User talk:Vanky

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Making of the English Working Class
I've left you a note on 'Making of English Working Class' (see that discussion page) - the class/classes distinction is important I think. Bob aka Linuxlad

York Students
Hello, is that Adam? Would you be so good as to add yourself to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_by_alma_mater#University_of_York ? Thanks Matthew Platts 20:49, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

NaSTA
No problem. See Help:Table if you want the gory details of the wiki table syntax. You can also use HTML tables, but they don't look as clean in the edit window. after the opening " {- " gives you the pale grey look which is fairly standard for Wikipedia tables. --rbrwr&plusmn; 19:46, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Cheltenham Music Festival
Hi mate (don't know your name, sorry - I'm Steve). I've added an npov tag to the above article, for the reason I disclose on the Talk page. If you're planning to work further on it feel free to remove the tag once the article has been neutralised. See you. --kingboyk 17:49, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

CARTOONS OF MOHAMMED
Showing the figures of Mohammed is disturbing muslims. And it is a insult to Islam. In Islam making and also looking the figures of Mohammed is forbidden.That is raping the holy things of Islam.And it is not about "freedom".PLEASE get back your sıgnature.Thanks.--Erdemsenol 01:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

It is about freedom of speech. If there was something that I found offensive, but it was encyclopaedic, I would have no cause to complain about its inclusion in wikipedia. Vanky 01:08, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Morocco and the AU
===>I'm posting this at Talk:Morocco and User talk:Vanky Morocco left the Organisation for African Unity/African Union because in 1976, they took over Western Sahara, in spite of international condemnation and calls for self-determination for the Sahrawis of the region. They currently live in refugee camps in Tindouf Province, Algeria. The AU, as well as dozens of states recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the rightful government of Western Sahara. If you have any more questions, please let me know. -Justin (koavf), talk 00:56, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Or rather less partisanly - Morocco suspended its participation in the OAU. Some Sahraouine are in camps in Algeria, most are not. A small handful of states recognise Polisario, most countries take a neutral stance.(Collounsbury 06:34, 20 February 2006 (UTC)).

Images
Hi. I'm working on KLF discography. To aid with formatting, I created two templates. The image thumbnails I am using get passed as arguments to the templates. I've noticed that, presumably as a result of the use of a template, the Image page doesn't know that the image is being used in an article (see e.g. Image:The KLF- Burn The Bastards.jpg). I'm worried that some bot will come along and say "right, they're not being used", and list them for deletion.

If you can suggest a way round this or what might be causing it please leave a message on my talk page (as I've asked several people). Cheers. --kingboyk 18:25, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Forget it mate, seems to be a quirky self resolving caching thing (and you can quote me on that). --kingboyk 21:05, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

RFA Thanks
P.S. If you are interested in The Beatles, User:Lar has asked me to tag on a little note advertising the creation of a new Beatles WikiProject that we are currently setting up. Please sign up and help.

St. Edwards School
Hi mate. Would you have a look at that article please? Is Rupert Curtis a famous fella I've never heard of, or is it a schoolboy prank? Cheers. --kingboyk 22:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Greetings


I convey my Birth Day Greetings to you - happy Birth day !!! --Bhadani 15:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I wish you a happy birthday too from a fellow Esperanzian! Have lots of fun! Thethinr e dline 07:50, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

 Happy Birthday ! --Misza 13 T C 10:32, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Um, yeah, me too! Not that I knew :) --kingboyk 12:23, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Happy birthday from a fellow Esperanzian, may everything you do today go well --«Θ» z  ee  rus  13:14, 30 March 2006 (UTC) Happy Birthday !! :) L e idiot 13:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday, hope you have a great day today. :) --Ter e nce Ong 13:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Have a great day of birth! -- light darkness (talk) 15:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Have a wonderful birthday! :-) Gflor e sTalk 22:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Happy birthday! —   nath a(?) nrdotcom (T • C • W) 02:17, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Gloucestershire
Hi Vanky. I had another rummage through the Gloucestershire category tree yesterday and created a category for Tewksbury as I'd already done for Cheltenham. I also found quite a few Bristol suburbs in the Glos. towns/villages categories. I removed them as an exercise in being bold but, as I pretty much expected, I've had an objection. So, I just wondered what you think? Should South Glos be in it's own category (which can be a subcat of Glos) or is it the same place? Do you think of Bristol as being in the same county as Cheltenham, or a big city an hour away down the motorway as I do? Taken to Category talk:South Gloucestershire if you'd like to chip in, and by the way I'm not expecting you to agree with me! I might be totally wrong on this. --kingboyk 12:23, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Censorship
A watered-down version of the proposed policy against censorship is now open for voting. Will you kindly review the policy and make your opinions known? Thank you very much. Loom91 12:57, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, &mdash;Cel es tianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Help?
Will you consider commenting on some AfD nominations and merge-delete propositions that I believe are an attempt to drive off a good editor? (OK, she's my wife. But she's exhausted by this fight; her articles are written in good faith and this editor is making a mockery of WP.)
 * Table of books of Judeo-Christian Scripture
 * Lost books of the Old Testament
 * Lost Book of the Covenant
 * Lost Book of Jasher
 * Lost Book of Enoch

Thank you! --JuanFiguroa 03:03, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

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Edit Day
Congratulations Vanky! It's your first edit day! Wooohooo! You deserve some credit for all your hard work. Great job mate! Keep up the Good work! Dfrg.m s c 1. 2 . 3 10:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

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First Edit
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What happened to vanky?
Vanky! Where are you? You edited a bunch of good ones and you even created a bunch of good ones! We need you here at the wiki. It don't look like you made a "contrib" for ages! I hope you is OK along with your beautiful cats and your wife! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.206.143.173 (talk) 00:37, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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