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Archive 1: Dave1185 MMVIII
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Archive 3: Dave1185 MMX (NB:Donkey years ago, I fried two 166mhz Pentium MMX in my many attempts of overclocking them first to 180mhz, then to 200mhz. It worked~! When I found the Celeron 300A, the rest became history. Ahhh... good times~!)
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NOTE - I'm currently... 1.) in the midst of discharging my duties as an Administrator of an estate, and 2.) swamped with several projects in the hangar. Hence, I will have a reduced time slice for Misplaced Pages. );
--Dave 11:19, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Your user page

Hi. I re-worked your user page. It's much simpler now. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 17:55, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

• Hey~! What's the big idea~?!? *lol* --Dave 17:57, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Page unprotected

Hi Dave, I see that the protection has been removed from this page. Feel free to drop me a line if you start having problems with vandals again. I'm not going to watchlist the page because of (in all seriousness) what your aqua blue background does to me eyes. Cheers, Nick-D (talk) 11:24, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

• Roger, wilco~! (Sorry about the colour, my eyes are too used to red at night, aqua blue is badly needed to balance it out. --Dave 09:40, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Two things

First... damn your talk page header is looong! :p
Secondly, how do you get that little IAR banner to display? :) Salvidrim! 00:54, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

• One; if I hadn't just archived the previous messages, your puter might have committed suicide. Two; I have added the IAR-ribbon/tag to your page. Any thing else I can help you with? --Dave 09:40, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

• • Oooh, thanks! I'll have a tinker with it later today. :) Salvidrim! 09:46, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
    • Awww, thought I could change the text, but it's an actual image. :( Salvidrim! 15:35, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

• Hey, you didn't ask so I thought you'd have noticed~! :P --Dave 09:58, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Hello

The God(win)zilla threshold passed!

Looks like our old f(r)iend has gone completely 'round the twist...! - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 20:24, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

• Facepalm ... The guy is beyond redemption~! --Dave 23:58, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXIII, April 2012

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; award recipients; contest results Articles: The month's Featured and A-class content Book reviews: Bomzibar on Subhas Chandra Bose; Hawkeye on corps commanders; Nick-D on American special forces Op-ed: The Land on commemorating World War I

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FYA

Thought you should be aware of this post that I removed. Regards Basalisk ⁄_berate 18:58, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

• A thin line separate the trolls from the malcontents and what is new? The malfunction wants to feed us his sin and we're not taking it, and so I forgive him~! --Dave 00:10, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

NNU wrap-up time is May 30

Hello. There are still some articles at Misplaced Pages:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012/Student list that need moving to the mainspace. Some have rubbish references and could be AfDd, so best not move those. But many just need a bit of cleanup and a move. If you have time to do a few, we would be much obliged. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:46, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXIV, May 2012

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; award recipients; contest results Articles: The month's Featured and A-class content Book reviews: Bomzibar on Chiang Kai-shek; Nick-D on the Falklands War Interview: Article writers discuss biographies Op-ed: Nick-D examines using news articles as sources

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What's an American?

See here. These Latin Americans keep trying to tell me what I can call myself! So if I came to Singapore and told someone I was an American, where would they think I'm from? Peru?? ;) - BilCat (talk) 18:51, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

A Wiki Fanatic and Googlebooks and Popular Mechanics as a reference

Dear Dave, You won't believe this. I was doing my thing and in and old 1956 publication of Popular Mechanics was an article with pictures of the first monorail in the US. I remember that the monorail page was asking for references to improve that page. So I posted a link to that PM page by using googlebooks. Well my edit got reverted. No big deal I learn not to worry and move on. But I got curious. And went over to monorail and checked the history. This Wiki Fanatic deleted the reference because it had a googlebooks link. I guess I could have done a reference with just the publication name, date, page number and article title with ISSB number and that would have been ok. Can't figure that one out. Jack --Jackehammond (talk) 06:24, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Dave, Ignore above. Matter resolved. Jack --Jackehammond (talk) 20:14, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

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Warning: long term user interaction problems on User, and User talk pages

While I agree with G4, that this is not vandalism, your editing of the User pages of others must still be adressed. These recent edits, for example: , , are indicative of a competence issue. The User page in question, is fine, your interpretation of the use of User pages is seriously flawed. The edit summaries that you have left with the changes only exacerbate the problem. Please do not make changes to the user pages of others. If you feel there is a problem with a user page, take it to an Admin and allow them to deal with it. Other recent edits outside the article space, such as this to User:TopGun after he was blocked, and to Treasury Tag here are clearly inflamatory. When an editor needs to be blocked for their errors, it needs to be carried out in a professional manner, that stops the problem and encourages them to resume positive input to the encyclopedia when the block expires. Your immature comments do nothing to help, and in fact only aggravate the situation. Again, if you feel there is a problem with the actions of others, take it to an administrator, or to the appropriate notice board. I don't believe that you fully understand the negative impact that you are having with other editors when you make leave the type of comments that you have in the examples above. From a glance at your edit history, this appears to be a long term issue, with numerous requests for you to modify your actions. If you are unable to change, then I suggest that you concentrate your efforts in the article space. Thank you for attention in this matter. Desk Ref (talk) 12:21, 11 June 2012 (UTC)