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You are invited to vote in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bush Crimes Commission (2nd nomination) Morton devonshire 03:28, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

• Don't contact me for AfD debates...if/when I feel like voting, I'll find them myself. --Tim4christ17 04:09, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Morton devonshire 10:19, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Come out and vote, nothing but one big long leftist diatribe, should be removed and covered from scratch in a more NPOV style,Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George W. Bush 2nd(second nomination), your vote may just give us the fresh start needed to root the deep seeded liberal POV from this article by allowing us to start over from scratch, thanks for your vote! --Ham and jelly butter 22:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm new here so I thought I'd introduce myself to some of the people here--ChaplineRVine^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 08:50, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

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I was CERTAIN I had corrected the "Federal" copyright status of that picture... I apologize. I have a response pending from the Iowa General Assembly's webmaster about the exact copyright status of the site's images; that ought to help clear things up. Do you happen to know the exact status of the images on the Assembly's website?

It is, by the way, always nice to meet a fellow Iowa-conservative–homeschooling-evangelical-Christian. ;-)

Say: I finally heard back from the IGA's webmaster, who stated that "all images on [the] site are available for use by the public." Would you think it prudent to re-add the Bolkcom picture? LAATi88 21:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Come vote here please to decide this important matter! i trust that you'll make the right decision--Rictonilpog 17:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't reply to AfD notifications like this - those very few AfD articles I vote/discuss on, I find for myself. Thank you. --Tim4christ17 09:09, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

No it's not the same person. This one is a British scientist in his 60s! See my longer comment on the talk page. JRawle (Talk) 00:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! --Tim4christ17 00:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

All the links to people called Peter Williams are now sorted out!

From his IMDb page, this guy seems to have done quite a few things. Perhaps you can create a stub article for him at Peter Williams (actor)? See Peter Williams (IV) at IMDb. JRawle (Talk) 11:53, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I find it very unlikely that he would have been the voive actor for Freyr, i think it was just an unchecked link, I changed it now. --Childzy _talk ^contribs 09:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

It'll take a few days to get approved to use it, but it might be easier to add these tags with AWB. In any case, I'd prefer it if you actually wait a day or two to see if anyone else in the project comments before you add any more. I don't think it is controversial, but it's easier to wait and see.--Kchase02 T 02:18, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I'll wait a bit. But I doubt anyone'll object. --Tim4christ17 02:20, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree it's unlikely. Thanks for giving it some time, though.--Kchase02 T 02:22, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for taking so long to respond. I went on vacation and got delayed. No one has responded, so I guess it's kosher with everyone. Thanks again for holding off. Thank you as well for suggesting this. It is a good idea.--Kchase02 T 20:18, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Thx. I guess I'll resume tagging things. Hmm...now to look into the AWB - and to figure out how to use it. --Tim4christ17 00:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

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I had a go at trying to define it a bit better. Cheers. Albatross2147 08:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

The previous infobox used "Submitted," and on older cases, this is correct. It's unusual to find, but some cases don't have an argue date listed, only a submit date. When I saw the template had been converted over, I just changed the parameter. Thanks. --MZMcBride 17:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

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Hey I'm glad you joined our WikiProject, feel free to be bold. I am a Born Again Christian, just so you know. Bornagain4 02:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I took a look at the deleted article and would recommend you start a recreation from scratch. The old version included a healthy dose of Christian evangelical advocacy along with multiple 800 numbers to inquire about programs or order materials, so the AfD consensus that the old article was primarily an advertisement looks justified. The parts of the article that might be useful will either be trivial to recreate (organization name, name of founder, and year of founding) or else will need to be updated (http://www.ministrywatch.org/mw2.1/F_FullRpt.asp?EIN=386091187 provides some current third-party audited numbers for CEF). Good luck in your efforts. --Allen3 ^talk 02:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and got this page started before I saw that it had previously been deleted. - R HokieRNB 16:12, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Are you or can you create a characther template for Narnia, the one for stargate does look pretty good. I tried, but the markup was overmy head. Bornagain4 20:13, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I like the look of the character infobox alot, the hexadecimal colors are not that dificult, there is a list of them. But it looks really great. Bornagain4 23:50, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and we should probably keep the other colors in the template, just for other races like Jinn, forces of evil, just plain weird, etc. Bornagain4 23:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

We should probably change first appearance to major character in Bornagain4 00:07, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Well there are only seven books, and only Eustace, Lucy, and Edmund, (and Aslan) are characters in three or more books, for Aslan you can just put all. Bornagain4 00:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good. Bornagain4 00:17, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Esta bien, it is good. Bornagain4 00:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Um, I tried the new template on the standard character article and it didn't work. I cant figure it out. ? Bornagain4 00:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I tried it on Trumpkin and it worked, but there is a slight problem, the color doesn't reach all the way to the right. But other than that, it looks great! Bornagain4 01:15, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, we'll just have to get a picture in a couple years. Or we could use another picture, don't know from where though. Bornagain4 13:20, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

No, I don't think there were any previous edits. I looked in the deletion log and found nothing. Mangojuice^talk 20:08, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey check out the thing below the infobox on your template test page, and let me know what you think about it. Bornagain4 12:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Tim, thanks again for suggesting (and then spending hours posting) the wikiproject banner for Supreme Court Cases. I'm sorry my initial response was so cool to your suggestion, as it's turned out quite well. People have been joining at a more rapid clip recently, and the project is more instantly visible by those who happen to edit the articles where the banner is posted. I think it's made a difference. Thank you!--Kchase T 03:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - glad it's working out! --Tim4christ17 13:58, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Regarding [1], please don't call good faith edits vandalism. In this case you had good reasons to revert it, but that does not make it vandalism. JoshuaZ 04:13, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I didn't think it was a good-faith edit. The version that existed before that edit had a warning about inserting the information, and it has been widely discussed. While I didn't check to see if that particular editor had been part of the discussion or not, there have been several bad-faith edits regarding the Korolev and the Odyssey. --Tim4christ17 04:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanxs for the update to the John Leo page. Jumping cheese ^Contact 05:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

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I found out. It's a blooper of the new Atlantis episode. If the website gets back up before 2am EST, the password is Fletcher. dposse 03:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Welcome. dposse 03:18, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

If you would like to throw your two cents, you can find the AfD discussion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NATO helmet.--Anthony Krupp 15:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for letting me know...even if my only contribution was the {{stub}} notice. --Tim4christ17 19:20, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Is this page vanity or not: Mikhail Lebedev --GoOdCoNtEnT 08:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid I have no idea... --Tim4christ17 08:05, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

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