User talk:Chiwara

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia, Chiwara. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. Thank you. 207.114.16.210 19:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

If anyone is running the risk of being blocked, it's you. Your edits on this subject have been both unorthodox and pretty clearly agenda-driven. ~ João Do Rio 19:58, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Lanzón, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

[edit] UIUC

Wow, you went throught the list and counted out all the private schools, too, huh? Wish I had known—would have saved me the time. Thanks for cleaning up the cite! HuskyHuskie 04:31, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incomplete vandalism revision

For your information, your revert of the Leopold II article was incomplete. The vandal IP had done other modifications you did not revert; here is what I still had to do after you: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leopold_II_of_Belgium&diff=next&oldid=130127170

Having stayed myself at some distance from Wikipedia for a while, I don't know which tools are currently best for efficient fighting of vandalism, but you should perhaps always have a look at an article history before reverting. In this case, the vandal had done several successive changes, and it looks like you reverted only one of them.

Well thanks for trying anyway ;-)

--FvdP 18:16, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah, so sorry I didn't notice that. I promise to be more thorough next time.Chiwara 17:57, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:IU Seal.jpg)

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[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words. Chiwara still needs a good bit on regional/stylistic varriations, since the object itself is such a rich form.

And I like your " ...articles should use the correct, local name of something rather than an ad hoc translation for English speakers"! T L Miles 15:38, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RfA Thanks

Dear Chiwara, Thank you for voting in my RfA, which closed successfully with 34 support, 2 oppose, and 0 neutral. I appreciate your support! I promise I will wield the mop wisely, and do my best to improve Wikipedia. -- AKeen (talk) 15:07, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:UIUC2.JPG)

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