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Boxes like that usually don't work too well when there's an infobox or image near the space as it would mess up some text on resolutions. I'm all for having something like this, but the concern I had was that it could conflict with the things I've stated above. I'd also like to note when I did remove them, they had been mixed in with the table of contents, and I wasn't sure how it'd be fixed.

What I was hoping to suggest for this would be to make it into a navigational box that would go on the bottom. If you're not to sure what I mean, see Template:Japanese go titles. It seems fine right now, as it doesn't conflict with the table of contents or anything else.

I apologize as I had no intention of removing such a thing. CanbekEsen 18:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have a protection template on your user page. If you would like your user page to be semiprotected, I have no objection to doing it on your behalf. If not, it would better to remove the tag, since it adds your page to administrative categories of protected pages. CMummert · talk 19:28, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Cosnahang. Just to say thanks for all that co-ordinates work. I am feeling a little shell shocked from Doops and someone doing something constructive is much more like it. Rosser 10:15, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. I have sorted the Ayrshire sites into the appropriate local authority area if that was what was hampering your efforts. I think I have got them all placed correctly. Thanks. Rosser 21:36, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - based on your interests on your userpage, I thought you might be interested in WikiProject Central Asia. Check us out! Aelfthrytha (talk) 03:29, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I never saw JRE templates, but I think that JRE/JR East is too complicated an amalgamation. I chose JR East since it would ease confusion as it's intended to have s-rail for all JR subsidiaries. I'd say that we keep the ones that we have now and use JR East for future lines (but that's me being biased) as JR Central ones have been created and it's better to be conforming on Wikipedia. Geoking66_talk —Preceding comment was added at 23:26, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about not answering, but I guess that the issue is now settled. Thanks for bringing it up, I was actually worried that something like this was being implemented but that I wouldn't be able to find it. Geoking66_talk 12:03, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not change the names of articles, like you did for Fukushima Station (Fukushima). Those names are the result of naming conventions by the Japan train project. As for the rationale that the S-line template requires a name ending in Station, that is obviously not the case. See the first example in Template_talk:S-line (Making it Work), where Chicago is linked to Union Station (Chicago). I suggest that if you want to add the S-line template to Japanese train station articles, then you should figure out how to use the template correctly, and not to break the current naming conventions established by the project. Neier (talk) 01:47, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Another solution might be to create redirects in the form you think the template needs, for the time being. That is essentially what has happened with Fukushima; albeit in a roundabout manner. Neier (talk) 07:23, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like I may have overwrote your fix, just as you were fixing it; but I swear I didn't see any edit conflict messages. The {{JR East stations}} was the piece of the puzzle I couldn't find this morning. Anyway, it is all put back the way it was, with the exception of a few extra lines in the stations template which won't hurt anything. Neier (talk) 12:29, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I found your new edits to sheikh dahir aways very useful,I am a big fan of wikipedia and i come here to read about somali article,in the mean time,i contribute to the wiki by correcting some mistakes when ever i come across. Mr.cosnahang,I Think i am in a revert war with a fellow wikipedian user [[1]][ref],the article is about siad barre,It is historically known that siad barre was the president of somalia And also a dictatorfor 21 years as he assumed absolute power.I have stated relibale sources from newyork times [[2]][ref]. but user middayexpress keeps deleting when ever i add the word dictator in the articel. I believe that is against the wikipedian policy of neutrality,and i think he is doing so because of clan affiliation.--Maxwell somali (talk) 08:43, 5 May 2009 (UTC) --Maxwell somali (talk) 08:23, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! If you have any suggestions for improvement, they would be welcome. I don't know about barnstars, I think you just link to one of the barnstar image files. Adam Bishop (talk) 20:45, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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