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Hi, you were listed in the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Philippines page as living in or being associated with Philippines. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please add [[Category:Filipino Wikipedians|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]] to your user page. Thanks. :) Coffee 03:20, 12 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Since you seem to be inactive, at least for the past week, I just went ahead and put the category on your user page. Coffee 07:17, 19 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi! Kumusta ka ? There is a Filipino hangout, maybe you'd like to pass by?: WP:TAMBAY.-- Jondel 10:14, 20 September 2005 (UTC) reply

The article you created, Light Christian Academy, is now being discussed for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Light Christian Academy. Would you please cite sources for your research? There appear to be a large segment of people who are voting this to be deleted because it is non-verifiable and does not refer to an external source for content. Silensor 18:47, 17 October 2005 (UTC) reply

The following comment was left by IP address 203.87.151.226. [1] Was this comment actually left by you? If so, why did you refuse to cite sources for your article? Silensor 07:52, 26 October 2005 (UTC) reply

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy editing. Alphax  ^{τ ε χ} 13:46, 29 October 2005 (UTC) reply

Please visit Wikipedia talk:Tambayan Philippines/Featured articles and give your two centavos. Add your votes as well. Thanks =) -- seav 13:39, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Manila, which you have voted for, has been selected for improvement by the Filipino Wikipedian community. Now we can start collaborating on improving these articles to Featured Article status. See Wikipedia talk:Tambayan Philippines/Featured articles. =) -- seav 22:48, 20 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Ummm... the green looks garish. Plus it does not help for those cities whose seals don't have transparent backgrounds. (e.g., Marikina City). Yes, you can improve on the previous template, but I think a little more subtlety is better. -- seav 15:06, 28 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi. May I ask how to create or edit something like this? Thanks-- Nino Gonzales 04:30, 28 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi! Its' page is in Template:Demographics of the Philippines. The said template uses HTML (great site for learning HTML: [2]!), and the colors are done using Hex Code tables, which you can find here: [3] -- Matthewprc 04:42, 28 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks! Btw, we got to talk about all the people pages you are creating. They're great, and needed. However, I think they could be refined. My two-cents worth... For instance, it seems Cebuano is a linguistic or geographical identity rather than an ethnic identity. Cebuanos probably don't think Bolhanos are Cebuanos. Bolhanos probably also don't consider themselves Cebuanos. Non-Chinese/Spanish Cebuanos (people of Cebu) and Bolhanos consider themselves to be Bisaya. I think Bisaya is the ethnicity, as defined by its Wikipedia article. But just keep on doing those articles. I'll try to contribute as much as I can. In the mean time, I write something to get some sort of consensus on how to define Filipinos and Filipino peoples. Matsalams!-- Nino Gonzales 06:04, 28 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi, you've uploaded a lot of really nice images (like Image:Meralco Avenue, Ortigas Ctr.jpg), but a lot of them lack source and licensing information. Please add this information to the image description page to prevent them from getting deleted.. if they really are free images, I'd hate to lose them. Thanks. :) Coffee 10:54, 30 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi,

I am glad to see your interest in the Tasaday article. However, I feel the "Demographics of the Philippines" box is very distracting from the Tasaday entry. Plus, I do not see what encyclopedic value that box has. I feel this box should be deleted; however, perhaps we could compromise and make it a lot less conspicuous somehow, maybe make it way smaller or move it to the end of the article like the U.S. Presidents template (see Bill Clinton for example of usage).

What do you think?

-- Lensim 04:41, 31 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi! I already made the infobox smaller. -- Matthewprc 3:20, 04 January 2006 (UTC)

That's better but...don't you think it is still distracting? I do. It says nothing specific about the Tasaday (unlike a Taxobox does about an animal, for example), so I feel it belongs at the end of the article. What do you think? -- Lensim 21:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi Matthewprc, I made a Successor Series template for the filipino people. I also collapsed the groups (linking them to lists) whenever I could. Hope you don't mind if I replace the infoboxes... -- Nino Gonzales 03:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks Nino! (for redesigning it to fit the end of a page). Very nice! -- Lensim 17:43, 11 January 2006 (UTC) reply

Pls visit AfD Cyberservices, and see an article created by the same "user" - AfD Philippine Cyberservices Corridor. Pls encourage more well known users to make a vote. I have a suspicion that there will be a flood of posts from anons, and new users in those two AfDs. Thanks. Wikipedia is not for promotion. -- Noypi380 11:54, 8 February 2006 (UTC) reply

Frog dissection has been proposed for deletion. An editor believes this is more a how-to than an encyclopedia article. Please review WP:NOT for the relevant guidelines. NickelShoe 20:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC) reply

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Dude, would appreciate your inputs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tambayan_Philippines#Pictures_to_represent_each_Ethnic_group_in_the_Philippines-- Nino Gonzales 10:21, 12 March 2006 (UTC) reply

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Question about source

See: Talk:Philippine-American_War#Deleted_location_of_battle, which was your contrbution. Please tell us where you found this info. Travb 07:57, 10 April 2006 (UTC) reply

Hello there! I happened to see that you edited the article "Jubilee Christian Academy" and " De La Salle University. "(Schools I have studied). I hope you don't mind that I copied your "About me" classifications."

Thank you. Kenneth Duncan

It's OK.. -- Matthewprc

I dunno, but isn't Sandara Park be excluded for she has no Filipino blood? Or even if she was naturalized, were talking about ethnic groups? -- Howard the Duck | talk, 15:26, 8 May 2006 (UTC) reply

The term Filipino is like a catchall term for all the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands. As User:Nino Gonzales puts it in WP:TAMBAY, it transcends ancestry, and as such, it also transcends even blood lines. According to the said argument, which is accepted as the standard for the definition of the said term in Wikipedia, the Filipino Chinese is as Filipino as a Waray person. Another argument from Philippine Psychology dictates that being Filipino is actually based on emotions, and not on nationality. While she has no Filipino blood, she is and has been a long-term Philippine resident, and as thus, can pass off as a Filipino.-- User:Matthewprc