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June 2007

I noticed that you have posted comments to the page Palm Coast, Florida in a language other than English. When on the English-language Wikipedia, please always use English, no matter to whom you address your comments. This is so that comments may be comprehensible to the community at large. If the use of another language is unavoidable, please provide a translation of the comments. For more details, see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thank you. Rossheth | Talk 14:43, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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Sterling, Ohio

I've restored the interwiki link for the Volapuk article on Sterling, Ohio: please don't remove interwiki links. Nyttend 17:44, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry and embarrassed; I guess I didn't pay enough attention. Nyttend 23:03, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, some days ago I found a town in Kansas that had articles in Ido and Lombard, but it had a similar name to a town in Normandy — and five different non-English Wikipedias had articles about the other place. While trying to correct the interwikis in all eight languages, I got my changes reverted as vandalism in the Italian Wikipedia and had to use Babelfish to explain my change :-) Nyttend 15:52, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Your bot request

Hi Smeira I wanted to let you know that [[]] is labeled as needing your comment. Please visit the above link to reply to the requests. Thanks! --ST47Talk 21:55, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been Expired. Please see the request page for details. --ST47Talk 14:42, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Imperial/Metric dispute

Would you please comment here? Thank you.^{Cholga is a SUPERSTAR}¡Talk2Cholga!_{Sexy Contribs} 04:41, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Request for your opinion on Talk:Richmond, California

Hi, Smeira. Recently, on Richmond, California, you changed the order of km² and mi². Later, User:ILike2BeAnonymous reverted that change, as seen [1] here. User:Cholga since started a discussion on the talk page about which should be used, which can be seen at #Metric/Imperial dispute. As you were the original user who changed the order of the measurements, it would be useful if you could weigh in with your opinion. Thanks, Dreaded Walrus ^{t c} 04:50, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Oops. Sorry, disregard this, Cholga got here first, see section above this one. --Dreaded Walrus ^{t c} 04:52, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting Ape vandalism, was a bit confused when Wikipedia didn't seem to have an article on apes... 12.11.149.5 00:14, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. I was running a statistics bot on article size, and in my table I found one article (Ape) with size 0. Well... the last time I had ran the bot, the article size was 23,104! So I immediately went there and reverted the last edit. Phew! --Smeira 00:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Volapük

Dear Smeira,

I'm sorry not to have acknowledged your messages until now; I've just returned to editing Wikipedia after a long absence.

Thank you very much for providing an excellent answer to Vorkalloner's question on my talk page! I have appended to it one change to your analysis of klonalitakipafablüdacifalöpasekretan.

I may visit the Volapük Wikipedia from time to time, but not often enough to justify my having admin status any longer.

-- Flauto Dolce (talk) 17:47, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Translation from Volapük

Dear Smeira! I have two very old articles written in Volapük. They are from appr 1890. I am searching for someone who could help me to translate them into English. Can you help me?

--Sverre avnskog (talk) 05:27, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, in principle I could (though 1890 means they're in the first form of the language, in which I am less fluent... but I can always try.) How can I see the articles? Were they from an old Volapük journal?

(I'm having problems with time right now -- both personal, and because of the dispute at Meta: m:Proposals for closing projects/Radical cleanup of Volapük Wikipedia, but I may be able to accommodate this if you're willing to wait a week or so. Hm... in case you agree that deleting stubs isn't really going to help the Volapük Wikipedia, you could also help us fight against that proposal with your vote :-)... But of course, you should follow your own conscience. --Smeira (talk) 10:21, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your fast reply! It's great if you would take a look at the articles, to see if is possible for you to translate them ino English. They are from an old Danish/Norwegian journal from the 1890's and they can be seen on this web adresse:

http://www.malling-hansen.org/malling-hansen-the-volapykist.html

If you go to the bottom of the page you will be able to see the original articles. I am the webmaster of the website of The International Rasmus Malling-Hansen Society, doing research about the life and work of the Danish inventor, Rasmus Malling-Hansen(1835-1890), who among many other things invented the first commercially produced typewriter in the world, the Malling-Hansen writing ball.

Article No 1 is written by Malling-Hansen himself in 1889, and article No 2 is an obituary about him published after his death in 1890.

You can also see my private web-adresse at the website, and please not hesitate to contact me if you are able to help us! I can also provide you with scannings in higher resolution if needed! And we are in no rush! Just take the time you need! We will only be very happy if you are able to translate the articles!

--Sverre avnskog (talk) 20:06, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Restoring demographics

Thanks much for restoring all these bits of vandalised demographics! Except for geography-focused editors like I am (and apparently you are too), vandalism like this is very difficult to notice. Nyttend (talk) 04:34, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry!

Sorry! I went too fast on the trigger! :) --Lolipod (talk) 01:11, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

OK, that happens! So much vandalism happening here all the time (I've reverted quite a lot myself...) --Smeira (talk) 02:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Biloxi MI

Hi - you did the redirect, but not sure if you were the creator. Added the warn tag just in case. Cheers! Geoff ^{T C} 23:39, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Biloxi, MI

A tag has been placed on Biloxi, MI, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

page uses erroneous postal abbrevation for state (MI should be MS for Mississippi + page serves no purpose as there is already a 'Biloxi' page which redirects to Biloxi, Mississippi

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

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. Geoff ^{T C} 23:39, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

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