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Hello MarkGallagher, welcome to Misplaced Pages!

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alphax  06:45, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

1000 edits

<homer>Mmmm....chocolate!</homer> Thanks for that mate, notice you're coming up to 1000 yourself. Will have to find a suitable award for when you do.

Cheers, CTOAGN 16:04, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

What RJFJR stands for

RJF is my initials, the JR at the end is for Junior, which I am. When you put them all together it is a palindrome, which I just think is cool. RJFJR 17:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

MegaGOFF

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Misplaced Pages without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you.--131.111.8.101 12:26, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Misplaced Pages. --131.111.8.101 12:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

• Cute little anon, isn't he? -Fennec (はさばくのきつね) 12:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

AEJ Collins

Hi Mark - Brookie here - thanks for the reverts on the above - I have blocked the weirdo concerned for 48 hours for this scholarship! I suspect he picked up on this article after I warned him over some earlier vandalism. Hey Ho - off for a beer now! :) ...en passant! 16:11, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for supporting my RfA!

Dear Mark: Thank you very much for your support on my RfA! I am truly honoured that so many people consider me a trustworthy Wikipedian, and I am most appreciative of my newly-bestowed administrator privileges given to me by the community. Your kind words about me were greatly appreciated; I promise to only use my administrative privileges to assist the community in doing good work, and also to be calm, considerate and careful in working to make Misplaced Pages a better place. I sincerely hope I can live up to your description of "extreme awesomitude". :-) It has been a pleasure conversing via IRC with you; I look forward to further discussion, and collaborating with you here on the wiki. Best regards, --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) (e-mail) (cabal) 01:27, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Andrew McFarlane

Sorry, I made a mess of that one. Humbly apologetic. Staying well away from here on. I think I was stuffing beans up my nose.

All the best. Bobo192|Edits 02:13, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support on my RfA!

Thanks for your support of my adminship!! I was surprised at the turnout and support I got! If you ever have any issues with any of my actions, please notify me on my talk page! Thanks again! Ryan Norton 03:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Image use

Hi!

Well, first, I'm a relative newcomer around here..I happened to notice that you had uploaded the image that is used in the Wayne Rooney article. I wanted to know if its ok to upload images from the site that you used. Will it be legal if I do so for other players' pics? Do I need to take permission from the webmaster of http://soccer-europe.com/? Thanks! --Aabha R 08:01, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a ton!! You've made my day! :) --Aabha R 08:20, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

ManU

Why is Manchester United F.C. so popular with vandals? Aabha 12:16, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

True-blue Liverpudlian, huh? ;) Aabha 11:24, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry

Worry not, they talked me out of it. I'm sorry I scared you. -- Essjay · Talk 06:31, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Eric the Illiterate and Mr Carr the Paranoid

Thanks for your comments. I do try not to bite, but it becomes difficult at times. The issue with Skyring wasn't stalking, it was just that he was an egotistical troll. As for Eric, I don't deny that he knows something about some things, but he is also illiterate, rude, antagonistic and opinionated, even on subjects he knows little about. What am I to do with someone who can't spell their own surname? Adam 14:12, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

I have a legitimate interest in most australian history pages. I suggest Mr Carr is paranoid and for some unstated reason he accuses me of stalking. By the way my name is CORRECTLY spelt. "What am I to do with someone who" is so insecure they flail around looking for errors in dark unlit places. Any one could describe him as equally "illiterate, rude, antagonistic and opinionated" just that we get on with it and submit to assertion backed with evidence. Please note my editing attempts of Mr Carr's 'History of Melbourne' recasting has been 85% accepted (which about my average for all my editing) by wikipedians. So I suggest he calm down and accept the reality of wikis--they are mass edited. Eric A. Warbuton 03:27, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

WP:PR

You'd have to wait till sat. I'm almost inactive these days. User:Nichalp/sg 19:38, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi MarkGallagher. Just wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. I hope I will be able to live up to the confidence placed in me. --Cyberjunkie | Talk 03:52, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Ill take up your offer...

Mark, as you kindly offered to review any of my editing attempts you may peruse these:South Australia-Victoria border dispute and Joint Sitting, Australian parliament, 1974 Fell free to edit at will. Eric A. Warbuton 04:29, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thank you...you and android have totally brightened an otherwise poor day. I really appreciate the feedback :-D EricN 23:36, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Windows Vista

Please join the discussion at User_talk:Lewispb#WinVI before (or perhaps after) reverting my edits. --tyomitch 15:47, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

On Tony's RFC...

Your response to Davenbelle warmed my heart. Too often on Misplaced Pages we allow people to make outragious claims without comment because they are hurting someone else, and by responding we risk bringing ourselves into the fire and suffering because we decided to set things right. Davenbelle's reply was over the top, and I thank you for calling a spade a spade so clearly. --Gmaxwell 17:46, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you Mark for expressing yourself on the Miguel Piñero issue. The dispute ended in friendly terms between Dali and myself. Take care Tony the Marine 07:18, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

barnstar

Hi thanks heaps for the barnstar. I had accidentally discovered photos on wiki commons relating to countries that werent being used, theres so many there that its been hard to choose which ones to use! cheers Astrokey44 12:57, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

AfD

Hello: Can you expand on your criticism of my edits on the AfD page? Am I not supposed to be discussing articles on the AfD pages? That article has been up for some time and my responses to others comments were made much earlier in the discussion before there were so many edits in place. Writing "factual, verifiable, and neutral," does not impress me as being an argument for inclusion as many people are these three things but do not meet any criteria for notability. I see trollderina post it repeatedly on AfDs with no further explanation for her vote. Being fairly new at this, I am curious what her reasons are for voting this way. Thanks.—Gaff 14:41, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for the reply. In this particular article, it seems that the playwrite is just too new and has onyl produced one play. My understanding is that this is not enough to warrant inclusion. I hate to send another users contributions down the drain, but maybe they would be better posted someplace else. My first WP article was promptly flushed and I reposted it on blogger. If you're interested see:http://christopherburkegibson.blogspot.com/ —Gaff 20:25, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Award

For continuing to keep tabs on non-free content and images, and for writing clean content to replace it wherever possible, I award you this barnstar. Rob Church 16:14, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

G'day. Thank you for the welcome and the helpful hints. I appreciate it. You have done some great work on a number of articles. Very objective and non-partisan. I welcome editing with you in the future.Stones12 15:19, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

thanks...

At Kelly's request, I searched for the two images on the Richie Ryan (Highlander) page. I found a place where you might've gotten Image:Richieryan.jpg, but I can't determine its copyright status. Image:Rich123.jpg, however, doesn't exist in that form anywhere in Google's index. There's an image that looks like it might be the same original picture, only shrunk down and given a dodgy border, but that's clearly not your source. I've tagged both images appropriately. Cheers

Thanks for looking anyway. I had that pic (Rich123) for a long time, but someone else put the other pic, not me, so I don't know where he/she got it. Should I look for particular sources/websites that have same pics and then tagged it, although I didn't get the pic from that source (but at least have the same pics)? I mean, the pics have been around in the internet for almost ten years, who knows the originality of it, and the official website usually realease all the copyright... Which source should I use? Thanks. HoneyBee

Kelly thinks that Image:Rich123.jpg might be a cropped screenshot from Highlander. I wouldn't know, not having watched the programme (I don't even know if it's available in Australia), but if you can tell us whether or not it's an image that has appeared on the programme, that would be great. A screenshot would be fair use to illustrate the character of Richie Ryan (Highlander), and possibly (we haven't resolved this question) Stan Kirsch as well. --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 07:46, 1 November 2005 (UTC) Retrieved

Either the pic was from promophoto (and it spreads around the internet) or there's a big posibility that it came from a screenshot. I watched the programme (it was 10 years ago), and the character appeared in that pose during opening montage/scene. Should we change it to fair use? And who should change it, anyone or the administrator? Thanks! HoneyBee

Thanks!

Thanks for the barnstar Mark! "Wow! My very first barnstar" I'm chuffed! :-)

The tips that keep on giving

My gratitude for your welcome message and the tips. Tastes like lead 09:25, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for your vote, but you are incorrect in saying I harassed a user. He said things behind my back on RedWolf24's talk page, saying that I am a Joe Somebody and not deserving. I did not say anything bad about him, so why is it harassing? He also apologized on my Talk page if you would have cared to look. Please explain, I'm very disappointed by these unfair oppose votes. The image tagging, as Durin noted, was only on one photo, we all make mistakes, nobody is perfect. My edit summaries have also been improving vastly since this RfA started, if you had looked at my recent contributions. Thanks again, and please explain your vote. — Wackymacs 16:14, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Arsenious acid!

LOL, your message made me smile, I've not have the best of days and that cheered me up immensely! Thanks for tidying it up a bit - hopefully someone can create a new article, like you said. :) XYaAsehShalomX 19:54, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Nominator AFD voting

You asked on an AFD, "What's this thing with the nominator voting now, anyway?" It says in WP:AFD#How_to_list_pages_for_deletion that the nominator should "Consider creating the first entry... to begin consensus gathering." Regards, --howcheng 20:22, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I always thought that the nomination was assumed to be a vote for deletion unless otherwise specified (such as in listing orphaned nominations) since you're not supposed to bring pages to AFD unless you think they should be deleted in the first place, but then I had a couple where nobody voted and the closing admin stated "no votes recorded" and I thought, what about me? So I decided to add my own vote just to be explicit. (As a side note, I also think that if there aren't any votes, the AFD should get relisted, not closed). --howcheng 20:45, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I put the text in question into the template, where's MarkGallagher's comment you're referring to? I'd love to participate in the discussion. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 01:15, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Bullett

I've pitched an alternative solution at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Bullett. Let me know what you think! BDAbramson T 02:22, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

re:James Milner (footballer)

Hey! Thanks! Aabha | talk 12:51, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

MarkGallagher

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Thanks for your support on my request for bureaucratship.

The final outcome was (17/17/4) meaning that it failed, if you have any advice on how I can be a better editor or administrator please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again for your support. Jtkiefer ----- 20:28, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

G'day Mark,

I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. It closed with the final tally of 57/0/0. I can only hope I can live up to the expectations that this wonderful community of ours demands from each of its administrators. If you ever need anything, please just let me know. Cheers! -- Ianblair23 (talk) 04:48, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi Mark,

Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Regards, JoanneB 14:48, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi MarkGallagher,

I am now an administrator and would like to thank you for your support on my RfA. I was very surprised at the number of votes and amount of and kind comments that I gathered. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I mess up in the use of my new powers. --GraemeL 15:44, 21 November 2005 (UTC)