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| Archive from before the [http://www.battlestarwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:Steelviper&oldid=36970 Spam blizzard of '06] (March 10, 2006) <br />
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| Archive for the period [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Steelviper&oldid=82914 after the Blizzard through Shane's RFA success] (March 11,2006 - October 8, 2006)
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| ==Podcast Transcripts== | | == Thanks for the offer and hospitality, Mr. Viper == |
| Thanksyou for starting to write up the transcripts for the poscasts. I think that SciFi have blocked people outside of the US from downloading them (im getting 404 errors) so reading these will be very useful for me.
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| p.s I think it might be worth archiving your Talk page --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 11:12, 9 October 2006 (CDT)
| | Thank you so much for your words of welcome into this well put together website as well as the offer to display my artwork on a budding Battlestar Galactica fansite. I am flattered by your proposal and I would be happy to participate. I do not claim on being the best fan artist out there. I don't have graphic images or fancy computer programs. All I have is a sheet of paper, colored pencils, a scanner (which is momentarily broken), and a PowerPoint program to add additional information. Regardless, I will try my best to give BSG fans what they want. I would be honored to put my art on your site. |
| :Actually, the everybody (todo el mundo) is getting the 404 errors from Scifi.com at present. I hit the sciffy boards and apparently they're working on it. Somebody posted a link to a weird format, and somebody later posted a link to the mp3. I'll find that thread, and link to it. Hopefully they get that fixed before too long.
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| :Nag, nag, nag. You're right, of course. I'll archive here in a sec. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:15, 9 October 2006 (CDT)
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| ::Archived. Fetching that link now. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:19, 9 October 2006 (CDT)
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| ::[http://mboard.scifi.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=2209201&an=0&page=1&gonew=1#UNREAD The link.] (referenced above). I'm using the galacticastation mp3 (since I new that Express Scribe could handle mp3, but wasn't sure about m4a). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:22, 9 October 2006 (CDT)
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| :::Thankyou ^_^ --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 11:28, 9 October 2006 (CDT)
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| ::::You're welcome. Thanks for the archive reminder. I don't usually get enough traffic 'round here to justify archiving very often (which is evident given that's only my second archive). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:30, 9 October 2006 (CDT)
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| FWIW, I think the problem w/ lack of beeps in the podcasts is that the m4a's have (silent) chapter markers. In iTunes there's a command to skip ahead or back a chapter (command-shift-right or left arrow on a Mac), and I understand the same is true on an iPod. Scifi is breaking each act into a chapter.--[[User:PrePressChris|PrePressChris]] 13:09, 25 October 2006 (CDT)
| | Thank you so much for the offer. So say we all (or maybe just me). |
| :Aha! Thanks! That makes sense. As a non-iPod/iTunes user I was baffled. Even finding a player for it was a bit of a challenge (fortunately VLC was up to the challenge). My biggest problem with m4a is that it's not compatible (at least out of the box) with Express Scribe. Fortunately an mp3 version was floated that covered most of the episode. As long as Scifi keeps putting out the mp3 versions complete with the beeps I'll be a happy camper. (I really didn't need the audio files broken down by act like they were, but it was handy for transcribing in small bites, and knowing ahead of time how long a given act would be.) --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 25 October 2006 (CDT)
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| Go ahead with KBLGII. I have been ill for several weeks and transcription is one of the last things that I would feel like doing ;). --[[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 18:02, 3 November 2006 (EST)
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| :It looks like you are on a roll. Since I'm still not 100%, go ahead with KBLGII. --[[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 10:59, 17 November 2006 (CST)
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| Did you see RDM's blog entry? Aside from last week's and this week's podcasts, there's this coming up: ''The "Roundtable Discussion" as we're calling it, is a freewheeling discussion, and there are definitely times when there's too much cross-talk and too much laughter on the recording to discern anything coherent (especially in the beginning) but tucked in amid the revelry are some interesting and fascinating tidbits which I hope you'll enjoy. '' --[[User:PrePressChris|PrePressChris]] 17:39, 1 December 2006 (CST)
| | == Definitely gallery format == |
| :Yeah. I wasn't that excited about the thought of transcribing that when I saw Mrs. Ron talking about posting it in the first place. It's already up as three parts of "Writer's Meeting" (in three parts). Since it's of the "writer's room" class of podcast, I figured it would go under the same heading as the writer's room podcast (which is to say, likely to be procrastinated on for a while since I'm rather frightened of the thought of all the cross-talk and MANY speakers). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 20:36, 1 December 2006 (CST)
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| ::I think that's one to leave off 'til we're caught up with this season, at least. --[[User:PrePressChris|PrePressChris]] 23:05, 1 December 2006 (CST)
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| ::How have you remained sane while doing all this podcasts? I barely got one teaser out of myself. --[[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 11:01, 8 December 2006 (CST)
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| :::I can't get certified insane if I avoid being diagnosed, right? Mostly I just try to break it up into managable chunks (3 minutes is a typical pull), and try to do a little bit every day. It really helps me (psychologically) when I know other people are working on it too, though. Having you, and Prepress, and Peter, and Shane (and everybody else) working on it makes it feel a lot more like a team effort. I'd love to find somebody to get a head start on the podcasts as they're released on Friday (I wait till I see an episode before starting on a podcast, and that's usually later in the weekend). I definitely feel faster when I'm completing one rather than starting from scratch. I just hope people are reading them. If we're just needing them for a line or two to cite in the episode articles, I could just transcribe those relevent excerpts in a lot less time than it takes to do a whole podcast. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:14, 8 December 2006 (CST)
| | Regarding your suggestions on what format to use for the Fan Art gallery, I think it should definitely be in a gallery format. Being a long time user of Wikis everywhere, I always found it easier to visually see the picture than to continuously click on an article and read look at it to see what it's like. Please advise. |
| ::::I'm using them, anyway. I was just able to quote that bit about having Dirk Benedict playing God thanks to them. (and Gouge, he's not crazy. He just has incredible, almost machine-like, endurance...) --[[User:PrePressChris|PrePressChris]] 16:12, 8 December 2006 (CST)
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| I noticed [[Podcast:Rapture|the Rapture podcast]] was not getting done, that's why I did it. I'm trying to get it done as fast as I can. I don't think I can have [[Podcast:Taking a Break From All Your Worries|the latest podcast]] transcribed before [[The Woman King|the next episode]] airs, so I recommend that if and when you have time, you start transcribing TaB so we won't interfere with each other. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 13:16, 30 January 2007 (CST)
| | Junior Pilot Wojcik reporting out. |
| :BTW, if you're going to verify my transcriptions, would you please try to fill in the "(unintelligible)"s? I felt like I had quite a lot of them, especially in Act 2. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 13:47, 31 January 2007 (CST)
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| ::As a "transcriber", I'll try to prioritize my time towards transcribing the untranscribed first (working on "Taking a Break"), then fall back to verifying once we're caught up (or if I happen to be burned out on transcribing). You might drop a note to [[User:PrePressChris|PrePressChris]] as well, as he's been our ace verifier of late and he is extremely adept at converting all of my "unintelligible"'s into english. Don't feel the least bit bad about them, as they happen and that's really what verifiers are there for. Don't let those sections slow you down from getting the "meat" transcribed. We can always go back and clean up that stuff later. I find that if it's really important they will usually repeat themselves or otherwise repeat it in an intelligible manner. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 31 January 2007 (CST)
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| ==Steelviper / Steel viper== | | == DeviantArt Notice == |
| Mmm :-/ [[User talk:Steel viper]] --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 09:22, 11 December 2006 (CST)
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| :I noticed that when the user first signed up. I was alert for "impersonating an admin" type actions, but didn't really see anything along those lines. I don't imagine it will be much of a problem unless that user becomes more active. Your suggestion was appropriate as switching names is probably as much in their best interest as it is the wiki's. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:31, 11 December 2006 (CST)
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| ==Block of 81.177.14.26==
| | Dear Mr. Viper (I think that's going to be your new nickname if I may be so bold), |
| :On another wiki I visit has a massive spam attack by this ip advertising comerical spam from ''wikipost.info''. I searched for the [http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=wikipost.info&btnG=Google+Search&meta= url of the spam] it was advertising and saw that it was crawling several other wikis posting large amounts of spam (2mb of text on each page). I felt that this preemptive block was neccesary on this occation. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 09:27, 10 January 2007 (CST)
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| ::In that case, it's fine. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 15:17, 10 January 2007 (CST)
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| ==Congratulations==
| | I will definitely spread the word to other BSG Deviants. The only reason I haven't been posting art is (this is humiliating) I forgot how to upload images. |
| ^_^ --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 11:39, 19 January 2007 (CST)
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| :Thanks. It is a nice rifle, isn't it? Oh. The baby? Yeah, well that'll be a whole new adventure. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:47, 19 January 2007 (CST)
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| ::Congratulations! When can you get him or her on to do some editing? :) --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 12:05, 19 January 2007 (CST)
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| :::Possible record for youngest Battlestar Wiki member --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 12:13, 19 January 2007 (CST)
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| ::::It'll be a race, no doubt. We're still at least a couple years from acceptable edits. Plus the mature nature of the content makes TOS and 1980 far more likely candidates for viewing of the editor-to-be than RDM, presently. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:20, 19 January 2007 (CST)
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| :::::The question is: Will you bring up your son/daughter to not know that Galactica 1980 exists and that TOS and RDM are the only episodes ever made? Perhaps they will be happier having never seen or heard of the travesty that is 1980? --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 12:22, 19 January 2007 (CST)
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| | Incompetently yours, |
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| ==Galactica Squadrons== | | == You're gonna be happy with me, Mr. Viper == |
| While re-watching Act of Contrition I noticed a few more Galactica squadrons shown on the walls in the pilots' ready room. In the beginning of the ep when Adama enters, he touches the "Lest We Forget" picture then passes a squadron crest labeled "Vampires". A minute or two later, when we see Sgt. Hadrian standing against the wall, we can clearly see 7th Squadron "Battleaxe" and 4th squadron "Demons" on the wall behind her. How could one go about adding this to the wiki?[[User:AnteaterFeeder|AnteaterFeeder]] 21:04, 20 January 2007 (CST)
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| :You can just create an article. <code>/wiki/Vampire squadron</code> -- then just create it. :-) Check out [[BW:MARK]] [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 21:13, 20 January 2007 (CST)
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| ::I recall seeing some of these squadrons (and their associated patches) floating around in some of the signatures of folks at the scifi.com bulletin boards and elsewhere. There's not much info to be had, so rather than creating a tiny article for each of those, maybe we should consider [[Squadrons of Galactica]] or [[Squadrons of the Colonial Fleet]] that lists out all the squadron names and insignia that we can find, with possible redirects to that article from the individual unit names. Maybe we should bring this up at List of Pilots (RDM) or a similar article, to see if we can find some other hands? --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 21:25, 20 January 2007 (CST)
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| :::That sounds like a good idea-- the "Galactica Squadrons" page. I wouldn't know how to go about making that page. I'm still pretty new at this. I did however note that the Vampires are the 6th squadron as well as an 8th squadron (an 8 on a red spade), and a Viper Weapons School logo on the walls too. I will bring this up in the list of pilots page. {{unsigned|AnteaterFeeder}}
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| :::Agreed, one page for all squadrons is better. That can then incoporate the info found at [[Primus]] and [[Vigilantes]] now --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 05:49, 21 January 2007 (CST)
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| ::::I tried to post this last night (blasted internet), but something like [[Squadrons of Battlestar Galactica]] works. I've been collecting screenshots of the logos when I could trying to identify them, but unfortunately, most are too blurry to read with NTSC DVDs. There is also some good shots of crests during the debate scene in LDYB part I. Finally, there is also a crest for a "Viper Weapons School", presumably the colonial equivelant of the [[w:United States Naval Fighter Weapons School|US Naval Fighter Weapons School]], aka TOPGUN. This could be mentioned in the Colonial fleet article. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 06:40, 21 January 2007 (CST)
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| I'll go ahead and create the article, by moving the Primus and Vigilante stuff there. Then someone else can add the others. EDIT: It can be found at [[Squadrons of Galactica]], and maybe we should move further discussion there :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 06:49, 21 January 2007 (CST)
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| == Email ==
| | As you have told me, I have started to direct Deviants to BSP. I haven't just directed, I've downright recruited. I already have at least five incredibly gifted artists who have agreed to let us use their pictures. However, one of them asked if this is good for college credit. Is it? Please contact me ASAP. |
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| Umm... your's isn't a forward. :-) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 14:54, 2 February 2007 (CST)
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| == Troyian User Page == | | == BSP == |
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| *Thanks for the suggestion! I wasn't aware we could create subpages of our user pages. -- [[User:Troyian|Troyian]] 09:33, 9 February 2007 (CST)
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| == Podcast info ==
| | I have a good idea. Really good idea. |
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| * Info came from the extended podcast. There's no available normal podcast. --[[User:LifeStar|LifeStar]] 08:56, 21 February 2007 (CST)
| | You know how on the character pages in BSW, they give all this info on the colony, the job, the birth name, etc. of the character. What if we used that same format for the users of BSP? See my user page to get the idea of what I'm talking about. |
| :Hopefully a "normal" one will be released later (at least that's the way it seemed from the post they put up at the Scifi forums). If that occurs it might help to distinguish which podcast that info came from. Nice find, by the way. That one was confusing us over here. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:59, 21 February 2007 (CST)
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| == [[User:StarNeptune]] ==
| | If you like it, submit your own. I can't wait to see what colony you're from. |
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| Coincidentally, I just noticed your comment to this user on recent changes. That StarNeptune is almost certainly an impostor: I have never met the real StarNeptune in reality, only on Wookieepedia. That user is most likely a serial vandal from Wookieepedia and Wikipedia who's gone around impersonating and harassing people on other wikis. I don't know if you have checkuser, but if you do you'll likely find that the StarNeptune you were talking to is using either an open proxy or an ISP in Italy.
| | -Forestbender |
| | :While we could add "Colony" to the User Data template, I'm not sure how frequently it'd get filled out. I'm not terribly proud of my birth colony (based on my birthdate) of Aquaria, seeing as how badly our team got stomped by the [http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j81/steel_viper/BSG/panthers.jpg Picon Panthers] last season. Though if people did want to fill in that kind of information, using the Character Data template like you did is the perfect way to do it, in my opinion. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:36, 22 March 2008 (CDT) |
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| If you want, you can leave a message for StarNeptune on Wookieepedia to confirm this. Cheers, —[[User: Silly Dan|Silly Dan]] <sub>[[User talk:Silly Dan|(talk)]]</sub> 11:14, 30 March 2007 (CDT)
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| :Whoops. I have the unfortunate habit of taking people at their word most of the time, and I occasionally get burned. I don't have checkuser, but I'll keep a close eye on that user. Thanks for the heads up. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:29, 30 March 2007 (CDT) | |
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| :I ''do'' have checkuser, and will try to make a cursory check on this user and let you know. There is no policy for user names between wikis, but there ''is'' a policy on inpersonating someone, which this user is obviously doing. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 14:23, 30 March 2007 (CDT) | | Idea for the header. :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 16:07, 16 February 2009 (UTC) |
| | :Oh. The random images. OK. I'll get right on that. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:26, 17 February 2009 (UTC) |
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| ==Thanks== | | == Battlestar Galacticast == |
| Thanks for the help cleaning up the Kobol links after the split. Much appreciated. There's a ton of them! [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 15:02, 13 April 2007 (CDT)
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| :No, thank you! Such mopping is pretty much expected of sysops, but it's guys like you that help keep this place running. Speaking of which... --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:37, 13 April 2007 (CDT)
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| ::I have offered him the [[Battlestar Wiki:Requests for adminship/JubalHarshaw|red mop]], but he must ''choose'' to mop with it... --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 18:28, 13 April 2007 (CDT)
| | Not sure if you were already aware, but Tricia began a podcast called "[https://www.syfy.com/tags/battlestar-galacticast Battlestar Galacticast]" that may be worth exploring. I've only begun listening to it, but it looks very promising for new nuggets of information. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 21:57, 22 May 2019 (PDT) |
| ==Minor Changes to Act 4 of podcast for Crossroads, Part II== | | |
| I just wanted to let you know that I reviewed act 4 of the transcript for [[Podcast:Crossroads, Part II|Crossroads, Part II]] and made a couple of changes. I included time clauses to let you know at what point in the podcast they took place so you could rereview them if you so chose. The only edit, of the two, I think you might dispute with was a change where RDM is talking about people not wanting to use the Galactic zoom-out shot at the end of the epi. You had "The people- at work wanted to drop it at one point. I think David wanted to drop it at one point." I changed it to: "The people- '''the network''' wanted to drop it at one point. I think David wanted to drop it at one point." He kind of mumbles the words but I believe he says network but it really could be either one so if you disagree with my edit I have no qualms about changing it back, but I wanted to give you a heads up about the edit. BTW RDM says this at 47:22 in the podcast, since i was bringing it up here in your talk page I thought I'd give you the time to reply here as well.--[[User:Zarek Rocks|Zarek Rocks]] 11:38, 15 April 2007 (CDT)
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| | Nice to see some new activity on the wiki. Particularly I was amused by you updating your age for the first time in a decade. Did you know that we have a template to calculate age so that you don't need to manually keep updating it? <nowiki>{{age|yyyy|mm|dd}}</nowiki> --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 05:15, 24 May 2019 (PDT) |
