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RHB 00:10, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Facebox

Good on ya Chris for creating the Facebox page. Culnacreann 00:01, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for Creation

Hello, Chris. Got your message on my talk page. Regarding the proposed article “Zonguldakspor” on the AFC page, which you declined for reliable sources: You may have noticed that one of the sources provided was the same article in the Turkish Wikipedia. I was going to leave a note that the article would be posted in the English Wikipedia if they could provide a translation to English. I am not going to revise your comment, but you might consider it. •DanMS 17:41, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. We might be very distantly related. My mother was a Fowler •DanMS 17:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Chris, I don't know who"tuneintokyo" is but he wrote an amazingly detailed article about me that you declined because some of it wasn't sourced. Most of the info was taken from my old web site as well as myspace.com and the boston phoenix newspaper. My friend showed me the article, it's all true. I'm amazed someone went that far to research it and submit it to wikipedia. You did decline it but it's all right. dtension@gmail.com if you want to talk about it. thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.109.133.47 (talk) 19:10, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AFC (again)

Hello again, Chris. You might want take another look at the AFC article “Portsmouth Ladies FC” that you declined. There was a valid link in there BBC but it was hidden in a comment so you might not have noticed it. I’m not sure how notable it is, but it was a valid link. As it turns out, you and I were attempting to edit the same article at the same time but you beat me to it. •DanMS 22:28, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, more football clubs! I did miss that link, thanks for pointing it out. I have some time right now so I think I will make them a page, although I only have enough info for a stub. Chrisfow 22:50, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your attention to GA candidate California Gold Rush

Thanks for your attention to the GA candidate California Gold Rush. I appreciate that the GA review process is time-consuming and necessary. Below for your interest is several lines from the Talk page for this article.

"Argonauts" is spelt with both a capital A and a lower case a - yes, I am a pedant!

These cannot stop GA, though, and nor should they. Well done again! Chrisfow 19:43, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your thoughtful attention, and kind words. Careful reading is always appreciated - "Argonauts" is a proper noun in this context, and has now been capitalized throughout. Thank you very much again!NorCalHistory 06:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Rhodes blood libel

I really appreciate the time and effort you have into reviewing Rhodes blood libel. I believe that the issues with referencing that you have raised in your review are a result of some sort of misunderstanding. I have responded on the talk page regarding the two sentences that you thought were unsourced. If you have any further concerns, feel free to raise them, and I'll be happy to provide or explanations or make corrections. Beit Or 18:56, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Citations

You recenetly added the "citation needed" links on an article (specifically - 32 fouettés en tournant.

I was wondering how one can site a source if the information was obtained from a book and not a web page.

Mrlopez2681 03:30, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've answered on your talk page Mrlopez. Chrisfow 15:50, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GA stats

Last month you updated the stats and you found where to find the total number of Wikipedia articles. Where did you find that number? I am updating the stats right now for December. --RelHistBuff 11:37, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on your talk page! Chrisfow 18:05, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830 GA comments

Just to let you know that I replied to your GA comments. Tompw 11:40, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! California Gold Rush

Well, thank you to you . . . your GA assessment was an important step on this very interesting path. Thanks for the congrats and thanks for your earlier work! NorCalHistory 01:04, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hazel Miner

I think I've fixed the things you mentioned. Anything else that needs to be done? --Bookworm857158367 18:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hazel Miner

Thanks. It's fun to see my "pet project" reach GA status. I've put a lot of effort into it this week. --Bookworm857158367 18:47, 17 February 2007 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hazel_Miner"

Simele massacre

Hi their. I want to first thank you for taking the time and giving a throughtly review of the Simele massacre article. Regards to this; The list of 54 villages adds nothing to the article. Either leave in two or three of the biggest, or else cut them out entirely and leave only the statement In the end, around 63 Assyrian villages were targeted in the Simele area - referenced, of course. - I have put the list in table. What do you think of this specific issue now? Does it look better? The listed villages are crutial because today their is an ongoing war between the Kurds and Assyrians for claiming these village's lands. Chaldean 15:52, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No...

Trust me, I know what you mean when you I read what you said here. Yesterday, I was working for 3 hours on an article, expanding and adding citations, and I unconsciously closed that page's tab, without saving! I was devastated! I even considered leaving this place or at least taking a wiki-break. :D If you're wondering what the heck do I want, the answer is nothing, just making small talk. Good job on those GA reviews by the way. Cheers! - Anas ^Talk? 21:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed from a historian

Hi! I have been looking for a history wikipedian and I have found your username. I was wondering if you could, and would (if it is not too much trouble) help me with a merge that I have proposed. The articles in question are: Neapolitan War and Austro-Neapolitan War. They both refer to the same conflict that took place in 1815. I have put foward this topic in the following discussion. I am undecided in the re-naming of the article. I think that Austro-Neapolitan War would be the best. I would like to know your opinion and if you could guide me in this merge. I hope not to bother you and if you are very busy or have no idea, thanks anyway... Francisco Valverde 21:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's true, there doesn't seem to be a lot of information on this conflict (should it be called a "war"?), although one of the battles of this war, the Battle of Tolentino according to its corresponding article is considered the first battle of Italian Unification. See the reference to the proclamation of Rimini (in Italian) [1]. I have only found one source in the web about this war [2]. I have looked through the Italian wikipedia, but there is even less information. Francisco Valverde 12:21, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have also found a page in English of the association that re-enacts the Battle of Tolentino.[3] --Francisco Valverde 12:27, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Late reply

Hello Chris, just wanted to let you know I've replied to your note on my talk page. (Just letting you know here because I haven't logged in for a few weeks) - thanks! delete this at will! Jessicapierce 17:43, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GAC backlog elimination drive

This form message is being sent to you either due to your membership with WikiProject Good Articles and/or your inclusion on the Wikipedia:Good article candidates/List of reviewers. A new drive has been started requesting that all members review at least one article (or more, if you wish!) within the next two weeks at GAC to help in removing the large backlog. This message is being sent to all members, and even members who have been recently reviewing articles. There are almost 130 members in this project and about 180 articles that currently need to be reviewed. If each member helps to review just one or two articles, the majority of the backlog will be cleared. Since the potential amount of reviewers may significantly increase, please make sure to add :{{GAReview}} underneath the article you are reviewing to ensure that only one person is reviewing each article. Additionally, the GA criteria may have been modified since your last review, so look over the criteria again to help you to determine if a candidate is GA-worthy. If you have any questions about this drive or the review process, leave a message on the GAC talk page. --Nehrams2020 00:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Manzanar

Hi -- I saw you'd added a note that IvoShandor is reviewing Manzanar. There's been no activity on that review for a while, as far as I can see, so I removed the note on the GAC page to give someone else a chance to review it instead. (I did leave a note for IvoShandor on his talk page too; he didn't reply, but to be fair he was going through a very stressful RfA at the time.) So I was wondering if you knew something I didn't -- do you know if he is planning to continue the review? If not, I suggest we remove the note so someone else takes it -- it's not really fair to the article editors to leave it under review without working on it for more than a week or so. Thanks -- Mike Christie (talk) 14:51, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see the subpage; don't remember if I spotted it before; it looks like there's been no activity on IvoShandor's part for nearly three weeks. I think the best thing is to replace the GAReview note on GAC with a note explaining the existing review is not complete and it needs another reviewer; I'll go ahead and do that. Thanks! Mike Christie (talk) 15:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

July 2007 GAC backlog elimination drive

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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for November 2007

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Paris article

Thanks for your contributions to the Paris article - please continue, as it's been a while since it's seen any new activity. Cheers. THEPROMENADER 06:48, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 28 November, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Etaples Military Cemetery, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for December 2007

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DYK

On 10 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Simone Ortega, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 17:06, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 11 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article José Ortega Spottorno, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--EncycloPetey (talk) 01:16, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome: WP:PIRACY

Hey I saw you joined and just thought I would welcome you! As you will soon find out it's a pretty much inactive except for a few members.... Anyway. I saw what you posted about your paper and it sounds great! The only problem is you can't cite your own original research......sooooooooo......I or someone else might have to get a copy of your work to be able to cite it. Anyway, welcome! Also if you are interested in helping out at Portal:Piracy that'd be great (I'm the only contributor to it). And I just realized I forgot to create the December articles. So I gotta go do that now. If you have any questions or anything about the Wikiproject or Portal, feel free to ask me or on the WP's talk page. Thanks! Deflagro ^C/_T 04:46, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good Articles May Newsletter

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WikiProject Good articles newsletter

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Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London

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Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter

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52nd Foot

Thanks for your considered review of 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot: it is always good to have fresh eyes look over an article, and you have raised some good points (not the least that my proof reading was not as good as it should have been: if I've worked on something for a while, I have a tendency to read what I expect to see, not what is there!) I will work on those things over the next day or two. Thanks also for your generosity in spending time copyediting and making fixes! Much appreciated.

I have taken the liberty of moving the review to a subpage, and transcluding it on the talk page, as is standard practice at GA now. This automatically changes the talk page GAN template to "on review" as well.

Again, thanks for your time reviewing the article. Gwinva (talk) 21:20, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe I have addressed your concerns, as noted on the review page. Let me know if you have any more thoughts. Many thanks, Gwinva (talk) 01:23, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Piracy participation update

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Thank you,
Adolphus79 (talk) 16:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Sweeps invitation

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104th Infantry Division (United States)

As a veteran GA Nominee reviwer, I must honestly say that this review was very poorly done. Automatically failing an article is never the proper decision to make, unless it clearly meets a Quick Fail Criteria. Please consult the Good Article Criteria more closely before conducting further reviews, as several of your reasons for failing the article are not even related to those criteria. I am reverting the review and posting it again for another reviewer. In the event that you wish to further assist in its review, you are welcome to do so. —Ed!^(talk) 23:59, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Responded to your second round of comments with all the improvements that I can think of. Will need further direction to finish the review. —Ed!^(talk) 00:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive

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London Wikimedia Fundraiser

Good evening! This is a friendly message from Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry, inviting you to the London Wikimedia Fundraising party on 19th December 2010, in approximately one week. This party is being held at an artistic London venue with room for approximately 300 people, and is being funded by Ed Saperia, a non-Wikipedian who has a reputation for holding exclusive events all over London. This year, he wants to help Wikipedia, and is subsidising a charity event for us. We're keen to get as many Wikimedians coming as possible, and we already have approximately 200 guests, including members of the press, and some mystery guests! More details can be found at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/London - expect an Eigenharp, a mulled wine hot tub, a free hog roast, a haybale amphitheatre and more. If you're interested in coming - and we'd love to have you - please go to the ten.wikipedia page and follow the link to the Facebook event. Signing up on Facebook will add you to the party guestlist. Entry fee is a heavily subsidised £5 and entry is restricted to over 18s. It promises to be a 10th birthday party to remember! If you have any questions, please email me at chasemewiki at gmail.com.

Hope we'll see you there, (and apologies for the talk page spam) - Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 18:10, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Contribution Team cordially invites you to Imperial College London

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Austin Friars DYK

Hello! Your submission of Austin Friars, London at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Sionk (talk) 22:41, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Questions still remain regarding this DYK. I hope you'll be back soon to editing Wikipedia; absent a response from you on the nomination page in the next several days, the nomination will likely have to close as unsuccessful. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:41, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Chrisfow, I've taken on this nomination in your absence and expanded the article. Prioryman (talk) 23:38, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Austin Friars, London

On 5 November 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Austin Friars, London, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Austin Friars was the only friary in London to have its own prison, but became the focus of a scandal when an imprisoned friar died there in 1535? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Austin Friars, London. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:03, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of NeoGen: Kerk vir 'n Nuwe Generasie for deletion

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Women in Red World Contest

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