User talk:Grant McKenna

Welcome!

Hello, Grant McKenna, 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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Gaurav1146 03:52, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Answer: Humbert Roque Versace

Hi there, saw your interesting question and here is an answer:

Tibor Rubin (U.S. Army) former POW during the Korean War, was awarded the MoH for his actions during captivity. Tony the Marine 17:32, 21 July 2006

Answer: Your question on ATF

RE: Why does one department get all the fun stuff?

The history of gun laws in the US is pretty arcane. Prior to 1934, there were no significant federal laws (plenty of state laws). The ATF was originally set up as a "sin tax" administrative group of the IRS (Tax agency of the US Treasury), because these were not taxed in the same way as other things such as income. For instance, to manufacture or sell Alcohol, Tobacco, or Firearms in the US, you have to have a tax stamp (paid) which is issued by the ATF.

If you want to buy a machine gun (i.e. an NFA weapon) you have to get permission and then pay a $200 tax (and get the stamp). ATF oversees this.

Recently, ATF was split into a tax side which stayed under the US Treasury and a law enforcement side which investigates gun crime (trafficking), arson, tobacco/alcohol smuggling and explosives crimes, and is now under the Dept of Justice, FBI wing. Izaakb 18:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Future of WP:40k

Hello. As a member of WP:40K I ask you to share your thoughts and opinions on a matter that I feel will shape the future of the project. Thanks. --Falcorian ^(talk) 02:07, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AUK

This is an invitation to WikiProject Auckland, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles on Auckland. Please feel free to join us.

Taifar ious1 09:31, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Warhammer 40K Project updated

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The Warhammer 40,000 project page has been updated!

Assessment tags have been added to the project banner.
New material, including transwiki instructions and an organizational chart, has been added to the main project page.
Please help us get the Warhammer 40K project back on track!

Protonk (talk) 05:10, 21 August 2008 (UTC) Sent with Auto Wiki Browser to all 40K project members.[reply]

Project activity

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This message is a test to check to see if members of the Warhammer 40K Project are still online, active and interested in helping the project. If you are no longer interested in the project all you need to do is...nothing! If you don't respond to this I'll take your name off the list and you'll never here from us again. If you're the proactive type you can remove the name yourself or talk to me and I'll do it.

If you are still interested in helping out the 40K project or otherwise still want to be listed there you can say so in response to this message on your talk page or on mine. Alternately you can add our new userbox ({{User WikiProject Warhammer 40,000}}) to your userpage and I'll take that as a response. The userpage doesn't automatically include people in a category of members yet, but it might in the future.

We've assessed most of the articles in the project on the Version 1.0 assessment scale (the table on the project page should take a few days to update) but we need to push to get the core articles in the project up to GA status. Thanks for all your help. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help the project along. Protonk (talk) 21:07, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Call for Wikipedians in Residence in Africa

Hello,

I hope you are well and thriving!! WikiAfrica has just put out a call for two Wikipedians in Residence. One in Cape Town at WikiAfrica, at the Africa Centre; and the other for WikiAfrica Cameroon in Douala, at doual’art. If you are interested, please contact either Marilyn [marilyn.doualabelldoualart.org] for the WikiAfrica Cameroon call or Isla [islahfafricacentre.net] for the WikiAfrica position in Cape Town.

If you are not interested in applying, I would be very grateful if you could spread this call far and wide among your networks to ensure that both projects get excellent candidates. Here is the link for the information page: http://www.wikiafrica.net/two-wikipedians-in-residence-for-africa/

Best regards, Islahaddow

(This message was sent using Lucia Bot at 22:21, 16 November 2012 (UTC))[reply]

Warnings

March 2014

Hello, I'm Philip Trueman. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Poodle because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!

Has someone usurped your userid? Philip Trueman (talk) 20:57, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Because if not, then why the blanking/mass deletion of text in two articles? Dougweller (talk) 21:48, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the beer and the explanation. Please tell your daughter not to worry, we all make mistakes - we have some very young good editors, even Administrators who when they became Administrators weren't that much older. Dougweller (talk) 06:48, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Invite

Thank you for your recent contributions to one or more of Wikipedia's South African related articles. Given the interest you've expressed by your edits, have you considered joining the South Africa WikiProject? We are a group of editors dedicated to improving the overall quality of Wikipedia's South Africa-related content. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list of participants.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project's talk page. We look forward to working with you in the future! --Nathan121212 (talk) 10:53, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Grant McKenna. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

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Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay

Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics. Schwede 66 09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]