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Welcome!

Hello, Apteva, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Welcome back

Hope all goes well in your return. Hell in a Bucket (talk) 22:46, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Me, too. Good luck. Glrx (talk) 01:16, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Same here. Hope you don't get blocked again. Dakar (talk) 04:17, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I always thought an indef was an overreactive "solution" to your WP:AT / WP:MOS issues, and would rather have seen a topic-ban. I'm impressed that you kept doing so much work for the project (in a non-socky way, of course) under such an excessive and punitive burden.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  08:35, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. My long delay in returning was caused by getting involved in translations and creation of svgs. With a backlog of more than 6,000 of each I had no shortage of work to do. But I got started doing one file that required over 7,000 translations, and did not want to get distracted from finishing it, so have not even looked at this page since requesting the unblock. I just wanted to be unblocked when I was able to return, and now I have a list of maybe 200 edits that have been waiting, which having finished the 7,650 translations, I will be able to get started on. After I finish those, most of my time will still be spent on creation and translation of svgs, but if you have anything specific you would like to have me look at I am always willing to help. I will be requesting a standard offer so that all restrictions will be removed. For a number of years I have been spending about 1000 hours a year on Wikipedia and being blocked did not change that, it just meant helping in different ways that did not involve editing here. For the record there has not been one edit made to enwiki since the block (other than of course to my own talk page). Apteva (talk) 22:34, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all your work. Just noticed your other message to me on the Commons about this great chart: File:Oecd-healthexp-percapita.svg. I have been away from Wikipedia and the Commons a lot the last few months. --Timeshifter (talk) 05:22, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Policy discussion in progress

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An other CfR discussion for US city categories

There's a new Categories for Renaming discussion going on about categories of US cities listed in the AP Stylebook. As you have participated in at least one of the more recent discussions in the subject, you may want to participate in the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 August 17#Seattle. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:32, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks but I have no interest. I am sure that someone else will sort it out and like before those who disagree will just ignore the result. Sadly. Apteva (talk) 03:54, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion you may be interested in

I have just made a new nomination for renaming categories for those U.S cities where the article doesn't include the state name. Since you participated in a recent discussion about this, you may want to express your opinion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 September 6#Major US cities. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:15, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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After you have read everything in each of the Welcome links, and if you are not blocked, I welcome you to try to learn how to make edits that will "stick" and become useful knowledge for all to see. Cheers. ~~~~

--Apteva (talk) 02:41, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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