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WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 22:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Tattler

That was an ideal job for a bot. It's done now. Feel free to move it to "done". --Russ (talk) 17:47, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Diligence

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		I'm awarding you this barnstar of diligence for your combination of extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service to wikipedia. Wikidudeman (talk) 13:52, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

I appreciate the link clean-up you did at Independent Women's Forum. I've spent a lot of time working on that article, but I never culled all the garbage from those internal links that I copied and pasted. Cheers, DickClarkMises 20:15, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

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(not really a) barnstar!

		The Terry Gilliam Barnstar
		Thank you for making my day by adding this information! :') --Yamanbaiia(free hugs!) 09:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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Clapham

I have no particular bone to pick on this one, but I would have thought that the ability for the public to descend Gaping Gill on the winch is still a local amenity worth mentioning - whether or not it's organised by the Cave Rescue Organisation. It does attract many people to the village.

I would like to see the sentence reinstated. Langcliffe (talk) 15:51, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Responded on Langcliffe's talk page. extraordinary (talk) 09:08, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Extraordinary. I didn't put the comment on the Clapham page, as I have recently upset someone who felt that they "owned" a page, and did not welcome suggestions. I have updated the page, but the winch meet in the context of a visit to Ingleborough Show Cave. I haven't put in links to the caving club winch meets, as they are currently on the Gaping Gill page, and I'm not too keen on duplicated data which can readily change. Langcliffe (talk) 18:33, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Image:Pomodorovaticansphere.jpg nominated for speedy deletion

The Vatican generally uses Italian laws. This artwork is copyrighted by sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, and this picture must be deleted unless Arnaldo Pomodoro gives a permission to use it. See also commons:COM:FOP#Vatican City (Holy See). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Theo F (talk • contribs) 21:34, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

All England goalscorers

Try this: http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamGoals/GoalsIndex.html Ironick (talk) 11:46, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Flatpack (electronics)

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See talk on the Flatpack (electronics) page. Was doing some redirect tidying... extraordinary (talk) 18:46, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jinny

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Please unblock me!

{{unblock|Hi, i'm blocked from editing when i'm in my office. I get the following message when try to edit the sandbox - "95.131.110.104 has been disabled by ProcseeBot". It says it's because of an "Open Proxy". I've no idea what this means! But presumably it's been blocked due to abuse from other who share this same IP (it's a big building)? Are you able to remove me from this block so i can still edit wikipedia? If this is something technical i need to discuss with my IT department can you let me know the details so i can pass it on? Thanks}}

It's easier in this case for us to just give you an IP block exemption as long as you're a user in good standing, as you appear to be. So I did. Daniel Case (talk) 14:38, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Daniel, many thanks for sorting this out, much appreciated! extraordinary (talk) 11:48, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

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I'm not quite sure what you want me to do? The copyright notice on it is a wikipedia template. It says something about works of art being fair use. Are you saying that's not the case? In which case why does that template exist? And there's also a line saying why and where it is used which i guess is a suitable explanation. If not, then do you want to tell me what would be? Anyway, i'm no expert on it so if photos of sculptures can't be uploaded then please go ahead and delete. Cheers. extraordinary (talk) 14:22, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

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