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[edit] Piltdown World's Fair

I can't find any references to your "Piltdown World's Fair", so I'm assuming it was a hoax and you were just testing us out. I've deleted it. Deb 17:05, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

  • Believe it or not, I was actually serious. Oh well. Auric The Rad 17:34, May 19, 2004 (UTC)
If you really are serious, could you maybe give details, eg. when and where this event took place? It would also be a good idea to link the article to something; it was an "orphan". Deb 21:27, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
  • Only a mention in Abrell and Thompson's Actual Facts, no mention of place. The Spirit of Meat is supposedly stored in the basement of a museum in Ottawa. Auric The Rad 14:34, May 24, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Haggis Tossing

Olympic demonstration sport? Umm I can't find any evidence. Kelvinc 21:16, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Bob Transformer

You added "Bob Transformer" to the transformer article. This appears to be entirely spurious; I'm just wondering why you added it. -- The Anome 09:57, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • I added this because I wanted to know if there was really a "Bob Transformer". I've come acrost it several times. You can take it out if you want to. Auric The Rad 15:27, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

Could those have been references to the clip: Basics of Electricity? You can find it on YouTube. Oh, and it's to be taken with a grain of salt => It's utter nonsense.

[edit] Copyright

Please don't directly copy material from the web such as this example. Keep it limited to using them as references only. Oberiko 14:32, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • Sorry about that. I thought that if I edited it for clatirt, correctness and grammar, it wouldn't be a copyvio anymore. I gess I was wrong. On the temp page, I've put back the things that I added myself. I hope that they will stay there. Auric The Rad 00:24, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

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[edit] Image copyrights

Thanks for uploading Image:Papyrus.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, — Edwin Stearns | Talk 21:10, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Discworld

Wikipedia:WikiProject Discworld

Spam message: Having noticed you have made some great additions to the Discworld articles I thought you might be interested in this new WikiProject. It's at a very early stage and needs quite a bit of work. violet/riga (t) 21:44, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] E-mail

Hi Auric, I sent you an e-mail, did you receive it? Jayjg | (Talk) 19:55, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

  • Sorry, I've been busy with work. Auric The Rad 15:49, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Oh, that's fine, but did you get it? If not, I can re-send. Jayjg | (Talk) 16:49, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Re-send it. I've forgorren what it said.Auric The Rad 20:14, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

Basically it was this; about 5 months ago you added Emanuel Rabinovich as a fictional creation of Eustace Mullins to the List of fictional rabbis [1]. I was wondering what your source for this was. Jayjg (talk) 22:19, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

  • My source was a book, titled The World's Greatest Mistakes - Nigel Blundell.

[edit] Fanconi Anemia

Auric, I'm new to Wikipedia, but not to FA. I was wondering what your conection is to this ultra-rare and usually unknown disease is. My younger brother has FA and I was his donor. Just interested. Feel free to email me at laonoodlekeemow@gmail.com . Aaron.

[edit] Picture of the island of stability

A long time ago, you requested a picture of this. Check out the new "see also" link. Does it suffice? I've watchlisted your talk page; you can reply here. --Smack (talk) 20:48, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

That's kind of what I wanted, but a smaller version was more in mind. The Encylopedia of Physics (2nd Ed.) has this, on page 1204, as a sort of graph and chart combined. It also mentions the reef of stability and the sea of instability. I have a scan of it but I didn't use it, because of copyright reasons. Auric 02:53, August 30, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Social Technology

Dear friend,

Thank you for putting my article on Social Technology in the right category and marking it as a stub. I will try and extend this in the next few days. I am trying to add a section every day.

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Please correct any errors that I make.

Best regards, Nirupma Kapoor neeray 18:26, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User Categorisation

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[edit] James Gregory

Please comment at Talk:James Gregory (mineralogist). --TantalumTelluride 04:02, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimedia Canada

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[edit] Hey

Hey thanks for joining sporewiki. I'm glad a more veteran wikipedian joined up with us. I was reading your large amount of userboxes and we have quite a lot of the same likes and other things, which is pretty sweet. Just wanted to say hello and welcome aboard. :) Chris M. 16:55, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

  • You're quite welcome. --Auric 22:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting Camp Avoda

Hi, since you were involved with this article, you may want to see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Camp Avoda (2nd nomination), best wishes, IZAK 14:13, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Johnny Sixarms

Please assert notability under WP:MUSIC - as of right now it is a CSD A7 candidate. - CrazyRussian talk/email 20:35, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

They were referred to in a Simpsons episode, 51 Google hits, two hit singles, and a web page. If that's not notable enough, at least I tried. -- Auric 20:49, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vampires and prosopagnosia

Hi, do you have a source for the connection between the two? Doesn't sound obvious to me - seeing a face is one thing, recoginzing it is another. Regards, --194.145.161.227 19:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope, sorry. When I added this it seemed logical, but now that I've researched it more, it seems less so. Remove it it you want to. -- Auric 19:41, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! :) --194.145.161.227 17:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dragonball Wiki

  • Hi there. I noticed you're fan of the Dragon Ball series, and I'm trying to recruit some fans from here to contribute to the Dragon Ball Wiki. It's in terrible shape right now with pretty much no consistency or policies, and only this week have I been able to get Angela and Sannse to create some Forums for us over there. I've got a proposed Manual of Style going over there and would like some people to contribute to that to set up some policies and start making the wiki bigger, better, and more intelligible/consistent. If you're interested, please hop on over or talk to me. Thanks for the time, whether you're interested or not. Wildyoda 08:39, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seattle Underground article

I was just reviewing and editing the Seattle Underground article you started, it has ended up to be a great article, but has NO references, or citations. Since it is your baby maybe you would like to help out? CrazyRob926 10:57, 7 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Redirect of Julia kendell

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[edit] Animal Protein Factor

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[edit] Fintan

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[edit] May 2008

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When you subsequently added a {{hangon}} tag you again removed the speedy deletion tag. Please do not remove the speedy tag from articles you create. However, you also removed the more obvious spam/review concerns so I have also removed all the tags. I'm not personally sure this author meets WP:N but there's one book of his on Amazon and there's certainly no case for speedy deletion on those grounds. Ros0709 (talk) 08:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. --Auric (talk) 08:29, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Moose

Moose can interbreed w/ cattle?? --Rschmertz (talk) 04:26, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

  • Yes they can. The first instance that I am aware of happened in the 1940's in Quebec, Canada. A randy moose mounted a cow and produced offspring. --Auric (talk) 19:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)