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RfA

Can you transclude my RfA onto the main RfA page? It's semi protected... FredSmit (talk) 16:30, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Done, but I'd like to warn you that passage is virtually impossible w/o some demonstration of your previous activity on Wikipedia. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 16:36, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Can I request that we review why my Central Florida Law Journal page was deleted? The magazine which I publish each month is of importance to the 500 or so attorneys and law professionals who receive it. It covers stories and trends in the legal professions that are of interest to those in law in Florida. I would love to have a listing in Wikipedia and have been a journalist for more than 30 years. I have started this publication so that people in my state can have a way to keep in touch with each other and keep in touch with the issues in the field. Thanks -- Donna Balancia —Preceding unsigned comment added by Donnabalancia (talkcontribs) 14:57, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I deleted it because it didn't make any assertion of importance. Interestingly enough, your comment here contains an assertion of importance (500 or so who receive it). I'll restore it for now, but warn you that it may be taken to Articles for deletion in the future. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 14:38, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Please be sure to put that assertion (sourced if possible) in the article. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 14:42, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Philosopher, I will follow that instruction, much appreciated. I can document no. of pieces sent through the United States Postal Service at next mailing, do you think that will suffice as proof of circulation? Thanks, Donna —Preceding unsigned comment added by Donnabalancia (talkcontribs) 08:40, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

If you are discussing how to verify, make sure you cite the figures to a published source. Unfortunately, original (unpublished) research is not allowed b/c there is no way for other Wikipedians to verify such information. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 13:36, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Notable Iowans

Can you look at my second post here and tell me what you think of including just those notable Iowans, and shortening the list on the Iowa page. Please post on that page too. CTJF83Talk 06:41, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

I find it very funny how you are proud of all your wikipedia edits and even list your notable eits, and edit number. I don't mean to be offensive, but it appears that you have no-life. And by the way do you get paid from being an admin for wikipedia? --Manning38 (talk) 20:34, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

...for the assist on my semi on Arlen Specter. That tag is important, sorry I forgot to include it!! -Pete (talk) 17:59, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

No problem! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 23:19, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Sen-mccoy-2007.jpg

Added a link to the page I got the picture from; WHOIS ties the website to the State of Iowa Legislative Branch, so I'm assuming it's legit.

Thanks for your comment. - YB (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:01, 4 May 2009 (UTC).

Thank You

Thanks for un-protecting my talkpage. --→ Ãlways Ãhëad (talk) 02:15, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:50, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

AIV report

I'm curious... what was this about? The IP didn't edit since 2005. -- Mentifisto 04:31, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I meant to post it over at the Simple English Wikipedia's simple:WP:AIV. Then when I went back to fix my mistake the bot had beaten me to it. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:38, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Ah, I see. That explains why you had to report in the first place, as well. -- Mentifisto 04:42, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

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No, sorry. This is the English Wikipedia, not the 1337 encyclopedia. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 11:22, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Template:MP for Hexham

This template was put up for deletion, and your decision was delete. I am not going to dispute that. Would it be possible for someone who knows how to use a bot to change all the articles from {{MP for Hexham to {{subst:MP for Hexham That will leave all the articles with a valid statement. Also applies to Template:MP for Berwick, about 150 articles in all. I will then tidy up any loose ends. Please reply here - I have put a watch on. Twiceuponatime (talk) 12:39, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I have requested that {{MP for Hexham}} be subst'ed. Assuming a bot doesn't do it sooner, I'll go through with AWB later and do it myself. I'll make the same request for Berwick (assuming it is also closed as delete). --Philosopher Let us reason together. 13:15, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Signature

Unfortunately I have been changing my signature font attributes the hard way, by going back in. The only automatic random colour selector I have been using is my brain, and if I can do it anybody can! ;-)
I go back in and copy over "B. Fairbairn" with " B. Fairbairn", and change the font/colour/size to whatever I want. Normally the colour is one of these:
Violet Fuchsia Red Crimson Maroon Purple Blue Navy Lime Green Teal Olive Gold Orange Chocolate Brown
B. Fairbairn (talk) 03:51, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 05:03, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Could you please explain further...

Could you please explain your deletion of Ibrahim Mohammed Khalil? The record shows this was the conclusion of a {{prod}}. When concluding a {{prod}} is confirming that the nominator informed the person who started the article one of the administrator's responsibilities? Geo Swan (talk) 03:00, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

This was deleted over half a year ago - I suggest that in the future you watch the page - that way you will be able to see changes to the article and a notice will appear in your watchlist if the article is deleted.
If you would like the article restored, however, I would be glad to do that - articles deleted via prod are eligible for restoration on request. Note that the article may still be nominated for an WP:AfD. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
I am prolific. I have edited over ten thousand articles. The watchlist system is not sufficient for warning prolific people of when their articles have been deleted -- particularly if someone else makes a minor edit to the article, after the tagging -- because then the watchlist shows their edit summary, and not that of the tagger.
Please userify the article, its revision history, and talk page, to User:Geo Swan/review/Ibrahim Mohammed Khalil. Geo Swan (talk) 03:42, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 Done --Philosopher Let us reason together. 16:15, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Canopy Group (disambiguation)

Hi, I'm also an admin and was clearing out the Candidate for Speedy Deletion backlog, when you deleted the article. I don't disagree with your deletion, however I was on the fence about it myself. I think that it may be that this group could rise to a level of significance, even if the article doesn't indicate it well. To this end I have userfied the text at the author's user page, and left a message on his talk page explaining how I think the article might be improved. I also explained how disambig pages are suppose to work, since he didn't seem to understand that. I thought you might like to know what I've done. Dsmdgold (talk) 23:27, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 23:29, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

My rollback

Could you please revoke my rollback privileges? Thanks. —Mythdon t/c 02:47, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:12, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. If I were to request return of the feature, should I just ask you to return it, or should I go to Wikipedia:Requests for permissions for request of its return?. —Mythdon t/c 03:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Feel free to come back to me - though if you prefer going to RfR you could do that, it's up to you. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:22, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. —Mythdon t/c 03:25, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Sig colors

Thanks Philosopher, I will take a look at User:Chenzw/Sig. B. Fairbairn  Talk  10:23, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Iowa

Phil- Could you please put a temp lock on Iowa? Lots of vandalism lately. Thanks, Bill Whittaker (talk) 12:56, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Looks like someone beat me to it. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:33, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

The most likely speedy deletion criterion for this lil' gem was WP:CSD#A1. See the search I used in the comments via the deletion log. Cheers! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 17:45, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Patrick Henry College

"I undid an edit you made to Patrick Henry College's English motto - it is supposed to read "For Christ and for Liberty", as evidenced here and here." Your edit should stand as per the web page you have referenced. The college has translated the Latin wrong, but that is their business. Best wishes. Bigturtle (talk) 13:54, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikitravel Iowa regions

Hello! I'm working on Wikitravel, and hoping to come up with well-defined travel regions for Iowa [1]. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find anyone with expertise to lend on Wikitravel itself, so I've wandered over here. I see you are active here on WikiProject Iowa, and wondered if you might be interested in contributing to the discussion. If not, feel free to pass on the idea to someone else who might be interested, or just ignore! Thanks, --Peter Talk 04:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Regional vocabularies of American English

As you probably know, following AfD discussion the consensus was to keep and clean up Regional vocabularies of American English. This will require adding references where possible, and removing large amounts of unreferenced material. I have begun this process; your help would be greatly appreciated. Cnilep (talk) 15:03, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

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JzG (RevDel)

Hi, there's a Wikipedian (StoneRazor) who is speculating about the identity of someone from Reddit and trying to pin edits to Wikipedia to someone on Reddit. I think this goes against the privacy policies of Wikipedia. You can read his other less than civil comments on the talk page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JzG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Intellectual_dark_web#UFMG_IDW_Study --Where be me spice (talk) 11:20, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

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