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Hello, Victuallers, and welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia! I hope you will be happy helping here. You should begin by reading these pages: Wikipedia:Useful, Help:Contents, Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines, and how to write Simple English articles. If you want some ideas of which pages to work on, read Wikipedia:Requested articles or the list of wanted pages.

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Good luck and happy editing! Nishkid64 14:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

As you can see it took me over a year to read this ... thanks anyway. contact via English Wikipedia Victuallers (talk) 12:39, 8 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia

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Hi, Victuallers! Welcome to Simple English Wikipedia! Thank you for your changes!

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Happy editing! Goblin 13:20, 19 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
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Goblin 13:20, 19 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thought i'd give you an updated welcome message ;) How are you doing? Goblin 13:20, 19 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

 
Hello, Victuallers. You have new messages at Bluegoblin7's talk page.
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Goblin 18:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Bot fail

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Hey Vic,

Sorry about the bot fail, i'm looking into what caused it! I know you're not a vandal ;).

Sorry again, and nice to see you helping with some Derbyshire articles! Perhaps you could inject some interest into our DYK?

Finally, could you possibly help me with a VGA or GA? (VGA = FA). I've done one VGA so far (Crich Tramway Village, no less!) but I want to get more as the wiki really needs them! I'm thinking Victoria Line (User:Bluegoblin7/Sandbox1) unless there's anything you want help with?

Regards,

Goblin 20:04, 16 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Rollback

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Hey Victuallers. Since you're an EN admin, I've gone ahead and granted you rollback. Hope you don't mind, and enjoy! :-) Meetare Shappy Cunkelfratz! 14:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Stick around :-)

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Hi Victuallers, I know you're an admin on enWP and are probably busy there, but I'd really like to encourage you to stick around here. I've looked at a few of the edits you've made and I know you'd be a real asset to a project that I personally think is very important. Give it a think! Regards - fr33kman talk 00:01, 21 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

DYK credit (1)

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Pmlineditor 16:59, 26 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

We don't give credit... Goblin 17:10, 26 July 2009 (UTC) I ♥ Juliancolton!Reply
It appears we are giving it now. Best, NonvocalScream (talk) 17:13, 26 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
I strongly disagree. As have others. I thought you were a discussion engager??? Goblin 17:15, 26 July 2009 (UTC) I ♥ Shappy!Reply

Well thats a nice welcome back from my wiki break. Well I didnt realise you didnt give credits .... thats not made too clear on the DYK page. So I will value this one all the more! Thanks to all those who gave this or agreed with the giving. Victuallers (talk) 17:09, 7 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

Old pages?

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What exactly did you mean by old pages? Pages that have been created a while ago are definitely old and may be outdated, but nevertheless, their information is still fairly good :). Cheers, Razorflame 01:12, 8 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Welcome

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Well thank you for your welcome and, what a nice Image map example on you UP. I'll have to keep an eye on your contributions, hoping to learn some more exciting things. --Ida Shaw (talk) 12:30, 13 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hello!

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Hi, Victuallers! Wow, thank you for honoring me with so kind a message, and so helpful an image. My article on Oliver Goldsmith was actually one of my messiest articles...:P But I must for ever be proud of it hereafter, as I have gotten to know you through it! I'll certainly use the image on your UP!   I hope you stay around. Yours very sincerely, Classical Esther 02:58, 4 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

thx Victuallers (talk) 06:59, 22 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Your statements

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You claimed elsewhere that my pages are a game.

As I proved with The Author's Farce, I am simplifying these pages. It takes time. This is on my queue for simplification. I do not have as much time to devote to it as I am doing all of the daily maintenance for Wikiversity and I have real life matters that I have been busy with. Ottava Rima (talk) 15:03, 29 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

The pages are not a game. Neither is a ban. Playing the rules is a game. I do not think you have broken any rules at wikiversity or here. Good. Please note, I only infrequently visit here so do not think me ignorant if I take a while to reply. Victuallers (talk) 15:36, 29 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

There are no "rules" nor is there really a game. The Elegy page went through as I licensed it here to ensure that there were no incompatibility problems. I had approval from Foundation members then and also for this time around. I also did not ask anyone directly but only stated that they were licensed under GFDL. Others do as they wish, and there was no proxying. Ottava Rima (talk) 15:58, 29 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
Article is now being simplified I guess Victuallers (talk) 11:36, 5 July 2010 (UTC)Reply
.... actually the article is still not simplified... must be very busy Victuallers (talk) 08:50, 21 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Award

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This editor is an Apprentice Editor and has the right to show this Wikipedia Picture Book.

Here is your first Simple English award, recognising 600 edits in four years. Let's hope we can get some more of your time and not have to wait another four years for your next book. Best wishes, --Peterdownunder (talk) 08:35, 16 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks very much - I'm still confused by the Simple mission, but I'm optimostic that it will eventually find its role. Actually I have run the "Wright Challenge" which has brought lots of new editors and articles to "Simple" in last few months. I was hoping that some Simple Editors would rise to the challenge too. There are still 4 or 5 weeks to go. Contact me on EN if anyone needs help with this. Victuallers (talk) 08:47, 21 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Quick deletion of Nagqu

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The page you wrote, Nagqu, has been selected for quick deletion. If you think this page should be kept, please add {{wait}} below the line {{QD}} and say why on the talk page. If the page is already gone, but you think this was an error, you can ask for it to be undeleted. You can find more information about the reason here. MathXplore (talk) 17:01, 4 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the alert but I cannot see the delete warning on the article. Presumably someone has realised that it was a ridiculous proposal. Victuallers (talk) 08:07, 6 September 2021 (UTC)Reply