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I am taking along wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia probably at random long intervals for minor edits and sometimes to check for messages, but 2 years of one's life is a long time to devote to something for which one doesn't get paid, no matter how interesting it has been.

See also:

• Archive dogs (dog-article related topics)
• Archive Calif (California-related topics)
• Archive 1 (assorted newbie stuff & tips, mineral project, kudos & thanks, misc )
• Archive 2
• Archive 3 (random stuff through June '05)
• Archive 4 (random stuff through Feb '06; might sort thru it later)
• Archive 5 (random stuff through the end of 2011)

I heard you wrote this[1]? Nice!Radiant_>|< 14:57, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

By the way, your dogs are adorable, especially Jake!20:43, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! By the way, if it is your birthday, Happy Birthday!21:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Elf. Any idea why this image -- as used asSubway (underpass) -- will not allow itself to be re-sized? Should you answer this, please bear in mind that you will be addressing a technoramus... ;) --Picapica21:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've heard you say you have quite a collection of dog books. Any chance you could list them for us?Vortex00:51, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I addedUser:Elf/dog book database and I also included a link to it from my main user page where I say that I have a lot of books about dogs. :-) Enjoy. Don't know how useful it is without ISBNs or detailed descriptions, but it's what I've got.Elf |Talk21:57, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh wow. This is extremely helpful. All I need is the title and author anyway, I can look for descriptions myself. Many thanks my friend. I shall start searching for these immediately. I'm sure others will appreciate this list as well. :)Vortex22:19, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also suspect that a lot of these are out of print. And note that I'm not saying how *useful* any individual one is. :-) Anyway, glad I could add cheer to your day.Elf |Talk22:40, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

		The Oddball Barnstar
		I,User:Pedant hereby award you the Oddball barnstar for your creation of the CategoryCategory:Physical activity and dexterity toys on June 14 2005

The Oddball Barnstar is for editors who create ... something that one wouldn't expect to find in more traditional encyclopedias. Please take a moment to see how 'your' category has grown in just over a year.User:Pedant21:18, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was working on Juggling, and related hard-to-categorise subjects, and your category helped to group some dissimilar things that seemed to need to go together. I'll be likely to add some more things to that category too. Thanks again, and remember even if you don't come around much, your contributions will continue to be both welcome and valued.User:Pedant23:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

		The Fauna Barnstar
		I can imagine few if any people who are more deserving of this recognition than you. Your tireless efforts to date to improve and maintain the quality of the dogs articles has been invaluable to wikipedia, and I hope that you will accept this small token of our appreciation and recognition. I regret to say that it is not in my power to grant what I believe to be a citizen of the United States an official title, but I believe few other people are more deserving of receiving wikipedia's OBF (which is as close as I can approximateOBE). Thank you again for all your extraordinary work.Badbilltucker15:34, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And, by the way, this is not an effort to prevent you from leaving, if you so desire. I for one would be very sorry to see you leave completely, but can understand how you might view it as the best of a group of bad options. Certainly, no one wants to see your own life hurt because of your efforts here. However, whether you do come back or not, I have no doubt that this little recognition is more than adequately earned.Badbilltucker16:30, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can you replace this with a higher resolution version? It's an attractive picture, and I would like to continue using it in the article, because it looks like the Bay Area poison oak I am so familiar with, but the resolution is much too low. Let me know on my talk page, or better yet, just upload something. Thanks.KP Botany19:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see you're on Wikibreak. When you get around to is fine.KP Botany19:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's archived onto CD; I'll have to search it out. Suggestion on what you'd like to see in the way of resolution?Elf |Talk20:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Heh. What's 7 years between friends?Elf |Talk16:54, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I was wondering if you have a larger version ofLabradorWeaving.jpg; I would like to nominate it forQuality Image on the Commons, but the guidelines require that images be roughly 1600x1200 or larger.grendel|khan12:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly, no; I can upload one that's slightly larger, but the camera I used did not take large photos. I probably already covered this with you back in 2007 (I hope), but replying here so I know.Elf |Talk22:54, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, wrong; that was cropped out of a barely large enough photo, and hence it became the size that it is.Elf |Talk22:58, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, this is AlexHillan. I am the composer of the wikisong, "Wikipedia the Beautiful." Recently, I have proposed that it become the official theme song. I know that you are the composer of the current theme song, "Hotel Wikipedia", so I want your opinion onthis matter. Please post a meesage on my talk page stating your opinion.

Sincerely,AlexHillan04:24, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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		The Invisible Barnstar
		For being with us for so many years, and for many years to come, raise a glass./05:39, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...Naturally had to drop my favourite dog person a note! Hope all is well.Quill (talk)22:03, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Congratulations Elf! Your imageImage:OrangeBloss wb.jpg was theRandom Picture of the Day! It looked like this:

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AnOrange Blossom, the state flower ofFlorida

Image credit: [[User:Elf (talk)|Elf (talk)]] ([[User talk:Elf (talk)|talk]] · [[Special:Contribs/Elf (talk)|contribs]])

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Thanks!Elf |Talk00:36, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Elf, Found this while surfing the web this morning, I don't know if anything can be done about it since they do have the website name on it, but I wasn't sure if you'd want your photo being used on a list of the most aggressive dogs breeds. It is a pic of a Springer. They originally had one up from the Zim Family Cocker Forum, but someone caught on and notified Jim Zim and it was pulled, only to be replaced with your pic!

http://www.dogcentral.info/worlds-aggre ... og-breeds/ 05:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC)05:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC)05:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC)05:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC)~—Precedingunsigned comment added by67.20.254.104 (talk)

Thanks, I'll check it out. At least they need to give credit & link back to wikipedia.Elf |Talk07:38, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Moved this from my user page to here.Elf |Talk04:09, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As an admirer of your work/contributions, look me up when you return from your break. I would like run some things by you.Tomcue2 (talk)16:38, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure you knew this anyway, but I thought it was pretty neat -- your work with dog articles has certainly made an impact. The title isWikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything;here's the link on Google Books. —  ❋07:37, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, so COOL! I'd not have known if you hadn't pointed it out. Thanks so much for taking the time.Elf |Talk19:28, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I'm surprised you didn't know! – 16:52, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

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Thanks, bot. Fixed.Elf |Talk17:43, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,I've been working on a small game built around animal quizzes and I wanted to let you know I've used one of your pictures.

I found your picture here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BostonTerrierBrindleStand_w.jpg

And I attributed the picture like this: Elfwith this link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elfand also added a link to the license:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

I hope you're happy with it, please let me know if this is not the case.You can find the game here:http://apps.facebook.com/animalalbumOr through here:http://www.facebook.com/pages/AnimalAlbum/156339584490672

Kind regards,Garfunkel Jansen (talk)08:43, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Thanks for taking the picture and making it available.

Pretty cool. Thanks for giving attribution and for letting me know! Attribution could be Ellen Finch instead of ELF.Elf |Talk17:53, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I'll make sure it gets updated.Garfunkel Jansen (talk)05:58, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Was just looking something up, and noticed something silly. Instead of just ignoring it as usual, I decided to sign in and edit for some reason.

I'm unbelievably busy these days, too busy to risk rekindling a WP addiction.

Be well.

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"Sugarlumps" Ha, ha - Yeah, well, I didn't feel like swearin'.Quill (talk)22:36, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Bot: You wouldn't have noticed, but I did put a note about that very thing on the talk page. I'm amazed at how good bots have gotten.Elf |Talk21:30, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there. I finally found the time (and I admit I was kind of procrastinating:)) to upload a new photo to theHeterochromia iridum page, as you suggested on mytalk page. It's the first photo in the gallery. Do you think the quality of the photo is good enough this time? Would be glad to know and thanks in advance.:) ---Hardstylehunt3r ^(talk)_(contribs)21:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Responded on your talk page. Thanks.Elf |Talk21:08, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Elf. I was just looking through my old talk page archives, and I saw that you were one of the very first people to ever say hello on my userpage, way back in April of 2004, before I had even figured out how signatures work. Oh, how time flies. My beloved Groenendael has passed away long ago, and I have retired and returned many times, but Wikipedia remains. I'm glad to see you're still around. All the best, –Quadell(talk)19:51, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Elf, I want to say thank you for your contributions to the Wikipedia. I noticed your excellent comment of January 14, 2006 (!!!!) atTalk:Canine. I arrived because I was disambiguating a recent usage of ambiguous "canine" to "canidae" instead, I believe correctly, inthis edit. Funny that 10 years ago you were bemoaning the information lost as disambiguating editors do their damage, which seems very familiar to me. I have recently been participating in the massive disambiguation efforts ofwp:DPL and have been seeing damage done by disambiguators sometimes, perhaps especially within wp:DPL'sMonthly Disambiguation Challenge. And sometimes I have been bemoaning loss of information by disambiguations done, including yesterday within a requested move atTalk:Paperboy. Interesting to see your concern 10 years ago.

From your note above I gather you were very active during two yearsup to some point in 2013 and now are not active, but I also see you made an edit in 2015 not too long ago. And I see you have an archive about dog-related discussion from this talk page, so I am going to go ahead and ask you if you can help on a dog-related issue right now:

At theCanine disambiguation page, there is the following hierarchy given:

• Canidae, domestic dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes, and other dog-like mammals
  • Caninae, the sub-family
    • Canis, a genus including dogs, wolves, coyotes, and jackals
      • Dog, the domestic dog

But, it begs the question for me of what is "Caninae, the sub-family", and couldn't that be better explained to help users of the dab page. I wanted to fix that up. Usage of "the sub-family" implies it is the only family withinCanidae, which apparently is a family, so I wondered if perhaps it would be correct to revise that to something like "Caninae, the only current family within the orderCanidae although there were other now-extinct families", if that was a fair description (apparently it is not, including becauseCanidae is apparently a family). But theCaninae page is really poor, in my view, or something else is wrong, because it is not even clear thatCanis is within Caninae, though it must be if the hierarchy at the dab is correct.

In fact the Caninae article implies Canis is not within it, because it states that

Present-day basal Caninae include:

• GenusOtocyon (probably a vulpine close toUrocyon)
  • Bat-eared fox,Otocyon megalotis
• GenusNyctereutes
  • Raccoon dog,N. procyonoides
• GenusCuon
  • Dhole,C. alpinus

Maybe the hierarchy changed? And further I note atCanidae that it includes "canini" and "true foxes" (vulpini) which perhaps should be mentioned in the dab hierarchy. I also madethis edit at "Canini" which I hope is correct.

Could you help make a modified version of the hierarchy, to be more informative, perhaps something like the following? :

• Canidae: family of allcanids, which includecanini (domestic dogs, wolves, jackals, coyotes, and other dog-like mammals) andvulpini (true foxes)
  • Caninae, the sub-family of justcanini (is that correct?) which includes several genuses (?)
    • Canis, a genus including dogs, wolves, coyotes, and jackals
      • Dog, the domestic dog

Help! I just wanted to edit the hierarchy at the dab page based on the corresponding articles, to make the dab page more useful. Can you possibly fix it up, and/or let me know how to? It is beyond what I can do, it seems. Editors sometimes say there is "no deadline" to making the Wikipedia perfect, but it would be nice to get this fixed up sooner rather than later, if there is indeed something wrong, IMHO. No problem if you cannot address this. Either way, thank you for your direct contributions plus the moaning which is an indirect one. :) --doncram21:12, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Responding on your talk page.Elf |Talk01:56, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, that was quick! Thank you for the encouragement to go ahead, that helps a lot. Okay and then i am not so puzzled any more, having browsed a bit. The fact thatCaninae has 3 "basal"genuses(sp?) genera is not what I thought it meant (i incorrectly thot it meant basic? and that the three were being presented possibly as an exclusive list); there's a whole lot more genera includingCanis genus within it, as shown in the infobox. It helps to look at the infobox, apparently part of some comprehensive system of them! And whatever the recent "revisions of the subfamily" were (which worried me), they didn't change that. Certainly the Caninae article could/should say a bit more, even just drawing from its genera articles, and i now feel confident enough to go ahead and add to it. I will add the maybe-obvious-to-some but totally necessary statement IMHO that it includesCanis which includes dogs. And Caninae doesn't include the vulpini, it seems to be synonymous to canini, so I can revise the explanation of hierarchy on the dab page, too.

Very funny, yourUser:Elf#The horrible addiction...and recovery? tabulation is! :) Yikes, I have climbed back up to 223, after dropping pretty far from a peak of a couple years ago, somewhere around 170. It's because I have gotten into the disambiguation task, and even ended up "winning" the AugustMonthly Dab Challenge (though I promise I tried to do all good edits, and did other good work behind the scenes to help improve the general quality of dabbing going on). Very sick of me. :( Your 3579 is much better. Oh, i see your two very active years were 11 to 9 or so years ago, I don't know how i got the impression it was up to 2013. Congratulations! Thanks again for your complaining and encouragement, both helpful. :) cheers, --doncram03:28, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

another pic, and you've got mail... --doncram04:53, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Ouch. You are correct, DPL bot. I checked all the others, but this was a last-minute added link and I did not check it. Leaving this here to remind myself in the future. (Maybe.)Elf |Talk16:35, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi,This image was seemingly uploaded prior to current image polices, Thank you.

However, as part of ongoing efforts to ensure all media on English Wikipedia is correctly licensed and attributed it would be appreciated if you were able to confirm, that it was your own work, by marking it as{{own}}, amending the{{information}} added by a third party, and by changing the license to an appropriate "self" variant. You can also add|claimed=yes to the{{media by uploader}} tag if it is present to indicate that you've acknowledged the image, and license shown (and updated the{{information}} where appropriate).

This will assist those reviewing the many many "free" images on commons that have not yet been transfered to Commons.Sfan00 IMG (talk)14:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It would be helpful if you could update other uploads of yours as well :)Sfan00 IMG (talk)16:03, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,This image was seemingly uploaded prior to current image polices, Thank you.

However, as part of ongoing efforts to ensure all media on English Wikipedia is correctly licensed and attributed it would be appreciated if you were able to confirm, that it was your own work, by marking it as{{own}}, amending the{{information}} added by a third party, and by changing the license to an appropriate "self" variant. You can also add|claimed=yes to the{{Media by uploader}} or{{Presumed self}} tag(s) if present to indicate that you've acknowledged the image, and license shown (and updated the{{information}} where appropriate).

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Done.Elf |Talk02:42, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,This image was seemingly uploaded prior to current image polices, Thank you.

However, as part of ongoing efforts to ensure all media on English Wikipedia is correctly licensed and attributed it would be appreciated if you were able to confirm, that it was your own work, by marking it as{{own}}, amending the{{information}} added by a third party, and by changing the license to an appropriate "self" variant. You can also add|claimed=yes to the{{Media by uploader}} or{{Presumed self}} tag(s) if present to indicate that you've acknowledged the image, and license shown (and updated the{{information}} where appropriate).

This will assist those reviewing the many many "free" images on commons that have not yet been transferred to Commons.Sfan00 IMG (talk)09:14, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done.Elf |Talk02:42, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,This image was seemingly uploaded prior to current image polices, Thank you.

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This will assist those reviewing the many many "free" images on commons that have not yet been transferred to Commons.Sfan00 IMG (talk)09:15, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done.Elf |Talk02:42, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,This image was seemingly uploaded prior to current image polices, Thank you.

However, as part of ongoing efforts to ensure all media on English Wikipedia is correctly licensed and attributed it would be appreciated if you were able to confirm, that it was your own work, by marking it as{{own}}, amending the{{information}} added by a third party, and by changing the license to an appropriate "self" variant. You can also add|claimed=yes to the{{Media by uploader}} or{{Presumed self}} tag(s) if present to indicate that you've acknowledged the image, and license shown (and updated the{{information}} where appropriate).

This will assist those reviewing the many many "free" images on commons that have not yet been transferred to Commons.Sfan00 IMG (talk)09:16, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done.Elf |Talk02:42, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,This image was seemingly uploaded prior to current image polices, Thank you.

However, as part of ongoing efforts to ensure all media on English Wikipedia is correctly licensed and attributed it would be appreciated if you were able to confirm, that it was your own work, by marking it as{{own}}, amending the{{information}} added by a third party, and by changing the license to an appropriate "self" variant. You can also add|claimed=yes to the{{Media by uploader}} or{{Presumed self}} tag(s) if present to indicate that you've acknowledged the image, and license shown (and updated the{{information}} where appropriate).

This will assist those reviewing the many many "free" images on commons that have not yet been transferred to Commons.Sfan00 IMG (talk)09:17, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done.Elf |Talk02:42, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Has been too long, no idea where it came from back then, except that it was a government image site somewhere where they were for public use. Since it no longer seems to be used anywhere anyway, could certainly be removed if in question.Elf |Talk05:02, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I see that it has been voted to keep. Absolutely right.Elf |Talk00:14, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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See my response on that article's talk page.Elf |Talk00:11, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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I see it's already gone. I agree, after checking, that it's already in Commons.Elf |Talk23:23, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The articleMixed Breed Dog Clubs of America has beenproposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:GNG. The one cited source falls short of WP:SIGCOV, I can find a number of sources that mention the organisation, one provides a similar amount of information whilst the rest provide significantly, therefore they too fail to provide WP:SIGCOV.

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Hi, Elf - since you didn't respond to the ping fromWikipedia talk:WikiProject Dogs#Confirmation request, I thought it best to follow up with a post to see if you are still active onWP:WikiProject Dogs. I'm updating our list of participants and removing those who are no longer active. Please ping if you respond here, or better yet, respond to the ping and let us know if you're still active. Happy editing!Atsme💬📧02:22, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I try very hard to keep my wikipedia activity low these days. Sometimes I look at dog pages that have been edited, sometimes not. So--whatever that means!Elf |Talk20:10, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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FYI: please not comment byAcroterion on mytalk page 4 June 2023. CheersAdakiko (talk)20:03, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you!Elf |Talk20:06, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Establishedpolicy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of October 2024.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available atWikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request atthe bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89bot00:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Establishedpolicy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of October 2024.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available atWikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request atthe bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89bot00:27, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Establishedpolicy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions have been removed.

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Thank you for your past contributions to the project. —xaosflux^Talk14:07, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This was not unexpected. I kept intending to get back to editing like crazy because there is so much work to do! And yet – – my real life has that kind of list also. Best wishes to everyoneElf |Talk16:51, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks!Elf |Talk19:56, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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