Michael Barker
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Hello, Michael Barkowski, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay.
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{{Refend}}Removing a tag
editIf you feel confident that you have properly addressed the problem, go ahead and remove the tag. If for example, you click on the toolbox link "What links here" on the left hand side and you see that 5 other articles link to the page, it is perfectly acceptable for you to remove the orphan tag. Thanks for the question and feel free to ask any others. —Ute in DC (talk) 17:21, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Requesting your opinion on a photo
editHi. We really need your opinion on which of these photos would make the best Infobox portrait for the Rick Remender article. Could you please offer your opinion in that discussion? The most recent subsection of that discussion is here, so you can just chime in there if you don't want to read the whole thread. I really appreciate it. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 17:14, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
Infobox Photo Discussion
editHi. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion regarding the better photo for an article Infobox? Thanks, and Happy Holidays. Nightscream (talk) 23:58, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
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