User talk:Rickabbo
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on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! -- Longhair | Talk 07:23, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
WikiProject North Dakota
[edit]Hey Rick, I'm happy to see you found and decided to join WikiProject North Dakota. You should add your name to the "Participants" section of the main WikiProject page so others can know you've joined up. Once again, welcome to the project. --MatthewUND(talk) 04:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism, and if you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 06:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Do not remove vandalism warnings from your talk page. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 06:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Talk page
[edit]Rick, just so you know, removing messages that others have left on your talk page is considered to be a very bad practice and is frowned upon by the Wikipedia community. It looks like you're trying to hide something from other users. It is best to leave intact all messages that are left on your talk page. --MatthewUND(talk) 22:41, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
- Oh. Thanks Matt. I didn't know that.
Hey Rick
[edit]Just saw some of your photography on your website. It's great. You might concider doing photography for wikipedia, or seing if any of your existing portfolio matches what wikipedia needs. See Wikipedia:Requested pictures. Also, welcome to Wikiproject North Dakota!
JWGreen 01:37, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
August Esperanza Newsletter
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Happy Birthday
[edit]Happy Birthday Rick! I tryed to send you spankings over my broadband connection, but my computer gave me an error message, so if you feel left out, please feel free to perform them yourself...
--JWGreen 05:13, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
WPND AFD Alert: Hawktree Golf Club
[edit]Hawktree Golf Club is up at AFD. Please vote to keep this North Dakota related article. --AlexWCovington (talk) 02:23, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help! I wish our problems at AfD were over but it looks like someone thinks Grand Cities Mall needs the axe. Your help would be appreciated! --AlexWCovington (talk) 15:11, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- Your input would still be appreciated at the Grand Cities Mall AfD, it's being attacked by people that think Grand Forks is in South Dakota. --AlexWCovington (talk) 19:53, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Rick, there's been a post on Talk:KVLY-TV asking about when they really switched affiliations with WDAY/WDAZ. Could you provide some insight? --AlexWCovington (talk) 05:20, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
September Esperanza Newsletter
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I just self-nominated myself for administrator's status on Wikipedia. As an active member of WikiProject North Dakota, I feel that having admin status would allow me the ability to be more useful to the project and to curtail vandalism and other problems. An admin is able to protect pages that are being bombarded with vandalism and to more quickly revert pages that have been vandalized. I've always hoped that we could get an admin to join the WikiProject so we would have someone to turn to in times of need. Since we still don't have an active admin within the project's membership, I decided to nominate myself. I really hope you will visit my request for adminship and support me. Thanks! --MatthewUND(talk) 10:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Just a silly message...
[edit]"And you hit the jackpot if you attempt suicide!"--WDAZ News, February 23, 2007 :) --PsychoJason 02:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- It's right here. I just find it hilarious that they used Web sites used as "references" in the report were parodies on "emo". Don't be offened by it, it's just a silly news report that made national exposure through our friend YouTube, clinging to the "conservative" stereotype of North Dakota. --milk the cows (Talk) 06:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter - Issue 1
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The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter - Issue 2 - July 2007
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The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter - Issue 3 - August 2007
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News The Grand Forks article is a great example to follow when working on other city articles, particularly those about North Dakota cities. We would be very well off if our other major city articles were similar to the Grand Forks article. Keep the Grand Forks article bookmarked and refer to its structure and style when you work on similar articles. ---New assessment parameter--- The importance of each article is gauged as either Top, High, Mid, or Low. Since "importance" is a rather subjective term, some WPND members are trying to come up with a general set of guidelines. Check out this thread on the WPND talk page to see proposals and to share your own opinions of what is and isn't "important" in the state. | |
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Invitation to join WikiProject United States
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August 2018
[edit] One of your recent additions has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. ElKevbo (talk) 12:32, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
2019 US Banknote Contest
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Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting
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Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MDT, Tuesday evening, May 9, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the history, geography, articles, maps, or photographs of the Mountain West or the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement is encouraged to attend. Please see our meeting page for details.
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