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BS Stuff

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Once again, someone disagrees with my interpretation of our very loose guidelines. Now I don't mind when two users like WJBscribe and Kathryn_NicDh%C3%A0na, but they've taken the disagreement and posted negative comments over at that RFC.

So ... could you please weigh in one last time ... new barnstar or a wikiproject award Wikipedia:Barnstar_and_award_proposals/New_Proposals#The_Copyeditor.27s_Award. Thanks. --evrik (talk) 22:56, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

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Updated DYK query On 1 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Eastgate Clock, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Yomanganitalk 23:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Chester city walls, was selected for DYK!

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Updated DYK query On March 2, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chester city walls, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 22:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Awards Coordinator referendum

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There has been some conflict at Wikipedia:WikiProject Awards. Please vote on the Coordinator referendum. --South Philly 20:27, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

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Updated DYK query On 7 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kasongo Ilunga, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--ALoan (Talk) 15:12, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello,

you appear to be the creator of the "Mahjongg" style Wiktionary logo. The copyright situation of this logo is currently unclear. Please contact me under erik AT wikimedia DOT org so we can try to resolve this; what is needed is a formal transfer of copyright to the Wikimedia Foundation before this logo can be officially adopted.--Eloquence* 05:37, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. One of the obstacles to adoption of the Wiktionary logo has been concern that the tiles too closely resemble Scrabble tiles and so may infringe on some trademark rights of Hasbro/PB. To eliminate that obstacle, we merely need to change the background color of the tiles. See m:Talk:Wiktionary/logo/Archives/2007#Trademark infringement. Are you able to change the background color of those tiles? Rod (A. Smith) 16:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, wikt:Wiktionary:Beer parlour#More logo conversation has another active conversation about the logo. Rod (A. Smith) 17:48, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image

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Sorry I forgot to get back to you. My daughter-in-law went to visit her parents for a month or so and has taken the digital camera. As soon as she is back I will get the picture. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

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Thanks for passing the I&S&P show, and for fixing the minor problem. Much appreciated! Gran2 17:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For you...

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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For a long time, I thought of making a signature tutorial but was too lazy... Just stumbled upon a very nice one by you... — Lost(talk) 12:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Farewell week

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Hi, hope you are well. I wanted to let you know that I have decided to leave Wikipedia and so this is my last week here. I've found it all very worthwhile, but I feel now is the time to leave, so I'm off to try new things, see more old things, etc. It was great to meet you here and particularly nice of you to consider me a "Wikichum". You have one of the best userpages I think I've ever seen on Wikipedia.

All the best and good luck with whatever you go on to do. Wikiwoohoo 18:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have taken care of everything that you suggested. My friend User:ERcheck will place the dates and stuff on the references becuase I don't want to mess it up. Besides all this, tell me - What did you really think of the subject of the article? Tony the Marine 21:36, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(P.S. ERcheck told me in my talk page that he will take care of dating the references)

O.K., I tried my hand at the last item standing, the reference thing. Tony the Marine 02:16, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Everything that you have requested is now officially done. Tony the Marine

Under construction

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See reply on UK waterways page Simply south 15:50, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I like your box diagram of the NWR I just would like to point out two things though - 1: you have missed out Suddery station which lies between Wellsworth and Brendam on Edward's branch line and 2: The Mid Sodor Railway does or did not cross the NWR main line at Crovans Gate other thn it is very good Penrithguy 16:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

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Updated DYK query On 16 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Canford Cliffs, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 18:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Winter service vehicle

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Hi there. The article has come a long way, and I don't see why it shouldn't pass FAC—I've fixed a couple of typos and such, but since I'm not very knowledgeable on the subject, I don't think I could be of much more help :) The prose looks nice, it's very well-referenced... I hope it gets more participation at FAC. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 19:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, congratulations on the FA—well-deserved. Happy editing, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 16:18, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

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Thank you for your beautiful words and the kind welcome, dear Smurray! It's great to see friendly faces like yours again, and visit one the loveliest userpages and its even lovelier owner :) How have you been these months? We have much to talk, I'm sure ;) Hugs from your friend, Phaedriel - 18:38, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Aww, so best of luck with your exams, and hurry back, will you, please? :) Regarding my username, of course, it's not like it's a mistery :) I've always felt attraction to names that finish in "iel", for some unknown reason. "Gabriel", "Galadriel", "Uriel", all sound very musical in my ears. When I was trying to come up with a name to register myself, "Sharon" and "SharonK" were already taken, so I remembered an old game I played with an ex bf, Dungeon Siege, were you could get an NPC called... Phaedriel :) I didn't think much at the moment, I simply wanted to make a few edits. Little I knew then that it'd become so identified with me! :) And yours, if I may ask? I always find it very nice to exchange these wiki experiences with my friends! Phaedriel - 19:30, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for commenting on the peer review request for 1913 Liberty Head Nickel. In accordance with your suggestion, I've added two examples (cited to Bowers) of how the coin could legitimately have been produced. As for the intro, do you have any suggestions for expanding it? I'm having trouble figuring out how to do so without introducing unnecessary redundancy with other parts of the article. *** Crotalus *** 22:32, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Winter service vehicle

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I was wondering when the bit about image location was included in the MOS because having all images on the same side is not appealing to me and it's something I can't fix. If I were to set the image size differently in my prefs, I'd get problems with whitespace from clashing images. - Mgm|(talk) 07:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Assistance needed - Re: Previously Failed RfA

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Dear Smurrayinchester,

I would like to ask for your assistance. About 14 months ago, I self nominated for an RfA, which I ultimately withdrew (see here). During that RfA, you lodged an oppose vote, and I have taken a lot of the comments from that failed RfA on board since then. I am now up to an average of near on 875 to 900 edits per year, having only recently got back to the net from health issues (Throat cancer), and I am once again considering attempting a request for adminship. I am writing to all those editors who opposed my original self-nomination to ask them to see if they would be kind enough to review my recent work, and to see whether they consider that I have taken those points from my old RfA on board enough to warrant another attempt.

I am enjoying getting back into the swing of working on Wikipedia again, and looking forward to enjoying many more years of work. I am now using Twinkle and VandalFighter for my reversion work on RCP and CVU, and looking to the future.

Thank you for your time, and for your comments.

Thorsteinn A. Malmjursson User:Iceflow / Formerly User:Tmalmjursson 17:11, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Religion and Spirituality barnstar

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It seems like the barnstar that you created almost 2 months ago on Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/New Proposals never gets approved even though everyone supports. To make things more interesting, the page will be gone very shortly. The admins have told us that we no longer need to get approvals from the community before adding barnstars (as I did to the Environmental Barnstar on today). I suggest you to use this time period to put it up as an official Wikipedia barnstar before they raise the requirements again.

Btw, nice userpage.

The Excellent Userpage Award
This is the best userpage that I have ever seen. You truly deserve this. OhanaUnited 18:29, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Would you do as you suggest and replace the image that you are concerned about with the one that you feel is OK to use. Regards. SilkTork 11:53, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sunshine

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Variety says: "Kuechler's atmospheric signature look combined with an inspired production design, which includes golden space suits, should make "Sunshine" stand out from the sci-fi crowd." —Erik (talkcontrib) - 17:14, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Belated thanks

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for your superb contrib here: [1] Adambrowne666 01:19, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

More belated thanks

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For your excellent work in drawing up the Business and Economics Barnstar: I had suggested it ages ago, saw some rather apathetic feedback, and assumed that that was the end of the matter. Looking through the list of Barnstars this morning, I suddenly saw it, resurrected, with a lovely design by you. Thank you so much for taking the trouble to do the work, which is quite beyond me.

PS: I've awarded it to Kittybrewster for his excellent work (still unfinished!) on Lloyd's of London.--Major Bonkers (talk) 08:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK update

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Would you please promote the next update to DYK. It is already 10 hours overdue. There is a long backup. I just got done with the next update. Thanks! Royalbroil 15:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking care of it! Royalbroil 16:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

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Could you update DYK again? It's 18 hrs overdue. SU Linguist 11:42, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

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Thanks for the barnstar, I will slap it up on my user page. : )IvoShandor 11:33, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know?

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Updated DYK query On 17 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pingelap, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--GeeJo (t)(c) • 14:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Updated DYK query On July 27, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Road maintenance depot, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Good to see you again Smurray! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:10, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Told ya I'd do it this year round

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:P Will (talk) 23:33, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it helped that I had sandboxed the article in my user space. I'm actually surprised that it hadn't been created already. Will (talk) 23:39, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion...

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After your excellent and much-appreciated work on the Economics Barnstar (see above!), I've got an idea for a 'Patience of a saint' Barnstar, to be awarded to those who put up with the random acts of stupidity/ rudeness/ etc. in a particularly commendable way. I have in mind one Admin who has been subject to a campaign of trolling for the last 4 months or so. Might you (please!) be able to have a go?--Major Bonkers (talk) 18:09, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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At the Swedish Wiktionary we would be happy to use the new logo, but we'd need a Swedish version. Since things are quite slow we've decided not to wait. The text would be "Wiktionary" for Wiktionary and "Den fria ordboken" for The free dictionary. If you cannot do it we'll just stick with the old one.

Thanks, (wikt:sv) Shell-man 18:22, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So you haven't recieved an answer from Wikimedia Foundation about copyrighting the logo? Shell-man 14:05, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:POKE is doing some housecleaning

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This notice is to inform you that because many people have added their names to Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon#Participants but do not seem to be active, all names are being deleted in an effort to find out who is still truly interested in the project. All you have to do is re-add your name if you'd still like to be considered a member of WP:POKE. Any questions, you can contact me on my talk page. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 17:46, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

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As instructed byt the DYK talk page, I am trying to attract the attention of an admin to update the DYK template on the main page because it has not been updated in 11 hours. If you are abailable to help, thank you very much. -Dekkanar 22:21, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK page is in need of updating!

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Please update the DYK page. It has not been done so in the past thirteen hours. Chris 00:51, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK Aug 5

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Updated DYK query On 5 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chester Roman Ampitheatre, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Wizardman 02:23, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Updated DYK query On September 19, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mandatory sign, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Hello Smurray and well done. You have the pictured slot this time. Happy editing, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:00, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I-15 in Arizona DYK

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Thanks for fixing the error! Do you happen to know why the image - one which a Wikipedian created - was not chose over Image:Nicolas Coccola.jpg? --NE2 11:14, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

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HAPPY FIRST EDIT DAY! from the BIRTHDAYCOMMITTEE

Wishing Smurrayinchester/Archive 9 a very Happy First Edit Day!

Have a fantastic day!

From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee

--Lemonflash(do something) 01:01, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day

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Happy First Edit Day, Smurrayinchester', from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! User:Smurrayinchester (talk) 06:46, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Happy first edit day! umdrums 05:44, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

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I dont believe I have ever accused of you of vandalism Penrithguy 16:30, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry Wrong Person Penrithguy 16:31, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You may wish to comment on this AfD since you put the article on DYK not too long ago. Dhaluza 08:56, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You may also wish to review the deletion now at DRV Dhaluza 23:33, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I saw your comments on context, and it rang a bell for me. I have incorporated what I saw from them at Wikipedia:News articles, and did some other NPOV type balancing. Feel free to review my changes, and add your own. Dhaluza 10:29, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, it's been nominated again. Feel free to comment at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/300-page iPhone bill (second nomination) Dhaluza (talk) 18:37, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Imperial Triple Crown Jewels

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I, Durova, recognize Smurrayinchester with the Imperial Triple Crown Jewels for exceptional content improvements to Wikipedia. Thank you for all you do. DurovaCharge! 20:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your Imperial Majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow these Imperial Triple Crown Jewels in recognition of your contributions to Wikipedia. May you wear them well. DurovaCharge! 13:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Main page

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Hi. How do i set Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (executive) in my preferences? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Talk"? 14:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Daaaaaang

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A Barnstar Slice
You get this slice of a Barnstar of Good Humor, as part of the group in the RD/M Daaaaaang thread. This is only a symbolic part of the barnstar, the rest of it lies with the other members. lucid 23:32, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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There is a discussion about the appropriateness or otherwise of some links that have been added to a number of pages, and subsequently removed. As you are a member of the project, you may wish to comment at

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Waterways#Pennine Waterways Links

Mayalld 14:31, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:Zeichen 241.svg

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Couple awards

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The DYK Medal
For your work in getting many articles to DYK so people like me can see them. KeepOnTruckin Complain to me | my work here 22:10, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]



The Featured Article Medal
For your work in getting articles to FA status and improving others. The main reason for this award is for your excellent work on the Winter Service Vehicle article KeepOnTruckin Complain to me | my work here 22:10, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]


I originally found out about WSV by seeing it on DYK. Great job! KeepOnTruckin Complain to me | my work here

Yep saw it on the watchlist. KeepOnTruckin Complain to me | my work here 02:15, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re:rd header

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Well I'll be darned. I always refresh the desks in between every single revision to make sure I'm not screwing anything up (I have to make changes live or else everything breaks every time), but I don't actually try to click the links. Thanks for messaging me, I was able to fix it immediately --ffroth 23:17, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hide contents not working for me

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just to let you know that hide contents in this page is not working for me. maybe it is just me though. i have set my user preferences to not show contents in mainspace. i am on firefox too. --Kushalt 19:54, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK: road slipperiness

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Updated DYK query On 25 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article road slipperiness, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Mgm|(talk) 09:34, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Q-tv logo.JPG

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Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:Q-tv logo.JPG. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. PxMa 16:10, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]