Sir~enwiki

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Again, welcome! -- Ssilvers 20:25, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Quotes/commas

I notice that many of the changes that you have made so far are to move punctuation inside quotation marks. Note that where a single word is shown in quotes, the punctuation should go outside the quotation marks. See WP:MOS. Sometimes getting started on Wikipedia is a little rocky. Best regards, -- Ssilvers 16:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Yes, that's fine. Thanks for the understanding reply, and your work in fighting vandalism! 81.105.179.16 09:24, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

"It Aint Easy Being A Cop!"

Well, it passes the time! Thanks. LessHeard vanU 22:45, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Nancy Reagan edits

You will note that I asked you to cite your source for the Flushing, NY birthplace. Reverting my edit without citation is not the same as winning the argument, buddy. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 23:22, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I'm sorry! I had that and just forgot... I'll add it right now! Sir 23:25, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Groovy. Thanks bunches! :) - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 23:33, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

I aim to please! Sir (talk) 16:05, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Adoption

Hi Mark. I'm happy to adopt you. I usually start by reviewing my new adoptees' recent contributions to see if there are any areas I can give advice on. Hopefully I'll do that sometime tonight or tomorrow evening. Is there anything specific you want help with in the meantime?--Chaser - T 22:31, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

I went through your contributions and didn't see anything article specific to give feedback on at this time. You're certainly passionate about counter-vandalism! If you haven't already, you might watchlist Wikipedia (the article), as it gets a fair bit of vandalism. I see you've already discovered watchlisting the Featured Article of the day. Keep it up! It gets lots of vandalism. One trick I can tell you is that admins will block much faster for vandalism on those two articles. They are high profile, so we have a low tolerance for any unwelcome antics on those pages. Normally we don't block until a vandal has gotten about two warnings (most vandals are school-kids having fun, even if their fun is obnoxious to our project). I can't think of anything else. Let me know if you need anything.--Chaser - T 04:28, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

External Links Template

I wasn't sure if this was a template you created but if so I hope you don't mind me using it ^_^ Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Bharti Airtel do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Naruttebayo 04:54, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make any unconstructive edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant warnings. -- Naruttebayo 05:35, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

No, I didn't make it, it came with WP:TWINKLE, which is just so amazing for fighting vandalism. You should try it out if you don't use it already! - Sir 05:40, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Oooh, Twinkle is awesome, thanx. -- Naruttebayo 21:01, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On August 10, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Trinity Mother Frances Health System, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:52, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh cool. Congratulations!--Chaser - T 00:41, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Sesame Street

Hi. Just wanted to note that although you are using Twinkle, I saw that your edit reverted back to a revision with vandalism inside it. And I just wanted to tell you that I reverted it so the vandalism would be gone. Yeah, I know. You were probably trying to revert the vandalism; so was I. But it looks like for you, things went into a little bundle. That's okay. SchfiftyThree 22:46, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

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Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Sir. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Sir~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

03:00, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

18:56, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

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