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hi

This is a reply to your message regarding a section on the article area boys 'outside of nigeria'. You are right in pointing out that the area boys in Nigeria are very different from the people who are referred to as area boys here in India, especially in my home state of Tamil Nadu. It is a good suggestion to spin it off as a separate article. But I'm afraid I dont have any good source to provide citations about area boys of India. It is predominantly a social aspect of our street culture that gets little attention through the press or online publications. I could infact ask my fellow blogging friends to contribute to this article, but currently I'm not able to find any online source for the article. Thanks Swamy

Christopher Columbus (whaleback)

thanks. those w:'s came from the Commons picture captions, I did the pics first :) 'preciate the cleanup. ++Lar: t/c 01:53, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Anytime Lar. Not sure if you want to leave those two redlinks in place or de-link them. Picaroon (t) 01:55, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I vote leave them, they are needful articles. I think DYK policy says no redlinks but I don't buy it. :) ++Lar: t/c 13:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

No redlinks? That's a bit silly, seeing as redlinks are how many of these articles get started in the first place (recently I started Otto Reche out of a redlink in a DYK submission). And I'm sure my submissions have had redlinks - indeed, Sam Mbakwe has three. By the way, congratulations on your checkusership. Promise not to bug you too much for the first few weeks. Picaroon (t) 18:23, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I might be misremembering about the redlink bit. I agree with you about the usefulness of them. And thank you! Right now DYK is backlogged... :( ++Lar: t/c 00:41, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

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External links

Thanks, I will keep that in mind in the future. Perspicacite 21:31, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Comments on RFAs

I'm digging through the RFA stuff right now to find out about comments, but if you have a direct link to "what is good practice" - i will gladly read it. As for the post to Jaranda's comments, those should be struck from the conversation. He has absolutely no business making that type of comment based on his involvement in the situation. If you want to have this chat on my talk page, please feel free to refractor, i like to keep these things in one place. In the meantime, i've marked this for watching. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  21:53, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Ethiopian Civil War

All the help you can provide on the Ethiopian Civil War is greatly appreciated. The article consists entirely of info taken from other Misplaced Pages articles and thus, unfortunately, glosses over a lot. Perspicacite 22:32, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

ArbComBot Settings

The name of the case that you plan to open is Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Artaxerex. Will the case be posted at AN? yes. Will the case be posted at CSN? yes. Change the "run" setting to yes to start me. ArbComBot 22:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Cameroon

Indeed. Simply pressed the wrong button in VandalProof. Thanks for the heads up and happy wiking! Alexf(t/c) 20:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

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SevenOfDiamonds

SevenOfDiamonds has declared his retirement and posted links on my talk page to two evidence subpages he would like posted to the case. I advised him of their excessive length but he does not want to trim them. Will you post them to the case, please? Thanks. Thatcher131 00:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you very much Picaroon for your comments, they are most welcome. Unfortunately, I am now in a very busy period of my day to day work. However as soon as I get some free time I will replace some of those paragraphs into diffs. Unfortunately, the dispute between Shervink's group and I have been going on for a rather long time. I am hopping that the arbitration committee spends some times in exploring the truth of this case. Shervink and his group utilize a rather sophisticated method to supress the views of various minorities. To discover their tactic one needs to look at the talk pages of the users like (shervink, mehrshad123, Rayis, SG, Sina Kardar, Khorshid, and many more), as`well as their messages to each other, and the talk pages of the disputed articles. This is why I need some time to go through this material and organize them. All the best. Artaxerex 05:30, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

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Whirlygig of Doom

Possibly not, but the clues I gave were fairly vague. It's not exactly top secret information anyway, though. The only possible use for it is vandalism, so we can always just block anyone who uses it. I like the cow. Neil ム 16:44, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

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Would it be possible to courtesy blank my Arbcom case pages? Not delete or hide, but just blank? Thanks. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 01:06, 29 August 2007 (UTC)