User talk:Bruce H. McCosar

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Here I have used the permanent link archiving technique specified in WP:ARCHIVE.

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Creek Language

How do I mark a term as from a language other than English? The creek word acces looks a lot like the English word "access" (at least to a robot, as we have seen). Actually, it means "[She] is putting on a dress." If I knew the standard system, I could flag the words in the Creek Language article. -- Bruce H. McCosar 13:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Sorry about that. There's no standard as such, but you might want to take a look at the following: User:CmdrObot/archive1#How_to_Force_a_Misspelling. I've added the word to my exception list for that article. Cheers, CmdrObot 21:43, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks -- when I have another data point, say from another robot, I'll try and implement a system. Bruce H. McCosar 21:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have NO idea how that happened.

Seriously, I don't remember doing that. Look at my history, I haven't vandalized any page before. I was doing a lot of resorting, I must have accidentally did it while I was doing that, sorry.Mwutz 01:17, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I thought it was kind of strange . . . thought maybe someone had used your computer without your knowledge. I now know to revert first, ask next, then wait for the next time before I assume. Sorry; I've only been doing this a little while. Well, that's my motto . . . "I keep hoping for wisdom" . . . I see that bus still hasn't come in . . . . -- Bruce H. McCosar 01:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Carrie Underwood

Thanks for dropping by and leaving a note. Its much appreciated. --Eqdoktor 09:39, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Age category

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Re: Category

I was just doing th technical (boring) sides of the CFD, i.e removing the cats from pages and deleting. So if you disagree or have questions about the result, I'd suggest asking the closing admin. I do seem to recall that the idea was to split the category in two (one being GNU and one being Linux). John Reaves (talk) 21:34, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:40, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!