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Contents 1 Welcome 2 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 3 Patronus 4 Improper High Level notices 5 Vandalism 6 Muggle Repelling Charm 7 Thank you 8 3RR 9 Help 10 Thanks for your comment 11 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 12 Happy birthday! 13 Spells in Harry potter 14 Spells in Harry Potter and WikiProject Redwall 15 AfD nomination of Spells in Harry Potter 16 Adoption 17 WikiProject Harry Potter roll-call 18 WikiProject Redwall Roll-Call 19 Reply to your comment on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/markles 20 Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pedro 2 21 My RfA 22 RFA Thanks 22.1 Credits 23 Dreadstar RfA 24 Re: Weak Oppose for RfA for Captmondo 25 My knowledge of policy 26 YARRR 27 Barneca RfA thank you spam 28 The now-traditional RFA thank-spam 28.1 Credits 29 RFA Thanks! 30 My RfA 31 Nehrams2020 RfA Thanks 32 Edokter RfA 33 Thanks! 34 Fabrictramp RFA 35 Three Revert

Welcome

Hi! Welcome to the English Wikipedia! Hello, Malinaccier, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:   Introduction  5    The five pillars of Wikipedia   How to edit a page   Help   Tips   How to write a great article   Manual of Style   Fun stuff...   Be Bold   Assume Good faith   Keep cool   Share your knowledge   Have an experenced editor adopt you   Policy on neutral point of view And here are several pages on what to avoid: How to not spam Make sure not to get blocked, which should be no problem after reading this Other Useful Links 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 Useful templates • Categories • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Tools • User scripts I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Also, I think that you might be interested in the adopt-a-user project, where advanced editors can guide you in your first experiences here; so check it out if you want. Again, welcome!

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Patronus

Hey... I was wondering. In Spells in Harry Potter You said that Lupin's Patronus was a moon... do you have a source for that? I don't think that's true... but I could be wrong. Thanks! Gscshoyru 16:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

You're right, I just looked it up in the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and it does not mention anything about the shape of Lupin's Patronous, but it also doesn't say anything about patronuses always being animals. Malinaccier 16:32, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

True... but I think it's assumed, and it should stay as animals. Hermionie's is an Otter, for instance (book 5). Note that Prongs didn't necessarily have a stag as a patronus... he just was a stag animagi. Same with the rest of them. Gscshoyru 16:36, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

The only thing that discredits the 'animal' patronous is the fact that Nymphadora Tonks' patronous changed into a werewolf (Lupin), and depending on your point of view (whether 'half breeds' are human or not, and whether werewolves should have equal rights with humans), Tonks' patonous was either human or beast. . . . Malinaccier 16:42, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Um... werewolf in werewolf form, right? Um... I have no clue how that's considered. Gscshoyru 16:45, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

We could just say: an object important to the caster. This includes animals, as well as anything else that could be considered non-animal. Malinaccier 16:48, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah... do that. Makes the most sense, I guess. Gscshoyru 16:51, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

The debate seems to have ended, but may offer my two cents? (And thanks for the barn-star, Malinaccier!) It is never explicitly stated that Tonk's patronus was a werewolf, was it? It is only inferred by the reader - the same way the editors of the Deathly Hallows page will not say if anyone is married in the epilogue. Tried to say it without spoiling if you haven't finished yet! ~~ THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR (((¶))) 08:04, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Improper High Level notices

I notice you have been placing high level warning templates on user talk pages for varying degrees of vandalism. Please do not bite the newcomers, and instead post lower level templates for each incident unless the vandalism is unusually malicious. Some of the edits for which you have warned users for may not have been vandalism at all, such as this edit by Sukkomen, where he is describing the attributes of a fictional character. Be aware that such harsh warnings are counterproductive, and damaging to the image of Wikipedia if they are driving good-faith users away. Also, you haven't actually reverted the edits of several users which you cited for vandalism, so please be sure to do so. Finally, sign any talk page notice with four tildes ~~~~ so we can see when they were last warned. Thanks. --Tom (talk - email) 19:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

The only-warning template is typically too harsh; instead, {{subst:test1}} (the standard first-level warning template) should be used most often, followed by test2, test3, and test4. --Tom (talk - email) 19:15, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Report the vandal at WP:AIV. However, by looking at the history of the article, I'm guessing the vandal(s?) are using sockpuppets. You may have to ask for the page to be semi-protected (see Wikipedia:Protection policy). Hope that helps! --M1ss1ontomars2k4 02:03, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Muggle Repelling Charm

Under R or M? There is a tag saying not to move, I don't know who put it there or why - thought it might have been you Malinaccier, in your large "DO NOT EDIT TILL YOU HAVE READ HP7" spree? Or was it an IP? I tried to check the history but it was too far back and I couldn't locate the culprit. Reply to Spells in Harry Potter, please, to keep all related discussion together. ~~ THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR (((¶))) 07:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your support at my recent Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Angus Lepper RfA, which failed, with no consensus to promote me. However, I appreciate the concerns raised during the course of the discussion (most notably, a lack of experience, particularly in admin-heavy areas such as XfDs and policy discussions) and will attempt to address these before possibly standing again in several months time. Angus Lepper^{(T, C, D)} 16:03, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

3RR

Yeah, my reverts are almost exclusively for vandalism. I'll be more careful with my edit summaries in the future. GlassCobra 00:53, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Help

{{helpme}}

What are projectspace edits. Usually I look these things up, but I don't feel like it today. Thanks in advance. •Malinaccier• ^T/C 22:53, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

As I understand it, project space edits are edits made to the Wikipedia namespace (pages with the Wikipedia: prefix). This term can also refer more loosly to edits made to pages for WikiProjects, however the Special:Contributions feature would not be able to distinguish those edits, as WikiProjects are located within the Wikipedia namespace. --Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 23:11, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! •Malinaccier• ^T/C 23:14, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment

Thank you for your comment on my RfA, which was successful. Lyrl^Talk _C 01:05, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

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Happy birthday!

Just a happy Birthday message to you, Malinaccier/Archive 1, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Have a wonderful day! umdrums 05:14, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Spells in Harry potter

It is currently under a deletion review. Therequiembellishere 17:14, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Spells in Harry Potter and WikiProject Redwall

Hey man, thought you'd like to know that there's been a deletion review set up for Spells in Harry Potter.

Also, I noticed that you're a fan of the Redwall series. Would you like to come join our Redwall WikiProject? If you're interested, add your name to the Participants list. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions! GlassCobra 00:51, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Spells in Harry Potter

An article that you have been involved in editing, Spells in Harry Potter, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spells in Harry Potter (3rd nomination). Thank you. Jreferee ^(Talk) 03:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Adoption

Sorry for not replying to your adoption request sooner. I had actually been adopted the same day you sent the message. Thank you anyway! --Endlessdan 12:13, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Harry Potter roll-call

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Reply to your comment on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/markles

On the contrary:

A) I won't relish it at all - it's just something I'll do from time-to-time.

B) I wouldn't be crazy - it doesn't mean that much to me.

C) Nobody could get in my way - there are no individual ways, just the Wikipedia policies.

—Markles 02:30, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pedro 2

I thought you should be aware that you've had responses to your !vote. --Dweller 10:42, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Same goes for Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Dreadstar. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 14:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Ummm,

I need all the help I can get, but... you already !voted.

Thanks, though, for the original support, and giving me the benefit of the doubt. --barneca (talk) 21:49, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Dreadstar RfA

Thanks for your support, I took the easy way out of thanking everyone by borrowing someone else's thank you card design...but know that I sincerely appreciate your support and confidence in me! I also greatly appreciated your staunch defense..! Dreadstar † 05:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Weak Oppose for RfA for Captmondo

Hello there:

Before answering your opposition I just wanted to be sure that we are talking about the same thing: could you define what you mean by "wikispace edits"? I am assuming that this means working on procedural tasks (i.e. Feature Article and Good Article nominations, and discussions on same), right?

Perhaps asking this question alone disqualifies me for Adminship, but I'd rather be an informed than blunder into a baseless response.

Cheers! Captmondo 19:57, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. I hadn't realized that that was a prerequisite for Adminship, but am certainly up to the task. I may or may not make it as an Admin this time around, but in any event I will make more of an effort to contribute to this area to the best of my ability. Cheers! Captmondo 02:08, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

My knowledge of policy

Hi,

Thanks for sounding off your opinion on my RFA.

You asked to prove my knowledge of policy on your talk page.

I don't exactly know how do you want me to prove it, but if you want to test me in any way, go ahead. As I said in the discussion there - I read the policy back and forth a long time before I nominated myself. Because the policy documents are so well written, I didn't need to ask for much help about them - I can read them myself. I don't think that I need to participate in a discussion of a policy document to be able to implement it correctly.

If you still want tangible proof, take a look at the list of AFD's that I proposed. The list is not long, but I think that it's enough of a proof. Most of them were eventually deleted, which proves my good understanding of what Wikipedia is and what it is not. I also withdrew some of them in a friendly manner, which proves that I can learn from mistakes.

If there is anything more that I can clarify, please tell me. Thanks in advance. --Amir E. Aharoni 07:12, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

YARRR

		Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
		Ahoy! How 'bout a jug o' grog, me hearty? Regarrrrds, GlassCobra 17:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Barneca RfA thank you spam

Malinaccier, thank you for your support during my RfA, especially after the concerns that were brought up by other editors. I'll keep all of the comments in mind in the coming months, and will try again later (and I'll have more wikispace edits by then, too!). In the mean time, if you see me doing something stupid, please let me know. See you around. --barneca (talk) 12:58, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The now-traditional RFA thank-spam

RFA Thanks!

Thanks for your participation for my RFA bid and for your support.--JForget 23:28, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi,

I succeeded at my RfA nomination.

I strongly believe in the "a discussion is not a vote" policy and the concerns that you raised were civil and challenging, so I thank you for that. --Amir E. Aharoni 23:59, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Nehrams2020 RfA Thanks

Edokter RfA

Thanks!

		My RFA
		Thanks for your support in my request for adminship, which ended with 58 supports, 1 opposes, and 1 neutral. I hope your confidence in me proves to be justified. Addhoc 18:16, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Fabrictramp RFA

Thank you for your support in my Request for Adminship, which passed with 50 supports, 1 neutral, and 1 oppose. My goal is to keep earning your trust every time I grab the "mop". (And I'm always open to constructive criticism and advice!) Again, thanks. --Fabrictramp 15:29, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Three Revert

Are you honestly quoting policy at me? Come on, man, you know me. Whatever happened to giving established editors the benefit of the doubt? My reverts are exclusively to improve the article. I'm not going to apologize for violating the rule, as I did it in the best interest of the article and the project. I'll revert my edits, but someone else needs to clean up after me. GlassCobra 02:11, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

I highly doubt I'll be banned for acting in the best interest of the project. I may have broken the letter of the law, but I was still upholding it in spirit. My annoyance with you stems merely from you unnecessarily quoting policy at me, a user who has not only read the policy, but warned others in the past about it. GlassCobra 02:53, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Sure. I know you had good intentions. GlassCobra 00:19, 30 September 2007 (UTC)