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I'm a wikinewbie. Thanks for the welcome, Matt. Not sure if this is how I communicate, but the wiki motto seems to be, don't be afraid to try. Msheff 02:24, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Gnome Week

	Gnomes, unite!
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23:13, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

The Planet deletion

Thank you for your message, however I feel you should have researched more into the subject of your deletion. The Planet is perhaps the largest server company in the world and a company that merged into it has a wikipedia article.

Update: Thanks for relooking and retagging the article. When I start articles on wikipedia I have a tendency to only put a small amount of data then keep coming back to it to edit the content and wording, before leaving it for others to edit. You can see an example of me starting a now large article on Fred Halliday. I should really spend more time making each article, but I usually only do so in spare moments. 23:13, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Your request for adminship

I think it would be wise for you to withdraw your RFA. Despite some support, it seems unlikely to succeed, and you have received constructive criticism and assurances that a few more months of editing will enable you to enhance your user access level. If you would like to withdraw and maybe try again in a few months, I can perform the withdrawal and archiving for you. (It's actually pretty simple: just put {{subst:rfaf}} on top of the page and {{subst:rfab}} on the bottom; remove the template from [[WP:RFA]], and archive it under "Unsuccessful requests for adminship" as linked in the template at the top of [[WP:RFA]].) Alternatively, you may wish to leave the request up if you'd like to see more comments. I wish you good luck, and I must thank you for your work on Deadbot - it makes sorting the Dead-end pages easier for me. Shalom ^Hello 15:04, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Thank you for participating in my RfA. It was successful, and I am now, may God have mercy on us all, an administrator. Look at all the new buttons! I had heard about 'protect,' 'block user,' and 'delete,' but no one told me about 'kill,' 'eject,' and 'purée.' I appreciate the trust the community has in me, and I'll try hard not to delete the main page or block Jimbo. -FisherQueen (Talk) 17:53, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Developerzeus

I'm just curious how you believe the username implies that the user is a Wikipedia figure? Jmlk 1 7 21:47, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, thanks for the reply. I got it figured out :). Happy editing! Jmlk 1 7 22:36, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcoming

Thank you again for the welcome Fearow. The links are most useful and I am learning the ropes and showing my interests. The MediaWiki link on your page is interesting also. I will have a good search there. Addisababa 03:47, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My recent RfB

Thank you so much for your participation in my recent RfB. Though it closed with 72% support (below the required 90%), I'm still quite pleased at the outpouring of support shown by a fair percentage of the community.

I'm currently tabulating and calculating all opposing and neutral arguments to help me better address the community's concerns about my abilities as a bureaucrat. If you'd like, you can follow my progress (and/or provide additional suggestions) at User:EVula/admin/RfB notes. Thanks again! EVula // talk // ☯ // 04:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A comment?

You say? --Iamunknown 05:07, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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GA Review of USB decoration

Dear TheFearow, I am sorry to inform you that I have failed USB decoration because of several issues, which are detailed on the article's talk page. If there are any comments you would like to make, or any questions you have about the failing of this article, then please forward them to my talk page. Good luck for a future candidacy. Regards, Anonymous Dissident^Talk 10:25, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey - no hard feelings ok? I know how it feels to have a GA fail - not so good. I wish you the very best of luck in improving the article to GA standards. I'm sure you can do it easily. And good luck on your RFA, by the way. Anonymous Dissident^Talk 10:29, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That is a most excellent and admirable way to look at things. Anonymous Dissident^Talk 13:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for the welcome

but i used to have an account and it made me realise what complete morons the people who run this place are. 86.137.60.14 18:04, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RFA

Hi Matt, just a quick note to say thanks for participating in my request for adminship. It was successful and I now have some shiny new buttons. If I can ever be of help, please let me know. Happy editing, matt br 10:11, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your Bot

Oops! I must have misunderstood what the discussion said in your RfA. Sorry about that. Captain panda 12:56, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RFA

Thanks for participating in my RFA. Hiberniantears 17:47, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphan pages

Please triple-check your bot so that it does not put this template on dis-ambiguation pages. I saw it on a dis-ambiguation page Channel 13. Georgia guy 20:18, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Striking your vote

Hello TheFearow,

Thank you for your interest in the Wikimedia Board Election. The Election Committee regretfully informs you that your previous vote was received in error and will be struck according to the election rules, described below.

The Election Committee regretfully announces today that we will have to remove approximately 220 votes submitted. These votes were cast by people not entitled to vote. The election rules state that users must have at least 400 edits by June 1 to be eligible to vote.

The voter lists we sent to Software in the Public Interest (our third party election partner) initially were wrong, and one of your account was eventually included to our initial list. There was a bug in the edit counting program and the sent list contained every account with 201 or more edits, instead of 400 or more edits. So large numbers of people were qualified according to the software who shouldn't be. The bug has been fixed and an amended list was sent to SPI already.

Our first (and wrong) list contains 80,458 accounts as qualified. The proper number of qualified voters in the SPI list is now 52,750. As of the morning of July 4 (UTC), there are 2,773 unique voters and 220 people, including you, have voted who are not qualified based upon this identified error.

In accordance with voting regulations the Election Committee will strike those approximately 220 votes due to lack of voting eligibility. The list of struck votes is available at https://wikimedia.spi-inc.org/index.php/List_of_struck_votes.

We are aware of the possibility that some of the people affected may have other accounts with more than 400 edits, and hence may still be eligible to vote. We encourage you to consider voting again from another account, if you have one. If you have no other account eligible to vote, we hope you reach the criteria in the next Election, and expect to see your participation to the future Elections.

Your comments, questions or messages to the Committee would be appreciated, you can make them at m:Talk:Board elections/2007/en. Other language versions are available at m:Translation requests/Eleccom mail, 07-05.

Again, we would like to deeply apologize for any inconvenience.

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For Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee

Your RfA

Hi, I see your undergoing an RfA. I really wish you the best of luck, I know that an RfA can be a harsh process, and if you need anything, feel free to ask. Cheers, Dfrg.msc 07:10, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot

Hi, you commented at MedcabBot2's request for approval. I have no prior experience with bots whatsoever, so I needed to ask you once I have the source code, what do I do with it to make the bot start running? Thanks, Cool Blue^{talk to me} 11:55, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Just a quick note to thank you for contributing to my editor review - I've taken on board your comments, so thank you for taking the time to contribute. Giles Bennett ^{(Talk, Contribs)} 15:36, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request for adminship

On this occasion, your request for adminship was not successful. I hope that you will continue your useful contributions to Wikipedia and may consider standing again in future. Remember, many of the editors who did object are just keen to you continuing to contribute at your present high standard. Warofdreams talk 01:46, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh well, better luck next time, I guess. You are a great editor, and I do hope you continue to be so, and I am pleased with your reaction to the result. You'll do well next time, and next time I will support you. Kind regards, Sebi _[talk] 02:34, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck in the future! Politics rule 03:42, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Thank you for your comments in my recent RfA. However, it was unsuccessful. I am in no way disheartened, and I am working on all the constructive critisism I have received. If you have any further suggestions or comments, feel free to drop me a line on my talk page, and I will be happy to respond. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 04:40, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Of course...good luck with your work around here, and I hope to see more of you! Jmlk 1 7 04:44, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Better luck next time

Hey, better luck next time as far as RFA is concerned. I'm sure you are admin material, maybe this just wasnt the right time. Best wishes, -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 06:42, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, a few (or less) months sustained presence around the place will likely be all that is required - especially if it is to the standard of the recent past. I look forward to supporting your next RfA. LessHeard vanU 08:58, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Couple months more, you'll be right. I look forward to it :) ~ Riana ⁂ 08:59, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome for the support. :) Acalamari 16:07, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Thank you for supporting my recent RfA. It unfortunately did not succeed. I still plan to continue to edit however. Hope to see you around. Kwsn^(Ni!) 15:06, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the tip - much better!--Melburnian 00:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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My RFA

Yea, I suppose I'll give it a shot. Hurricanehink (talk) 18:00, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

By the way...

You mentioned you thought I was already a bureaucrat. I'm mistaken on a regular basis for Raul654, and to a lesser extent, Redux; if I do become a bureaucrat, the confusion will only get worse, I'm afraid :) Ral315 » 18:54, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your RfA

Good afternoon. I am writing to let you know that I got the message you sent me regarding the Rfa. Personally, I think it should have passed, but I can understand why some would think you are not yet experienced. Last I looked, you had something along the lines of 1800 or so total edits. That's very good, and most definitely not too little to become an admin. There have been users in the past that have managed to get the promotion with an edit count in that range. What I think may have got you is your relative lack of mainspace edits, which many users consider to be the most important aspect on what determines a user's trustworthyness. I don't see why this is, to be honest, because we always need different users with different focuses to be administrators. This is the reasoning I used to support you. I think you would have a good chance of a successful Rfa in about 6 months, so here is a few tips which I hope will help you along the way:

1. - Experience is often measured by a user's edit count. Most of us don't want to resort to Editcountitis here, but because this is a project that works on edits, it should be taken into consideration. This is why almost no one becomes an admin if his/her account has under 1000 edits; people just don't feel that qualifies as real experience. As I said before, that you got your edit count to over 1800 in a short time is good, but to give you an idea, many users see 3000 edits as the magic number.

2. - Try to balance out your edits to be more proportional. Wherever your edits are fairly short, spend time making edits in that area. For now, I would recommend making at least 20 mainspace edits each time you log in. This will add up fast. If you can make around 200-400 edits a week, other users will take notice. I surely don't have the time to contribute on that magnitude, but you might, every user is different. It doesn't matter if your busy, anyway, you'll still have a chance at being promoted, but it may take longer. Just keep at it.

3. - Because the actions of any nominated user (as you have seen) almost always comes under close scrutiny in Rfas, you want to be very careful not to give any user reason to object to your nomination. For now, this should not be very hard to do. Try to stay out of controversial topics as much as you can, same with disputes. Don't engage in an edit war, even if you are right and know it. Do so, and these type of things will be used against you the next time you are nominated.

4. - This may be a bit hard to do, but I would strongly reccommend that you do not re-nominate yourself in an Rfa in the future. Simply wait until other users have decided to nominate you. Part of increasing the likelyhood this will happen lies in taking part in administrator related tasks, i.e., WP:AIV, WP:WQA, and so fourth. If you get involved in dispute resolutions, make sure you demonstrate a temparate and civil attitude. What would also help is to participate in various WikiProjects. Do all this, "stay the course", and your time will come.

I hope all this helps.The Kensington Blonde_Talk 21:58, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]