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Hi there. I believe that the issue you commented on

BDD, could you please stop by again? There's a question as to which article or articles you reviewed this time around. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:50, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi, yes you are correct that they are of similar argument. I would definitely appreciate your help in consolidating them. Please include the following pages too in the multiple move request.

1. Idris (prophet) → Idris and Idris → Idris (disambiguation).
2.

By the way thanks in advance for your humble request for help merging. -- Ibrahim ebi (talk) 19:22, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks for your time and help. --Ibrahim ebi (talk) 07:37, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

The move at

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Hi, BDD. I'm going to be offline for a few weeks; I am having health problems. I will keep you posted. Thanks for all your help so far. I hope you will still be available to mentor after I get myself sorted out. See you in a week or so.

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Absolutely. I'll be here. I'm sorry to hear about your situation and hope you feel better soon. --BDD (talk) 17:07, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Well, some bad news...I'm going to need open heart surgery after the first of the year (failing aortic valve replacement) so am likely to be hors de combat for 3 to six months, judging by the last time I had surgery for this. I would like to resume editing around May or June 2014, if possible. Let me know if that is too long to wait or if you get too busy, etc. Thanks again for all your help.

Cellequilit (talk) 03:25, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm so sorry to hear that! I hope all goes well, and I'll be here when you're back. Best, BDD (talk) 16:59, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Dear BDD, currently I have nominated my new article Amdavad ni Gufa for DYK at Template:Did you know nominations/Amdavad ni Gufa. But reviewer recommended to get another person for copy editing as my copyediting was not satisfactory. I request for your help in copyediting. Regards. --Nizil (talk) 11:05, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I'll give it a go. --BDD (talk) 17:08, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hello there, now the result of the Maniwaki, Quebec article was "moved" at the talk page but the comma-province name was still there. Could you go to the Maniwaki, Quebec article and fix the title to it's new title "Maniwaki" without the comma-province name e.g. ", Quebec" The result says moved. If you could do that that would be great. OK? Thanks. Steam5 (talk) 21:56, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. I'm not an administrator, and since the current redirect at Maniwaki had more than one edit, I wasn't able to move the page myself. I've tagged it with a template, however, which will cause an administrator to delete the redirect that is holding up the move, at which point either I or the administrator will make the move. Don't worry—I've got the page on my watchlist. I'd be very surprised if it isn't moved later today. Thanks, BDD (talk) 21:58, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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	Thank a lot for copyediting Amdavad ni Gufa. It was recommended for copyedit during DYK nomination. So two other users also edited before you on demand of help by me. You people made article worth for encyclopaedia. Thank you again. Nizil (talk) 23:00, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Normal (New Girl)

DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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I have requested to move Give It Away back to its original location. Please give input. Oldag07 (talk) 06:45, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hey BDD,I was wondering if you had some time for a new pupil? I'm pretty new to the whole copy-editing concept but my little pleasure in life is spelling and grammar errors (or catching phrases that were lost in translation). Think you can help me out? FrankyFour (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 10:55, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations on becoming a coordinator! As you probably already know, the main tasks involve making sure all the pages are kept up to date and properly organized. If you haven't already, add

Here is the task list I'm working on. —Torchiest ^talk_edits

15:18, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, boss. I'll see to those daily tasks. Let me know if you're ever assigning tasks to specific coordinators. I may need to be talked through the drive updating, which I haven't done before. --BDD (talk) 19:07, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi BDD, I was the last editor to comment on the status of Whitney Motorsports and Phil Parsons Racing. I talked to User:The Bushranger about the issue on the WikiPRoject NASCAR talk page, and he seemed to agre. Court documents from a lawsuit involving a former HP Racing member and Phil Parson and Randy Humphrey stated that HP itself had been bought out by Parsons and was merged with Whitney Motorsports into the present PPR. Randy Humphrey and Mark Smith teamed up to form HSM, a new team. So I would like this to be re opened for discusion, but I am unsure of how to gain the attention of the NASCAr wikipedia community.Gaeaman787 (talk) 01:35, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Pardon, I'm not entirely sure what you'd like to have done. Do you want to create an article about the new team, merge the existing articles, both, or something else? I'll help if I can. --BDD (talk) 19:03, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

I'd like the Humphrey-Smith page moved to Phil Parsons Racing (since PPR is a continuation of Prism/HP) and the Whitney Motorsports page merged into the Phil Parsons Racing page. A new page should be created for Humphrey-Smith Motorspots.Gaeaman787 (talk) 19:09, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

So you'll want to start an

boldly on your own, but if you'd like to wait for consensus, you could let the Humphrey Smith RM play out. And since Humphrey-Smith Motorspots is a redlink, you can create the page yourself. I'm not sure how you could get the attention of the WikiProject, but you could always leave notification on their talk page about the RM. Sound good? Let me know if you want help with any of these procedures. --BDD (talk

) 19:16, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Pondicherry RM is an important one (there seems to be some confusion already). I have posted at India noticeboard. You can start RM request of Bangalore to Bengaluru, that is in my task list for last few months. But, that might be a difficult one. Please see this October 2012 discussion --Tito Dutta (talk) 21:18, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Well, my point was that I hadn't heard Bengaluru before, so I'd be a poor choice for starting an RM for Bangalore. I wouldn't necessarily be against it, but my feeling right now is that Bangalore is the common name in English. --BDD (talk) 21:21, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

The paragraph below is a joke^{[citation needed]}, please don't take it seriously

When 1) Government has changed the name 2) all leading newspapers are happily using the name, we are still using the old name, because we care for C"Common name" which most probably means a large number of people who don't read newspapers or watch news channels and still think and call the city "Bangalore" per their own knowledge. I am damn sure in houses of many of these people you'll find the calendar with year "2012". Either they have forgotten to change calendar or they think that is "COMMONYEAR". --Tito Dutta (talk) 21:29, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

You've created a bad disambiguation because the older person is best known for his activities as a soldier; he wasn't a notable priest, he was a notable soldier. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 07:05, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm open to alternatives, but according to

WP:TWODABS, we may want to do something like that. I'll check the traffic stats. --BDD (talk

) 16:04, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

WP:PRIMARYTOPIC is probably a no-go. Last month, the priest got 60 views to the soldier's 714. We could make the latter the primary topic, I suppose, but those are awfully low numbers. --BDD (talk

) 21:23, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

I'd agree with your proposed solution, although it's so clumsy that keeping it this way is equally acceptable. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 07:10, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

It just occurs to me that you didn't need me to tell you what vojnik means. Sorry for my presumption. Anyway, let's see how the status quo works and see if it causes any confusion. If we need to make a change, we could designate the 20th century figure the primary topic. --BDD (talk) 15:58, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

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The first two were intentional, and I'm not sure what specific article the latter should point to, if any. I'm surprised that Cassette is a dab page. --BDD (talk) 16:06, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

I just wanted to thank you for your help on the page Give It Away. Admins don't always get enough thanks. Have a good one . Oldag07 (talk) 14:30, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, but you're welcome. I'm not one to sit out a process just because I disagreed with it. --BDD (talk) 16:07, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

I accidently messaged you over the other admin. Still you have been a really good sport about it. I have had opinions that went against consensus many times. Best of luck. Oldag07 (talk) 02:43, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi BDD, The above-referenced article, which had been proposed for moving from main space to WP work space, now is proposed for deletion. See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of environmental laws by country. Your input to the proposed deletion would be welcome! Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 23:52, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your thoughtful input, which is appreciated. Regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 13:26, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hi. Hope you're enjoying corrdinating the GOCE :) I just happened to notice that you've listed

Thanks for letting me know, Stfg. Before I start on an article, I always open up the drive page in edit mode and search its name to make sure no one has "claimed" it, but I guess there isn't really a policy in place dealing with such conflicts. We certainly wouldn't want someone holding an article for an extended period of time without working on it, but we do want to respect that {{working}} tag. I'm not upset, and I probably would've relinquished the article if I were asked. Now that I'm a coordinator, I'll see what I can do about codifying a good practice. --BDD (talk) 20:24, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, that would be a great move. New drive participants often fall into traps. Improving the documentation, if you can, could be very useful. --Stfg (talk) 12:50, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

As a participant of the discussion Talk:Palestine#Requested_move regarding naming change of the page Palestine, you might be interested in discussion Template talk:Asia topic#State of Palestine on changing the redirection target of "Palestine" from "Palestinian territories" to "State of Palestine" at Template:Asia topic. Thank you.Greyshark09 (talk) 23:06, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hi BDD, would you mind having a quick look at Mobile_phones_on_aircraft? This is my first full article copy edit, and I think I picked a tough one! If you would just compare what the article looked like before I started to what it looks like now, and tell me if what I have done falls within the purview of copy editing, I would be grateful. Please be aware that I still have to plug in the available references (I have left cn tags all over the place to remind myself where to put them in), and I have still to go through wikifying. Regards, David_FLXD (Talk) 06:10, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Why are you deleting content from my Userspace? JCDenton2052 (talk) 13:35, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

That's a pretty broad way of putting it. I nominated one page through

WP:DRV. In case this was your concern, I wasn't hounding or stalking you or any of the sort. I think I found that page through a WhatLinksHere query. --BDD (talk

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	In particular for the ongoing discussion on Star Trek into Darkness regarding a pesky little I. At the end of the day, it may not have been resolved but we all did work together to try and get it sorted, even if we did feel at times we were banging our heads on our desks and calling our computer screens idiots. MisterShiney ✉ 14:47, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

I made a thorough bungle of moving this article, and am no longer sure what I was trying to do. The article is now at the title above, with its talk page, and I have sorted out all resulting double-redirects and botched titles; but is that what was required? JohnCD (talk) 18:38, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

It looks like you had it right the first time, and the article has ended up at its older name. I was requesting History and use of the single transferable vote as the destination. --BDD (talk) 19:17, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

(Sigh) all done. Sorry about the confusion. JohnCD (talk) 22:42, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for your help. --BDD (talk) 22:42, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

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Intentional. The page should eventually not be a dab, in the vein of leafcutter ant. --BDD (talk) 16:05, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

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Are you using

Thanks for the recommendation, but I'd prefer not to use a software program for editing. I was actually pretty skeptical of automated editing of any sort until not that long ago. Since then, I've largely embraced Twinkle and sometimes use HotCat, now that it's turned on by default. --BDD (talk) 00:51, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Could you please clarify your stand here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Nike_sponsorships Regards,--Nnnnkkkk (talk) 02:43, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

I'd prefer to just leave my comment as it stands. I don't quite feel strong enough to vote keep. I mostly just want consistency. I want anyone voting delete to know that this is part of an established set of articles, so it isn't necessarily just an advert. On the other hand, I don't think it's a particularly good set of articles. I'm not sure they have much value as lists, though a category approach might also work. --BDD (talk) 19:12, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

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