User talk:Dreadlady

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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

Welcome, Dreadlady!

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Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can most easily reach me by posting on my talk page.

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Best of luck, and have fun! – ClockworkSoul 16:46, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You're welcome

It's always my pleasure to welcome somebody new into English Wikipedia. Yes, it's vast, but there are a relatively small number of contributers. You'll also find that, if you tend to edit a few favorite subjects, that you'll run into the same editors very often. Once again, welcome! – ClockworkSoul 23:13, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Landeshauptmänner on the noticeboard

Hi Dreadlady,

another good place to talk about naming conventions etc. for Austrian political offices could be the German-speaking noticeboard or its talk page. We don't have enough Austrians participating there yet, and I would like to invite you to have a look. One of our open tasks is to make sure the English Wikipedia has articles about every Austrian Landeshauptmann (as far as I can tell, three of them are still missing). Hope to see you at the noticeboard, Kusma (討論) 23:51, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] italics

Please stop putting song names in italics. Album titles go in italics, song names go in speech marks. If you do not stop I shall be forced to present you with a trick pie. Upon cutting the pie, birds and wasps will fly out, hitting you in the face and neck and eye and you will be very confused. It is a trick pie. Fairly warned be you, sez I. --Crestville 17:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I know what you mean. I prefer them in italics too, but for sum reason, it's convention that they go in speach marks. You could try & change it & I'd support you but I'm not sure how you'd go about doing that and I'm sure enough arseholes would oppose. I don't really have the facilities for "trick pies" right now (I got the idea from The Mighty Boosh which I saw live last night and which was amazing, sexy and fucky as fuck) but may I interest you in a joke cake? Or a prank muffin? Or a rohipnoled swan?--Crestville 17:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Lol, you are rediculusly true to your word and for this I love you.--Crestville 17:24, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Libertines

It's hardly *impossible* for people to see the changes. I improve as I go along. I don't deliberately make small edits, but am just trying to improve the article . Trebor 19:07, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Change it back if you think it's overdone. I'm still fairly new to this Trebor 19:10, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alright?

Alright?--Crestville 13:57, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Welcome!

Welcome!

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! plange 19:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiCookie

for your behind-the-scenes tagging of articles with the WPBiography project banner and assessing, thanks! plange 05:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Biography Newsletter September 2006

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[edit] Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies

Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of unassessed articles tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 20:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)