User talk:Readparse

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I saw your edits to The Cavaliers, and I must say, good job. From looking at your userpage it seems to be a specialty of yours! Please feel free to help out in whatever way you can on other drum corps articles. I'm always looking for a few helping hands. Mr Bound 13:15, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Drum corps templates

I've been adding the new infobox to pages and have hit some snags. Some pages, such as the Anaheim Kingsmen Drum and Bugle Corps, have information that can't be filled. For example, corps director. Others, such as Capital Regiment, need to have "highest placement" instead of "DCI Titles". Is there an easy way to work around this? Deleting the information doesn't work, nor does leaving the field blank get rid of it. I'm stumped, perhaps you have some ideas? Great work on the whole, though, it'll be a lot less confusing (and less intimidating for potential editors!) Mr Bound 02:37, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Drum Corps

I would like to invite you to join the newly formed WikiProject Drum Corps, a WikiProject for the expansion of all things drum corps. If you'd like, add your name to the list of members, and lend a hand in some of the things we have yet to do! There's plenty lying around, but even a small contibution is very welcome. Hope to see you lending your knowledge to our growing collection of drum corps articles! Mr Bound 19:05, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Timestamps!

Those timestamps can be generated if you sign your message with four tildes (~~~~). It'll create your signature and the timestamp. I'll mull over the infobox situation for the moment, I'm swamped in real life right now. Thanks for the reply! Mr Bound 14:16, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image Tagging Image:WillieB.jpg

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TfD nomination of Template:PanamaPresidents

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Non-free use disputed for Image:CavaliersStandingMan.gif

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Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Readparse! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 3 of the articles that you created are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 134 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Nicolás Ardito Barletta Vallarino - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Ricardo de la Espriella - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Aristides Royo - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 15:59, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Readparse. 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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Proposed deletion of File:USAF CONUS Installation Map.jpg

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Orphaned map.

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