For your tireless work in making Wikipedia better, for keeping Template:Feature up-to-date, for doing the grunt work of cleaning up Wikipedia:Featured article candidates, for mediating in disputes, for adding lots of really nice pictures, and for still finding the time to work on articles! In a few months you've already become a highly valued member of the community. Stay with us and don't burn out, please. --Eloquence Apr 10, 2004


A kitten for you! Aubrey (talk) 10:32, 22 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Did you retire from Wikipedia?

Did you retire from Wikipedia? Is all well? 4thfile4thrank (talk) 03:18, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi there. All is well. I'm just not very active here these days. (I don't have nearly as much free time as I did before the kids came along). Raul654 (talk) 08:19, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Raul654, we will welcome you back in 18 years ;) —TheDJ (talkcontribs) 10:16, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Greetings of the season

Happy holidays
Dear Mark,

For you and all your loved ones,

"Let there be mercy".


Wishing you health,
peace and happiness
this holiday season and
in the coming year.

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:30, 25 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hey Sandy! Great to here for you. I hope all is well. :) Raul654 (talk) 08:19, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Same to you ... Happy New Year! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 10:53, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Papal oath (traditionalist Catholic) for deletion

 
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Request to remove full protection

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Happy Birthday!

Orphaned non-free image File:Foundation and empire cover.jpg

 

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MfD nomination of User:Raul654/Wikipedia the Movie

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A somewhat premature New Year's greeting

 
John Vanderlyn, Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos (c.1812),
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Best wishes for a safe, healthy and prosperous 2022.
Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place.
BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 21:06, 26 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Moral lesson: John Vanderlyn was an American painter who studied in Paris, and his life-sized
Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos was one of the first large nudes exhibited in the United States.
Peddling the poison as well as the cure, this overtly sensuous work was presented to the public as a
moral lesson on the consequences of lascivious behavior. Visible in the distance is the ship of
Princess Ariadne's secret lover, Theseus, for whom she has betrayed her people by helping him to
escape the Labyrinth and slay the Minotaur. Ariadne's bliss will come to an end when she awakens
from her post-coital reverie, only to discover that the faithless Theseus has sailed away without her.

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FAR for Battle of Dien Bien Phu

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Happy Birthday!

 
Wishing Raul654 a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee!   interstatefive  00:01, 19 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Happy Birthday!

Speedy deletion nomination of Nambla

 

A tag has been placed on Nambla requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Draft:Nambla pending. The AfC draft is about a place in Jammu & Kashmir, India.

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A kitten for you!

 

Hey look! A kitten!

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Happy Nineteenth First Edit Day!

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Old Dan Tucker under Featured Article Review

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Proposed deletion of Phalaenopsis 'Kaleidoscope'

 

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Consensus has been established via discussion at WP:PLANTS and previous AfDs/PRODs that individual cultivars are not presumed notable in the same way as natural species, and must meet GNG to have a standalone article. Database and commercial catalog entries are not considered sufficient for this purpose. I did not find any reliable in-depth non-commercial non-database independent significant coverage of this cultivar.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Jack Parr

 

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Splitting discussion for Clitoris

 

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Your EFM flag

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File:BahaiLotusTemple.JPG listed for discussion

 

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Happy Birthday!

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

A random "Thank You" for your efforts

Raul654 - our paths have never crossed. But I want to just thank you for 1) having been Wikipedia's first FAC coordinator and helping building such a fine system. I was mostly lurking back then but I noticed your hard work and thought it was really cool. Also, thank you especially for 2) for penning Raul's Razor. Having read it all those years ago, it was a complete paradigm shift for me, away from "well, everyone has *some* bias so expecting NPOV work is unreasonable." It is a litmus test I mentally use constantly, and not just when evaluating Wikipedia articles, either.

Cheers! Trevdna (talk) 00:03, 16 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Raul654. Thank you for your work on Eva Morris. Cocobb8, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

I've marked the article as reviewed, even if it is still in need of improvements for some text seems to have been copied and pasted from a specific source. See the article for more details.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Cocobb8}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 14:27, 16 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Edit: Apparently you created this article 20 years ago, so probably not applicable to you :) Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 14:31, 16 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

"Particle wave" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Happy Birthday!

ITN archives

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Proposed deletion of TeleZapper

 

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

Non-notable product that has been unreferenced since 2006. Found one in-depth review but not enough to satisfy WP:GNG.

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Nomination of TeleZapper for deletion

 
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