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Barnstar

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		Awarded to Common Good for his excellent work in populating the various lists of windmills in the Netherlands. Mjroots (talk) 06:05, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Cheers

cheers Ryan4314 (talk) 21:47, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Princess Maria Pia of Braganza

I believe that the public domain picture MariaPiaBraganca.jpg, about the Princess Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Braganza, is an excellent candidate to be moved to Commons. Could you do this? 84.90.92.195 (talk) 01:37, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

PD-Self

 Done Phg (talk) 20:26, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

image taggings for deletion

Hi

you have been tagging files for deletion on the English wikipedia where there is no image file, only text, but one on commons. The correct tag to use is {{db-f2}}. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:35, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi. I'm confused about File:ZweiRadMuseumNSU Quickly.JPG being tagged for deletion. It doesn't appear to be "corrupt or empty", but I'm not overly familiar with image practices. Could you point me towards an explanation? Thanks.

Also, you tagged the edit as minor, which a tagging for deletion is not! Actually, all your edits seem to be tagged as "minor". You might have it turned on by default - you can turn this preference off at the "editing" tab in your Special:Preferences. See WP:MINOR for details on when it should be used.

Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 22:04, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Re:restre

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CommonsCat

Hi, many thanks for adding {{CommonsCat}} to articles, but could you use {{Commons category}}, which the former redirects to. Just saves a second edit on articles as AWB and BOTs are going round changing them. Keith D (talk) 19:36, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes. -- Common Good (talk) 19:40, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Move to Commons drive

Damn, man, you are a machine! I'm good, but you're the best: everything's categorized and formatted excellently, and your speed is amazing. My hat's off to you. – Quadell ^(talk) 20:50, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

It borders on the comical. Quadell keeps appearing to overtake you in the ranking, but it's only because you didn't update your own count. As soon as I do the global updates your supremacy is restored. To think I was a bit worried to see a person with a redlinked userpage joining the drive. Shown me my place, you did. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:26, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

I though the same thing as Sven, but you are awesome. I honestly didn't think a move-to-Commons drive would get much attention, but now we have both you and Quadell doing so much it is amazing. You'll both more than deserve several barnstars by the end of the month! :) –Drilnoth (T/C) 22:07, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

You're femonenal! Please continue. I think that we shouldn't have to review since your doing so well. We are still going to review though. Remember to sign up for the January 2012 drive! ~~Ebe123~~ (+) ^talk
_Contribs 17:16, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, but if there's no good description, or no description at all, you must make it. You are responsible for your images transferred. Because of that, some of your images, I would mark as bad. Please fix. For now, I will mark as bad. ~~Ebe123~~ (+) ^talk
_Contribs 19:41, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Oops, forgotten.  Fixed -- Common Good (talk) 16:43, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

The backlog's goals are in 1500 file chunks. You have transferred 1512 files. Holy $#!T man, that's absurd. Keep up the good work! Sven Manguard Wha? 15:28, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

May I know how you move all the files? ~~Ebe123~~ (+) ^talk
_Contribs 19:24, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I used CommonsHelper 1 via the bookmarklet. -- Common Good (talk)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	For moving over 200 files to Wikimedia Commons in the September 2011 Move to Commons drive, you are hereby awarded this Special Barnstar by the members of the drive. –Drilnoth (T/C) 21:56, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Order of the Superior Scribes of Wikipedia

	Order of the Superior Scribes of Wikipedia
	For getting 1st place in the September 2011 Move to Commons drive, you are hereby officially made a member of the prestigious Order of the Superior Scribes of Wikipedia. Thank you for your excellent work! –Drilnoth (T/C) 21:59, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	For moving, all on your own, more images to Commons as part of the September 2011 Move to Commons drive than the original goal was, I hereby award you this "Teamwork Barnstar". You have gone above and beyond the call of duty working on this backlog. –Drilnoth (T/C) 22:00, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

The Silver Commons Wiki Award

	The Silver Commons Wiki Award
	For moving over 2,000 files to Commons in the September 2011 Move to Commons drive, I hereby award you The Silver Commons Wiki Award. I really did not expect anyone to be so enthusiastic about the project, and you have done amazingly! Thank you! –Drilnoth (T/C) 22:02, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

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Documentation for gadget authors

I saw you had done some work on gadgets. We're trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there — ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:17, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

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