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Evans Knight

I tagged this for speedy deletion as a biographical article about a person that does not indicate how or why that person is notable. If the person really is notable, I advise you to edit the article promptly to indicate why, and also put a note on talk:Evans Knight. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. You might also want to read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under "Articles".--Sean Jelly Baby? 02:28, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Please stop removing the speedy tag- adding the word "actor" doesn't change anything because their's no evidence of notability- if you can provide some (IMDb entry, perhaps?), then add it to the article. If you have any questions please ask me on my talk page (click "Jelly Baby" in my signature)--Sean Jelly Baby? 02:42, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Welcome from Sean Black.

Welcome!

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Fredrick Willius

Looks good to me, but I don't know anything about cardiology. Perhaps you can edit cardiology and related articles? Or History of Germany? Basically, just look around and find some thing your interested in. Cheers,--Sean Jelly Baby? 21:05, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Watch for vandals

Slavery article: you must be very vary when editing after anonymous contributions and always compare their versions against preceding. In this case the trolls combined two pieces cut from sections of slavery in Asia to make "slavery in England". Your name in the history above them "legitimized" their trick and it would have gone unnoticed for some time, since the text reads really smoothly. mikka (t) 20:57, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I see you are a reletively new to wikipedia. Plese feel free to ask me questions, if something of the above is unclear, e.,g., how to do this or that. mikka (t) 21:00, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: block

May I inquire as to why you blocked me? I don't know what I've done wrong. Dlayiga 06:30, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I haven't blocked you. You may have been accidentally blocked as a result of a block I applied to a vandal using the same IP address as you are. Since your ISP provides you with a dynamic IP, this may happen occasionally, and has nothing to do with your actions. As described in the blocked error message, in order to help you, I need the IP address reported to you in that message. I'm sorry for the inconvenience! Owen× ☎ 13:35, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Pro-life Alliance

The article Pro-Life Alliance has been nominated for deletion. Chooserr

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Jewish culture

Hey Ev!

I got a message about the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Jewish culture project, and I thought about what you said to me today about the different styles of music. Maybe you'd be interested in reading around what's on there, and contributing what you know? Seeya! --ParkerHiggins 06:13, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Basant

Woah, dude, that urdu ish is tight. Where'd you find that? --ParkerHiggins 20:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Much thanks!

Just wanted to drop you a note of thanks for fixing up several articles I'd requested Arabic transcription of the names, including Osama Nazir and Adnan Bukhari, much appreciated! Sherurcij 20:34, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Anglican userbox

Hi, it may interest you to know there is now an Anglican userbox. It's {{user religion|anglican}}. --Angr (t·c) 09:56, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Buckley Celebs

Alas, it's true, dear Liza is not in fact an alumna. But, I found a reputable source with a list that I can use to correct and expand the current list. So, that's cool. --ParkerHiggins ( talk contribs ) 04:48, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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The picture I used is from the Mayo Clinic Official Bio Webpage. The picture used on that page is a facsimile. The original is in the possession of my family. I am not sure how to signify this on the copyright information.Dlayiga 04:55, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

No problem, so it sounds like you are the person that has the original family picture, so you are free to license it however you might want. Your options are listed on the Misplaced Pages:Image copyright tags page. To remain on wikipedia it needs to be some sort of free license, there are a lot to choose from, if you need any help feel free to just tell me what you require from a license and I might be able to help you pick one out. The two I would suggest looking at first are {{gfdl}} or {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} Thanks again :D - cohesion★talk 05:03, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Arabic Scripts

I had a look at the scipts and they look pretty easy. I'll just have to start working on them when I have arabic scipt working on my computer. --Ahmed 22:49, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Native American Wikipedians

You should look here Template:User_Native_American

So far the only person using it is a Euro-American. Maybe his great-great-great grandfather was one, but ...

Harvestdancer 00:30, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

An Esperanzial note

As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Misplaced Pages:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Celestianpower 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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Open tasks in History of India project

Just to update you on the current status of the project, here's a list of the current open tasks. Please contribute towards completing them, and feel free to add more to this list. deeptrivia (talk) 04:24, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Celestianpower 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
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Meet the Robinsons

Pleae don't re-add advertising material, especially as it's poorly formatted. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 12:55, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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Rodovid.org

Hi, I found you from the category of Wikipedian genealogists. I wonder if you have heard of/been involved in any of the previous attempts at starting a genealogy wiki under the foundation. Seeing as you were in the category, I thought you may be interested in the new project proposal, Rodovid. This project is currently running at rodovid.org. I would greatly appreciate it if you could visit the site and give me your opinion of it. Any input at all will be useful. Thanks. --Bjwebb (talk) 10:34, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

Endowment

Hi. Just read your profile, and I didn't understand what you meant by "I am also substantially more well endowed than my fellow Wikpedian, ParkerHiggins." Was this about your relative Wikipediholic scores, or was it a comparison of something more ... personal? JackofOz 01:38, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

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Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Nicolas Augustin Metoyer

This article was tagged for a speedy delete as a non notable bio. Nothing in the article asserted notability. Without that assertion, the article falls into the reasons that allow for speedy deletion. Vegaswikian 04:51, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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Study in Turkey...

Hi. Some universities have their programs in English, therefore you can easily follow courses. It also depends on the city and the subject matter, as well as your finances. I'm from Istanbul and was in Business Administration program and except some Turkish courses (history of independence, turkish lit, etc) all courses (like finance, humanities, math, marketing, etc) were in English. In good schools most of the staff have some degree from US or UK anyway. In good private & some public schools you won't have any difficulty at all.

You can do exchange or take summer courses I suppose, I've met some people from Canada or US that way. I know some friends who study in US and take summer courses in my university. Those courses are credited/accepted/etc in their US universities when they're back. For example my program was fully compatible with an international business undergrad program. You know like AD101, MATH155, things like that.

(If you come, and if the professor still alive, you should take "Ottoman Architecture" and "Byzantine Architecture" courses in my university. A British professor gives this course and he takes you to all ancient locations and cities. It was crowded and we were the only Turks with my wife. I learned so much there)

Additional info: for normal university education, there is also a quota in each program for international students. I read some, you need to have a SAT and then there's a YOS (Foreign Student Exam) which probably is fairly easy. For graduate programs, you'll probably need GMAT/GRE etc.

Let me know if you have more questions. Cheers. --Gokhan 04:36, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

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URGENT! Your vote needed

Come vote here please to decide this important matter! i trust that you'll make the right decision--Rictonilpog 17:26, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion

Hello! I noticed that you have identified yourself as an Anglican, and so I thought that you may be interested in checking out a new WikiProject - WikiProject Anglicanism. Please consider signing up and participating in this collaborative effort to improve and expand articles related to Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion! Cheers! Fishhead64 23:42, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Conservative_notice_board

Hello, I noticed that you identify as a conservative Wikipedian. So I would like to invite you to post any conservative issues you might have over at the new project page, Misplaced Pages:Conservative_notice_board. Thanks. --Facto 05:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Iraq and the War on Terrorism

Misplaced Pages:WOT has opened its straw poll, and is open to discussion. Rangeley 01:00, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Misplaced Pages:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

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WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America Newsletter - July '06

The Indigenous Peoples of North America Portal The Indigenous Peoples of North America Portal has been established, as a starting point for those wishing to learn more about the subject, with information and links on a wide variety of issues. It also contains news regarding the continent's various tribes and nations. It's a graphically pleasing site, and everyone is encouraged to check it out. Home Page Reorganization The project's home page has a new design, featuring tabbed subpages on participants, templates, articles, categories, and the to do list. Article Classification Move The Article Classification lists have been moved to their own subpage due to size. This is a sign of progress in the ongoing work of this project. New Talk Page Template The project's talk page template has been updated, along with the classification system, to include the assessment on the talk pages of the articles that have been classified and assessed.

Balance As the Project reaches its first six months of activity, the great effort all of you have invested in it has turned the vast information available on Indigenous North American topics from a deorganized cumulous into an excellent and easy to consult database. Although much work is still in order, few WikiProjects are able to obtain the amazing results we are proud to show today. To all of you, thank you and congratulations! What You Can Do to Help The assessment of articles within the scope of the project is still an ongoing process. We need people to help in this who are not contributors to the articles they are assessing. Also, there is the ongoing need for identifying and cataloguing articles that fall within the scope of this project. As of today, nearly 1,500 have been identified within the Project's scope. Signed by Aaron Walden & Phaedriel - 15:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

August Esperanza Newsletter

Turkish Lang Reformat.

Hi Kızılderili, I realized what you were trying to do and those textboxes also kind of disturb me. But after your edits, the readability actually became worse for me and there were also some broken lines (just over the "Vocabulary" heading, particularly). I don't know if this may be because we are using different browsers or something. I guess there should be some preferred format for these and I will check the other language articles to get an idea. And by the way, I'm pleased to meet you. Atilim Gunes Baydin 00:59, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi! I just changed the format of the parts we've talked about, in an effort to standardize the way everything looks. It's kind of stupid that this took two months, I don't know why. Hope you find the new tables more bearable and hope you're doing fine. Regards, Atilim Gunes Baydin 00:29, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

September Esperanza Newsletter