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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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Orphaned non-free image (File:Empress and the warriors poster.jpg)

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An exciting opportunity to get involved!

As a member of the Aviation WikiProject or one of its subprojects, you may be interested in testing your skills in the Aviation Contest! I created this contest, not to pit editor against editor, but to promote article improvement and project participation and camraderie. Hopefully you will agree with its usefulness. Sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here. The first round of the contest may not start until September 1st-unless a large number of editors signup and are ready to compete immediately! Since this contest is just beginning, please give feedback here, or let me know what you think on my talkpage. - Trevor MacInnis 00:25, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Happy Labor Day!

Dear colleague, I just want to wish you a happy, hopefully, extended holiday weekend and nice end to summer! Your friend, --A Nobody 05:56, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Arsh.JPG

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Clear background2test.gif

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Happy Halloween!

As Halloween is my favorite holiday, I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Halloween! Sincerely, --A Nobody 18:40, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Hey, welcome back. -- Mentifisto 23:50, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

stopping by

Just stopping by to say hi and glad to see you around. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:16, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

LAN 23:37, 22 November 2009 (UTC) PLEASE DONT LEAVE. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qazamj (talk • contribs)

Because I'll take away the biggest part of you? FlyingToaster 23:49, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

She's come to far to leave it all behind? Spitfire 09:04, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

You!

You're here! \o/ Gonzonoir (talk) 09:28, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Errr... um... I'm not ready for that kind of... well it's not really... look behind you, a three-headed monkey! FlyingToaster 18:30, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

You scamp; that's my boss! Gonzonoir (talk) 21:43, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, --A Nobody 06:51, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

A Nobody is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Flaming/MC2008}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

To those who make Good Arguments, who are appreciative, or supportive. Sincerely, --A Nobody 22:55, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

RfD nomination of How do you edit an article

I have nominated How do you edit an article (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. — The Man in Question (in question) 23:00, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Hey!

You need to edit more. :) Everyking (talk) 05:11, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. I miss you! ceranthor 00:20, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

I miss you guys too! Thanks so much for the note. :) FlyingToaster 04:19, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

File:2714257513 68b70c96c1 b.jpg listed for deletion

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SF Meetup #11

In the area? You're invited to
San Francisco Meetup # 11
	Date: Saturday, February 6th, 2010
	Time: 15:00 (3PM)
	Place: WMFoundation offices
prev: Meetup 10 - next: Meetup 12

This is posted to the groups by request. Please sign up on the Invite list for future announcements. Thanks. --ShakataGaNai 23:44, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

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Why did you revert the comment I left on the National Anthem of England page?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.1.157.16 (talk) 15:01, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Alright no worries. 82.1.157.16 (talk) 15:06, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Chloe edney

Aww...
Nice to see you back again, by the way (however long or short the stay is you're always welcome), kind regards, Spitfire 15:12, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Huatung Highway

Thanks for the removal of speedy-delete and insertion of under-construction tag. Boy, can't the bots give us a few minutes to kick start a new page nowadays? ;) Fred Hsu (talk) 03:04, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Copyvio problems at Irish School of Ecumenics

Hi FlyingToaster. I'm just letting you know that I have tagged Irish School of Ecumenics, an article you created, as a copyright violation. I'd appreciate if you could rewrite it. Thanks, Theleftorium 22:15, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Np, I'll do it after work. FlyingToaster 22:20, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Greetings

The following has been moved here by myself. It was originally posted on Giano's talk page. Giano removed it from his talk page and paste it to WP:AN. I am moving it from WP:AN to here. FlyingToaster 22:31, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

The following has been moved by me (Giano) from my talk as it is clearly meant for a wider audience than mu humble talk page - delete it of you want, just don't return to sender.  Giano  22:27, 22 February 2010 (UTC) Hello, Giano. I don't believe we've ever spoken directly, until now. Perhaps speaking to you now is a bad idea, but especially if I'm going to leave forever, I feel like I need to know: why do you have such strong feelings towards me? I understand that you do not think highly of IRC, and that you don't think my work here is of high quality, and you didn't have a high opinion of my friend Neuro. But why is this personal to you? I'm not interested in arguing... I'm just curious. FlyingToaster 05:10, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

• Regarding your first point, it's not possible to be personal with something called a "Flying Toaster" which one has never met or even interacted, so let's kill that one stone dead. I am completely indifferent to whether you stay or leave. However, I am not completely indifferent to "your" work because much of it is not your work is it? I find it a disgrace, if not totally surprising, that a person who has so little knowledge of Misplaced Pages and its content's authenticity can garner tens of votes for their adminship off-site on IRC to such an extent that they can even win that Adminship. You only resigned your tools because, after you were exposed, an overwhelming number of people agreed with me. Even now, you seem to feel you have been wronged and have done little to redress you blatant breach of copyright law. Yes, law! We rightly don't do legal threats here, but even Wikipedians are subject to the law. Your editing and ignorance brought the project into disrepute; that, cannot be tolerated. As you waltz back here, you appear surprised and wounded not to be welcomed back and instantly promoted to Admin - I find that astounding. Regarding your friend Neuro, isn't he the person who had to apologise for libelling me on a the website of a highly respected national newspaper? - so I don't think we really need to go there - do we? I survive here because on occasions I am bloody useful to the project - when you can say honestly the same then I may feel more kindly disposed towards you. You might also like to note that one does not need Admins' tools to have power here. In fact, one can often be more powerful without the tools.  Giano  08:15, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. I did want to address a few of your points.

1. I never asked anyone on IRC to vote for me. I assure you those logs would have surfaced if I did; there were several people looking for them.
2. I had no idea about neuro's off-wiki comment when I nominated him for admin. He'd forgotten about it himself. When they came to light, he and I discussed them and decided he should withdraw. Had they come to light earlier, I would not have nominated him. I don't endorse that kind of behavior against anyone.
3. I don't like writing articles much. People like you are incredible at it. I just liked taking care of backlogs, and that's all I wanted to do. If you'll look at my edit history, you'll see writing articles is an incredibly small portion of what I was doing. I was maintaining, not creating. I wanted better tools to fight backlogs, and knew I should at least get some practice writing articles before an RfA, so I tried a few. Parts of those were insufficiently paraphrased - an easily fixable problem - and now I'm basically being told I should retire my account in a black mark over it. If Peter Damian had brought article concerns to light a week before my RfA, I would've failed, learned, and passed in three months. Since they were brought up immediately after my RfA, people seem to think I can never again be in good standing, and even creating a new account is some form of treachery. And really, after people were trying to disturb my off-wiki life over this, is it really worth all the pain just to fight vandalism? I'm sure you can understand my frustration. A simple mistake over something I was doing only for practice means I can never do what I actually want to do, which is valuable to this project if you value its contents. As an article creator, at least you will always be able to do what you want to do, and you do it well.

Anyway, you don't need to respond if you don't want. I just felt there was something unresolved with you, and I should give you the opportunity to tell me what it is directly. Sincerely, FlyingToaster 18:14, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind me dropping in here FT (and Giacomo), but I commend your civil reply here to Giano, who to my mind worded his comments to you here and on WP:AN more harshly than was necessary (though I do agree with the gist of his concerns). I also wanted to point out that I don't think most people were saying you "should retire account in a black mark over it," meaning, I assume, that you should retire it because you "can never again be in good standing." I think some, including me and also Durova, were saying you should move on to another account if you were still concerned about harassment stemming from the last incident. If that's not a major worry for you at this point I would strongly encourage you to continue editing as FlyingToaster, and this is what most others said as well. Only a couple people seemed to be saying you needed to start over with a new account because this one was sullied, and I think that was bad advice. The key messages I would take away from the AN thread if I were you (and obviously you don't need to listen to me) would be as follows: 1) An RfA would be necessary if you want to regain adminship, and the AN thread did rub some people the wrong way; 2) People definitely still want you to stay here as a contributor and encourage you to get back into the mix; 3) That should start with cleaning up any copyright problems on articles you created or expanded; 4) After x amount of time making good contributions and demonstrating that past problems have been remedied a number of people would be willing to consider supporting you again at RfA. Obviously there are some who will never be willing to offer support and will essentially oppose automatically, but a large number of others will be willing to give you a second chance. --Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 18:51, 22 February 2010 (UTC)