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File:Obscene-eu-coin.pngControversy over sweeden in the EU 2c coinNeither of the images is free, but I created one you could use. While it will not end up in an article, you could keep it in your user page or in the article talk page. —This user has left wikipedia 04:25 2006-01-27
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I consider your removal of material off my user page as vandalism. I think you need to learn the difference between hypocrisy and irony. Gillyweed 00:01, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, sure, I bet everyone's in stitches because you said both you have a lot of page edits, and page edits don't matter. Real funny. Kevin 02:52, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not really sure, make sure you to hit preview button though when you type a long post on a heavily trafficked page. That way you won't have to re-type what you've already entered. Try it a couple more times and make sure that it gives you the same message and get back to me.
I think I fixed it. Thanks for the heads up — I probably wouldn't have noticed it for a lot longer. grapħıte_elbowβ 02:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
And final
I'll concede to you on this. In retrospect saying "and final" violates WP:CRYSTAL but not saying it isn't making a call either way. Good points, all. -- MisterHand 17:28, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Do not want
Unfortunately, no those will not work. Websites with information that is submitted by everyday joes are not allowed as sources for Wikipedia. The Filmaker 01:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Judging by your user boxes, you care about spelling and grammar. Since I also care about spelling and grammar and would prefer people to correct me when I get something wrong, I would like to let you know you incorrectly used further in Soldat. Since you were referring to the distance jumped the correct word would be farther. I fixed that, and on your user page noticed two spelling errors but didn't correct them because I'm uncertain if it's acceptable to edit someone else's user page. The misspelled words are asterisk and entries. --Noerrorsfound 07:58, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks I guess. But if you'll notice my userboxes, all the language ones are about grammar. I pride myself on knowing which form to use when multiple forms are available, like you're your, their there, etc., and I've never been very good at spelling (and I don't really care about other forms of grammar, such as prepositions at the end of sentenses).
English s a crazy language, with silent letters, multiple pronunciations of letters, and unneccessary multiple forms. But it's the only language I know, and in what I've learned about French, some other languages are worse in ways. It makes me sincerely wish there was one, sensible langage that the whole world used. Kevin 11:50, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. There may be spelling errors in my response, but I don't really care.
I corrected them anyway, though. Kevin 00:48, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).
Hi. I'm just wondering, why did you add this to the tfd's? I'm not sure if it was a test, if you were editting another page, if you thought it needed refs, etc, but this invalid refernece parameter casued the entire expand section to go under the seven wonders thing. I have fixed it since. Thanks. ~
Erm... I quoted that because the nominator cited basing the article on primary sources as a bad thing. I was just trying to explain when it's appropriate to base an article on primary sources.--Marhawkman 04:23, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Which is why I said "at worst". It's probably not a slippery slope. But anyway, that notwithstanding, I agree it should be kept. Kevin 04:38, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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WP:CSD#R1 – it was a broken redirect. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:05, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply
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It looks like the vast majority of those links you claim are useful are for the phrase "A good day to die" and not "It is a good day to die"; to be honest that's probably why I removed a lot of them, but I don't have time this evening to go through all of them. If they were on a disambig page called A Good Day to Die and linked to articles that discussed some meaning of that phrase, that'd be fine. Propaniac (talk) 02:32, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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A news alert on twitter. I wasn't trying to be first, I just wanted to read up on him and I noticed no one had edited his page yet. 02:36, 15 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Knut (talk • contribs)
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No offense, but I've reverted your addition of Sparknotes again per
WP:RS: "Articles should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." According to this criteria, Sparnotes is not a reliable source and therefore should not be utilized, no matter what is being sourced. There are many scholarly works that discuss The Red Badge of Courage and its characters, available both in print and via online (GoogleBooks, Netlibrary, etc.), so Sparknotes isn't exactly the only choice out there. :) Hope this helps, María(habla conmigo) 21:36, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply
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