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I apologize for prodding the page you made. At the time, I thought prodding was the way to go. Had I looked more closely, I would not have prodded the page. When I follow the newest articles at Special:Newpages it's like taking a hefty dose of caffeine. I digress. I just wanted to say that as a human, I err (sometimes more often than other times). I look forward to seeing new articles from you in the Newpages area! - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:14, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Sarah Jacobson proposed for deletion

Someone has tagged the article that you helped created on Sarah Jacobson for deletion. If you don't want this article deleted I recommend that you join in the debate and leave feedback on the talk page - click here. --David Straub 07:43, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Make sure to leave some comments at the proposed deletion page too at click here - And if you have any friends make sure they leave comments too. Other wise it will probably get deleted. Also, add some more sources and citations. If you have several that will lessen the likelyhood of deletion.--David Straub 11:04, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I think you've improved the article to the point that they would have a hardtime justifying it's deletion now. It would help if you also found sources for information in the last paragraph. Also, the editors on wikipedia get really anal about all the correct tags and coding, because it's a pain for them to have to fix all of it. They'd rather delete a page then fix it. I input the wikipedia tags for the references. One problem is that once these editors propose a page for deletion they'll ask all of their editors friends to support them in deleting it. So you may want to go to the talk pages of anyone who has supported the deletion proposal and leave comments. Finally, a lot of these editors who propose deletions write really horrible articles themselves, and you might want to point that out. I'll keep an eye on the page. --David Straub 01:02, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Yea, that was impressive the support this article got in the end. Good job updating the article. If you need any other help in the future let me. Bytheway, I was in the same high school as Sarah Jacobson. She was two years ahead of me, but I never knew her. It was only later I learned that I had gone to school with a film director and then the next thing I knew she had died. Life goes fast! --David Straub 12:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for the help with Mr. Lady Records. Proto::► 20:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

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Hey there. I saw your edits at Queercore and Dumba, and would like to ask you to join WikiProject LGBT studies. :) Would you be interested? Cheers Raystorm 22:48, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

List of queercore bands

There has been some discussion about removing external links from the List of queercore bands page -- do you want to take a look and see what your opinion is?--Larrybob 01:33, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I agree that it is useful information. I have worked for a long time to try to share information about queer culture through my zines and websites, like Queer bands on tour. There are sites that have tried doing collaborative queer culture things which weren't exactly wiki-like, more like collaborative blogs, like Queerkit and Queerpunks.com. It's a little frustrating that there doesn't seem to be one central place where everyone knows to go (though even when there is a central place like GayHipHop.com not everyone goes there...) Bands come and go, and not every one is notable enough to warrant a Wikipedia article. There is certainly plenty of other stuff in Wikipedia which is not encyclopediac in nature. --Larrybob 18:39, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

The article has now been deleted, but I saved the content in my user space: User:Larrybob/List_of_queercore_bands -- information may be useful in the future. --Larrybob 19:29, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

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Hiya Shadows

You added a link to Daniel Nicoletta at Harvey Milk, which is currently being reviewed at WP:FAC. This is not the best time to add a link to an article that doesn't exist; it might weigh against us at FAC. Is there an article coming in the near future on Daniel? (Feel free to reply here.) - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 12:48, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

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Category:Canadian record label compilation albums

Hi Intheshadows

I have reverted your edit to the Categories for Discussion (CFD) debate at CFD January 14 on Category:Canadian record label compilation albums. That discussion had been closed, and was clearly marked as such: "The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it."

The discussion was relisted at CFD January 29, and you are welcome to comment there if you want to. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:03, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. many of your edits over the years seem to be around this band and their members. Graywalls (talk) 20:34, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

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• My dear friend User:Bearcat, can you tell this editor Graywalls to stop haranguing me. I did one edit after not editing for months and he or she has accused me of being a paid editor. If this was the case, editing a couple of edits every few months is sure not going to bring home the bacon, that's all I can say. Right?Intheshadows (talk) 23:51, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

The above is a standardized boiler plate message. Your edit pattern over the years suggests possible connection to G.B. Jones and/or Fifth Column (band). I left you the first note. You did not communicate, however you were editing G.B. Jones again shortly thereafter. I left you another note asking you to clarify whether or not you have any connection to the band, but you were right back to editing G.B. Jones again without taking a moment to clarify the simple matter asked in the request. You technically did respond but, it is not all clear what you're saying. Graywalls (talk) 02:12, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

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