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Demon with a Glass Hand

It's nice to be appreciated. Thanks. It still freaks me out a little when somebody corrects my edit a nanosecond after I save it. Second time that happened to me. Clarityfiend 04:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cold Turkey

Thanks for your additions to Cold Turkey (film). The film always amused me so when I saw that Wikiepdia had no article on it I grabbed the opportunity to create one. House of Scandal 06:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Film infoboxes

Great work on completing so many film infoboxes and photo requests. Could you please remember to remove the infobox/image requests from the talk page when you add them so we can get a better gauge on which ones are done? Thanks for your dedicated work, I appreciate it. Starting with our initial 800 infobox requests, we have already whittled it down to about 650. --Nehrams2020 05:32, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen you around in some articles I work on before and we do appreciate any help we can get at knocking these out. And from looking at the participants page at WP:Films, it looks like you've been working on these since September, a few months before a majority of us started. Again, thanks for leading the way. --Nehrams2020 06:16, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Image is used in the article Looker with a text link. I have added the {{not orphan}} tag to the image page. - Alan Smithee 02:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've decided there isn't room for two film posters in the article, so I have tagged it as orphan image again. - Alan Smithee 04:05, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Argentine film

Hi friend how are you? I see you created an Argentine film superb! Our encylopedia to Cinema of Argentina is just starting now and I'll aim at completing the full lists with all the details whilst removing th red links asap then move onto Austria, then belegium, then brazil etc. I would be immensely grateful if you could help out missing articles from Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/List of films without article/List of missing Argentine Films some time. Thanks a lot. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 17:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A few points

Hi, and great you are ever-present in film gnoming. Just saw your Looker alt. poster. It won't show in the image page because it's only an ":Image" link. Also fair use should not be high resolution (and 462x676 is Hi), or it may get deleted soon. Best is if you could resize it down to 200px width. I could do this for you in a way that doesn't reduce its quality. Also best is to display the 2nd poster in the article. Let me know. Another point is that most films you tag as {{Film}} are actually {{Film|class=stub}}, so you could go ahead and give class stub, unless of course they look like class start. Cheers. Hoverfish Talk 16:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's for any film member to assess or re-assess classes stub, start and B. Only when it comes to upgrading to GA and on a peer reviewer is needed. In my first months of film-gnoming I didn't trust myself with assessing, but soon I got the points. There are some tricky points in spite of the stub upgrading instructions. One is that a short or simple documentary may have exhausted all that can be said about it without becoming as big as a class start. So sometimes I give a class start to an article that is no bigger than a (full) stub. But then anyone who disagrees is free to change it. Hoverfish Talk 07:18, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The WikiGnome award For your small (but still useful!) wikignome edits without clamoring for attention, the WikiGnome award is hereby awarded. Squamate 14:48, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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