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Please do not remove these ADs as they are there to get more voters for the WikiMedia picture of the year contest, they are allowed as it is withen WikiMedia. Thanks!--Kushan I.A.K.J (talk) 05:27, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:SEA-ME-WE-4-Route.png Reply...

Sorry, I don't have a vectorised image available. I did the map before I had the facility to.

And as to why I did it from backwards... I don't know why, but perhaps at that time they hadn't specified the segments on the website, I can't remember. -- J.P.Lon (talk) 20:34, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I may create a new vectorised version when I have the time, with the segments. -- J.P.Lon (talk) 20:40, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

OldakQuill - regarding your move of the SEA-ME-WE 4 article to a long name form, your actions were incorrect. Wiki supports the use of the most popular usage of the name. In this case, almost ALL submarine cable systems (both international and domestic) utilize some kind of acronym in their naming convention. The SEA-ME-WE series (2, 3, and 4) have always used the acronym. I have restored your edits so the article is under the acronym, as is proper. Please refrain from making such edits in the future until you find out more about the naming convention - as many of the submarine cable articles follow this same convention. Thank you. Rarelibra (talk) 08:28, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

I have replied on the article talk page. --Oldak Quill 10:15, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

SEA-ME-WE 4

hello. i changed your edits referencing the cable length because per wp:foot, reference tag placement should follow punctuation. since that particular reference is already being used for that sentence, its placement mid-sentence is incorrect and redundant. also, just matter of style, xxx kilometres long is also redundant as both terms denote distance. cheers! --emerson7 14:00, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Olympic Basketball categories

Please stop! Please look at the parent Category:Summer Olympic events and you'll see that every sport uses "...at the Olympics" for the category name. Please do not make basketball different from this scheme. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt

An editor has nominated Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

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Passed away

Gosh it's amazing how may of these have re-appeared since the last sweep! Rich Farmbrough, 03:14 10 February 2008 (GMT).

Indeed. At least noone seems to have carked it or kicked the bucket this time. Orderinchaos 03:55, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Mathews Mar Athanasius Metropolitan

I have seen your edit for the article, “Mathews Mar Athanasius Metropolitan,” and noted that you have changed the “passed away” to “died.”

Bishops of the Malankara Church (in Kerala , India) were given a Royal title somtime in the fourteenth century. From that time onward they were called “Metropolitan Thirumeni.” So when a Malankara bishop dies, it is announced as “Kaalem Cheythu”, the literal meaning is “passed away.” So in the case of a bishop of the Malanakara Church, the correct and polite word is “Passed away” and not “died”. It is not euphemism.

I am a member of this church and know the customs and traditions of the church. I am sure you will get this word in other articles on Malankar Churches. So please revert your changes in the above article and in any other article that concerns the Thirumenis (bishops) of the Malanakara Church. Thanks. Neduvelilmathew (talk) 06:45, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Kindly undo you changes to Marthoma Church and revert from 'died' to 'passed away'. As said above, The Bishops of India are referred to as 'passed away' instead of died.

- Tinucherian (talk) 14:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Windfall Elimination Provision POV

I don't object to it being changed to "die" instead of "passed away", but how is that POV?

KV(Talk) 13:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism of Marg Osburne

I Created the article on Marg Osburne and I will use "Passed Away" instead of "Died" if I want to. Please do not vandalize my article again. Garr1984 (talk) 03:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

FYI, I've commented on the user's talk page regarding this concern. Tony Fox (arf!) 03:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Objection to the consideration of a question

You posted your comment before I had a chance to add other articles to the page - I'm nominating a group of articles that I feel are very similar. If that affects your opinion, please change your posting. -- (♫♫) 19:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

For he is a jolly good fellow...

..., and so say all of us!

Happy Birthday!

-- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. (talk) 18:09, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

New policy proposal that may be of interest

I'm tapping this message out to you because you were involved at the AfDs of Eve Carson or Lauren Burk. Following both of these heated debates, a new proposal has been made for a guideline to aid these contentious debates, which can be found at WP:N/CA. There is a page for comments at Wikipedia talk:Notability (criminal acts)/Opinions should you wish to make a comment. Thanks for your time, and apologies if this was not of interest! Fritzpoll (talk) 15:49, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

WP:LOTD

List of Presidents of Venezuela has been selected as a list of the Day for the month of April. Let me know if you have any strong date preferences before March 26th. Since it placed in the top 5 it will be recognized on two days during the month.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 07:11, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

View AfD - Articles for deletion/Sacinandana Swami (2nd nomination))

Please note that the discussion you were taking part in is being reopened with a veiw for deletion of article Sacinandana Swami as a possible result of the 2nd Nomination. Wikidās ॐ 20:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Defnyddiwr:OldakQuill

I've deleted the :cy user - hopefully that will have the desired effect. Deb (talk) 11:55, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay - try it now! Deb (talk) 21:39, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:World War II politics

Category:World War II politics, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 12:27, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year

Hi OldakQuill. With the year almost up, we're making an effort to reduce the number of listings at Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year. You've been a big help in the past with that project page and I am hoping that you can knock out a few to contribute to the effort. Thanks. Bebestbe (talk) 20:28, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Redirect of Mobian

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Strawhead

Hi OldakQuill. Thanks for the AR1 help. I moved Strawhead band to Strawhead (band) 'cause the term Strawhead is more known via Marilyn Monroe (here FBI nickname was Strawhead - go figure). Bebestbe (talk) 22:00, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Satanicide

• Cool article. Thanks for writing it! 14:32, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

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I'll try! Deb (talk) 11:46, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Not at all. Looking forward to seeing your wicipedia contributions... Deb (talk) 16:54, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews and Russert story

Re this, what I don't understand is why the NYT didn't mention wikinews... Carcharoth (talk) 11:55, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Wikinews didn't break the story, but as well as saying "Wikipedia correctly removed it", they could have compared Wikipedia and Wikinews, but sadly no-one does. From "19:59, 13 June 2008 UTC" according to this. Washington is EDT, which is 4 hours behind UTC. Russert's death was put on Wikipedia at 15:01 EDT, which is 19:01 UTC. NBC announced it at 15:39 EDT which is 19:39 UTC. So Wikinews was exactly 20 minutes after that. I wonder if Wikinews has a list of any scoops they got? Carcharoth (talk) 12:32, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Satanicide

Our Satanicide DYK nomination is being help up because someone tagged the article with tone and advertisement problems. Would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes to remove any tone/advertising problems. Thanks. Bebestbe (talk) 06:50, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

On 26 June 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Satanicide, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Daniel Case (talk) 17:08, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Apollo 13 FSC

I have improved the description about the recording, including location of recording, what it was converted with/to/from, I would be grateful for any feedback you could give. Seddσn ^{talk Editor Review} 14:53, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Image:Princess Alice.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Princess Alice.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Damiens.rf 14:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:Anotheronlinesource

A tag has been placed on Template:Anotheronlinesource requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:09, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Virus consensus?

Hi, thanks for your comments and concerns about the article. The edit you made was very helpful. The problem I have is that the article is getting too long. It seems to me that you are worried that the article gives undue weight to viruses of humans. I can see your point, but everything that I have written, about history, (mainly about a plant virus), structure and classification apply to viruses of all species. It was in the Diseases section, where I think your concerns were mostly based. Your edit and my additions to the other species section has helped re-dress the balance I think. Is there any chance of withdrawing your opposition now that we have reached, I hope, a consensus on this? As you know FAC is not a vote; so I have considered your opposition very seriously. Best wishes. Graham. Graham ^Talk 20:50, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for withdrawing your opposition. I envisage the human disease section might form the basis of a separate article at a later date, leaving a smaller section and a link behind. At the moment, I just want to survive this FAC—I find them a little stressful. Thanks again for the helpful review, I and others, took your comments very seriously and they will remain in my mind as I improve the article. Best wishes, Graham. Graham ^Talk 07:20, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

		Thank You!
		for your assistance in helping Virus to become a Featured Article today. It's much appreciated, Graham. Graham Talk 13:26, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Bondage hood

I have nominated Bondage hood, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bondage hood. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. ()() 00:32, 3 October 2008 (UTC) ()() 00:32, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Gold Beach, California

An article that you have been involved in editing, Gold Beach, California, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gold Beach, California. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Nyttend (talk) 21:41, 15 October 2008 (UTC)