Welcome to my talk page! Please be sure to make all posts civil and constructive, as I'll revert anything I deem to be vandalism. Also, let us try to keep two-way conversations readable. If you post to my talk page, I will just reply here. If I posted recently to another talk page, including your talk page, then that means I have it on my watchlist and will just read responses there. I may refactor discussions to your talk page for the same reason. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! My Talk Archives: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Thank you. P.S. Wait awhile, continue to welcome new users, and you, too, may get the mop! Bearian (talk) 22:15, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome and thank you for the kind and constructive advice! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:11, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas, o Great Pumpkin. And thank you for the kind comments.

Vive l'Inclusionnisme! Rhinoracer (talk) 10:01, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Rhinoracer, thank you for the kind and thoughtful note! Joyeux Noël and Vive l'Inclusionnisme, indeed!  :) Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 17:49, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Feliz Navidad! Kyaa the Catlord (talk) 23:48, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!  :) Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 01:53, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About this:

I posted on no art wiki page. So what r u talking about? 70.108.56.92 (talk) 10:28, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That is just a welcome message. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 18:35, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I would like to wish you and yours the best of the season and a happy new year as well. And, if you're referring to O Holy Night, you're not alone in being very fond of that carol. John Carter (talk) 21:52, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Merry Christmas and I wish you all the best. Just a side note that Armenians celebrate Christmas on January 6th. VartanM (talk) 21:55, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are both welcome and yes, "O Holy Night" is my favorite song. Also, thank you for the interesting fact about Armenia's Christmas! I did not know that! Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:57, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The otters and I wish you a merry Fishmas Christmas too! Ten Pound Hammer and his otters wish you a Merry Fishmas! • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 22:23, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your nice message is cute and creative!  :) Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 01:53, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the friendly message. You have a very merry Christmas, too. WODUP 02:01, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome!  :) Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:05, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I don't have email enabled can it be done just on my talk or somewhere and deleted or what's up? Benjiboi 02:01, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was something to say privately. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:04, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. I'll see if I can set something up so I can enable email. I might not be able to reply except here, or do we need to talk back and forth? Benjiboi 02:42, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was nothing negative in regards to you; just a clarification of my side of something. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:44, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll see if I can link up an email account but is it OK if it's just one email or do we need to talk something back and forth or can I reply here even if the email is offline?

One email would be fine and I would rather keep it off-Wiki (you will understand why when you get the message). Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 03:00, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I have set one up and will remove it after receipt, etc etc. You can send me an email now and I will reply here that i have it. Benjiboi 03:10, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, message sent.  :) Please only reply by email. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 03:34, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indent reset. Cheers, message heard and I'll reply here only in generalized terms and speaking to my experience and if anything is useful to your end then learn from my tales of woe! I think documenting the problem is the best way to go. If you haven't asked for help from admins yet it would be good to. Sadly cases like this tend to drag on a bit before being resolved. And really, our goal (just like in school) is to reform those whose behavior is less than ideal into someone who we can get along with even if we don't agree with them. In my short time here I'm stunned how many sock's I've dealt with. The best defense, for me at least, has been to remain stubbornly cheerful and walk away whenever my stress level was getting too high. Also the best defense for AfD is generally good references, even the most stubborn deletionists or vandals have a hard time deleting sourced content. Good content tends to trump most arguments. As for the rescue squad and tags my suggestion would be to keep it all in perspective. If someone removes a tag altogether maybe report that to the Rescue talk page. Some fine articles have been deleted and yes that stinks but they were built once and can be rebuilt. None of them existed at one point and now there are over two million I believe. Assuming the Rescue template survives and is allowed onto mainpage unfettered I hope the rescue squad will be revived a bit and then the volume of articles "saved" can increase a bit. Until then I would focus on ones you really think will be a good match (do we have enough time on the AfD? Do we have 20 or less currently tagged articles? Do we have an active core of users in the project to do anything?) In addition you may want to beef up and expand your reasoning for justifying a keep or delete; more thoughtful comments help peopple slow down and take your words as serious discussion.

I get a little frustrated at the process as I feel AfD is regularly abused so would like some prior steps before an article can be AfD'd but that is a way off, until then fine articles will be deleted and we have to pick and choose which ones we can rescue. When the same user (you or anyone else) regularly states the same thing on AfD I think the admins and other editors kind of tune that out. Right or wrong I think that's what happens.

A possible help could be the Rescue project talk page; perhaps post an article there, "does anyone think this article is worth a rescue tag? If so please add our tag." In any case the work we do is quite thankless at times so let me state outright i very much appreciate all the work you do! And feel free to delete any or all of this as needed! Benjiboi 05:37, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the thoughtful and constructive reply. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 05:40, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy to help as time and energy allow, please feel free to message me anytime as quite a few folks watch my talk as I've had a few devoted "fans" of my work leave interesting comments. Benjiboi 06:24, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good! Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 06:26, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas, A Nobody! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas! Best regards from myself! -- S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s (Merry Christmas!) Post this merry message on any other user talk page you can find.

Merci!  :) Sincerement, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:34, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message on my talk page, and a merry christmas to you too! :) Wizardman 04:54, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome!  :) Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 04:55, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Christmas to you, too. AndyJones (talk) 07:44, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Multi-listen item

Nice! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 15:42, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• "I intended originally to use my main account primarily for edits to French and pumpkin related articles, but my interests have since expanded greatly." - HAHAHAHA. Hilarious. Merry christmas! Fresheneesz (talk) 09:29, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • Indeed! Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 15:42, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributions to History of clothing and textiles went a long way toward raising it from a stub-class to a start-class article. I'm starting up a newsletter for Wikipedia:WikiProject Textile Arts and the article is mentioned there (although your username isn't, and I'll gladly add it if you like). Here's the draft version. Cheers and happy holidays! Durova^Charge! 05:16, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome and yes, please do add my name!  :) Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 05:17, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Might I lure you into joining the project? We could use some extra hands. :) Durova^Charge! 05:20, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure I would be happy to. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 05:21, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much. Your research talents would be a boon to the project. Best regards, Durova^Charge! 05:25, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. I have added myself to the list of participants. Regards, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 05:26, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the warm welcome you extended to me on Dec 15. You gave me a few resources, which I read, then I discovered your user page has many, many more! I'll come back and mine for gold from time to time.

I do have a question.... If someone like you offers help or an invitation on my user talk page, is it best to respond on my page, or to go to their page? If the latter, how will they know I've responded?

Clippership (talk) 17:45, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome and I hope you had a nice Christmas! I am also happy that my user page has proven helpful for someone. Anyway, to answer your question, that depends entirely on specific editors. I prefer to continue dialogues on one talk page, rather than going back and forth. Remember, you can add talk pages to your watchlist to see if anyone posted anything new in any given discussions. Again, though, others prefer to to post replies directly on someone else's page to be sure that his or her fellow editor did in fact receive the message. Also, some editors have enabled email, should you ever have a pressing message that you absolutely want to be sure the intended individual read. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, there you go Le Grand, I added the two userboxes on the bottom of your list of userboxes. (care to sign my GuestBook, in my signature)--TrUcO9311 ^TaLk / _SiGn 21:06, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Sure, I would be happy to. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I've been raising this up from a three paragraph stub and it's looking pretty good so far. Would you like to help bring it up to GA? Cheers and best wishes, Durova^Charge! 21:09, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'll check it out. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:18, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! You're a trooper. :) Durova^Charge! 21:23, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. It does look pretty good already. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:30, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, My good Fellow, listen and I shalt telleth Ye a Tale of a Wiki that well comes All Manner of Articles relating to Fiction. What is This wonderful Place of Fantasy, You ask? It is the Annex, Haven to All fiction-related Refugee Articles from Wikipedia.

Before nominating or proposing a fiction-related Article for Deletion, It is My sincerest Hope that Ye import It to the Annex. Why do This, You wonder? Individuals have dedicated an enormous Amount of Time to writing These Articles, and ’twould be a Pity for the Information to Vanish unto the Oblivion where only Administrators could see Them.

Here is a Step-by-Step Process of how to Bringeth Articles into the Annex:

1. Ye shall need at least three Browser Tabs or Windows open. For the first Tab or Window, go to Special:Export. For the second, go here. (If Ye have not an Account at Wikia, then create One.) Do whatever Ye want for the third.
2. Next, open the Program known as Notepad. If Ye haveth It not, then open WordPad. Go to “Save as,” and for “Encoding,” select either “Unicode” or “UTF-8.” For “Save as type,” select “All Files.” For “File name,” input “export.xml” and save It. Leave the Window open.
3. Next, go to the Special:Export Window at Wikipedia, and un-check the two small Boxes near the “Export” Button. Input the Name of the Wikipedia Article which Ye wish to import to the Annex into the large Field, and click “Export.”
4. Right-click on the Page full of Code which appears, and clicketh on “View Source” or “View Page Source” or any Option with similar Wording. A new Notepad Window called “index[1]” or Something similar should appear. Press Ctrl+A to highlight All the Text then Ctrl+C to copy It. Close yon “index[1]” Window, and go to the Notepad “export.xml” Window. Press Ctrl+V to pasteth the Text There, and then save It by pressing Ctrl+S.
5. Now go to the Special:Import Window over at the Annex. Clicketh on “Browse…” and select the “export.xml” File. At last, click on “Upload file,” and Thou art done, My Friend! However, if It says 100 Revisions be imported, Ye be not quite finished just yet. Go back to Wikipedia’s Special:Export, and leave only the “Include only the current revision, not the full history” Box checked. Export That, copy the Page Source, close the “index[1]” Window, and go to the “export.xml” Window. Press Ctrl+A to highlight the Code all ready There, press “backspace” to erase It, and press Ctrl+V to pasteth the new Code There. Press Ctrl+S to save It, then upload once more to the Annex. Paste {{Wikipedia|{{PAGENAME}}}} at the Bottom of the imported Article at the Annex, and Ye art now finally done! Keepeth the “export.xml” File for future Use.

Thank Ye for using the Annex, My Friend — the Annex Hath Spoken 03:51, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks for the note! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 06:04, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a million for signing my autograph book. What's up, G! Tech43 (talk) 06:48, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome and happy editing! :) Sincerley, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 06:49, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Hey can you help me create a userbox loosely based on one of yours? Tech43 (talk) 06:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome to use any userbox from my userpage. I unfortunately did not create those though and honestly do not yet know how to do so. If you go to Wikipedia:Userboxes, we have some more skilled technical editors who could probably help you with userbox creation. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 06:52, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year! WikiProject Textile Arts is starting 2008 by initiating a project newsletter. The project had 7 new articles at Template:Did you know in December and we hope to see more of you in 2008. Cheers, Durova^Charge! 20:56, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year to you as well! I hope my edits thus far to textile related articles have been helpful. With that project, the welcoming committee, the kindness campaign, the video game project, and the rescue project, I sure have my work cut out! Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 01:01, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They've been very helpful, thank you. One of the things I hope we do in 2008 is get every top-priority article to B-class or better. Cheers, Durova^Charge! 01:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am happy to read that and hope we can encourage others to focus more on improving articles as well. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 01:36, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am a user on Wikipedia, but who? Figure it out. (Hint: SIGN IT!). 98.161.53.217 (talk) 01:57, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I guess someone with a guestbook? Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1 more hint: depression. 98.161.53.217 (talk) 02:06, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Technogreek43? Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:08, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bingo! What's up! How do you like my vandal-reverting skills? 98.161.53.217 (talk) 02:08, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I urge you to log in under your regular account and edit that way, as others will frown upon a user also using an IP to edit in addition to a main account. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:27, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have no plans, to ever be Technogreek43 again. In fact, after tonight, I may never edit wikipedia again. 02:30, 1 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.161.53.217 (talk)

Well, if you do consider to stick around or come back, a fun way to help is with this project. Saving articles is incredibly rewarding. Also, I believe you can change your username (there is a board somewhere for that) if you are concerned about your current username in a manner that would not result in the usual sockpuppetry accusations some throw about. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:34, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and same to you! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 05:24, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a policy or guideline, so using it as a keep reason isn't helpful. From that page itself: It is not a policy or guideline, and editors are not obliged to follow it. Use an actual reason to keep things, instead of constantly using an essay that isn't a requirement to follow. As I know you will probably ignore this, I will be mentioning this in every AFD that has the essay used for keep. Also, the same exact thing applies for the "Don't destroy" essay that you also use for a keep reason. RobJ1981 (talk) 06:23, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah well Rob neither was Eyrian's old essay on pop culture. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 07:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the welcome. I'm actually a member of almost a few years now, just forgot to log in :) 69.119.13.218 (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]