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Lemony Snicket
Thanks for uploading the new Olaf pic. Can you tell me where you found it? I've been looking all over for it.

Also, I really appreciate you posting the Brett Helquist pics, but there shouldn't be more than one pic in a profile. Since yours is better, I kept them in the profile while moving the movie pic in the article.--CyberGhostface 20:11, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

need book data
About Image:Beatrice.jpg You claim it's the cover of a book. Can yo provide data (otherwise it's an unsourced image and should be deleted within a few days). Book title, isbn, amazon url, etc anything that can identify the book and verify the cover belongs to it. -- ( drini's page   &#x260E;  ) 06:42, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

More Lemony Snicket
Hi--

I've removed the Beatrice picture as I don't recall that ever been explicitly identified as her.

Also, I removed the 'Later Appearences' from the template as its not really necessary. I mean, for comicbook characters we just list their first appearence, and not every single one after that.

But I do want to thank you for contributing what you have done. I especially like the new Olaf and Fiona pictures.--CyberGhostface 01:06, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Me again. I don't think its really worth noting that Olaf has white color in one media and gray in the other, so I reverted it. If there was a notable difference in appearence (like say he had blond or red hair) there should be a change, but since he's pretty much close to the way he is in the book in terms of appearence I think it should the stay the way it is.--CyberGhostface 11:42, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Stub templates
Howdy! Just posting here to let you know that I've put the two stub templates you recently created, Pirate-stub and Privateer-stub onto the Stub discoveries page for discussion. If you've any comments to make, feel free to drop by. GeeJo (t) (c) &bull;  19:56, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Leicester Grammar School
Thanks for the feedback, I'll try and get round to merging some sections sometime this century!

EvocativeIntrigue 16:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

da Vinci Barnstar
Check this out, The da Vinci Barnstar. --evrik 16:08, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Help!
I have been bollocked from editing''' for violating Wikipedia policy against climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spiderman.

Iv'e no idea whats happening!

Dfrg.msc 00:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC)



Jungle Jam and Friends: The Radio Show!
You seem to be the primary author of this article... it really looks to me a lot like it violates WP:SPAM at the moment, and so will probably be deleted soon. Any chance you'd rewrite it to conform to WP:NPOV? Graham 09:52, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

V.F.D. Codes
I created the page, like you suggested. I put in the sebald code, isadora and duncan's code, and verbal fridge dialogue. Is there any other VFD codes that belong in it? (Clamster5 18:07, 23 July 2006 (UTC))

Languages
Hi There! Can you translate my name in what language you know please, and then post it Here. I would be very grateful if you do (if you know another language apart from English and the ones on my userpage please feel free to post it on) P.S. all th translations are in alpahbetical order so when you add one please put it in alpahbetical order according to the language. Thanks!!!  Abdullah Geelah 17:18, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Islamic Wikiproject Award
Would you be so kind as to go to the discussion about the Islamic Wikiproject Award? This has been a proposal that has lingered for donkey's yonks. I think the image is acceptable as a WP:PUA, but don't think the image is in line with most of the images at Wikiproject awards. The design is not well supported, and right before I was going to archive the debate for lack of support, someone else moved it to the Wikiproject awards page.

The current discussion is going on here: Barnstar_and_award_proposals/New_Proposals. Your input is appreciated. --evrik 10:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Your excellent work on Azazel
Thank you so much for all the work you've been doing to Azazelâyou've really made some quality edits and it's really a pleasure for me to see another editor on Wikipedia being a productive member of the community. I only have one small quibble, thoughâyou ought to consider using the "Show preview" button rather than saving a dozen edits changing only a couple of things. This would enable other users to more easily track the changes committed to the page by one user, and it cuts down on cluttered edit histories. Also, you might consider using edit summaries so that other users can have a quick reference to the substance of your edits. These are really only procedural matters; your edits are terrific. Thank you! --Makaristos 01:29, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I removed the edits you added to the Hebrew Bible/Rabbinic Literature section to the Talk page for the article. The reason is that this material doesn't appear to be a summary of the Hebrew Bible or Rabbinic Literature at all, it seems to be expository commentary that appears to actually come from one or more commentators or secondary sources. It's very important that our encyclopedia be reliable and not create a risk of misattributing material from one source as coming from another. I've put the material on the article's Talk page. If you'd like to you are welcome to re-add this material in a section which properly identifies its origin, e.g. "in Contemporary Biblical Criticism" or similar, as long as you supply reliable sources for it. I recommend using footnote-style sourcing for each claim made. Note that claims such as a particular interpretation is "most probable" etc. are particuarly problematic per WP:SOAP, and should generally be attributed as a particular individual's claim if made. Best, --Shirahadasha 13:10, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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The Bad Beginning
Who made the drawings in the book. Some new picture and the article will be better.--Tamï¿½s Kï¿½dï¿½r 19:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Have a barnstar!
PS: Good coinage of the WikiOgre. That used to be me... but I haven't hibernated in an awfully long time. Fishal 22:18, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Units
Hello... thanks for adding Imperial unit conversions to the Moon article. However, please make sure that the metric units remain first in order, as per the custom with scientific articles. (This avoids the need for someone to come in and clean it up afterwards.) As well, the "&nbsp" code should be left intact as it helps to keep units and their respective values together on a line. Thanks again for the contributions! --Ckatz chat spy  19:38, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Helquist Snicket.jpg)
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Prairie hare
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Juncture Loss merge w Rebracketing
Hello!! I have a question for the man in question! As the key spirit behind Juncture Loss - would you like to take the lead in merging it with rebracketing? I dist cussed the issue a bit on the talk page for Rebracketing... If you want I can also take a first stab but let's work together on this? mukerjee (talk) 04:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

commons:Category:Branches
Hi, The Man in Question :). I noticed you were doing some work on commons adding pix to this category, and was wondering what your intention is with this. I ask only because there are likely to be tens of thousands of images of branches on commons, which means the category probably won't be particularly useful. Do you have a particular goal in mind for collecting these images?

Please rest assured that any effort to help organize commons is appreciated... I just wonder if you might consider helping to organize on a more narrowly defined subject :). -- SB_Johnny | talk  23:26, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I see. In the future, you might want to just create gallery pages on commons for that sort of thing, rather than categories. Keep in mind that categories run a bit differently on commons, because you can have an awful lot of images (or other files) that treat the same subject. Assuming that there probably are (say) 20k images with branches in them, the category will necessarily be either incomplete or unbrowseable, if you see what I mean. I just don't want you to spend energy doing that when there are so many other things that need folks to help us with :). -- SB_Johnny | talk  22:24, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Regarding some plant page moves
Hi there! I saw some of your contributions that showed up the WP:PLANTS assessment logs that show page moves. I moved them back to the scientific names per the flora naming convention, which prefers scientific names for article titles over common names, unless they meet the exceptions given. Just wanted to drop by and point you to that convention if you hadn't already seen it. Cheers, Rkitko (talk) 04:05, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

List of names in English with non-intuitive pronunciations
Hi. You've started to put some serious work in this article. About 4% on your way, I thought I catch you before it gets too frustrating when whole chunks get reverted. Perhaps you want to discuss what you're planning to do on the talk page before going on. Primarily, I'm concerned with your changes of the second pronunciation indication to what I figure after some digging is the idiosyncratic American Heritage Dictionary's way of spelling pronunciation. The current situation is that the IPA text is there to provide the standard/precise indication, followed by something that helps any English-speaking person to immediately deduce how to say the word. Most people will be as unfamiliar with the AHD alphabet as with IPA, making it just redundant. For example " Blackley, Manchester — (“blakely”) " is going to be more helpful than " Blackley, Manchester — ; (blākʹlē) ". Afasmit (talk) 16:00, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

wikiogres
hi I noticed that you made the wikiogres page and also the category. I was wondering how best to go about this- I've made the concept WikiSloth but I want to make the category. I was just wondering if there was a way you made other wikipedians aware of the wikiogres concept/ let them know about it?  Me rk  i  n  s  m  um  21:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Inducks
Inducks has been nominated for deletion, maybe you'd like to give your opinion here since I saw you recently contributed to the article. Thanks. Herve661 (talk) 22:07, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

dab style
Howdy. Just fyi, dab pages (like Swell) don't get punctuation like fullstops (see Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)). They're intended to be incomplete sentences. Thanks :) (oh, and please use edit summaries, ta!)-- Quiddity (talk) 19:11, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Macaroni Penguin
I changed some of your edits to the above article; formal bird species names are capitalised, not lowercase (as argued over and over and over again at WP:MOS and WP:BIRD. Just letting you know. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  01:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Gaelic mistakes
A Mhan, Ciamar a tha sibh? Ceart ma tha... I'm not sure what your intention was in changing the Gaelic and OI on the Banshee and Bean Nighe pages, but you introduced some bizarre errors. I am concerned that you not only made these changes (do you have any Gaelic?), but that you even moved pages to some odd names. Please do not introduce these changes or page moves again without seeking consensus on the talk page, specifically from those who have Gaelic. You introduced a lot of problems that now have to be cleaned up. Moran Taing a-rithist, -  Kathryn NicDhàna  ♫ ♦ ♫ 01:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps your computer isn't showing the changes properly — the changes I made were correct. — The Man in Question (gesprec)  ·  (forðung)  01:43, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No, they are not correct in any of the modern Gaelics, which are what we are using in the articles. None of the modern Gaelics use dots instead of lenition, which I think is what you were trying to interpose into the articles. I have corrected the mistakes and deleted the gibberish page you created. -  Kathryn NicDhàna  ♫ ♦ ♫ 02:33, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * P.S. I was wondering what led you to believe that the changes you made were correct? -  Kathryn NicDhàna  ♫ ♦ ♫ 02:53, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No need to get angry. You may be right, but based on my time in Ireland, everyone used the diacritic dot. — The Man in Question (gesprec)  ·  (forðung)   10:52, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Template:Trivia and In popular culture sections
Just so you know, Temp:Trivia is only for tagging indiscriminate and unselective lists, per WP:TRIV, and this does not include "in popular culture" lists, which are discriminate and selective. Cheers, -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 04:04, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

List of people with the longest marriages
Why won't you bother anymore though? Extremely sexy (talk) 22:15, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Life is too short. — The Man in Question (gesprec)  ·  (forðung)  23:04, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Come again huh? Extremely sexy (talk) 21:04, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Please, add them again, since I only reverted your changes, because I was correcting some mistakes at the time, hence. Extremely sexy (talk) 18:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

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The correct title is You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover!
The correct title of the Desperate Housewives episode is You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover!! Don't you ever move that page again!! AdamDeanHall (talk) 20:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * According to the website, it is "Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover". — The Man in Question (gesprec)  ·  (forðung)  20:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Just to let you know, adding or  to a page is only a means for an admin to notify users that a page is protected. This does not actually confer protection to the article. If you need help protecting a page, please contact an admin or request it. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 09:19, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, so I realize. — The Man in Question (gesprec)  ·  (forðung)  09:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

The Office title image
I reverted the version you uploaded to the one I had originally uploaded, as yours was too large to comply with FUC 3b. Screenshots are usually to be kept to 300px or so, just large enough to display in an infobox as this one was. Daniel Case (talk) 18:41, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

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Squamish/Skwxwu7mesh changes
I'm reserving judgement on much of your recent edits to these articles; it's in the case of your excision of material from the table of villages on the main Skwxwu7mesh page that I take exception to. Quoi-quoi / Whoi whoi or whatever it is you've leftis NOT the only English variant; there are at least six, maybe ten, over the time of years since teh placename first became known otuside indigenous speakers; likwise the variants of Snauq which you decided weren't good enough. In all such lists/tables in Wiki with "alternate names" there's no call for only ONE alternate name/adaptation; you seem to ahve taken the position that only teh ones YOU know of, or approve of, are correct. That's POV, and it's also deletion of materials - plus some completely unnecessary bolding which at the moment, as it's dinnertime, I'm in no mood to take out but will advise you that unstylistic edits combined with questionable content edits are not a good sign that your edits were in good faith; you seem o have an agenda. Please respect the contributinos of other editors and do not delete materials without consultation on the talkpage - in this case a discussion which would have inevitably led to its refusal, as you have no good reason why the otehr alternative names should not be there - and the bolding of only the English versions of the names is in itself questionable; but such boldings wouldnt' even be welcome if it was the Skwxwu7mesh names column. I haven't reviewedd your other extensive edits t o this area, and msut presume you have some kind of interest in the Squamish, given your apparent (presumptive) knowledge of what's right and what's not. Your changes to lead sentences in certain articles, by thew ay, are likely to start edit wars; your use of the Sqamish link (which if not a disambig goes to the District of Squamish, according to wiki nameguidelines) was ill-advised and somewhat confrontational.....Skookum1 (talk) 21:10, 9 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello The Man in Question! I was going to leave a message for you but I've seen my friend Skookum1 already has.  I'm going to do my best to be as diplomatic as I can with courtesy and respect for people whom I'm hoping I can collaborate with on Wikipedia.  The last time (when  I first came here) me and this one guy bumped heads a lot, but now work together on a lot of articles.  But I guess that's beside the point.


 * I noticed all the edits you've made and stopped looking at them individually after I seen a few. I agree with Skookum that I can only assume you have some kind of agenda.  We would like to know what it is.  Most of the edits, like name changes, were ill advices and are annoying for contributors who have worked on those pages.  Like Skookum said, discussion is needed for changes like that.  A few of your edits were strange, like Schenks and Schètx̱w.  There was a few edits that I actually liked and forgot to do myself, so thanks for doing that for me. haha.  Anyways, I would like to encourage you to take your idea's and thoughts to the discussion page of those articles and research more into what your changes.  Not extensively, but ask around maybe?  In any case, thanks for helping out in your contributions and I hope we can work together on making good wikipedia articles.  OldManRivers (talk) 06:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Patrick (SpongeBob SquarePants)
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Sulayman Reis De Veenboer
Dear MIQ, Thanks a lot for the Veenboer (corsair)entry - he happens to be my forefather! At the bottom it says it's been translated from the Dutch Wikipedia article, but this version looks rather more comprehensive. I corrected a few slips, and would like to compliment you on your Perelmanesque sense of humour as displayed in your biography. Best wishes and keep up the good work, Frank Landsman (talk) 15:53, 26 July 2008 (UTC) I just noticed an error: SR De Veenboer's place of death was Amsterdam, not Algiers. Cheers for now and keep up the good work! Frank Landsman (talk) 15:02, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Your userpage
Hahaha! Brilliant, mate!

Cheers!

&Lambda; u  α  (Operibus anteire) 11:28, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

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Asii to "Osians"?
Please explain and give references for your renaming of the article on the Asii of Classical literature and all the major changes you have made to it. I know the article needs a great deal of work to bring it up to Wikipedian standards - but making a whole lot of unexplained changes only increases the confusion. I object especially to the name change for which I see little support in the historical texts. If you wish, maybe we could work together to improve the article???? Please let me know what you are attempting to do with it. Sincerely, John Hill (talk) 22:57, 2 October 2008 (UTC)