City of Destruction

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Marek.69 ^talk 23:11, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

• Hi, thank you very much for your welcome. :) City of Destruction (The Celestial City) 21:50, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Ray's Hell Burger

I'm not sure if I'm to post here but didn't see another place. Kewl picture!! (and name). I only added categories to the page and really have no concerns whether the page is deleted or not. I really appreciate being notified though, you are very thoughtful, and I thank you. Have a great day and feel free to delete this if you so wish. l santry (talk) 17:15, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

July 2010

Welcome and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page King's Men worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you. I couldn't see any reason for moving the list around. I've rolled back all your edits of this page. tb240904 ^{Talk Contribs} 22:35, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Col des Nuages derailment

Thanks for taking a crack at cleaning up the article—I noticed it was a little less than encyclopedic in tone, and I was planning to give it a once-over when I get the chance, in the hopes of getting it ready for a submission to DYK. I've been working with some related content in my sandbox, so I could potentially add a fair bit of referenced info to the article from French military archives, at least enough to get it up to the ~3,100 characters required for 5x expansion of this article. If you want to keep working on the article and do a joint DYK submission, let me know! --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 23:04, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk page :) No worries about not knowing much about the topic. Actually, you're not alone. When I saw you'd made changes to the article I started looking up some salient facts about the derailment when I realized that there's close to no information about it anywhere, except what was printed in an Associated Press story after the event. And worse yet, while trying to corroborate the story with French and Vietnamese sources, I found that they gave not only a different date for the derailment, but different casualty reports too (20 killed, 46 wounded). Confusing ;_; So yeah, I kind of doubt I'll get it to DYK, since I probably won't find enough info to push it up to 3000 characters. Thanks for your willingness though :) If you ever feel bored and need something to do, feel free to copy edit some Vietnam-related articles—a lot of them really need it! --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 13:57, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Baganda people

Hello! Your submission of Baganda people at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Nsk92 (talk) 20:01, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Just letting you know that this is still an eligible DYK candidate, but time is running out for a hook to be decided on. Your thoughts on another alternate hook would be appreciated. Best regards, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:16, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!! Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 17:50, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Non-free files in your user space

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DYK for Baganda people

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DYK for New Zealanders

— Rlevse • Talk • 00:03, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Edit Summaries

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source

He city, Just a question on your map heading you added to failed state on somalia: Somalia's internationally recognised Transitional Federal Government controls only the blue areas of this map as of July 2010. Do you have a source for that? we could use it at Talk:Somalia... L.tak (talk) 22:45, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Your question at Talk:Leo Ryan

I agree with your January, 2011 question at Talk:Leo Ryan regarding his status as the "only member of the U.S. Congress killed in the line of duty" especially if the example of Larry McDonald is taken into account. --TommyBoy (talk) 05:51, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:25, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

New Challenge for Oceania and Australia

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Happy Passover!

Happy Passover!

Hello City of Destruction, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this passover. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a happy passover or easter, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy editing, 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 18:26, 16 April 2022 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Happy Passover}} to other user talk pages.

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Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay

Golden Bay Air are holding some seats for us until 21 November

Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics. Schwede66 09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 24 § Category:Assassinated journalists

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 24 § Category:Assassinated journalists on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. HouseBlaster (talk · he/him) 20:13, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

London book event for "The Editors"

Hello - Reaching out because I saw that you were listed as a Wikipedian from London.

I am a writer who has covered Wikipedia for Slate, The Washington Post, and other publications.

My novel The Editors is inspired by Wikipedia and was published earlier this month. As part of the book tour, I will be in London on Thursday 29 of August at 6:30 PM at Newspeak House.

Details for the event here: https://lu.ma/ubri3176

Sorry for the short notice, but if you are able to attend the event, it would be great to see you there! No RSVP required; just show up at Newspeak house on Thursday evening. Stephenbharrison (talk) 22:39, 27 August 2024 (UTC)