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I knew that; I was just testing you. :-) (Kidding aside: thanks.)  Frank  |  talk  21:17, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

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I had previously declined the CSD G1 User:Inka 888 had put down on the page as the edits were not "patent nonsense". Would it be possible to reverse the decision, as I believe the user (Inka 888) is misusing TWINKLE and I would need this as evidence to take to ANI. CSD'ing a image talk page of "don't delete this" messages seems like a misuse to me. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 22:54, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

It was a previously blocked user, who had previously vandalized the same page with the same "don't delete this" type of message. It was deleted then. I think the deletion and salting of the title was good in this case, though as I've said on Inka's talk page I wouldn't take this situation as precedent for other similar situations. —Soap— 23:13, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

You are correct in that it did not meet G1. You will also notice I didn't delete it under G1. You can't possibly say that a page that consisted entirely of "don't delete this page" is in any way constructive to the encyclopedia. G3, G5, I'm sure there are more reasons to delete the page. Fact of the matter is that it should not be there. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 01:17, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

List of extreme weather records in Pakistan

Hello ! my article List of extreme weather records in Pakistan, is currently under going peer review, please assists me to improve the articles standard, by doing general copy editing which might be ignored by me. Regards.

Nabil rais2008 (talk) 16:23, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for helping me out with that filter. I appreciate it. -- 77.7.135.165 (talk) 12:47, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Zealking is back

Using names with "Jeff" and "cola" in them. Master account is user:Mayor_F_Jeff. Gogo Dodo seems to be making quick work of them however. —Soap— 19:27, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Butterfly (Mariah Carey album)

Hi Shirik. I found you through the volunteer page, and have come to ask for your assistance. So I have recently significantly improved/expanded this article, but found that it also has been working against me. I found after working so much on the same subject, I don't realize sometimes how weirdly something is written etc. I would like to nominate the page for FA, so it needs to be perfect. I think I've done a good job, and I'd say the only issue is some MOS issues, and writing and sentencing (it's not so bad dw :)) So please, can you proof-read it from a "third party" point of view, and help refine its writing? Thanks so much Shirik, and I hope you can help in the matter. Thanks!? :D--PeterGriffin • Talk2Me 23:35, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Shirik, can you please give me an answer? :) thank youu.--PeterGriffin • Talk2Me 22:26, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

RD2

Hi Shirik - seems like there are other strange things happening with the servers these days, but I though I would just mention this in case you have any idea what happened. On this users page you rightly reverted and RD2'd the edit summary and text, and then protected the page - but somehow the text was still there later for another editor to delete again. Take a look at this RD2'd diff. There are other problems on this users page too (related to WikEd and his pagenotice) but I am not sure if they are related. In any case, just thought I'd mention it in case you have any idea what happened.  7  06:49, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi 7. It looks like I was just a moron and forgot to revert when I did the protection. So... I protected a vandalized page. The revert was cleanup. Sorry about that. -Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 04:12, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Shirik. You have new messages at Jeff G.'s talk page.
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When you notified me of the ANI discussion

Hi Shirik! When you notified me of the ANI discussion regarding DJSasso, did you think twice before you did that? By notifying me of the discussion, you somehow triggered me to join the discussion, which did not turn out to make anything better (at least my posts there). I don't know, maybe you should've told me to be careful when writing in that discussion, but you can't always know. HeyMid (contributions) 21:21, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure if you're asking me something here or what, but when I notified you I specifically noted that you didn't do anything wrong. Any decision to enter the discussion was your own perogative. That's not to say I agree with the block or any such actions (I take no opinion on this), but my comment to you was merely to let you know of the thread's existence, as the thread was about something with which you had an impact. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 22:23, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Oversight request

I need you to oversight this edit to the article Carrie Underwood. It includes a phone number, which, as I understand it, counts as personal information. The Utahraptor^{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 00:09, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Utahraptor, I'm not an oversighter but I've revision deleted the offending edit. In the future, though, you should never post something like that publicly; it will only draw attention. Instead, email a member of the oversight team to take care of it. Thanks for pointing it out, though. Regards, Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 01:05, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

I am going to shove a pineapple up your ass.

You'll fucking need major surgery to pull that shit out!