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Welcome to the land of usernames, Ixfd64. Always good to "see" a new name on Recent Changes. -- Stephen Gilbert 00:55 Dec 15, 2002 (UTC)

  • Thanks! I will try to live up to my expectations. --Ixfd64 03:04, 2002 December 16 (UTC)

Hello there Ixfd64, welcome to userland! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, nice pictures. Cheers! --maveric149

I saw you change the ordering of a date on Cassie Bernall. fyi, the display of a date is handled in the preferences, so there is no real need to go round changing dates to what you think is correct, as people will only see what they think is correct anyway.... :) Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 07:49, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi

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It looks like you've been around this horrible horrible site quite a bit longer than I have...Anywyay, what does EMS stand for (forgive my ignorance)? Freshman there? --Jiang

  • Yeah, I'm a freshman at Cal. EMS = Engineering Mathematics and Statistics. --Ixfd64 17:01, 2004 Sep 16 (UTC)

Article Licensing

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Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

hello there fellow bear

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Thanks for leaving that message on my page. It was nice to meet a fellow bear on Wikipedia (though there are plenty of them that use this). Curious, how did you find me? I'm guessing one of the United States articles perhaps? --Alsocal 10:03, 14 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • I was looking through random contributors' user pages when I noticed that you went to Cal too. :) --Ixfd64 00:26, 2005 May 15 (UTC)

Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

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Hi there, I noticed that you moved Voluntary human extinction movement to the above by copying the content to the new page and then creating a redirect in place of the old page. This has the disadvantage that the history of the page becomes invisible from the new location (it looks like you just created it). You can do this sort of thing more neatly by using the "move" button. This also moves the history. Best, Slinger 10:23, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • Wow, thanks! I didn't realize I could do that! --Ixfd64 19:34, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)

Blanking pages

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Hey! Please don't randomly blank pages. If a page is nonsense please check out Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion and simply nominate the article for speedy deletion so an admin can delete the page. If you blank it, an admin may have to go back and check what was on the page in the page in the first place. Thanks! Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 07:04, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

  • OK, I will keep that in mind. I will also inform other users that they should request deletion of nonsense pages instead of blanking them. --Ixfd64 07:20, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

Ptarmigan

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Please do not lower case bird species names. There is long-established convention on Wikipedia that bird species and some other animal groups are always capitalised, rather than the American preference of lower case. Thanks, jimfbleak 15:51, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • I will keep that in mind. I actually did a Google search to check whether the names should be capitalized but came up with nothing conclusive. :\ --Ixfd64 16:23, 2005 July 20 (UTC)

Aura Lee

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How can a hockey player be a runner up for a team trophy? Please, enlighten me. -- Earl Andrew - talk 00:46, 26 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • See my reply on your talk page. --Ixfd64 01:17, 2005 July 26 (UTC)

You didnt have to create a new article though. Word to the wise, don't create articles just for the sake of creating articles. I put it on speedy delete. :) -- Earl Andrew - talk 01:21, 26 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • I will try to remember that. :) --Ixfd64 01:23, 2005 July 26 (UTC)

Indio Hills

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Cool! This is in my neck of the woods and I've been looking for something local to write about or expand. - Lucky 6.9 04:53, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Yeah, I've been looking for red links to convert to blue links. I'm glad that you found that article useful. :) --Ixfd64 05:04, 2005 August 30 (UTC)

Nice place to spend some time, too. Huell Howser now lives out here and he did a "California's Gold" about it. Which reminds me: The endangered desert pupfish is protected in some natural ponds there as well. Cute little critters. Only fish of that size I've ever seen that are attracted to people. They're about the size of feeder goldfish and they try nibbling on your fingers when you put your hand in the water, which is supposed to be a no-no. In about a month, it should be cool enough to enjoy again. It was 115 today! - Lucky 6.9 06:11, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Verdugo Mountains

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Thanks for creating a stub for Verdugo Mountains. Fpo and I have been collaborating on this article at User:Fpo/Sandbox. If you would like to contribute to a fuller version of the article, please let us know. We also have a talk section on the sandbox page. Mike Dillon 05:21, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

  • Hi there, your article seems very nice. :) --Ixfd64 05:34, 2005 August 30 (UTC)

California WikiProject

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As a Californian (and by your editing habits) you may be interested in the California WikiProject, as well as the Southern California WikiProject. Please take a look at the projects and see if there is anything that interests you. If you have any comments or questions, please contact me. BlankVerse ∅ 12:22, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thanks, I will take a look. --Ixfd64 14:44, 2005 August 30 (UTC)

Mendocino War and Mariposa War

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Hi! Thanks for creating those stubs. I've been compiling information on both events for some time and writing both articles offline, and I've been expanding the articles of other Californian Native American issues as well (History section of Mendocino County, Ishi, Yuki tribe and others). I'd like to know if you have information on such events and if you'd be willing to collaborate, or if you simply created these stubs for other people to expand. In any case, thank you again, and nice to meet you! Shauri 18:41, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Unfortunately, I am not familiar with those events. :( --Ixfd64 00:38, 2005 September 1 (UTC)

Rottentomatoes Monday Photoshop Contest

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Hi, Ixfd64. I noticed that you put a vfd tag on this article. There are still a few other steps you need to do to complete the process so it is added to the list of articles under discussion. If you need assistance with this, let me know, and I'll be glad to help. Joyous (talk) 10:38, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

I forgot to add that you can find the instructions at the bottom of Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion. You've completed step 1, but still need to do steps 2 and 3. Joyous (talk) 10:40, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. :) By the way, I listed that article for deletion because the contest didn't seem notable enough, and no other articles linked to this article. --Ixfd64 16:06, 2005 September 1 (UTC)

Sandbox

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Hello. I saw you enforce the header for the Sandbox. I would like to let you know that a bot is in operation and there are manual buttons you can press to restore the header. See User:Sandbot/Tools. --AllyUnion (talk) 05:49, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

warnings

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Hi - I noticed you added a warning to a user page and reverted some vandalism. Thanks! BTW - when you do this, I think it's better to user the {{subst:test}} syntax (so the template is expanded). -- Rick Block (talk) 00:21, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

  • I'll be sure to do that from now on. I guess it makes the messages more personal, and thus, more friendly. :) --Ixfd64 01:00, 2005 September 12 (UTC)

Adminship

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I have nominated you for adminship. Please sign your acceptance or declination and answer the candidate questions. Thanks. — JIP | Talk 09:11, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

monobook script

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I've taken a look at your monobook script and changed it to include the code rather than linking to it. Please visit your monobook.js file and refresh to see if the changes work this time. - Mgm|(talk) 11:15, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian Park stubs

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Hi - I see you've been making a lot of stub articles on Canadian provincial parks. That's good, but what you probably didn't realise is that several provinces have their own geo-stub templates (like {{Alberta-geo-stub}}) - so I've just gone through a whole load and changed them over. If you're planning to do any more, have a lok at WP:WSS/ST (or at the top of Category:Canada geography stubs) and you'll see which ones have separate templates. Good work on the new stub articles, though... :) Grutness...wha? 12:43, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

reply about page move

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Actually, I was just duplicating the disambig template to another with a different category since the other template kept being classified as a generic disambiguation. The disambiguation category is overloaded. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SuperDude115 (talk • contribs) Sept 20, 2005

Adminship

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Congratulations, you are now a sysop! If you haven't already, now is the time to read the Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide and Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list. All the best, Warofdreams talk 15:09, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Popups tool

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Congratulations on being made an admin! I thought you might like to know of a javascript tool that may help in your editing by giving easy access to many admin features. It's described at Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups. The quick version of the installation procedure for admins is to paste the following into User:Ixfd64/archive 1/monobook.js: 

// [[User:Lupin/popups.js]] - please include this line 

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' 
             + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/popups.js' 
             + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');

popupShortcutKeys=true; // optional: enable keyboard shortcuts
popupAdminLinks=true;   // optional: enable admin links

There are more options which you can fiddle with listed at Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups. Give it a try and let me know if you find any glitches or have suggestions for improvements! Lupin|talk|popups 16:33, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats

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Thanks! --Ixfd64 19:31, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Choir image?

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What the heck was this? [1] —Wahoofive (talk) 22:39, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • I uploaded an updated version of an image under a more accurate file name, so I changed the image link. I did accidentally introduce a spelling mistake, though. --Ixfd64 23:00, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Gold coins

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Err, my comment (with the dab page at Gold coins?) was meant to indicate that it would be better to have the dab page (if written) at "Cold coins" (lowercase, following Wikipedia standard for page names without caps), not that there was one already. I was waiting to see if I got any reactions (pro or con) before creating a dab page.

Also, according to policy, unless they qualify for speedy deletion (which this one didn't), things are supposed to stay on RfD for a week before they are deleted, so deleting it was a little hasty.

Anyway, you don't need to worry about RfD; I am pretty diligent about keeping it tidy. If you're looking for things to do with the new broom, try checking out Wikipedia:Cleaning department, it looks like Wikipedia:Requested moves has a bad backlog at the moment. Enjoy the broom! Noel (talk) 23:46, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I don't usually check other User_talk: pages (so that I don't have to monitor a whole long list of User_Talk: pages - one for each person with whom I am having a "conversation"), so please leave any messages for me on my talk page (above); if you leave a message for me here I probably will not see it. I know not everyone uses this style (they would rather keep all the text of a thread in one place), but I simply can't monitor all the User_talk: pages I leave messages on. Thanks!

    • No problem, don't worry about it (I realized the situation right away). Noel (talk)

Offensive Users / Wikipedia policy pages

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Where do I find those "Wikipedia policy pages" I have tried looking around, but there are elusive. 207.69.139.149

I searched for the word "offensive" on Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard but didn't find anything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.69.139.149 (talk • contribs) Sept 22 2005
The administrators' noticeboard is only used for reporting incidents. --Ixfd64 09:25, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

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Hiya Ixfd64. I note I appear, or my IP address appears, to have been blocked. I was trying to edit my own article when my heart sank on seeing the block page!

Has there been an error on one of our parts? I mean nothing but good - somewhat of an newbie still but have never got into any kind of trouble around here before. I don't want to start now!

Regards, Líam P doktorb 18:36, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    • Thanks for that. I think this is one of the problems when using AOL, even with a user name I am bound to suffer from the occasional glitch. Thanks for the swift reply doktorb 19:09, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. :) --Ixfd64 19:11, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

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Hi! Thanks for the revert on my userpage. JeremyA (talk) 14:04, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

P K

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Seems like I restored the Speedy notice at the same moment you deleted the article...please delete again. Thanks! Owen× ☎ 04:47, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


protection of George W. Bush

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(original text was removed by poster)

Bridgewater Township, New Jersey

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I have posted a question about your recent addition to this article on the talk page there. Still being fairly new here, I am never quite sure where to post a comment about an edit and simultaneously let the person know in case they are not monitoring the page, so this time I decided to do it this way. Neutron 01:36, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Godmode script

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Hi. I am sorry but I am unable to reproduce the bug you are describing. I tried with the following browsers:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7 (Debian package 1.0.7-1)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050914 Galeon/1.3.21 (Debian package 1.3.21-6)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050914 Debian/1.7.11-1

I am afraid I don’t really know what to try in order to debug this... Sam Hocevar 20:41, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

2005 Kashmir earthquake

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Indian subcontinent earthquakes list Thank you for your contribution at 2005 Kashmir earthquake.
Please keep it up!!! - P R A D E E P Somani (talk)
Feel free to send me e-mail.

6.50 10 October 2005


Thanks

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Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page. --Isotope23 13:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]


Vandalism - Iain Lee

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Seems to be a spate of recurrent vandalism on Iain Lee. Thanks for keeping back the tide.--Westminsterboy 12:38, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

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On this talk page you said you would block user 195.188.173.96 if they vandalized any more pages. They have: at previous edit here. Rkevins82 - TALK 22:18, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Edit conflict

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Sorry about the jamming tag edits - twice. I'm having a 'glitchy' night. Cheers. PJM 03:30, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hephaestos2

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I just found out you removed Hephaestos2 from the Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Willy on Wheels list. Actually, it wasn't me who created that account. I added it to the Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Willy on Wheels list because it sounded like a Willy on Wheels sockpuppet. -- Mike Garcia | talk 16:42, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It must have been an impersonator, then. In any case, welcome back! --Ixfd64 18:56, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Unblocked

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Thanks for telling me, I didn't know. Just came back from taking a run. I'm glad I got unblocked, so I can work. Jimmy Loves You, and You, and You 20:09, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Userpage Vandalism

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Thanks!

Thanks for catching vandalism to my userpage. FireFox 17:44, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.

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Thanks for taking out the trash for me on my Userpage so speedily. Good on ya! =) -LichYoshi 11:32, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

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Hi there, thanks for reverting the vandalism to my userpage, you're a great wikizen indeed! - CHAIRBOY (☎) 14:24, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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not sure why you insist that closed session etc. be linked from Current Events? :) dab 83.79.181.171 21:14, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • I reverted page because the links you removed are still considered important by some. Also, you changed the "Gaza Strip" link to "Gaza Strip-club," which looked like vandalism to me. --Ixfd64 22:44, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

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Thanks for the revert on my user pages! --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:27, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

(Counter Vandalism Unit)

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I noticed that you had been removing some vandalism and you are not a member of Wikipedia:Counter Vandalism Unit You might want to join it. Also there is a bot that finds vandalism the bot is in #wikipedia-en-vandalism on freenode.net

By the way if you join you will be the 100th member --Adam1213 Talk+ 08:13, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Babel

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Given that (presumably) you used English as your native language -- and while I understand that you might be humbly trying to show your level of English as not being great in light of your learning difficulties -- I think that "en" is more appropriate than "en-3." (If you in fact learned another language as your first language, then you can list that as your native language instead.) --Nlu 11:40, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • English was actually my second language. My first language was Mandarin, although I can only speak it. I can't really write in Chinese. --Ixfd64 11:45, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • :-) I can't write Chinese well, either, but Mandarin is my first language (and I do have no problem reading Chinese or typing it on a Mac keyboard -- I am thoroughly unfamiliar with Windows entry methods!). Obviously, though, it's up to you to characterize your language situation any way you want. --Nlu 11:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, after reading the first language article, maybe I really do belong in the "en" group! --Ixfd64 11:46, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked users

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Hi! Both accounts were nothing but nonsense articles, one of which was on AfD and later speedied. That "Aznboy" or whatever he called himself was responsible. Their "articles" were deleted which is why they're not in the edit history.  :) - Lucky 6.9 00:05, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I got the answer to my question. Thanks! :) --Ixfd64 00:24, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

CVU

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Thanks very much for your message. I have happily joined. Canderson7 03:19, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Psy guy's RfA

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Thanks for supporting my RfA. It recently closed with final tally of 51/1/2. I sincerely appreciate it and I hope I can live up to your expectations. I will try my best to be a good administrator. If you ever need anything, just let me know. Thanks! -- Psy guy (talk) 05:49, 12 November 2005 (UTC) [reply]

Hi

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Hi Ixfd64, I just looking at an article I tried to expand maybe a month or so ago, the Mariposa War, I see that you started it. I was just curious if you had anymore information on that event? KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 07:03, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • P.S. please respond on my talk page :-)
I have posted a reply there. --Ixfd64 07:08, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for letting me know so quickly, I have a second question for you. I can not find anymore information on the Mariposa War, and you the one that started it does not have anymore. Do you think the stub tags should be removed? Again my talk page please. (Future reference I would prefer all replies on my talk page, and likewise if you ever have a question or comment for me I will of course reply on your talk page if that is what you wish) KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 07:12, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Awww

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You warned them for vandalizing a page with "hello mum"? OK, you did the right thing... but it was the sweetest thing I've ever seen! Really cheered me up. :-) Best, Bishonen | talk 11:10, 14 November 2005 (UTC).[reply]

HTML problems

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Hi, I have noticed html problems simultaneously cropped up on many pages, and you're the only one who managed to fix it Wikipedia talk:Babel... do you know what's going on or how to fix it on other pages? I tried addeing like you did to some other messed up pages and it did absolutely no good... Thanks Codex Sinaiticus 23:14, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reverting my userpage!

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Hey, just wanted to thank you for catching the vandalism on my userpage. Always appreciated!--Sean|Black 03:52, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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