Ithacan

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Hello, Ithacan. Here's a rather belated welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. —CWC(talk) 16:03, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Michael J. Varhola and Game designer

I see that you've edited our article on Mr Varhola. You may be interested in some recent edits I did, which included removing Mr Varhola from the list of notable non-computer game designers in our Game designer article and adding him to the List of game designers article. We're trying to keep the lists in Game designer down to just the really standout designers, so we often find ourselves removing names put their by devoted fans. (I also removed Mark H. Walker from the list today.)

However, the truth is that I have little contact with miniatures gamers these days, and it is possible that the Skirmish system is extremely popular or has won lots of awards or both. (I spent a few hours with Google and found very little about Skirmish! apart from the fact that Mr Varhola wrote it.) If you have any Wikipedia:Reliable Sources showing that Skirmish! and/or Mr Varhola are notable, we'll add him back to the list in Game designer.

By the way, would you happen to know whether Skirmish! is available for purchase or download anywhere? Despite all that time I spent googling for it, I found no way to obtain it.

Cheers, CWC(talk) 17:10, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Lissanne lake

An article that you have been involved in editing, Lissanne lake, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lissanne lake. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 14:31, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

December 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Canyon Lake, Texas. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Griffinofwales (talk) 23:34, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

I am kind of mystified by this -- lots of community listings on Wikipedia include information about the local newspapers and they have not been deleted as "advertisements." You will note that this is the case with the afore-mentioned Canyon Lake entry, which lists a number of publications under external links -- including a dead link to a newspaper that went out of business a couple of years ago! So it is only OK to list publications that no longer exist but not ones that do? None of this seems to make a whole lot of sense.

Sorry if I am not responding by the proper means, but it was kind of unclear how else I should do so.

Mike 08:08, 8 December 2009 (UTC)