You contacted me on Swedish Wikipedia about an interview with
Åse Kleveland that you are setting up for Wikipedia/Wikinews. So kind of Stefan to mention me. These are some questions that you could ask her:
You used to be Managing Director of the Swedish Film institute. What do you feel were the most challenging aspects of that job?
At the SFI, what kind of initiatives did you start? Which projects are you particularly proud of?
Some critics have claimed [weasel terms here, but I think that she knows what I am talking about] that the SFI have funded too many projects made by already established directors and producers, instead of trying to find new talents. Do you think that is a valid description? If so, what can be done about it?
During the 2005 Guldbagge awards, there was a big controversy. It turned out that the jury hadn't seen all the 33 films and thus only nominated three films for the awards. What are your recollections of these events? What happened internally at the Film institute afterwards?
Which of the Guldbagge winners for best film during your years as Managing Director did you like best?
You contacted me too. I have no questions, but it's a great interview object! She has been a Person in Sweden and Norway at least since the early sixties. Keep up the good spirit! // Best regards
Mankash (
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19:26, 1 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Colin Berry
Hi Mike. had a look at the article. Don't really know anything about the subject unfortunately, so I dodn't think I can help with it, but well done - the piece reads very well.--
Tuzapicabit (
talk)
23:58, 4 July 2008 (UTC)reply
WikiMeet
Hello...I'd like your help in getting a meetup for wikipedians in Tampa at USF. A friend of mine has agreed to let us use some space in a computer lab on the USF campus. I've read the directions, but I'm still not completely sure of what I should do. The date I've picked is August 13, 2008, at 7 PM. Can you help? Thanks!
Hires an editor (
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20:56, 8 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Hi there. Didn't realise these songs didn't have articles - although I think the groups do - which virtually amounts to the same thing! "Making your Mind Up" certrainly does, cause I contributed quite heavily to it. I absolutely hated "Runner In The Night", but I think "I'm Never Giving Up" is one of the best entries ever - along with the 81,82 and 84 entries. I'll have to have a look at the Sweet Dreams page to see if it needs anything added (I know that the follow-up was called "17 Electric"). Maybe a picture of the single sleeve could be added - pictures of records seem to be more acceptable than pictures of thre actual artists it seems.--
Tuzapicabit (
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07:55, 19 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Had a quick look at some of the surrounding pages and the artist pages. Certainly work needed on some of them - and references. Perhaps we need to get some continuity boxes in there, I'm surprised they don't already have them. Not much time at the moment, but I might be able to get an hour or two in a couple of days. Thanks for pointing them out. By the way,
Belle and the Devotions follow-up single was called "All The Way Up".[1]
Added in bits and pieces to a couple of entries. I'll have a look at the other pages later. Also put in succession boxes to each of the Eurovision artists. [2]
Hi again. Unfortunately, all my images have been tagged-so it seems the two that I put are to be removed. To be honest, I've better things to do with my time than try and put a fair use rationale on each of them, so I'm just going to let them go and not bother uploading any more pictures. I wish some of these people would get a life and be more constructive than just spoiling everyones pages. The guy in question is
User:Sfan00 IMG and from his talk page it seems he's getting up a lot of people noses, but you just have to feel sorry for him. Never mind, doesn't really bother me! The articles are coming on really well by the way. --
Tuzapicabit (
talk)
22:28, 21 July 2008 (UTC)reply
RfA Thanks
Thank you for participating in
my RfA, wich was successful with 73 support, 6 oppose, and 5 neutral.
I'll try to be as clear as I can in my communication and to clear some of the admin backlog on images.
If there is anything I can help you with, don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page!
– but I'm not really interested, I hardly ever edit anymore, in fact I only change things that really stand out negatively when I come across them – and feel like it. So thanks, but no thanks. — Emil K.(talk|contribs)14:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)reply
Hello again. Just quickly had a look at some of your Eurovision songs pages. Quickly threw a picture sleeve of
Better the Devil You Know (Sonia song) on there - I see you've put a fair use rationale on the other two I did, so thanks for that. I quite like
Sonia, so I might do some work on her page(s) - although I don't know why she's listed as
Sonia Evans when she was only ever known as Sonia.But anway, I digress, one quick thing - in your page for her song you say the following: " "the devil you know" (her uncontrollable affection for her boyfriend) instead of "the devil you don't" (his erratic, uncertain behaviour). " - surely the phrase "Better the devil you know" refers to the belief that you're better off sticking with what you know, so "the devil you don't" would perhaps refer to another potential boyfriend? Just a minor point really, but that's always the way I've thought of it. What you think? --
Tuzapicabit (
talk)
01:47, 6 August 2008 (UTC)reply
I agree and disagree there. There is no doubt that "
One Step Further" was far more contemporary than all other Eurovision songs up to that point (probably the reason why it did so well in the charts - ie. it worked as a 'real' song), but I don't think it bears much resemblence to the electronic music popular at the time. The live version of the song however loses much of the effect also, as it's down to the intricate production of the recorded version which gives it its' contemporary feel.
The song was hugely backed by many people (
Terry Wogan, the
bookmakers), and I remember myself on the day of the contest, having bought the single, thinking how could anything beat such a great song, but was horrified when I heard the mess displayed at the Eurovision itself. The lesson seemed to be learned that contemporary pop songs - and big chart hits - just didn't work when translated to live 'orchestral' productions in the Eurovision. A similar situation occured years later with
Gina G, which was also similarly a big chart hit and sure-fire favourite to win on the day.--
Tuzapicabit (
talk)
12:41, 6 August 2008 (UTC)reply
There is a discussion under way on what this project should include. Currently, the main topic is only the Eurovision Song Contest. Some believe that both the Junior Contest and Dance Contest should be included. Tell us your thoughts at
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Welcome to the first issue of the WikiProject Eurovision newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.
About two weeks ago, I was
bold and decided that our entire WikiProject needed to be reorganized. I am seeking to put into effect new guidelines on page layouts, templates, and basically to make all related articles consistent. Part of this reorganization included improving our assessment department since one didn't really exist before and completely reformatting the main page.
Also, it is my opinion that the project be renamed "WikiProject Eurovision Song Contest" and that the Junior Eurovision Song Contest be officially included. I believe that the Eurovision Dance Contest should be separate since it shares nothing in common aside from the EBU.
We also need to work on bringing new members into this project; especially during these months when not much is going on in the Eurovision world. If you would like to invite someone to join the WikiProject, our
invitation template on their talk page. Now is when we need to get our project's pages up to par for next year's contest and make everything as accurate and in depth as possible. Let me know if you have any comments or suggestions for the project on either my talk or the project's.
I'm not trying to pick quarrels, I'm really not. But I am trying to pin down the history of the Jewish cumminity in Penaascola, and I am having toruble. I canot, for example, find a reliable source for the construction of the earliest synagogue building. Lots of congregations are organized and pray in some space or other before building a synagogue. And I find it diffucult to believe that a congregation in that era was created de novo in 1876 with a charter anda building. Usually the ceretery was organized first, then a congregation, then (after they get the money to gether) a building. It wyould be useful if you could bring some sources for the knowledge that you obviously have.
Elan26 (
talk)
16:12, 14 August 2008 (UTC)Elan26reply
I would truly like to know more about the two previous buildings. Do you have photos? Can you post them? I found a reference to a congregational history and added it to the page. Perhaps you have a copy and can use that to straighten out the history. It may well be the oldes synagogue in Florida. But the information needs to be validated.
Elan26 (
talk)
16:19, 14 August 2008 (UTC)Elanreply
"the date we're looking for"? Please be more specific. What date? I am looking for sources. and I assume that there will be a series of dates, cemetery, first record of meeting for prayer, etc. If you want to date the synagogue building, fine. I would love to have a source. But the date a synagogue building is erected must be distinguished from the date at which a congregation if formed. And it should be listed that way. "first synagogue building constructted" or whatever. You need to be specific, to have sources, and to distinguish the building form the congregation
Elan26 (
talk)
17:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)Elan26reply
I'll look forward to seeing what you can find out. There should certainly be a way to word this amicably, the two congregations are each very old, and each has some well-sourced activities that predate the other. (do take a look at
Oldest synagogues in the United States. But what I an truly keen to see is what you can dig up on the two older buildings that Pensacola appears to have had. Photos would be great. Do, please, be back in touch with what you find.
Elan26 (
talk)
17:46, 14 August 2008 (UTC)Elan26reply
A special Sunday meeting was held, as there had been some trouble getting everyone to meet on Thursday night. Thursday meetings will commence again on October 9.
Mikael Lindmark is withdrawing from the bid, new member
Oskar Sigvardsson is taking his place.
Tasks were discussed again, with each person's tasks being clearly outlined. A timeline was set, in which a certain percentage of each task should be finished by the next meeting (October 9). The first tasks should be finished by the beginning of November in most cases. People finishing their tasks early will be assigned to new tasks.
A vote was held on the question of conference location: Fluff, Bjelleklang, Mike_H, Laaknor, JHS, OskarS, CarinaT and Henrik voted yes to
Stockholm University. Nobody opposed, with Patricia and Wegge being absent at the time of the meeting. Other options discussed before the vote were the
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
Stockholmsmässan, and
Globen.
Mike_H was elected as a temporary bid committee chair, with nobody opposing.
The question of guest speakers on the conference was raised; Mike asked everyone to come up with suggestions for October 9, which will be the next meeting.
Carina brought up a proposal first posted to the mailing list by
Sir48. Before Wikimania, it is proposed to organize meetups in Oslo, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Reykjavik of the local Wikipedians, and then from there everyone can travel together to Stockholm for the conference. The Norwegians, Danes and Finns in attendance agreed it was a very good idea. Carina suggested that this be written into the bid, and Mike volunteered to put it in. The bid team will also be talking to the Icelandic contingent in the coming weeks and asking for their input with this idea.
More people need to reply to questions on talk pages. Other users need our help!
There is still a discussion under way on what this project should include. Currently, consensus is forming that the project should include the Eurovision Song Contest and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, but not the Eurovision Dance Contest. Tell us your thoughts at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#Project Scope.
There is currently a backlog of assessments; the project's assessment rate stands at 36.2%. Please add {{EurovisionNotice}} to the talk pages of all Eurovision related articles if it is missing and read
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In the coming days/weeks, instructions for the use of all Eurovision templates and descriptions for the layouts of pages will be up and running. As of now, a few templates are already complete: see {{ESC National Year}} and {{Infobox ESC entry}}.
The project currently has 41 members, 22 of which are considered active. This means that nearly half of our project's members have not edited a Eurovision article in the past two months.
We now have a project invitation. Place our
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New Members
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Welcome to the second issue of the WikiProject Eurovision newsletter! This newsletter has been quite a success so far and I hope it continues to be so. I hope to rotate as much as possible who writes this "From the Members" section each month so everyone gets a chance to contribute.
The process of fully reorganising this project is still under way. A compromise is being formed to re-name this project WikiProject Eurovision Song Contest, but allow it to include the Junior Eurovision Song Contest as it is similar. The Eurovision Dance Contest will have its own project created simultaneously. I personally agree with this proposal, a final decision has not been made yet however.
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DYKS
Impressive article. Not one of my favorite songs, but I'm surprised that you managed to write such a long piece on it. Good stuff. I've just completed a new article, which I've brought to the attention of the Eurovision project:
List of the top ranking countries of the Eurovision Song Contest. It's not a 100% perfect way of judging the success of each country, but for practical reasons I had to cut it at the top 5 point.--
Tuzapicabit (
talk)
12:49, 20 September 2008 (UTC)reply
I might have added it to the list yesterday since the 19th was still listed and I noticed that you hadn't lol. We'll see if they take it, it would probably be today if they did. Maybe you should just read it over and see if you could section and and tidy it up a bit?
Grk1011/Stephen (
talk)
13:56, 26 September 2008 (UTC)reply
Alison has been very busy; as a result, an article of mine that she was going to translate has not materialized on ga apart from a little stub. I was wondering if you would like to translate
Doireann Ní Bhriain to ga. Please let me know!
Mike H.Fierce!06:03, 24 September 2008 (UTC)reply
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25 September,
2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bandido, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the
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On
27 September,
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The backlog of assessments in the project is still ongoing, with a large number of articles not being rated or tagged with the project banner. If you see articles without the {{EurovisionNotice}} template on the article's talk page, please add it, or read
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Remember to source all information you add to pages or else it may be removed. ESCToday and Oikotimes are great places to find information.
De Toppers were announced as the Dutch entry for the 2009 contest.
Estonia announced its participation in the 2009 contest, despite requests by the Estonian Minister of Culture to withdraw due to the
2008 war in South Ossetia.
Slovakia announced its return to the contest after an 11-year absence.
The Bulgarian national final, "
Be A Star", will start
October 2 with 45 songs.
Member News
The project currently has 48 members, 22 of which are considered active. This means that 26 of our project's members have not edited a Eurovision article in the past month.
We now have a project invitation. Place our
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New Members
We would like to welcome the new members who joined in September. (by date joined)
Welcome to the third edition of the WikiProject Eurvision newsletter! This newsletter is surely catching on, and I'm sure that if we continue to rotate the editors' section as much as possible, everyone'll get a chance to contribute and it'll definitely be more diverse.
The project is still in need of re-organising. Nothing has happened in the form of splitting the project between the song and dance contests in over a month, and I feel that we really need to push forward with this. To add your comments just leave a message in the talk page
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#Project Scope.
Throughout September, a lot of things have happened in relation to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009; the announcement of the return of the jury into the final was the biggest news. However, more news appeared, such as the Dutch representative being announced, as well as more countries announcing their participation at the contest. Before long the national finals around Europe will start, and the countdown will be on to 16 May.
With everything that's been happening, I'd like to encourage everyone to do their best to contribute to all Eurovision-related Wikipedia articles, and welcome our new members to the project.
Is there an article you think we should have? Make a request for it to be made
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I'll write here. I think her name should be in the first sentence because it is her song before a Eurovision song. Its not like its a song that she just so happens to sing. We should probably be using {{Infobox Single}} as well.
Grk1011/Stephen (
talk)
12:57, 7 October 2008 (UTC)reply
DYK for Su canción
On
13 October,
2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Su canción, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the
Did you know? talk page.
hello. regarding your edits to the crybaby, ownership is not the issue....formatting and content for disambiguation pages are set forth in
mos:dab. my appologies for not previously indicating that fact. cheers! --
emerson718:44, 15 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Hi! I wanted to thank you once again for the translation of the Doireann article...it was a great help to me! I have another favor to ask you. Alison helped me with some ideas and background with the article Two Working Men, and I'd like to nominate it for DYK this week. I was wondering if you would be interested in perhaps helping with beefing up the article a little more. :)
Mike H.Fierce!07:24, 16 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Are you in Cork? If so, the picture we have...we got it from Flickr and it's free, but the quality is not that great. Have you considered "doing your part" by going over there and taking a better picture? :D
Mike H.Fierce!12:44, 16 October 2008 (UTC)reply
I'm from Cork, but living in Dublin. I'll see if I can drop by next time I'm down. However, copyright could be an issue for it as the statue was only created in 1969.
Stifle (
talk)
12:52, 16 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Re:Translation
I don't think I'd be much help as the Irish I have is extemely school based (due to learning Irish in the
great capital where Irish is not spoken on a daily basis outside of the classroom) as in much of my Irish is either learned off phrases (like everyday consersation or random notes about selected poems, stories, dramas or debates learned off for great exams like the
Leaving Cert which are never used again after that) or (extremely) basic sentences (for example: Is maith liom milseán - which means I like sweets :D). And my Irish teachers can back me up on that. Honestly, I don't think I would be able to translate the article as my Irish grammar skills are so atrocious that it's almost laughable hence why I never bothered to edit the Irish Wikipedia as the edits would cause more harm than good (I wouldn't be surprised if my edits would be considered vandalism or the would at least be reverted for being somewhat nonsensical). I know there are a few editors that work both on this Wikipedia and the Irish one (I think
User:Alison is one of them) who would have the Irish to be able to translate articles a hell of a lot better than I ever could. I'm sorry that I can't be of much help here.
AngelOfSadness talk 17:29, 17 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Hello Mike. "Oi! Como vai você?" is Brazilian Portuguese. :-) In the Portuguese I speak we'd say "Olá! Como estás?" instead. ;-) Anyway, I am very busy indeed and wouldn't be able to sign up for any translation at the moment. But even if I were available, I would not do it on the Portuguese Wikipedia, as I don't edit it. Actually I boycott that Wikipedia. Don't know who to refer, really. :-/ Regards, Húsönd19:06, 22 October 2008 (UTC)reply
DYK for Two Working Men
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2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Two Working Men, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the
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27 October,
2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Anabela, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the
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I have started a
Wikipedia:Request for comment on this topic at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#RfC on ESCKaz reliability. This discussion originates from questions on the reliability of the ESCKaz website and if it should be used in Eurovision articles on Wikipedia. It has now being extended to fully review all sources used in articles covered by WikiProject Eurovision, including ESCToday and Oikotimes. This is a very important issue to the project as sourcing is a key part of articles, and consensus needs to be reached on which sources should be used when, where and how. This discussion however has so far lacked a wide range of editor participation, and as you have listed yourself as a member of WikiProject Eurovision I invite you to add your thoughts. In particular more input is needed from editors which have a high level of experience with relevant guidelines/policies such as
Wikipedia:Reliable sources and
Wikipedia:Verifiability, and who have up until now stayed outside this debate, though all contributions are welcome. Thank you.
Camaron | Chris(talk)11:04, 27 October 2008 (UTC)reply
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Eurovision News
Malta announced the names of the songs taking part in its national final.
Hadise will represent
Turkey and will have complete control over the selection of her song.
Andorra and
Romania announced the format of their national finals.
Bulgaria's
Be A Star has gone into full swing with the first monthly selection and its corresponding heats held in October.
The songs of
Melodifestivalen 2009 were announced along with the contest's schedule of rounds.
Welcome to the fourth edition of the WikiProject Eurvision newsletter! As the contest gets into full swing, more and more editors will come and edit the project's articles. It is important that we not only make sure that the correct information is added, but try to help the users who added the information if possible. We learn through our mistakes, so leave a reminder on their talk page.
November is unique in that it will have two newsletters going out. This one along with a November supplement that will recap what happened in November. We decided to switch to an end of the month format so say the October Newsletter summarizes what happened in October, which it doesn't in its current first day of the month delivery. By December, the newsletter will come out at the end of every month.
So far I am very happy with how the project is going about four months after its reorganization. We get into arguments here and there, but members' opinions and comments are crucial to the project's existence. They keep us on our toes and help us continue to be a great source of Eurovision history.
Sorry that this issue is a little late, I've been busy ;)
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OK. I appreciate the invite and will give it some thought. I spent a night in Biloxi once, so have a good idea of the place, but would have to travel 5 hours each way. —
ℜob C.aliasᴀʟᴀʀoʙ21:46, 21 November 2008 (UTC)reply
ANI comment
Mike, I just noticed your comment to me on ANI. I
responded and also
left Dennis a note regarding this; I see now that it was a misinterpretable (that's a word, right?) phrase that was meant in different manner than what you seem to have perceived. Cheers, —
Scientizzle00:31, 27 November 2008 (UTC)reply
I noticed that you voted to oppose me because I had not answered all of the questions. In my defence, some of them were asked in the middle of last night :)
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Three more songs have qualified for the semi-final of
Bulgaria's selection process. Three more heats and another quarter-final will be held during December.
Welcome to the fifth edition of the WikiProject Eurvision newsletter!
Just a couple of short months after starting the newsletter and reorganizing the
Eurovision project, things are finally starting to look good and consistent for 2009!
As we move into December, and ever closer to the "heart" of the National Final/Selection season, I would like to remind members to take a look at the project description/guideline on the project page and try to follow it the best way possible as the season progresses. Our main goal here is to have all of the articles consistent, while also being able to nominate them for
GA status or above once the 2009 contest is over. The best and easiest way to achieve this is if we all work together and follow the guidelines. I would also like to remind users to source all information added into articles, preferably by reliable/established sources. Any questions regarding sources should be asked on the project talk page. Also, there is a large backlog of 1087
Unassessed Eurovision articles that need to be assessed. Any help with assessment will be appreciated and noted.
If we can manage to work together and follow the guidelines, as well as monitoring unregistered IP addresses, I think the 2009 season will go by much easier than past years! Sure we will still get into our little arguments here and there, and have different opinions about editing, but that's part of the whole editing experience. What fun would there be without the occasional drama? Just remember that at the end of the day, we are all working towards a common goal.
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I asked
User:SoWhy to check my work; when we can't find translations (I'm assuming you couldn't, but I asked SoWhy to check anyway), probably best to have one native English-speaker and one native German-speaker check them, for maximum idiomaticity (that's not a word). I know this is OR but per many conversations at
WT:V, we should try for translations (when the article is notable enough to exist as an article even though part is in a foreign language). Happy to help! - Dan
Dank55 (
send/receive)
20:42, 23 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Season's Greetings
New Year Honours
The Barnstar of High Culture
For all your tireless work on Eurovision Song Contest
I award this barnstar for your efforts in promoting the Eurovision Song Contest, for all your patience
in listening to and researching so many Eurovision entries and writing the results up in Wikipedia articles. A whole artistic genre would have died an ignominious death from banality and unnotability without your indefatigable efforts. I salute your contribution to all that is refined, noble, sophisticated and Apollonian in televisual culture.--
Publunch (
talk)
08:52, 27 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Article on Bernd Meinunger
Hello! You placed a {{dated prod}}-template on the article about
Bernd Meinunger. May I ask that you inform the creator of the article after you put this template on an article to give them the chance to improve it? I noticed this only by accident and had I not, the article would probably be gone in a few days. --
Bensin (
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19:37, 27 December 2008 (UTC)reply