Lee S. Svoboda

You may call me Lee, but please realize this is my last name(see my user page).

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Best of luck, and have fun!

ClockworkTroll 02:52, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

opiumjones 23 19:57, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

The Secret Garden -- thanks

Thank you for your work over The Secret Garden article. The summary is what was needed in there. Thanks again. Przepla 22:40, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Blocking

IPs get blocked because of vandalism. If someone using your IP prior to you was blocked, then you should have sent me an email and I would have removed it. CryptoDerk 23:09, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

You're welcome. :-) Someone just blocked 64.12.117.13, though we sometimes don't block IP addresses from AOL (which that one is) since it's very easy for the vandal to just change his IP address, plus too many innocent people come in from the same addresses... Evercat 03:53, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Second Rate

I just put it there because, if it did deserve an article, that was about the worst starting point ever. However, if you do want to improve it or list it on Pages Needing Attention, feel free to do so. --Bart133 17:32, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Greek pronunciation

Listen to media:greek_pronunciation_example.ogg to find out how the words αντίο, δωμάτιο, χώρα are pronounced in modern Greek. Etz Haim 21:49, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Kaliningrad

Yeah, they have some information well worth translating. Why is this a wacky recommendation, by the way? :)

Unrelated: A fellow Dvorak typer, wow! —Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 15:24, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Dvorak

I don't think so. I use standard Russian layout for Cyrillic, and never heard of anything else. I'm using Dvorak when typing English, though. Can't say it helped me much in improving my typing speed, but it's too late to go back to QWERTY now :)—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:01, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Hobbits and Men

Thank you for correcting that particularly awful mistake on the Hobbit articles. (I never have much liked those movie infoboxes, but I admit to being biased.) It pains me just to know it was there in the first place (and that I didn't catch it). I suppose, technically, Sam is a man, just not a Man... -Aranel ("Sarah") 00:22, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Template:Userbox

Whoa....are you going to replace all 2500 occurances of this template across the namespace? xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 07:51, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Disregard, the space threw me, since you were only working on Userbox_wikipedia, not just Userbox. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 08:01, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the userboxes on my page :) .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 14:15, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

RE: No links to userbox wikipedia

As the person who re-linked most of those, I would like to point out that there are two that are still on the list. Both seem to use subpages for the userboxes. Should I just not sweat it, or would you please tell me how to re-link those? Lee S. Svoboda 21:45, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for all your work on that btw, I know form doing a batch myself how tedious and boring it can be, your efforts are great! I looked at this, however on the subpages they use for babel, they have been updated, I am not sure why the wiki still shows them up, but it seems they don't use them, so I would just do your best to ignore them ;) Ian¹³_ID:540053

Happy Crimbo!

Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. File:Pressie.gif, in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! File:Unclecrimbo.gif Dr. McCrimbo 22:43, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

user 1

Due to current discussion, Template:Userbox, Template:Userbox-2, Template:Userbox-r and Template:Userbox-m will remain at their current location until dispute is resolved. Please don't revert any redirects yet though. Discuss here. Sorry about this Ian¹³_ID:540053 22:46, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikisource

Hi Lee, There is a welcome for you on your WS talk page. Happy New year. 212.140.157.210 20:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

ArbCom vote

Hi Lee. Could I ask you where I have made "bad deletions"? I try to be very careful with my delete button, so I was surprised to see that as a reason. [[Sam Korn]] 18:14, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

I presume, with your reference to redirects, that you were referring to WP:RFC/KM. I can see why you could consider this a "bad" deletion, though it was undertaken in good faith and with the intention of soothing the dispute. It failed utterly, sadly. [[Sam Korn]] 22:01, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for voting!

Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll ^{(Die pienk olifant)} 22:46, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Murderer vs. Murderess

Didn't see my edit as being controversial. My last edit, which was of the East Jerusalem site (an obvious controversial subject), I had done just as you had stated and first wrote something in on the 'talk' page and my edit there still stands. In this case I didn't forsee the controversy of editing out the "ess" form of murderer. I think we are still several degrees away from a case of "vandelism" though.--158.81.251.201 18:52, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Apparently I haven't been assuming good faith enough. What you actually changed it to was 'murder' which is simply grammatically wrong. I should have realized you meant 'murderer' and simply added 'er', which I just did. My apoligies. Lee S. Svoboda tɑk 20:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Template:WPFF IndexCheck

re: CSD template on Template:WPFF IndexCheck — Sorry about that, I hope that explains it better ☺ — CuaHL 23:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I like how if i create a nonsesne artile it floats my without anyone noticing and never ever gets deleted

Thanks for experimenting with the page I like how if i create a nonsesne artile it floats my without anyone noticing and never ever gets deleted on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Aecis ^{Mr. Mojo risin'} 23:30, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I see. I was already wondering about it, since it was so out of sync with your other edits. The next time you come across a talk page like that, it's probably better to use {{db-talk}}, {{db-test}} or {{db-vand}} on the talk page itself. Sorry about the accusation. Aecis ^{Mr. Mojo risin'} 19:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Svoboda name

Even though I've read your comment on how you made your name, each time I see it, I get this impulse to ask if you're related to Dave Svoboda in Pittsburgh, a friend of my brother's. Go figure. -Fuzzy 03:06, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

european flag

by bathroom toal ofcurce i mean the thing that you use to seep your self after a bath,corect spelling-syntax-or whatever.I din't exacly have souces(on the internet).But i can remember when it was proposed to be very badly welkomed in the press.When poepol wher asked, they were rather chocked.--Ruber chiken 20:47, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

you can read the warm reseaval of the flag on the links alredy on the page.(next to the picture "This new flag's comfy, love")BBC News | On Koolhaas' proposal--Ruber chiken 21:23, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Please watch out what you are reverting

Just a heads up, and this is probably accidental, but you have reverted pages to actually reinclude vandalism after it was removed, see this and this. Please be careful. -- Steel 23:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I will try. And yes, it was accidental (though it didn't matter with that persistant vandal there). But that doesn't matter to my action either. Lee S. Svoboda tɑk 23:18, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Mistakes happen to the best of us. Don't worry too much about it. -- Steel 23:21, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to Pennnsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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Hippie edits--moved references to Romanticism and Transcendentalism

Hi Lee. I've not deleted the sentence, rather I've moved it around a bit lately to enhance clarity. Are these topics particular interests of yours? Founders4 21:12, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

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