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James Kendall [talk] 18:36, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

I wanted to thank you for the barnstar :) It's nice to know that one's hard work is appreciated ---Marcus- 00:42, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Thanks!

You're very welcome. Believe it or not, a vandal like that is refreshing to see, once in a while. He's a vandal who's kind enough to send me a big orange message at the top of my screen every time he vandalizes! tv316 22:55, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IPA pronunciation

Thanks very much for your help with pronunciation of Fedor Emelianenko. There are some other Russian biographies I've tried to get pronunciation information on. Could you help with Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov, and/or Veselin Topalov (Bulgarian, but is it much different?) Thank you again! --Ryan Delaney ^talk 04:21, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again! The pronunciation of "Alekhine" is still very bad in the west, even 60 years since his death. I'm sure there are many more Russian people biographies that could use IPA pronunciation information, so I greatly encourage you to do more of this, although I will no longer pester you. :-) Let me know if you need anything I may be able to help with in the future. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 17:02, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Enswell.jpeg

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Sure thing!

I'll try putting a sign of needed citation/reference instead of removing unsourced context in the future. Thanks for pointing it out! Sometimes I've got a bad habit of deleting rather than waiting for sources to show up. --Marcus 18:41, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cutman nomination

I came across Cutman while looking for an article to copy edit, and was impressed enough to nominate it as a good article. I did a little copy editing of the article itself and I don't think it actually needs the {{copyedit}} tag any longer. That said, because you added it to your own article and because I'm no authority on grammar, I've left the tag there for you to remove when you're satisfied it's no longer needed. I'm simply drawing your attention to it because it could have a negative effect on the outcome. People making snap judgements based on the placement of tag, without checking who placed it, is an unfortunate possibility. BTW - nice user page, I must get around to making my own some time. Anyway, good luck! ◄ИΞШSΜΛЯΞ ► 17:39, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some Article Requests

Hey buddy,

I recently found and read your article on the cutman and it was an awesome resource for me.

If you're willing and you have the knowledge, I was hoping that you could do similar expansion to the cornerman article, and perhaps start an article on boxing managers as well. I've found very little information on these important jobs both in Wikipedia and elsewhere. It'd be awesome if you could start/improve those articles.

Again, awesome work on your cutman article, and thanks for contributing to Wikipedia!!! Lantoka 14:23, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cutman peer review

Nice work on the Cutman article, I've contributed to the peer review as requested. I've tried to be as picky as I can for the good of the article, please don't take this as negative, I'm very impressed with the article so far and your work on MMA subjects. Cheers! --Estarriol ^talk 15:10, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image of Aleksander Emelianenko

Hi,

You've deleted the image of Aleksander Emelianenko from the page about him. I believe it was tagged appropriately: it's a copyright photo, but it was used to illustrate the article about the particular person in absence of free alternative.

--CasualFighter 21:36, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If the image is fair use you can re-upload it, and tag it with one of the fair use tags from Wikipedia:Image copyright tags, also include a fair use rationale. Before the deletion however the image wasn't tagged at all, it just listed the url/source. If you have any other questions let me know. - cohesion 05:34, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I reloaded the image and tagged it. I no longer remember the source URL, and I couldn't find the old image description. If you could resurrect it, that would be great. Thanks!

--CasualFighter 20:17, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done, the image is Image:35_1.jpg, thanks for tagging it :) - cohesion 20:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bravo!

Fantastic job with your cutman article! I've been following its progress and it's really come along from when I first ran across it. Your contributions are appreciated. =) —Lantoka ^{( talk | contrib)} 02:36, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

edit: And while I'm here, if I could get you to visit these two pages and leave your input, it'd be really appreciated. Talk:Cornerman Talk:Cutman

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WikiProject Mixed martial arts article improvement drive

Wikipedia:WikiProject Mixed martial arts is now taking suggestions for the new MMA article improvement drive! Please add your input to decide what our first collaboration should be. VegaDark 21:26, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yemelyanenko

Hi, CasualFighter! This is a courtesy notice to let you know that I filed an inquiry regarding the Yemelyanenko situation here. You might want to watchlist that thread to see what the comments would be. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:48, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Наведи Порядок !

CasualFighter

Наведи пожалуйста порядок на страницы Федора, Зачем уроды добавляют в графу национальность "украинец" ? С таким-же успехом можно на странице братьев Кличко , добавить им в графу национальность Русский-Казах-Киргиз Пусть эти уроды на карту посмотрят. В Луганской Области (Ворошилоградская) , по украински никто не говорит. На протяжении веков входила в состав Российской Империи. Если бы не Хрущевы всякие ..... Вобщем , придурки американские !

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Petition to have flagicons returned to fighter pages

I have started a petition in the hopes of having flagicons returned to MMA fighters pages. Sign here if you would like to help. Thank you. -- WölffReik (talk)

Cung Le's Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cung_Le

Hello, I'm leaving this message to seek assistance from you to see if there can a protection to Cung Le's wikipedia page. It seems that random IP addresses continue to revert his page to change his Ethnicity and Nationality to strictly just Vietnamese. I have provided many sources that label him as either a Vietnamese-American or a South Vietnam-born American, meaning he is currently an American that happened to be born in South Vietnam. In the talk page, a Mod had stated that he is indeed in fact an American based on all the sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cung_Le

Comment This is very clear, he was born in South Vietnam but all that does is make him "South Vietnamese born" place of birth does not equate to nationality (otherwise Australia would have a british prime minister); there is a source here that calls Le "South Vietnamese-born American" therefore unless someone can show with an equally reliable source he is a national of another country then we go with American. Any changes without such a source will be reverted in line with WP:BLP. Mtking (edits) 22:33, 27 December 2012 (UTC) However, he's already retired. Let me know what you can do or who I need to contact for further assistance in protecting his page.PinoyFilAmPride (talk) 23:44, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome back

Look forward to you being back in the fray. Jmg38 (talk) 05:54, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]