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I'm pushing a collaboration to complete the list of basic space exploration topics.

Should be fun. Drop on by.  ;) You can focus on the history section!

Also, see my post to User talk:Quiddity#Basic topic lists if you want to delve in deeper.

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Hi Remarkviolinist, could I ask you to clarify this remark on your RfA, please? It seems to me that either you are claiming that your RfA was created by another user when you left your computer unattended, or that edit itself was made by someone else in your absence. There may, of course, be another explanation I am missing. Either way, this appears to be a significant breach of your account. A clear explanation of what has happened is urgently required or I will temporarily block this account as compromised. However this resolves, I would advise you to withdraw the RfA since it is extremely unlikely to pass at this time. Thanks, Gwernol 00:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Your RfA was unsuccessful

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I am sorry to inform you that I have closed your RfA early as realistically it was no longer capable of succeeding. Do not be too disheartened - many of our finest admins had unsuccessful early attempts. I hope you will take onboard the concerns raised by those opposing and will consider running again in the future when you have more experience. Best wishes, WjBscribe 04:55, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

coordinator election

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The Wikiproject History is going to elect 3 coordinators. As a member you are invited to participate. Wandalstouring (talk) 10:53, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Are there any...

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Pages on Wikipedia that you think deserve the right grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation? I really thought that it was my work to do this because I'm a WikiDragon. So you really need to know that I want a job to do. --Pumagirl7 (talk) 15:30, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Admin coaching

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If you need a new coach, I'd be more than happy to. I'm a relatively new admin, though, so I might not know some of the most intricate of the ropes. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 18:52, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

By the way, I gave you non-admin rollback. If you don't want it, just ask and I'll remove it. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 23:46, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to sound impatient, but waiting for a response... Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 21:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
All right, do you want to simply continue the coaching on your subpage from where The Transhumanist left off? I've watchlisted it. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 01:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Milhist coordinators election has started

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By the way...

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May you please tell me if there are any enviornment-related userpage designs on Wikipedia? Because I'm really into animals and animals live in the enviornment. Either that or your userpage design. I think it's cool!

Let's just say...

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I give you this barnstar because you showed me everything I wanted to know about Wikipedia.--Pumagirl7 (talk) 16:21, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

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Assignment

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I would suggest you check your coaching page. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 02:06, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

You don't seem to have made much improvement on the article. I suggest you keep working. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 21:54, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
I've been extremely busy with school lately. I don't expect to be on for at least another week. Redmarkviolinist Drop me a line 14:51, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Window function (SQL)

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Please review the article deletion criteria on Wikipedia. You say:

It doesn't give any information on the topic, very difficult to understand, needs more attention if it should stay on Wikipedia.

But none of these are valid arguments under Wikipedia's deletion policy:

Reasons for deletion include but are not limited to violation of copyright, content that does not belong in an encyclopedia, content not verifiable in a reliable source, and unreferenced negative content in biographies of living persons....

Deletion criteria do not include "the article is incomplete", "the article is hard to understand", etc. As the AfD page says:

If the page can be improved, this should be solved through regular editing, rather than deletion.

Thanks. --Macrakis (talk) 22:30, 2 March 2008 (UTC)


They look something like this. Also, have a look here. I happen to have a book that probably has one for the battle of Marion, I'll try and check later on this evening. MrPrada (talk) 15:05, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

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More on your assignment

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You have messages on your coaching page. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 01:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

New! BCAD drive from Milhist

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Can I invite you to particpate in our new assessment drive? It's strictly for experienced editors and has a degree of friendly competition built-in. It involves re-evaluating around 3500 Milhist B-Class articles to ensure they match our new criteria. As ever, we're offering a range of awards as our way of expressing our thanks. The drive doesn't start until 18:00 (UTC) on March 10 but you can sign up in advance here. It would be great if you can spare the time, --ROGER DAVIES talk 05:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

About PAGES...

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Yes, I got your message, but I have a problem. I thought this would be easy because I got an idea early. I was going to start a section called "Legends" where I would put the place certain fantasy originated, but the only creature that I know its original home is dragon! I would like you to tell me where the following originated:

Unicorn

Troll

Gremlin

Elf

Sprite

Griffin

Pheonix


And maybe some more. Pumagirl7 (talk) 20:05, 10 March 2008 (UTC):o{

P.S. the :o{ is a cat.

Albatros (1899)

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Hi, you assessed this as a stub for WP:Milhist, when it had already been assessed as Start class by WP:Ships. I'm just wondering why you only assessed it as a stub. Surely the class applies to the whole article, not just the section that the project is concerned with? Mjroots (talk) 10:27, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I know. The only problem I saw was that there could have been a better prose section. The current section only has 1 or 2 sentences. But aside from that, it looked good. Redmarkviolinist Drop me a line 14:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

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Technology Wikiproject

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That sounds like an interesting prospect; what type of articles are you guys focusing on? I don't have a wealth of literature at home on technical subjects, but I could access journal articles from JSTOR that might be helpful. The question is, are you looking for help on a broad range of topics, or something specific and narrow? I've already shown my interest in medieval Chinese technology, but are you looking for help in other topics?--Pericles of AthensTalk 16:35, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

My goodness! Those articles (excluding Ancient Egyptian technology) need some serious work. I'm surprised that so many haven't even been initiated. If I can find some substantial sources and information to improve the ancient Greek article—which I think merits a great deal of attention, even more than Roman, which has been given better treatment—then I will help you guys out.--Pericles of AthensTalk 22:36, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Category:History_of_technology

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I've put a comment on the talk page for the Category:History_of_Technology page. Rick lightburn (talk) 20:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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Adoption??

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Would you like to adopt me. I have been looking around your user pages and i think we have similar interests. I would love to know more about wikipedia. Thanks Gaia Octavia Agrippa 11:31, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

So what do you want to start teaching me? Personally i would like to know about what you should put in a stub when you first create it. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk | Contribs 11:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
I have left a message on the classroom talk page for you. I think that is where i will leave all my messages concerning what i would like to know, if that's alright with you. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk | Contribs 19:39, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

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You advized me to sign up to ge AutoWikiBrowser but it doesn't explain very well on the page what it is. Could you explain for me. Thanks, Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk | Contribs 20:33, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

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