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I'm sorry, but I don't think that being from a school makes this image copyright free. JeremyA 04:20, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough - I'll wait for it to be deleted, and am going to remove the link to the page. Xyrael 21:43, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yo! greetings from a fellow IBDoF dude, and wikipedian. --Mr. Dude†@£К ║ Çøת†яĭβü†ĬŎИ 14:52, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, greetings! May I ask how you get those colours in your signature automatically? Do you just copy/paste? --Xyrael 15:06, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No, ummm you can do any sort of formating you want using html (Xhtml works tooo I think). Just write out your signature how you wish in code, go to the preferences menu and under the feild that says nickname paste your code, then I belive you have to use raw signatures. That should work. --Mr. Dude†@£К ║ Çøת†яĭβü†ĬŎИ 15:12, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I'm pretty happy with what I've got, but it's good to know. --Xyrael 15:16, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'll give up for a while - other things to do (involving a pub and beer, given that it's Friday night where I am!). Cheers Tonywalton | Talk 17:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. See you around the network. --Xyrael 17:13, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
how do you pronounce 'Xyrael'?
"zih-rih-ul" or "zih-ray-elle" --XyraelT 17:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Xyrael, you need to closely review the rules in WP:CSD. I found you misusing the delete tag twice within one hour without trying to track down your edits, just by accident:
Nelson Burton which is an ad for sure, but certainly not empty, and
El Rey, which may or may not pass under WP:CORP but is certainly not empty!
Go back and read the relevant provisions before click that delete button! I changed both to prod - feel free to expand the rationale there, esp. on El Rey which is not at all clear that it should be deleted. In other words, you can only request deletion if you believe it fails WP:CORP, and I suspect you have to clue, as I certainly do not, so either research it or withdraw the prod there. I don't mean to be mean, but we have to adhere to the rules here closely or else we start trampling on people's work and then WP is not fun. - the.crazy.russianτçë 18:17, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the constructive criticism. I'll be more careful next time! --Xyrael 19:03, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It'll actually be best if you clarify on the El Rey talk page how and why El Rey fails to meet WP:CORP. An unsupported allegation of a WP:CORP violation is extremely unlikely to result in deletion because WP:CORP has very specific criteria. If and when you do do it, you should add "see talk page for rationale" to the prod message. Thanks - the.crazy.russianτçë 19:14, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Another suggestion: it's a good idea to answer on the message-leaver's talk page - that way they're notified abt it. Some of us lead hectic wikilives :) and can't always track down answers to their questions. Thankss again for your work fighting trash on WP. - the.crazy.russianτçë 19:19, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think I've followed both of those guidelines. Thanks again for your assistance. --Xyrael 19:38, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for prodding me to elaborate. But: don't you think you jumped in there and sponsored the page's deletion a little quickly? I do. I'd like you to remove the tag, as I understand it is bad form for me to do so.
Okay, I'll go ahead and remove the tag, as you seem to have expanded on the information below on his importance. Good luck with finishing the article :) --Xyrael 16:45, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the note...I'm fairly new at this, so it'll take me some time. I'll try to follow the guidelines as well as I can.
No problem - but it'd be great if you would sign your messages with ~~~~ so that we can see who left it! Please feel free to ask any more questions that you may have. Thanks. --Xyrael 21:40, 8 April 2006 (UTC) (note: this user was Dufrenne, for the record)[reply]
Hi. i see youve recently added {{geo-stub}} to a load of stubs on craters. geo-stub is for places on earth. anything on other planets gets {{crater-stub}}. BL Lacertae - kiss the lizard 00:47, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Note - this was responded to on the user's talkpage. --Xyrael 10:29, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
if you just did one of them, sorry - i wouldnt normally have commented. about ten turned up in Category:Geography stubs on one day so id assumed that the person who did one of them had done the lot. in any case, geo-stubs almost never used now since so many countries have their own stub, so the less anyone uses it the better :) BL Lacertae - kiss the lizard 02:09, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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I'd also like to welcome you. Please don't flood the channel so much with !drink, though. :) — nathanrdotcom(T • C • W) 18:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Heheh, I'm rather a fussy customer ;) Thank you for the additional welcome. --Xyrael 17:34, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Don't know if you noticed, but the link on your user page to view your ibdof profile takes people to the forum index instead. --Mr. Dude†@£К ║ Çøת†яĭβü†ĬŎИ 17:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've checked and the link at the top goes to the homepage, as it should, and the contact one goes to my profile. Thank you for letting me know, but I think you got the wrong address. The fact that you noticed it points out to me that the page may need to shifting around so that others don't get confused. --Xyrael 17:16, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Nope, I looked at the url you have in more detail. You simply need to add "www" before ibdof. lika so ---> http://www.ibdof.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=982 . You have that url without the www, and at least in my browser (firefox) it redirects to the forum index. Sorry, I should have looked at the code first. Hope that makes sence --Mr. Dude†@£К ║ Çøת†яĭβü†ĬŎИ 20:25, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I'll correct it this time, and I'm grateful that you took the time to look into it for me. --Xyrael 19:56, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
hi there
plz i need someone to help,
but i want to say that my English language is weak...
any way
thnx alot for your message
bye--Maitbo 16:00, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
For the record, I responded to this on the user's talkpage. --Xyrael 16:04, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
r u still there?
--Maitbo 16:29, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm here. I'd love to answer your questions, but I can't understand what you want to know. I don't think it's your English in any way, but I don't know specifically what you are having trouble with. Perhaps if you listed your problems in a list I could understand better? Thanks. --Xyrael 19:34, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpowerháblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for keeping me informed, but I'm not sure that it's appropriate for me to vote because I am so new to the organisation and I don't know everyone else. I will review the candidates list however and will consider posting my view, although I'm not sure that I will be able to give a full and valid opinion. --Xyrael 09:31, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi there! I see that you used VandalProof on Inquisition[1]. But the vandal actually vandalised the page twice consecutively, and so it happened that you reverted back to an already vandalised version [2]! I do not have Vandalproof and I don't know how it works. So I'm just wondering if there is a bug in it or something :( Have a nice day, 199.111.230.195 21:32, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Responded on IP's talkpage. --XyraelT 09:49, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Your recent edit to 1990s was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // Tawkerbot2 14:43, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This was a mistake, and it has been reported on the bot's talkpage. I was actually removing vandalism at the time! --XyraelT 14:46, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. It wasn't a total mistake, the problem was that you reverted one set of vandalism, but missed that the previous edit you reverted to was vandalised in a different way, so that's why it was picked up, as when you reverted, you were re-adding the original vandalism (by accident of course!) See my revert which goes back one further for details [3]. Regards, and keep up the good work! MartinRe 15:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I use VandalProof, and I can't figure out how to get the program to fill in edit summaries on rollbacks. Do you have any idea? --Zpb52 15:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yep - I'm applying a fix to your account :) --XyraelT 15:33, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Still not working! --Zpb52 01:48, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I found for example word losos which doesn't exist in Polish - in that case I'm trying to change it on łosoś, which exists. I'm also searching for Russian words and deriverates which have many in common and if I found resemblance word in Polish - I'm adding it in list.
For Mike's Pollock page - I don't remember changes I made, but thank you for your message.
BTW: This address isn't my private IP - I'm working on one of Laboratories left for students in my university. Due that this message is available not only for me.
Hi, Konrad, I don't understand the revert, myself, so I rereverted it... I removed some words which didn't appear to be true cognates, too. Did you use an etymological dictionary? 惑乱 分からん 17:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I am trying to fix some odd tidbits included in the Ragdoll description. I am a Ragdoll breeder who is also a club board member and association breed committee elected member.
No problem! Sorry to have bothered you. --XyraelT 19:30, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I merely forgot to put in a edit summary. I was adding Queen Geraldine's correct name. She was formerly a Countess, yes, but she ascended to the title of Queen of the Albanians and the style Her Majesty on her marriage to the reigning monarch His Majesty King Zog I. Queen is therefore the correct title to give her, that is all I was doing, obviously not vandalism.(129.234.4.10 20:22, 10 May 2006 (UTC))[reply]
Responded on IP's talkpage. --XyraelT 20:24, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The user above has a history of doctoring Albanian pages to push POV, including calling the pretender to the Albanian Throne "His Majesty" all over articles. To stop him, pages have had to be semi-protected. Re the edit above, on Wikipedia under the Naming Conventions, as elsewhere in biographies, deceased consorts revert to maiden name, for the simple reason that as their consort name lacks an ordinal (number) to disambigulate them from other similarly named consorts. Hence history refers to Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr, not Queen Catherine, Queen Catherine and Queen Catherine. The above user has however chosen to ignore the Manual of style prohibition on using styles and the naming convention rules, and turned articles on Albanian royalty into POV hagiographies. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 20:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page yesterday. --Bruce1ee 05:37, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No problem! It's one of the worst types of vandalism because it lingers, if you know what I mean. --XyraelT 10:40, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies for not putting edit notes. I did another edit today and left notes in the talk page. Mainly my edits concerned the bias in the Inuyasha talk portion, as well as cleaning up some repeated information.
That's not a problem. Keep up the work, and try registering an account! --XyraelT 14:24, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'll do so, though right now I mainly browse from work so I don't think I'd be able to log in regardless.
Now that that's been cleared, would it be alright to revert the page to my last edit?
No problem what so ever - would you like me to do it for you, or can you manage? --XyraelT 15:00, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'd actually prefer if you did it... It would look better on the page history if I wasn't the one reverting my reverted post. If that makes any sense. 151.151.73.165 15:05, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You seem to have changed IP, so I can't track the page name - post a link here please, and I'll be happy to sort it out for you. Thanks. --XyraelT 15:08, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
