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removing a Kardashev scale image

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Hi, I saw you helped improve resolution on the Kardashev scale projections graph, and I thought you'd be interested that upon close analysis and definition of the as-yet-undefined plot lines, the graph is basically junk and bad OR, so I'm petitioning to remove it from all articles. Because it's been reproduced online and I think we shouldn't endorse junk, I'd like to ask you to remove it from your mirror pages, if any, as well. Feel free to comment. SamuelRiv (talk) 07:21, 20 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

I did not improve the resolution on the image, but rather resaved it with a higher compression ratio. This is not really important to the issue at hand, however, for which I have no opinion. I do not believe that I have uploaded that image anywhere other than here. Xiong Chiamiov ::contact:: help! 17:57, 24 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

You are now a Reviewer

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Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

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Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference

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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 18:18, 15 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

File:The Falling Man.jpg listed for deletion

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Non-free rationale for File:PSPad.png

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Orphaned non-free image File:IFixit logo.png

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The Interview 2014 film

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greetings. i was just wondering about yhe cast ensemble in the film the interview. is filipino actor DERRICK MONASTERIO made an appearance in the movie? thanks

I'm not particularly familiar with the cast; you'd do best to consult IMDB. Xiong Chiamiov ::contact:: help! 22:48, 19 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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ArbCom 2017 election voter message

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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

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Hello, Xiong Chiamiov. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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Wizard/Alice

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I reverted your edit on the Madison Scouts 1971 program... Regardless of what Madison's 2018 program announcement might have said, the 1971 program was The Wizard of OZ. The musical selections begam with "Over the Rainbow," "Follow the Yellow Brick Road," and "We're Off to See the Wizard" and ended with "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" all from The Wizard of Oz. Two of the other selections were from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, but there were no/zero/zip/naught songs from Alice in Wonderland.. GWFrog (talk) 17:12, 16 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

Your access to AWB may be temporarily removed

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Cleaning up Special:WantedTemplates

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Hi, due to quirks in the way that Wikipedia parses javascript pages, curly braces are parsed as templates, unless they are inside of <nowiki>...</nowiki>, <pre>...</pre>, <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight> ... As a result of this, your script page, User:Xiong Chiamiov/monobook.js, is generating links in Special:WantedTemplates (in particular links to Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Sub" + "st:Welcomeip and Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Sub" + "st:w-shout). Recently, an interface editor attempted to fix this by adding <nowiki> at the top and </nowiki> at the bottom of your script page. This didn't work because you already have <nowiki>...</nowiki> on that page. It would be great if you could add <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight> tags (you don't have these) at the top and bottom of your page like this which will prevent your page from generating links in Special:WantedTemplates. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 18:52, 24 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Coordinators and help needed

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