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Proposed deletion of Adventure Gamers

I removed the prod tag you placed on Adventure Gamers, as it was discussed at AfD in December 2006. Compliance with policy is the only reason I did this; it should not be interpreted as my endorsement for keeping the article. Feel free to open another AfD. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 14:54, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Wow

Thank you, that was done so fast i wasn't expecting a reply for a couple of days. Thanks again. :) - (CK)Lakeshade - talk2me - 08:03, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Mushroom Kingdom Fusion

I missed the AfD of this article, or else I certainly would have objected. I can assure you that the game exists and has been released (as a beta) as I've played it before. The reason their website is down is because the hosting provider is itself down, so they need to look for a new website. I haven't spoken to them in a few months, so it's possible the creators are no longer working on it actively, though that would surprise me. I'll try to get in touch with them and find out what's going on. I'm aware my vote wouldn't have changed the outcome of the AFD but if I had had more time I could have at least done some improvements to it. (edit: [1] seems to be the current website.) —Soap— 19:28, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Awarded Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For all your contributions and hard work on the encyclopedia, I am pleased to present Andrevan with this Tireless Contributor Barnstar. — Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 07:09, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Nice!

This edit summary was brilliant...it did make me laugh. Nice one! Acalamari 09:33, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

'boink'

Re. [2]

Any particular reason for ignoring any discussion?  Chzz  ►  04:10, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Call recorder redirection deletion advice

As you suggested I've changed the Call recorder deletion recommendation from an AFD to an RFD. Appreciate the heads-up. Paul Robert Murphy (talk) 10:32, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

User Paul Robert Murphy

I'll take a look at improving the two articles I wrote as you suggested.

Wanted to talk to you about your Conflict of Interest warning. I was very deliberate in pointing out my position in my bio because I wanted editors to know that I am aware of the possibility for conflict of interest and would very much like to be be called on it if anyone thinks I've written anything that comes close to that. Since I'm in this business of call recording I obviously know a fair bit about it. I would have happily let someone else take the lead in the area, but what I found there is either very old or (IMO) close to useless. Several people suggested I write anonymously or have someone else post, but I thought that that was ridiculous since my interest was in organizing the subject area, not in promoting our company!

I originally only intended to write the call-recording services article, because that's my primary area of interest. I tried to be as impartial as possible. In fact several people in our company have accused me making our competitors seem like a better option. Since I'm in tech and not marketing, I think that's just too bad. Although I'm new to Wikipedia as a contributor, it's been a source of information for years and I have every interest in making it better.

I created the call-recording hardware stub for completeness. I assume that's reasonable.

I included a Call Trunk entry in call-recording Software because I noticed that our competitors have done same, although apparently anonymously. In fact, it's a debatable position. Software is required to enable a service. Still, I don't think any of those should be there. Being all-inclusive is a short-term fix. I think that that whole article needs to be rewritten from scratch. I have it on my watch list. If no one gets around to it, I will at some point.

I don't know about talk etiquette. I was going to respond on my talk page but wasn't sure if you'd then pick it up. Is responding on your talk page the right thing to do?

I appreciate your input and help.

Paul Robert Murphy (talk) 10:57, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

SUL

Hi Andrevan, could you please rename User:Tufche to User:Liridon (who has no contributions)? I'm sq:User:Liridon and I'd like to usurp this account. I hope this is the right place to make this request ;). --Tufche 18:55, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you :) .--Liridon 16:50, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Notification

Jfgslo has started an RFC on whether it would be appropriate to merge or redirect an article that you recently participated in an AFD for. Please join the discussion so that we may try to form a consensus at a centralized location. Shooterwalker (talk) 23:24, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Help!

There are all kinds of new buttons on my screen! I really should keep my laptop away from the kids, shouldn't I... Andrevan, thanks for closing my RfA. I'm off to Admin school--well, first I'm off to the kids' school, then my own--and then I'm going to go on a tear. Thanks again, Drmies (talk) 12:41, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Help

Dear Andrevan, I am Nodar Kherkheulidze and I have to ask you for help. When I have registered on wikipedia, I made mistake — I wrote my surname with little letter (kherkheulidze). My home page is on ka.wikipedia.org, I asked to change my username and it was changed (Nodar kherkheulidze to Nodar Kherkheulidze). But the changes have not been represented on english wikipedia. So, I made a mistake and created new account on en.wikipedia.org — Nodar Kherkheulidze and confirmed it by password to my changed username. So, now I have two accounts: user:Nodar kherkheulidze and user:Nodar Kherkheulidze. Please, help me to solve this problem, I do not want to have the first account "Nodar kherkheulidze" (account, which starts with little letter "k"). Thank you in advance. --Nodar Kherkheulidze (talk) 07:10, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Dear Andrew, firs of all, thank you for help again. Let me to ask you a question: Is it possible to change my old username — User:Nodar kherkheulidze to new — User:Nodar Kherkheulidze globally, in every wikipedia project (for example: ru.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org and etc)? Or I have to ask each of every wikipedia's Beaurocrats to change my username? "Nodar kherkheulidze" was changed to "Nodar Kherkheulidze" only on ka.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.org. Except of these sites on other projects username "Nodar kherkheulidze" and "Nodar Kherkheulidze exists separately. Nodar Kherkheulidze (talk) 14:30, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Making WP:Mediation meaningful

Please consider how you might assist Feezo, who you will know is the mediator at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Senkaku Islands.

As context, please scan "Hands off" mediation plan.

Mediation involves conflated issues, but wider community intervention is needed in order to help, support and encourage Feezo so that we may reach those issues. --Tenmei (talk) 18:33, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

You're invited to the New York Wiknic!

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Non-Free rationale for File:Microsoft Agent test page.png

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Invitation to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Pittsburgh

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--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 20:56, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

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Proposed deletion of Maroghini

The article Maroghini has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Epeefleche (talk) 04:16, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Change my name to Bluebuzz

Hi Andrevan,

Is it possible to change my name from Blueknightex to Bluebuzz? I want to change it for privacy reasons to prevent my name from coinciding with someone who is in YouTube. Thanks. Blueknightex (talk) 22:16, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Name Change

Can you please change my name to "zamox_nz". I have a name collision with someoane on wikipedia.it and i want to register a global account. Right now, my user profile states "In migration". Please note that i'm a new user (new as a logged in user, not reader) of Wikipedia , and don't know much at this point about it's norms of use (will get into these in the following months), so if i bodered the wrong person, please direct me to someone more appropriate.

Thanks in advance for your help, Cheers, Zamox (talk) 22:16, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Mu-Zemike should not be an admin

[[3]] 173.206.237.12 (talk) 01:05, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Nintendo Power scans request

Hey. I'm collaborating with User:Guyinblack25 on the article P.N.03, and I thought I would ask if you have access to the October 2003 issue of Nintendo Power, which contains a review of the game that will be critical to writing a balanced article. The review should appear on page 137. I sent this request to User:Pagrashtak initially, but he seems to be inactive. If you have the time, I'd be hugely grateful for your help. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 00:41, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Jotto.jpg

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right to vanish

Hello I want to use my right to vanish. Could you delete only my user page and its history (you don't really need to delete my "talk page" or articles I started but only my user page please) and change my username to something you choose like vanished1234? Please help me. Thank you in advance. -F.Mehmet (talk) 20:08, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:The Musical in NYC Oct 22

Wikipedia:The Musical in NYC

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Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll

This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:24, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Name Change

Hello Admin,

My Username is Sudeep Nagarkar can you change it to Prashant Gandhi. Also please change email address the old email address is sudeep8819@gmail.com & change it to prashant4044@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.209.242.9 (talk) 13:23, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Request for changing username

I have just signed up with wikipedia(english version). Since wiki does not accept usernames starting with lowercase, I would like to rename my current username: Ajoywarisa to Ajoy Warisa. I would be grateful, if you could kindly change my username. Thank you.

Ajoy Warisa — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajoywarisa (talk • contribs) 09:33, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

E-mail sent to you

Hello, Andrevan. Please check your e-mail – you've got mail!
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{YGM}} template.

(Tom Fararo (talk) 23:05, 17 November 2011 (UTC))

Hello,

I am a wikipedia user and donor, but not a participant in your editorial community. I am writing to bring a matter to your attention regarding this adjustment to an article about Canada's involvement in the conflict in Afghanistan:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Forces_casualties_in_Afghanistan&diff=457282996&oldid=457257663

I object to the removal of the casualties by name and year. It seems that this was discussed and removed within the space of a single day, and over the partial objections of two other editors. The informational value of the dates and operations is obvious and stripping names out reduces searchability for researchers.

Thank you,

_Nils Connor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.92.65.10 (talk) 17:01, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

National Archives ExtravaSCANza

You are invited to the National Archives ExtravaSCANza, taking place every day next week from January 4–7, Wednesday to Saturday, in College Park, Maryland (Washington, DC metro area). Come help me cap off my stint as Wikipedian in Residence at the National Archives with one last success! This will be a casual working event in which Wikipedians are getting together to scan interesting documents at the National Archives related to a different theme each day—currently: spaceflight, women's suffrage, Chile, and battleships—for use on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. The event is being held on multiple days, and in the evenings and weekend, so that as many locals and out-of-towners from nearby regions1 as possible can come. Please join us! Dominic·t 01:07, 30 December 2011 (UTC) 1 Wikipedians from DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark, New York City, and Pittsburgh have been invited.

Request for Comments on Wikipedia:Representation

Hi there! My name is Whenaxis, I noticed that you are on the Mediation Committee. I created a policy proposal called Wikipedia:Representation. I think that this policy would help the Mediation Committee as well as the Arbitration Committee because the goal of this proposed policy is to decrease the amount of time wasted when an unfamiliar editor files a Mediation or Arbitration Committee when other forms of Dispute Resolution have not yet been sought. For example, an editor may come to the Mediation Committee requesting formal mediation when other dispute resolution areas have not been utilised such as third opinions or request for comments. A representative works much like a legal aid - there to help you for free and:

• File a formal mediation case or an arbitration case on your behalf
• Make statements and submit evidence at the case page on your behalf
• Guide you through the expansive and sometimes complex policies and procedures of Wikipedia

This proposed idea can also help the editor seeking help because it can alleviate the stress and anxiety from dispute resolution because mediation and arbitration can be intimidating for those who are unfamiliar.

I would highly appreciate your comments on this proposal at: Wikipedia talk:Representation. Cheers and Happy New Year - Whenaxis about talk contribs 22:33, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Request for Interview Regarding Wikipedia Bots

Greetings Andrevan-

My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon, currently collecting data for my dissertation on Wikipedia editors who create and use bots and assisted editing tools, as well as editors involved in the initial and/or ongoing creation of bot policies on Wikipedia. As a member of the bot community and former member of BAG, I would very much like to interview you for the project at a time and in a method that is most convenient for you (Gchat, another IM client, Skype, email, telephone, etc.). I am completely flexible and can work with your schedule. The interview will take approximately 30-45 minutes.

My dissertation project has been approved both by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Oregon, and by the Research Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information on the project on my meta page.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing from you to set up a time to chat. Thank you very much.

Randall Livingstone, School of Journalism & Communication, University of Oregon

UOJComm (talk) 01:03, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Unified login

Hi! I have an account on Italian wiki named Aethelfirth and I'd like to create a unified login, but there is already an account named Aethelfirth on the English wiki, even though since 2006 this user didn't make a single edit! I read here that it is possible to usurp this account and unify it with my Italian-wiki one, so this is what I'm asking to you: can you do it? Thanks!--Aethelfirth (msg) 09:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Mediation request

I'm humbly inviting you to mediate the following discussion taking place on Talk:Anti-Defamation League. The debate is about properly sourced material being removed under different charges. All material had as references reliable sources. These are the edits arousing controversy:[4][5] Arguments from both sides have been laid out on the Talk Page, and no consensus has emerged. Please, weigh in on the discussion. These are the users I've been debating with:

• User:Jayjg, an administrator.
• User:Plot_Spoiler

Guinsberg (talk) 23:41, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Andrevan,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 04:15, 14 February 2012 (UTC)