Welcome

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Welcome!

Hello, Jkslouth, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Rotimi Fani-Kayode. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Rotimi Fani-Kayode was a great son of Nigeria. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tebsala (talkcontribs) 23:24, 5 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

File permission problem with File:Wikirotimi.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Wikirotimi.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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Origin of Drake's phrase

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I'm not sure whether the Turkish Vizier's comment was actually the origin of the beard-singeing phrase, but it's certainly the earliest verifiable utterance of it I can find. (I also recall seeing the quote in Noel Barber's Lords of the Golden Horn, but I don't have that source to hand). HLGallon (talk) 23:58, 8 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Seguridad Social de España

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Hi! In regards to es:Seguridad Social de España there needs to be an article on the Spanish social security system in the English Wikipedia. http://www.seg-social.es/Internet_6/index.htm has the English information related to the Spanish system. If you want to, would you mind writing the article? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 03:33, 12 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Rotimi Fani-Kayode & File:Wikirotimi.jpg

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{{adminhelp}} What is the point of me going to all the trouble of hassling the photographer (an extremely busy professional) for the correct copyright permission emailing it the correct address on the 6th May 2010 when no-one bothered to put a ticket number on it or to contact me if there was any further problem. It has now been deleted by User:Fastily despite me putting a note about the email under the deletion template. Wikipedia seems to be made up of poor saps like me who contribute and a host of others who seem to spend their time deleting and doing little else. Why should we care or bother to follow a system when no-one else does Jkslouth (talk) 01:01, 18 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

This is very necessary as copyrights are taken very seriously and it is a legal matter of verifying it. fetch·comms 01:13, 18 May 2010 (UTC)Reply
I followed the system exactley as requested. Nothing happened except the deletion. This is just a waste of my and the photographer's time. Jkslouth (talk) 01:41, 18 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Feedback reply

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Posted here: Wikipedia:Requests_for_feedback/2011_April_26#Holy_Child_of_La_Guardia. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:50, 26 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge

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Hi, at Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge we're striving to bring about 10,000 article improvements and creations for the UK and Ireland and inspire others to create more content. In order to achieve this we need diversity of content, in all parts of the UK and Ireland on all topics. Eventually a regional contest will be held for all parts of the British Isles, like they were for Wales and the Wedt Country. We currently have just over 1900 articles and need contributors! If you think you'd be interested in collaborating on this and helping reach the target quicker, please sign up and begin listing your entries there as soon as possible! Thanks.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:40, 28 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

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Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 09:13, 6 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi. This month The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There is over £3000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. Wikimedia UK is putting up £250 specifically for editors who produce the most quality new women bios for British women, with special consideration given to missing notable biographies from the Oxford Dictionary of Biography and Welsh Dictionary of Biography. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate independently this is also fine, but please add any articles created to the bottom of the main contest page even if not competing. Your participation in the contest and contributing articles on British women from your area or wherever would we much appreciated. Thanks.

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!