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Welcome!

My Tasks-

Move Table/Board Project to from main to talk on Warhammer thru Skaven and other games added
Add Strategy Project to Rest of Warhammer and other games.
Expand Battlemasters and Warhammer
Watch all pages edited, including Warhammer armies

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Faurecia

it is not a advertisment it is article. - User:Halo_31887

(Semi-)protection

Please read WP:SEMI for details on Wikipedia's semi-protection policy. In particular, note that protection should not be used when vandalism is occuring from one address only, as was happening to Dungeons & Dragons: in that case, there is far less collateral damage if the offending IP address is simply blocked, rather than preventing all anonymous editing to an article. Cheers --Pak21 08:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What the mix of edits from one IP address normally means is that it is an IP address which is shared between various users, and it's just one of those people sharing the address who is vandalising the site. There's no way to block "by article", but if the vandalism continues, what can be done is to block the address, but allow users to create accounts, which will allow them to edit. Cheers --Pak21 14:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

vandal warnings

Two points which may be of interest to you: the {{tl}} template allows you to make a link to a template without including it, for example {{tl|uw-vand1}} produces {{uw-vand1}} and Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace. Cheers --Pak21 16:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Brilliant! thanks! N i g h t F a l c o n 9 0 9 0 9' ^{T a l k} 16:29, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Strategy games

Hello NightFalcon90909.

WikiProject Strategy games finished it's first collaboration on Risk (game). We have voted for possible candidates for the next collaboration, and three finalists have been selected:

If possible, please vote here on which of these articles to collaborate on. Thank you.

WikiProject Strategy games

Thanks!

Thanks for the welcome! Horselover90909 16:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Hi There!

This has been moved.

// DecaimientoPoético 19:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hehe, thanks!

Thanks a lot for the lovely award! =D --Razor ICE 03:42, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Buzzzzzzzzz

Zillions of thanks for the pizzazzy award. Had I expected this, I might have chosen zyzzyx for my user name. Thanks again! ---Sluzzelin talk 07:07, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey your welcome! Feel free to pass it on! N i g h t F a l c o n 9 0 9 0 9' ^{T a l k} 13:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 28 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 21:41, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nice. But a quick question: is the Selective Training and Service Act the same as the Burke-Wadsworth Act? You should make this clear. Biruitorul 23:31, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes they are the same. I made that clear... thanks! N i g h t F a l c o n 9 0 9 0 9' ^{T a l k} 12:15, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Robots, Contemporary uses

Hi NightFalcon. Please take a look at the work I've done so far on Contemporary uses, and let me know what you think. I've tried to add structure and pictures to help lead the reader through. There are also loads of refs and links. Rocketmagnet 21:34, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies for not getting back to you sooner on this.

My thoughts-

Firstly, the work you did is REALLY good.

Thanks:) Rocketmagnet 15:04, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the section about dull and dangerous work, the two pictures in the same row, one floating left and one floating right, it winds up looking strange. I think it would be fine if you could move them into different rows. This is pretty minor though.

OK, I'll move the Roomba down one. Rocketmagnet 15:04, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is a remote control car a robot? What about a remote control car that fires missiles and has a camera? My point is that I never considered the Global Hawk or the Predator robots. Technically I suppose they are, but I don’t know…

Exactly my point. Some people call them robots, some don't. But they're on the lower end of the spectrum. Rocketmagnet 15:04, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Be careful characterizing the Foster-Miller TALON and the Packbot as bomb-disposal robots, since they both have several other versions that do lots of other different things. Also, I think it would be nice to get a picture of at least one of these two in there somewhere.

OK, I'll update that. There are so many pictures I'd like to have, but I think it would get crowded. I was wondering about starting a gallery on the Wiki Commons. Rocketmagnet 15:04, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great job with all those sources.

Thanks. So many more to go though. I reckon we could reach 200 by the end. Rocketmagnet 15:04, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly did you have in mind for the history section? I like what you have below the Contemporary Uses section.

N i g h t F a l c o n 9 0 9 0 9' ^{T a l k} 13:39, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking that the history section could be more prosey, storytelling. It would be cool to get a really good writer to handle that section. I tried it, but I'm just not that good. Rocketmagnet 15:04, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh well then don't get me to do it. I can find stuff and look up stuff and do research but I am not all that great of a writer... Isn't there somewhere where you can request stuff? I am sure someone would be perfectly willing to do it if we gave them the stuff. -- N i g h t F a l c o n 9 0 9 0 9' ^{T a l k} 18:21, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Aluminium vs Aluminum

Please, never alter "Aluminium" to "Aluminum" in Wikipedia articles. Aluminium is not a spelling mistake, it is the IUPAC preferred name and takes precedence in all cases of dispute. The simple fact that you are changing the spelling makes it disputed, and hence immediately renders the change incorrect. Always leave Aluminium as is. Cheers.Ethel Aardvark

Sorry- I was just mindlessly using a spellchecker. I won't change it anymore. N i g h t F a l c o n 9 0 9 0 9' ^{T a l k} 01:01, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection for Robots

I'd also like to get Semi-protection for the Robots page. It gets vandalised a ton, possibly more than it gets contributed to. Do you know how to get that done? Rocketmagnet 15:34, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well don't make the mistake I made and go protecting it yourself since its admin only... and, uh, you kinda get in trouble. You can request protection at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection. However, honestly as nice as it would be, I am not sure it qualifies. Go ahead and try though.-- N i g h t F a l c o n 9 0 9 0 9' ^{T a l k} 18:18, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Robots: Current Developments

I've started working on Current Developments, which is probably going to be pretty long. It's here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rocketmagnet/RobotScratch

Feel free to add/subtract/edit mercilessly. Rocketmagnet 15:24, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be very grateful if you could take a quick look at the work so far, and let me know if you think it's going on the right track. I'd like to get some opinions before I go too far down that road. Many thanks. Rocketmagnet 23:55, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I added some stuff... let me know what you think. I am really impressed. NightFalcon90909 ^Talk 15:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comments, and thanks for the award! I've added stepper motors and personality. Feel free to add anything you want to the text. Rocketmagnet 00:49, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thanks for the friendly not about the prod. Will use the suggestions instead now. Happy Editing! Felixboy 16:49, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just on a note of familiarity...

Hey, I recently took AP's and SAT's also... So, you're a Junior, right? How'd they go for you.... - Bagel7^{What ya say,}_{what ya say,}^{what ya say,}_what??? 22:04, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sophomore actually… I took AP US History… that wasn’t too bad… Biology was a little rougher. Same SAT II exams, same subjects I mean… they were pretty easy. NightFalcon90909 ^Talk 18:00, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh alright, that's cool too. Yeah, my tests this year weren't so bad, but, hey, tests are tests, they're always annoying. And also, I responded on my talk page, but I just wanted to say thanks for the award again. - Bagel7^{What ya say,}_{what ya say,}^{what ya say,}_what??? 06:23, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Redwall

Hey! I noticed that you're a fan of the Redwall series. Would you like to come join our Redwall WikiProject? If you're interested, add your name to the Participants list. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions! GlassCobra 01:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Collaboration

This is a reminder to go vote for the
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Support or comment on the current nominations, or nominate an article for collaboration.
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WP:ROBO

OK... so I've began to assess the robotics articles. Please review the article assessment guidelines and help this WikiProject out by helping out with the following:

Adding Robotics-related articles to the WikiProject
Assessing robotics articles listed in Category:Robotics articles by quality
Helping out with giving comments to individual articles after assessment, pointers, comments, etc. (basically, don't just give an article class and move on, let people know what led you to give such a rating when necessary.

We need to get this article assessment drive going first before peer reviews and collaborations programs can be made.

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WikiProject Robotics July Newsletter

The WikiProject Robotics Newsletter
Issue I (July 2008)

Project news

Project now covers 1000 articles on Wikipedia and is continuously growing in coverage and in members
New article assessment drive! Please help by assessing articles with no class assessment or importance rating!
New {{Robotics Barnstar}}! Give it to someone who has improved significant portions of robotics articles or WikiProject Robotics!
Four new DYKs were featured this month.

Articles of note

New Featured articles:

New Good articles:

Current proposals and discussions

Discussion on whether to add subcategories into this WikiProject and whether to create separate task forces per subcategory.

Awards and honors

User:Jiuguang Wang was recently awarded the Wikipedia Barnstar for his continued efforts in the article assessment drive.

The current Robotics Collaborations of the Fortnight are:
Editor Nominated Topic	Robotics
B-Class Improvement Drive	FIRST Robotics
Start/Stub Improvement Drive	Home automation
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Thanks

Thanks for the barnstar, appreciate it.:) -Unpopular Opinion (talk · contribs) 19:05, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! NightFalcon90909 (talk) 22:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback

Hi. Your request is on hold for a moment pending admin discussion. Please do not take this as a negative; rollback is a powerful tool and consensus on granting it is important. Pedro : Chat 22:02, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Thank you! NightFalcon90909 (talk) 22:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully it will be resolved as soon a possible for you. Apologies for the delay. Pedro : Chat 22:39, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done now. :) Best wishes, —αἰτίας •discussion• 23:49, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Electronics collaboration

Hi, I am writing to you because you have listed yourself as a member of the Electronics WikiProject. Sadly, this project is pretty dead, but I propose to resuscitate it with a collaboration. The idea is to have a concerted effort on improving one article per month, hopefully to GA or FA status and nominate the very best of them for the front page. I have prepared a page to control this process at Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics/Collaboration (actually, I mostly shamelessly stole it from Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals where a collaboration of this sort was succesfully run). There you can make nominations for articles for collaboration or comment on the nominations of others.

If you want to take part you might like to place this template {{WikiProject Electronics Collaboration}} on your userpage which will give you a link to the current collaboration. If you are no longer interested in Wikiproject Electronics, please remove yourself from the members list, which is now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics/Members

Thanks for listening, SpinningSpark 15:25, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done, glad to help out! NightFalcon90909 (talk) 12:47, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Watchlist tool?

Thanks for the compliment about my userpage! There are no tools that I know of that show how many people watchlist an article or a ratio of vandal edits to watchers. I know of a category called Unwatched Pages that reflects pages which are not on anyone's watchlist.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 05:18, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I guess that's another reason to become an administrator... NightFalcon90909 (talk) 12:44, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hey, thanks for the barnstar. I just hate people messing with other peoples personal space. And it looks as if you have one admiring fan. :) Anyways, thanks again. Joe I 20:07, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What gave you your first impression? ;-) No problem, and thank you! NightFalcon90909 (talk) 20:09, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Research

Danite123 (talk) 23:37, 3 December 2008 (UTC)Hi there, I’m researching an article about Wikipedia, and its editors. I wonder if you I could talk to you about Wikipedia, and how you use it, for a magazine about not-for-profit organisations. If you could spare some time and wouldn’t mind answering some questions by email or phone, please contact me on Bennett.d@hotmail.co.uk, or leave a message here or on my talk page. Many thanks,[reply]

Daniel

Missouri City and Sugar Land page

All I did was put in the population figures that were already there in the article summary at the top. What is so wrong with that? I even changed the Census dates and density numbers as well, using the same formula you all use.

76.186.132.205 (talk) 00:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

replied on your talk page. NightFalcon90909 (talk) 01:14, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Your 12 Feb revert of Westfield_(town),_New_York

Please exercise a bit more caution when reverting edits. On 12 Feb, I edited the Westfield_(town),_New_York article to remove a bit of vandalism that was inserted on 24 October, that you failed to remove when you reverted the vandalism that occurred on 26 November - I realized after I made the edit that I wasn't logged in, but wasn't worried about 'getting credit' for my repair. This evening, I noticed that I had a message (to the IP address that I used to make the edit on 12 Feb) - the standard "I've reverted your edit" message. I then looked at the Westfield_(town),_New_York history page and noted that you reverted my edit & identified it as vandalism. Given that my edit summary identified the specific reason for the edit, and the text I removed was clearly cruft, I find it unlikely that you read either prior to reverting the edit. Just because an edit comes from an IP address doesn't mean it's vandalism, even if the last edit by an IP address was. Automated tools have their uses, but if you're not careful you can use them to make destructive edits. I have repaired your error. Regards, CruiserBob (talk) 03:27, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Crud. Sorry about that. I must have glanced at the page too fast and thought that you had ADDED what you were actually taking OUT. My apologies. NightFalcon90909 (talk) 14:07, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Confirmed this is JM from TaS NightFalcon90909 (talk) 18:34, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:35, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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New deal for page patrollers

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