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Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll 22:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

karl stephan

The picture was from a biographical article. The picture was released publically. He has been deceased for a considerable ammount of time I wouldn't worry too much about someone bugging you about the copyright. The site said it was copyrighted but released.

JJstroker 23:34, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

WikiRPG

Do you want to be first WikiMaster ? ;) Here is a link to the new quest - Welcome Misplaced Pages:WikiRPG/Welcome If you want, write the narrator's note. Przykuta 12:37, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Do people sign up if they want to play, or is it a find it, play it on you own type thing? We could include in the "Welcoming Quest" a mention of the game and keep the quest going until we have enough player to flesh out the actual mechanics of the rest of the game.--Rayc 15:55, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

We have to find players. If they want to play, they will. Now we need a good tutorial - I cerrected quest - you are the WikiMaster and you give points for realized quests. Players only put links to their realization. I show you what a player should do ;) Przykuta 21:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Notability of newspapers

Thanks for your interest in helping out with the list of newspapers. To answer your question...well, when I created the list, I really didn't have a notability in mind, so I simply went on the lists that were mentioned. I wouldn't really even know where to begin for a suggestion, and frankly I'm not sure if the notability information is available for most of the papers, but for a SWAG, lets say 5,000 circulation? That would seem like reaching enough readers to be significant. Weekly papers maybe more, say 10,000. Again, those are just best guesses, from an uninformed user who created the list because he likes creating lists. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 04:09, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

US Collaboration of the month

You have voted for Omaha, Nebraska on the USCOTM. It was selected to be this months's collaboration. You are invited to help to contribute in order to improve Omaha, Nebraska in any way possible.

Sorting other backlogs

Hi, I proposed on the village pump proposal section that all active cleanup backlogs should be sorted by bot into X by date. They said I should ask you about it. Is there a bot that could do that?--Rayc 02:39, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

I pulled the VP discussion to Misplaced Pages talk:Maintenance so it wouldn't get lost, and replied there. -- Beland 16:21, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Albion HS reply

Hey. Sorry for the delay in replying. Your idea sounds fine to me. I think if you were to either categorise or maintain a list of these pages as you went it would be very good.

Strangely, I think my objection to the Albion HS page served a purpose, articles very quickly appeared, as did a third Albion HS! Cheers, -Fermion 02:11, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

High School disambigs

You really expect people to create articles for all of those high schools? Most high schools are not notable. Some guy 05:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. Those pages hadn't already been created, and there's no reason to automatically assume they would be. It seems to me you are just encouraging the creation of non-notable pages. Some guy 05:43, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Bowie High School

They're still schools after all, and categorising places the disambiguation article into a findable location for those who may not know the correct article title to begin with. We've done the same type of disambiguation for Andrew Fraser, an Australian name used by several people. It works ok for us. -- Longhair 05:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the Barnstar! Deep maintenance is usually pretty thankless :-) But in all fairness I should point out that clearing the backlog was a joint effort between myself and User:Gardar Rurak, we each did about oh... 600 pages or so. --W.marsh 15:55, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes - thanks for the barn-thingie. You just keep setting 'em up - we'll knock 'em down ;) Gardar Rurak 15:32, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

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U.S. Senators

Exciting! 92.5% complete...the wholesale wikification and incorporation of entire reference works into this glorious encyclopedia of ours is incredibly exciting. Keep up the good work. Paul 21:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

not to cast a shadow on the procedings, but with regard to, say, Horace Fairbanks, the box you've added replicates information already included in the "Governors of Vermont" template, which already indicates his predecessor and successor. I would think the article requires only one of these templates, not both! - Nunh-huh 04:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't just look redundant, it is redundant. But as long as you're aware of the problem.... - Nunh-huh 05:10, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Daemonium

On April 8 you suggested that this article was split but you posted no reasons on the talk page. Please list your reasons for a split or remove the tag if you placed it there by mistake. Thank you. --– sampi (talk•contrib•email) 19:06, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I see what you meant there, sorry. I used a dablink to indicate Anonymus' album and the band.--– sampi (talk•contrib•email) 19:27, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Kensey Johns

There's nothing that a fast internet connection and obsessive tendencies can't accomplish :) Paul 22:54, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Starting over poll...

I started the poll over again because the first one wasn't official- it was an opinion poll. When I saw that the community would accept the proposal, I put it into an official vote. // True _Sora 16:13, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Terrytown, Nebraska

Terry Carpenter ran for mayor of Scottsbluff and did not win in 1931, but he was elected mayor in 1947. See the following sources Source 1, Source 2, Source 3. --Jfitts 23:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

de K5ZC

I found the category you picked for your example on WP:MUPP interesting... Jay Maynard 23:36, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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Marconi merger tag

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No problem with the Merger tag but I couldn't see how long it had been there. You should have also set up a discussion item on the relevant talk page (click the link resulting from the tag). I know it is an obvious merge but it does help for somebody to say yes I agree, let's merge and then do it. --A Y Arktos\ 10:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Succession boxes

Well, there isn't really any set of rules as far as I know, but I go by what I see. Succession boxes are everywhere, including in articles that already have templates which may make them redundant. I don't agree with the redundant argument, though. --tomf688 (talk - email) 00:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for handling that cleanup!!! Kukini 23:06, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi -- thanks for your notes to the overdevelopment page. I wonder if you could give me some tips on Wikifying, as Iʻm kinda new to this whole thing. I read the link you posted and it was enlightening about many things, but Iʻm still kinda confused about what to do to the page. Mahalo!Laualoha 00:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Concetta Tomei

Sorry, didn't mean to step on your toes. Was just adding some cats when you made those corrections. Ckessler 23:58, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Internet slang

I would very fully support porting the whole thing to Wiktionary, since, as you say, WP:NOT etc. The links at the bottom have a couple of problems. Firstly, they aren't actually tied to any of the entries. One has to guess which might be where. More importantly, imo at least, Urban Dictionary, THe Internet Spam Dictionary and Jargon Wiki are not sources of any kind of repute and simply do not belong in the references section of any kind of scholarly work. None of them are peer reviewed and, let's face it, none of them take their task at all seriously. So I don't think the article had any references whatsoever, and also I strongly suspect that most terms cannot be verified from reliable sources, even where they probably do exist. An example of how things can improve with some 'firm' editing is List of sexual slurs or, even better, List of sexual slang. -Splash - tk 03:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't recall on the spot, no. But that's a good place to start. Let's do this at the article's talk, in case other editors want to join in. -Splash - tk 03:36, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

AID

Your comment at WP:UbxW

Um, you do know that the war ended two weeks ago with the implimentation of the german solution, right?--Rayc 18:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Not nesscearily. Many users oppose this because they think it codones userboxes, which Jimbo explicitly opposes. So really, it has merely cooled off, as it has done in the past. Don't be suprised if it heats up again. The Gerg 19:36, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Internet slang

MUSH says all the supposed meanings for it are just backronyms. Transwikiing it to Wiktionary would be great (though they'd probably hate it as much as we do), but it could only really be accomplished in an AfD, which rejected it last time. --Rory096 20:00, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Do note that anything can be transwikied at any time without an AfD. It's just the subsequent possible deletion that requires an AfD. That is sometimes helped if it has already been transwikied, because it takes away that slight confusion that often arises and the fear that the 'useful' 'information' might get 'lost'. -Splash - tk 21:10, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

True, but it doesn't help when Wiktionary deletes it because they can't stand the thought of another List of cannabis slang there :o --Rory096 05:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Point well taken re wikification required of John M. Oesterreicher. I actually was about to slap on the appropriate category and also a stub designation. This is definitely a work in progress and requires significant expansion.--Mantanmoreland 01:34, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

re: YHBT

I replied on the article's talk, but on the list of reliable sources there it does have "...where it cites another reliable source", so the question is sort of dodged. I found a Microsoft link for YHBT (I put it on the talk page). See what you think. -Splash - tk 15:31, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

ne unicam senators

I just live in the district and remember chip maxwell and decided to update the page. It was actually my first wiki update ever. I think, however, that there is a former ne legislators page on the unicameral website at unicam.ne.gov

also, the clerk of the legislature has a huge staff down at the Unicam. If someone called him and asked him to get his interns to update all the wiki sites, he probably would make it happen.

{{Nebraska-school-stub}}

I noticed you've been creating a lot of pages for schools in Nebraska and tagging them as {{US-school-stub}}. Every state in the US (with the strange exception of South Dakota) now has its own school stub (following the format of state-school-stub - except Georgia, which is GeorgiaUS-school-stub). Could you switch to this format when you create to save some stubsorting work down the road? Aelfthrytha 14:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Removed your wikify context tag from eCustoms

Go ahead and put it back if you feel I wasn't in the right when I removed it. BigNate37 06:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

As mentioned on my talk page, I should have said I removed your context tag—not your wikify tag. BigNate37 15:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

CTH merge

Hi Rayc. I was looking at your merge notice for Honduras Workers' Confederation and Confederation des Travailleurs Haïtiens. I'm pretty sure they're not the same union. They're not even in the same country! :) one is in Haiti and the other in Honduras. Although Confederation des Travailleurs Haïtiens could stand to be moved to the English translation - (presumably Hatian Workers' Confederation). Cheers. --Bookandcoffee 01:23, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Rayc, I had started an article called Culture of Himachal Pradesh which was labelled copyvio by you. I have two questions:

• There may also be some other articles in which I had copied some text from other sites though it is changed considerably now. What does one do in such a situation? Is it possible to just delete the past version of an article?
• I do realise the above article is copyvio now that i have spent some time here. So what happens next? Can I just notify an admin to delete the article? In case you are an admin, can you do it please? Thanks -- Lost 01:47, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

OK, I think I just figured it out. I have put the speedy template to this one -- Lost 01:56, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

AKU-94

Hey -- just a reminder; when you use the {{copyvio}} tag, be sure to remove the text that's a copyright violation as well. Thanks! Mangojuice 02:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Regarding UNA Observatory

Free photos are always helpful, but it wasn't what I had in mind. What I meant was, it needs to be converted to use a standard template, hundreds of which can be found here. I'm not sure which one would be ideal, but maybe I'll take a look at it myself. —freak(talk) 18:46, Jul. 25, 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps Template:Infobox Historic building would be a close fit, otherwise you could create your own template. Just make it generic enough to be reused in other articles. —freak(talk) 19:04, Jul. 25, 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Wikify

Hi Rayc. I know that you've been involved in wikifying articles in the past, so I thought I'd draw your attention to this new project. We currently have a backlog of over 6500 articles, so any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated, even if it's only one or two articles! Alternatively, if you know anyone else who might like to help out, please tell them about it. Thanks :) -Ladybirdintheuk 08:12, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

uncat-bio

I belatedly noticed this suggestion; I think it's probably a good idea, and I've made some related suggestions at WP:WPBIO, which may be of some interest. Alai 07:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages discussion for entry: Brian Giovannini

Hey! A friend pointed out to me that there is a wiki entry for me (Brian Giovannini) regarding my comic "Postage Due" and the discussion says I died in June. Are you the editor for that page? Since you said that you had heard I am dead, I'm curious where you got that info. I stopped my cartooning career in 2002 and am now pursuing a career in law. Cheers!

Also, do you want a sample comic or something to use as a graphic on the page?

~Brian Giovannini thecomicsdude@yahoo.com

Hi Rayc

Hi there Rayc

I note that you contributed to the XPLANE article at one point. If you're still interested, you might want to weigh in at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2006 November 24. I am not canvassing here, just thought you might want to know.Dgray xplane 04:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)