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WikiProject Malware

Thank You for your interest in WikiProject Malware. I welcome any help you can provide. The project is not quite dead, but its responsibilities have more or less been absorbed by the WikiProject Computing/Computer and Information Security task force . We could use your help on both projects. Feel free to contact me if you would like to work on anything in particular. Sephiroth storm (talk) 12:53, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

I only joined a month before you did, and it was pretty dead then too. Only about 20 articles were actually assigned to the wikiproject: I manually did the 200 others we have now. I'm not good in writing articles, I'm more of a typo-fixer (a WikiGnome). I'm happy to assist you whenever you need help, but I'm not the best choice to be a mentor though. --DanielPharos (talk) 15:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

About the mentor thing: I just wanted to be clear what kind of editor I am, to prevent any misunderstandings. Now that that is clear; I read your merge-proposal and commented on it. I'm actually leaning towards supporting it, but I'm having trouble with (at least) one issue: if the two are merged, wouldn't that mean the death of Malware? I mean, 'Computer Security' is such a large topic, with a lot of theoretical articles, that the simple virii, trojan etc. articles would become a background thing. So maybe this is a better idea: promote the Security taskforce to that 'Computer Security' wikiproject, and make Malware a taskforce inside that. I think that would be a better arrangement, and keep it also let's Malware keeps it's "niche area" status. --DanielPharos (talk) 14:27, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Answered on WP:CCISTF Sephiroth storm (talk) 14:53, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Redundant images

When you encounter a redundant image such as File:MSMAL.gif, please do not tag it for speedy deletion with {{db-redundantimage}}. That tag only applies when the two images are in the same file format (both JPG or both PNG, for example). If it is already tagged as an orphan, it will be deleted in a week or so. If it isn't tagged as a orphan, you can tag it with {{Subst:Orfud}}, which turns into {{Di-orphaned fair use}} with a date. If you are the uploader, you can tag the image with {{db-g7}} "The author of the only substantial content has requested deletion in good faith" -- Eastmain (talk) 01:42, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, will make note of that in later imagery work. --blurpeace ^{(talk - contributions)} 05:32, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

New image project

Hi. This little form letter is just a courtesy notice to let you know that a proposal to merge the projects Wikipedia:WikiProject Free images, Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use, Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration into the newly formed Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media has met with general support at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Files. Since you're on the rosters of membership in at least one of those projects, I thought you might be interested. Conversation about redirecting those projects is located here. Please participate in that discussion if you have any interest, and if you still have interest in achieving the goals of the original project, we'd love to have you join in. If you aren't interested in either the conversation or the project, please pardon the interruption. :) Thanks. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:46, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice. I will take a look when I get a chance. ^blurred_peace ☮ 19:54, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Rollback

After reviewing your contributions and your reasoning, I've accepted your request. I believe you can be trusted to use rollback correctly, ie its intended usage of reverting vandalism only. For information on rollback see: Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback in the future, just let me or any admin know. Cheers. Nja²⁴⁷ 08:06, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Watchmen

Hi! Re your Huggle rollback on the Watchmen article: The ip's edit appears to be justified... --NorwegianBlue ^talk 22:14, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi Norwegian. Yeah, after he made the edit back, I decided to research it for myself and it was justified. (see his talk page where I removed the warning, and the edit summary). ^blurred_peace ☮ 22:15, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Also, it was too late to revert my own edits as he had corrected it. Thanks for notifying though. ^blurred_peace ☮ 22:17, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem. I was considering reverting again, but googled, seeing that the ip had provided both edits with edit summaries. --NorwegianBlue ^talk 22:26, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Page blanked by author

Hi. Though page blanking is usually vandalism and needs to be reverted, it is worth looking first at the page history, because quite often the author has blanked his own page, as with Gbf golf ball finder just now. In those cases the best thing is to tag it {{db-author}}. It can be confusing for an author who realises his page is inappropriate and blanks it, if his page is at once restored and he is accused of vandalism for the blanking and told it was unconstructive. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello JohnCD. Will make sure of looking more closely next time. I hate making those little slip-ups while editing. ^blurred_peace ☮ 21:54, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem - it's easy to do. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:59, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for pointing me to the proper resources on challenging redirects and for pointing out the Wiki adoption program. I may use it in the near future.Jasonbholden (talk) 22:55, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot.

I saw my own userpage on HG but you beat me to reverting the vandalism. Thanks for your help. ^(C/SGT)G2sai 03:03, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem. I'm happy to be of assistance. ^blurred_peace ☮ 03:06, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

redirect arrondissements Paris

Sorry to haven't gave explication, I'm deleted because there are 3 cities with arrondissements in France, I'll do a disambuigation after deleted the redirections to Paris what a mistake. Lulu97417 (talk) 01:23, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem. Just remember to place an edit summary next time. I made the revert as I had thought it was just plain vandalism. I've reviewed the conversation you had with TideRolls, and I'll take care of removing my warning. Sorry about the misunderstanding, and happy editing! ^blurred_peace ☮ 13:18, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

HELP!!?!?!!

I deleted the content not out of vandalism but because I thought the page was going to be deleted. I was trying to move the page "Nerd Pride Day" to "Geek Pride Day" but it said that that page already existed. This move must be done because that is the proper usage in English. While the original holiday might be literally translated as "Nerd", it is know as, and mainly referred to as "Geek Pride Day" in the English speaking world. In western culture, nerds are usually coined by others derogatively, and geeks are coined personally as a title. Please help me make this move. TekBoi [Ali Kilinc] (talk) 20:01, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't know much about the topic, but what I would recommend is visiting the Nerd Pride Day talk page, and asking about it there. See if you can gain consensus among other editors for this action, and they can make the move for you (if it is accepted). Happy editing! ^blurred_peace ☮ 20:06, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

I think the author of the page has died or something, the last modifications were TWO years ago. TekBoi [Ali Kilinc] (talk) 20:31, 16 May 2009 (UTC)