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Again, welcome! Fiddle Faddle 06:14, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

look at my contributions now! 98.148.167.84 (talk) 03:45, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

also my alt was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/204.100.235.134 but it got taken and changed and used for vanilism before and after my time with this beutiful ip. 98.148.167.84 (talk) 03:47, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: List of GBC games that use Infared (July 4)

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MfD nomination of Draft:IOS 15

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July 2020

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Your submission at Articles for creation: List of GBC games that use Infared (July 25)

Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reasons left by Hellknowz were: This topic is not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: No improvement at all since last decline. No sources given to establish notability, such as WP:LISTN, for this extremely specific list that without sources about such a list grouping itself borders on indiscriminate WP:GAMECRUFT trivia (contrary to Wikipedia's prupose). Only feature notes may be of interest, but these can be (sourced) in the game articles.

— HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 12:35, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:List of GBC games that use Infared

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A tag has been placed on Draft:List of GBC games that use Infared requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Color_games_with_IR_support. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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July 2020

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"Draft:IOS 15" listed at Redirects for discussion

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September 2020

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Concern regarding Draft:List of GBC games that use Infared

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Bot0612 (talk) 22:06, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:List of GBC games that use Infared

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Techie3 (talk) 00:32, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (April 20)

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Dan arndt (talk) 02:54, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

April 2021

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Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is 98.148.167.84 (talk) 03:54, 25 April 2021 (UTC). Place any further information here. 98.148.167.84 (talk) 03:54, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is 70.32.0.0/21. Place any further information here. 98.148.167.84 (talk) 18:08, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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August 2021

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October 2021

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Magnet (disambiguation)

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Please don't continue to add entries that have no associated article (blue link) to disambiguation pages. They will merely be removed by other editors. Leschnei (talk) 14:58, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 2022

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Samsung Sam (June 1)

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Your draft article, Draft:JadooTV

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