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Hello Erik the Red 2! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Khoikhoi 06:27, 27 January 2007 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] HELP US MAKING THE PROJECT OF ANCIENT GREEK WIKIPEDIA

We are the promoters of the Wikipedia in Ancient Greek. we need your help, specially for write NEW ARTICLES and the TRANSLATION OF THE MEDIAWIKI INTERFACE FOR ANCIENT GREEK, for demonstrating, to the language subcommittee, the value of our project.

Thanks a lot for your help. Ἡ Οὐικιπαιδεία needs you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.40.197.5 (talk) 19:58, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] linguist Alexander Kondatrov

Just to let you know I've removed this from Location Hypothesis of Atlantis. Not only is he a linguist and this was a claim about geology, he's wrong - the area has been explored, deep plains and a few sea mounts. I did ask a geologist before removing it and can give you chapter and verse with references if you want.--Doug Weller (talk) 19:31, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. :-)Doug Weller (talk) 13:14, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Latin

Hola,

Do you actually speak latin? I'd like a confirmation of my translation of juridicum here. Can you help? WLU (talk) 13:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

You actually speak latin. That's the COOLEST!!! I wish I spoke latin.

So does 'day without law' make sense or would it be better translated as 'day without judiciary'? Thanks for your help by the way, nothing better than a good response to an obscure question : ) WLU (talk) 22:05, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help

{{helpme}} I logged into my account and I realized that all of the Twinkle/Friendly buttons that I normally use were gone. They were still installed on my monobook.js file and their boxes were checked in my preferences page. I refreshed the page and they still weren't there. Erik the Red 2 (Ave Caesar) 23:14, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Try clearing your browsers cache. Please also note the Twinkle/Friendly don't work on IE Alexfusco⁵ 00:32, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why shouldn't IPs edit his user page?

He invites good faith edits, as he makes explicit right on the page. Since your reversion's edit summary called my edit 'good faith', I'm not sure I understand what you're concerned about and ask you to restore my edit. 24.146.21.98 (talk) 01:33, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't disagree that it's his user page; I simply don't understand why that's relevant. He invites good faith edits to his user page, with no qualifications that those edits not be made by IPs. You say there have been numerous discussions about this issue somewhere. If so, I am unaware of them, and the only link you provided me with was a link to the history of his user page. I haven't gone through all the edits to find out, but that seems to be an unlikely place for a discussion of any sort to occur. I do not wish to get into a revert war, so unless you can provide me with something more substantial to indicate that my edit is not welcome, I again ask that you restore my edit. It was factual, provided clarification, and contained appropriate wiki-syntax, which is exactly the type of edit that improves pages. 24.146.21.98 (talk) 01:52, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Catholicism!

Hello, Erik the Red 2, and welcome to Wikiproject Catholicism! Thank you for your generous offer to help
contribute. I'm sure your input will be much appreciated. I hope you enjoy contributing here and being a Catholic Project Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to discuss anything on the project talk page, or to leave a message on my own talk page. Please remember to sign all your comments, and be bold with your edits. Again, welcome, and happy editing! Bewareofdog 01:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the editing links, now I can get rid of all these post-it notes. Where do you get the banners that say you're into renewable energy and Sherlock Holmes? Clicking on them takes me to the topics, not the page to get them from. CometHawk (talk) 18:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalislisilisilism=

Gee, Thanks! ThegreatWakkorati (talk) 16:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hey Erik the Red 2. I would like to thank you for your support in my RfA and the confidence expressed thereby. I appreciate your trust. :) Best wishes, —αἰτίας •discussion• 18:20, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to the Military history project

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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVII (May 2008)

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[edit] Thank you!

Hi Erik the Red 2 - Thanks for the barnstar! I really appreciate it! -Classicfilms (talk) 23:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your note

Hi Erik, questioning the neutrality of an article is fine, and even encouraged, but it should be done on the talk page. Adding "disputed" templates to articles we don't like or don't agree with, is defacing the encyclopedia, since virtually every article has some disputes. If each disputed article had a template like that, this would degrade the appearance of the site, without improving its quality. If you don't like something, keep complaining and discussing on the talk page. Crum375 (talk) 23:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree with you — the NPOV template is much abused, and rarely if ever useful. Just think about it: if people followed your example, then virtually every article with any amount of controversy, which is likely the majority of all articles here, would be saying that this article is not neutral and is disputed. It is far more logical and helpful to discuss and debate issues on the talk page, and to try to reach consensus there. Crum375 (talk) 02:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)