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The Assignment edit

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. You have not provided any context for this article, so how can you expect people to understand what the nature of the article is in order to expand it? You need to provide basic details, as found on the movie template (look at a page such as The Matrix to see a template in use) and details from IMDb.com  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  12:11, 4 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Orphaned fair use image (Image:96729329 2b15138205 o.jpg) edit

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Orphaned fair use image (Image:New home page.jpg) edit

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Image copyright problem with Image:Arabsat.gif edit

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List of Billionaires edit

Hi Didimos. I'm sorry but I don't understand what you're referring to. On the list of billionnaires article, an anonymous user made multiple edits, each one adding more nonsense to the article. As far as I can tell from studying the article's history, You came along and performed the very valuable service of attempting to revert one instance of that vandalism. However, that did not fix the numerous other places where the vandalism appeared. I then reverted the article back to a prior version where none of the vandalism appears. Since your only contribution was to replace Bill Gates back on the list, in place of Alex Cooper who had been improperly added, I don't know what you are referring to regarding Ken Thompson.

Personal Attacks edit

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August 2006 edit

Hello, I think you accidentally blanked the end of List of billionaires (2006) here: [1]. In other words, you deleted the end of the page, possibly by accident. I fixed the problem. ~a (usertalkcontribs) 16:02, 8 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

YouTube edit

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it was firefox's problem edit

it wasn't intentional,i fixed it tough!

Okay, no problem. Thanks, RexNL 21:56, 3 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

do u think my edit is right?

Ja Rule edit

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AfD tags edit

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Comparison of BitTorrent sites edit

Hi, I saved a backup of the pacge a few days before it was deleted. The current article is at User:Ultra-Loser/Comparison of BitTorrent sites, but I would recommend that you don't restore it until everyone agrees that it's worthy of being in the encyclopedia. Ultra-Loser Talk Comparison of BitTorrent sites 08:23, 26 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Image:Jarulerap.JPG listed for deletion edit

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Requesting protection for Ja Rule edit

I read your request in wikipedia:requests for page protection, and I think there should be some edits, including your sig, before they delete an unsigned request. Also, we always use ===={{l?|????}}====. Other than these errors, you did okay. --Gh87 06:46, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

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You helped choose Environmentalism as this week's WP:AID winner edit

 
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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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