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Hi, Zziccardi. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place ((helpme))
on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. I took care of the problem you saw at Sanford H. Calhoun High School. But wikipedia really is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, so if you find problems or articles that need to be changed, feel free to make the changes yourself. DMacks (talk) 20:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
It's not customary, it's a style guide issue. Jimthing (talk) 02:39, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Looks like this is just devolving into an edit war vs one (maybe two) IP editors. I'm not going to edit the page directly again today to make sure I don't violate 3RR but obviously if this continues, we'll have to find an admin to help restore the peace. WWB (talk) 18:19, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Certainly. Cheers! zziccardi (talk) 15:06, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello, again, and thanks for giving me a heads-up. I took a look at the section, and by all means, you made nice progress. I tweaked a few minor things in an otherwise lovely paragraph. Let's hope further nonconstructive predicaments won't arise. Sincerely, —zziccardi (talk) 21:31, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
I know this is a self link. I have marked the redirect page with "((Redirect with possibilities))
- in the hope that the link would encourage people to create an article there. I suppose I should create the article myself...
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:13, 13 September 2014 (UTC).
Your description of the character Master Chief is wrong, according to all official literature of the fictional Universe of Halo. I've corrected it several times and according to edit history you revert the corrections... Please read the books to get a better idea of the nature of the character if you insist in being the one that last edit the page. Thank you
Halo guardian — Preceding unsigned comment added by Halo guardian (talk • contribs) 14:57, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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Per WP:DATERET, dates should be unified to the prevailing standard in the article - the date format is separate for in-prose dates, and reference dates. Using scripts to make changes like this [1] where you are normalizing away from the clear prevailing standard (in this case the use of YYYY-MM-DD for reference formats) is generally not acceptable, though discussion by consensus to make that change is a reasonable step. I would check some of your other edits too from looking at past used of the script. --MASEM (t) 21:54, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Apologies for the intervention (and I'm not familiar with any processes at present), I actually found the article both well written and fascinating. I know Wiki articles are not for original research and I am certainly not interested in conspiracy games, but I did come away from this article with more questions than answers regarding the role of Pierre Soulé. Just an observation - please feel free to revert my edit. User: Pupsikon Pupsikon 09:15, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Zziccardi. After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:
If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! —Tom Morris (talk) 21:47, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
How did you get User:Zhaofeng Li/Reflinks to work? I cannot enter the article name. Did you have to add something to your scripts? Thanks. Student7 (talk) 22:54, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
importScript('User:Zhaofeng Li/Reflinks.js'); // [[User:Zhaofeng Li/Reflinks]]
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Thank you, Zach, for tireless gnomish work on quality articles, such as restoring content, adding an infobox, formatting references, fixing punctuation for clarity, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:32, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
It seems that you have been editing Microsoft related articles, so why don't you consider joining WikiProject Microsoft, not to be confused with WikiProject Microsoft Windows. WikiProject Microsoft is a group of editors who are willing to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Microsoft, its technologies, Web based sites and applications, its important people, and share interests regarding Microsoft. This WikiProject is in the process of being Revived and is welcoming any and all editors who are willing to help out with the process. Add your name to the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Microsoft/Participants and/or add the userbox ((Template:User WikiProject Microsoft)). Thanks! STJMLCC (talk) 18:27, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the fixes to Ford Island. I'm surprised none of that was caught in several copy edits and 3 reviews of the article. Your have a good eye.--v/r - TP 03:11, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Zziccardi! Piggybacking on to TParis's post above, I noticed your edits while Endometrial cancer was at TFA, and hoped to entice you over to WP:FAC as a reviewer. FAC is always short on reviewers, and your demonstrated competence would be a welcome asset! Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-07/Dispatches might help should you decide to join in. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:34, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors Late December 2014 Newsletter
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Guild of Copy Editors 2014 Annual Report
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
and one of the best sites is this, CODE.ORG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code.org
what cracks me up is a friend of mine added this whole section
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this is the text
Code.org designed a class on how to learn the code involved in the video game Flappy Bird.[23] The lesson touches on all the steps in coding the game, using a drag-and-drop tutorial method.[24] At the end of the class, a user will have re-created the Flappy Bird game.[25] The lesson is designed to take approximately ten minutes.
and it got a silly tag
and they flag it and dont make the changes!
maybe you can take a look at it !
have a great day !
David Adam Kess (talk) 5th of January 2015 (UTC)
great job on adding the logo
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Thank you very much, and I hope you have a great day as well! —zziccardi (talk) 23:09, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
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This user Uaat , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Uaat , Vandalism a lot of article for a long time , can you stop this guy ? thank you ViPremierce (talk) 13:15, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:42, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. You seemed to disagree with my categorizing Frozen franchise article into the category for Disney franchises. You did have a point by saying that the article has already been present in a sub-category of the aforementioned one. However, I think that the article should be added to both the category of Disney franchises in general (since it itself is a franchise) and the category of the film (since the franchise is resulted from the film's success). If you notice in the Disney franchise category, other franchise articles are categorized in the same way. For now I have restored my revision in consistent with those. If you have any counterarguments, please let me know on my talk page. Thank you and have a nice day. —ALittleQuenhi (talk to me) 05:47, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
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