Hello Marlith. I see you have been bold and removed all the empty spaces. Actually I wanted to wait for the reactions of others first. Oh well, doesn't really matter. Thanks for the help. Also thanks for your archive offer, but I prefer to do that myself. I'll create one if I have 50 topics. Cheers, Face 16:53, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
I need your feedback...
Which of the following medals looks better. This one:
I think the second one, because it's more bright and golden. Looks a bit like a sheriff's medal. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 16:39, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
July 2008
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Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.
No problem, Huggle tends to get a bit hectic.
--jnivekk (talk) 03:27, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
About an article about an nonexistant subject.
Well, I'd like to get some advice in this subject: There is an article created July 3rd, 2008, who deals with a reality that does not exist. I wanted to help that out and remove it, but I did it the wrong way, and, as I deleted the content of a whole article, it got deleted. The article in question is this: Zoo Tycoon 3
May I ask you to help me on that subject, or, at least, solve the problem yourself?
Thanks anyway. Eriorguez (talk) 03:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
uhh
that was not vandism, i was talking to you on a talk page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.12.229.182 (talk) 21:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
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Again, hi! -Optigan13 (talk) 08:00, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Redirect
Hi if you study the history you'll see I didn't create the article only redirected it as it is not notable to have a biograpy article on him. I;ve redirected as I had before until somebody attempted to add a lousy stub on him. Regards The Bald OneWhite cat 16:27, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Yes if you look at the history in Jan 2008 an ip stupidly removed the redirect rather than seeing that the page had been moved. Initially the film article had been at just Seven Years in Tibet. Hopwver, sometime on 2007 that page was moved to (1997 film) and the article on the novel out in its place. When the ip typed in the name it obviously redirected to the book rather than the film. Best The Bald OneWhite cat 16:34, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
