User talk:Duran

Please Help!

I see that you actively help out on Wikipedia, that's great! I am asking for your help on the improvement and collaboration of the article Queen's University. It has been nominated for the Article Improvement Drive and needs votes! You can vote through the Talk:Queen's University. Your help would be awesome, and ask me for help anytime!!

P.S. Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. --Speedystickd 22:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

About Market

I did the actions I proposed. I urge you to remove your Market proposal from WP:AID and nominate Marketplace. --Dijxtra 22:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

COTW

Would you be willing to support my nominee for WP:COTW. The article is Invasion which is an important term for military knowledge. The current article however isn't at the same standard as the term is in modern and historic warfare though. If you'll be willing to support, I'll be greatful. Thanks RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 00:45, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for Invasion, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 18:33, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

AID

If you have time, please take a look at my concerns about the Article Improvement Drive nomination of Cold War posted here. Thanks. 172 23:22, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for Male and Female, this week's Collaborations of the week. Please come and help them become featured-standard articles. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 23:12, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Luxor

Regarding deleting the Four thousand years of tourism section, I believe the article you specified it was a copyvio of actually copied it from Wikipedia. I compared from the history of the article on Wikipedia and I see the date of buzzle.com article is 7-31-05 or 8/2/05

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-31-2005-73999.asp

Duran 11:15, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that about the date, too, but compare the May 30, 2004 revision of Tourism in Luxor, which is the original source of that text on Wikipedia, and actually contains the byline "By Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis". If buzzle.com were going to plagiarize from us, I hardly think they would copy that line.

Possibly the buzzle.com article has been "reprinted", and appeared there earlier? Or, perhaps User:194.79.100.109 who originally posted the text here actually is Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis? dbenbenn | talk 16:27, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Invasion

I just want to let you know that Invasion which you voted for as a COTW is now being considered for a featured article. Leave your input at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Invasion. RENTA^{FOR LET?} 03:55, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

• Since your lonely check out my classic rock survey. You might like to participate. RENTA^{FOR LET?}

New Sports Wiki

Hey Duran, me and a couple of buddies started this new sport-wiki, http://www.armchairgm.com, which combines blogs, news, voting, with the power of Mediawiki's (Wikipedia's) wiki engine.

I noticed that you are a Yanks and Jets fan, so I thought you would be interested. When you have the chance, check out the site. We would love for you to join our community.

--Awrigh01 04:13, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Nutrition is Science Collaboration of the Week

Hi, you voted for this article, and it won. Maybe you can help to improve it... See you there! - Samsara _contrib ^talk 13:51, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Latin America won!

Joyous | Talk 18:26, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for Fourteen Points, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Davodd 23:18, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

You helped choose this week's WP:AID winner

- Davodd 05:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

You're invited :)

Please accept this invite to join the new WikiProject Bodybuilding, a WikiProject dedicated to improving bodybuilding related articles. Simply click here to accept! Addbot (talk) 02:29, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

You helped choose this week's WP:AID winner

Draicone ^(talk) 11:58, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

You helped choose Jason-Shane Scott (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 19 Dec 2024 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF) as this week's WP:AID winner

Davodd 17:05, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject South Park

I have thought of creating a WikiProject for South Park since it is now near its' 10th anniversary and has more articles than ever. I feel we could all do the following things through this project:

• Cleanup any short/poorly written/unformatted articles
• Merge/lengthen the many character articles
• Improve the South Park main page

I have seen your South Park fan template and wondered if you were interested in joining. If so reply to my talk page and I'll get back to you as quick as I can. Thanks, Mr. Garrison

Industry is now the Core Topics COTF

You showed support for Amazon rainforest at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics/Core topics COTF. This article was selected as our collaboration. Hope you can help.

You helped choose Environmentalism as this week's WP:AID winner

AzaBot 18:31, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

You helped choose Islam as this week's WP:AID winner

Dev920(Mind voting here?) 15:18, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

You helped choose Rosetta Stone as this week's WP:AID winner

AzaBot 16:22, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

You helped choose Death as this week's WP:AID winner

AzaBot 01:47, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

You helped choose Peloponnesian War as this week's WP:AID winner

AzaBot 12:17, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

You helped choose Wall Street Crash of 1929 as this week's WP:ACID winner

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You helped choose Vladimir Lenin as this week's WP:ACID winner

AzaBot 01:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Powerade_Logo.jpg

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You helped choose Poverty as this week's WP:ACID winner

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Muhammad Abdul Moneim.jpg

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