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Quicktime article - your edit "Rocky Road"

Hi, you've changed the codename of the apple video codec form "road pizza" to "rocky road" in the quicktime article (here). I'm pretty sure the codec was called "road pizza" - are sure about your edit? Cheers! Peter S. 13:21, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Links in Procter & Gamble

Hi - I've pulled out some of the links you added to Procter & Gamble for a couple of reasons:

• Links within an article that redirect back to that article are generally considered annoying and/or useless
• Links to disambiguation pages generally aren't considered useful. (For more info, see the project to replace them.)

When you add links to an article, please take a moment to make sure they point somewhere useful. If the link points to a disambiguation page such as tissue, you can 'disambiguate' the link by typing [[Biological tissue|tissue]] (which will appear as tissue) instead. Hope this all makes sense. Happy editing! -SCEhardt 19:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

AYBABTU

As an occasional editor of the AYBABTU article, I wanted you to know that someone has suggested that the transcript of the opening and closing dialog be deleted. Personally, I think this is ludicrous, but your support is needed to keep the information on Wikipedia. If you are in favor of keeping the text, as it is clearly used under fair use guidelines, please enter a KEEP vote on its AFD page. Thanks! --BRossow 05:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Maxell Blown Away Guy.PNG

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RE: Mount Everest

Per your edit summary for this edit: Mount Everest is indeed not located in the United States, but rather is located on the border between Nepal and China. Were you thinking of or did the person who origanlly write the original sentence mean Mount Rushmore or another famous mountain in the US preceded by mount? -JCarriker 17:57, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

WP:OR

Regarding your edit, and the question in the summary [1]. The citation request was placed because a theory or opinion was put forth and there was no source provided for it. The citation required would have been one where Will Wright or another Maxis employee perhaps stated in an interview that this is why these sounds were used. Please don't remove citation request tags unless they're being blatantly abused without providing the citation or discussing it on the talk page. With no citation forthcoming the tag shouldn't have been removed without removing the text that needed citation.--Crossmr 21:54, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia; it is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Bobanny 15:15, 22 September 2006 (UTC) Please do not remove content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Bobanny 15:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

My apologies, Navstar. I confused you with the vandal on the hoodie article (and others) who keeps adding bizarre gender references. It seems like the same person is using different IP addresses and I accidentally pegged you as one of them when you were actually fixing the vandalism. Sorry. Bobanny 16:55, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Image:SWRepublic-Emblem.PNG listed for deletion

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Non-free use disputed for Image:Quispquake.jpg

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Spam in Origins (cosmetics)

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SJP

Hi. I removed your joke, not because anybody disagrees, but because it's inappropriate under WP:ATTACK and WP:BLP. μηδείς (talk) 22:33, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Proposed deletion of Roxio Toast

The article Roxio Toast has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Sourced exclusively with primary sources. No indication of notability anywhere.

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