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I see you have added the necessary internal hyperlinks to 109 Sqn SAAF. I have been churning our articles on the disbanded squadrons of the SAAF, with particular reference to the WW2 era. It would be super if you could do the same for the other Sqn's as what you did for 109 Sqn. My intention was to come back and re-visit the articles from the perspective of links, but I fear that's not happening!
However, I do not think its necessary to link all dates in the article - simply results in too many links on the page!
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So, on your alternate account's talk page, there is a tag claiming that you understand what alternate accounts are for and will abide by policy. Are you quite certain you understand WP:SOCK? Sending your alt account a welcome message and then using another account to give yourself an apparently completely undeserved barnstar strongly suggests that you do not. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:36, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Licorice is not made of rat's blood. Someone added that to the Licorice page. I undid that. You undid my undo, saying it wasn't constructive. But I just wanted to point out that licorice is not, in fact, made of rat's blood. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.116.88.129 (talk) 01:20, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
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As I said in my previous message, I tried all the tutorials and samples and instructions, and none of my pictures, references, links to websites, magazine publishers, etc. uploaded or added to my article. Can't I just send them to you to add ??
- for the barnstar. I'm very happy that you took my comments in good faith, and don't hesitate to ask me if you need help with anything :) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:37, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you again, but im trying some good skills for myself. I really know what mistakes I did. In the next several months, i may be improving but im not sure. Thanks --Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 23:39, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Here is a partial list that I believe should be more than sufficient:
Orphaned non-free image File:Kweku Adoboli in court.jpeg
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Answer to Muhammad Ali question about relevant sources.
Dear Katarighe,
Were you asking if there were more relevant sources than The New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Miami Herald? I'm not following? Would these not be the best possible sources that exist? If you can edit this it would be much appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Creed81 (talk • contribs) 18:55, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am confused as to why my edit was reverted. I changed a factual inaccuracy so it would be up to date. The "5 million people" was based on the notion that every video view is equal to one person viewing it. Either way, Harvard Sailing Team's videos have since surpassed 5 million views and are upwards of 8 million views now. You can confirm this on http://www.youtube.com/hstsketchcomedy
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Thank you for participating in my request for adminship. Now I've got lots of extra buttons to try and avoid pressing by mistake... Redrose64 (talk) 15:07, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Redrose64! Since you are an admin now and a person closes as sucessful, you don't need autopatrolled, rollback and revewier userboxes. You just the admin userbox identifying you have admin rights. These three are automaticlly granted together as your admin package. Thanks! Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 21:00, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for making a report on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, it appears that the editor you reported may not have engaged in vandalism, or the user was not sufficiently or appropriately warned. Please note there is a difference between vandalism and unhelpful or misguided edits made in good faith. If the user continues to vandalise after a recent final warning, please re-report it. Thank you. The user in question had only one edit. There is no reasonable way to determine if an account is VOA just by that.Alexandria(Ni!)15:39, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Mostly were copied from his websites, he must give a spepic source and these photos are not acceptable here. It most be verifyied properly or he can upload here instead. Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 01:19, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello. It appears that you are creating lots of categories and category talk pages. Please let me know, because I've thought about this and I still can't really see how they are useful. Thanks. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:57, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed that you have just added article ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the Basque nationalist and separatist organization) to Category:Government of India using HotCat. I was wondering if this could be a mistake, since I don't see any relationship between both (in particular, there is no mention of India in the article itself). Since I'm not knowledgeable in the matter, I have not removed the categorisation from the page; I leave that up to you, if you find it suitable. Thank you for looking into it. — Wlgrin (talk) at 00:20, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
You can close the current review and open a new if you want to do that for whatever reason, but once other users edited that page it no longer qualified for speedy deletion per creator or user request. It is not in your userspace and five other users made substantive contributions to it. This makes it look like you are trying to hide anything you perceive as a negative comment related to you. That is not a good thing. These reviews were made in good faith in an attempt to help you. The idea is for you to learn to do better, not just to be a prep session for some future RFA. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:54, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I have an account on Commons so I understand the copyright policy if its safe to move there but since you are a bureaucrat in incubator, I'm semi-active and I want to gain extra tools there before applying for an RfA here in 2012. Is that okay for me? --Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 22:28, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
You have to request it at I:A, but it would be good to see over 100 edits though. Right now, you have 17 (22:50, 22 October 2011 (UTC)). When you gain more experience, I would be glad to nom you. But right now, you may do some general maintenance work, nominating for deletion, helping with prefixing un-prefixed templates, and other things. ~~Ebe123~~ (+)|(+)}} talk Contribs22:50, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
And here again we see more unhealthy focus on gathering shiny things to mark milestones as prep work for that RFA, when, as I and others have endeavored to communicate to you, you should be more concerned with acquiring experience at actually editing Wikipedia and showing the capacity to learn from your mistakes and listen to honest, constructive criticism when it is offered. It's up to you how to proceed but when you post that RFA and it doesn't turn out the way you wanted you won't be able to say you were not warned, repeatedly, that you were adopting the wrong approach in treating adminship as a trophy. It is not a trophy. It is a set of tools that require demonstrable judgement and experience. It is not just a "level up" that you get when you collect enough tokens. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:44, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Beeblebrox for you spectacular help. You really understand about my unhealthy focus, like admin-ship is not like leveling up to collect tokens. I would really like these tools for me but I don't have the time to get them until I approach my behavior. I assume good faith on other users and have experienced for 6 months approx (some I left due to a wikibreak). You understand my enthusiasm for this but my idea is I have to wait until my mistakes is solved. I would not apply RfA because your brief explanation is good that would lead me successful . Do you seem I'm a good user? Have I been vandalizing or edit warring? Tell me the brief mistakes that I should solve but thank your for the great explanation. I really like it and you're a good user experiencing the standard offer. Again, thanks Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 16:02, 23 October 2011 (UTC) also check this for issues 1. Thanks Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 16:06, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
I haven't seen you vandalizing or edit warring. With all the editing here though you may have missed this edit in which I identified a serious problem right here on this page. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:15, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Not sure what you mean by asking "what is it then?" If you are looking for a single, simple answer to what you need to do to pass an RFA there isn't one. But using another account to give yourself an undeserved user award sure doesn't help. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:21, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Please don't subst a sockpuppet template or a indef-blocked template when tagging a user. Not only does it create unnessecary byte usage on the page, some templates aren't even supposed to be substed. Just use {{$1|$2}}, where $1 is the template name without the subst: at the beginning, and $2 is the parameter(s). This is much more efficient, and this also allows a mass update of the template usages with one edit. Thanks. LikeLakers2 (talk | Sign my guestbook!) 23:31, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
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G'day from Oz; the images aren't non-free, and shortly they won't be orphaned either. I am uploading one more image, then I will add all the images I have uploaded today to the gallery on my User page; then I will add them to the appropriate articles. Kindly remove the tags from the images. Thank you YSSYguy (talk) 13:18, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Re. Majid Jafar Photo on Wiki opage - thanks for yout feedback and I have tried adding the relevant info as requested but am a bit confused as to if i have done it correctly - according to where i took the photo it is owned by Chatham house but is in the public domain and available to be used. can you tell me the exact code i need to put in the description if i have not done it correctly? many thanks jamesmaharrison — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamesmaharrison (talk • contribs) 10:59, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for declaring you help in EU-Related articles, but on your user page, you say that you have IMPROVEDSIGNIFICANTLY 100 euro note and 20 euro note when you only:
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Hello Katarighe, I noticed you'd started to leave a note for me then removed it, but in case you still had a question about that, it is not possible to reattribute edits made while logged out to an account. There's no technical means to do so. Sorry. Hersfold(t/a/c)17:16, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
You're right about the image. If you can delete it or get someone to delete it, please do so and I will re-upload it with a description and a valid licence. --Alexcoldcasefan (talk) 17:48, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
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