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Tuck into this! We've made about three of these in the last few days for various festivities. Supermarkets are stuffed with cheap berries. Season's greetings! Cas Liber (talk·contribs) 22:33, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
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After the video game character infobox was merged with the fictional character infobox, the italics became redundant. For a better explanation look at Nathan Drake who page currently italics on his series template and Elena Fisher where I removed them. User No. 99 (talk) 17:51, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hey there, thanks again for your cool lightning talk, and for offering to review one of my Good Article nominations. The ones currently up for review are:
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Cortana (Halo) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 22:00, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
The article Cortana (Halo) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cortana (Halo) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 23:01, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Cortana lauds
Apologies for the random message, but I just wanted to congratulate you on putting the Cortana article through the GAN process. As someone that has done work on fictional character articles in the past, it always encouraging to see other editors do similar work. Good luck with the article, particularly if you have the goal of getting it back to the FA level. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week! Aoba47 (talk) 21:21, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
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Organized by Asia Art Archive in America]and Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of the New York Public Library and in collaboration with Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, the Art+Feminism: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Women in Art in Asia helps participants edit Wikipedia to create and improve articles about women artists and practitioners in and from Asia, including architects, designers, filmmakers, curators, and art historians. Books and research materials—as well as refreshments—will be provided.
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.
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Update to DotA screenshot
Hey, there. I'm just letting you know that I've tweaked the description of File:Dota allstars game.jpg, to reflect on the Library of Congress' filing for the Dota copyright. According to the copyright, the final version - 6.83 - is co-claimed by both Blizzard and Valve, so I included Valve, as well. DÅRTHBØTTØ (T•C)20:14, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I've created the page for Un célebre especialista sacando muelas en el gran Hotel Europa and got it promoted to GA; since then, I've cleaned up the citations and expanded on the reception, context, and debate surrounding the film. I would now like to get it to FA standard, and saw you are listed as willing to mentor and peer review for this process and are interested in film; I'd love any recommendations you have. I've also asked other users who may be able to help, so no worries if not! Kingsif (talk) 02:13, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Hey Kingsif I'd be happy to take a look. Remind me in a week or so if I haven't posted comments on the talk page (I'm terrible about following through on wiki stuff these days so badgering helps.) Cheers. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk)19:51, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you today for The Mummy (1999 film), "an article about a B-grade film for you to chew on! Be savage and merciless!"! I will sing of mercy today ;) - tunes 400 years old and still fresh and exciting. Feel free to join in the peer review, - I love comments from people far away from a topic. Will look at one of the Mummy actors in return, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:29, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
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Here is good. Ealdgyth is ready to schedule August ... when she gets to August 8, you can create a TFAR for it if you like. - Dank (push to talk) 17:00, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
Wipeout 3 is a 1999 racing video game developed by Psygnosis and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation console. Players control extremely fast anti-gravity ships in a futuristic setting and use weapons to force other contenders out of the race. Psygnosis hired the British design studio Designers Republic to develop the game's look and feel, and solicited music from electronica artists for the soundtrack. Despite generally good reviews, the game was a financial disappointment. The next entry in the series, Wipeout Fusion, was released for the PlayStation 2 platform in 2002.
Looks good, but it's 620 characters with the "Full article" template at the end ... the minimum is 925, assuming we have an image. It's fine to post it at TFAR as is, if you like. - Dank (push to talk) 14:23, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
Your DYK nomination for Art Deco architecture of New York City
David,
Thanks so much for creating the article Art Deco architecture of New York City and nominating it for DYK! I really enjoyed reading and reviewing it. There are a couple items that need to be addressed before I pass the nomination: the presence of "this section needs expansion" templates and the handful of raw URLs for web sources in the references, which should use the cite web template instead.
Thanks again for all your hard work on this article. I look forward to passing it for DYK shortly! Happy editing!
Hey, quick question about your unblock of MPS1992. I originally blocked, and I don't think I was involved unless I was missing something? Cyber apparently was blocking at the same time as me, which is why it looked like it in the block log, but the original 48 hour block was mine after I gave a warning. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:40, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
Yeah, easy mistake to make. I'll put it back since given the talk page discussion since, my bet is that they'll go back to the same issues on the talk page. Anyway, thanks for the quick response :) TonyBallioni (talk) 20:45, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
Heh, I'm an idiot at misread the logs. It was about to expire anyway, and I went ahead and unblocked after reblocking because I don't get the point of a 3.something hour block and another 24 seems unfair. Anyway, thanks again for being so quick to respond. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:52, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
David Fuchs, how on earth can you possibly consider me involved? I have no grudge or bias against this user. My only “involvement” was to repeatedly tell the user to stop acting like an ass which they didn’t do, which equates to warning the user of policy violations.—CYBERPOWER(Chat)22:44, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
Cyberpower678 You instigated the entire argument with the user in question by waving around a "I'm an admin, what are you?" dismissive attitude. You were participating in the discussion. The fact that you don't see how that meets the threshold of INVOLVED is a problem. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchstalk23:56, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
David Fuchs, yea. That was a poor choice of words on my part. My intent was to say we all contribute differently in different areas. My attitude was hardly dismissive as I later apologized to the user because of my poor choice of words. It still did not excuse him to start attacking other users too, after multiple warnings to stop. So while I may have instigated an argument, unintentionally, I certainly didn’t get sucked into it. I’m generally great at establishing when I’m involved, but this one didn’t meet the threshold in my opinion, as all I was trying to do was to get the user to stop being uncivil. That is to say, I have no biases, opinions, or malintent against this user.—CYBERPOWER(Around)12:13, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
As an added note, I'm not saying I'm not willing to consider myself being in the wrong here, just trying to understand by sharing my viewpoint.—CYBERPOWER(Chat)14:20, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
Cami Bradley GAN
I believe I'm caught up. As for the delay, my apologies; I suffered a stroke several weeks ago, affecting my eyesight and ability to type. I'm recovering, but it's been slow. ATS (talk) 00:22, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
Deprod: Maureen Greenwood
Hello, I have deprodded Maureen Greenwood as it was previously discussed at AfD. I only did this for policy reasons and have no opinion one way or the other on the merits of deletion. Accordingly, I would not object to another AfD. Thanks, —KuyaBriBriTalk21:35, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hey I understand why you reverted the mummy page and I expected it. But it's difficult to read. There's a doctorate level article on a film from 1999. Isn't there any way to improve it? This isn't two sentences?
Filming began in Marrakech, Morocco, on May 4, 1998, and lasted seventeen weeks; the crew had to endure dehydration, sandstorms, and snakes while filming in the Sahara.
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