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You are invited to vote in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bush Crimes Commission (2nd nomination) Morton devonshire 03:28, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Come out and vote, nothing but one big long leftist diatribe, should be removed and covered from scratch in a more NPOV style, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George W. Bush 2nd(second nomination), your vote may just give us the fresh start needed to root the deep seeded liberal POV from this article by allowing us to start over from scratch, thanks for your vote! -- Ham and jelly butter 22:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm new here so I thought I'd introduce myself to some of the people here-- Chapline R Vine( talk ¦ ✉) 05:31, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
I was CERTAIN I had corrected the "Federal" copyright status of that picture... I apologize. I have a response pending from the Iowa General Assembly's webmaster about the exact copyright status of the site's images; that ought to help clear things up. Do you happen to know the exact status of the images on the Assembly's website?
It is, by the way, always nice to meet a fellow Iowa-conservative–homeschooling-evangelical-Christian. ;-)
Say: I finally heard back from the IGA's webmaster, who stated that "all images on [the] site are available for use by the public." Would you think it prudent to re-add the Bolkcom picture?
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Come vote here please to decide this important matter! i trust that you'll make the right decision-- Rictonilpog 17:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
No it's not the same person. This one is a British scientist in his 60s! See my longer comment on the talk page. JRawle ( Talk) 00:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
I find it very unlikely that he would have been the voive actor for Freyr, i think it was just an unchecked link, I changed it now. -- Childzy talk contribs 09:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
It'll take a few days to get approved to use it, but it might be easier to add these tags with AWB. In any case, I'd prefer it if you actually wait a day or two to see if anyone else in the project comments before you add any more. I don't think it is controversial, but it's easier to wait and see.-- Kchase02 T 02:18, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to drop a quick line and say thanks for joining WP:SCOTUS. We are always happy to see new members, and welcome your contributions greatly. Leave me a message on my talk page if you have any questions at all, or if you'd like to collaborate on a Supreme Court article you have in mind. Cheers! RidG Talk/ Contributions 22:54, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
I had a go at trying to define it a bit better. Cheers. Albatross2147 08:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
The previous infobox used "Submitted," and on older cases, this is correct. It's unusual to find, but some cases don't have an argue date listed, only a submit date. When I saw the template had been converted over, I just changed the parameter. Thanks. -- MZMcBride 17:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
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Hey I'm glad you joined our WikiProject, feel free to be bold. I am a Born Again Christian, just so you know. Bornagain4 02:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
I took a look at the deleted article and would recommend you start a recreation from scratch. The old version included a healthy dose of Christian evangelical advocacy along with multiple 800 numbers to inquire about programs or order materials, so the AfD consensus that the old article was primarily an advertisement looks justified. The parts of the article that might be useful will either be trivial to recreate (organization name, name of founder, and year of founding) or else will need to be updated ( http://www.ministrywatch.org/mw2.1/F_FullRpt.asp?EIN=386091187 provides some current third-party audited numbers for CEF). Good luck in your efforts. -- Allen3 talk 02:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Are you or can you create a characther template for Narnia, the one for stargate does look pretty good. I tried, but the markup was overmy head. Bornagain4 20:13, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
No, I don't think there were any previous edits. I looked in the deletion log and found nothing. Mango juice talk 20:08, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Hey check out the thing below the infobox on your template test page, and let me know what you think about it. Bornagain4 12:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Tim, thanks again for suggesting (and then spending hours posting) the wikiproject banner for Supreme Court Cases. I'm sorry my initial response was so cool to your suggestion, as it's turned out quite well. People have been joining at a more rapid clip recently, and the project is more instantly visible by those who happen to edit the articles where the banner is posted. I think it's made a difference. Thank you!-- Kchase T 03:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Regarding [1], please don't call good faith edits vandalism. In this case you had good reasons to revert it, but that does not make it vandalism. JoshuaZ 04:13, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanxs for the update to the John Leo page. Jumping cheese Contact 05:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
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for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see
the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find
false positives. You can
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