User talk:HowardB

Welcome!

Hello, HowardB, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Parrina, La Parrina[edit]

Both articles make for quite an improvement, yes! (Apologies for having created a page for you, I couldn't get to your talk page without doing that; although I should in fact have been able to, a bit puzzled about that.) Best, Bill 18:09, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Replying[edit]

Howard, I don't know what the etiquette is, and a lot of people do various things; for my part, I often reply to personal items on your user's page (although it dismembers the thread) because that automatically flags you with "You have new messages": nothing else will. When some kind of discussion looks to be general, of course, I reply on the Talk page for the particular article.

(Asfer time-consuming, Wikipedia certainly is; I went thru a couple of months of a lot of Wikipedia, but finally pulled the plug, just ambling over from time to time, because it's generally more useful to improve my own site, a large resource in its own right.)

Best, Bill 09:54, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Strikethrough[edit]

I noticed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Paniq that you said you don't know how to do ~~strikethrough~~. Its very simple, all you have to do is surround the text you want to strike through with <s> and </s>, for example:

I vote to <s>delete</s&gt keep.

produces:

I vote to delete keep.

Thryduulf 17:07, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

VFD on Bakla[edit]

Hi, why did you change the timestamp on your vfd vote? [1] Mgm|^(talk) 09:08, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

Prataprao Gujar VfD vote[edit]

Hi Howard,

I noticed your comment at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Prataprao Gujar, and how it might be a copyvio from [2]. Watch out for mirrors when checking this kind of thing! Notice the tiny "This article uses material from Wikipedia" at the bottom.

Cheers, dbenbenn | talk 01:31, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, David. I am learning this as I go along, and just a few days ago realised exactly what you mention. But I much appreciate your time in pointing it out. HowardB 03:31, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Image:Yang Xuefei.jpg[edit]

Thanks for uploading Image:Yang Xuefei.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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Sambisari[edit]

Thanks for correcting the date - I used to live about 200 metres south on the way down to sorogenen for almost a year some time back - cheers Satu Suro 07:56, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:Italian DOC[edit]

I have nominated Category:Italian DOC (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to a different name. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Occuli (talk) 01:31, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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