Wikiproject LGBT studies. The initial goal is to create an within Wikipedia a unicversity-level academic-quality reference encyclopedia for LGBT and Queer Studies-related topics. The goal is two fold: 1. bring as many as possible up to Featured Article quality, and 2. prove that LGBT-related topics are as academically relevant to WP as other anthropology subsets. - Davodd 21:56, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Caledonia occupation
Can you take a look at the talk page and leave a note re: my renaming perposal? thanks. Mike McGregor (Can) 14:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Question Hello Samaritan:

You participated in modifying an article which is currently up for deletion. Can you please weigh in and mention why you yourself did not delete it when you came across it. (In the discussion for deletion)

AfD Nomination List of visible minority and aboriginal candidates in Canadian elections
I've nominated the article List of visible minority and aboriginal candidates in Canadian elections for deletion under the Articles for deletion process. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that List of visible minority and aboriginal candidates in Canadian elections satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion. I have explained why in the nomination space (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/List of visible minority and aboriginal candidates in Canadian elections. Don't forget to add four tildes (&tilde;&tilde;&tilde;&tilde;) at the end of each of your comments to sign them. You are free to edit the content of List of visible minority and aboriginal candidates in Canadian elections during the discussion, but please do not remove the "Articles for Deletion" template (the box at the top). Doing so will not end the discussion. Ardenn 04:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

stacey farber
Can you please ˌchange the pic on stacey farber's page?

Proposal on Notability
Because you're a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians, I'm notifying you that the inclusionist proposa Non-notabilityl is in progress to define the role of notability in articles. Please help us make this successful! Also note the proposal Importance is a deletionist proposla that seeks to officially introduce notabiltiy for the first time. --Ephilei 04:45, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Neoliberalism in Canada
Hi, Neoconservatism and neoliberalism in Canada is being AfD'd. As the author, I thought I'd let you know. I've had POV problems with Armon, the nominator, who challenges anything he doesn't like if it's not thoroughly cited. Get there before it goes. 210.86.85.138 08:15, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Stacey farber.jpg
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Dominion on Canada page (again)
I'd like this settled one way or another. Click here to comment. Thanks. --Soulscanner 09:55, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

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Alison Wheeler at AfD
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United States private paramilitary groups
Hi there, i noticed you worked on the article mentioned above, so maybe you can help me: I work in the german wiki and there the question came up, wether militias, esp. the michigan militia are considered to be extreme right or not in a political sense. we discuss it in conjunction to the oklohoma city bombing and its motivation. would be happy for an answer (you can answer on this page). greetings --Abeltiu (talk) 17:42, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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Hardial Bains academic record
I am too closely related to Hardial Bains for it to be appropriate for me to edit his page (or so I'm told by those who know). However, it is a source of surprise to me that his time in academia is in no way recorded on Wikipedia.

You can now find PLENTIFUL proof that he was a PhD student at UBC (and that he got his MSc there) by looking up:

hardial bains site:http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives

on Google. The Ubyssey (student newspaper) hugely documents his student activism there but also mentions many times that he got his MSc in 64 and that he was studying for his PhD after that.

Also he was co-author of two papers in the Journal of Bacteriology.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14293025?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14197891?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

If you then search for:

hardial bains trinity site:http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives

You can find contemporary references to the fact that he subsequently taught at Trinity College Dublin.

I look forward to seeing some of this reflected on his page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.31.243.60 (talk) 14:58, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs
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Draft Beer Party
As a contributor to this article, you may be interested to know it has been nominated for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/Draft Beer Party (2nd nomination). Robofish (talk) 23:28, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Nomination of Joshua Claybourn for deletion
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Category:United States private paramilitary groups has been nominated for discussion
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Welcome back!
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Hope all is well!
Hello Samaritan! I hope you are doing well. I just wanted to let you know that I added you to Missing Wikipedians. If you ever come back, or choose not to have your name on this list, just let me know. Hope you come back, even just to check in, Lima Bean Farmer (talk) 21:31, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Steve Levicoff for deletion
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