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Happy editing, Isomorphic 17:10, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

NATO

Hello, we had discussion on my talk page a few days ago whether Latvia and other Eastern European countries officially join NATO on March 29 or April 2. I just checked NATO's homepage and they say it was March 29. So, I changed Latvia article to March 29 and, if you see April 2 anywhere else, that can be changed to March 29 as well. Andris 17:18, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Cthulhu & Co.

Thanks for helping out with the References to the CM page; I wasn't sure I'd get enough conent in before it got sacked by the VfD people. -Litefantastic 11:09, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Edit attribution

Hi. The edits from your IP have now been reattributed to your username. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 11:43, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

Hi again. To confirm, the exact edits reattributed to you were:

These were made quite some time ago (there's a large backlog for edit reattributions), so they're probably quite well hidden in your contributions list. Please drop me a note if this is not correct. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 03:14, 2004 Sep 5 (UTC)

re: Churro -- thanks for noticing!

Thanks for your kind words on the Churro shape -- it's one of those little things that's so easy to understand once you SEE it, but so hard to describe, LOL! I was making a similar simple image for Pipe using the auto-shape tools in Excel, and realized I could easily do a Churro as well. Create, alter, color as needed, then copy and paste into Fireworks to save as .png file. You can't copyright a shape, and the same could be done in any more complicated vector based image editor, so.... Anyway, it's just nice to have the little things you do noticed, so thank you for taking the time. Cheers! Catherine | talk 22:40, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

portuguese language

thanks for participating in the discussion!! you wrote very very nice posts, and i find the "Big, flashing, neon lights" bit particularly amusing. Vbs 09:20, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

that's the thing, Mackeriv. at the beginning, i WAS the ALONE one against PedroPVZ, really! well, some people would come and do edits, but he would simply revert them all, and people would just leave and never come back. who wants the hassle? he went on pretty undisturbed for months. i tried to show what was going on, but it seemed nobody would take me seriously (my emotional state demonstarated by my comments probably didn't help much either) and so i myself gave up for a while. then i came back, and even tried mediation which was unsuccessful because he declined. thankfully at this time, people like ray and you came to participate, so things got better and less hopeless. and i'm a brazilian for real as well!! but i always write in english because this is the english wikipedia after all, and i think it's fair that everyone should be able to see what's going on. and about the "complicatedness" of the language we speak, yeah, i agree it's real hard, but i think comparing languages adequately is probably even harder than that. valeu! Vbs 09:29, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
i'm still slightly confused about something you said. at the same time you wrote about the way people hate the old rules, i'm not sure what you really meant by "The Brazilian Portuguese is still very connected to the Portuguese from Portugal". as far as i can tell, the only connection is in books, do you not agree? also, one thing is the school curriculum, and quite another is the language we speak. or are you gonna tell me that you still remember the whole periodic table that we are supposed to have learnt? by the way, i did some small changes in the bp article, so please have a look. and if you know of a portuguese soap opera that wasn't dubbed, please let me know. cheers. Vbs 09:28, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

one serious problem i just found out. PedroPVZ is trying to get me banned. he is inventing things, and accusing me of being everyone else (apparently you) that is posting in the talk page:

"He even has another nickname and starts talking with himself just to people see he is correct."
"Another guy, came and said, that he was not correct. He immidiatly offended him also."
"One comment, he even says to the Brazilians to stand off for his country."
"the guy is now taking is revenge, is constatly changing my password."

please have a look at his "comments". sorry to get you involved in this silly war. Vbs 12:31, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

hi there. i NEVER said that EP was similar to latin, NOBODY did. what i said was that having to learn some of the things we do in school is like having to learn latin. that "vbs said EP=latin" thing is plain bull. if you pay a little attention you will notice that many of my arguments are often distorted in an attempt to invalidate them. here is what i said exactly: "we are taught many verb forms, conjugations, etc, that sound extremely archaic to us, but i guess it's a bit like learning latin". unless these people have a really poor english, i think it's pretty clear what i tried to say. and i didn't say that EP was hard either. i DID say EP is hard TO UNDERSTAND, and that EP is very different from BP. but even if they were officially two separate languages that still wouldn't necessarilly make EP hard for brazilians, just like spanish isn't. Vbs 09:52, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hellsing Alucard/Dracula?

Thanks for cleaning up the rest of the article... i had to run so i didn't have the time to even spellcheck my own revision. I'm not in favour of saying Alucard IS Dracula, but i'd like to hear someone on that... so i'd appreciate if you dropped in Talk:Hellsing and dropped a line or two... thanks again for the cleanup... --Asmodai 22:05, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)

Re: Castlevania infobox logos

I responded to you at User_talk:Thunderbrand. Andre (talk) 17:46, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism by Ziegenpeter

I have left a warning on his page. I will warn twice more, then if he continues I will find out how to block him for a lengthy period of time. Thank you for listing him on Vandalism in progress and bringing this to our attention. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:29, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Anime and Manga

You may be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and Manga. -Pyrop 00:11, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

It's policy to call "fixed name sections" by a ehm.. well, fixed name. So even if there's only one external link, it's still called external links. It's in the Wikipedia: policy documents somewhere, I can look it up for you if you want me to. &#0xfeff;--fvw* 01:55, 2004 Dec 17 (UTC)

Ho, ho, ho! Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 05:33, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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