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You're welcome
editIt's always my pleasure to welcome somebody new into English Wikipedia. Yes, it's vast, but there are a relatively small number of contributers. You'll also find that, if you tend to edit a few favorite subjects, that you'll run into the same editors very often. Once again, welcome! – ClockworkSoul 23:13, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Landeshauptmänner on the noticeboard
editHi Dreadlady,
another good place to talk about naming conventions etc. for Austrian political offices could be the German-speaking noticeboard or its talk page. We don't have enough Austrians participating there yet, and I would like to invite you to have a look. One of our open tasks is to make sure the English Wikipedia has articles about every Austrian Landeshauptmann (as far as I can tell, three of them are still missing). Hope to see you at the noticeboard, Kusma (討論) 23:51, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
italics
editPlease stop putting song names in italics. Album titles go in italics, song names go in speech marks. If you do not stop I shall be forced to present you with a trick pie. Upon cutting the pie, birds and wasps will fly out, hitting you in the face and neck and eye and you will be very confused. It is a trick pie. Fairly warned be you, sez I. --Crestville 17:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, I know what you mean. I prefer them in italics too, but for sum reason, it's convention that they go in speach marks. You could try & change it & I'd support you but I'm not sure how you'd go about doing that and I'm sure enough arseholes would oppose. I don't really have the facilities for "trick pies" right now (I got the idea from The Mighty Boosh which I saw live last night and which was amazing, sexy and fucky as fuck) but may I interest you in a joke cake? Or a prank muffin? Or a rohipnoled swan?--Crestville 17:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- Lol, you are rediculusly true to your word and for this I love you.--Crestville 17:24, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
It's hardly *impossible* for people to see the changes. I improve as I go along. I don't deliberately make small edits, but am just trying to improve the article . Trebor 19:07, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
- Change it back if you think it's overdone. I'm still fairly new to this Trebor 19:10, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Alright?
editAlright?--Crestville 13:57, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
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Welcome!
editHi, and welcome to the Biography WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of biographies.
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- Starting some new articles? Our article structure tips outlines some things to include.
- Want to know how good our articles are? The assessment department is working on rating the quality of every biography article in Wikipedia.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! plange 19:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
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editBiography Newsletter September 2006
editThe September 2006 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. plange 00:10, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies
editSeeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of unassessed articles tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 20:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007
editThe April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you BetacommandBot 18:34, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
editWikiProject Biography is holding a three month long assessment drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unassessed articles. The drive is running from June 1, 2007 – September 1, 2007.
Awards to be won range from delicacies such as the WikiCookie to the great Golden Wiki Award.
There are over 110,000 articles to assess so please visit the drive's page and help out!
This drive was conceived of and organized by Psychless with the help of Ozgod. Regards, Psychless Type words!.
WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5
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Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia
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editIdiot —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.53.24.54 (talk) 20:33, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
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