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You added a link but you also blanked half the article :) - the preview button is your friend :) No worries though, I've fixed it. -- Tawker 23:00, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Selfish request

I don't suppose you could create for yourself a userpage, could you? Because when I go through the list of Newly-Created Pages, one of the indicators I use for "possible new user; check all contributions carefully for vandalism/garbage" is a redlink to a userpage.

No big deal, really - just that it would make things a bit easier for me. DS 15:41, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Frederick the Great

Hello Markwiki! I noticed you added several quotes from Voltaire to

Frederick II of Prussia. Would you mind providing the source for the quotes so they can be properly mentioned in the References section? You can mention them there or here (and I would then incorporate it into the article). Also, you deleted the interwiki links from the article in your recent edit. I will restore them. Happy editing! Olessi 19:08, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

Wikipedia:Footnotes has an excellent guide to including the footnotes within the article's text. Also, it's good to sign your posts on talk pages with ~~~~. Cheers, Olessi 20:23, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply
]

Robin Hood

Hey Markwiki! When you accidentally removed some of the info before, is it possible you had mistakenly highlighted a chunk of the text and hit the spacebar, thereby removing it? To restore it, all I had was go to the previous version of the article, highlight and copy the text missing from your edited version, and then paste the missing material at the end of the current article. Hope that helps to explain what I did. If you need help in the future, also keep in mind Wikipedia:Help desk. Cheers! Olessi 02:11, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ibn Said

Hi, I've asked a question on

Talk:Ibn Said. Could you please take a look when you have time? Thanks, Picaroon (t) 21:54, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply
]

Never mind, I figured it out. Picaroon (t) 22:40, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

UrZah

Another editor has added the {{

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Speedy deletion of
Itijjuaq

section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify
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Proposed deletion of Rick Geyer

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Unreferenced BLPs

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  1. Timmy Yip - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  2. Isabel Maria de Gama - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 09:30, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion discussions

If you are not aware of it, you may find the bot report Wikipedia:WikiProject_LGBT_studies/Article_alerts of interest. Not only does it currently list your article marked for deletion, there are a couple of other deletion discussions that appear strongly related. Cheers Ash (talk) 05:38, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Markwiki. I see you contributed the above article back in 2005. I've just come across it as part of

reliable sources discussing this person. Is she also known under a different spelling, perhaps? Can you point me to anything I can use to verify the article contents? Thanks, Gonzonoir (talk) 13:33, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply
]

Thanks for your quick reply - I think I'll ask over at
WP:PROD. Let me know if you think of anything else. Cheers, Gonzonoir (talk) 14:16, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply
]

The article Isabel Maria de Gama has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Though this looks notable, I can find no
verify this person's existence. (Many Google hits appear to source from the article here.) The page's creator, on request
, could not remember sources (this is an old article), and I've had no response at relevant Wikiprojects in a week.

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I have nominated Category:Historic figures whose sexuality is debated (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. ukexpat (talk) 18:24, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Social Structure in Kingdom of Kongo article

I have noted your changes in the article on the Kingdom of Kongo and references to matrilineal succession, and also to the chibadi. Please note that I am proposing to remove a good deal of this, and I want you to see this first. The institution you refer to relates to South East Africa, specifically Mwenemutapa and surrounding kingdoms in today's Mozambique and Zimbabwe. They do not relate to the Kingdom of Kongo. You do have a reference to Antonio de Oliveira de Cadornega's book, which is about kibanda in the Kimbundu-speaking portions of today's Angola. However, this institution was not reported in the Kingdom of Kongo, and I have no reason to believe it existed there. There is a discussion of the kibanda in Angola (Kimbundu region) and in Brazil in James Sweet's book Recreating Africa, this is a well documented treatment of the subject. I'll wait a few days to make the changes, so you can consider or discuss it. Beepsie (talk) 18:28, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Today part of

Heya,

do we really need these excessively long lists of "Today part of"? While it's nice that you compiled the information (and it's mostly complete, too), it creates disproportionally large infobox sections esp. for the biger empires like Rome or Byzantium. It looks ugly, and when the list of states becomes the longest item in the box, it kind of defeats the purpose of those infoboxes.

At least I'd suggest dropping the flags and just listing the names in a simple enumeration - "Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Armenia..." and so on.

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but please also consider the looks and due weight of these lists. :)

Regards, Varana (talk) 23:28, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Homosexuality in mythology

Category:Homosexuality in mythology, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 23:42, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of
Tu'i Tonga Fefine
for deletion

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Nomination of
Tu'i Tonga Fefine
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ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom Elections 2016
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Hello, Markwiki. Voting in the

2016 Arbitration Committee elections
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Nomination of
Boy next door (stock character)
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