Gavinnauss

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-Poli (talk • contribs) 14:35, 2005 July 25 (UTC)

Dalai Lama Articles

Hi Gavinnauss, I appreciate you efforts to add dates for the succession boxes on the Dalai Lama articles, but they are incorrect. The date that they were all born is not the same date as when they became the Dalai Lama. Take Thubten Gyatso for example. According to the German Wikipedia, he was born in 1876 and became Dalai Lama on Feb. 12, 1878. --Hottentot

Really? I am very sorry! The way I had understood it is that a Dalai Lama was Dalai Lama throughout his whole life, even from the day he was born. However, I appreciate the feedback! I will correct it as much as I am able, unless you have already. ^ ^ --Gavin 18:11, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Moving user pages

Hi Gavinnauss, I had to move your user page back to Gavinnauss (from Gavin Nauss) because when you do that you can't view your contributions anymore. Sorry. You could always start a new account called User:Gavin Nauss. --Hottentot

Ah well, it's okay. I don't really mind. ^ ^ --Gavin

If you want to change your username to "Gavin Nauss", this can be easily done (this is a new feature of the Mediawiki software since about a month ago). You just need to ask one of the bureaucrats who have the power to do this (ordinary admins don't). They will probably need to delete the redirects at User:Gavin Nauss and User talk:Gavin Nauss first. -- Curps 02:02, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

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