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Welcome to Wikipedia. I'm seeing more and more Agorans here all the time... Michael Slone (talk) 17:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

RE: Template:TCG Set

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Thanks for the comments and suggestions. I'll look into them. I'll be leaving out Expansion Symbol as that can be added in the Image tag. Thanks again for your comments. Double Dash (Talk to me) 18:31, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Regarding edits made to Rampart (arcade game)

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Yorkshiremen (game)

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I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Yorkshiremen (game), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Please do not remove the notice without addressing the issues it mentions (it is considered vandalism). Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. McGeddon 17:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Starfleet General Orders

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AfD nomination of Starfleet General Orders

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italicizing titles

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Hi, rather than putting double quotes around titles, you can use doubled single quotes to produce italics.

For example, ''Temples of Syrinx'' renders as Temples of Syrinx.

The slant "I" button will put these around any text you have highlighted. --Jtir (talk) 20:02, 27 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Wikiproject tamu

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Howdy! As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject Texas A&M, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Texas A&M University. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks and Gig 'em! Oldag07 (talk) 04:08, 21 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

April 2008

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  Please remember to mark your edits as minor if (and only if) they genuinely are minor edits (see Help:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearranging of text without modifying content should be flagged as a 'minor edit.' Thank you. --EEMIV (talk) 02:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hi

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Please don't remove {{or}} tags

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Hi,

Your recent edit to the Dinosaur Comics article inadvertently removed an [original research?] tag from some questionable material in the article. Please make sure to leave all tags intact if you are moving sentences around in an article. Thanks, Politizer (talk) 02:44, 22 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

I agree that the parallel is pretty strong, but unfortunately our opinions don't matter. If the opinion isn't attested somewhere in a valid third-party publication (for example, an online review of Dinosaur Comics that specifically says something like, "And one plot arc had Utahraptor visiting a mirror universe based on the Mirror Universe in Star Trek," or an interview in which Ryan North states that he intended to parody Star Trek), then we shouldn't include that comparison in the article no matter how we word it. If you manage to track down, however, a review or interview that can be used as a source (either a source claiming that North was intentionally parodying Star Trek; or a source pointing out the parallels between the two mirror universe stories without necessarily making any claims about North's intention; or a source discussing how the "Mirror, Mirror" episode of Star Trek has spawned multiple spinoffs and then mentioning Dinosaur Comics as one), then you are welcome to integrate that information back into the article. Until then, however, we can't speculate on whether or not there is any doubt about that parallel, because just saying "there's no doubt" is not something that can really be verified.
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Ada Lovelace

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I reverted your change as section titles should follow the guidelines here (see bullet 4 in the Article title section, which applies to these section titles as well). Happy editing. (John User:Jwy talk) 05:55, 15 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, I looked too quickly and saw career -> Career and didn't notice that Early went away. My apologies. (John User:Jwy talk) 14:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

LASFS dues are $3 per meeting, not $5

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Way back in July of last year, you changed the listed dues amount on the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society page from the correct value of $3 to $5. Maybe you got it confused with the new member fee, which is $5? In any case, I just fixed it. Thought you should know. JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:34, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject View Askew Invite

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December 2009

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  Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Brazil (film). Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also useful when reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 16:13, 13 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Audio theatre an article to audio dramas

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Please if you have time and you know anything to it (I have seen that you have made edits in the article area which owns relations on it - Dark Empire) , please look on the article Audio theatre, somebody placed a erase discussion on it. after we have had a merge discussion. It would be interesting what you would say to the merge and the delete discussion. )-: --Soenke Rahn (talk) 02:58, 22 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

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