Algont

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Thank you HGB for your welcome,
I am from the Dutch Wikipedia and I come here every so often to do some interwiki work. Maybe some other things too, when I see it. Greetings, --Algont 00:17, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

What do you want to talk about? True Wikipediholics use meta! :P --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 15:00, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

VWN en WCN

Beste allemaal Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org . Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, Effeietsanders 25 feb 2006 12:27 (CET)

Watergate scandal vandals

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Discovery Learning Vandalism

Thanks for reverting it!Richard Dates 14:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome, I hate vandalism. --Algont 20:43, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Mentor

← Bessel Dekker 20:57, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

--Algont 21:15, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Bessel Dekker 23:14, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

re-adding a prod

You know that you can't undo a prod removal right? You have to take it to WP:AFD. 132.205.99.122 18:35, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Good for you!

The more emoticons the better! Best regards, Bessel Dekker 14:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello Bessel, nice to see you're still around. At the moment I'm trying to translate Ludwig Uhland (logical consequence after Carl Loewe...), but, File:Cry-tpvgames.gif do you know why I am crying? Nobody, really nobody at any Wiki, had noticed what a special day it was for me last thursday. File:Cry-tpvgames.gif. Kind regards. algont _overleg 20:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

My dear Algont, this is really unforgivable!

I do most sincerely apologize, and hope that the flowers I am hereby sending you have not wilted before they arrive.

Very, very many happy returns of festive days enjoyed in freedom!

Sincerest regards,

Bessel Dekker 16:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

BTW, lawyer need not mean "advocaat": how about "jurist"? Just a thought... Bessel Dekker 18:10, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the flowers and the hint!
I wish my English was as good as yours. So I sometimes look at the German Wiki too. --Algont 18:26, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Huh? How does looking at the German wiki improve your English? To be honest, I do not even dare to venture on the German or the French... not to write anything there. The result would be horrible. And BTW, your English is good! Kind regards, Bessel Dekker 21:10, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Looking at the German wiki is, in this special case, because Uhland is a German. I hope they have the most reliable information. --Algont 11:11, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

87.194.9.14

Blocked users are still allowed to edit their talk pages (in order to post unblock requests). What you really need in that situation is to request semi-protection (don't worry about it now; I've already imposed that for the rest of the block). Daniel Case 15:26, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much Daniel Case, kind regards, --Algont 15:28, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Award

Hey Algont!
Congratulations on finding the page that does not exist. Here is your reward; you've earned it.

		The Hidden Link Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Algont for finding the super secret hidden link on Selfworm's page! Good job!

Congrats! selfworm^Talk) 09:17, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Algont! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to this article, it would greatly help us with the current 352 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

1. Rudi van Dantzig - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 19:31, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

 Done --Algont (talk) 14:59, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Tim Green

I reverted your move of Tim Green for two reasons: first, under the disambiguation page guidelines, there is no need for a disambiguation page that only links to one existing article. Second, even if an article about another person named "Tim Green" is written at some point, the disambiguation can be performed by hatnotes without requiring a disambiguation page. This solution is simpler than moving the existing Tim Green article and breaking all the links to it from other articles. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:41, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

My mistake, it's one and the same person. Thanks. --Algont (talk) 22:17, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

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A kitten for you!

Hello, esteemed photographer! I am the artist from Russia, also worked for a long time in an ecological laboratory and have been researching mould for two and a half years. I was inspired by your photo "Mukor on tomatoes", can I use your photo as a base for my acrylic painting on canvas? appreciate and thank you for your work. not yet figured out how to get answers on wikipedia, thank you for your feedback philosopher-91@mail.ru or philosopher.vinni@gmail.ru

Nadezhda2021 (talk) 16:42, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi Nadezhda2021,

Of course you may use this photo. Good luck with your painting. In time I would to see the results if it's possible. Greetings, Algont (talk) 15:56, 28 January 2023 (UTC)