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Hope to see you around the Wiki! Remember to be Bold! with your edits, and if you have any questions whatsoever, feel free to contact me on my talk page!Russia art
editHi Elvarg. I just wanted to say that I thought your solution to redirect "Russia art" to Russian culture was a excellent way to deal with nonsense. (I may steal your idea from time to time...:)Cheers. --Bookandcoffee 20:32, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Logos
editI'm not good at logo making, no. But I think a sign that implies that people should stop on a freely editable page is not the right one. Generally, I don't really see a lot of need to add to the clutter at the top of very many articles with images. They don't actually convey any more information than is already in the text. Someone else added images recently to a number of popular tags; I don't think they lasted the day. That's just my personal opinion, though. With unobtrusive logos that are well designed, you may be able to make them stick. -Splashtalk 22:32, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
- I'd be happy to help you create a few, should you desire it. My main gripe is the text is quite pixelated. Replacing it with a higher quality image would probably be better, or as Splash said, leave the templates to be as uncluttered as possible. I find the boilerplate messages ugly as-is, and don't think that adding more to them will help anything, though I wouldn't be opposed to a nicely designed image or something similar. -Mysekurity(have you seen this?) 03:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Sandbox warning
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Response to what you wrote on my talk page: just do the same thing; only don't eliminate the sandbox header. Georgia guy 02:42, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Copyright Violation
editI noticed that you had uploaded Image:Wiki5.png as GFDL. It appears to be from a LGPL source however. I have remarked it as LGPL, as it also appears unaltered. Linuxerist E/L/T 18:20, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Vote on sidebar
editI started a vote on the sidebar to come to a conclusion. Electionworld Talk? 06:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
See reply: Wikipedia talk:Village pump (proposals)/Sidebar redesign#The synopsis. --Quiddity 21:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Kwantlen Pong
editWhat campus are you about..... maybe we should do a mini KwantlenWiki meetup. Yep, the truth comes out... I'm a student too -- Tawker 00:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
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RfD nomination of Official Policy
editI have nominated Official Policy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. MBisanz talk 03:41, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
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Unreferenced BLPs
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- Vincent Defrasne - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
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