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Again, welcome! -- Ssilvers 15:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to the G&S project, Chris

Thanks for joining the G&S project. See the to do lists at WP:G&S, if you'd like to help out! Best regards, -- Ssilvers 05:23, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Chris. Take a look at Trial by Jury if you can, and let me know if you have any comments. We are getting ready to submit the article to FA review. All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:49, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for helping out! We hope to be working on more of the G&S opera articles soon. Best regards! -- Ssilvers (talk) 12:30, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Trial by Jury

Please vote or comment on the FA nomination of Trial by Jury here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Trial by Jury. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:06, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:OTTER

I'll do almost anything for my otters (with the possible exception of eating raw clams along with them). Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells• Otter chirps • HELP!)} 18:47, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of HTMLayout

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HTMLayout

First of all, thanks for contributing. The main issue with this article appears to be lack of reliable sources that show why the software is notable. The fact that the software exists isn't reason enough for their to be an article about it. You may want to look at this guide for some tips. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know. Cheers! TN‑X-Man 16:23, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Diskettes?

You remember diskettes? Hey, I still use them. I've got a highly efficient computer that runs from a single 720K diskette. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:18, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

You're right about the old diskettes. I have a bunch of them but I can't recall the last time I actually used one, as the USB memory sticks have a slight edge on storage capacity. Let's see, a 4 GB chip would be the equivalent of something approaching 3,000 of the standard 1.44 MB disks. And a tad faster also. But apparently diskettes are still available. I just wonder what kind of machine someone is running where those are actually useful. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:31, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Don't think of old floppies as useless. Think of them as donations to the landfill. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of HTMLayout

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RfD nomination of Moore's Inverse Square Law of IT Satisfaction

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Regarding Threshold (online game)

Hello, Rosuav. I noticed today that you made an edit to Threshold (online game). Unfortunately, as the content you restored to that article violates various policies, content guidelines and style guidelines, I have reverted to the previous version. The relevant pages are these:

• Notability; content about Threshold's landmasses and detailed information about character classes and religions does not meet muster for this guideline.
• Verifiability; content such as the number of players on at peak times during the 2000s does not pass this policy.
• What Wikipedia is not, particularly WP:SOAP; stating that "few games have sparked as much passion as Threshold" blatantly violates the latter policy.
• Guidelines for Video Games articles; in order to become anything more than a start-class article on this WikiProject's scale, we pretty much must follow at least the basics in this guideline. It mentions many of the above, especially that excessive information about gameplay is not relevant.
• Wikipedia Manual of Style; especially about sections, but in general there are problems.

I would also like to let you know that the content was contributed by an editor who is known to have a conflict of interest (see here for the report which was archived about 1h10m before you made your edits). —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 12:43, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello Rosuav. Since there have been disputes about this article, and it's been posted at WP:COIN, it would be helpful if you would try to get consensus for your changes on the article's Talk page. If the thing doesn't settle down soon, it may get fully protected. EdJohnston (talk) 14:07, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Also, I'd like to apologize if I came off confrontational or aggressive above; these articles have been a tad frustrating because of the COI matter. I'd absolutely like to discuss the article at Talk:Threshold (online game). I'm writing a better summary of what I'm thinking about with the article at that talk page; I hope you'll participate and help to resolve the problem! —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 22:57, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello Rosuav. You're a good faith editor, but unless you add specific comments on the article Talk page, you risk being pegged as just another edit-warrior. EdJohnston (talk) 18:25, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

I've seen it all now

Fair play, I thought I'd seen it all on wikipedia but your move this morning was pretty nifty. Did he write the review first (what about twenty minutes ago?) and then email you or did you email him and ask him to write it? I laughed my balls off when I checked out the review - a masterful move (although strictly speaking I shouldn't approve of such - if you excuse the pun - gameplaying). --Cameron Scott (talk) 08:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Or maybe he found it while searching for additional sources on Threshold? I hear there is a lot of that thats been going on lately. --Theblog (talk) 09:14, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Cambios / "Threshold" on MUD forum

I'm unsure whether he's still reading WP as he's blocked, but as you are a member of the forum could you pass onto him a note that despite the disruption and sock-puppetry, I am prepared to unblock him after the AFD has ended (whatever the result) as long as this does not result in further promotional editing of Threshold and related items. If he posts an unblock request at that time quoting my username, someone will no doubt alert me. Thanks. Black Kite 19:24, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Redirect of Threshold rpg

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H.M.S. Pinafore

Hi. I remember that you helped with our last FA project, Trial by Jury. I have now nominated Pinafore at FAC: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/H.M.S. Pinafore/archive1 If you have a chance, would you kindly take a look? All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:15, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

G&S

I'm about ready to submit Rupert D'Oyly Carte for GA review. Please let me know if you have any comments/corrections on the article. Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 15:02, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Haddon Hall photo

Thanks for fixing the broken link. Unfortunately, the Archive re-named many of its pages about a year ago, and now there are dozens, if not hundreds of broken links, especially to the Gilbert plays and Sullivan works. If you have any time, it would be wonderful if you could check out links to the Archive in some of these Gilbert play articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_W.S._Gilbert All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:36, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of HTMLayout

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

Looks like a minor project that was never all that relevant.

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Nomination of HTMLayout for deletion

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