MrScorch6200

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July 2015 Conversations (post at the bottom please) It is approximately 10:24 PM where this user lives. A barnstar for you! The Original Barnstar hiiii SantoshSampat (talk) 16:21, 3 July 2015 (UTC) Contest about the Brandon Keabetswe Klaas Article I have took the information from an article which was deleted, it wasnt a diplucation it was just referencing — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnDladla (talk • contribs) 04:28, 19 July 2015 (UTC) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Platinum Films Hello. I've unclosed your closure to this debate. My reasons are noted in the new close, but to save you the click I'll repeat it here: DES is pretty careful not to argue for keeping the article, simply backing up that declining the speedy was within the bounds. He's added some sources, but those sources are implicitly refuted by the nominator, and explicitly so by SwisterTwister. A good LONG time passed in which either DES or someone else could come and either make an argument that those sources weren't good enough or to provide new sources. It's a "delete as notability not verified". Thanks for taking on a thankless job, Aaron Brenneman (talk) 03:46, 22 July 2015 (UTC) Mentoring program request Hi Nick, my name is Jacques and I work for the communications department of Deutsche Bank as you can see in my profile. I was impressed by your credentials and I would like you to be my mentor and guide me into the very complex world of Wikipedia. Also I was banned from all Italian edits. Surely because of my user name. May be you can provide guidance on this. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks and kind regards, Jacques — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeutscheBankJR (talk • contribs) 11:48, 7 August 2015 (UTC) Looking for an Adopter. I looked through the biographies of adopters and have chosen you. I am interested in writing articles about my interests which include Botany, Psychology, Art Appreciation, and Painting. I realize many of your interests are different than mine but I still feel that you and I would make a good match. What do you think? ohsuzanna150Ohsuzanna150 (talk) 04:21, 30 August 2015 (UTC) Help needed at DRN You are receiving this message because you are signed up as a volunteer at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard. We have a number of pending requests which need a volunteer to address them. Unless you are an inexperienced volunteer who is currently just watching DRN to learn our processes, please take a case. If you do not see yourself taking cases in the foreseeable future, please remove yourself from the volunteer list so that we can have a better idea of the size of our pool of volunteers; if you do see yourself taking cases, please watchlist the DRN page and keep an eye out to see if there are cases which are ready for a volunteer. We have recently had to refuse a number of cases because they were listed for days with no volunteer willing to take them, despite there being almost 150 volunteers listed on the volunteer page. Regards, TransporterMan (talk · contribs) (Current DRN coordinator) (Not watching this page) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:48, 20 November 2015 (UTC) ArbCom elections are now open! Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:03, 24 November 2015 (UTC) DRN help needed and volunteer roll call You are receiving this message because you have listed yourself on the list of volunteers at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Volunteering#List of the DRN volunteers. First, assistance is needed at DRN. We have recently closed a number of cases without any services being provided for lack of a volunteer willing to take the case. There are at least three cases awaiting a volunteer at this moment. Please consider taking one. Second, this is a volunteer roll call. If you remain interested in helping at DRN and are willing to actively do so by taking at least one case (and seeing it through) or helping with administrative matters at least once per calendar month, please add your name to this roll call list. 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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC) Your access to AWB may be temporarily removed Hello MrScorch6200! This message is to inform you that due to editing inactivity, your access to AutoWikiBrowser may be temporarily removed. If you do not resume editing within the next week, your username will be removed from the CheckPage. This is purely for routine maintenance and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You may regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! — MusikBot II talk 20:30, 25 April 2017 (UTC) CS1 error on Court Cam Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Court Cam, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows: A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. 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Cambial — foliar❧ 00:04, 16 October 2023 (UTC) The “consensus required” restriction does not have an exception for editors with such a high opinion of their own content they believe it to be beyond discussion. All edits disputed by reversion need affirmative consensus on article talk. See the links to WP:CTOP and elsewhere for a fuller explanation. Cambial — foliar❧ 06:57, 19 October 2023 (UTC) October 2023 Your recent editing history at Julian Assange shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Being involved in an edit war can result in being blocked from editing—especially as the page in question is currently under restrictions from the Arbitration Committee, if you violate the one-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than one revert on a single page with active Arbitration Committee restrictions within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the one-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the one-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. You have just reverted a second time your new material, breaching both the 1RR and Consensus Required restrictions on the page. Please self-revert to undo this breach of the sanctions applied to the page Cambial — foliar❧ 00:04, 16 October 2023 (UTC) Your signature and linter errors Just a reminder that your signature contains an obsolete font tag, a missing end tag and a stripped tag. They create Linter errors, and it is advised that you change your signature to <span style="border:2.5px solid black;padding:1px;background:cyan;color:Navy;">[[User:MrScorch6200|<span style="color:Navy;">'''Scorch'''</span>]] ([[User talk:MrScorch6200|talk]] &#124; [[Special:Contributions/MrScorch6200|ctrb]])</span> ASAP. The purpose of this message is because Linter errors affect the way the page looks, and with a lot of errors, the page may render badly. To reduce Linter errors, please change your signature. See WP:SIGFONT for more info. If the software doesn't accept my replacement signature, let me know, and I may give you another replacement signature to use. Otherwise, you may have to change it to something else. Sheep (talk • he/him) 13:25, 19 October 2023 (UTC) @Sheep8144402 Hey Sheep, Thank you for the info, I have corrected my signature. Scorch (talk | ctrb) 14:29, 19 October 2023 (UTC) Hey Scorch can you go to my talk page and ping me? 2603:8080:3E00:8D13:8181:AAD7:91F6:3B2D (talk) 21:20, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

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Request To Not Delete Taylor Trojans

Please do not delete my article in progress Taylor Trojans it is a work in progress , I am working on it about 10-45 minites a day i will be done in about 1 month

Thank You,

CavsFan45

Go Trojans! CavsFan45 (talk) 00:25, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Hey,

I have removed the deletion notice at your request. Thank you for attempting to expand this article. Scorch (talk | ctrb) 00:30, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive

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