User talk:Smitty Smith

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

There has been some very intense abuse originating from this IP range, recently -- you had nothing to do with that, but unfortunately the IP addresses in here are very dynamic, so the only options are "block nothing" and "block everything." I've worked out a trial soft-blocking, provided that I'll be taking care of the damage that this unblock will probably cause. There's no perfect solution, here, but I didn't feel that sitting by and watching so many users blocked for things they had no part in would be appropriate. You should be able to edit, at this moment, but please do be wary of such blocks in the future -- I can't make any absolute promises, except that I'll do my best.

Thank you for your time and patience.

Best regards.

Request handled by: Luna Santin 10:03, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've contacted the blocking administrator for comment; in the meantime, please bear with us, and thanks for your patience. Luna Santin 23:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

People on stamps of Brazil

Hello, Had a look at your links to Portuguese articles in this article. no ban on this technique, but Ordinary interlanguage links in are only suitable for linking an existing English Wikipedia page to a corresponding page in another language Wikipedia. It is possible to make a link from a topic that does not have its own page in the English Wikipedia, to another language version of Wikipedia where it does have a page, by the method explained in the next section. However, if the subject is a good target for a future article here, then in most cases that topic should be red-linked, so that all readers are informed that the page does not exist, thus inviting its creation. (my bold). I would suggest that what I have done is a reasonable compromise as it doesnt preclude the Portuguese articles and retains the redlinks in English. Best solution would be to translate the articles into English but that is not for me, maybe it is for you. The articles on people on stamps as I see them are a useful list of notable people within their country and should all have articles in due course Regards (Crusoe8181 (talk) 09:16, 13 October 2010 (UTC)).[reply]

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