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[edit] Welcome from Thehelpfulone

Hello, Darius Dhlomo! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Signature icon.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Happy New Year! The Helpful One (Talk) (Contributions) 15:04, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
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Welcome!

Hello Darius Dhlomo, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 12:51, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

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Do you think it is possible to respect, that Olympic result pages start with the "medalists"? Or are you on the way to delete them all e.g. from the 2004 athletics pages? Doma-w (talk) 03:21, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Darius! First of all many thanks for your answer! And I want to tell you, that I really respect and like your work! There are very few users interested in the Olympic result pages. I also wanted to start a style guideline but there was nobody interested... But now to our problem. I understand your POV but I havn't established this style with the medalists on top. When I came here to create/edit the Olympic result pages I found this style on the pages from the years 1896, 1900 and 2004. Also the order on all these pages is, that the results start with the first round, then semi-finals and at the bottom the final. E.g. Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 metres. It would be very nice if we can find a way to work together! It looks like we both are interested in the same, so I hope this will be easy for us! Kind regards Doma-w (talk) 17:18, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Archive your Talk Page?

Perhaps you would like to Archive you talk page as it is getting a bit long.

If you would like me to do it for you, just leave a message on my talk page.

Happy New Year! The Helpful One (Talk) (Contributions) 14:31, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:HGC100.jpg

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[edit] Olympic article conventions

Hello Darius. I think your work on sport results articles is excellent, but there are a few things I'd like to ask of you. First, with respect to Olympic articles, please follow the conventions we've agreed upon by consensus within Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics. One example is the placement of medalists at the top of each individual event page, such as Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's High Jump. The reason behind this formatting decision is that some event result pages are quite long, and since they are intended to display results chronologically (i.e. heats first, then semi-finals, then finals), a user would have to scroll to the bottom of the page to see the medalists. Instead, a simple summary table at the top of the page is quite helpful. This is similar to the whole idea of infoboxes — often the material in an infobox is duplicated within the article itself, but placement at the top of the page is beneficial. Some other items I'd ask you to watch for are the correct use of capitalization (e.g. "high jump", not "High Jump", since the event name is not a proper noun), and the correct format for numbers per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) (e.g. 10,000 metres or 10000 metres, not 10.000 metres for the ten thousand metre race, and 2.38 metres, not 2,38 metres for distances). Thanks again for your contributions. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sicily1997.jpg

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[edit] Style

Dear Darius! Please do not use brackets for the nicknames and please use "& ndash;" and not "& mdash;". This would be very helpful to bring the athletes bios in line! Kind regards Doma-w (talk) 00:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Icelandic athletes at Moscow Olympics 1980

Could you please add more Icelandic athletes at Moscow Olympics 1980 for me, thank you.

(JethroOlympiad (talk) 20:48, 29 January 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Tyke Peacock

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Tunis2001logo.JPG

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Berlin2002.JPG

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[edit] Ghent, please!

Hi, in case you are creating some more sports articles, could you please link to Ghent rather than Gent? See Talk:Gent for details. Thanks, and all the best, <KF> 23:40, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

I noticed that you tagged the page Asian Senior Women’s Volleyball Championship for speedy deletion with the reason "incorporated in Asia Volleyball Championship". However, "incorporated in Asia Volleyball Championship" is not currently one of our criteria for speedy deletion, so I have removed the speedy deletion tag. You can use Wikipedia:Articles for deletion if you still want the page to be deleted. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 17:09, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fantastic Work

Fantastic work on your Athletics National Champions lists Darius. Hope you don't mind that I've borrowed some to start a new Australian athletics champions page. If you are doing more of the national championships lists, let me know which events you're concentrating on and I'll supply the Australian details. Cheers mate Vault-emort (talk) 11:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Canyon Ceman

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[edit] Style

Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). I would also prefer to include locations of birth and death with the dates, but the guideline disagree. Sorrily... Doma-w (talk) 13:54, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Yugoslav sportspeople

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[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Yugoslav boxers

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:OZlogo.JPG

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[edit] An Invite to join Saskatchewan WikiProject

Hi, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Saskatchewan WikiProject! The Saskatchewan WikiProject is a fairly new WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories, and Wikiprojects, to do with anything Saskatchewan.
As you have shown an interest in Lori Ann Mundt we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject.
Please assist with any ongoing requests
You might like to take an extra interest in our To Do list
Another project dedicated to Saskatchewan is the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways Wikiproject
Also, a descendant project for Saskatchewan is the WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods
We look forward to welcoming you to the project! SriMesh | talk 22:17, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Indian Women's Hockey Team

I've recently created the article, India women's national field hockey team. Since you created or worked on biographies for some of the team's players, I thought you might be interested in helping to develop the article. -Classicfilms (talk) 02:02, 13 April 2008 (UTC)