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[edit] Texas flag in the state pic

Hello I am a member of wookieepedia and I would like to use your texasflaginstate jpeg for a user infobox. do you know how to do that?71.176.136.93 19:50, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Template:Infobox Senator/dead

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[edit] thanks

Plus ça change, plus c'est le même chose. That's Wikipedia. Tvoz |talk 03:11, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 Arbcom Election

I've fully endorsed five candidates, one for each open slot:

I also lent a vote of moral support to User:Giano II's candidacy. Shem^(talk) 10:45, 3 December 2007 (UTC)‎

I just wanted to clarify my stance re: FayssalF. I think FayssalF is a great editor - I'm impressed by his contributions, I liked his candidate statement, and I think having a non-Western voice on the committee would be a big improvement. For those reasons, I initially supported his candidacy. I changed my vote, however, when some of the answers he gave to questions were brought to my attention. As an editor, he's undoubtedly very experienced. As a prospective arbitrator, however, his answers to a number of questions that he really lacks clue about the arbitration process in general. As such, I reluctantly changed my vote to oppose. I'm sorry that this has caused you to retract your endorsement of my candidacy, but I simply felt that I could not continue to support FayssalF in light of his answers. Rebecca 07:11, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement regarding Durova/!! matter

FYI, I am alerting user's who have voted to oppose based on my comments about the Durova matter that I have written a longer statement regarding my views on the matter which I hope clarifies a few points of apparent misunderstanding. See User:JoshuaZ/Statement regarding Durova and !!. Thanks. JoshuaZ (talk) 02:05, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Request for comment

FWIW Shem, there is a A POLL (link) of contributors, over on the Obama Wikipedia-biography talk page, concerning what details to add/not to add to the article. The input of your expertise is requested, if possible. (Incidentally, the poll itself (eight various statements in a spectrum, to choose from among the one most appropriate for the article) is here: Talk:Barack Obama#Bill Ayers. And the place to record any vote would be here: Talk:Barack Obama#!Votes (please move your votes to this section if they arent already and bolden them)) — Justmeherenow ( ) 17:40, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Thx. — Justmeherenow ( ) 17:49, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Weigh in?

Perhaps you can take a look at: Template talk:Barack Obama. It's rightfully protected, but it seems like a clear editprotected matter (both of them). LotLE×talk 19:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Request for your opinion

		Please Vote For Change We Can Believe In Or Even No Change at Obama Article
		Requesting your final opinion on the Bill Ayers language You previously !voted (here) on what language to use at the Barack Obama page. We're trying to get a consensus now. Please take another look at how the discussion has progressed (especially here) and consider what option might make the best consensus, then !vote again at Talk:Barack Obama#Call the question after detailed discussion: Option 3 or not?. Please keep in mind the discussion has been long, so if you can accept what seems to be a likely option, please do. This is one of Wikipedia's most prominent articles. Thank you. Noroton (talk) 23:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Shem, would you please reformat your edit at timestamp 17:29, 7 June 2008 -- the one within the Option 1 & 2 section of the latest tally? I only ask because it screws up the numbering if any subsequent votes come up on your side. If you put your comment in one paragraph, it would set things right. An alternative would be to move the comment to a new comment section below the tally where discussion could continue (people can't really respond to your comment within the tally without further screwing it up). As with Scjessey's tally section earlier, I'm trying to present a clear spot where people can see the "lay of the land" and then decide whether they want to compromise to reach a consensus. The fact that you support Option 1 means that your comment there, while not technically a !vote, does actually help anyone trying to figure out how much support that option has, so I have no objection to it. If nothing else, there's an implicit consensus on the page to use the format I came up with (I'm more than willing to change it if a number of people want that). I think it might be a good idea if we set up a subsection or section below the tally for further discussion. Thanks for being among the saner voices in this discussion. Noroton (talk) 17:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 3.99 GPA

An old blog post of mine describes how I got an A- in an English class. It turned out to be the only blemish on an otherwise perfect record. I was pissed. I was docked 10% from my final exam paper for putting a comma the wrong side of some double quotes (giving me 90%), and it turned out to be the difference between the A- and the A. -- Scjessey (talk) 20:34, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd say that misplaced comma was good for your soul, although it was a rather harsh punishment... Tvoz/talk 20:42, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Refactored

I refactored a comment that I made in responding to you at Talk:Barack Obama. As I thought about it later, I realised I was a bit over the top, and I shouldn't have said that. I apologize. I think there are sincere differences of opinion over including Ayers, and while I think you're completely wrong, I don't think you've given anybody reason to doubt your sincerity. I stand by my other comments in that paragraph, and I hope you consider them. Noroton (talk) 03:00, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Barack Obama

You placed your "agreed answer" between Kossack's remark and my responce to it. Please move it to another place you'd like. Thanks, --Floridianed (talk) 00:31, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Regarding your comment about breaking the peace I think it's 3 editors - life.temp as well. Kossack4Truth's edit could arguably be a mistake and not deliberately misleading. Anyway, as much as I appreciate your playing traffic cop and hope the truce you're brokering in the edit war will hold, I think you need to be careful not to get into the fray. Too many reverts and you yourself might be perceived as a participant rather than a helper. We'll seee. Anyway, workerbee violated 3RR with the last edit so I'm reporting that at 3RR and AN/I - that's probably more effective than anything else. Tks, Wikidemo (talk) 18:07, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Just that you know, I placed a warning on Workerbee's talk page for his recent change. --Floridianed (talk) 18:48, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I don't think admins have an easy job of trying to deal with this, both in sorting it out and trying to do something to prevent it from continuing, but I wish more of them would join MastCell and Ncmvocalist in looking at it. After a while, though, noninvolvement is going to imply consent. I think this is the third situation this year that caused me to post at AN/I. I'm much, much happier just editing content pages. Noroton (talk) 19:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)