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Notability of Fabian Akerstrom

A tag has been placed on Fabian Akerstrom requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. David Eppstein (talk) 05:01, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Fabian Akerstrom

Actually, I was quite aware of the tag, but there was no justification given for the hang on. If there were content available to establish notability, you could have added a quick note on the talk page saying "content to be added with the next X minutes." It is odd as well that an article was created in the mainspace without any sources, assertion of notability or the like. That is why it was deleted. If you wish to re-create the page with content establishing notability based on reliable sources, then it will not be deleted (at least not speedily). Thank you. Cheers, CP 06:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

No problem, hope there's no hard feelings. It's just difficult for an admin to tell the difference between legit and notable pages sometimes without the notability assertion (we get dozens every few minutes, it's ridiculous). Cheers, CP 06:37, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Page protection

Hello Pchackola, please add new page protection request directly below the Current requests for protection headline, otherwise your request could likely be missed. Thanks --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Viktor Hedman

In the future, you can just do a page move rather than recreating the article with the correct title. Saves you a little bit of time. Tijuana Brass (talk) 07:46, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Glad to help! Tijuana Brass (talk) 08:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

By the way... you're Indian, you like country, you're Catholic and you're into hockey? I think you may be the most diverse person to ever have existed. Tijuana Brass (talk) 08:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Victor Hedman

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AfD nomination of Victor Hedman

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Janruary 2008

Sorry about the "vandalism", i thought that i was undoing it, but was a bit behind the game. i will check next time. thanks for the warning anyway. Ashe613 (talk) 10:10, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Your VandalProof Application

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Pchackola. As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank again for your interest in VandalProof. β^_command 16:54, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Polluxian! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Ale_Jrb^talk 15:07, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:BharathamathaPLKD.jpg

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Thank you for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 03:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia: WikiProject Swimming

Hi there, Ive recently joined the WP:WikiProject Swimming team. Im committed to getting on top of the project. Since you have listed yourself as a participant i thought i'd let you know what i've done. Ive got a bot thats going through the relevant catagouries that apply to the project and tagging them with our banner. Ive done all the stub class articles and assessed them automaticlly, and im starting on the 3000 other articles that ive identified. So this will mean that we will have all the articles in the scope of the project together and we can start working on them. So if you have any spare time theres going to be thousands of articles that will need assessing. There are around 2000 articles Just in Stub-Class swimming articles, and most of these will need the importance assessed. I think it's important we get all this assessing done, so we can start working on the articles.

Don't fell pressured to start assessing articles, i just thought that since theres going to be so many articles, you should know that theres heaps of work that needs to be done, ill be trying my best once my exams are finished. Remember many hands make light work.

Cheers Printer222 (talk) 13:39, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

RE:40 New pages

Great! Here are your barnstars!

		The Articles for Creation Barnstar
		For your great contributions to the Articles for Creation as per this challenge, I, Thisisborin9, hereby award you this barnstar. Great job! Cheers, Thisisborin9sign here! 17:08, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your tireless work and dedication to Wikipedia and making it a better project (by creating valuable new pages, that is), I, Thisisborin9, hereby award you this "Tireless Contributor Barnstar." Great job! Cheers, Thisisborin9sign here! 17:08, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Cheers, Thisisborin9_{sign here!} 17:08, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Pier Gerlofs Donia

Did you know (DYK) about Greate Pier? Last king of Frisia (talk) 09:00, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Your request for rollback

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Casualties of the Iraq War

Why have you reverted me, I don't understand I have not vandalised anything, I updated the numbers of casualties among Iraqi security forces based on the Wikipedia article List of Iraqi security forces fatality reports in Iraq and I provided a link to that article so people would see from where the numbers are coming from. And everything is well referenced in that article. There is no vandalism. This way has already been used in the main article of the Iraq war where the numbers of insurgents and security forces killed were entered in the infobox and links to Wikipedia articles that list those deaths had been provided as a source. Again, why have you reverted me?89.216.236.45 (talk) 13:11, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

WikiBirthday

I saw from here that it's been exactly four years since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 14:21, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

And the same from me. Enjoy your day! – Quadell ^(talk) 15:09, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I appologize for the misunderstanding. I just thought that since the other Juventus players do not have it listed, it shouldn't be listed either. But I'm fine with it. Thanks for checking. --Dathangy (talk) 06:59, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Nobel Prize

Hello! I am currently working on the "Swedish Project" and "Award and Prizes"'s article Nobel Prize. Since it is a top importance article and not even GA class I am trying to make it a GA article and perhaps further after that. However, I'm in a state now where I could use some help. I need a new pair (several pairs in fact) of eyes to look at the article and the talk page for improving prose, debation of different things and some sourcing. Do you got any possibility to help out? BR --Esuzu 12:12, 16 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esuzu (talk • contribs)

Proposed deletion of Fabian Åkerström

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Proposed deletion of Marco Belotti

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Invite to WikiConference India 2011

Hi Polluxian, The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011. You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form. But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach. As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions. We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

Thanks

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This user helped promote Zach Bogosian to good article status.

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:45, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox table tennis player

Template:Infobox table tennis player has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. GoP_T^C_N 14:25, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Some falafel for you!

Thank you for your tireless work, particularly with sports articles! Cheers and enjoy your falafel. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 14:36, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

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Good article reassessment for Jessica Hardy

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Nomination of Steve DaSilva for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Daniel Despotovic

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