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Hello Mus Musculus! :)

Tks for your welcome. I did already made contributions on the portuguese italian and french wikis before, but tk you all the same for ur warm welc. U 2 are recent here I suppose? Greetings from Lisbon. Portuguez 16:14, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dark Tower

I'd be more than happy to help improve the DT articles if I am able to (I haven't read the series in a while, so some information is a bit hazy). One thing I would like to do is make articles for the main ka-tet...I mean, Patrick Danville has his own article but Jake and Eddie don't?--CyberGhostface 23:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] On Netflix

OK I agree to the finer technical details. But my point was: since Wikipedia serves almost as a free source of information for the uninitiated like me, any information that is there, is likely to be uncritically accepted. Born into Brothels in my opinion is a bad film, whose sole claim to credit lies in the theme of poverty/charity tourism. It is solely meant for an audience who have never been to Calcutta, after seeing it probably they never will. Calcutta is not the only city to have its ills. The slums of Mumbai, Manila, Ahmedabad and elsewhere in the Third World have much worse conditions than those prevailing in Calcutta. Just because Calcutta is liberal enough to allow filmmakers to shoot films like City of Joy or Born into Brothels, does not mean that that city is a repository to everything bad or abhorrent that there can be in the Third World. Contrarily, it is a much better managed and much more humane city. The same claim to liberal outlook can not be necessarily extended to other cities in India (except perhaps Mumbai; even then Mira Nair had to face a lot of trouble while shooting Salaam Bombay), which are not kind enough to many western filmmakers. And yet, its relegation to being the metaphor for everything that there can be negative in this world, has less to do with the choice of its own people than to its unique legacy of history. If you have to give another example on alternative filmmaking, why not try Rent? I was under the impression that Fahrenheit 9/11 would be a good example of alternative filmmaking, that would resonate with the largely US based Wikipedians. And yes, I would a greatly appreciate a better example (than Born into Brothels) in the Netflix article. Thanks LordGulliverofGalben

[edit] Your spoiler template fixes for the Conan stories

As your spoiler template fixes to the Conan stories ruin the page formatting for each article, please undo them. Additionally, you sometimes moved the spoiler template to the wrong section of the article. Again, as this does not improve the articles, please undo the changes. --Flask 02:28, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BF2142

I play on my clan's server: 208.122.9.11:16567 | I haven't been on for a while, cause of PS3! My user name is GOLAASTL24 (clan tag: KoF). Mawfive 06:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

That is tight. I might make one! GOLAASTL24 22:30, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My Userbox

This user just destroyed the enemy titan.

Like it? GOLAASTL24 04:46, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2142 Discussion

I rather think I will change it to Mid priority and change 1942 to high, because 1942 started the franchise with the Battlefield idea which was copied in many other games (Quake Wars, Star Wars Battlefront, etc. William Pembroke 20:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Regarding Eddie Dean and future Ka-Tet of the Nineteen and Ninety character pages

Thank you so much for your comment! Stuff like that really encourages you to keep editing Wikipedia and I am currently writing articles for Susannah, Jake and Oy and they'll finally be right where they should be. --Gunmetal2k4 05:42, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reasons for my reversal reactions

I'v just realized, that I'm not a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. I've contacted Members of that WikiProject page Ccwaters & RGTraynor to review my actions (concerning the 'restrictive' guideline for the HHoF section & the 'Honored Members' section). If you believe my actions were valid, then you may revert my recent reverts or wait to see what the WikiProject members think. Either way, until this confusion (which I may have started) ends, I'm going to stand back and wait until the dust settles. PS - see my message to this WikiProject Ice Hockey member Ccwaters. Thanks for your support. GoodDay 22:28, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FAC

My replies were calm in their origins, the sarcasm wasn't meant to be taken seriously. I was expecting constructive criticism, and I knew if it didn't go well it would work as a peer review.... it just went too slow for me, and no one seemed to be interested in the article, thus promoting the article would be impossible and I delisted so Raul wouldn't have to. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 05:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Allan Pickard, was selected for DYK!

On February 10, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Allan Pickard, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 00:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Word of thanks for Mus Musculus Good morning (GMT time); I'd like to thank you for supporting, opposing, taking a neutral stance to, closing, suggesting I close or otherwise contributing to my recent RfA; unfortunately, I felt that although there were more support than oppose votes, the weight of the latter was too great for me to accept the promotion with so many not trusting me with the janitor's trolley - I therefore decided to end my nomination prematurely. The feedback I received was invaluable, and I am striving to start afresh with all of the advice my fellow Wikipedians offered. In order to meet the aim of adapting to your advice, I've drew up a list of aims (located here) which I intend to follow from this point onwards. If you have any further advice or comments for me, don't hesitate to post me a message at my talk page where it will be graciously and humbly accepted. Once again, thank you and I do hope to bump into you around the encyclopedia! Regards, Anthonycfc [T • C]

Behavioural Aims: edit  1. -- whenever I feel myself getting a bit down, as a result of Bipolar depression, I will immediately walk away from the computer: Wikipedia is not a place for emotions as extreme and downright dangerous as Bipolar stimulates. Arjun 2. -- take a wikibreak instead of declaring inactivity: the "can't-be-bothered" feeling is probably just Bipolar related, and will pass. ST47 3. -- be extra careful with RCP work; continue to not used VP; if using AWB, make sure that it's only to article space and monitor edits more closely! 4. -- make sure I ask another MedCom member for help rather than User:Essjay, so as to not appear as if I'm wiki-stalking; don't edit Essjay's talk page (again, Wiki-stalking); don't use the phrase ABCO(?/.) 5. -- don't bother going in for any more positions - don't want to appear power-hungry.Ral315 Participation Aims: edit  1. -- XfD debates. 2. -- RCP work: keep up volume; don't hesitate to report to AIV if necessary. 3. -- Village Pump self 3.1 -- Village Pump Policy Debates self 4. -- Continue with the Virtual Classroom, courtesy of The Transhumanist. self 5. -- WP:GAC reviews. self 6. -- Article collaberation with TT. Just about to start; self.

Don't hesitate to add to these - just drop me a message so I know!

==Wikipedia: WikiProject Ice Hockey/Team pages format== Hello, Mus Musculus. As you may know, a consensus was reached by editors to remove the 'restrictive guideline' for the HHOF sections. As you're a WikiProject members, would you remove that guideline? GoodDay 23:52, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Randall Flagg

Erm--I've tried twice to nominate it for FA, and both times its been rejected. You can view both nominations here and here to see what went wrong and if you have any suggestions for the problems listed. I'd love to see it become Featured Article, but I'm afraid its not quite up to that level yet...--CyberGhostface 21:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. Let me know if I can do anything to help.--CyberGhostface 02:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Thanks for the encouragement

Thanks for the note of encouragement. I really appreciate it. I'm usually not such a nasty person but I felt like I was under attack. I'll still keep contributing to articles and will author any articles that I come across that should be here. However, I'll be a lot more cautious. Thanks again! kaclock March 13, 2007, 19:28 (EST)

[edit] Sandra Magsamen

The changes look good, I'm changing my position to Keep. - PoliticalJunkie 22:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shark Island

I closed as keep, as the discussion offered sufficient independent sources to be considered reliable and establish notability. Maybe the article could be considered as a merge into Bodyboarding but that wasnt part of the afd discussion. Gnangarra 23:59, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fred Waghorne

I'm afraid I had never even heard of Fred Waghorne. I just added the lacrosse project link because the article relates to lacrosse. I don't know a lot of historical stuff about lacrosse - my specialty is the NLL, and obviously he never played there. If I do find more information on him, I'll either update the article myself or let you know. --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 23:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] HHOF Members / Other Hockey Articles

Hello Mus Musculus,

I'm not sure how new you are to wikipedia or the Ice hockey Project. I't great that you've taken an active interest in Wiki Project Ice Hockey, However I checked out your article on Al Leader and I noticed that you removed his name from the Requested Articles section but did not add his name to the New Articles section. In future when you create an Ice hockey related article be sure to add the linked name to the new articles section under the date of creation.

I'm also curious as to what your hockey specialty is so if I have questions about articles I'm creating and need advice I might be able to bounce it off of you. Just so you know I no absolutly nothing about Barnsley, Manitoba I leave those sorts of things to people who do. And where or how did you come up with the name of Mus Musculus ?.

thanks, Michael Drew 19:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)]]

Just so you know most people don't use the New Articles page in the wikiproject. In fact there is discussion to remove that since there is an automatically generated page in the project that already pretty much does that same thing. --Djsasso 20:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your username

Love your Username - "Mighty Mouse" as titled for the Latin edition no? I don't suppose you have a cape and tights?Skookum1 21:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IKY barnstar

That was very appreciated by the user who received it, and by any of the (italian) users who saw the barnstar... I proceed to removal, anyway. --Jollyroger 16:34, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thank you for support in my unsuccessful RfA. I appreciate the support, and am disappointed on being judged by what in most opinions seem to be the wrong things. Until next time, edit on! :) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 03:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On 24 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fred Waghorne, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

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[edit] James Kelly Montreal Maroons

Hello There,

I'm Just wondering If you could help me find any information on an old NHL player for the Montreal Maroons. James (sometimes called Jim) Kelly played for the Montreal Maroons back in the 1920s. I can't seem to find any Information anywhere. If you could help it would be great.

Thanks, Michael Drew 20:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)