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• Thanks ^_^ grafikm_fr

Battle of Budapest

Thanks for your cleaning up of Battle of Budapest! Awesome work! (Hard to get all of your own mistakes when writing an article... :( ) grafikm_fr 08:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. I'm a lousy proofreader of my own work. SO I appreciate it when folks help me out.Montco 16:28, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Battle of Königsberg

From the context, I believe it's the WWII one that's actually being asked for; but an article on either would be very welcome! Kirill Lokshin 16:28, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Probably; the renaming can wait until the other article is actually created, though. Kirill Lokshin 16:38, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for Demographics of Europe, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. --Avala 20:41, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Delphi

So your an Anti-Delphi person huh?

Basically, my user page was once a kind of private joke to some of my friends reading the Misplaced Pages, since there was little to no chance for something else to find it... Now, come to think of it, it is a bit biased, so i'm gonna remove it... Sorry if it offended you ^_^ grafikm_fr 12:09, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually

I would suggest posting your concerns on the administrator's noticeboard. This has been going on with several articles involving those 2. I think raising awareness of the issue would be helpful. --Woohookitty 11:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem. :) It's a good place to go if you want to report something like...2 users in a revert war over several articles. --Woohookitty 11:23, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Dead-end pages

Thanks for your help here! However could I ask you to actually remove articles from the list once you have added links to them, not just strike them out. There is some debate (see Misplaced Pages talk:Dead-end pages#Consistent Procedures for Removing Pages) on what if you don't fix a deadend article but propose it for deletion. However, there is clear consensus that articles that are really no longer deadends should be removed.

Also, please don't forget to add categories to articles! Otherwise they will appear on Special:Uncategorized pages at a later date - another of the cleanup lists.

Again, thanks for your help! Cje 17:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Stalingrad map details

That's a wonderful question, I should really keep better records of these things! From the files I can find with a quick search, it appears that I used Corel Painter for the vectors. I then moved over to Photoshop to add some parts, probably because Painter isn't very good with text.

Normally, I would use Illustrator for something like this. I must have been playing with Painter at the time because a new version had just been released. --iMb~Meow 09:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar!

Aw, shucks! Somebody noticed me - I must be losing my Gnome touch.

Seriously, thank you for the barnstar and the kind words. Cje 07:24, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Gay Fuel

Not sure why this was marked as a hoax, a cursory search on Google (for me, anyhow) reveals over 90,500 hits for the energy drink, including an eBay auction as recent as 5 days ago. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 08:50, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Battle of Königsberg, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Cactus.man ✍ 12:44, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Wow it made it to the main page... w00t, I'm proud... ^_^ Grafikm_fr 13:00, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Dnieper/Dnepr

Hi, the spelling in English should be Dnepr (for future reference. I have created a re-direct for the battle using that spelling, since I can't be bothered to fix all the links. :-) Great start for the article! Greetings from a fellow Parisian. Andreas 13:08, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Well as you said, the article was requested quite some time ago under this spelling, so that's the explanation. What got me, too, was the fact that in Wiki it is also named Dnieper. Grafikm_fr 13:11, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Russia

Hello, Alexander. I see that you write nice articles on Soviet-related themes. Please don't forget to announce your new articles on the subject on Portal:Russia/New article announcements, so other Russia-interested wikipedians could check them. There is also Portal:Russia/Russia-related Misplaced Pages notice board for other Russia-related discussions. Happy edits, Ghirla 14:10, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Military maps

Yeah, we know about it ;-) If you check on Commons, there's a huge number of maps we've copied from there. Kirill Lokshin 16:05, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

AfD Contributions

Hey Grafikm, I just wanted to drop by and thank you for contributing to some of the AfDs that I have proposed. I also wanted to leave you a little tip as I noticed that you seem to be leaving an extremely simillar recommendation on each AfD (delete per nom). While I agree with your recommendations, sometimes the closing administrators will discount recommendations from editors who routinely vote the same way on anything, or who fail to back up their reasons well. So in the future, if you want your recommendations to have more weight, you might try mentioning some of the valid guidelines, doing some research, or just varying your reasoning a bit. If by any means you have any questions or need help with anything, please let me know. Thanks! --Hetar 20:07, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Gareth Ward

I have rewritten this article based on verifiable media sources. While realising that biographies of local councillors are problematic according to WP:BIO, there is a fair mount of verifiable material about this fellow. I would be grateful if you could take a look. Capitalistroadster 02:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Easter greetings

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Battle of the Lower Dnieper, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

AndriyK

Check Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/AndriyK. It is time to draft a new case, though. --Ghirla 17:27, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello check this out

Hello I have made a request for comment on Kurt Leyman and I need people to sign the request and also to sign on the specific page

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/User_conduct

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Kurt_Leyman

(Deng 03:07, 27 April 2006 (UTC))