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on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! - CobaltBlueTony 17:21, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Put down what you need help with ((helpme|My request))--Darkest Hour $$$$ 21:44, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
I recently asked a question at Talk:Thanksgiving#Proposal to split this article according to nationality. Only 2 people responded (one Support, one Oppose). I'd like to hear from a few more people to help decide whether I should go ahead. I tried listing it at WP:RfC, but there were no further responses. Is there another way to ask more people to comment, and if not, can I go ahead and split the article? What's the protocol/procedure here? —PurpleRAIN 21:08, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Your great thanks for the help. I will be coming to you for help gain. im Steve 16 from Liverpool England. Thanks again. Could you contact me on: xxxx@hotmail.com (address obscured to protect from spambots - PR) Stefish23 19:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Purple Rain - Thanks for offering to tutor a new guy. This is all very new to me and I'm trying to become a good "citizen" of the wiki world and still VERY rusty. My main quesiton is one of the users deleted the name of my company from an article. This user then deleted our own page. I don't understand why this was done nor do I know how to email him/her to ask.
Also, this is how rusty I am. I have not idea if when you respond to this I'll be getting an email or if I need to be logging on to some page to read your response. Here's hoping I find you again.
Thanks! Target 10
Much appreciated. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Target 10 (talk • contribs) 22:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC).
Ahh, speedy response and helpfulness... God bless this community! Thank you! Cainiskey 22:56, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointer at ((spa)) - very helpful (and yet another template I wasn't aware of). The article's been deleted and the user has no other contributions, so I'll keep an eye out, but I suspect he won't do it again now the article's gone. Squeezeweasel 16:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the support!DINOMAN 18:22, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I tried to make a 'cool' signature like other people have, but it didn't work out so well, and after trying to make it return to normal... I have a signature that won't link to my page at all--it is just text. help! Scoutersig 18:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- sorry I wasn't sure where to put the {helpme} signal, so I decided to put it just about everywhere so it would be found, lol. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ILOVEAUBERGINE (talk • contribs) 17:30, December 12, 2006 (UTC).
Thanks for the advice on translations in reply to my query on the help desk page. I really admire your clarifying the problem in simple language and then giving an equally clear suggestion. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Brihas (talk • contribs) 08:37, December 21, 2006 (UTC)
Purplerain, Thanks for the help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Swimmingirl (talk • contribs) 18:10, January 2, 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, very much! BTW, on my userpage I put a theory to work on people who try to self-publish here on Wikipedia. The theory began as a test three days ago (January 1, 2006) and worked. Basically, I go on vandal patrol to seek out self-published authors. Here is one article that is giving me fits: Immaculate Records. If you read the AfD, the article creator admitted to self-publication and is sole owner of a one-hit record company. If you would please review my userpage for my thoughts on the Wickey Selpub Factor, I would greatly appreciate it. Ronbo76 16:52, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
When a page is on AfD, it's fine to put a speedy-delete tag on it, but if you do so please don't remove the AfD tag, because it can cause the debate to get lost. (When the admin speedies the page, they'll close the AfD as 'speedy delete' at the same time.) Thanks! --ais523 16:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
I see this, Wickey Selpub, as a real problem in the near future. You are probably better aware than I that sockpuppets exist to boost their master's article. Self-centered weasels will always find their way into a henhouse to get what they want. The WSF will too. . . If you get your article right the first time or over a series of months to build up credibility, the wiki road may be paved to the henhouse.
Thankyou for coming to help! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sudhirkumarlal (talk • contribs) 23:21, 18 January 2007 (UTC).
hey, thanks for your prompt help. The specific problem i have is the different population figures on multiple pages. see List_of_cities_in_China and Chongqing. Is there a way to put one number for a population in one place, and then have both of those pages get that number. Mike2525 16:25, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
You're right, you need to mention the script in monobook.js. Write
importScript('User:PurpleRain/catwatch.js');
at the bottom of your monobook.js, bypass your cache, then visit your watchlist (at which point the script will try to install itself if you give it the goahead). --ais523 17:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
hey thanx again for coming for my help!--Sudhirkumarlal 21:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
how did you get your name to look like that? 218.102.23.87 06:15, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
—[[User:PurpleRain|<span style="color:#BB66BB">P<span style="font-size:x-small"><sup><b>urple</b></sup></span></span>]][[User talk:PurpleRain|<span style="color:#88BBBB; font-size:small"><small><b><sup>R</sup>A<sup>I</sup>N</b></small></span>]]
thanks, i didn't realize i wasn't logged in. going to look at those prefs now. Mike2525 07:50, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Can you tell me how can I find the userboxes I had created? --Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 16:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
U r very true, but how can I see those boxes? I mean what is the link to reach there? --Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 16:38, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
--Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 20:52, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
You are most welcome! The encyclopedia is about a lot of things, and even though we are all writing the encyclopedia, there are a lot of things that aid in that creation. -- Natalya 23:04, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Many thanks for your advise; I will do as you suggested. --Kuhl-k 20:25, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, you wrote: I'm not sure that Parts cleaning is the best title, though. What kind of parts are you talking about? The title isn't very clear -- it might be better to come up with something more specific that lets the reader know exactly what the article is about.