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It's been four months. How about unprotecting it so that we can get some good edit wars going again? ;-) --Eliyak T·C 16:09, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Saskatchewan Wikiproject expansion

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Do you think that SK is ready to start a Saskatchewan portal? This would help us to increase our {Saskatchewan} presence in Wikipedia, and help to emphasize feature articles, or works in progress on the three wikiprojects - Sk WP main, Communities WP and roads WP. Do you have the time to start the layout of such? Should such an enterprise be proposed in the WP SK newsletter or begun so that folks can add their 2 cents as it also grows and expands? Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 18:54, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Another article, Jewish reactions to intelligent design, was protected at the same time as the first. Your assistance appreciated. --Eliyak T·C 03:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good Evening (GMT time); I see you've recently protected the above article. However, I'm currently Mediating this case, on behalf of the Mediation Committee, and it is my wish, as the Mediator of this article, that the article remain unprotected from edits by registered users.

This is, I believe, an action that will protect the case, and retain the voluntary nature of Mediation. Therefore, I'd like to ask you to lift the protection from edit:sysop, move:sysop to edit:autoconfirmed, move:autoconfirmed.

In addition, this is to prevent the locking out of some parties from the article, but not others: a few of the parties are Administrators, but the majority are not.

Kind regards,
Anthøny 21:00, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the page should be unprotected, and would add that your protection seems to have removed a great deal of sourced content [1]. If users are not able to work together, as clearly evident from their edit warring, block them rather than blocking everyone else from editing the article. As it is, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was just released from a two month full protection less than two weeks ago. - auburnpilot talk 21:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Autoconfirmed Proposal

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I've tagged it as {{historical}} - as it's unlikely to happen, remember Wikipedia:Delete unused username after 90 days?? - that was in the same vein as this proposal, but was rejected. Same thing will happen here.

It's a bad idea, so just leave it tagged as historical, 'kay?? --Bolusball200 20:01, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

August Volume 1, Issue 3 Newsletter

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 3 - August 2007

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Request for comment

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I recently peeked into a new wikipedia area to me...and stumbled upon ... 5 Brendon Demerais. Is it an article worthy of submission? ... As it is something that a Saskatoonian has entered a drifting event in the U.S. You seem to have more experience on Wikipedia and thought I would ask this of you. SriMesh | talk 04:35, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moving Milena velba to correct capitalization

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This article was created with an incorrect capitalization, presumably to get around the protection of Milena Velba, the correct spelling. Looking around, it seems an unreferenced version of the article was deleted at the start of the year, and several attempted recreations were deleted as "recreation of deleted content". After thinking about it, I think a professor at a respected university claiming the world's largest anything is sufficiently notable for an article. This is to notify one of the deleting admins; if you disagree, let's talk on the article talk page. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 14:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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UCAS Protection

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Please take a look at the article's edit history - perhaps I worded my request in such a way as it seemed preemptive, but it's not, vandalism on the article is currently very high. TheIslander 00:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kelowna, Kamloops, etc.

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If you haven't seen it yet, I'm compiling a list of Canadian cities (cities only, not towns yet) for which "City" currently exists as a redirect to "City, Province", so that they can be systematically reviewed as to whether the plain titles should become the article titles or be converted to dab pages instead. I'm not entirely done the section for Quebec yet, since the whole ville problem makes that one a vastly longer and more daunting list of cities to plow through, but the list is at Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Cities if you have any input or want to help review which ones should be nominated for moves. Bearcat 00:41, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Quebec edit war

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You mention protecting Quebec until the dispute on the "Quebec is a nation" are resolved. I think it would be appropriate to do so now, by reverting the page to its initial state: without "Quebec is a nation", a (highly) POV statement maliciously added by Pgsylv (talk · contribs). Thank you. Tomj 00:18, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I showed how Quebec is a nation just like Scotland. I proved it with scientific method. The majority of specialists says that Quebec is a nation. Lexicon has used a speech of S. Dion on Youtube as a reference wich is weak and biaised because S. Dion is a Liberal politician. Since the french version says Quebec is a nation at the begining and that it has been accepted, it should be the same way in the English version. It's no big deal. Scotland is a nation after all, but its country is the U.K. Same thing with Quebec and Canada. Thank You Pgsylv 03:14, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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France

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Thanks. I'm trying to build an encylopedia here by filling in the red links first. Then info boxes are added then the article itself begins to develop as most of the articles we have on wikipedia on places today. the bot will come along and add locator building the wiki map. Yet some user added a speedy biography tag to them!! I find it easier to stub them first and then develop them later at least the encyclopedia recognizes these places as existing then . ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Talk"? 20:32, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disturbed song article A7

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Hello!

As you most probably know, you have taken out a speedy deletion template from an article I tagged. I understand why you may think this is not covered by A7, and I apologize. The discussion I had with the author of the articles can be seen [User talk:Zouavman Le Zouave#RE: Disturbed Song Articles|[here]], where I explicitly asked him if he was okay with the deletions. Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I am glad to see that you actually checked before deleting! ;-) Zouavman Le Zouave 21:14, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cliff's notes thing of the whole Sazabi/Jagd Doga/Zeong dispute

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Basically, the articles were improved greatly by User:MalikCarr a while back. User:A Man In Black, who, by the way, has a rather long rap sheet, came along and started futzing with them, eventually sawing out large portions of the article and attempting to impose a new infobox, against consensus.

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Tibet

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More problems with proposed deltion of new geo articles. PLease see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Demqog and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deleg (2nd nomination)‎ thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Talk"? 17:57, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The SPC article

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Hey royal. Thanks for having my back on the old SPC article. Would you mind replacing the current image of the card with the new card? I have no idea how to do it myself. Thanks! Spyco 05:32, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the protection, so speedy! JavaDog 18:59, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

=NAMBLA

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You unprotected it this morning and the vandalism is already beginning. I do wish you'd reconsider, or at least give editors warning on the talk page before taking such a step. Jeffpw 11:10, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I see you have had a hand puttering at this article - it is at Featured article review/Louis Riel. My first time at a FAR. I added requested references, and updated images. Do you, in you considered opinion, think there should be more inline citations? I don't know what to do with the first references begun on the page, they appear with a bullet in the reference section, and follow behind my citations added which use Citation templates. Do you have any comments for the folks at Featured article review? SriMesh | talk 02:26, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Please re-block 66.129.5.5

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Hi. I see that you blocked anonymous edits from 66.129.5.5 (The McCallie School) back in January 2007 for 6 months. Well, they're back to their old tricks with a vengeance, and have messed up the Beowulf article a treat. Could you restore that block, and for a year this time. Please.--Farry 12:57, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Two questions

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How can I keep a user from trumping up complaints about me to an admin? Should I file a complaint for his threats, or the things he's done already, just to let them know theres a problem? The other thing is: why am I listed as one of your tools?FlaviaR 03:49, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Love page lock

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RG, I suggest that you re-add the new user lock to the love article; it has already had five vandalisms this day alone. It's too much effort to keep a page like this on our watchlist if all the edits are love notes to people (even the talk page is the same way). Please put on permanent lock. Thanks: --Sadi Carnot 14:37, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One user who is blocked did all the recent vandalism. It's not really that bad. It would just be nice if people didn't all the sudden panic when a page is unprotected. It's not the end of the world. I'm not going to reprotect, but you are free to ask another admin, although most wouldn't reprotect one day after unprotecting. -Royalguard11(T·R!) 18:20, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
R.G. thanks anyway, I've asked other admins before. I just think that certain pages should be perm-protected. If you change your mind let me know. --Sadi Carnot 00:45, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

UBM guideline

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Moved to Wikipedia talk:Userbox migration. Please feel free, obviously, to continue the discussion there. - jc37 19:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Back - could you undelete my userpage

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Hi Royalguard11, I'm completely back on wikipedia (the addiction no one can shake off). Since I db-u'ed my userpage when I left out of frustration (the last time the userbox deletions flared) I'd like to ask you if you could restore it for me. I'd ask El C who deleted it for me but his talkpage kinda confuses me :D. Best wishes! CharonX/talk 00:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Page protection

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Hi, Royalguard11. You recently unprotected the article Abortion. There have been 3 incidents of garden variety vandalism since then.[2][3][4] The nature of the article's topic makes it prone to disputes, but, with the semi-protection in place, we at least haven't had to worry about dealing with the daily occurrence of hit-and-run vandalism in addition to the unavoidable disagreements over content. Would you consider re-protection? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Severa (!!!) 07:28, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Severa about reinstating page protection. I have started a discussion topic on talk just in case there are objections. See Talk:Abortion#Page_semi-protection. Since you unprotected the page, I am soliciting your opinion specifically (but don't feel obligated to reply). Thanks for your consideration.-Andrew c [talk] 00:17, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Having some problems with a user

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I'm having some problems with User:Necator. We are currently engaged in a content dispute over the S-400 Triumf article; Necator keeps inserting POV and irrelevant unsourced material, whereas I have been attempting to keep the text neutral. He has violated WP:CIVIL on a number of occasions and violated WP:3RR twice in the past week, as well as accusing me of being a sockpuppet of User:MalikCarr and falsely reporting that I have been violating policy and inserting POV material, as per his recent edits on the administrator noticeboard and the Wikiquette Alerts page. Jtrainor 21:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, he accused me of being a sockpuppet of you, I believe... in any case, I would be happy to comply with any administrative requests to facilitate an end to these allegations and relevant nonsense. We've all got more important things to do, I'm sure. MalikCarr 12:33, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Genghis Khan

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Hi - why did you delete the page called lignicolous months ago? Was there a better page? Thanks. I need a page to refer to lignicolous fungi, i.e. those that grow on and decay wood. Heliocybe 17:53, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image source problem with Image:George Reed.jpg

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November newsletter and election

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You added a note on the WP SK talk page regarding the election, would you care to add it into the Nov newsletter?

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WP Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

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Can you if you have a spare moment pop into the talk page for roads and highways and or the issues added to the talk page for user ultraflame. There are quite a few highway articles, and decisions undergoing, and it may be of assistance to ultraflame / Sk roads and highways to give road and highway articles under deletion / merger/ etc an added two cents worth of another opinion. I don't know who else to contact to formulate various decision making processes which seem to be underway, or it it best to let things run there course.SriMesh | talk 02:19, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Possibly unfree Image:George Reed.jpg

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Can you semi-protect my talk page, please?

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I'm having a problem with a couple of anon IPs that are annoyed at me for nominating an article they like for deletion recently. Both have dropped false warnings on my talk page a couple of times, and I'd like said page to remain vandal-free (one of the anon IPs has a number of vandalism warnings) Jtrainor 22:05, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for move protecting this page. Unfortunately, you did it right after someone moved it back to the POV name. Is there anything that can be done? I'm watching this page so feel free to respond here. Carter | Talk to me 02:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks man. Carter | Talk to me 03:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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    John Hale

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    Oh, sorry about the quotes thing, I was just trying to point out that in the play/book, which I'm writing an essay on, it says that Hale is famous for discovering that an accused woman was not a witch, not finding someone to be a witch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.3.244.252 (talk) 06:50, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Québec

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    English has an official statu perhaps in the Quebec but its place is not in the infrabox! bye ! Lipton1995 19:12, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]


    It is you the "vandal" ! Me I live in the Québec, of you of in the Saskatchewan then I think that I know the Québec better than you! Furthermore if English has an official statu in the Quebec then French has an official statu in the Saskatchewan !?!?!

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    The only thing they are complaining to be about is rule 10c, which says that each fair-use image has to have a rational for each use. I just add the line "Image is used in the articles X and Y to illustrate the subject." As long as you have the names of the articles written down somewhere in the image discription, the bots should be happy. --Arctic Gnome (talkcontribs) 23:31, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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    Page Protection

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    Hi, Royalguard11! Well, I just survived my RfA, and the first area of cleanup I'd like to get involved in is unprotecting those pages that I mentioned. Would you mind giving me a bit of advice on this process? I've completed the "New Admin School" on page protection, but I have no clue about this "Office Actions" thing, and the protection page says "be careful with indefinitely move-protected pages", but doesn't say how or what I'm supposed to be careful about. So - any advice? :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:59, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Twinkle Not Working

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    Responded. Hope this fixes your issue. ffm 00:29, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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    Thank you so much for protecting Wayne Howard when people were posting then-unconfirmed rumors about his death. Someone has just placed his funeral home notice (http://www.funeralplan2.com/hullfh/obituaries?id=115850) on the Talk page, so it's safe to unprotect the article when you have a chance. And a funny thing, but out of all this I'll bet a lot of casual Wikipedians learned a bit about research technique. Thank you again! --Tenebrae (talk) 01:55, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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    I noticed you unprotected this article along with several others. Was this one intentional? - auburnpilot talk 23:55, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks, I failed to notice the absent "W". When I saw it pop up, I couldn't believe somebody would actually unprotect GWB. - auburnpilot talk 23:58, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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    We did carbon-copy the English on this one, actually. Chatham used to be an independent city within Kent County, perfectly replicating the one in England — a municipal merger less than ten years ago is the only reason there's a hyphen in it now. Bearcat (talk) 21:52, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I'm curious why you didn't just merge this rather than taking it to AfD. DoubleBlue (Talk) 05:29, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Unprotecting

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    I was hoping you'd read my notices on Talk:Cancer and Talk:Obesity. On both these pages, the vast majority of anonymous edits (before protection) constituted vandalism. Either would attract 20-30 vandalism edits a day - some very defacing and awful. I will not reinstate these protections without giving you time to respond, but I urge you to reconsider. JFW | T@lk 00:00, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    On what grounds (i.e. policy) do you decide whether 1 month is excessively long for a major vandalism target to be protected? JFW | T@lk 00:03, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    As a fellow admin I am distinctly disappointed in your abrupt termination of our conversation with "eight and a half months is excessive. Period." I have given you a reasonable argument why these pages would benefit from protection. You have not given me a reasonable argument about what constitutes "excessive", on which grounds and on the basis of which policy. Unless you can clarify this urgently, I will have to request community opinion on this matter.

    Like many other editors, I am not prepared to let six years of hard work - editing, consensus building and sourcing - get destroyed several times an hour by mindless vandals who take delight in adding that "Rick is fat" or "your mom has cancer". JFW | T@lk 00:11, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    For purposes of clarification, I am basing my actions on this policy: "Articles subject to heavy and continued vandalism, such as the George W. Bush article." The policy does not quantify this, but I believe both pages are subject to heavy and continued vandalism. JFW | T@lk 00:17, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    The pages in question were semiprotected. The protection was completely according to policy, and I believe you are riding roughshod through a very touchy issue. I'm afraid I've had to leave a message on this matter on WP:ANI.[5] JFW | T@lk 00:26, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Your reference to WP:OWN (on my talkpage) doesn't come into the picture at all. As I stated, these pages are the result of many users seeking consensus. JFW | T@lk 00:28, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I would also strongly suggest that you cease unprotecting pages while your actions are being questioned. JFW | T@lk 00:32, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]


    Ditto

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    I came here to question your decision to unprotect Ugliness. The article was vandalized just a half an hour after you unprotected it. Vandalism to that page has been reverted 17 times in the last five days. If you are going to unprotect a page that is subject to heavy vandalism then you should at least take some responsibility for reverting the vandalism. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 21:21, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I appreciate that you're busy. Please appreciate that several admins (and some bots) have been made busier by the removal of the semi-protection. I suggest you check the articles you unprotected and see if any should be re-protected. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 23:12, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Request for full protection on Waterboarding

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    Hi, could you consider reprotecting Waterboarding again so we can trash out a new revision to the lead. Unfortunately after all the hard work it is devolving back into a main page edit war, slow for now - but I think it will get bad again. We need to get a more encompassing consensus lead agreed in the talk page, but this is not being helped by a few unilateral edits on the main page - I haven't counted, but I'm sure #rr is getting hit again, but more importantly it is clear as long as it is editable we will not be able to calmly develop a replacement lead to accommodate some recent arrival's wishes. I think most of the protagonists are willing to work on it and give ground in Talk:Waterboarding - but the developing edit waring in the main article doesn't help the cause. Say 2 weeks, earlier by request if we can trash it out. Inertia Tensor (talk) 00:45, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi could you remove the protection. Tensor was premature in the request and furthermore was actually the only person who was edit warring. There is a great deal of discussion on the talk page and protecting it the article without evidence of an edit war makes the discussion moot. See the talk page where Tensor asked for a vote on protection and everyone there disagreed. --Blue Tie (talk) 14:45, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I believe you have protected and then logged off. No appeal to you is possible. I am going to post on AN/I to get the block removed. --Blue Tie (talk) 15:07, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Brad Wall

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    I reverted blatent vandalism (removal of links) from you, and I removed information on a former member of the Saskatchewan Party caucus that was completely based on rumour and innuendo, not fact. Such has been thoroughly discussed on the Brad Wall "talk" page, and a consensus was reached that the material on Brenda Baaken did not belong, much as certain material does not belong on Lorne Calvert's page.

    Your comments on my talk page were completely innappropriate.

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    Hello, I'm dropping you a note because you are listed on Wikipedia:Protected titles/Specific Admin as an admin that is maintaining a personal SALT page. Recent software updates now allow deleted pages to be protected just like other pages. Please consider migrating any pages on your personal list to normal protections, and clearing them off of your list. There still may be situations where a personal list may be the best way to handle a page though. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 02:50, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Asian fetish

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    Thanks for putting up the protection. Tkguy (talk) 04:54, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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    A request for your consideration regarding CAT:AOTR

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    ...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "O"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "P"s through "S"s! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 04:17, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]