BioTube

Hello

Hey! I wanted to mention that the article on Squelchies, which you wrote, is very impressive, and you have a right to be proud of it. However, some people, myself included, do not think it meets Wikipedia's notability standards for computer software, and are considering deleting it. If you disagree with this, there is a 7-day period of debate on whether the article should be deleted here. Your input is welcomed! Where ^(talk) 03:43, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Award

Where hereby awards BioTube the exceptional newcomer award for his or her promising work on articles.

Squelchies

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Just for clarification: you can remove {{prod}} notices, but not AFD notices. The prod notices say on them that you can delete them; the AFD notices have comments in the edit form that say not to delete them. Where ^(talk) 01:40, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Your AFD remark

It would be helpful if you could state your reasons for why you think the article should be kept. Where ^(talk) 23:57, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

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Decolonization

Dear BioTube: I believe wikipedians are generally discouraged from having their Userpage redirect to other pages. Regarding Decolonization, please see my comments at User talk:68.108.118.13. I'm afraid your comments to the user are making the situation worse. This is a collegial effort requiring cooperation and compromise. I can protect the page and block the user, but I'd rather work with him or her to improve the article than respond punitively.--Rockero 20:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

It was just anger. The fact was he was refering to the US as simply a country that was't legitimately decolonized, but as a completely illegitimate one. And I'll removed the redirect. BioTube 20:19, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Tion (combination)

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Tion (combination), by Ptcamn, another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Tion (combination) fits the criteria for speedy deletion for the following reason:

Not a tetragraph. This is just a string of four letters.

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It's possible that the ti might be considered a digraph (since it's pronounced "sh"), but the o and the n are pronounced exactly as you would expect them to be (compare e.g. beckon). They don't form a tetragraph. --Ptcamn 01:17, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Is 'ti' by itself ever used to represent the /ʃ/? If ghoti's the only such us of those two letters, it would seem to be more a tetragraph. Something to look in to. BioTube 01:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

"Alsatian"? --Ptcamn 01:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Merriam-Webster lists the pronunciation of "Alsatian" as "al-'sA-sh&n" and the pronunciation of "nation" as "'nA-sh&n". "Tian" seems to be a variant, at least in English. BioTube 02:12, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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FrameBuffer UI

Hey, I was doing some research on alternatives to X11, and I saw on the front page of the framebuffer UI article that it's only available in kernel 2.6.9. I see from the change history that you made changes in that area. The latest kernel release just last week was 2.6.22.5 if I'm not mistaken. Did you mean to put 2.5.9? If that is the case why was it removed? I would like to know, it would help me out a little bit. Thank you :-) Hendrixski 15:58, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

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I fixed the rationale. --Enric Naval (talk) 15:55, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

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