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Hello, Deon555, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Here is my reply to the question you asked on the Wikipedia:Help desk: Just add {{attention}} to the top of the page. Though not a big red box, but a big blue one. If you believe the content is false and not represents a NPOV, {{TotallyDisputed}} might be appropriate. There are also other templates, see the See also section of this page. Henrik 09:04, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Thanks for the help. I'm new at this, but trying to be a good Wikipedian.— Preceding unsigned comment added by THINMAN (talk • contribs)

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NumCrun

no it's correct you are wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by Numcrun (talk • contribs)

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Request for Name Change

Hi! I recently added a request for a name change from Cory K (boring) to Bellito (cool.) It says under my request, "Bureaucrat: User has 131 edits, and target Username not taken." or something like that. However, when I try to log in with Bellito as the username and my same password, it won't let me! What's going on?...

The preceeding statement in a nutshell:

I don't understand why my proposed username that was seemingly accepted fails to work, please help me and thank you

So, uhh... How do I know when my username has changed, then? Will I get an email or whatever?

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Thanks for explaining the whole username change procedure! Cory K 02:09, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Helpme!

{{helpme}} No I don't really need help.. but don't remove it for a bit please. THanks! :) — Deon555^talk_Review 02:37, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
ps i've told the guys at bootcamp :) {{helpme}} -- again.. I dont need help :) I'll remove it it one minute — Deon555^talk_Review 02:10, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Bernd Stange

You changed references to Stange to Strange. Please note the spelling was correct in the first place. --Hack 08:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

The References

Hi there! I finally figured out what was screwing around with the references. It was a really stupid mistake by me. I'll show you here below.

This is what I was doing (problem bolded):

<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/22/amnesia.identified/index.html | Example text]</ref>

When I should have been doing:

<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/22/amnesia.identified/index.html Example text</ref>

I shouldn't have put a | in anywhere. Sorry for the trouble last night. Yours, Philip Gronowski ^Contribs 20:06, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Carnegie of Finhaven

Deon555,

thanks for the advice. On the help search, I followed your suggestion but the search is returning very few articles. For example I searched for 'stub' and was expected 5 or so pages to come up where the word 'stub' was in the text.

On the templates I really thought there would be a list of pages like User:Haseler/template (perhaps tailored for different subjects).

Ideally I want to put { {new article|history } } hit "save page" and hey presto I have an entirely new article with all the subheadings etc.

The other problem I have is working out whether or how I should add categories. Is there a way to search categories?

--Mike 23:03, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

email

Deon555, I copied across your text on email - it's now missing! And I notice there's a change on your page - I hope I haven't done something stupid!

--Mike 01:04, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Helpme tags

... are not answered by bots, but by human editors. Please don't abuse them. -- Merope 02:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I apologize for the misunderstanding. You might want to make the test page a bit clearer -- at first glance, it looks like you're just being silly. I understand now that this is not the case, and I apologize for the message. -- Merope

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WP:CHU

Hi - thanks for your notes on this page. I wonder if you've seen User:DumbBOT/UsernameChange? This automatically generates the information which you are compiling, and I usually check it before changing any usernames. If you've got any suggestions for improvements to it, I'm sure that would also be appreciated. Warofdreams talk

hello

yes i ahve a question. some guy by the name of elmer clark is deleting my post of an author i posted information about due to certain critera. however the critera he states are incorrect, he himself is incorrect and does not know what he is talking about. i would like it to stop, or for someone to tell me exactly what needs to be changed so it can be posted. thank you

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Thank you

Hi Deon, thank you for your quick response and assistance with my amateur radio problem  :-) Roaming27 05:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

No worries :) — Deon555^talk_Review 05:55, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Did I forget to mention...

...that I've been back for a few weeks? I just did an anon edit via my home IP and saw the silly misunderstanding we had back in July. Saw you were in; thought I'd drop by and say good night. Off to hit the sack.

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New Article temple

Deon555,

Yesterday we briefly talked about a template that magically filled in a black article, I think I may have made a good start, and I'd appreciate you having a look:

Open up a blank document.

If you want a document with lots of comments enter:

{{subst:NA}}

if without comments enter:

{{subst:NA|0}}

save the page - then open it again to see what is there! --Mike 00:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Your RFA

Any idea why any time I try to contribute, I get #REDIRECT Request for ddminship/Deon555? Where did "ddminship" come from? When I try to go there directly, I'm redirected to your RFA entry. WTF!? --Ginkgo100 ^{talk · e@} 03:30, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

RFA

Can I suggest you withdraw your nom for adminship at the current time with good humour and stand again in, say, late December, having taken on board the criticisms made? I think you'd then sail through an RFA with overwhelming support... and be a better admin for the experience of the intervening months. I'd love to support your nom, but currently cannot. If the Afd is unsuccessful, when you run again, please drop me a line at my talk page. --Dweller 08:45, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Sending you a personal message...

I'm sorry if my comments on your Rfa were harsh, but I thought it was important to be honest. If there is anyway to help you out, feel free to leave me a message. OK ? Jcam 20:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

The prodded image

Since its over at commons, You'd have to go over there to do something about it. However, since it has a free license, there might not be much enthusiasm over there for deletion. But that is the way to go. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 04:32, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

User talk:89.241.147.85

After you fixed the improper use of the helpme template here, just thought I'd tell you I removed them all from the page (see next diff and edit summary), cheers! Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 10:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser clerk?

Are you still interested in helping out at WP:RFCU? If so, go ahead and add your name to the active list. We've had several clerks take breaks, and I'd like a break, too. Although that leaves 5 active clerks, there are still sometimes lags in archiving cases, so an extra hand to spread things out should be a good thing. Everything you should need to know is at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Clerks/Guide, and the clerk's noticeboard Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Clerks/Requests (although some past discussions about policies are split between the noticeboard, its talk page, and various archives). The main tasks are, helping people with requests (formatting, the letter codes, adding links to relevant previous cases), and archiving answered requests. Ocassionally someone will create a new page rather than adding on to an old request; those should be merged and redirected to the main case page. If you have any questions you can ask me or any other active clerk.

If you are no longer interested, delist your name so I can move down and ask the next person in line. Thanks. Thatcher131 01:39, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

61.69.12.xx range

Gees, it just keeps getting blocked. What did they do in that school? Specifically stand everyone up and tell them not to vandalize Wikipedia? -Patstuart^{(talk)(contribs)} 02:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

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You have mail

You have a reply waiting for you at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Admin coaching  The Transhumanist   18:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne

Hey Deon, just thought I'd tell you that the next melbourne meetup is in planning, incase you don't read the Australian Wikipedian's notice board. :D --Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 08:22, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey deon, I think you might have made a typo in your RfA message. It says it "closed successfully." Thanks for the meetup info. :) Sarah Ewart (Talk) 23:10, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Your RfA thanks

Heya, thanks for dropping me a line about your recent RfA. I just thought I should mention that the template you used for the thank-you note appears to be incomplete, and should have included a "|}", without the quotes, as the very last thing on a line of its own. Otherwise, when people add new messages to the page, they appear inside the box created by the template.

If you added the template with something like AWB it should be relatively easy to add those two characters to all the pages (excluding mine) that the template was added to, but if you didn't, just ask and I'll help you fix it up.

Cheerio, Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 10:19, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey, no problem re: the support. :)

I'm actually about to go have a shower (mmm... wet and nekkid), but when I get back perhaps we can find a way to split the workload? I don't really wanna see you have to manually fix so many substituted templates! Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 10:51, 3 November 2006 (UTC)