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I was just mulling over some details of the LEGO oeuvre at
AfD. I was thinking that we need an expert and recalled that you were such. But the LEGO catalogue is now so extensive that perhaps you are burnt out on that too? But I am pleased to find that you still maintain a token presence here. Happy New Year!
Andrew🐉(
talk) 15:59, 23 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I put my oar in on
Landspeeder, are there other LEGO related ones I might not be aware of? ++
Lar:
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c 21:05, 23 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Thanks. I don't see much LEGO activity at AfD or elsewhere but, as it happens, today we have
LUGNET which has been relisted twice and so is in need of input. For balance, perhaps we should also notify @
Lugnuts:!
Andrew🐉(
talk) 09:26, 25 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I put my oar in at
LUGNET ... you guys are sucking me into the very drama and politics I fled. But, AFD'ing LUGNet ??? WTF. ++
Lar:
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c 16:45, 26 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Oh BOY did I put my oar in. ++
Lar:
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c 07:05, 27 January 2021 (UTC)reply
He's a bit of a deletionist. But then, so am I. On
LEGO tire, merge is the
best I can do, and on the other one, I think the move to a different name was warranted. ++
Lar:
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c 18:07, 28 January 2021 (UTC)reply
And now I notice that we have a picture of LEGO bricks (right) on the main page today! We must have an article about this and here it is – the
Baader–Meinhof phenomenon!
Andrew🐉(
talk) 12:23, 28 January 2021 (UTC)reply
An article you may be interested in,
Jessi Slaughter cyberbullying case, has just been undeleted. Any help you could give to this, included BLP-related edits, would be very much appreciated. --
Bangalamania (
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I think the deletion case was 11 years ago. That was a long time ago. I'm not sure I have any value to add, sorry. ++
Lar:
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c 02:57, 1 March 2021 (UTC)reply
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For the record, I initially created the article where this image is used. On review, I don't think the article really needs it. Any fair use rationale I could imagine seems a bit of a stretch, to be honest. So I am going to remove the image and let it be deleted. ++
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Do I still have any Talk Page Watchers? I was recently involved in
Sarah Gillis and there was a merge, but it was botched. The person who did it was not paying attention to
WP:CWW and did the merge via copypaste. So the bulk of the history is lost. It needs to be undone, and the merge done properly. I can do it but lack time and lack the knowledge of modern tools. If there's a TPW (with admin) that might want to take this on, please let me know... Thanks!!! ++
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Thanks for letting me know, I have commented there. This is a nom by an IP who seems to be on a deletion nom run. What has changed since the last two times it was kept, I wonder? ++
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Thanks, committee! Still do love this place ++
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c 23:45, 12 June 2022 (UTC)reply
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This image appears to have been replaced with a vectorized version:
File:PNG_police_emblem.svg hosted on Commons. Seems a good replacement to me. ++
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Because someone who's been around as long as you and done as much good work as you have, probably doesn't have enough barnstars. Andre🚐 16:17, 2 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Why, thank you! I only pop in from time to time these days... but I appreciate it. I'll add it to my collection :) ++
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Thanks for letting me know, dear robot... (so this message is for my talk page watchers more than anything else). My edit frequency has been increasing again although not to original levels, and I wish to retain my admin privs, I have enabled 2FA. ++
Lar:
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Checking my contribs by eye, it looks like I'm not THAT far below the average of 50/year (although WELL above 100 total in the last 60 months), and most of the shortfall is in the very earliest year of the 5 year period... Time to find some interesting topics and get to work, I guess :) ++
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