User:Merovingian/archive-18
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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Gekkeiju Nebala.jpg)
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[edit] The redirect ?!?!
The redirect you created, ?!?! (redirects to Surprise), has been posted for deletition at WP:RFD. Any comments or suggestions on your behalf would be grately appreciated and can be made at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 September 3. ChrisDHDR 20:03, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Gekkeiju Nebala.jpg)
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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Keigo Asano.jpg)
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[edit] American Samoa
I noticed you created an article on swamps of American Samoa. We are missing a List of rivers in American Samoa (as well as List of rivers in the Northern Mariana Islands). Do you know if there are even any rivers? Rmhermen 03:58, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Thomas_Ypsilantis.jpg
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[edit] Redirect of WP:WRITE
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[edit] Basic Training
Thanks for your upcoming service to our country! I spent four years in the U.S. Air Force, but we won't discuss exactly when that was :-) Good Luck! -- Rock15(talk)(autograph) 04:21, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] AfD nomination of Patterns in multiple-choice tests
Patterns in multiple-choice tests, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Patterns in multiple-choice tests satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patterns in multiple-choice tests and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Patterns in multiple-choice tests during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ridernyc 09:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] First Edit
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Happy First Edit Day, Merovingian/archive-18, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! |
- FROM YOUR FRIEND:
-- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 00:31, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
- You're WELCOME. I'm just here doing my job. Would you like to sign my autograph book? -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 00:08, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I got the message.
Why would you revert the edit of my own talk page? It looks like I accidentally started an article on my username when I tried to access my user talk page. I posted the mistake on the talk page for that article and removed the long "candidate for speedy deletion" message from my user talk page. I'm not sure why you felt the need to revert my edit to my own talk page after that and replace the long disclaimer I'd already acknowledged. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spyder130 (talk • contribs) 02:13, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Featured List of the Day Experiment
There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 21:23, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Acombe
Hi, Back in Sept 2005 you created an article for Acombe a village in Somerset. As part of work with Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset I'm trying to cleanup/expand lots of articles about local places, but I can't find Acombe on any maps - do you have any further info or remember!!! where you got the info from?— Rod talk 18:32, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Prodding Acombe
[edit] Acombe
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Acombe, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add {{db-author}} to the top of Acombe. I still can't find any convincing evidence or further information for this village.— Rod talk 17:29, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] An Invite to join Saskatchewan WikiProject
 Hi, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Saskatchewan WikiProject! The Saskatchewan WikiProject is a fairly new WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories, and Wikiprojects, to do with anything Saskatchewan. |
| As you have shown an interest in [[Robert Murray (artist)]] we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject. |
| Please assist with any ongoing requests |
| You might like to take an extra interest in our To Do list |
| Another project dedicated to Saskatchewan is the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways Wikiproject |
| Also, a descendant project for Saskatchewan is the WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods |
| We look forward to welcoming you to the project! SriMesh | talk 03:01, 2 December 2007 (UTC) |
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[edit] WPTC Active Members
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones has changed greatly since it was first started, and according to our main page we now have 87 members. However, we only have a small group of members that are still active, and as such, I am sending this out to all users on the participants list. If you are still active, please sign your name here. If you do not wish to be part of the project any more, or if you do not answer to this, you will be placed on an inactive users list after a period of two weeks. If you wish to rejoin after you are put on the inactive users list, you are welcome to rejoin. Cheers. --Hurricanehink (talk) 18:46, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] DYK
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On 18 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Cunimund, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
--Carabinieri (talk) 13:24, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] US Army Basic Training
Even though I did not serve in the US military (My Dad served in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s.), I salute you for serving our country. Chris (talk) 14:18, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hello!
Hello Merovingian! According to your user page, you will not be available on Wikipedia after March 2008. Well, you can make some contributions after March 2008. We need editors like you. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 02:42, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
- I wish you all the best for your career. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 03:43, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removal of Content on Peeps
Hey, I was wondering why you removed an very large chunk of the peeps article. Thanks, -- Nn123645 (talk) 01:23, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Articles
Hello Merovingian. Is it true that you have created over 18,000 articles? Why don't you create a sub-page and list all the articles you have created? It will help other users to know about your contributions. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 04:51, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- Even if the number is 17,000, that's great! I have created over 100 articles and I would like to create 1,000 articles one day. If someone creates 1,000 articles, I think that's great. That's a significant contribution for the project. I would like you to create a sub-page and list all the articles you have created. I would like to see articles you have created. Regards. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 09:14, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 1519 in science
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[edit] Lots of articles!
Hello Merovingian. I saw User:Merovingian/Articles. You have created lots of articles! That's great! Your contributions will always be appreciated. Great job! Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 08:02, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Interwiki links
Hi there, just a friendly reminder to not forget to create interwiki links to the corresponding foreign language wikis when you create an article. Best regards, — BillC talk 23:09, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Article on Gogoblank
Hi I just stumbled on article about me and this message: Hi. I've moved your article Gogoblank to your own userpage, User:Gogoblank, because I assume that you are Gogoblank. Am I wrong? --Merovingian 06:01, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Though I do believe I have an account, I defiantly didn't write that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.132.223.101 (talk • contribs)
[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:44397.jpg
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[edit] Volapük
Hi Merovingian. I found your name on the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians on Meta, and thought that you might care about the issue discussed on the page: m:Proposals for closing projects/Radical cleanup of Volapük Wikipedia enough to help us fight it with a vote. Thanks! Smeira 11:20, 3 jan 2008.
[edit] A request for your consideration regarding CAT:AOTR
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I am leaving you this message because recent events have given me concern. When Aaron Brenneman and I, and others, first developed this category well over a year ago, we visualized it as a simple idea. A low hassle, low bureaucracy process. We also visualized it as a process that people would come to trust, in fact as a way of increasing trust in those admins who chose to subscribe to the notion of recall. The very informal approach to who is qualified to recall, what happens during it, and the process in general were all part of that approach. But recent events have suggested that this low structure approach may not be entirely effective. More than one of the recent recalls we have seen have been marred by controversy around what was going to happen, and when. Worse, they were marred by some folk having the perception, rightly or wrongly, that the admin being recalled was trying to change the rules, avoid the process, or in other ways somehow go back on their word. This is bad. It's bad for you the admin, bad for the trust in the process, and bad for the community as a whole. I think a way to address this issue is to increase the predictability of the process in advance. I have tried to do that for myself. In my User:Lar/Accountability page, I have given pretty concrete definitions of the criteria for recall, and of the choices I can make, and of the process for the petition, and of the process for other choices I might make (the modified RfC or the RfAr). I think it would be very helpful if other admins who have voluntarily made themselves subject to recall went to similar detail. It is not necessary to adopt the exact same conditions, steps, criteria, etc. It's just helpful to have SOME. Those are mine, fashion yours as you see fit, I would not be so presumptuous as to say mine are right for you. In fact I urge you not to just adopt mine, as I do change them from time to time without notice, but instead develop your own. You are very welcome to start with mine if you so wish, though. But do something. If you have not already, I urge you to make your process more concrete, now, while there is no pressure and you can think clearly about what you want. Do it now rather than later, during a recall when folk may not react well to perceived changes in process or commitment. Further, I suggest that after you document your process, that you give a reference to it for the benefit of other admins who may want to see what others have done. List it in this table as a resource for the benefit of all. If you use someone else's by reference rather than copy, I suggest you might want to do as Cacharoth did, and give a link to a specific version. Do you have to do these things? Not at all. These are suggestions from me, and me alone, and are entirely up to you to embrace or ignore. I just think that doing this now, thinking now, documenting now, will save you trouble later, if you should for whatever reason happen to be recalled. I apologise if this message seems impersonal, but with over 130 members in the category, leaving a personal message for each of you might not have been feasible, and I feel this is important enough to violate social norms a bit. I hope that's OK. Thanks for your time and consideration, and best wishes. Larry Pieniazek NOTE: You are receiving this message because you are listed in the Wikipedia administrators open to recall category. This is a voluntary category, and you should not be in it if you do not want to be. If you did not list yourself, you may want to review the change records to determine who added you, and ask them why they added you. |
...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "K"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "L"s through "O"s! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 00:02, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
