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Thank you for your support

 Unfortunately, my RFA was closed recently with a final tally of 75½/38/10. Though it didn't succeed, I wanted to thank you for your support and I hope I can count on it in the future. Even though it didn't pass, it had a nearly 2 to 1 ratio of support and I am quite encouraged by those results. I intend to review the support, oppose, and neutral !votes and see what I can do to address those concerns that were brought up and resubmit in a few months. If you would like to assist in my betterment and/or co-nominate me in the future, please let me know on my talk page. Special thanks go to Schmidt, , TomStar81, and henrik for their co-nominations and support. — BQZip01 — 

Poll on Ireland article names

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Hope to see you

Just wanted you to know I read you message on your User page and from time to time I feel the same way, I hope to never see that dreaded "Last Straw". No matter what kind of people are here it's still a great place. Have a great day, hope to see you back ! Mlpearc MESSAGE 13:17, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Your draft of Irish School of Ecumenics

After reviewing the source article that came due to close today on WP:CP, I also noted that your userspace draft began as a direct copy of your infringing article. Your rewrite, in particular in its step-by-step approach, constitutes an unauthorized Derivative work of the original and remains a copyvio. On top of that, even in its draft state, the parts you had rewritten remain a close paraphrase of the sources.

The way you're going about this is, unfortunately, a surefire method to produce more of the same issues. To minimize the risks of perpetuating the problems, I've found it helps to start with acting as if copying and pasting did not exist in the first place. Reading your sources, then walk away doing something completely different for an hour or two, then summing these up in a new article is an approach that tends to produce text that is much more your own, and avoids turns of phrases or overall structure borrowed from the source. That being said, it becomes increasingly difficult to do so with every attempt.

I understand that this is disheartening. Alas, once an article has been identified as posing a copyright issue, there is little room left to produce borderline replacement text. The new effort has to be in the clear, and this was clearly not the case here. We do however appreciate the effort provided and are willing to help you with the cleanup effort to produce such in-the-clear content. MLauba (talk) 10:39, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

That really is the only way. I'm old enough to remember when the admonishment "do not write essays with scissors and paste" was meant literally - modern tools have only made it worse. The only way to avoid creating a derivative work is to treat all sources as if they are in library books, and you are making notes. Structure the article how you want to get the information across, then fit your notes into that structure without looking back at the source text (as if the book is still in the library). Only go back over the sources after you have done this, to make sure you haven't missed or misinterpreted, or incorrectly ascribed. Rewriting paragraph/section by paragraph/section is guaranteed to produce problems.--Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:36, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Morgan "Bill" Evans

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Grrr...

Damn, I just can't stop checking if you came back. --Sushiflinger (Goldblattster) (talk!) 01:24, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Harry Q. Bovik

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Still thinking of you

Will she come back? You may not, and that's okay. I hope you are doing well and being good. TheSavageNorwegian 02:53, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Harry Q. Bovik for deletion

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Missing

I have added you to the list of missing Wikipedians. Feel free to remove yourself should you ever return to editing, of which you are more than welcome to do so. CT Cooper · talk 10:12, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

The Great American Wiknic

Hi there! In the past, you've expressed an interest in local meetups of Wikipedians. Well, here's your chance! On Saturday, June 25, we'll be joining Wikipedians in cities all over the country for the first annual Great American Wiknic -- the picnic that anyone can edit! We'll meet up at a park in SF -- hopefully in the sun -- all other details are still in deliberation!

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Copyright problem: Uterine orgasm

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Hong Kong meetup

You're invited to the next Hong Kong meetup on 19 August in Think Cafe, Causeway Bay. Please sign up to the meetup on the meta meetup page. Hope to see you there! Deryck C. 16:16, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Poll on ArbCom resolution - Ireland article names

There is a poll taking place here on whether or not to extend the ArbCom binding resolution, which says there may be no page move discussions for Ireland,Republic of Ireland or Ireland (disambiguation), for a further two years. Fmph (talk) 21:37, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

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File:Quarter note.png listed for deletion

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Possibly unfree File:Placenta ad in Hong Kong.jpg

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You're invited: San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2!

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San Francisco Wiknic 2012

San Francisco Wiknic at Golden Gate Park
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