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Message

Wiki fanatic, you recently described someone as an "arrogant little prick" at Articles for deletion/Half-Life: Uplink (film). Firstly, I would like to say that I do not believe the person you aimed this description at should have applied the word "trout" to yourself. As a result, I understand your frustration. However, insulting that person is response to yourself being insulted will not help your case that Ten Pound Hammer was wrong, as many people will think of the "two wrongs don't make a right" argument when they view that the exchange between yourself and Ten Pound Hammer, and consequently will lose sympathy for you and your argument. I hope you can see where I am coming from. I suggest you strike ""arrogant little prick" from the discussion, and apologise for saying it. I will work on getting Ten Pound Hammer to retract his assertion that you should be trouted. Thank you for reading. OpenSeven (talk) 23:47, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

It has been resolved. I consider the conflict over. Thanks for your concern.--Wiki Fanatic | Talk 01:50, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem, and thank you for working to resolve the conflict. OpenSeven (talk) 01:56, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Taking back the trout

Sorry if you took offense to my "trouting" comment. It was meant in jest as trouting usually is. I just get so ticked off at times that people will put "(film)" at the end when it doesn't need to be, and I didn't realize that this time it was actually necessary. However, please refrain from name-calling in return when you believe you've been insulted (although you at least crossed out your counter-insult, which is probably a good idea). I have never found anyone to be "rudely insulted" by the trouting comment before, and that certainly wasn't my intent. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 02:03, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Question

Wiki fanatic, do you know anywhere where I could see the Half-Life: Uplink movie? OpenSeven (talk) 02:39, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't. I've wondered that myself. A small part of the reason I started the article was in hopes someone would know more about it, including where to find a copy. If you do get a copy, let me know. Thanks.--Wiki Fanatic | Talk 13:35, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for responding. If ever I do find a copy, I will pass one onto you. OpenSeven (talk) 19:48, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Notice

Just to let you know, I have copied much of the HL:Uplink (film) article to CombineOverwiki-a Wiki devoted to the Half-Life universe. I couldn't copy it all, as the HL Wiki can't process some of the technical code in the Wikipedia article. You can find the HL Wiki article here: [1]. OpenSeven (talk) 21:37, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Hluplink.jpg)

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Creation of a WikiProject for TechNet Brazil

Hi Wiki fanatic,

First, congratulations for your initiative os starting a NPOV Microsoft Portal.

My name is Luciano Palma (http://twitter.com/lucianopalma) and I work for Microsoft Brazil, in the TechNet team. We have an issue that is managing the amount of articles that is sent to us. We don't have the resources to evaluate all of them in order to publish in TechNet Articles area. However, many material is extremely valuable to our community and we don't want them getting old waiting for evaluation/revision, so the idea is to create a WikiProject (TechNetBR) se the contributors themselves could publish articles in this Wikipedia Portal.

I'm available to manage the WikiProject, and I'd like to see it created under the MS WikiPortal. Is it possible? Do you have any hints?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers! Luciano Palma (http://twitter.com/lucianopalma) 20:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucianopalma (talk • contribs)

Trying to reach you on Freenode

You haven't been online in fourteen weeks according to Nickserv, so I googled your name. You go by the nickname “One” on Freenode, yes? I'm trying to acquire the singlehash channel by the name of #-_-, which is the name of a new open-source project of ours.

The process of acquiring ownership of a single-hash channel, even with a valid claim, takes *months* on Freenode; it's patently ridiculous. I'd really, intensely appreciate it if you wouldn't mind dropping the channel so I can take official ownership of it, saving me the time and effort … or, alternatively, letting me know that you have a project for which you use it or have intended to start using it for, and that I should bugger off and not waste my time.

I can be reached on Freenode under the useraccount “ELLIOTTCABLE,” usually on that same nickname or one of ec, battlecollie, or ELLIOTTCABLE^. (=

-- ELLIOTTCABLE (talk) 05:24, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

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Orphaned non-free image File:Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.png

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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MfD nomination of Portal:Microsoft

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MfD nomination of Portal:Microsoft

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