User talk:Neatnate

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Hi neatnate. Your edits as 216.196.166.173 have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 09:29, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

The Potter focus

Well, viewing your contribution history sure took me down a peg or two; over 500 HP-related edits means face fault time by my standards (Yes, I created that article just for this purpose).

I do realize that you're more on the copyediting side instead of the "write extremely detailed article, lose it in a crash, get frustrated and call it a week" front that I represent. Nevertheless, your contributions look like a show of great dedication and perserverance from where I'm standing. Would you consider yourself eglible to receive a Working Man's Barnstar, if I was to award one to you? A WikiThanks doesn't seem to cut it.

I apologize for the possible bad syntax and spelling in this message. I assure you that I planned the intent much before getting into this state. -- Kizor 02:23, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Harry Potter WikiProject

As you make huge numbers of Harry Potter-related edits, there is a Harry Potter WikiProject you may be interested in.

Great Work

You've been doing some great work, especially your Harry Potter list. Keep up the good work!--Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 9 July 2005 05:45 (UTC)

Added

I've added Canonical spells in the world of Harry Potter to your magic in hp section of your hp list--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 16:17, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Harry Potter

Hello, Neatnate. Over at WikiProject Harry Potter we're trying to compile a list of active participants. Your name, along with all other project participants, has been placed on the inactive list. If you'd like to get involved again, please place your name back on the active list, and take a look at the project talk page for the latest happenings.

RHB(AWB) 23:16, 30 December 2006 (UTC), on behalf of WPHarry Potter[reply]

Image:Buckbeak.jpg

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Image:Knight Bus.jpg

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Image:Stan Shunpike.jpg

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Non-free use disputed for Image:Stan Shunpike.jpg

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No content in Category:Inquisitorial Squad

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About dashes

Actually, hyphenated phrases (chronic pain–reduction techniques) and date ranges take en dashes, not em dashes.—Chowbok ☠ 06:54, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free rationale for File:Knight Bus.jpg

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Harry Potter location

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RfC on Glass is a liquid misconception

(Note: I'm listing this on the talk pages of all editors active at Talk:List of common misconceptions for the last two weeks).

I started an RfC on the "glass is a liquid" issue that caused the edit war leading to protection status. Your comments would be appreciated, so that we can build a consensus and avoid further edit warring. siafu (talk) 20:52, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox fictional school

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Nomination of Magical creatures in Harry Potter for deletion

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox fictional organisation/old

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