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Your GA nomination of The Great Patty Caper

The article The Great Patty Caper you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:The Great Patty Caper for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered byLegobot, on behalf of Taylor Trescott -- Taylor Trescott (talk) 19:42, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Sankararamank

Hello Sir My Name is User:Sankararamank I created one article in wiki that article name also User:Sankararamank Please Protect that Article Thankyou Sir — Preceding unsigned comment added by117.231.27.224 (talk) 14:39, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

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Re:The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie

Yes, I didn't forget about it. I will start the review tomorrow. Thanks, --Jionpedia ✉ 18:56, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

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SpongeBob S5 reception summary

Hey Mediran, wanted to drop you a friendlier note about my edit here where I removed the introductory sentence in the Reception section. Summaries of critical response should be left to companies like Metacritic.com, who specialize in looking at critical response and reporting on that response. "Generally positive", "Generally negative", etc. The attitude at WikiProject Film, for example, suggests that summarizing critical response may be construed as synthesis, because a conclusion is drawn that is not expressly stated in the sources. Now if the introductory summary was supported by a site like Metacritic, I don't think I'd have any objection. Okay, I'll shut up now. Just wanted to explain a little better why I deleted your sentence. I still think you do very good work! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:20, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for that Cyphoidbomb. Cheers! Mediran (t • c) 10:22, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shortfin mako shark jaw

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Hope You are OK

Mediran: I thought of you when I heard the news about the terrible storm in the Philippines. I hope you and your family are well and that you did not suffer any injury or damage from the storm. Donner60 (talk) 06:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm not expecting some messages about this thing from someone, but thank you! :) Don't worry, we're all still okay here. What I'm worried the most is for those people in the Visayas who got struck by this monstrous typhoon. Well, hope they're OK there. Thanks. :) Mediran (t • c) 11:47, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Luckily, I live in Singapore. Singapore normally does not have any major disasters, except haze and slight tremors when there are earthquakes nearby. But still, hope that you are fine. Jianhui67 ^{talk★contribs} 15:15, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Glad you are ok. It certainly was a bad storm for many people. Donner60 (talk) 18:09, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks too! Mediran (t • c) 11:48, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

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GOCE Requests

Hi Mediran, regarding your comments on the GOCE Requests page, I've opened a discussion on the talk page here. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 16:38, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 4)

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Your GA nomination of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1)

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Nomination of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (franchise) for deletion

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SpongeBob SquarePants (season 2)

Hi Mediran,

I noticed you put this article to WP:GAN. However, it is graded at a List-class. Was it transformed into an article, or is it still a list? If it is a list, then it will unfortunately need to be quick failed. But, perhaps it can become a featured list candidate . If it is an article, then a peer review would be nice so it is easier to see what condition the article is really in. Best, Sportsguy17 (T • C) 06:14, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Sportsguy! Whilst it is list-class, it is still an article. BTW, you may have been mistaking it as a stand-alone list that is when GAN-ed, will be quick failed. Season articles, like this, is not regarded as a stand-alone list. There are many season articles that are also a good articles. Examples are the Adventure Time, Grey's Anatomy or The X-Files season articles. Thanks. :) Mediran (t • c) 06:34, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Oh, OK that makes more sense. In that case, I'd probably be willing to review it. I'm currently finishing up a review, but would be willing to review one of your nominations. Best, Sportsguy17 (T • C) 15:39, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

• I plan to review the first season soon. In any case, you should consider nominating them for featured list after the GA review, since from a glance they look to be reasonably high-quality. Taylor Trescott - ^{my talk} + _{my edits} 15:44, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

@Sportsguy: Your review will be welcomed and appreciated! Thanks. :) @Taylor: First, thank you for taking time to review the article. Also, like you said, I'm planning to submit an FLC of the article when it attained the status (of course, after more improvements). Thanks! Mediran (t • c) 09:59, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Legends of Bikini Bottom

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Proposal for the Creation of an Animation Barnstar

Hi, Mediran. I noticed that you are a member of the Animation WikiProject and wanted to share a proposal with you. There have been several times that I have wanted to award an Animation Barnstar to a fellow editor, only to be disappointed that one still doesn't exist. The closest thing that we have right now is the Film Barnstar, but this is only applicable in certain situations, since animation can be found in both film and television. I would like to see an Animation Barnstar become a reality; especially since one already exists for the sub-topic of Anime and Manga. In order for this to become official though, a consensus will have to be reached.

If this is something that you would be interested in supporting, then please let me know on my talk page, as I am sending this message to all of the members of the Animation WikiProject and will not be adding each editor's talk page to my watchlist.

I am also looking for someone who would be able to provide a design for the barnstar. If you have any ideas for this, then please do not hesitate to share them with me. :) --Jpcase (talk) 02:57, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Help Wanted (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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RE: Q-go

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Your GA nomination of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1)

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Orphaned non-free image File:SpongeBob SquarePants season 8.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:SpongeBob SquarePants season 8.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Mediran (t • c) 02:36, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1)

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Your GA nomination of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 2)

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WikiProject Bangladesh Premier League Talk Page Notice

Dear Mediran, A big hello from Wikiproject Bangladesh Premier League. We have a discussion going on at project's talkpage. Due to inactivity and problems this discussion is inactive for more than 1 months. Now we heartily request you to come and share your thinkings. Your arrival and thinking is much needed for us and we'll really appreciate it if you come and give us some of your precious times. Thanks in advance. Pratyya ^(Hello!) (Project Co-ordinator) and Sourov0000 (talk) (Project Vice Co-ordinator) 12:11, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 2)

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Your GA nomination of Help Wanted (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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Your GA nomination of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 2)

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Your GA nomination of Friend or Foe (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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Your GA nomination of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 6)

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Stephen Hillenburg ephemeral information

Hey Mediran, I saw this edit and I was thinking that it might be best to avoid specific episode totals like "The show...has since aired 356 episodes." These types of statements are ephemeral, that is, they are only accurate for a short time, which require that editors be ever vigilant and update these numbers, and they also create another opportunity for vandals to sneakily mess with the article data. I'm not a big fan of these ongoing tallies in article infoboxes (but that's another story) but I certainly think they should be avoided in article prose. Would you object if we said something more broad like "The show...has aired over 350 episodes"? Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:59, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for that Cyphoidbomb. But before removing that as it is ephemeral as you have said, do you think we need an episode count template for the topic so now we won't now require the editors to be "vigilant"? Mediran (t • c) 01:09, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I didn't know anything about episode count templates before you mentioned it, but if it automatically tallies the totals and inserts them into relevant articles, I'm totally cool with that. Great solution! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:33, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I have just started it. Mediran (t • c) 01:37, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Friend or Foe (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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GOCE December 2013 Blitz wrap-up and January Drive invitation

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Have a good holiday and Christmas. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 04:51, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope you and your family are well and that the Philippines are recovering from the terrible typhoon. Donner60 (talk) 08:44, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Merry Christmas to you too! -- Zanimum (talk) 17:31, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

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• Saw the change in my watchlist--great work, Mediran! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 07:24, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Belated Merry Christmas!!! ;)

Hey Mediran, I'm AK here. Wishing you a belated Merry Christmas and a great 2014!!! :) Also. I hope you are fine, if your area did get hit by Typhoon Haiyan. Was devestated by the news. 182.55.149.216 (talk) 07:38, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Note (especially to admins): Please don't see this as an attempt of socking. I'm only just wishing a few editors (whom I consider as friends) Merry Christmas in good faith. Other than that, I'm not interested in editing other than using my main account.

Thank you very much AK! I'm surprised because I didn't expect this. I wish you all the best and merry Christmas too! Thanks again! ;) Mediran (t • c) 09:37, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Mediran

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