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I noticed that you created the page
SMK Semera -- Thanks for Contributing! -- I wanted to mention that if you leave the page with only one line of content, it is likely to be deleted according to the
Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. Adding a few wikilinks will likely remove this threat.
Thanks and Welcome to Wikipedia!
Moogle10000 05:04, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
In order to improve it you need to find outside sources that state the subjects notability. It also helps if you add links to the article. (PS, Thanks for choosing me to help you, any reason why you choose me?) The Placebo Effect ( talk) 02:17, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
You need to find reliable sources (see WP:RS) that discuss the school. You haven't even given us a location or what grade levels the school teaches. These a minimum criteria for inclusion. See WP:N & WP:V. Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 03:27, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
You seem to be under a misapprehension about this template. If you want to talk to a specific user, to ask for help or otherwise, then just leave a note on that user's talk page, as you did on
User talk:Carlossuarez46. They'll be notified they have messages the next time they log on. If you want help and don't care who gives it, you can edit your own talk page (i.e. this page), explaining what your problem is and using the tag {{helpme}}
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list of people who need help, and someone should quickly come to your assistance. Happy editing!
Algebraist 03:53, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mark, welcome to Wikipedia. I did a small amount of editing to the SMK Semera article you started, mainly yo point out the specific places where you need to provide proper sources for the information in the article. One small matter: I note you are referring to yourself as a "new admin". On Wikipedia, administrators are experienced users who have a few extra responsibilities. Most users, like yourself, are editors. Its generally not a good idea to claim you are an admin here unless you are one: it could mislead other editors. Anyway, good luck and let me know if there are other questions I can help you with, Gwernol 03:54, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
I am Mark and i had created a page - SMK Semera but i don't know how to add a reference and there are so many [Citation Needed] template. The references are:
1. Asajaya/http:en.wikipedia.org.wiki/Asajaya
2.SMK Semera School Magazine
3.SMK Semera diary
4.Mr. Longgo bin Mohammad
I hope someone can help me out. Can you teach me how to give barnstars?
-- Mark Chung ( talk) 00:09, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
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I awarded myself for cleaning a useless template at HD179949 !-- Mark Chung ( talk) 01:02, 9 January 2008 (UTC) |
Hi.I am an editor and I want to be an adminstrator. What are the requirements to become an admin?-- Mark Chung ( talk) 13:08, 10 January 2008 (UTC){{ helpme}}
How can I notice, warn and fight vandals?
Mark Chung (
talk) 13:41, 10 January 2008 (UTC){{helpme}}
How can I get involved in Wikiprojects? How do I count my contributions? Manually (one-by-one) or with a feature? How can I know if an another Wikipedian is online or not?--
Mark Chung (
talk) 01:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC){{helpme}}
Please go to my user page...AFTER THIS! I want to sort the details to the right (neatly) like some of the user's user page but I don't know how! Can you help me to do this? Mark Chung ( talk) 02:35, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Where can I find more detail templates such as age, hobbies, favourites etc. ?(Like in my user page) Mark Chung ( talk) 04:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Mark, the link you just added to Microscope was to a site that has a copy of the Wikipedia article on Microscope. In other words it was a link back to an earlier version of the same article. This is not useful and I have removed it for you. You might want to spend some time reading our guidelines on external links. Good luck, Gwernol 10:06, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, and thanks for joining wikiproject chess! I notice you speak Chinese, and I would be very grateful if you could have a look at the Chinese Chess Championship. I translated this page myself from web sources in Chinese (although i can't read Chinese!). It would be nice if you could have a look at the article to see if there are any mistakes and perhaps you can fill in the missing winners (1962 and possibly 2007 championship). Possibly the winners can be found on the internet; but I just cant find them. All the best and happy editing! Voorlandt ( talk) 17:29, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
GOSH! I got thousands of questions ...... er ...... I mean 6
1.How can I link a word to a page (e.g. clicking "here" leads to another page etc.)
2.How can I make my name funky(e.g. ZacharyCrimsonWolf - clicking Zachary leads to his user page, Crimson for talk page and Wolf for contributions)?
3.How can I upload a picture?
4.Is there an editor can do but an admin can't?
5.How can I count other user's contibutions?
6.How can I protect a page?
{{helpme}}
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Mark Chung (
talk) 00:34, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
1. You can use "Wikilinks", which consist of placing [[ before a word and ]] after it (example: [[Sun]]; to change the text you see but keep the link destination, [[Sun|text you see]]. You can also use HTML linking; just paste a url into two brackets, like this; http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Mark_Chung link title].
2. You would just have to wikilink each part of the name. [[User:ZacharyCrimsonWolf|Zachary]][[User talk:ZacharyCrimsonWolf|Crimson]][[Special:Contributions/ZacharyCrimsonWolf|Wolf]] yields Zachary Crimson Wolf.
3. See WP:UPLOAD.
4. Nothing technical; I guess an administrator can't run for a request for adminship, because that would be useless as they already have it.
5. See here for a list of edit counters.
6. Since you aren't an administrator, and only administrators can protect pages, you should file a request at requests for page protection.
Hope that helps! Cheers, Master of Puppets Call me MoP!☺ 00:42, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
What is a bot? How can I have a bot? What does a bot do?-- Mark Chung ( talk) 14:39, 24 January 2008 (UTC){{ helpme}}
How can I create a new page ?{{helpme}}
I visited the
Department of Fun and found a fish related quiz. I would like to create a game like that too. How can I do that? Also, must I put a summary after editing? Will it affect my RFA in future or cause inconvenience? I saw that most of my edits are without summary in the Interiots Counter.--
Mark Chung (
talk) 03:28, 26 January 2008 (UTC) {{helpme}}
As you can see above, many Wikipedians disagree that I create a new quiz in
Department of Fun because they think I shouldn't play in Wikipedia(probably?). If so, who created the quizzies in there? I am totally stuck!--
Mark Chung (
talk) 01:35, 29 January 2008 (UTC){{helpme}}
I have created a portal called Portal:Animal and I am lacking of experience to edit it. Could somebody help me to improve it?-- Mark Chung ( talk) 14:05, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I had a look at my watchlist and found something like(+370),(-699)etc. What do these mean?-- Mark Chung ( talk) 14:37, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I want to put a link of my quiz on Portal:Animals like the fish quiz but I don't know how. Could someone help me to do that? The link to my quiz is at the bottom of my user page or at WP:FUN.-- Mark Chung ( talk) 02:27, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Animal | This user has won Animal Quiz I |
This is an example of userbox that I an going to award the winner of the quiz. Could someone help me to improve it such as adding a picture so that it looks better then the fish quiz UBX?-- Mark Chung ( talk) 03:19, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
This user was the winner of Tournament I in Animal Quiz |
. Cheers, Master of Puppets Call me MoP!☺ 03:25, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
This user has won Animal Quiz I |
This user has won Animal Quiz I |
I feel quite depressed. I want to link my quiz in my user subpage to Portal:Animal and change the title to Portal:Animal/Quiz just like the fish quiz. How can I do that? Could somebody help me to do that and inform me when you finished? Also, nobody is participating in my quiz since I created it. How can I encourage Wikipedians to participate?-- Mark Chung ( talk) 12:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC){{ helpme}}
Hi there. I just want to announce that this month's collaboration will be ΦЏ Orang Asli ЏΦ. You are encouraged to participate in improving the quality of this article by however means you wish. I would suggest that our target by the end of the month would be for this article to achieve a Good Article status. Happy editing! kawaputra torque 13:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
My quiz has been created about few weeks ago but nobody seems to know my quiz. I have already listed it at WP:FUN but I still get no response! How can I tell the others about my quiz? Secondly, I saw a few colourful, funky and creative signature! My signature is plain like Gwernol, Algebraist, Jayron32 but not Mentifisto, Omtay38, Mop, Kerotan etc. How can I do that? Thirdly, Nobody wishes me HAPPY NEW YEAR!(Just joking......) {{ helpme}}-- Mark Chung ( talk) 01:31, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
How can I find other user's secret pages?{{ helpme}}-- Mark Chung ( talk) 02:23, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate that you seem to be enjoying yourself, it's of concern that you appear to be mainly using Wikipedia for social networking activities rather than working to improve the encyclopedia. Please understand that Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site; there are other places that can be used for this. Thank you. JetLover ( talk) ( Report a mistake) 03:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mark. I don't mean to sound unfriendly, however I'm a little concerned over your editing pattern. Most of your edits appear to be in the userspaces (anything with the User: or User talk: prefixes). Wikipedia is an encyclopedia first and foremost, not a network for socializing. Your help is need to make it grow. I look on your user page and it says that you speak Chinese. Maybe could you take a look at helping to translate articles? Thanks, Mønobi 00:38, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but you have less the 50 edits in the mainspace, and none of the look like reverting vandalisim. I can't give you rollback unless youve shown that you know how to revert vandalisim. The Placebo Effect ( talk) 00:50, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mark. I may be able to help you. Can you describe what changes you want to make that I might be able to help you with? Gwernol 01:29, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Please go to User:Darkness Lord user page and go to the bottom. Notice "Psst, i'm active here!". Clicking "here" leads you to a crazy page. Is that a part of wikipedia?Funny ......--
Mark Chung (
talk) 00:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC){{helpme}}
Hello, mark. I've moved this to User:Mark Chung/Animal Quiz as it is better here than in Portal space. Cheers, Dloh cierekim 13:29, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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I thought you might like to know that the Awards Center page has been deleted, along with its newsletter. :(
So, where do we go from here?
To new and even more interesting projects, of course!
As announced in the newsletter, I've been preparing to co-coordinate a large collaboration/competition called Around the World. It was going to be run at the Awards Center, but since that no longer exists, the collaboration will be hosted somewhere else.
Around the World will begin July 15th as planned - it's location will be announced soon.
It'll be a blast. In the competition, participants will be helping to develop over 200 pages (drafts, which will be moved to article space once they are ready), using advanced tools to edit every single one of them!
This is going to be interesting.
And the event shall have awards which are being created specifically for it as we speak!
If you would like me to keep you informed of this and other interesting collaborations I'll be working on and/or organizing in the future, please drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll be happy to keep you in the know.
I look forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
The Transhumanist 21:46, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Which of the following medals looks better. This one:
Or this one:
Which one do you like better?
Please let me know.
The Transhumanist 21:10, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your feedback.
The Transhumanist 01:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Per your request, I've added a notice to the top of your talk page. To change the text in the message, edit the page User:Mark Chung/Notice.
I hope that fits your needs.
The Transhumanist 01:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
It's a collaboration!
A collaboration using advanced wiki-tools!
If everything goes according to plan, it will begin on July 15th.
The event is being co-sponsored by Wikiproject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia and perhaps beyond) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."
The set of pages we are working on is currently located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics.
Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of Wikipedia's contents system.
The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than getting stuck on a single country trying to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!
For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees. :) The energy is contagious.
And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.
The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.
For an example of what a nearly complete page looks like, see these:
There are only about 200 more pages to go!
During the collaboration, co-coordinators will be standing by, to lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators will also be using advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.
Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.
The Transhumanist 08:48, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Could you please ask some questions about SMK Semera? I am really STUPID that I don't know what to write! {{ helpme}}
I'm not following your question. If you have a question to ask, please reopen the helpme query and ask it. Jaakobou Chalk Talk 16:06, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Could someone tell me more about RfA review Recommend Phase? Here are my questions:
I have nominated Portal:Animals/Quiz, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Portal:Animals/Quiz. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Mark Chung ( talk) 07:24, 16 October 2008 (UTC) Mark Chung ( talk) 07:24, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Portal:Animals/Quiz, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Animals/Quiz and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Animals/Quiz during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Mark Chung ( talk) 07:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC) Mark Chung ( talk) 07:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed your Animals Quiz is at MfD, so I added a new question. I'll also modify the rules so the quiz doesn't stall like that again (as long as someone is maintaining it). Cheers! SunDragon34 ( talk) 00:39, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Penubag has been hard at work developing awards for this project. He has completed a very professional looking medal, and is almost done with a trophy that is truly awesome - both of these awards are visually stunning.
I and a few others have been working steadily on the country outlines - one for every country of the world! They're shaping up nicely. So far, 28 of them have been moved to article space - these aren't complete, but they are complete enough to be made available for readers to benefit from them. The rest of the set still includes temporary data that was generated by template (because it matched most but not all of the countries), and before the lists can be moved to article space, all the temporary data needs to be checked for accuracy, and if incorrect it needs to be replaced with correct information.
The effort on the lists has been on 3 fronts:
There has been some opposition to us running the contest based on edit counts or iterations. The concern is that we should reward quality work and not quantity, for fear of crappy edits done quickly without thought. I pointed out that the collection of pages are drafts in the Wikipedia namespace (therefore posing no danger to article space) and that most of the work needs to be done with power tools like AWB and Linky (which are specifically designed for repetitive work), but the reply was that we shouldn't set the precedent of rewarding barnstars for numerically-based tasks, and implied the threat of continuously MfD'ing the contest if we attempted to do so (like they did with the Awards Center - I was very surprised and disappointed that participants didn't step up to defend it). So we need to be careful in determining what exactly the awards will represent, and how they will be awarded.
Since rewarding iterations (passes with AWB on all of the pages in the set) are out, we really don't need the globe in stand anymore. Two awards should suffice.
Once we get started with the contest, I'd like to kick the whole thing off with a round of medals for those dedicated few who have worked hard on the project so far.
What do you think of all of this?
Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.
The Transhumanist 23:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
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Since today is my birthday, the birthday committee should have wished me...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY...
But they didn't.
How should I let them know?
{{helpme}}
Actually, I'm not familiar with these things. Where can I find more info about these things?
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Mark Chung (
talk) 03:18, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mark, surely you must be familiar with Wikipedia's core WP:Verifiability policy? The critical reception section needs to be constructed from information from reliable, independent sources. Now the nearest I could find to this was the two reviews I cited in the rewritten section. What do you mean by a website that has views from many people? If you mean forums, or blogs, or user-submitted reviews, then we simply do not use these as they are not reliable sources. Is "just a view from a GAMER" appropriate? When they are published by a reliable, independent source, they are the only things that are appropriate. In its current form, the section violates our WP:Original research policy. You can provide citations, or I can remove it again. Thanks, Marasmusine ( talk) 09:26, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mark. Based on the link you provided, [2], we can write: "AdventureQuest free-to-play spots are limited to 6500 players." Beyond that, you're delving into WP:Original research. The "bypass the server cap" section should not be used at all, as a piece of OR. I also see that the in-depth character class table and so on are back. This is excessive in-universe information; please see the video game article guidelines, particularly WP:GAMECRUFT, and the writing about fiction guidelines. Looking at the edit history, you also note that you removed my "critical reception" paragraph because the links were unreliable. Do you have any particular rationale for how OMGN and Grrlgamer are not reliable sources? If they aren't, then it rather leaves the article without anything to satisfy the general notability guidelines. Marasmusine ( talk) 13:27, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mark, I'm not angry, I'm very sorry if I sounded a bit short with you above. WP:NPOV is there to makes sure that you and I, the Wikipedia editors, write in a neutral point of view. We can print the opinions of other people, provided they have been published by a reliable source. If I take in account everything we've discussed today, will you trust me to make some changes to the article again? I'll start with the critical reception section, but I'll also include the server cap information that you've pointed out, and I'll correctly clean up the "game cruft". Marasmusine ( talk) 16:45, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
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I wish I were an animagus! 03:25, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your interest in this year's ArbCom elections. Unfortunately, we were required to set a criteria for voters, and that was decided to be the following:
According to an automatic check, which I confirmed by looking at your contribution history, you have not met the requirements. Either you have not made 150 edits to articles (these edits must be in the main namespace) or you did not make them before the deadline of 23:59:59 November 1, 2008 (UTC). I've indented your votes. If you believe I sent this message in error, and that you do meet the requirements, please let me know on my talk page. Thanks, ST47 ( talk) 20:42, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry I'm late - I haven't been on Wikipedia since before Thanksgiving (was out of town). Everything Marasmusine was saying seems reasonable - having verifiable sources is important. It seems the two of you have worked everything out now, right? If you want to look for sources, I suggest starting at the WP:VG's list of sources. Oh, and I do have an AQ account, but I rarely use it 'cause I'm busy and I prefer DF. -- Eruhildo ( talk) 03:57, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I have 2 questions...
-- Mark Chung ( talk) 07:04, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Talk:ARTICLETALKPAGE/Archive 1
. If somehow archive 1 is full, then create archive 2. --
Aleen
f1 07:36, 12 December 2008 (UTC)I had to make a sacrifice to the Gods. That's a total lie, I just used some "floating" code. This is it:
<div style="position: fixed; left:0; bottom:0; display:block; height:{{{1|150}}}px; width:{{{1|150}}}px;"><div style="position: relative; width: {{{1|150}}}px; height: {{{1|150}}}px; overflow: hidden">
This will decide where the picture is. Replace "left:" with "right:" in this case to decide where it will be.
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; font-size: 300px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 300px; z-index: 3">[[So sheepy...|...]]</div>
The line above will make an invisible link appear above the picture, so that whoever clicks on it will be led to the link's destination (in this case, the non-existent article on "So sheepy...") instead of the picture's file.
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; z-index: 2">[[Image:Sheep in gray.svg|150px]]
This line adds the image.
</div></div></div>
After you close it all up, you should get a floating picture in the bottom left corner.
As for formatting buttons, that stumps me; unless you've disabled them in your preferences, they must've just failed to load. There's nothing on my page which should stop them from showing up, at least. Hope that helps, Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :D 21:41, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
I read Talk:AdventureQuest and saw:
{{maintained|{{user|Eruhildo}},{{user|Veonyx}}}}
How are they nominated/chosen/qualified? Can I be one of them?
This most probably has the information you require. You don't have to be nomianted or chosen, you just place the template with your username substituted in it into the talk page of the article you have interest in. Please reopen or contact me if you need anything else. Mattie TK 14:27, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{
hangon}}
to the top of
the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on
the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact
one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. --
Collectonian (
talk ·
contribs) 01:15, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
It has NO references, it establishes NO relevance, and it isn't well written. If it fails speedy deletion then it will just move onto regular deletion. ムーカオズルール (Talk to Moo) 02:52, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Sock puppets are identified via behavioural traits (Fields of interest etc) and also IP or IP range checking methods. You became a rollbacker on the 29th of February 2008 «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l» (talk) 10:48, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
Help! I really need help! SMK Semera is nominated for deletion! User:Collectonian, which is a deletionist, nominated it for deletion! Please vote! (I hope you vote Keep) I've changed the article a little bit. Is the article okay now? Is there any way I can improve the article further? -- Mark Chung ( talk) 12:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
{{ helpme}}
Thanks for letting me know. I've watchlisted the page now, and will be interested to see what VicoMaster produces in response to Sandstein's suggestion. Putting his money where his mouth is, if thats the expression. Euryalus ( talk) 10:53, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
You have much you need to learn here. I think I will adopt you, even though it's a relatively new enterprise for me. bibliomaniac 1 5 20:51, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi fellow Malaysians! Please note that I have created a article entitled Kuala Terengganu by-election, 2009 for the coming by-election on 17 January, 2008. I would appreciate if Malaysians Wikipedians out there lend a hand and contribute to the article. Regards. Roman888 ( talk) 17:46, 30 December 2008 (UTC)