User talk:WIZARD826

Welcome!

Hello, WIZARD826, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 03:22, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I may have found your page based on your contributions or your link repair user box on your user page. If you are not a member, please consider including your name on the project page. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 23:25, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

You have mail

You have a reply waiting for you at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Admin coaching  The Transhumanist   18:52, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Admin Coaching

Hi. I saw your application for Admin Coaching, which the user above replied to just recently. You don't appear to have met the pre-requisites for coaching yet, but given the length of the waiting list, you can easily be in that position by the time your turn comes.

If you like, I would be very happy to provide editor coaching in the meantime. I'm not an administrator, but I'm an active editor here and I'd be happy to help you ready yourself for coaching, if you really want to go ahead with it. It'd just be a casual thing, but drop me a line at my talk page if you would like some help. Also, you might want to check out editor review as another way of getting feedback. Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 10:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Prerequisites? What prerequisites? WIZARD, a number of coaches have opened up lately and I will try to match you with one if you like. Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 15:11, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Userpage

Hi. I ran into the category of users needing help improving their userpages. Now I'm not the best user page designer, but I'll try to help you. What do you have in mind? :) ↔ ANAS - Talk 20:14, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching, etc.

Are you ready to get started?

The waiting time over at Admin coaching is long (some people have been waiting in line since July). I'm an admin coach with the project, and for my students I set up a group discussion page so that we could all learn from each other. The scope of this concept has expanded into the Virtual classroom, which is an open forum for the teaching and learning of advanced Wikipedia skills.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate, as a student, as a coach, or both. Every week or two a new major topic of discussion or classroom assignment is introduced, usually with a guest writer who presents his or her expertise on the current subject and who remains on hand to answer questions. Everyone is encouraged to participate in the discussions, such as sharing your expertise, asking and answering questions, etc.

The current topic of discussion is vandalism, and our guest writer is Budgiekiller.

All discussions are open-ended, so all previous discussion topics and classroom assignments are still there for viewing and further participation. There are also sections for posting miscellaneous topics and questions, requesting coaching assistance, etc.

In addition to inviting those who would like to learn, I routinely invite experts from all over Wikipedia to come and contribute for the benefit of all. The VC is rapidly turning into a clearing house of the best resources, methods, and techniques known for working on Wikipedia.

You are cordially invited to participate.

Here's an announcement box which you can place on your userpage or at the top of your talk page for keeping up to date with classroom assignments.

I hope to see you there. Sincerely,  The Transhumanist    07:56, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

User Page Help

Hello. Since you were in Category:Wikipedians requesting help improving their user pages, do you need any help? Please reply on my talk page. S.D. ¿п? § 19:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

PER

The PER stats are only available via an ESPN.com Insider subscription so I noted that and provided a direct link. Quadzilla99 01:39, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Responding to your request for user page fixing

User:SMcCandlish/TempWIZARD826 is probably what you were after. You can simply copy that code and paste it over your existing user page. Please note that because you have not actually created most of the content yet, I used the Template:Lorem (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) template several time to put dummy content in there; just remove those lorem tags. The fixes: First, I redirected your "Answering Machine" link to your talk page, where it belongs. You should next go to your actual "answering machine" subpage, and replace it with a redirect to User talk:WIZARD826. Second, I combined all the userbox boxes into one, with headings, and ordered them based on their actual usefulness to other wikipedians. I would actually recommend moving the "Personal" ones off of this page entirely and putting them on a /Personal subpage. But anyway, the language (Babel) ones aways go up top. Next came very basic facts about you, then Wikipedia-related ones, then grammar fun, then personal last. Next, I repaired your content layout table use valign consistently and to stop trying to use the full width of the page, which was what was causing all that messy overlap. Just let it flex to the size it wants to naturally, and no problems. I commented out two of your userboxes because they gave bogus info, and added one for English since that was missing. I hope this helps, and has achieved what you were actually aiming for. When you are done with the temporary copy linked to above, please blank is so that I know it can be removed. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 20:17, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Your userpage #3

Have a look on your userpage. I hope you like the new design :) Hovewer, it doesn't look as good as I imagined, but if you add more content to your subpages, I think everything will be all right. Love, Andrij Kursetsky ⊗ 10:53, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sar logo.jpg

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Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:20, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:39, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Blutarsky

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