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[edit] Three-dollar bill

Please remember that when you nominate a redirect for deletion, you need to add {{rfd}} prior to the redirect on its page as well. I have tagged this one for you.

It looks like you have moved your talk page to a subpage (I'm guess you moved it along with your user page). I've disabled the redirect and changed it into a link to the subpage as an archive. I did that as new comments belong on your talk page so that they actually register as new messages. Let me know if you have questions. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 16:21, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Cat Icon

Ha, nice picture. Thank you very much. Happy editing to you! Teke 04:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Magic Square tables

Hi, I noticed your request for assistance in the Magic square article. I tweaked your table code a bit to make the squares truly square, and formatted them to look like wiki tables. The code is cross browser, and should work nicely. Feel free to tweak it more if you'd like. Note that the width and height of the tables are in 'ems', which is a scalable unit, so the tables scale with font size changes. I've been using a width of '8em' for 4 column tables, and '6em' for 3 column tables, basically, two ems for each column or row. Hope this helps! Phidauex 18:03, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pac-Man

Hello! I don't know if you're still interesting in working on the article, but I remembered you tried to make a push on WP:CVG for more editors on Pac-Man (which is how it came to my attention). Over the last couple of weeks I've put a lot of work into the article, adding many references and trying to clean it up according to the (now even bigger) To-Do list made following the failed GA nomination. I just wanted to let you know that I've improved the article somewhat, but huge sections (particularly after the first page are still a bit of a mess. In any case, thanks for putting up the To-do list and other work so it was easy to pick up where you left off. I'm almost ready to pack it in myself, with the mountain of work that lays ahead to make the article reach GA and FA. --SevereTireDamage 20:44, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox Arcade Game

Ack! That advice is for after you subst that template into an article.

That said, that really needs to be protected, since it needs to stay unchanged until it has been substed in all the articles in which it appears. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:50, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Can't help with protection. Not an admin... yet. NeonMerlin 04:52, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Actually, that was more or less talking to myself. I just protected it. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:53, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TfD Question

Also posted in the discussion at Mergedisputed:

The debate is not being reopened, it is being rerun. Typically, if an appreciable period of time has elapsed, DRV will not reopen a debate, for precisely the reason you mention. Consider the template anew. Xoloz 21:39, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Best wishes, Xoloz 21:39, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your suggestions

Thank you for taking the time to help us out, Merlin! I just wanted to reply on a couple of points, if you don't mind. You said:

  • Presumably, your clients give permission for their logos to be used on Wikipedia. You can indicate this by tagging your uploads {withpermission} as well as {logo}. This will decrease the chance of the image's deletion and may make it easier to reproduce the image in other editions of Wikipedia.

Funny, I did do exactly that ({withpermission} as well as {logo}) on the image for the article on The Family and Workplace Connection, but it was flagged yesterday as needing more info on "fair use" criteria. I did update the image with several notes on why the logo is legitmately used in this space, so I hope that does the trick. Any other suggestions on how to keep our clientele's logos from being marked for deletion would be much appreciated.

You also said:

  • Some of the articles you work on, such as Rockfish Seafood Grill, fail to establish the importance of their subject matter. There must be dozens, maybe hundreds, of seafood chains with at least eight locations.

The Rockfish Seafood Grill is not a client of MyWikiBiz.com -- I was merely making a small edit to it in my "travels" on the site.

Thanks again for your help and support. -- MyWikiBiz 02:28, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Price discrimination

You added {{DisputedAssertion}} to Price discrimination [1], but I didn't see anything on its talk page. What was your issue? CRGreathouse (talkcontribs) 21:11, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Upon further reflection, I decided my question was more likely to get an answer at the Reference Desk. I'll go remove the tag. NeonMerlin 23:19, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MyWikiBiz discussion

Please join the new discussion at: "Paid to edit" dialogue -- MyWikiBiz 05:36, 13 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:MS Sam.ogg)

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Thanks for uploading Image:MS Sam.ogg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that the image can be used under a fair use license. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. 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 fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Graham talk 08:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] extlinks

i've added a note at the top of the page, it is indeed very old :) kate.

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[edit] Congrats--Your talk page is on Google

LOL, Ouch! Search MyW{{i}}kiBiz-dot-com yourself. About 8 hits down you get this: User talk:NeonMerlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Rockfish Seafood Grill is not a client of MyWikiBiz.com -- I was merely making a small edit to it in my "travels" on the site.' ...

Ahem! Suggest you vandalize that 'dot' word above where-ever it may occur. A judicious misspelling should do it. MiWykiBiz_com should just about do it! Good luck! // FrankB 17:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Eight hits down? That's odd; I just searched, and it was only the 17th hit. (Still higher than one would expect; guess it's a PageRank quirk caused by all the links to this page from pages I've signed.) NeonMerlin 20:51, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
  • It sounds more likely that I didn't back up all the way from the seventh page... my bad! Cheers! // FrankB 00:40, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
    Back up? ...What do you mean? NeonMerlin 01:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Speech synthesis up for FAR

Hi there,

You're listed in the edit history of this article. I wonder whether you're able to help bring it up to FA standard again? Please see WP:FAR#Speech_synthesis.

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2 or 4 should work Andman8 13:31, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Template:skeletion novel

I have amde a few changes to the template you started. This is to bring it more in line with the Novels WikiProject article pattern that is being used across articles. Trust this works for you too. Nice idea. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 11:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

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