User talk:Sotomura

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Welcomes

Hi Sotomura, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have. You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox. When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines. First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette. Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

Be sure to get involved in the community – you can contact me at my talk page if you have any questions, and you can check out the village pump, where lots of wikipedians hang out and discuss things. If you're looking for something to do, check out the community portal. And whenever you ask a question or post something on a talk page, be sure to sign your name by typing ~~~~.

Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame) 13:22, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza!

Welcome, Sotomura, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member, you might be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee , KnowledgeOfSelf, JoanneB, Titoxd and FireFox. The elections have ended.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact me via email or talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to be!

Thanks! - File:Ottawa flag.png nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 23:37, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Now Celestianpower I'd know a little about. Am I supposed to add that little subpage now? --Anthony Jake La (Tetsuya-san; talk : contribs) 23:41, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

== Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

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Reach out Reach out is a program aimed at allowing users to bring issues that they have had in Wikipedia to a listening, sympathetic and caring audience: "No one can know how we feel if we do not say. We cannot expect to get understanding if we do not ask for it. No one will dispute that sometimes life's issues are too much for one person. It is fair to say that sometimes Wikipedia's problems fall under the same heading. This is a place where you can bring the bruises that can sometimes be got on this project for attention." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Note from the editor Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone!

The last AC meeting (full log) Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before. Bans and Access level changes (apart from autovoice) in the IRC channel are to be reported at the new log. In the IRC channel, there is going to be only one bot at a time. The charter requires members to have 150 edits and 2 weeks editing. Why this is the case will be clarified. A new Code of Conduct will be drafted by JoanneB and proposed to the Esperanza community. The NPA reform idea is to be dropped officially. Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on. The Advisory Council is not going to be proposed to be expanded by the Advisory Council themselves, if others want to propose it, they will listen. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Path of Radiance

I don't own the game, but just by looking at the article you can see there are no interwiki links in the introduction or descriptions of anyone (except for one or two).--Zxcvbnm 22:51, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I see. Yeah, I'll see about allowing the article to give a better understanding. --Tetsuya-san (talk : contribs) 06:03, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

You took out my Mewtwo comment about the cave!!

Why would you take out my mewtwo (the one with the cave) comment. You should not have done that!! There was no good reason to take it out!!

For the reason that it wasn't really confirmed. Do you have a PokéDex entry that supports that claim? Hearing it would be a very good thing. --Tetsuya-san (talk : contribs) 06:02, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Barnstar Brigade The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date: "Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Information Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks!

The last AC meeting (full log) The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details. The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page. The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly. A plea from the editor... The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Elections

Esperanza elections

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Thanks for supporting me in the Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. Although I wasn't elected to the Advisory Council, I am very happy with the response I received from my fellow Wikipedians. I was shocked at the support, and was touched by it. Hopefully I will re-apply in June and try again for the job. Thanks again, Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers}

I'm confused.

Hello, Tetsuya-san. I'm confused about the Shuckle article. What is the point of the template if the links do not work? All the links, except the Pokemon.com one, bring up 404 messages on the websites. Can you please explain this to me?

dposse 23:59, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

The template is supposed to be "subst" into the article. Where ever you see the silly {{{1}}}{{{3}}} and stuff in the article, that's when the article IS NOT subst. That is a task for you to do by yourself. See the Template:Pokerefs page for further information. --Tetsuya-san (talk : contribs) 06:17, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. Stressbusters The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! Note from the editor As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Certificate

Certificate

This certificate has been awarded to Tetsuya-san (talk) for editing so many Pokémon articles As my thanks, I award you this certificate on 19:55, 8 June 2006 (UTC). I Love Minun (talk) Please continue your hard work on the Pokémon-articles and help out whenever possible Thanks

Do you need help?

Hello Sotomura, would you like me to help you with any articles, because I would be glad to help you work on any article you want, especially Pokémon articles. I would gladly fix stubs, clean up articles, expand sections, or anything else. Im also trying to help stop vandalism. If you would like me to do anything for you, leave a message on my talk page, thanks Cute Minun ^(Talk) 19:12, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

August Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: To-Do List The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential! What's New? In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs. To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed! The In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created. Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program. There is a page for discussing the front page redesign. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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Charizard FAC

I've replied at the FAC page. Thanks again, Highway ^Daytrippers 15:06, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Trademarks

Hello. I have noticed on the talk pages for Palkia and Dialga that you referenced a site that showed the trademarks for their names. I was wondering if there is a U.S. site like that as well. I tried to do a search, but could not find what I wanted. I want to be able to see which U.S. companies hold trademarks to video game characters as well. Thank you for your time. -SaturnYoshi ^{THE VOICES} 03:33, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe so. I've never seen any American site so open like that. - Tetsuya-san (talk : contribs) 03:36, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html That would have to be a close equivalent. - Tetsuya-san (talk : contribs) 13:36, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Okay. Thank you. -SaturnYoshi ^{THE VOICES} 16:45, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

September Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! What's New? September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage. The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself! The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it! TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly! Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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November Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Admin Coaching (needs coaches!) Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach. Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. What's New? The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one! A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived. There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia. The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested! In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias. A discussion of Esperanza's role in Wikipedia is being held, with all thoughts of all Esperanzians wanted! Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, The Halo, Shreshth91 and HighwayCello 20:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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Paragraph in Diamond and Pearl article

I noticed you readded a deleted paragraph. It was rather redundant to do so - I merged only the necessary stuff in the Gameplay paragraph where the rest were repeated. May I ask that you rectify this? - Tetsuya-san (talk : contribs) 11:45, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, I'm just collecting your consensus here. One of the paragraphs you "restored" also seemingly contained some OR. - Tetsuya-san (talk : contribs) 11:49, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Well that’s just it. One of your reasons for deleting it was OR, but I didn’t see any OR, just something unreferenced, so I restored it and added the reference with the relevant info( which was already used elsewhere, so I just linked it to the existing ref tag). --WikidSmaht (talk) 06:50, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

The other reason is that it was in two different paragraphs, and it was repeated. Not only that, but as per my edit summary, some of the information in the paragraph did not meet what was said in the sources. Sounds a bit like OR to me. - Tetsuya-san (talk : contribs) 10:04, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Precisely which information are you referring to? I don’t mean to be difficult, but you need to be more specific. --WikidSmaht (talk) 10:11, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Just to clarify.

Clarifying on what I said since I usually don't make full messages in an edit summary, bots and people using AWB to make edits usually separate the sections out. - Tetsuya-san (talk : contribs) 04:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I don’t see why I would care what bots and the AWB do? Not being a smart ass, I really don’t get it. Neither speaks for Wikipedia in any official capacity. Plus, that statement seems inaccurate, I’ve seen plenty of bot and AWB edits which do no such thing. Btw, I hate the AWB. It doesn’t work for me, last I tried, and I’ve seen it “correct” too many things which were fine the way they were. Actually, those spaces most often come from section edits, because the blank line that always occurs at the end of an edit box gets interpretted that way when submitted.

But anyway, that’s a minor side issue, my reversion was mainly made for the edit summary, with which I intended to draw your attention to Talk:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, where I clarified my edit summary comment that “Romanization ‘source’ link doesn’t work.”. Obviously this was fruitless, as you haven’t replied there. Please do. --WikidSmaht (talk) 19:47, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, I didn't see the links above and the space was unintentional. Tennis DyNamiTe ^{(sign here)} 22:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I suspect the space is added by Wikipedia itself. - Tetsuya-san (talk : contribs) 00:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

The article Pokémon Diamond and Pearl you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl for eventual comments about the article. Good luck in future nominations. Funpika 20:35, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Your username

Whenever I see your username, I think of Teddiursa. I just thought I'd let you know how funny I think this is. --Brandon Dilbeck 03:42, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I'm a stinky little teddy bear who likes to devour hamburgers and cry for mommy. :) - Tetsuya-san (talk : contribs) 03:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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Suggestion

Hey Jake, you should put the Japanese on your page actually IN Japanese. Otherwise it just looks immature, and you're just another Japanophile-wannabe. kthx ;D BlackxxJapan 12:06, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

私のなまえは　is better. Remember that spaces are a no-no in Japanese. All of that should be one block.BlackxxJapan 14:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I thought about that, ポールちゃん. :x - Sotomura (Tetsuya-san) (yell : see) 14:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

It's all good now :3 Yay! BlackxxJapan 15:13, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion for edit summaries

Please do not call edits stupid; in regard to the D/P page, it was an honest mistake, and the IP would not appreciate being insulted (or having their edits insulted). - A Link to the Past (talk) 06:05, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll remember that. - Sotomura (Tetsuya-san) (yell : see) 09:06, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

The Pokemon Diamond and Pearl talk page

You deleted my contribution the the 'European release date' section of the Pokemon Diamond and Pearl talk page. I would just like to know why you did this as I think I made a valid point. 84.67.158.11 19:19, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

You may be inclined to undo it, seeing as I don't believe, when I made any edit that I did, I rolled back any edits deliberately. - Sotomura (Tetsuya-san) (yell : see) 21:00, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Um, no, I didn't remove your edit. Refer to 82.43.218.5, please. - Sotomura (Tetsuya-san) (yell : see) 21:03, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh, sorry! I saw your name on the history page after my edit and thought it was you!

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WP:POKE is doing some housecleaning

This notice is to inform you that because many people have added their names to Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon#Participants but do not seem to be active, all names are being deleted in an effort to find out who is still truly interested in the project. All you have to do is re-add your name if you'd still like to be considered a member of WP:POKE. Any questions, you can contact me on my talk page. -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 17:46, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Fansites

Just a general note, looking at your contribs, no articles in particular. Wikipedia "policy" does not say no to fansites explicitly. The rule is no fansites for sources. Fansites are allowed, just not long lists of fan sites. Just remember to leave a more clear edit summary as to why you're removing external links instead of just "wikipedia says no". My best regards. SpigotMap 04:50, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

True. I'll keep a bit less hold to WP:EL then. - Sotomura (Tetsuya-san) (yell : see) 05:23, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

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Fair use disputed for Image:Diamond and Pearl Japanese PokéDex View.gif

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Satoshi-Ash-AG.png)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon

The list of participants of the Pokémon WikiProject is quite sizable, however, there is no way to determine which of whom are active contributors to that project. All participants in the list have been moved to Inactive. If you consider yourself to be an active member of the Pokémon WikiProject, please go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon#Participants and move your username to the Active section. Thank you. Useight (talk) 22:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

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Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

I would just like to let you know that an article you have substantially contributed to, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, is now a featured article candidate. The nomination page can be found here. Artichoker[talk] 00:10, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

If you consider the article is not yet ready for FAC, and would prefer to nominate it at a later time, please let me know and I will withdraw the nomination. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:26, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

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Please update your status with WP:VG

Dear WikiProject Video games member,

You are receiving this message because you have either Category:WikiProject Video games members or {{User WPVG}} somewhere in your userspace and you have edited Wikipedia in recent months.

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• Editing video game-related pages in the Article namespace
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Ideally, members are encouraged to do both, but either one meets our criteria of inclusion. Members still listed inactive at the beginning of November 2009 may be removed. You may re-add yourself to the active list at any time. Thank you for your help, and we look forward to working with you.

—WikiProject Video games (delivery by xenobot 03:44, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Parallel ATA master and slave correction

Thanks for that. I've been working on that article for forever and never noticed that. I'm quite certain I even edited the sentence in question, quite a while ago, and never notice that redundancy. Jeh (talk) 20:27, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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