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Clearly you solved the sub-category problem. Thanks for all your work reclassifying the banks.

Acad Ronin 02:33, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the categorization to the bank pages I have created. How does one create sub-categories, such as "Central banks", or "Defunct banks"? That is, what is the syntax? The wikipedia:categorization page is philosophical rather than practical.

Acad Ronin 15:16, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia!

Here are some tips to help you get started:

Good luck!

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P.S. One last helpful hint. To sign your posts like I did above (on talk pages, for example) use the '~' symbol. To insert just your name, type ~~~ (3 tildes), or, to insert your name and timestamp, use ~~~~ (4 tildes).

Not so fast

Category:Computer Companies of the United States should be Category:Computer companies of the United States. I'll go ahead and fix it, just don't add any other entries to the category... :) - Fredrik (talk) 01:02, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

American vs US

Just so you know, the adjective American refers to the continent in most places, except Canada and the US. Thus I am changing Category:American banks to Category:Banks of the United States. I am a Canadian, so this kind of caught me off guard too. Burgundavia 10:09, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)

Nice work on all the sub cats of the US. Burgundavia 00:12, Jun 19, 2004 (UTC)

Baseball players

Just a heads-up regarding the additions you made to the list; you removed your own addition of the ghost link for Paul Dean (thanks) but I had to delete Dixie Dean (wrong sport; not Dizzy) and Preacher Roe. Roe's article was just the copyvio notice remaining after the article was removed, so if you add any more, try to verify the articles before you add them. MisfitToys 04:44, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)

Delta Sigma Pi

Thanks a lot for putting the chapters in a table. Good work!!! Yardcock 21:33, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)

True or false??

True or false: Wikipedia will likely be perfect sometime between now and 2010. (A perfect Wikipedia would contain all articles that have previously been requested with no vandalism. I remove articles from the requests section when they become live links; in contrast, you add more links.) 66.245.97.168 00:15, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

In case you should check back here: 1. I generally remove live links, however in this case restored one that had a copyvio notice and needs to have the article replaced. 2. I generally add new links to articles that need to be written, and the Waltrip article needs to be rewritten because of the copyvio issues. Yeesh. --DMG413 00:25, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Schnauzer entry on list of dog breeds

I put back the schnauzer entry because we're attempting to accumulate a reasonable breed list based on what people will look under. Since most kennel clubs call the standard-sized dog simply Schnauzer, it's not unreasonable that they'll look under that name in the list. This follows the same model we used for, for example, Collie, Cur, Foxhound, and Fox Terrier on the same page. If you haven't already, you might also check out the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dog_breeds, which has some info on the main page and various discussions on its talk page, and also the talk page for the list of dog breeds as well. Thanks. Elf | Talk 03:50, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Exhibition game

Why should we have two articles about the same thing? A friendly match is the same thing as an exhibition game, it's just a difference between American and British English. As the british useage had an aricle first, it gets to be the location of the article. Gentgeen 20:59, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!

Last summer I somehow took over the "List of rivers in Tennessee project" by default, as someone started it and then seemingly abandoned it. It's been one of my two main Wikipedia "things", the other being the "List of governors of Tennessee". I really appreciate your fixing my lame spelling of "Boundary". I guess I've been influence by the popular Nashville watering hole "The Bound'ry" Any way, thanks again.

Rlquall 22:15, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Requested articles/mathematics

Why did you remove the link to Federigo Enriques from Wikipedia:Requested articles/mathematics? As far as I can see, no article on him has been created. -- Jitse Niesen 11:54, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Please check out the Georgetown University discussion page. Thanks!

Please check out the Georgetown University discussion page - I've decided to remove the treaty of versailles comment. Let me know what you think.

Cheers!

Georgetown University

Please check the comments I made on the Georgetown page. As you'll see, I pretty much agreed with your revisions, EXCEPT for the SWQ issue. Sorry to be so adamant about this, but, regardless of what that Hoya article says, that facility is a 1000+ bed facility. I lived there last year and I was a class rep so I was often meeting with various members of facilities, administration, etc., regarding the issue. First-hand experience trumps in this case.

What year did you graduate, if you don't mind disclosing? Were you SFS? MSB? COL? Nursing?

spelling

I applaud your correcting "occassionally" to "occasionally", but please put an "sp" or "spelling" in the edit summary field. I (and perhaps others) have been looking for edits with no summary, since that is most often how vandals operate. Thus I stumbled over a number of edits you made. Hu 17:40, 2004 Nov 14 (UTC)

Image:Trop.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Trop.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 20:56, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

  1. ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
  2. ...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}}. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 21:13, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

i after e

thanks for changing the 'received' misspelling that was on all of the texas congressmen entries i made. thats a habit i have found hard to break. Thepedestrian 03:51, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)


Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 21:34, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Also:

Also:

And:

Possible copyright violation

I've tagged Image:Exhibitionstadium.jpg as a possible copyright violation. Sorry, maybe I should have asked first. But if you believe that it does not violate the source noted on the copyright problems page, please give your reasons on the image discription page. Thanks for your contributions. Kbh3rd 04:09, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary

Thank you for your changes on the Wikipedia:Requested articles/mathematics article. However, I would like to mention that the edit summary you provided, namely "Z", is not terribly helpful. :) Probably something like:

[[Hans Julius Zassenhaus]] --> is VfD

in the summary box whould have been more suggestive. This is just a thought, I found "Z" hilarious. Oleg Alexandrov 01:41, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

expos/nationals debate

There is a major debate going on, and I wondered if you might want to chime in. The debate involves how to deal with franchise moves in baseball. The question is whether Montréal Expos should be its own article or if it should redirect to Washington Nationals. All other instances of franchise moves in MLB redirect the old team name to the new team name, and the history of the franchise is covered within the new team name (for MLB, NBA and NFL examples, see here. Some people are confused and think the Expos and the Nats are different teams. Some people don't want to upset Canadian readers.

Indeed, the Washington Nationals are not a new team - the Montreal Expos franchise has moved to Washington, and the old franchise name should redirect to the new franchise name, just like the 20+ instances of this occuring in Wikipedia. For example, Brooklyn Dodger history resides in the Los Angeles Dodgers article. New York Giants history, including the Shot Heard 'Round the World, resides in the San Francisco Giants article.

If you have the time, maybe you could chime in on the conversation there, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Montréal Expos. Kingturtle 23:19, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Images from ballparks.com

I marked the following three images, which you uploaded, as possible copyright infringements:

The images are copyrighted by the owner of ballparks.com, which did not authorize their use on Wikipedia (and complained about them being used).

If there are additional images you uploaded from ballparks.com, please remove them, or at least let me know which ones they are.

Thanks, TrueGnu 10:31, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 17:58, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

Not knowing much about this, I'm curious how "fair use" works. The photo of League Park, Cleveland, I've seen in a lot of places. How do we define it as being "fair use" in this case? Wahkeenah 12:43, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello,

Since you contributed in the past to the publications’ lists, I thought that you might be interested in this new project. I’ll be glad if you will continue contributing. Thanks,APH 11:23, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:Uscell.jpg has been listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Uscell.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Cleared as filed. 02:40, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Edward Tiffin

Hello, some time ago you added a fair bit of content to Edward Tiffin. As you may be aware, we are currently trying to improve Wikipedia's verifiability and reliability by making sure articles cite the sources used to create them. Do you remember what websites, books, or other sources you used to add content to Edward Tiffin? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? See WP:CITET for some quick templates to use for citing sources. Thanks! --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 02:25, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I see that you have removed a number of items from this list: can you tell me whether you did this because the articles now exist, or because you have verified that the place names are wrong, or for some other reason? -- The Anome 13:55, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Request

Thank you for your edits on various pages of requested articles. And I have one request. Would you mind explaining why you remove certain requests and other text? I guess the links you remove are blue, and you are doing cleanup in places, but still, having an edit summary describing your changes would be nice and helpful for others looking at the diff. Thanks a lot, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 23:45, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi mate suggest you take a look at WikiProject AFL. Cheers, Rogerthat 05:54, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Warning sign
This image may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Georgetown_view_from_across_the_Potomac.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --OrphanBot 02:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Please check your WP:NA entry

Greetings, editor! Your name appears on Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct:

  1. If you are an admin, please remove your name from the list.
  2. If you are currently interested in being considered for adminship, please be sure your name is in bold; if you are opposed to being considered for adminship, please cross out your name (but do not delete it, as it will automatically be re-added in the next page update).
  3. Please check to see if you are in the right category for classification by number of edits.

Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 04:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


Image Tagging Image:Mlg.jpg

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Thanks for uploading Image:Mlg.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. ccwaters 21:00, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Ditto for Image:Paw paw tunnel.jpg. Thanks, JYolkowski // talk 20:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 21% for major edits and 27% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 23:03, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Despite its stupidity, it was the funniest thing I read today! You just beat me to the speedy. Cheers -- Samir T C 03:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

See the changes I've made...Rogerthat Talk 03:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Rory Conroy

Why did you speedy delete my Rory Conroy page? What gives? RoryRules2 19:16, 12 Mar 2006 (UTC)

You nominated this article for speedy deletion as a copyvio. However, you didn't advise of where the content was allegedly copied from. Could you please advise of the site of origin so that a decision can be made on speedy deletion. Capitalistroadster 05:00, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for being the first user to edit the article I created on the color solid! It is my first created article and I am very anxious to watch it grow on Wikipedia. Dave Runger 01:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Request for edit summary

I was confused by why you deleted a lot of text at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Mathematics. May have been blue links, but an explanation in the edit summary may be necessary. :) Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:04, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Natalie Saville and Cheryl Webb. Feel free to join us at WikiProject Australian sports.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:03, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Please use the current method for tagging things as no-source

I noticed you used {{no source}} to tag an image as lacking a source. The current recomended way to do that is {{subst:nsd}}, which automatically adds the image to the proper per-day category, which we use to ease the job of deleting the images. Please use that in the future. Thanks for your work, and enjoy your time at Wikipedia! JesseW, the juggling janitor 10:16, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Can you explain the edit to Portal:Politics/News deleting Columbus Rally?

Can you please explain why you took out the reference to the Columbus Ohio Immigrants Rights Rally from Portal:Politics/News? I spent some time getting the page up for those interested in the development of the immigrants rights issue here. The rally in Los Angeles was historical -- one of the largest in US history on any issue. It has inspired my neighbors here in Ohio, and we had one of the largest turnouts in our state's history over the same issue. People are clearly interested in the issue, and Wikipedia is a good way for people on all sides to find out what is going on.

Your edit comment said you "updated language" but you removed the substance of the Columbus rally, and removed the links to the article and the external links to news accounts. Why? I would like to learn from this experience.

r3 02:16, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I would be happy to expand the information in an article, but I could not find any article about the wave of immigrants rights rallies that is sweeping the country. From Portal:Politics/News, the links are to the generic pages for Los Angeles and Phoenix, for example. I tried to insert a link to an article about an actual demonstration on this subject. How can we give readers of the Current Events a link to meaningful information on the subject? r3 03:05, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, i removed your speedie tag on infowars, since i would argue that the site is notable enough to not warant a speedie. The sites creator has been on CNN twice, and has interviewd tons of celebrities. Although it can be debated whether the site is truly notable, it does not warrant a speedie, in my view. Peace! --Striver 02:56, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Lock Page

Are you allowed to lock pages because of edit wars. The following artcile keeps getting edited Al-Maghrib Institute. The controversy section keeps getting removed and vandalism keeps occuring. Please lock this artcile if you can to prevent further vandalism. Yeayea2006 13:24, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

I noticed that you tagged the page Image:Vanderheijden.JPG for speedy deletion with the reason "image orphaned". However, "image orphaned" is not currently one of our criteria for speedy deletion, so I have removed the speedy deletion tag. In this case, since the image was fair use, I've tagged it with {{or-fu-nr}} which will result in it being deleted in a week unless added to an article. Thanks! Stifle 16:39, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Restoring Prod

Why do you keep signaling MISTER MISADVENTURE for deletion? Other small press books are present on Wikipedia but you keep coming back to target this one...

--Jeremiahvedder 14:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Please don't restore prod notices as you did here. Prod is for uncontroversial deletions only, so once the notice is removed, the article should be kept or sent to AfD for consensus. See WP:PROD#What this process is NOT for. I'm moving it to AFD for you. NickelShoe (Talk) 06:21, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Noticed you AfD'd the Kalendar_Koffee_House Company - please note this near identical partner, which should prob also be AfD'd (Speedy??) but I'm being a bit of a luddite this AM....Bridesmill 15:02, 31 March 2006 (UTC) Thanks. Found it actually from the RfC on Coffeehouse image, seeing as the image page lists other locations it is used, this might actually be useful way of spotting multiple page spamming? Bridesmill 16:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

  • The image should stay in the article. There is not another interior photo of a "French Style Cafe" in the article, therefore this a highly relevant image. Claiming that the image is vanity/spam/corp is nonsense and an invalid argument. The image adheres to WP:NPOV standards. Separately the Kalendar Koffee House article has been RFD. I agreed with the argument made regarding Chains, and have removed the listing on the Coffee House Chains page. The RFD outcome should not reflect on this page. As editors you must not allow your emotions to influence your choices. If you allow the image to be removed then must reflect on the reasons why. None of the reason given for removal of the image are sound or reasonable ones.EllisCHanna 12:44, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
  • As Ellis' partner in Kalendar I wanted to add my part to this discussion. I completely understand the arguments made for the references and articles in the coffee house chains page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kalendar Koffee House. I can see how Wikipedia could become full of advertising style information weakening the references made available in this valuable living encycodedia. I expressed concerns to my partner about that section from the start. But I also saw the possibility of a fit because ultimately it is a section listing businesses with their styles and descriptions. Now the pages that offer descriptions of cafes and coffee houses have excellent written references describing very accurately in words what these are. But the pictures are obviously less effective. It was this section that we were first drawn to. Each section, with the exception of section 2, has one or two picture references as I have reviewed:

Intro Coffee House - One photo simple image reference. 1. History - two great reference images

2. Contemporary coffeehouses -no images as references (actually I think a Starbucks image would work well here - being an icon of the coffee movement of the 21 century- creating a whole new direction in coffeehouses again)

3. Contemporary cafés

The article on contemporary cafes is then highlighted with one image identified as: "A coffee shop in Ireland. There is no outside seating due to unsuitable weather." I assume this was used originally due to lack of any usable cafe images. The photograph could be depicting a bike repair shop or pub or any number of retail stores from its appearance, and lends no further descriptive relevance to this section. We are just suggesting, that as it appears, each category under Coffee Houses has a picture reference (with the acception of section 2), the triptych we have added offers a much stronger contibution to the contemporary cafe article, versus the ubiquitous corner coffee sandwich joint that appears to be represented (I appologize if this is actually a famous Irish quirky cafe that I do not know about.)

4. Cannabis coffee shops. The Bull Dog image is perfect. This is very well known coffee house for this section.

I hope this helps define our argument for keeping this image in this section.I do not see how the Kalendar image is seen as any more or less of an advertising image than any others. For ultimately, we do believe it enhances the article. It was accepted at one point (it had been placed in a picture box like all the others). We hope this inclusion can be made again. Cher-anne Nash, Kalendar, April 1/06 9:00am EllisCHanna 14:55, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Coffeehouse"

  • I'm not certain if your sending the same message separately to everyone who has an issue with your material is helpful; it comes across as divisive rather than searching for common ground. Please let's keep these discussions on the Coffeehouse/AfD/& Kalendar pages? Bridesmill 15:33, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Ok, gracias for the revert. :) --Khoikhoi 00:25, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Googo stuff related

I've inserted {{db-nonsense}} on most of those Googo articles that redirected to Jonathan Bowers, but I will put inappropriate redirect next time. Just if you want to know these are Googo's Special:Contributions/User:Racing38. Bye! Death2 03:14, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion 2

I noticed that you tagged the page Themotoguide for speedy deletion with the reason "non-notable website". However, "non-notable website" is not currently one of our criteria for speedy deletion, so I have removed the speedy deletion tag. You can use WP:PROD if you still want the article to be deleted. Thanks! Stifle 22:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia survey

Hi. I'm doing a survey of Wikipedia editors as part of a class research project. It's quick, anonymous, and the data will be made available to the Wikipedia community later this month. Would you like to take part? More info here. Thanks! Nonplus 00:21, 2 April 2006 (UTC)