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Good job

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Thanks

Hi, I noticed you were doing RC patrol. You keep catching the ones I click on! Well done, and here's a sunflower to brighten your day. -- Saikiri 08:24, 19 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

Png version images

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I noticed that you updated a map of Chuvashia drawn by me into the png version:

Please, do not do this with my other maps. I will update them into png version in the next days (I already started to do this, but I do not have time to update all of them immediatelly, I need some time). Ok? PANONIAN (talk) 18:57, 31 December 2005 (UTC)Reply


Name Origin

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Please refer to the official, consensus-driven, approved style guide when editting articles. Just because other articles have it doesn't mean it's right. Whenever I see it in articles, I remove it. --Celestianpower háblame 13:44, 9 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

I wasn't aware there was one. Sorry about that. --InvaderJim42 23:26, 9 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Jimmy?!?

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Holy crap! This is totally weird. Saw an edit of yours in the Brave Little Toaster's history (which sucks), and thought, how many invaderjim42s can there be... and lo and behold. So I'm gonna go be weirded out... and upload a picture for the article. :] --Keitei (talk) 13:20, 23 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

The Userpage Mastery Barnstar

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  For both your quick adoption of a Stellar userpage and assisting me with the problem I had with mine,
I hereby award you with the Userpage Mastery Barnstar. ~Kylu (u|t) 23:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Oh, and by the way... thanks! ~Kylu (u|t) 23:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Mammoth Tank saving!

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The Mammoth Tank, a 1.5 year old article about GDI's iconic weapon is voted to be deleted! Help save the tank here! Mikael GRizzly 22:47, 20 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Naggarok speech.ogg)

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:SSSV Bug1.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:SSSV Bug3.jpg

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Bevel Lemelisk.jpg)

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Hocus Pocus Screenshot.png

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Liquidator.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Megavolt.jpg

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Image:Quackerjack.jpg

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faith

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Have a bit more faith on wikipedia processes, man. About your comment at the ED discussion[1], notice that Burford Bulldogs was speedily deleted after you brought it to light on the debate. It had probably gone unnoticed until now. If you find more articles like that, you can bring them to AfD or tag the worst ones as a speedy deletion candidate, instead of simply giving up on the whole wikipedia because of them. --Enric Naval (talk) 05:09, 16 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

I was a little hasty with a lot of the snap decisions and comments I made. Especially some of my more recent edits cussing out the entire Wikipedia community. There are some good people here, but that's easy to forget when I see all the idiocy that can occur when people communicate with each other over the internet. In truth, I still have faith that Wikipedia could become something truly great, I just don't see that happening within the next few years. Even though ED exposed me to a lot of the stupid and idiotic things some of the admins have done (and those things still irritate me), I still use Wikipedia for recreational reading and as a starting point for when I want to do serious research. Even though most teachers do not accept Wikipedia as a reliable source (with good reason, I hate to admit), I can still go to the Wiki article on what I need to research, then follow the cited sources or external links on the topic and use those. I take back every mean thing I said about Wikipedia as a community... I'll still be making productive page edits (mostly minor spelling fixes), and... fuck I need to stop rambling. TL;DR: I've not completely given up on Wikipedia. --InvaderJim42  (talk • contributions • contact) 23:03, 16 May 2008 (UTC)Reply


Image source problem with Image:Lieutenant_Page.jpg

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Fair use rationale for File:SSSV Bug2.jpg

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Orphaned non-free image File:Quackerjack.jpg

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Fair use rationale for File:Bahamut Lagoon Battle.gif

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan

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Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference

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Fair use rationale for File:Loderunner Legend.gif

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Non-free rationale for File:Mystic towers.png

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Nomination of Metatron's Cube for deletion

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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