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Please add new archivals to User talk:AYArktos/Archive02. Thank you. AYArktos 23:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

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Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:34, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

My pleasure. Enjoy yourself on Wikipedia. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:29, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

City wiithout busses

One example is Bozeman, Montana. There are many others in the United States with only a dial-a-ride. Sjakkalle 10:50, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Fair enough, but some "cities" have less than 10 people and without enough people to ride if anyone is going to drive it. I agree that it is not really relevant to the vfd-debate. While I do disagree with your delete vote, I realize that this list article probably has a weak case and I will not be to sorry to see it go. In general, I am slightly inclusionist in vfd-debates, being influenced by seeing my first article being posted there. Sjakkalle 11:27, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for supporting my adminship nomination :) --nixie 11:52, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Schoolwatch

The WP:W Schoolwatch page was set up by me as an example and an attempt to stop some of the arguments about the existing schoolwatch page. I don't mind what you do to it - play around, edit it and if people don't like it they'll discuss it with you, no problem. Cheers, violet/riga (t) 17:27, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Geo stubs

Hi AY, those articles were marked as stubs simply because they looked small to me. Some of these community articles are bound to be short though I guess. In general, you might want to add something about the years of founding, some significant events, the local govt., maybe even map coordinates. Come to think of it, an Australian communties info box might help people from just slapping stub on it. Regards, Fawcett5 11:54, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Traralgon

I added it then removed it as its now part of the broader Latrobe City which is already on the list. Cheers.Andypasto 08:25, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Towns in VIC

Hi, ok, sorted out now. I'll fix up the three articles, and make a stub of Moe to be improved by someone later. Thanks for the help, --Chammy Koala 11:01, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Eucalyptus Photos

Hi Other than adding that the photos were taken at Swifts Creek Victoria (which IMO wouldn't be adding much to the caption) I couldn't tell you any more about the trees other than they are pretty much all are what is commonly called "white box". --Fir0002 08:09, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Brookie here

Thanks for the note - Wiki weeds do seem to have a life of their own! Kind regards Brookie:The grass on the hill 07:21, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

About Sunbul Effendi page

Hello. Unfortunately I cannot offer any opinion about the worthiness of this page. Though, being Turkish, I am not religious at all, and certainly have no idea about the significance of a given sheikh of Sufi order. Regards, -- at0 08:51, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank You

Hello, thank you for your consideration about my page, and as much as I am thankful for your help, my main concern is keeping my page up. So if u support the page, please post a comment on the deletion page. Thank you very much Twister3328

Bushfire and edit summaries

Regarding "remove reference to B52 song - not relevant to article", I would like to point out that many articles have small sections on unrelated topics of the same name that eventually become split out into separate articles. I don't really care about the B-52 reference, but I don't think your line of reasoning there should be extended to most of the remaining articles. ... Other than that, thanks for writing detailed edit summaries! Rl 11:05, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

VfD weirdness

It was my last edit of the day. I was well tired. Thanks for spotting the stray edit. ;) -- Longhair | Talk 02:21, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

can you help please?

im a new user and have found the archibald prize page has been vandalised it appears
that you have fixed it before is it possible that you could fix it 

again as i dont know how

        thank you 
                butch

you can contact me on butch11475@hotmail.com

Arbitration

FYI, Request_for_arbitration has been opened on user Internodeuser -- Longhair | Talk 10:53, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for updating the evidence page I am compiling against this user. It looks as though the matter will be accepted by the ArbCom and dealt with accordingly. I thank you for your efforts in combating nuisance behaviours and your support with stamping it out. Keep up the great contributions. -- Longhair | Talk 03:04, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:Richard I of England - Palace of Westminster - 24042004.jpg

Most odd. Someone removed the GFDL I'd put on this image upon uploading it [1]. Go figure. Thanks for alerting me to it, and also for the gallery tag ... I was by now vaguely aware of it, but have not employed it anywhere, largely 'cos it would be a pest to reformat my pages using it. It's handy now to have an example on my talk pages; I think I'll get around to using it when I summon enough energy to transfer all the GFDL images to the Commons. I've fixed the tag on Richard 1, btw. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Indian Railways

The Indian Railways is the current INCOTW and your vote helped select it. Let's all now make it up to featured status.

 =Nichalp (Talk)= 19:36, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)

Laborite

Just like to know for the Joe Lyons article why you changed Laborite to Labor Party member I mean I find it much preferrable to refer to an ALP member as Laborite rather than Labor Party member.

I personally use the initials ALP over "Labor" since The Australian Labor Party is its official name.--The Shadow Treasurer 01:06, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In response to your last message do I take it you avoid referring to the Republican Party in the States as GOP and the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, LDP since they are both well known internationally.--The Shadow Treasurer 04:47, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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In response to the message you sent me...

Opinions of Richard "The Lionhearted" in the Middle East are generally unanimous. Citing the general Middle Eastern view of Richard is similar to citing opinions of Hitler. It is common knowledge that Adolf Hitler is not considered to be a positive, integrity-filled leader.

Historically, what Richard did was in no way glorious. The crusades were executed for political reasons under a religious pretense that would later be proven false, and the Richard's knights were known to be very vicious and violent. To the Arabs, the crusaders were simply barbarians coming from the west with no reason to their knowledge. Prior to his death, Pope John Paul II made a public apology in 2000 for the Crusades (among other things), calling them "sins" and "atrocities".

Literarily... For a very good source on Middle Eastern viewpoints on the crusades, I highly reccomend "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes" by Amin Maalouf. This book is packed with many stories that are the opposite of the common Western fairy tale containing chivalrous knights and glorious kings, as well as several first-hand accounts of the crusades by people who were in fact present to witness the brutality with their own eyes.

Amazon page on The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

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Why did you remove the railway item from Holbrook, New South Wales? Your edit summary wasn't very clear. Ambi

Reply to [2]

I've recently asked the Nick Lewis, the writer of How the seductive power of video games is being harnessed to push deadly agendas, whether parts of this article come from Wikipedia's America's Army. He confirmed that assumption in an e-mail yesterday (see Talk: America's Army). Sorry for not having provided any solid information on Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2005. I'm new concerning this part of wikipedia and didn't have much time yesterday :)NightBeAsT 16:40, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Sockpuppet template

Hi AYArktos. I noticed the problem with the sockpuppet template myself, and looked into it further. It seems somebody broke the template when adding the evidence variable in the first place. There's discussion on the problem here. I think the template still gets the intended message across clear though, per chance any other user tries to make use of an ip he's used, we can only hope they see the sockpuppet notice and realise it's not them being the PITA. -- Longhair | Talk 23:31, 28 July 2005 (UTC)