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Hi. You indefinitely protected User:Sango123 in March 2007. It's been over six years now. Could you please unprotect this page? --MZMcBride (talk) 20:51, 23 April 2013 (UTC)Reply


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Surely you jest

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Hi there. I trust you didn't really mean to do this. ;) Favonian (talk) 19:43, 10 May 2013 (UTC)Reply


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I was trying to add the shortcut "WP:RAR" because it redirects to the policy page WP:Removing administrator rights. I don't think you made the right choice about removing it. Please put it back if possible. If not, leave me a message saying why not. 2602:304:CE27:9C69:699A:F9D3:80F6:5EE1 (talk) 01:19, 25 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

That particular edition has been reverted before [1]. You also did not leave an edit summary Edit summary which is useful to other editors checking your edits. Also there are a few other username very similar to yours containing only numbers and letters, any input on that--Theda 02:53, 25 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
(talk page stalker) It appears to be an IPV6 IP address. I assumed that they were an IP editor, bu now I see that it is actually their username!   220 of Borg 03:24, 25 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
It appears that way but may well be something else [2] but who am I to point a finger. There are a quite a few of them curiously, just take a look at my contribs and one at least one more [3]. Might best report to them to WP:UAA, Maybe another admin may recognize has input if only on WP:IMPERSONATOR, they apparently arent going to render one. I would but I have to get bed to make a morning appointment.--Theda 03:53, 25 June 2013 (UTC)Reply


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I noticed that you placed the page Fupa (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) under creation protection. However, it shares the same meaning, "fat upper pubic area", with the acronym F.U.P.A., which still stands as a redirect to Abdominal obesity. Would you be willing to remove the creation protection for Fupa so that I can redirect it to Abdominal obesity? Otherwise, I will start the process of deleting F.U.P.A. for consistency. 93 16:15, 11 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Wishing Theda a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 23:17, 2 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Normally when posting these anniversary messages, I look up the applicable RfA to figure out how long the recipient has been an admin, so I can customize the header of the message I post. I couldn't find your RfA under your old username nor could I find any log of said action. I can only assume there's a reason for this. There's evidence that you deleted your userpage in June 2007, so you've been an admin for at least that long. Chris Troutman (talk) 23:17, 2 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Yes I was. Yes I had a name change for good reason. Theda 23:56, 1 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

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you have a good new year yes ? JarrahTree 00:35, 2 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

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