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Wikproject Bioware

Yo hi Jade, yes hi it's me, 'shock and horror' and all that crap I'm am back (yet again). As the title says this here thread is about the good ol' wikiproject we created...then did shit all with. We now have a amazing nine members and as far as I can see you haven't done anything with the page at all since I was last here. And since you probably must have completed Mass Effect 2 five times now I was expecting some more work being put into it but there isn't (maybe the whole ME2 thing is still going on, is it?). Sorry about that small rant but as we have new peps we must show them that we are doing something. If I can do something I will but I seriously doubt I can, the last time I did serious editing was last autumn. See ya, and oh yeah, the email is still freakin' broken. 'The Ninjalemming' 11:55, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi Jade and Ninja; I'm assuming most of you are dealing with real life instead of spending much time editing and such (as am I)? The Mass Effect 2 page is, in my opinion, not as well written as it was last year. I'll get editing on that article sometime soon.

As for Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, I have edited the article and added a Plot section to it; I will work on a Characters (companions) list as well. If any of you can get that started, that would be great.

-- Kilkia123 (talk) 02:54, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

nice job, keep it up. I haven't checked the Mass Effect 2 page at all yet, so I'm gonna have to trust you on that one; make sure it gets that the good ol' featured status =P And yes about the real life stuff. (Although I reckon you could argue Wikipedia is part of real life in some way, but then again I would still disagree probably, I donno). 'The Ninjalemming' 13:07, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

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Dashboard

Just coming to check as you like to have everything to kill vandals's with (don't forget about the thread above!) but do you have the user dashboard? Well it's not really a user thing as admin's use it but Xeno said it was fine. It looks like this, it really helps, though I always forget it is there. Maybe you could also checkout this, another admin based thing I stole with the consent of Xeno. Knowing you, you already have them. 'The Ninjalemming' 14:20, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Excuse me

Please may you help me create a new account, i've got no clue on what to do or even where to start! so if it wouldn't be too much if you gave me a bit help, please?--78.144.106.72 (talk) 18:16, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Passing through Wikipedia to do some research. I'll help you out, but the simplicity of this question, the fact that you came to me specifically for help and the similarity of your IP address to a known sockmaster's IPs means I'm going to request an admin take a look at this, see what they make of it. My sincere apologies if I'm being overly suspicious. As for your question, simply click on the "Log in/sign-up" button in the top right hand corner of any page on the site. Also, every edit you make as an IP has a box above the edit window giving you a link to creating an account and I can't see how you could miss that, hence my suspicion. --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 18:31, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Possible sock?

{{adminhelp}} See the above post for my reasoning. Is it a sock account? I don't have the time right now to find an active checkuser (if one's even needed (the other Doughnuthead socks didn't need one)) and I don't want to file a sockpuppet report directly as that would be biting harshly if this genuinely is a confused newbie. Thanks for the assistance. /retreats back into research --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 18:31, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

IP's on this range have posted on your talk page before; sockpuppetry appears obvious. I have rangeblocked the set of IPs for a month. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 18:46, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Note to everyone

Hopefully I'm nearly finished with that pesky thing known as real life, so I'll be able to edit more frequently and get around to answering everyone's posts here rather than the odd one or two. --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 18:31, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Yay! I was wondering why you were not editing as much recently.....--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 23:35, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

And by 'nearly' he means nowhere near. *tumbleweed blows by* look, this page is so deserted it's turned into one awesome western 'The Ninjalemming' 20:17, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

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Hi, i'm new here and, would you like to show me around? I came to you because i'm friends with User:Daniel Case. So, what you up to? I've got Xbox Live, my gamertag is xPR0xC4BiiN3Z!--King man885 (talk) 19:17, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

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I joined Wikipedia in 2009 of June and my articles have constantly been rejected so I would like to know if you would consider in adopting me.I would like to learn how to defeat vandalism and to brush up on my article skills, and how to make my user name a link. ((SkywalkerX2}}

Just as a note to you, User:Thejadefalcon is currently inactive. You may wish to seek another user during this time, as we have little idea of whether this inactivity is short or long term. Hope this helps, I will drop by on your talk page for a few little tips though! --Taelus (talk) 23:43, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

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Hey you may want to put User_talk:Thejadefalcon/to_do on your watchlist, you had some vandalism on there since 2/5. SpigotMap 13:46, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 27 September 2010

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q3 2010

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
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The Signpost: 22 November 2010

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The Signpost: 29 November 2010

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The Signpost: 13 December 2010

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2010

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2011

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The Signpost: 11 April 2011

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The Signpost: 18 April 2011

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The Signpost: 25 April 2011

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The Signpost: 2 May 2011

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The Signpost: 9 May 2011

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The Signpost: 16 May 2011

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The Signpost: 23 May 2011

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The Signpost: 30 May 2011

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Well i added that section to the bioware page just a heads up since your part of that fancy group of yours :P Awsometilthegrave (talk) 14:14, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 13 June 2011

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The Signpost: 27 June 2011

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The Signpost: 4 July 2011

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q2 2011

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The Signpost: 11 July 2011

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The Signpost: 18 July 2011

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The Signpost: 25 July 2011

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The Signpost: 01 August 2011

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The Signpost: 08 August 2011

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The Signpost: 15 August 2011

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The Signpost: 22 August 2011

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The Signpost: 29 August 2011

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The Signpost: 05 September 2011

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The Signpost: 12 September 2011

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The Signpost: 26 September 2011

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The Signpost: 3 October 2011

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q3 2011

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
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The Signpost: 24 October 2011

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The Signpost: 7 November2011

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The Signpost: 14 November 2011

• News and notes: ArbCom nominations open, participation grants finalized, survey results on perceptions on Wikipedia released

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The Signpost: 21 November 2011

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• Arbitration report: End in sight for Abortion case, nominations in 2011 elections

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The Signpost: 28 November 2011

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The Signpost: 05 December 2011

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The Signpost: 12 December 2011

• Opinion essay: Wikipedia in Academe – and vice versa

• News and notes: Research project banner ads run afoul of community

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The Signpost: 19 December 2011

• News and notes: Anti-piracy act has Wikimedians on the defensive, WMF annual report released, and Indic language dynamics

• In the news: To save the wiki: strike first, then makeover?

• Discussion report: Polls, templates, and other December discussions

• WikiProject report: A dalliance with the dismal scientists of WikiProject Economics

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The Signpost: 26 December 2011

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• News and notes: Fundraiser passes 2010 watermark, brief news

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The Signpost: 02 January 2012

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2011

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 4, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2011
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The Signpost: 09 January 2012

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The Signpost: 16 January 2012

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• WikiProject report: WikiProject Beer

• Featured content: Lecen on systemic bias in featured content

• Arbitration report: Four open cases, Betacommand case deadlocked, Muhammad images close near

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The Signpost: 23 January 2012

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• WikiProject report: The Golden Horseshoe: WikiProject Toronto

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The Signpost: 30 January 2012

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The Signpost: 06 February 2012

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The Signpost: 13 February 2012

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The Signpost: 20 February 2012

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• WikiProject report: WikiProject Poland

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• Arbitration report: Civility enforcement closed, proposed decision in TimidGuy, two cases remain open

• Technology report: Major strands of development cycle coalesce as 1.19 is deployed to first wikis

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The Signpost: 27 February 2012

• News and notes: Finance meeting fallout, Gardner recommendations forthcoming

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The Signpost: 05 March 2012

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The Signpost: 12 March 2012

• Interview: Liaising with the Education Program

• Women and Wikipedia: Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters

• Arbitration analysis: A look at new arbitrators

• News and notes: Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation

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• Technology report: Git learning curve steep but not insurmountable, plus a diff style we can all agree on?

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The Signpost: 19 March 2012

• News and notes: Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Wikipedia Academy and HighBeam accounts

• Discussion report: Article Rescue Squadron in need of rescue yet again

• WikiProject report: Lessons from another Wikipedia: Czech WikiProject Protected Areas

• Featured content: Featured content on the upswing!

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The Signpost: 26 March 2012

• News and notes: Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Rock Music

• Featured content: Malfunctioning sharks, toothcombs and a famous mother: featured content for the week

• Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review at evidence, article titles closed

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• Education report: Universities unite for GLAM; and High Schools get their due.

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2012

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 5, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2012
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The Signpost: 09 April 2012

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The Signpost: 16 April 2012

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The Signpost: 23 April 2012

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The Signpost: 30 April 2012

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The Signpost: 07 May 2012

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The Signpost: 14 May 2012

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The Signpost: 21 May 2012

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The Signpost: 18 June 2012

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Just noted that you are on the Missing Wikipedians page. At the very least "made their last edit on August 25, 2010" is out of date. Regards, 220 of ^Borg 17:57, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Heh. That's really kind of sweet. I do pop in from time to time, but my only editing is when I see things that need it while searching for my own thing. I simply don't have the time to deal with the site any more, unfortunately. Combined with a depression that's gotten steadily worse since a few months before I stopped being active, I never even got around to actually making a mention of what happened to me. I've considered coming back from time to time, but with my impending promotion to moderator of [SteamGifts http://www.steamgifts.com/], I don't think I'll ever be as active as I once was. If I do, it may even be under a different username, to get away from the garbage I found myself subjected to on a regular basis, like the people using this site like Facebook but I couldn't get away from because I was too kind to tell them to sod off. Heh. Give me some time. I'll let you know if I should be kept on that list or not. --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 21:41, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 09 July 2012

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q2 2012

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 5, No. 2 — 2nd Quarter, 2012
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The Signpost: 16 July 2012

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The Signpost: 23 July 2012

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The Signpost: 30 July 2012

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User:Doughnuthead

Hello there, now I know that your not entirely active here anymore, I was letting you know there is currently a ban discussion for Doughnuthead over at the Administrators noticeboard. I was wondering if you wanted to have a say seeing your run ins with him. I'll update you if you don't reply in the next 2 days. Cheers.--RedBullWarrior (talk) 15:38, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

It's been moved over to AN/I, to gain a larger consensus. If you do wish to add to the discussion, please go there.--RedBullWarrior (talk) 15:08, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 August 2012

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The Signpost: 13 August 2012

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q3 2012

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 5, No. 3 — 3rd Quarter, 2012
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The Signpost: 19 November 2012

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The Signpost: 26 November 2012

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Transcluded from User talk:NarSakSasLee/adoption

23 December 2009

Season's greetings! Okay, so I went absent for a long time I hope this hasn't phased you in any way. I'm looking for something to do is there any areas where you can direct me (such as a list of articles for clean up) in the anime and video games projects?? I'm usually bored and looking for something to do here ever since I finished DKC2 Also how do I create a template? I want one for my userpage. NarSakSasLee (talk) 12:23, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Nope, I'm fine. In fact, it's probably a good thing that you didn't show up for a while. My life got a bit of an upheaval and it's messed up my editing abilities for a short time. Mostly fine now though. Anyway, hi! If you want, I can search for the anime WikiProject, but since I know where it is, here's the video games lists so far. This category contains pages marked for clean-up. This page, on the other hand, allows you to click on any of the importance or quality rating and be given links to all of them (though, as far as I can see, it's sadly impossible to pick both the importance and quality, so if you want to work on High-importance stubs, you'll need to search around for them). Secondly, exactly what sort of template are you looking for? Are you looking for a userbox, a page to transclude to the userpage (meaning that all of the coding is on a different page, thus tidying up the page a bit) or do you mean you want something like my new userpage? --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 12:43, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi, well, i just hope your okay now with your life. As for the template I was think something like those at the bottom of articles. I want shortcuts, personalised of course, so I can quickly navigate to other articles, wikiprojects and clean up lists or catagories or even people. I didn't realise that userboxes were proper templates too. As for your userpage -- its far too complex for me because there is probably so much code that my brain may get frazzled. Yeah and I probably want them "transcluded" (such big words for a simple task!) how do I go about doing it?. NarSakSasLee (talk) 13:07, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

What the...? Damn it! Sorry about the wait. I had responded about an hour or two after your question but the edit clearly didn't go through for some reason. (grumbling) Okay, let me see if I can remember what I'd said... First off, it's just a simple matter of doing this ("{{uaa|nb}}"). That's the most simple way to add a template. However, transcluding does have a few problems. If an alteration is made to the page being transcluded, that alteration will appear on all the pages it is being transcluded to. This is sometimes helpful (e.g. it allows me to see your responses here on my talk page). However, if a vandal attacks the page, it you may end up with a swear word on a couple of thousand pages, say. Hence, substition is sometimes used, like so ("{{subst:uaa|nb}}"). Depending on what the template is, you may want to transclude, you may want to substitute. It's complex, but you'll probably get the hang of it quickly enough. Anyway, as for the template, I'll create it for you and then tell you what I did (that'd be the easiest thing to do). Give me a bullet point list of everything you want in the template (and if you want them in any particular grouping or if that's left up to my judgement). I... err... think that's everything I'd said... --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 01:40, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Update: "This page, on the other hand, allows you to click on any of the importance or quality rating and be given links to all of them (though, as far as I can see, it's sadly impossible to pick both the importance and quality, so if you want to work on High-importance stubs, you'll need to search around for them)." All WikiProject using this system have been updated and you now can crossreference quality and importance (though it takes you outside of Wikipedia to do so). --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 15:29, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Transcluded from User talk:The.Filsouf/adoption

2 December 2009

Hi, I have a few Qs I was hoping to get help with:

• what template should I use for adding references to articles? In real life, I am most familiar with APA style and want to use that if possible
• what gallery template do you recommend?
• what templates should I use to add "citation/source/reference is needed" to a claim I think doesn't make sense?

Thanks, --The.Filsouf (talk) 20:41, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

To answer in order:

• It depends on where the information comes from. For online content, the most common, it is {{cite web}}. The second most common (in the articles I edit, anyway) is {{cite journal}}. A full list can be found here. Let me know if you have any trouble with them.
• Gallery template? I don't generally have much to do with pictures, but I can bludgeon problems better well. What context is it in? What article is it for?
• If you need a citation for a specific statement, use {{citation needed|date=December 2009}}. If it's an entire article at issue rather than a sentence here or there, see here for the list of them. Again, if you have any trouble with them, simply ask. --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 20:50, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Transcluded from User talk:Alxanderr/adoption

2 January 2010

Place your questions here under new level four headers based on the date you asked the question (if the discussion spans multiple days, leave the header the same). --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 23:54, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Transcluded from User talk:Larry MacDuff/adoption

7 January 2010

Place your questions here under new level four headers based on the date you asked the question (if the discussion spans multiple days, leave the header the same). --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 18:53, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Alright, since it's still January 7th where i'm at, i'll start it here. My first question is how can I get a name change? Since, this name i'm currently using is a joke. Thanks. -- Larry MacDuff (talk) 22:50, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Go here. If you need any help with the policy, tell me. I'm not too familiar with how this process works, but I think it'll fairly simple for me to understand and explain to someone else if necessary. --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 00:09, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 December 2012

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The Signpost: 10 December 2012

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The Signpost: 17 December 2012

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The Signpost: 24 December 2012

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The Signpost: 31 December 2012

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter (4th Quarter 2012)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 5, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2012
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As of Q4 2012, the project has:

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• 45 A-Class Articles
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