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Replaceable fair use Image:Mair.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Mair.jpg. I noticed the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

Go to the image description page and edit it to add {{di-replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original Replaceable fair use template.
On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, fair use images which could be replaced by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if not used in an article), per our Fair Use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Rette tast 23:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

24.22.162.156

Hey... I was just suggesting that that picture shall be changed. It looks a bit halloweenish unless that is the idea that your trying to get acrossed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.162.156 (talk) 07:04, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

That's fine. Suggest it on the article's talk page (click "discussion" at the top, when you're looking at the article, then click the + to add a new topic to the discussion), not in the article text itself. --Darkwind (talk) 07:09, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh... hey

Your not a bot???? Are you a actual person typing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.162.156 (talk) 07:13, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

LOL, yes, I'm a person. --Darkwind (talk) 10:04, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Anaerobic digestion edits

Hi Darkwind, thanks for your contributions to the ad article. Currently in the process of improving the article for consideration as A class and eventually FA. I've been reading over it that long that I don't necessarily see wording errors so easily--Alex 10:17, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Darkwind (talk) 19:56, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Quit deleting the TRUTH

Irina Voronina is married now and should be noted.

Your attempt at censorship violates wikipedia policy.

I am reporting it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.60.118.35 (talk) 16:12, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Please take a moment to read Wikipedia policy before you try to quote it. Wikipedia's policy on verifiability says that you need to cite a reliable source for the information you add. Your addition mentioned MySpace, but that is not a reliable source. Also, your addition was largely not in compliance with the Manual of Style regarding grammar, layout, etc. --Darkwind (talk) 19:56, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Copyrights

if u cant copy & paste how do u get on large articles without spending forever typing them?what if i give credit at the bottom?Andrewmeister2 22:26, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but that's exactly what you have to do. Just like a school paper, you have to rewrite material into your own words before it can be added to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is "free content," which means not only do you not have to pay for it, but anyone can take material from Wikipedia and do whatever they want with it (basically). For legal reasons, that means we can't accept contributions under copyright, even if you provide attribution. --Darkwind (talk) 22:38, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, I think this might require a little more explanation... Contributing to Wikipedia isn't about copying and pasting text from other websites to make Wikipedia bigger. It's about writing good articles. Yes, actually writing them, from scratch, using sources, like a term paper or research paper. Copy and paste is almost never appropriate, unless the material is public domain or otherwise freely licensed, and even then you can usually find some way to improve it by rewriting parts.

Please see Wikipedia:Introduction for more information on how to contribute positively to Wikipedia. --Darkwind (talk) 22:44, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

how do i add links from one wiki page to another?Andrewmeister2 18:57, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Just put [[ ]] brackets around the name of the page; for example, to link to the article on the Earth, you'd type [[Earth]] which will give you Earth. Other basic wiki-formatting tips can be found by clicking "Editing help" next to the row of buttons under any editing box. --Darkwind (talk) 19:02, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Twinkle

Hello, I recently put twinkle on my monobook, but I'm slightly confused on the usage. If you can break it down for me, that would be awesome. I already look all over the Twinkle page, but whatever information they provided was a little too confusing. Leonard^Bloom 03:03, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, it depends on what particular action you're trying to perform as to what it does. For example, when you notice vandalism in the article, assuming it's the most recent edit, when you're looking at the diff, there will be a red "rollback (vandalism)" link at the top of the right column (the one that shows the new text). Just click that red link and that edit goes away, with an automatic edit summary that says something like "Reverted 1 edit by 127.0.0.1 identified as vandalism to last version by GoodEditor, using TW".

At the same time Twinkle is rolling back the page, a popup window will automatically open with the vandal's talk page. In that new window, at the top, you'll notice a new "warn" tab. Click that tab, and a mini-popup opens to ask what kind of warning you want to leave, it defaults to "General note" and "{{uw-vandalism}}", the vandalized article should also be filled in, just click submit and the warning message will appear in a moment, already signed and everything. You can give it a try on my talk page if you want to test it out first (I'll make another edit, you ca roll it back as vandalism and leave me a warning, then you can take it off if you want or I'll get to it later). --Darkwind (talk) 10:53, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

I think that was it, but I'm really unsure. What is the difference between "Undo" and "Rollback: VANDAL"? this is quite confusing, but thank you very, very much sir. Tips hat ado Leonard^Bloom 00:23, 25 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leonard^Bloom (talk • contribs)

(EC) Nope. The (undo) link does not and will not trigger Twinkle, since (undo) is part of Wikipedia's own software. The rollback links are what you need to trigger the automatic warning part of TW; also, the rollback link will remove all of the edits that one editor made in a row... like, if 127.0.0.1 makes three edits to the same article that are all vandalism all in a row (like, he puts "screw you" at the top of the page, edits again and deletes a paragraph, and then edits a third time and puts gibberish at the bottom), when you're looking at the diff, the rollback link that Twinkle provides will remove all three of those edits all at once. Try again, make sure you look at the diff by clicking the "last" part of (cur)(last), and hit the "rollback (VANDAL)" this time. :) --Darkwind (talk) 00:37, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

When I hit the "Rollback (VANDAL) button, I get this message "Reverting page: couldn't grab element "editform", aborting, this could indicate failed respons from the server". What is it and how do I get it to go away? (Because you can play the flute, can you play "Thick as a Brick?) Leonard^Bloom 01:35, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

That just means this particular time you hit the button, the right page didn't come up. Just a temporary error. Hit back, and try again. :) --Darkwind (talk) 05:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I just tried four or five times, and nothing but the error message came up. What, besides the annoying error message, should be coming up? Leonard^Bloom 14:52, 25 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leonard^Bloom (talk • contribs)

(unindent) You should be seeing "Reverting page: data loaded...", which will be followed by a message saying it's loading the talk page of the vandal, and then it'll change to say "Reverting page: completed (page name here)" and "Reverting completed: completed" at the bottom; then after another 5 seconds or so it'll reload the original article so you can see the new version.

The fact that you're constantly getting an error suggests a browser error to me. What web browser do you use? Twinkle doesn't work in Internet Explorer, and may be flaky in other browsers from time to time except Firefox - that's the only browser it's tested and guaranteed to work in all the time. --Darkwind (talk) 18:16, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Also, your signature doesn't consist of a link to your user page (it's just your username) which confuses signature bots like SineBot (you'll notice it keeps coming along to "sign" your comments here even though you put the ~~~~). Standard practice is to have your username in your signature be a link to your user page. It's probably because you activated raw signatures by mistake. Check your preferences (the link is at the very top) and uncheck "Raw signature" if it's marked off. See WP:SIG#Internal links for the relevant guideline. --Darkwind (talk) 18:24, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I fixed the sig issue, thanks for alerting me to that, I just thought the link wouldn't appear for me because I'm the user. Strange though, I use firefox/opera (I alternate) and I haven't even bothered to use Opera for twinkle. Only FF has given me the error. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leonard^Bloom (talk • contribs) 22:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

October 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you have created yourself, as you did with Rahma el-Dennaoui. If you do not believe the article should be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page (please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag) and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. -- WebHamster 00:53, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Um, I didn't create that article myself. Please look a little more closely at the article's history, and then at the CSD template itself, which says "[if] you intend to fix it, please remove this notice". I intend to fix the article, I removed the notice. --Darkwind (talk) 01:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Also, WP:TEMPLAR. Thanks. --Darkwind (talk) 01:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Rahma

Hey Darkwind

Thanks for your help on the Rahma article. I'm the one who created it. But I just joined Wiki and have absolutely no idea what I'm doing (as is probably apparent)! Let me know what I can do to stop it being deleted and improve it. Other missing children have Wiki entries, so why not this one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leanne153 (talk • contribs) 02:06, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

To answer your question, it's precisely because you're new that the article was marked for deletion so quickly. The article didn't have any Wikipedia formatting like internal links, and you didn't cite any references. The references are the most important part, really, since everything on Wikipedia has to be verifiable. Initially when I saw it, I was going to propose it for deletion as a copyright violation, since it looks like you copied some sentences from the Today Tonight article; but, I realized I couldn't really do that in good conscience, since this little girl deserves an article as much as Madeline McCann, and if I could fix up the article with a few minutes of work, then I should take the time to do it. :) --Darkwind (talk) 02:19, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Very much appreciated - thank you. Ok so now I just need to figure out how to do the references and links, and make sure I put things in my own words : ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leanne153 (talk • contribs) 02:27, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm about to leave you a "welcome" message on your own talk page, and it'll have a BUNCH of links to useful information that will help you learn what's expected in Wikipedia articles. One of those things is "signing" your comments on a talk page like this one, by typing ~~~~ at the end of your comment (it turns into your username and time automatically when you save). --Darkwind (talk) 02:30, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Excellent, just what I need : ) Just one more question, the reason given was that Wikipedia is not a missing Person finder - do I have to give another reason then? Leanne153 02:33, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

In this case, no; I've already added messages to the article's talk page that explain why that's not a valid reason to delete the article. In general, yes, you'd have to explain why you think the reason given in the pink notice doesn't apply to that article (or what you plan to do to fix it). However, in this case, "Wikipedia is not a missing person finder" is NOT a valid reason to delete ANY article immediately, so an admin will eventually happen along and remove the notice. I'd take it off myself, but I've already removed it twice, and don't want to break the three-revert rule. --Darkwind (talk) 02:37, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Got it. Glad you were here : ) Leanne153 02:40, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

On the Graig Weich page, he is the director of the IMDB film, all facts are correct.

Hi Darkwind, you do great work here, but Please Do Not Delete Graig Weich page, he is the director of the IMDB film, all facts are correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rdactyl (talk • contribs) 07:36, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't matter if he directed the film, it matters if he's notable. Please see the message I left on your talk page. --Darkwind (talk) 07:39, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Again, please take time to read the comments regarding notability which I left on your talk page, as well as the notability policy. --Darkwind (talk) 07:43, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Darkwind 3

Hello Darkwind, That is wonderful that you made it all connect to the similar post, I have been trying to figure out how to do that for weeks now but coudn't which is the only reason why I made the similar pages, but thank you for correcting my mistake on it.

You're welcome. For your reference, it's just a blank page with "#REDIRECT" followed by a space, then the [[link to the article]] you want to redirect to. However, creating excessive redirects is also frowned upon; it's expected that any redirect would be a plausible search term or typo that someone might enter.

Hello Darkwind, thank you for taking the time to explain, though in this case, do to the fact that Graig Weich is notable in his field of comic books and the like (see Todd McFarlane / Spawn & Image Comics listings). He had the top selling independent comic for the month when it came out and was recently featured on 20/20 ABC News and the Howard Stern show for his work, should I mention this information on the post?

Not only should you mention that, but you MUST cite sources in the article which comply with the reliable sources policy that express Mr. Weich's notability. If you don't do so, it will likely be deleted, as everything on Wikipedia has to be verifiable (our readers have to be able to see where we get our information, and it has to be somewhere reliable -- "Because I say so" doesn't count.)

Also, Though the posts are similar, like with Todd McFarlane, the posts connect with each other, so when people search for information about our posts, they may type in either the name of the character or the studio or the name of the artist etc...

Wikipedia has redirects to account for that situation. What I've done is removed the content you copied and pasted, and redirected those article titles to point to the original article about the film. Multiple copies of one article are strongly discouraged and will typically be removed as I just did.

As mentioned, celebrities have appeared in both the film version and comic book version of his work, Donald Faison from NBCs SCRUBS and Rapper Coolio and Dave Prowse of StarWars Fame. After receiving thousands of emails asking much of the same information about this and asking why they can't find us on your web site, we thought it a good idea to post.

Celebrity participation doesn't make your subject notable. What will express notability is coverage in mainstream media, academic coverage such as textbooks or widely-available papers, etc. (For something like science or medicine, I'd add peer-reviewed journals to the list, but that doesn't quite apply here).

Graig Weich and his studio and characters have been featured in almost every comic book magazine (like Wizard Magazine), All Comic Book web sites (I can forward you a list), and as mentioned, on 20/20 ABC News and Howard Stern's Show just to mention a few, so for an independent like himself to break through, to me, deserves a listing.

A transcript of Howard Stern's broadcast might pass muster as a reliable source, and a transcript of the 20/20 appearance is even more likely to. Please provide links to documentation so we can see it.

Also, Spawn is appearing in a cross over with his new comic books.

Again, for that to have any effect on the Wikipedia community's view, you have to cite a source which says so (a newspaper article that mentions it, perhaps an article (not derived from a press release) in the top-selling comics-related magazine, that sort of thing.

Lastly, I have been trying to go back into the pages to edit them, I just posted but when I do, only the Catogories are listed and not any of the text or info I posted, please let me know why the text i posted has vanished from edit page? thank you for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rdactyl (talk • contribs) 07:54, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

The reason is because when you go back to those articles to edit them, you are redirected to the original Ravedactyl: Project Evolution article from which you made the copies. I suggest you improve that article first, then if it becomes excessively long, we can break out information into sub-articles or articles on Mr. Weich himself, etc. --Darkwind (talk) 08:08, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

5 Help & Thanks Darkwind 5

Hi again Darkwind, Thank you again for all your help, though it still wont let me edit the text on the main Ravedactyl: Project Evolution link, when I hit Edit on it is says: " ==References== {{reflist}} ". What should I do???

That's because you're clicking edit down in the middle of the page. When you click [edit] next to a section heading, that takes you to a page where you just edit that section. If you click the "edit this page" tab at the top, that allows you to edit the whole article.

I will make sure to do as you said and do more re-writes in the morning then to fix it up better. Here are some links where I got the info I mentioned, after reviewing them, if you find it to be notable, can I re-add his name? Press video clips of him on 20/20 & Howard Stern" www.myspace.com/beyondcomics and check out the press section of his web site that has tons of links mentioning the spawn cameo cross over thing and all, at: www.beyondcomicsinc.com

Unfortunately, neither one of those links qualifies as a "reliable source" according to the reliable sources policy, at least as far as establishing notability as I've been referring to. The reason for that is that they're both "self-published" sources. What you need are links published by multiple, independent, reliable sources. The key that you're missing with these two links is "independent". In order to qualify as "notable", other people have to be talking about you, and not just reprinting or paraphrasing material you gave out in a press release. For example, notability would be asserted by an article in the Arts section of the New York Times, and maybe a segment on the G4 TV network since they cover comics and games, or a page from the New York Film Festival's website showing that the film won the award (which would convey notability for the FILM ONLY, not the comic or the author). Notability for the author would be sources like the Times or a reputable art or film magazine talking about how his work has had an impact on the industry, etc.

You noted that there are pages for other comics, authors, and characters on Wikipedia, and that's true; but those pages should only exist if they also meet these criteria. If there are no sources documenting the notability and impact of these creative works or their authors, those pages technically should be deleted, or at least nominated for deletion and then the community will have a discussion.

I hope this helps and also should I just mentioned that he appeared on those shows or list them as sources or something?

What you should do is be discussing the impact these creative works and their authors have had on popular culture and the comics and film industries, etc., in an encyclopedic manner. Basically, a dissertation about the works, but also about what difference they make to society. (Theoretically, if they haven't made such a difference yet, then they might not need articles.) Once you've made these assertions in the article like "Weich revolutionized the industry" or whatever, you'd add a reference tag after that statement which will help link to the source which said that. Instructions for that can be found at Wikipedia:Citing sources.

Lastly, Is there any info on how to upload 1 or 2 pictures of the characters mentioned in the page, but so they appear on the far right of the text, looks like there is some invissable table or soemthing there but Im not sure how to recreate it, Im still searching for help on that. Thanks again, You are the best! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rdactyl (talk • contribs) 11:56, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes and no. Images are a very touchy area when it comes to copyright and licensing. Basically, the best way to go about it (and I'm assuming here that you have the power to do so) is to find good images that you want to use, and release those images as public domain or under a Creative Commons license like CC-BY-3.0, or under the GFDL. Then you would upload those images to Wikimedia Commons and then place them in the article (I'll get to that in a minute). Please note that you (or an organization you have decision power for) must own the image and the rights to it in order to release it under a free content license.

The reason the licensing is important is that Wikipedia articles and images are available for further use by downstream users like answers.com, who mirror and/or redisplay our content for their users. In order for them to redisplay the images legally, they have to be under a free-content license. You could technically upload an ordinary copyrighted image to Wikipedia and claim "fair use" for it, but that's such a gray area that the image could be deleted at any time, and it would never appear on Wikipedia mirror sites. It's far better to find a freely licensed image, or release an image of your own work as a free image.

Either way, once you have an image uploaded, it will have a name like Image:Character name.jpg. Just place an image tag in the article with the name of the image, where it should appear and how big, and an optional caption. For example, [[Image:Character name.jpg|thumb|John Smith, a central character in Pocahontas]] will give the image in a flexible thumbnail size, on the right, with the specified caption. You can also do [[Image:Character name.jpg|thumb|left|A caption goes here]] to have the image appear on the left (although convention says solitary images go on the right). You can even do [[Image:Character name.jpg|400px|left]], but that doesn't give you the nice box with the border and space for a caption.

More help with images is available at Help:Images. Also, I get the strong feeling that you represent or work for/with Beyond Comics. Please take a moment to review our conflict of interest policy, and make sure that you follow its suggestions for avoiding such a conflict. --Darkwind (talk) 18:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

The sky is blue

I noticed this mailing list post, where you said: "I wouldn't be surprised to see "The sky is blue.{{fact}}" one day". If you do, why not add what User:Dpbsmith said here back in August 2006? For full impact, I'll quote it here. Carcharoth 14:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

A field guide notes that "the blue sky is so commonplace that it is taken for granted"^[1]. One can go on to add: The poet Robert Service says "while the blue sky bends above/You've got nearly all that matters"^[2] Songwriter Irving Berlin wrote of "Blue Skies smiling at me," airmen fly into the wild blue yonder. But the sky is not always blue. In the Bible, Jesus says to the Pharisees "When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red"^[3]. At twilight, salmon reds, oranges, purples, white-yellows, and many shades of blue can be seen^[4]. And songwriter Oscar Hammerstein's famously wrote of "when the sky is a bright canary yellow."^[5]

References

^ Schaefer, Vincent J.; John A. Day (1998). A Field Guide to the Atmosphere. Houghton Mifflin Field Guides. ISBN 0395976316. p. 155
^ Service, Robert (1940). Collected Poems of Robert Service. G. P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-15015-3. , "Comfort," p. 67
^ The Bible, Matthew 16:2 (King James version)
^ Minnaert, M. G. J. [1974] (1993). Light and Colour in the Outdoors. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-97935-2. p. 295
^ Bauch, Marc. American Musical. Tectum Verlag. ISBN 382888458X. p. 42

Reply

ROFL. That's great, I'll have to remember that in case I ever see such a tag. :) --Darkwind (talk) 18:18, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Pathological demand avoidance

This just popped up in my New Page Watcher. As I understand it, title should be in all caps & thus it should not have been moved & redirected. Also, if the concept is notable, shouldn't its author also be notable? I'll leave it for now since you are obviously working on it, but I'll keep an eye on it. --Rodhullandemu (talk - contribs) 23:07, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Most article names should not have capitals in the second or subsequent words per WP:CAPS unless it's a proper noun, and the name of a disorder is not a proper noun. Also, most other disorders are not capitalized when spelled out, even when they are often referred to as an acronym, c.f. PAD -> peripheral artery disease, or ED -> erectile dysfunction. If there's a source that says capitalization is strongly preferred etc., then it can be moved back. --Darkwind (talk) 23:16, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

7 - thanks, helpful, Darkwind

Hi Darkwind, thank you again, this info is very helpful and I will make sure to email them from that web site to make sure there is no license worries about using one of their images but im sure it is open source. I would like to do my own comics one day too, so I thought this a good place to start learning about this uploading stuff, i met them at the comic con and wondered if i could list them on here when I saw their film listed without much details, I asked them if that is cool and they said yes. I guess i didnt have to ask but figured that would be nice. Anyway, the links in the previous post shows the actual tv clip of them on 20/20 abc news, so I figured that is a good place to site, no? I will look around on their press page as it has direct links to actual magazines and web sites that site them directly from other sources etc. Give me some time to work on it, I'll get back to this over the weekend again after work.

I would also like to post some stuff about an international singer who is not known here in the usa, is that ok? my thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rdactyl (talk • contribs) 02:55, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Zuhair Murad

It has come to my attention that you have recently deleted the Zuhair Murad page. No offense, but you probably do not know too much about fashion and/or cannot afford haute couture. If this is the case, I advise you to visit Zuhair Murad's official website and have a look at the celebrity section. Amongst his patrons are Kelly Clarckson, Christina Aguilera, Ivana Trump and many more. Please get your facts straight. If you were aware of fashion in any way shape or form, I would not have to argue his notability with you....please let someone who knows deal with articles in a subject you seem to know nothing about.

--Lashonda 14:07, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Replied at your talk page, and please refrain from personal attacks. --Darkwind (talk) 07:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Aww I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, that wasn't my intention. I don't know what bollywood has to do with it, since the designer is lebanese...but ok. Please do a google search..or whatever it is you do and explain to me how it is "impossible" to verify the notability of a hollywood fashion designer, what makes him any different from Heatherette who have an article on wikipedia...please explain the difference, what makes them notable..and zuhair murad popular..It was my belief that wikipedia was an international encyclopedia which means if someone is notable somewhere in the world, even though in this case he is also notable in the US, than he has the right to be included. Also, I am glad you shared your opinion with me. I will share mine as well; when you refer to wikipedia as "us" it means you are excluding me, although I myself feel as though I am also a part of wikipedia, so when you thank me for my contribution to your encyclopedia...please keep this in mind...

--Lashonda 18:37, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

BellCanada stuff

Just to let you know about Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Block of 70.52.172.0/22.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 03:20, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Help with abuse report

I notice you have done abuse reports, and I am still fairly new at it. Would you mind taking a look at the most recent contact here and tell me what I should do? Would I call this actioned? Thanks for your help, - Rjd0060 (talk) 16:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I've thought about it and don't really think there is anything else that can be done. I am going to mark it as actioned for now. Thanks. - Rjd0060 (talk) 23:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Icy_Tower&diff=prev&oldid=178912422

I undid the revision but didn't do anything about it. Since you undid his last revision, I'm pointing it out to you. Cheers. 128.113.139.187 (talk) 12:34, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

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