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  Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that recently you carried out a copy and paste page move from Three-bolts equipment to Three-bolt equipment. Please do not move articles by copying and pasting them because it splits the article's history, which is needed for attribution and is helpful in many other ways. In most cases, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. If there is an article that you cannot move yourself by this process, follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Also, if there are any other articles that you copied and pasted, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. Russ (talk) 15:38, 12 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Userboxes

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The new PADI and CMAS userboxes I created are at {{PADI_Diver}} and {{CMAS_Diver}}. If you choose to use the new ones instead of the first drafts of these userboxes, your user page will automatically be placed into the following categories: Category:PADI divers and Category:CMAS divers - Gr0ff 20:36, 16 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Oh thank you very much and I think you should replace the old ones on WP:SCUBA page. What about NAUI, SSI and TDI? And, hmm I like that new ones. :) Good job. Yegor Chernyshev 20:38, 16 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hi, You can use the userboxes if you want, no problem. I had a userbox that gave the time spend underwater, but something was wrong and I did had the time to have a good look at it, will do in the near futher. Scubafish 11:20, 18 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Technical Diving International

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I started a bare-bones article for TDI. Feel free to expand the article if you get a chance. I'm also considering creating an article for their sister organization, which is called SCUBA Diving International.
- Gr0ff 15:31, 17 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

It looks like someone already started a little article for SDI. I'll add a logo and some references so it doesn't get deleted.
- Gr0ff 16:46, 17 October 2007 (UTC)Reply


Cool. Thank you for that. But I'm not a specialist of TDI and also I'm short in time, so I'll expand the article as much as much time I have. --Yegor Chernyshev 23:58, 17 October 2007 (UTC)<Reply

Userboxes

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Yes you can use any of my userboxes that you want.--Java7837 19:39, 17 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Diving-Agency Userboxes

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I added the userboxes you posted on the WP:SCUBA discussion page as templates. See the discussion page for their locations. I also added categories for each of them. Now if anyone uses them, they will automatically be added to Category:BSAC divers, Category:IDF divers, Category:IANTD divers, Category:SDI divers and Category:TDI divers.
- Gr0ff 22:37, 17 October 2007 (UTC)Reply


Thats cool. -- Yegor Chernyshev 22.19 18 october 2007


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Alexander Nesmeyanov

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HI nice Russia article by the way - some of the Russian articles I've looked at are admirable. I have specific request for the good article on russian wikipedia on Alexander Nesmeyanov to be translated at present it is only a sentence and the russian article a 30kb full written article, Could you be so kind as to translate . Thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Talk"? 21:45, 13 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

WP:SCUBA Newsletter Issue #1

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Welcome
Since this is the first issue of the WP:SCUBA Newsletter, I wanted to take a moment to welcome you as a charter member. We are starting a project with the goal of organizing an enormous amount of information, but as participation in WP:SCUBA expands, so will our editing power through collaboration. Please feel free to invite other interested Wikipedians to join our project.

Categorization of WP:SCUBA Articles
I believe that we need to adopt a categorization system to begin organizing these articles. Some categories exist, such as Category:Diving equipment, and can be utilized. The end goal should be to have a set of general categories (less than ten I would hope) that can be used to categorize ALL articles that fall under the scope of this project. Subcategories can then be utilized where needed. This will also help us identify where work needs to be done to further the WikiProject as a whole. Please post comments at the bottom of this page and let me know what you think.

Article rating for WP:SCUBA
As you are hopefully aware, we place the {{WPSCUBA}} template on the talk page of any article that falls within the scope of WP:SCUBA. It is a standard practice to use the Project Template to rate articles as stub, start, B, GA, A, etc. I invite you to research what is involved in setting up a rating and reporting system for WP:SCUBA as we currently do not rate our articles. This will help us identify the most important articles to our cause, and easily see which articles need the most work. Please feel free to post any questions on my talk page.

YMCA SCUBA
It has been my personal goal to start creating articles to cover all of the major scuba diver certification agencies, and categorize them as Category:Diver training agency. On the List of diver training organizations YMCA SCUBA links to YMCA (diving organization), which then redirects to YMCA. The problem is that the YMCA article doesn't discuss their recreational diving program anywhere. I would like to start a separate YMCA Scuba article using the information on their Official Site, and fix the redirect at YMCA (diving organization) to point to the new article. I invite you to post your thoughts and opinions on these actions on my talk page.


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WP:RUSSIA roll call and your input required

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Privet. You are receiving this message as you were listed on the membership list of WP:RUSSIA at Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia/Members. Recent times has seen minimal activity within WikiProject Russia, and there is an attempt to re-invigorate the project and have it become more organised into a fully-fledge functioning project, with the aim of increasing the quality of Russia-related articles across English wikipedia.

As we don't know which listed members are active within the project and Russia-related article, all listed members are receiving this message, and are requested to re-affirm their active status on Russia-related article by re-adding their username to Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia/Members by adding # {{User|YOURUSERNAME}} to the membership list. You may also like to place {{User Russian Project}} on your userpage, as this will also place you in Category:WikiProject Russia members.

There is also an active proposal on the creation of a single WP:RUSSIA project. The proposal can be viewed at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Russia#Proposal_for_overhaul_and_creation_of_a_single_WP:RUSSIA_project, and your comments and suggestions are welcomed and encouraged at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia/Proposal.

We all look forward to your continued support of WP:RUSSIA and any comments you may have on the proposal. --Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 04:28, 2 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

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Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:02, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

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Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)Reply