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Ok, after I pestered Suisi, she gave you the oversite bit. Happy editing. Raul654 00:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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I was happy to see your name appear in my watchlist just now and was even happier when I read your edit summary here. Welcome back, Redux; it's good you've returned. I remember you being the bureaucrat who made me an admin back in the day. :) Best. Acalamari 18:23, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Acalamari!!! It is nice to be back. I had been meaning to for quite a while. Still lots of catching up to do, but I'll get there. Excellent to see that you have stuck around all these years :). It was my pleasure to "push the button" for your promotion. And it shows that the good, honest work we have been doing on the project for more than a decade really paid off. Redux (talk) 18:28, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

• Good to see you back again. It's been a long while. :) - Mailer Diablo 02:26, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you Mailer!!! Nice to see you're still around as well :) It's a pleaseure to be back! :)

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"especifically" is probably misspelled.

   My title for this message is taken from the top of the #4 US-Google hit for the word. The #1 hit is from Merriam-Webster, listing a "new word", seemingly explaining it as a portmanteau word, but contributed by someone who offered their name but no title or affiliation with the name. The #2 is a partial match to the entry for the Catalan word "especific", in en:Wikt, and other en:WP and en:Wikt hits are on a talk page and in descriptions of other words' specific domains, respectively -- by contributors who i think in each case were a non-native English-speaker. #5 is the personal name of a 'net-graphical paper-doll on a choose-from-this-list-of-languages page. I haven't checked OED, but i'm pretty sure English use of the word is somewhere on the range between super-peculiar and bizarre. I admire the many non-native speakers of English whose English is far better than my only even-marginally-usable second language, but IMO this term should be thot of as a trap.
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  • Humm, I see. Well, I haven't been completely inactive since my original wikibreak until now, but I was inactive for a period a bit longer than 3 years between 2009 and 2012. I'm not sure if that's red tape, but I'm also not interested in "gaming the rules". As I had mentioned some time back, I was not particularly concerned with getting the tools back, given my inactivity. I had only considered that I might jump back in and maybe help given the "special procedure" mentioned in your original message. But even so I would look to get some kind of feedback or consensus from the Admin/Bcrat community before even considering putting in the request. If there would be bureaucratic concerns (no pun intended) which would require me to "wiki-lawyer" in order to get the tools back, I would think that the original purpose of trying to help would end up being defeated. Redux (talk) 14:37, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
    • Thank you for understanding. –xeno^talk 14:49, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

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Pedir um favor

Será que poderias traduzir este artigo do português para o inglês? Att (Saudações Brasileiras). 187.104.25.153 (talk) 05:09, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

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Translation of Villa Annoni

Could you please translate https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Annoni ? I would like to have it in English because there are a lot of American tourists coming here to see the Villa and there is no material. Something in their mother tongue would be helpful. --DelicateAloe (talk) 17:00, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Absolutely. No problem. Cheers! Redux (talk)

Thanks! --DelicateAloe (talk) 16:27, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Ways to improve Villa Annoni

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Thanks for creating Villa Annoni! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you :-)

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/* Bom dia */

Poderias traduzir o artigo pt:Batalha da Praça da Sé por favor? Agradeço desde já pela paciência. 2804:14C:5BB5:8B2F:40D3:7B13:E99C:59B1 (talk) 14:41, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

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Ten years!

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