CharacterZero

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Allamah Shibli Numani

Hi, you redirected Allamah Shibli Numani to Shibli Numani, which do not exist. And your comment on the talk page, "I figured that a merge was not necessary since the other article has substantially more info." suggests that a more comprehensive article exists. I can't find it with a search, so if you know the correct link, feel free to redirect it again. --Dodo bird 14:51, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Arrondissement of Alès

Hi, I see you've put a {{redlinks}} on this and there certainly are quite a few. I feel they serve a purpose in giving a complete administrative structure. The article is one of a series on the 342 Arrondissements of France and there's a project Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes on which I'm making some (slow) progress to turn the links blue. You'd be very welcome over there, if you're interested in that sort of thing! Dlyons493 Talk 22:05, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia survey

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Hi

Wow what a neat, tidy and optimistic Userpage. Anyway, just wrote to say that I loved your idea of turning the red links into stubs. It's probably a better idea than creating random stubs anyway. Dessydes 14:40, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

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I find you to be unhelpful. In fact, when I remake the world, you won't be in it, you backpacking joke.--Islamisbad 22:50, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Lawrence

Yeah, I'm a law student at KU, thanks for your help on KJHK. I kinda littered up the history, but now I know, next time I'll make all my edits at once. I think it's looking pretty nice. Thomas B 22:06, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

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I listed it for deletion per your comments on the talk page. Admrb♉ltz (t • c • log) 22:25, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Again

Hi again. Usepage still looking good, changed a bit though. I thought you'd like to know that for a while now there has been a Wikiproject dedicated to altering the state of red links, it is called Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery. Peace out homes. Dessydes 17:21, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Secret Society

I saw your work on KJ and the Wakarusa festival and thought I'd invite you to become a member of the WikiProject Kansas. If interested, simply add your name to the members list on the project page and add the template {{User WPKansas}} to your own user page. NapalmSunday 01:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Note @ KS project talk

Replied. J. D. Redding 20:44, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Stanley Clark School AfD

Hi CharacterZero (instantly recognized your username, by the way -- very cool).

I just wanted to drop by to say hi and good job. I actually had the Reggio Emilia approach article opened in another tab and was pondering whether it was relevant to the discussion (the whole derived notability thing, etc.). I guess I got distracted, switched to another virtual machine to test something and completely forget about the article until I saw your edit show up in my watchlist.

I suppose all we have to do now is figure out if this is a case of great minds thinking alike or of fools seldom differing.

Hope you have a great week. Cheers, Seed 2.0 19:57, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

• Hi, and thanks. I say we treat this as a case of great minds, until proven foolish. It's basically an innocent until proven guilty situation. Agreed? CharacterZero | Speak 01:18, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Catholic American entertainers

Hello. I commented to your suggestion about post-nominations. I agree. It is about time to rid wikipedia of these strange categories and lists. Bulldog123 04:31, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Haskell-Baker Wetlands

I find you to be unhelpful, you backpacking joke. Just kidding (that is one of the strangest lines I've ever seen on a discussion page, see above). Thanks for the heads-up on the NPOV tag. Off the record, I'm not disputing that the SLT would do harm to the environment, I just think that the controversy section is not very neutral. I added my 2 cents on the talk page. And, of course, Go Hawks! PeteJayhawk 13:53, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:CVU status

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Please re-register

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Asking for help on WiKUpedia project

Hi CharacterZero,

My name is Jarrod and I'm currently working on a project called WiKUpedia, with the goal of providing the one-stop shop for all things KU. We've had a tremendous response from the community since we went live on Sunday but we need help organizing and improving the wiki. We decided to reach out to experienced Wikipedia editors working on the WikiProject: Kansas. I saw that you've improved a few Lawrence articles like KJHK and Wakarusa Wetlands. You can read a little more about our project in a news story in the Lawrence Journal World

Please feel free to take a look around our project and if this sounds like something that interests you, please respond on my talk page or by email. Thank you so much in advance. Jarrodm (talk) 04:09, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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WP:Hornbook -- a new law-related task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi CharacterZero,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

• Each casebook will have a subpage.

• Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
• It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
• Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

• I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

• Email http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
• Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 04:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Talk:List of environmental lawsuits#Criteria for inclusion: overinclusive?

Your comment(s) at Talk:List of environmental lawsuits#Criteria for inclusion: overinclusive? are welcome. Wavelength (talk) 22:26, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

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--Kumioko (talk) 03:17, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Upcoming Wikimedia events in Missouri and Kansas!

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