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Contents 1 The Fray 2 Great minds think alike... 3 Five pillars !!! 4 DYK 5 POTD notification 6 RfA 7 DYK 8 Would you take a look? 9 Re: Portal:British Empire 9.1 Bot 10 University of Bristol GA 11 GAs 12 Death On The Rock 13 Imperial triple crown jewels 14 Revamping FPORTC 15 I'm not going to flame! :] 16 your question 17 Barnstar 18 commons 19 Congratulations, please help with more improvements 20 fair-use image 21 M/V New Flame GA Review: On Hold 22 Portal:Gibraltar's featured portal nomination 23 What is the usage about the welcome boilerplate on the User_Talk: page? 24 DYK 25 Gibraltarian 26 RfA Thanks 27 Rudget! 28 Your copyedit request 29 Emperor Kaika 30 Hi 31 User:WBOSITG/In Many Languages 32 Special:Emailuser 33 Wikibreak 34 Orphaned non-free media (Image:The-Kooks-logo.JPG) 35 New Flame 36 Admin coaching request update 37 Orphaned non-free media (Image:Cars pc videogame.jpg) 38 Orphaned non-free media (Image:Cars pc videogame.jpg) 39 Fair use rationale for Image:Cars_pc_videogame.jpg

The Fray

Mr. B,

I believe the user that you recently warned for disrupting The Fray article should be banned from Wikipedia. He has made multiple attacks on the website. He does not deserve entrance into this prestigious community. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrm087 (talk • contribs) 18:12, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Great minds think alike...

Good job on the Coat of arms of Andalusia. Believe it or not I had started writing up the article moments before you created it! --Gibmetal 77^talk 13:28, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Five pillars !!!

Does anyone no where the five pillars are ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.25.100.196 (talk) 20:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On November 15, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Coat of arms of Andalusia, 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.

Well done on all the Iberian peninsula work. Good to see you again. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:32, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Chris.B • talk 12:08, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

Hi Chris,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:George IV bust1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 26, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-11-26. BTW, do you happen to know who the "Lord Stewart" mentioned in the caption is? It would be nice if we could wikilink to that article. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 00:04, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Nice sleuthing to figure out the correct Lord Stewart! howcheng {chat} 01:09, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

RfA

I considered not spamming talk pages but not saying "thanks" just isn't me. The support was remarkable and appreciated. I only hope that I am able to help a little on here. Please let me know if I can help you or equally if you find any of my actions questionable. Thanks & regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:36, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 2 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Alameda Gibraltar Botanic Gardens, 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.

--Royalbroil 02:29, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Would you take a look?

An image used in the article on the first Bangladeshi pornstar Jazmin, Image:WorshipThisBitch3.jpg, the cover of the DVD that made her the selling point, a first for a Bangladeshi, is up for deletion here. You may be interested to take a look. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aditya Kabir (talk • contribs) 21:44, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Portal:British Empire

Yah, I totally forgot because I told myself to remove the transclusion after lunch, and when I came back, I forgot about it :P

I'm also "streamlining" the nomination and promotion process. For example, promoted noms are boxed in green (see Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:British Empire) and failed noms are boxed in red (see Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Failed log/December 2007). This system is still in trial and I will implement it starting 2008.

As I told Rudget, there're inconsistencies even in the # of featured portals. 81 portals are listed on Portal:Featured content/Portals, but only 80 on Portal:Featured portals and featured portal's main page, and 82 on Wikipedia:Portal/Directory..... Furthurmore, I find Portal Contents and Portal Directory are repeating the same message using different layouts. Directory carries more info, but Contents looks better in layout wise.

What do you think about my ideas? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:40, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

We usually use FPORT instead of FP to stand for featured portals. So far I don't need much help because the size of FPORT is manageable at the moment. To be honest, I'm quite glad that FPORT is getting more attention and traffic nowdays. It was not even a popular spot 3 months ago.

Thanks for your suggestion to make a similiar template as {{FPCresult}}. Honestly I don't know how to use this template because it doesn't have any instructions! I made a little subst template that is very useful (User:OhanaUnited/Featured Portal Notice), it uses the same syntax as WP:UTM.

P.S. Your name sounds familiar, do you run a bot? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:50, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking about Chris G, lol. And thanks for the template, but I think we need to make a template ourselves instead of borrowing feature picture's OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 00:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Bot

Do you know how to build a bot? I asked SQL and Betacommand. Both don't want to answer my question. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:07, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll definetely try ask Cobi (because others won't reply -.-) OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:24, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

University of Bristol GA

I think a week is the default period of waiting, but I'm not personally concerned with any deadlines, so take as long as you need to improve it. Dylan (talk) 23:39, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

GAs

Do you have any other good articles? If so, please add them. In the meantime I'll truncate your list for the awards page. If you sent any of your FAs through GA while you were improving them, that would qualify. The triple crown is set up that way; apologies if it seems bureaucratic - the aim is to tempt people to write more good articles. Cheers, Durova^Charge! 16:42, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Death On The Rock

Hello. After reading your post, I compromised somewhat and came up with a revised version that mentioned the facts but in a much more succinct version, I also moved to the 'history' section so it wasn't duplicated in two sections (history & military). Gibnews has reverted again [1], but I'd appreciate your view on the "new" version I made. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick ^t 19:19, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Imperial triple crown jewels

Your Imperial Majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow these triple crown jewels. May you wear them well. :) Durova^Charge! 19:41, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Revamping FPORTC

I am proposing some changes to the featured portal nomination process at Wikipedia talk:Featured portal candidates#Revamp proposal. Feel free to express your views. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 07:16, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I really think you should go for it. I highly doubt that you will be turned down. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 08:55, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm not going to flame! :]

Instead I'll say thank you for telling me that :] --Kanonkas, Take Contact (talk) 22:05, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

your question

I made it from scratch. I traced the shape of the helmet from Halo and built it off that. It took 6 hours. I'm very proud of it! --n1yaNt(~Cpt. Obvious~) 11:37, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[2](see first few links), the copyright holder is ok with it, so I proceeded with the drawing and the consequent upload. --n1yaNt(~Cpt. Obvious~) 11:58, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

I know we don't know each other, and I don't have "talk" mesage rules, but next time please don't delete your message. For archive purposes. Thank you. --n1yaNt(~Cpt. Obvious~) 20:11, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

apologies, it was someone else. --n1yaNt(~Cpt. Obvious~) 20:16, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

How to delete a picture? I want to do it myself. --'n1yaNt 21:24, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Prosit Neujahr to you! --'n1yaNt 21:05, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

commons

Thanks for that - so it's better to upload to commons is it? --Abdominator (talk) 04:31, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations, please help with more improvements

Chris.B, congratulations in your new role as a featured portal co-director. I look forward to your continued efforts to help improve Wikipedia's portal namespace. Along those lines, I am asking for your help. Please take a look at the portal peer review for Contents and megaportals. Just like adding featured portal co-directors, it is a part of a larger portal namespace improvement drive. All of your comments, suggestions and participation in this improvement effort will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, RichardF (talk) 15:34, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

fair-use image

Hello there, you left my a message a while ago regarding a image uploaded by me under fair0use without a rationale. Anyway, when I logged in, the image was already gone, so... Sorry I couldn't come up with the reason in time, and I also wasn't sure what the reason would be. It wasn't a great image anyway, so I don't think it was a big loss. Thanks for warning me about it anyway. algumacoisaqq 02:30, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

M/V New Flame GA Review: On Hold

On Hold — Notes left on talk page. Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:33, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Gibraltar's featured portal nomination

The portal you nominated at featured portal candidates on January 1, 2008 has been promoted to featured portal status. Well done. You can view eventual comments at the nomination page. Best regards, Rudget. 18:35, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

What is the usage about the welcome boilerplate on the User_Talk: page?

Hi Christopher:

You recently put a Welcome boilerplate on my English User_Talk:AntoineL page, probably because I changed a minor point on the (good) page about the GI-vs-ES telecom dispute. Since it looks like you are an administrador, may I ask you the purpose of it, and more importantly what should I do with the boilerplate now (and in my other User_Talk:AntoineL pages as well), since every time I read it I got the impression that I did forget to put the ~~~~ sign at the end of some post...

Thanks in advance for your hints (on my talk page, of course; but if you prefer, you can also use (French)le français o (Catalan)el català). AntoineL (talk) 10:50, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

DYK

On 13 January 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Calderón Bridge, 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.

--Royalbroil 14:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Gibraltarian

I would disagree with that, and so would this:

• B adjective

1 Gibraltarian

of or relating to Gibraltar or its inhabitants; "Gibraltarian customs office"

I'll check the OED tomorrow for a more definitive source. пﮟოьεԻ 57 17:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

RfA Thanks

Hi Chris.B - thanks for your participation in my request for adminship. I thought "all-inclusive knowledge of policy" was maybe going a bit far, but I guess what I don't know I can always look up. Anyway, the RfA passed 52/0/0, and I'm now in possession of a shiny new mop. If I can ever help you with anything, please don't hesitate to contact me. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 08:40, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Rudget!

Your copyedit request

On 2 September 2007, you made a request to the League of Copyeditors for a copyedit on Military history of Gibraltar during World War II. Because of a heavy backlog and a shortage of copyeditors, we have been unable to act on your request in a timely manner, for which we aplogize. Since your request, this article has been subject to significant editing and may no longer be a good candidate for copyediting by the League. If you still wish the League to copyedit this article, please review this article against our new criteria and follow the instructions on the Requests page. This will include your request in our new system, where it should receive more prompt attention. Finetooth (talk) 20:58, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Emperor Kaika

Please help me understand why the specificity of your recent edit is to be preferred over the deliberate vagueness your edit displaced. If a "Reference" heading is construed to include both in-line citations and bibliographic references, I was thinking that an increase in the number of in-line citations might be subtly encouraged. More importantly, the merging of these two categories would seem to give less opening for those superficial editors who appear to do nothing beyond adding tags at the top of a page announcing that more references are needed.

As we both know, there is no set-in-stone format for "Notes" and "References" ...; but perhaps your feedback might assist me in re-examining what is really nothing more than a point-of-view about this relatively trivial issue. --Ooperhoofd (talk) 19:54, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi

I am having major problems with some users of this page, they say that I am doing vandalism, but not say it, because, they are excluded, my articles and say that I am doing the vandalism on the page of them, only because I wrote on its talk page. I want my articles to be restored this vandalism. Mondo della moda

User:WBOSITG/In Many Languages

Thanks for adding Spanish to the page! Gracias para la addición a la pagina!

Special:Emailuser

Hello,

Your e-mail link is not working. A user account wikt:User:RedCoat was created, pointing here. Could you please confirm or deny that that account belongs to you? Since anyone can purport to be you on e-mail, I must ask that you confirm it with a message on-wiki, please. Sorry for interrupting your wikibreak.

Thanks in advance,

--Connel MacKenzie - wikt 15:25, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Confirmed. Regards, Chris.B 16:37, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Connel MacKenzie - wikt 16:48, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikibreak

Will be glad to see you return in June. Good luck wherever you are! :) Regards, Rudget. 18:39, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:The-Kooks-logo.JPG)

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New Flame

Hi Chris, I have been on wiki-awol myself. Just popping by to say thanks for the good work on the New Flame, you took it all the way to GA status. Figarema |^Talk 15:23, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Admin coaching request update

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