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[edit] Hello!

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We're so glad you're here! Essjay · Talk 01:59, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] PEI

I saw your note; yes I think the article has an accusatory POV slant. I'd suggest you do a rewrite or list it on VfD (Votes for Deletion). -- Essjay · Talk 02:58, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

I went by and reread the article; I think it's good. It could probably use some wikifying (making it more in the Wikipedia style) but I think the content is good. Good work! By the way, I noticed the multiple edits in the history; when you're editing a page, you can use the preview button ("show preview" beside the button that says "save page") to get a preview of your work without submitting it. It helps keep the hisory lists short. -- Essjay · Talk 04:35, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup Taskforce - Think Fast

Hi. I'm really, really sorry, but I am not able to deal with math that is this high level. I can do math quickly and without error for the things I am able to do, but this is beyond me. If there is anything easier that I can do, please let me know. If you could, please tell me what I should do with the tasks you have given me. Again, I am really sorry. --Think Fast July 5, 2005 22:35 (UTC)

No need to apologize, by any means. I'm still a little amazed that people are volunteering to have complete strangers assign them work. 8) The thing to do with Cleanup Taskforce issues you don't happen to have the time, expertise, inclination, etc. to handle, is to simply reassign them to someone else. I looked at the membership list for someone else who lists math as an interest, and who has been active recently...I ended up moving these tasks to User:Android79/Desk. I guess we'll see what happens next. Thanks for helping keep pending issues moving, and thanks for joining the Cleanup Taskforce. Oh, and if you want to assign yourself something else, there are a number of neglected issues on Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce. There are also math-related cleanup tasks at Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention/Mathematical_and_Natural_Sciences#Mathematics, though some of these may also be high-level math topics. Anyway, thanks again, Beland 6 July 2005 03:15 (UTC)

[edit] Prisoners

Thanks for your reply at WP:RD. I am grateful. PedanticallySpeaking 18:05, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup Taskforce

A task has been added to your Cleanup Taskforce desk. -- Beland 06:55, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! I've added NetBIOS to your desk, based on your interest in computers; see if you can help it out. In general, feel free to pull unassigned tasks from Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce, Template:Opentask, or Category:Cleanup by month if anything there interests you. Though I'm trying to make a point of actively suggesting articles if people have space on their desks, because it seems like such a shame to let eager volunteers go idle. 8) -- Beland 21:29, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Air League

I have expanded the stub and removed the australia-stub template. I have taken the task off my desk, but I don't know if I should delete this task anywhere else because this is my first time I have done this on my own (e.g. a list of articles being worked on by the clean-up taskforce, a list of stubs, etc.). Thanks. --Think Fast 01:08, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Cheers! That article looks infinitely better now. For reference, I have closed it by doing the following:
  1. Adding a short note on the taskforce page (Wikipedia:Cleanup_Taskforce/Australian Air League) saying that it is closed. (This is optional though.)
  2. Moving the appropriate link from Wikipedia:Cleanup_Taskforce to Wikipedia:Cleanup_Taskforce/closed.
  3. Replacing the {{cleanup taskforce notice}} tag with {{cleanup taskforce closed}} on the article's talk page. (I don't always do this though).
Step 2 is the only crucial one. Thanks, Stewart Adcock 14:40, 2 October 2005 (UTC)


Hi, Think Fast!
Just dropping a note to say thanks for the Barnstar and I also have a question - have you ever been a member of the Air League or did you manage to find all the original information yourself? Just curious. Ta! Qarnos 03:18, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Well, you did a pretty good job for someone with no background in the AAL! I'm very impressed. I've been in the League since I was 14 (now 25), so I still have quite a bit I need to add. Thanks for getting it started, though. Qarnos 09:25, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jesus

Check out the Jesus article and edit it to keep it focused on Jesus and a biographical account of Him. Watch the Jesus page to keep it focused on Him. Thank you. Scifiintel 22:28, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tool

Do you have access to a scanner? That would work too. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:45, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I deleted the small picture. I've never seen anything like that before. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 00:24, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tongs

Thanks for the tongs pictures! I've put one in the article. -SCEhardT 22:26, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] This type of censorship makes me sick

Vote to keep, show these hypocrites what's what, tolerance? ha, only when it's good for them--Diatrobica;l 23:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What Wikisource is about...

Hi, and thanks for having a look at Wikisource. What do we do? We put text that is the public domain in a friendly form on Wikisource. A lot of this comes from Project Gutenberg, but not all. A lot of it is old, and the copyright has expired, and the rest is exempt (legal documents, charters etc). What can you do? Lots! We have some projects, such as the Diary of Samuel Pepys and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. The advantage of Wikisource, is that we can cross link to Wikipedia to highlight names, and provide context. At the moment we are also looking into creating mini-portals for different areas such as essays, poetry, etc. But in general we need people to help add content and provide structure for growth. Feel free to get involved, I look forward to your help. Comment on either of my talk pages (at WP or WS), I'm also watching this page too. Greg Robson 20:57, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re: Userbox ideas

  • No promlem, thanks for the suggestions - glad i could help. Happy new year to you too. - UK Bourbons3Talk 16:08, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spanish Translation of the Week

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[edit] WP:UB

Hello, Ian. I'm interested in joining the Userboxes Wikiproject. Right now I'm spending most of my time at Wikisource working on the Diary of Samuel Pepys, so I don't think I'll be able to do a ton of work on Userboxes, but I think I'll join anyway. If you respond, please do so at my talk page. Thanks:) --Think Fast 21:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

No problem, and welcome, activness is not an issue, only being prepared to support and helpout wenever you can. Ian13ID:540053 21:45, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baseball on Wikicities

Hello Think Fast, Googie Man here and I want to ask you something as a fellow baseball fan on Wikipedian. Jimbo and Angela have made a new webstie called Wikicities. This link in particular will take you to the baseball Wikicity. As you'll see it's similar to Wikipedia, but my hope is this will allow baseball fans to do more and different things, like reporting on games, in depth statistics, create mulitple pages for pictures, and whatever else baseball fans care to create. You've done great work on Wikipedia and I was hoping you could help get this baseball Wikicity off the ground. Please let me know what you think either at my talk page, or you can email me at terry@wikia.com. Thanks! Googie Man(Talk), 20:56, 4 January 2006.

[edit] Preposition userboxes

I don't know what the problem is. They work fine in my sandbox. I would recommend deleting those categories, though. Not every userbox needs a category with it, and user categories that don't really correspond to any sort of community that's likely to meet in real life are especially iffy. --Angr (tɔk) 22:53, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedians for writing an encyclopedia WikiProject

That was kinda a joke. It's for people who are more interested in writing an encyclopedia instead of other things, like censoring the encyclopedia, fighting, trolling, etc. It *should* be almost everyone, but... :) --Phroziac . o º O (♥♥♥♥ chocolate!) 22:20, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: WP:MIND

Unfortunately, the bot has been down for quite a while. I'll add you to the list, though; we still sometimes do manual notifications. However, please watchlist Wikipedia:Mind Benders/to do; this serves as our announcement board. We're currently in part two of the current round; feel free to join. (Details are on the page.) Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:47, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IWLC

HI ! If a page doesnt exist .. there is a button NR. 7 ( Article(s) deleted). Happy to see you again doing a lot of quick work. Flacus

[edit] About userboxes

When you put a userbox in your info page, it automatically lists a category at the bottom. I made a userbox and a category for that userbox. When I put that userbox in my userinfo, it does not automatically list the category I made for it at the bottom. How do you make a userbox automatically list a category at the bottom? va_girl2468 (User talk:va_girl2468) 11:43, 28 January 2006

[edit] RE: RE: About userboxes

I did that and it worked, but somehow I'm still the only person that appears in the category. I went to someone else's page who had the userbox I created, and the category I made automatically appeared on the bottom of their page, but somehow they're not listed in the category. What's going on? I hope my wording did not confuse you. Thanks for helping me out. va_girl2468 (User talk:va_girl2468) 13:38, 28 January 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jtrost It's the Friends template. User:va_girl2468 17:04, 28 January 2006

Nevermind. It works now. Thanks anyway.

[edit] Cleanup Taskforce

I added Johann Gutenberg to your taskforce desk at User:Think Fast/Desk because you listed an interest in Biographies. (Yes, THAT Johann Gutenberg). If you don't want to work on it let me know or pass it along. RJFJR 23:44, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox rss

The userbox page here was updated every 24 hours, but I made it update every hour now. The RSS one here is still updated every 24 hours, I believe. --Interiot 01:54, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the tip!

And also thank you for the edit-assist. --Go for it! 08:57, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clay pigeon

Remington 4" clay pigeon
Remington 4" clay pigeon

[edit] Breve lección de español

Hola Think Fast,

Disculpa que haya tardado tanto en responderte. Gracias por comentarme tus ideas sobre el wikilibro de inglés. En realidad, no soy muy apropiado para responderte porque ahora son otros usuarios los que están ampliando el wikilibro. Pero tus ideas son buenas. Tu explicación sobre el uso correcto de "you" se podría incluir en la página correspondiente. Respecto al vocabulario, no sé cual es la mejor solución. Una posibilidad es incluir al pie de página todo el vocabulario específico del tema correspondiente que se utilice en los textos del mismo. Por lo tanto, en el artículo de "historia del inglés" sería adecuado incluir bastantes más traducciones al pie de página. Respecto a las páginas duplicadas de la familia, ya he borrado la que era más incompleta.

Como estás aprendiendo español, me he atrevido a hacer unas correcciones a lo que me escribiste. A continuación te las explico:

  • Uso del sujeto: Al contrario que en inglés, el pronombre sujeto en español se suele omitir porque el morfema del verbo ya nos aporta esa información. De lo contrario sería redundante.
  • La conjunción copulativa "y" antes del fonema "i" se convierte en una "e" para que no se anule en el lenguaje hablado. Por lo tanto, diríamos "Iván y Juan" pero si decimos Iván después de la "y", ésta se convierte: "Juan e Iván".
  • Verbos irregulares
    • Querer yo quiero, tu quieres, él quiere, nosotros queremos, vosotros queréis, ellos quieren.
    • Corregir yo corrijo.

Las correcciones que te he explicado y alguna otra menos importante puedes verlas aquí.

Si haces alguna traducción al español para practicar, por favor, déjame un mensaje en mi página de discusión de la Wikipedia española. Un saludo, (ah y si alguna vez ves algún error cuando escriba inglés, te agradecería que me corrijas, así aprendo yo también :OD --Javier Carro 16:06, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Think Fast! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. - Glen TC (Stollery) 06:24, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy wiki-Birthday

Hello friend. I wish you a very happy wiki-birthday. BTW, I learnt of the same from Wikipedia:Esperanza. All the best for the coming year! --Bhadani 12:10, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Contract bridge

Hi. You might be interested in participating in new Wikipedia:WikiProject Contract bridge. Regards, Duja 10:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userboxes

"I'm going on a week wikibreak until 16 January" - I didn't think it was only a week until then ;)

Anyways, I've done a little cleanup on your userboxes page and removed some deleted userboxes and userfied some others. The userboxes in the Religion category seem to be a little sneaky and I can't seem to change the formatting of those. Oh well, at least I did most of the work for you =) Hope it helps. — Nathan (talk) / 01:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Card game user templates

Dear Think Fast,

I have been on a mission to reduce the amount of user templates by merging like ones together by using parser functions for the differences. Recently I made a master card game template based on your work. After enough people switch to the master template, I would like to put your individual ones up for deletion. Now, I am hoping that you will not be hurt by this. You can see the master template at Template:User card games. I have put a little message on all but 4 of those templates on your user page to see the master template. Hopefully you will not be angry with me when you read this. Thank you for your great design.
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 05:24, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello Think Fast,
I have a little Wikigift for you in regards to the card game user templates that I would love to put on your user page. It is a custom card game container. Would you want something like that on your user page? - LA @ 06:48, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
The custom card game container is where your list of card game templates were. I hope you like it. Also, there are now 31 card games available through the singular template. :) - LA @ 21:40, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Joke Lab Report

A few months ago I found a joke lab report on the internet that was really funny. It was about how a guy had bad equipment and had to start over and more things of that sort. I thought I bookmarked it, but I can't find it now. Does anyone have a link to this thing? --Think Fast 22:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Probably Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass --Tagishsimon (talk)

[edit] User Switzerland

Hello Think Fast, I have changed the white border in template:user Switzerland to a black one, thinking it to have been made by mistake. If this is not so, please accept I apologise and revert my latest edit. I am now going to make up this: template:user Swiss direct democracy. Cheers, --Clamengh 13:29, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup Taskforce

Can you tell me the status of Johann Gutenberg which is on your desk? Thank you. RJFJR 04:00, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] League of Copyeditors

Dear Cleanup Taskforce member,

I noticed that you've listed yourself as a member who's interested in copy-editing. I'm a member of the League of Copyeditors, a project dedicated to managing the sizable backlog of articles needing a copy-edit. We're always looking for new members, and you'd make a great addition to the project! We've started a participation drive for the remainder of February. If you're interested, you can help clear the backlog by adopting the following goals each week:

Thanks, and happy editing! BuddingJournalist 07:39, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Hi, and thanks for the update. You're completely right, this was my mistake. Similar things happen to me, too. BTW: I think the Wikibreak message at the top of your talk page may be outdated. Best wishes and Happy Editing. --- 06:37, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Matt McAllister Article Nominated for Deletion

  • Hello! An article you created, Matt McAllister, is currently being considered for deletion on grounds of non-notability.

We encourage you to weigh in your vote in the deletion discussion.--GoodAaron 16:19, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] St. Louis Cardinals project

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[edit] Happy First Edit Day

Happy First Edit Day, Think Fast, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Politics rule 22:42, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day, Think Fast, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!
  • FROM YOUR FRIEND:

 ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 00:02, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

  • P.S. We "Think" alike!!!
HAPPY FIRST EDIT DAY! from the BIRTHDAYCOMMITTEE

Wishing Think Fast a very Happy First Edit Day!

Have a fantastic day!

From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee

Eddie 00:07, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

HAPPY FIRST EDIT DAY! from the BIRTHDAYCOMMITTEE

Wishing Think Fast a very Happy First Edit Day!

Have a fantastic day!

From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee

[edit] Please re-register

Hello, Think Fast! You are receiving this notice because the Cleanup Taskforce has been inactive, as a result of this all active taskforce members are being asked to re-register.

For more information see: Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Not Dead Yet

If you do not re-register here within 15 days of receiving this notice your name will be removed from the membership list (if you were unable to reply to this notice in time, you can just add you name back).

RJFJR 03:24, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


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