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Archive 1 - Mar. 15 2004-May 27 2006

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[edit] Admin Coaching

User:Tawker and I have been assigned to be your Esperanza admin coaches. You seem like you have made a lot of good contributions and done some vandal-fighting. Let me know if you have any questions about Wikipedia or its administrative areas. Academic Challenger 21:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject NASCAR proposed standards

WikiProject NASCAR needs your help! We are in the process of forming our proposed standards which, when complete, will hopefully become a Wikipedia guideline. The guidelines will help editors understand Wikipedia consensus about things like which NASCAR-related articles meet notability standards. Please stop by and let us know what you think! Recury 22:44, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Wishing you all the best on your birthday! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee.

Many happy returns! Enjoy :-)!

Thistheman 04:13, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy birthday and all the best! Have a nice time. --Bhadani 14:13, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


Happy Birthday, SonicAD, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!!! Have a great day!

haz (user talk) 16:26, 23 June 2006

Have a very happy birthday.--Dakota ~ 16:33, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] August Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: To-Do List
The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential!
What's New?
In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs.
To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas.
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.
  1. In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed!
  2. The In development section of the proposals page has been created.
  3. Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created.
  4. Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter.
  5. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program.
  6. There is a page for discussing the front page redesign.
Signed...
Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd
05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] September Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade
Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors!
What's New?
September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves!
Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there!
The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it.
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.
  1. The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
  2. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage.
  3. The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself!
  4. The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it!
  5. TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly!
Signed...
Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd
04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Notes to you

I noticed your discussion on Nascar, I'm not quite sure what you speak of related to spam on the site I suggested but I did just that suggest it. I have no affiliation to that site, I merely suggested what I feel to be a high quality site where NASCAR fans and enthusiasts can participate in diuscussion and ask questions about NASCAR as where they can not do so here on Wikipedia. I feel it's a valuable addition to the wiki, and the people browsing for info would find it of quality and usefulness. It's simply a forum. I'd reccomend that you do not let any of your own personal ill feelings or miss judgments sway you from allowing a valuable resource that wiki surfers might really enjoy visiting, it's about them not you or I or our opinions. I just thought it was a nice site. Please work with me here. Thanks! --Edited By a Professor of Life 14:32, 11 October 2006 (UTC).

Note from Edward Neal. You have accused me of writing nonsense on the 9/11 post. I did not write those things on there. I would like you to do further research before you accuse people of such things. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.212.155.7 (talk) 12:50, 13 October 2006.

I'm very sorry about this... I use a program called VandalProof to deal with vandalism, and the warning seems to have gone to you in error... I can see you didn't do it, so I've deleted your warning. Again, very sorry about this. -- SonicAD (talk) 17:54, 13 October 2006 (UTC)


HEY can you READ? links on nitrous were ok'd. You need to READ and talk to people before you go removing editd --Edited By a Professor of Life 00:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC)


SONIC THIS IS THE LAST TIME STOP VANADLZIING PAGES , STOP REMOVING LINKS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT WERE APPROVED BY AN ADMIN Cuchullain aproved the addition of the links under external links it is cited on his talk page. STOP avandlizing the page, you are well aware they are approved links. Instead of talking about it or contacting Cuchullain you continue to vandalize. --Edited By a Professor of Life 00:58, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

If you continue you attack me personally, lie and spam you will be blocked, your abuse of this system will not be tolerated. High admins have been notified.--Edited By a Professor of Life 01:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Think he's back (with a username).. curious choice and way of editing. ..[1]Hu12 21:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Can't tell, yet... possible, but I did a whois on the site added and I couldn't find a connection to the other vandal... just someone else who wants to put their spam crap on Wikipedia, probably. -- SonicAD (talk) 22:32, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
agreed, seems to be a Private Registration created 26-Sep-2006.. either way It smells of pre holiday SEO. have a good weekend Hu12 10:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, SonicAD! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 18:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] November Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Admin Coaching (needs coaches!)
Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach.

Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins.
What's New?
The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one!
A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts.
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.
The last AC meeting (full log)
  • The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
  • There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia.
  • The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested!
  • In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias.
  • A discussion of Esperanza's role in Wikipedia is being held, with all thoughts of all Esperanzians wanted!
  • Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello.
Signed...
Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, The Halo, Shreshth91 and HighwayCello
20:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Happy First Edit Day!

HAPPY FIRST EDIT DAY! from the BIRTHDAYCOMMITTEE

Wishing SonicAD a very Happy First Edit Day!

Have a fantastic day!

From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee

> Kamope < 00:50, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Warning

Please stop. If you continue to delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, you will be blocked for vandalism. MrWez 10:16, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Please note the above warning was given by a user after I reverted his talk page when he blanked it. -- SonicAD (talk) 13:24, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the warning. --MrWez 20:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bahaha

For being funny.
For being funny.

I found this and thought it was hilarious, so here, have a cookie. ~ thesublime514 • talk • sign 03:52, April 10, 2007 (UTC) ... you wrote it, right?

[edit] Ice Hockey Project discussion of hockey player notability and project scope

Please come join the WikiProject Ice Hockey Notability standards for hockey players discussion. I'd like to see input from all our project members who have an opinion. Thanks! ColtsScore 03:17, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 All-Star Challenge

As per the drivers involved, I listed them all under their most recent NASCAR accomplishment (winning a race, former series champion, former All-Star race winner) and noted that they had also won a race in 2006 or 2007 with a plus (+) sign. Fair enough for you? NoseNuggets 9:24 PM US EDT May 6 2007.

[edit] Happy Birthday

Just a happy Birthday message to you, SonicAD, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!
  • FROM YOUR FRIEND:

 ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 00:01, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Party on SonicAD!

The Wikipedia Birthday Committee wishes you a very happy birthday! Enjoy your special day.

Best wishes and cheers! --RobNS 01:45, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Birthday Committee is proud to wish you a very happy birthday.
May all your wishes come true!
Thank you for all of your contributions to this wonderful encyclopedia.
Yours truly,
Eddie 01:58, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday SonicAD

Wishing you all the best on your birthday! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee.

Party hard! ;-) --RobNS 02:41, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Ice Hockey August 2007 Newsletter

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WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter

Dear SonicAD! You are receiving this newsletter because you have signed up as a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. The purpose of this newsletter is to update on the goings on of the project, as there have been major changes, and a lot of new recognized content in the past few weeks. If you are an inactive user, you probably won't recognize the new and improved state of the WikiProject!

From the project, Maxim.

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New recognized content

By Maxim
There have been a lot more Good and Featured articles written in the past few weeks. Here is a list:[1][2][3][4]

Featured articles
Good articles
Featured lists[5]
Notes
  1. ^ All articles are in order of promotion, as written on the main WikiProject page; FA's have official dates of promotions.
  2. ^ A star represents a featured article or list
  3. ^ A green circle represents a good article
  4. ^ Stanley Cup is an A-Class article
  5. ^ The lists system differs from articles, and doesn't give an official date of promotion
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Article Improvement

By Maxim

Upon some discussion on the WikiProject talk page, the Article Improvement Drive page was revamped by Krm500 and Maxim. It was renamed Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Article Improvement, and it includes two section. The first section is called articles in dire need of improvement. It list articles, usually important, that are in very poor shape. The second section is called requested help. Users list an article they request help improving a certain article, which will facilitate collaboration, which is the aim of any WikiProject. There is one article currently listed there, Henrik Lundqvist, here. The goal is to at least get it to Good article status.

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Diacritics

By Maxim

In the past few weeks, there has been quite heated discussion about the use of diacritics in article name. The current guideline is using diacritics in the pages of articles of all player names which require them, but redirects are exempt.

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Task forces

By Maxim
There have been two new task forces started within the WikiProject to coordinate major topics.

Sweden Ice Hockey task force

This task force was initiated by Krm500. Its current goal is to improve Henrik Lundqvist to Good or Featured article status. It covers all Swedish clubs, leagues and competitions and associated articles, players and coaches that are Swedish, or have played/coached for a Swedish club, and arenas in Sweden. They plan to eventually operate as a sort of a sub-project, which will have its own articles for creation, ranking importance and quality of articles, and co-ordinate article improvement. Its current members are Krm500, Bamsefar75, and CLAES.

New Jersey Devils task force

This task force was initiated by Bsroiaadn. Its goal is to improve New Jersey Devils to Featured Topic status. Although it currently meets the required article count, the task force wishes to improve it further. Its area of coverage is very similar to the Sweden Ice Hockey task force. Its members are Bsroiaadn, JHMM13, FutureNJGov, Sportskido8, Michael Greiner, JRWalko, and Soxrock.

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Requested Images

By Maxim
After discussion on the WikiProject talk page, Serte created a page for Requested Images. The page encourages users to license images for use on articles. The page also has section to request images for players, arenas, game situations, miscellaneous, and team and league logos. The page has been quite popular; since it was created on July 21, there have been six completed requests. There are four currently outstanding requests:

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Article assessement completed

By Maxim
On July 12, Kaiser matias announced that he had completed assessing all the articles with a {{ice hockey}} tag, sorting them into Category:Unassessed Ice Hockey articles. Kaiser matias has ranked about 9000 articles in that category, and most were stubs, and "have no information at all", according to him. Everybody is encouraged to expand the stubs into real articles. This effort took around 5 months. A big thanks goes to Kaiser matias from me and all the project.


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[edit] WikiProject Ice Hockey newsletter

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WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter

Dear SonicAD! You are receiving as you are a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey There's been more new thing going on at WP:HOCKEY, and I think this will help you to stay informed. Since the last newsletter sent out in August, there's been great changes. Read on to find out! Maxim(talk)

This just in:
Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has just been promoted to featured list status, while the bot was delivering the newsletter. Maxim(talk) 02:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

And I've just promoted Art Ross Trophy. And Clarence S. Campbell Bowl is at FLC. This should be the last update. Maxim(talk) 00:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
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New recognized content

By Maxim

Especially due to the featured topic drive, there have been many new featured lists promoted concerning NHL awards. Here's the full list of all the 13 FL's promoted since the last newsletter.[1][2]

  1. Featured article Hart Memorial Trophy
  2. Featured article James Norris Memorial Trophy
  3. Featured article Vezina Trophy
  4. Featured article Conn Smythe Trophy
  5. Featured article Frank J. Selke Trophy
  6. Featured article Lady Byng Memorial Trophy
  7. Featured article Lester B. Pearson Award
  8. Featured article Calder Memorial Trophy
  9. Featured article Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy
  10. Featured article King Clancy Memorial Trophy
  11. Featured article Jack Adams Award
  12. Featured article Presidents' Trophy
  13. Featured article List of Calgary Flames players

There have been no new good articles or featured articles. Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has been given A-Class status due to multiple issues raised at FLC.

  1. ^ The last one, List of Calgary Flames players, is the only one not associated with the featured topic drive.
  2. ^ At the time of publishing, there were 5 lists at WP:FLC and 2 lists in the "Holding cell", as there's been an accepted guideline to not put more that 5 trophy lists at the same time to, "compensate for the sanity of the reviewers".
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Did You Know?

By Maxim
There have been 4 new articles featured in the Did You Know section? on the Main Page since August.

...that Wally Tatomir, head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, holds four patents on ice hockey-related equipment?

...that ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates, where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record?

...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League?

..that the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States?

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Featured Topic Drive

By Maxim

Started by User:Scorpion0422, the aim of this drive is to make NHL awards a featured topic. A featured topic is basically a set of very high quality articles (good articles and featured articles/lists). In this case, the topic is NHL awards. Many users have helped, including Scorpion0422, Resolute, Serte, Hasek is the best, Maxim, Croat Canuck, Spike Wilbury, FutureNJGov, and T Rex/Dinosaur puppy. The progress has been very good; there are 12 featured lists promoted, and 2 good articles:

  1. Featured article Hart Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
  2. Featured article James Norris Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
  3. Featured article Vezina Trophy (Scorpion)
  4. Featured article Conn Smythe Trophy (Serte)
  5. Featured article Frank J. Selke Trophy (FutureNJGov)
  6. Featured article Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
  7. Featured article Lester B. Pearson Award (Scorpion)
  8. Featured article Calder Memorial Trophy (Croat Canuck)
  9. Featured article Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (Maxim)
  10. Featured article King Clancy Memorial Trophy (Maxim)
  11. Featured article Jack Adams Award (Maxim)
  12. Featured article Presidents' Trophy (Scorpion)
  13. Good article Stanley Cup (Earlier collaboration, very many involved)
  14. Good article Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup (Maxim)

Check the project page if you are interested in helping out. Although it's closer to being done than not, there's still work to be done. The next topic that might be tackled is Stanley Cup, but this remains purely speculative and in discussion.


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[edit] Green Bay Packers WikiProject!

Lambeau Field Hello fellow Wikipedian! I just wanted to let you know that WikiProject Green Bay Packers is looking for participants who are interested in improving the quality of the articles on America's favorite small-town team, the Green Bay Packers! If you want to help, you can your name to our list of participants, check out our to-do list, and most importantly, improve the articles!


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[edit] Happy First Edit Day

HAPPY FIRST EDIT DAY! from the BIRTHDAYCOMMITTEE

Wishing SonicAD a very Happy First Edit Day!

Have a fantastic day!

From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee

--Nadir D Steinmetz 01:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

HAPPY FIRST EDIT DAY! from the BIRTHDAYCOMMITTEE

Wishing SonicAD a very Happy First Edit Day!

Have a fantastic day!

From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee

Okay, same template. So sue me. Say, your first edit day is the same as my birthday! Two One Six Five Five τ ʃ 03:06, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day, SonicAD, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

[edit] WikiProject Doctor Who newsletter, March 2008

The Space-Time Telegraph
The WikiProject Doctor Who newsletter
Issue 1 March 2008
Project News
We have five new participants: Sm9800, Seanor3, T saston, Type 40, Jammy0002.
One editor has left the project: StuartDD.
The Doctor Who portal has expanded to increase the number of selected stories to 33.
Articles of note
New featured articles
None
New featured article candidates
New good articles
Delisted articles
None
Proposals
A proposal for changing the layout of the episode pages is under way here.
A discussion about the formatting of the cast lists in episode pages is under way here.
A discussion to move United Nations Intelligence Taskforce to UNIT is under way here.
News
The Torchwood project has become a task-force under the project's scope.
The Torchwood series 2 finale airs on 4th April, and the 4th series of Doctor Who will start to air on 5th April.

For the Doctor Who project, Sceptre (talk) 19:23, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Special:Categories

Thought you might be interested that this special page was overhauled today. (CTO) Brion Vibber has promised to add a search box. I've restored the link from the category listings. We considered you suggestion, but Brion pointed out that the special page has useful information that cannot be found anywhere else -- it lists the number of articles in each category and also lists red-linked categories. -- ☑ SamuelWantman 09:34, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Time's champion

Here you go:

User:SonicAD/Time's Champion-Wafulz (talk) 16:20, 29 May 2008 (UTC)