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Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations

There was a list for people who nominated FAC's and passed, I figured a list list this is already created. Unless I missed a few (which I might have, since I noticed many talk pages still has {{FLC}} instead of {{FL}}). These are being created since a new admin said that edit counts should not longer be used to determine ones' worth on here. Frankly, I agree. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 02:26, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Cricket

At Portal:Cricket you reverted my simplification of the categories section saying it was better for mirrors. Is it policy to make pages look good for mirrors? I've put a question on the help desk. Thanks, for the edit summary, it was very helpful. --Commander Keane 10:15, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

I've started a discussion at the portal talk. --Commander Keane 13:21, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

Please substantiate or withdraw allegation

On Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2005/Proposed modifications to rules you alleged that Condorcet voting systems are biased in favor of those who advocate them. Election fraud is a serious matter, and the claim that someone advocates voting-systems under false claims of fairness is a serious allegation.

Please provide (on that page; not here or in my talk page) any historical examples of elections where this has happened. You claimed that this "abounds everywhere", so surely there are many examples easily accessible to you. These examples might be in the "real world", or drawn from online groups which use Condorcet methods (I think Debian does, for one). Please provide whatever examples you had in mind. If, however, you do not have any such examples that you can provide, I fear that your claim will be regarded as FUD, and I encourage you to withdraw it. Thank you. --FOo 18:27, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

firstly, please note that WP is full of volunteers, orders are always unlikely to gain a good response. Look at where it's been used in real-life! You won't find one honest example. It's like a three card trick. Also, the only reason for having a voting system hardly anyone understands is so that it can be worked by those few who do understand it to their advantage, jguk 18:34, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks. As for the govs, lets see. That list is incomplete. The first governor Gerard Aungier (I think) is not mentioned on that site. As for you, if your in the 5th Ashes test ground, how do I look out for you? User:Nichalp/sg 19:42, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Pavilion... so I'd have to wait for someone like Flintoff (who incidently shares my birthday) to hit a six straight down the ground to guess who you are. I'll keep in mind someone your age (hidden in comments: ) . Its covered on ESPN here, and the news channels do give a daily update. Newspapers go beserk though, one page is simply not enough. User:Nichalp/sg 19:54, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:RFC reform

I've proposed a minor change to the RFC system and was informed you may have some experience with trying to fix it as well. perhaps you could take a quick look and see if I'm reinventing someone else's wheel. Wikipedia:RFC reform. FuelWagon 03:15, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rosicrucian article

Dear user Jguk, as I have seen a edition of yours at the article Rosicrucian, I come to request your support to this article that I have just purposed for nomination at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Rosicrucian. May you may give a look into it? And, if you consider it acceptable, then may you support it? Thank you! :) --GalaazV 02:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cricket portal template

What's wrong with the Portal template on the cricket page to direct people to the Cricket portal? Takes up less room than the bolded message, looks better, and is a common wikipedia feature. In case you have forgotten, you say "Please leave this here, it's much better than that silly jigsaw thing on the right hand side of other portal pages"--Commander Keane 17:13, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

I have to say, I agree with this one: it is much better to have standard templates for this sort of thing, even if is is a "silly jigsaw thing". -- ALoan (Talk) 18:17, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, the bold thing to do would be to get rid of the silly jigsaw thing... [[smoddy]] 18:27, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have gotten rid of it from the cricket-related pages, jguk 18:41, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think smoddy meant that if you have a problem with the jigsaw thing, see if you can improve the template.--Commander Keane 09:12, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, that was exactly what I meant. It doesn't make much sense as it is. But I am out of ideas to fix it. [[smoddy]] 10:20, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats!

Congrats on regaining the Ashes. I heard your voice on TV. (joking) Also wish you a happy 1 year anniv. on WP. User:Nichalp/sg 19:24, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

YAY! Go England! Hope you had some happy moments in all the rain! :D Sam Vimes 19:39, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well done! (he says while gritting teeth :) - I imagine Petersen will be knighted. I'm looking forward to getting some sleep. -- Ian ≡ talk 04:26, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Edward Tylecote

Hi Brookie here - I've added a couple of pictures to the article. :) The curate's egg 10:09, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Spanish-Moroccan_border_(Ceuta-Sebta).JPG

This image lacks source information, could you provide it? --Gmaxwell 11:37, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cricket Suggestions

Hi, I've left this message on the Project talk page to follow up on something about which we exchanged messages (this was a couple of months ago!). I've listed some ideas on how to make some of the articles that serve to explain cricket a bit clearer, and although I'm sure you check the talk page regularly, I thought I'd flag it up on your own page. I hope it's useful - let me know if otherwise and I'll just stick to updating the cricketer infoboxes! --High^(Hopes)(+) 13:37, 21 September 2005 (UTC) [reply]

Image:Surrey v Yorkshire 17 April 2005.JPG

Could you put some licensing information on this, please? I get the impression that images without such are likely to be deleted rather more aggressively in the future, and we don't want to lose this one. Loganberry (Talk) 00:33, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply about this; as per your comment I'll add the GFDL tag if I see any other non-marked pics by you. Loganberry (Talk) 11:23, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting of Cricket Portal/Wikiproject Cricket

Jon, just a brief message - I recently set up Portal:Politics and Wikipedia:Wikiproject Politics, and was wondering if you objected to my use of some of the formatting on the corresponding cricket pages. While I may well set up everything anew in the future and the colours would be different, I would be very grateful if I can use some of the 'code' from the cricket pages to help me get things started - I haven't the foggiest on how to use the code that generates tables and borders etc. Plus, imitation is the greatest form... But let me know if you'd rather I didn't borrow. Thanks, --HighHopes ^{(T)⋅(+)⋅(C)⋅(E)} 14:51, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article A. R. R. A. P. W. R. R. K. B. Amunugama, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

about fonts

Can you please tell me if you can read "Μέγας Αλέξανδρος" or Μέγας Αλέξανδρος? (the "first" and Template:Polytonic looks better in my browser, but I guess that's another story) +MATIA ☎ 11:28, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your answer! Should we replace the text that has ε with one of those texts (perhaps one that uses a template)? +MATIA ☎ 12:04, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]