User talk:Saint-Paddy

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Hello Patrick, welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian. You can learn more on the how to edit page. The naming conventions and manual of style pages are also useful. Feel free to experiment at the Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you have any questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Angela

Hi, your pages like Wikipedia:King of Wikipedia are good, but they would be far more appropriate on Meta rather than in the Wikipedia namespace. Perhaps you could copy them over there (and add a link to Wikipedia humor) so it can be deleted from this part of the site? Angela. 00:26, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

Please don't start lines with a blank space - if you do this, the line will be treated as preformatted text and will look ugly otherwise. Only do this if you wish to generate preformatted text, such as showing source code for computer programs, &/c. Thanks Dysprosia 23:16, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

Happy Birthday! Hope you are having a great day and keep up the good work at Wikipedia! [[User:Yardcock|Yardcock | talk]] 19:19, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the message, I doubt that any court would find a 'statement or purpose' being reused in refrence to the organisation as copyright infrigement, but thats not why I messaged ya...

I'd like to talk to you, if you use IRC at all please consider heading over to #aff on irc.freenode.net :)

The authors of the controversies page are there in full, most days as an aside.

[edit] Boston meetup

See Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston. Hope you can make it! +sj+ 21:11, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Y another one :) +sj + 07:16, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

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:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

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)

[edit] Linking dates

I noticed that you linked many dates in the GEnie article. There is disagreement about this, but I (and many other wikipedians) frown on linking dates in text because (1) it usually doesn't add anything to the context, and (2) too many links make sentences harder to read. A linked word should be something that would add to the understanding of the topic - and going to a list of events that happened in the same year usually doesn't help.

I only link dates if the link goes to a significant page (e.g., in an article about a book that was published in 1957, linking that year to 1957 in literature), or if the article is about general historical trends, which would make it helpful to see everything else that happened in that year.

As I say, this isn't a hard-and-fast rule and lots of people link dates, but I thought I'd mention it, as food for thought. Cheers! - DavidWBrooks 17:59, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stub Categories

In Shuttle Baikal, you had put it directly in Category:Spacecraft stubs, instead of using the related template, {{spacecraft-stub}}. Using the templates is preferable to using just category links, as the templates are more visible (and that's why they exist). --Mairi 19:08, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Birthday

Happy Birthday! Here's a tasty Birthday cake. Best wishes to you! Hope you enjoy your day. Now, get on out there and have some fun! ;)

--Jen Moakler 02:59, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

It's listed here--Jen Moakler 03:03, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup; Mania

Hi St-P, there's a Meetup two Mondays from now : with a guest from the Museum of Science and Jimbo's fine self.

There's also a bid to have Wikimania in Boston next year... We need volunteers who could help out. Interested? Last year's was wicked fun. +sj + 08:38, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] When the tigers broke free.

I think it is definately a protest song, about war. Please feel free to add it.

[edit] Image:Msdoslogo.jpg has been listed for deletion

[edit] Image:Os2logo.jpg

[edit] About the WTCN logo

There's nothing wrong with keeping it after WTCN sheds it once The CW takes hold. We rarely delete outdated logos (just look at the Fox-owned UPN stations' articles!), so no worries. Thanks. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PLA

OMG hi Autistic_Psycho! Plz come back to Cal's.

Please don't edit or I should say vandalize my Rep celeb page anymore. Thanks. Dwain 22:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

After your idiot response, I'll add some more for you to packrat here. It is funny you a vandal suggesting I might be a vandal for removing my own comment.

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[edit] Wikipedia Cat Lovers' Committee

Saint-Paddy, I can see from your userboxes that you love cats.

Would you be interested in joining the Wikipedia Cat Lovers' Committee?

If you want to join, you can add yourself to the members list, and contact the committee founder, me,GeorgeMoney, on My Talk Page.

The Wikipedia Cat Lover's Committee has also been nominated for deletion.

Whether you join or not, please could you comment on the deletion page to help keep the committee going.

Please vote keep.

Thank You very much! :)

--GeorgeMoney^{Talk  Contribs} 02:33, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello:

Hi I'm a new Wikipedian from Natick, Mass... just popped in to say hello to my Wiki neighbor:"

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

This user is from Massachusetts.

Merlinus (talk)

• Hi I Am Marc:

I was recently married to my lovely wife; We have lived together for several years already...

• We love cats (3 currently own us)... Jeffy(15), Echo(6) & Gizmo(3). All sleep with us in the big bed and no room to move an inch.
• I was Disabled in a 1993 (Coma)/ and am very slowly recovering. It's tough going out sometimes, though with friends I still do. I have a few supportive friends.
• I am an "Unenrolled voter." Democrat/ Republicans, I don't care, whoever serves makes my life better in the long run I vote for!
• Avid reader. Has collection of many hundreds of rare books. Especially Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• Avid Music collector (2,500 albums)...mostly bootlegs...mostly rare bootlegs...Stones, Kinks, Clapton, Beatles. and solos!

I am what I am I'm strongly opinionated about disabled peoples' rights and jobs for American citizens who have trouble finding minimum wage jobs in my state today and support Universal health care, I would be dead if I did not have it. I am an idiot about Internet social skills. I hope that the Immigration Reform bill will protect disabled citizens who wish to work like myself first before considering allowing new people to come here. I was searching for an internet forum to be my outlet to express my needs, but found that Wikipedia is not best suited for that. I'm brushing up on Wikipedia's rules of conduct, and slowly starting to begin contributing again.

Current book and CD I own hundreds of rare books

• Current Book Jack Whyte: "Uther"
• Current CD Faves:
  • Warren Zevon... "Life'll Kill Ya"
  • Howlin' Wolf: "Greatest Hits"
• Latest Flick: "Charles II: The Last King"

Merlinus (talk)

[edit] A compliment

Anyone who knows the difference between Robert Welch and Joseph Welch deserves a pat on the back. --Fantailfan 11:04, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:FOXHOUND.jpg

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[edit] Happy Birthday

Here's to you on your birthday, Saint-Paddy! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Hope you have a great day Adamcobb 07:34, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology

Since you are interested in flags and emblems I would like to inform you that the WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology has just been created. Why not take a look? I hope you can join.Inge 20:10, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image problem

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