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You're always welcome to award me another one ;) hehehe.

I'm glad someones enjoying them. I am rather enjoying researching them and writing them. I've only got 4 more monasteries in Derbyshire to create articles for, so I have absolutely no idea how I will spend my time when they're done! lol

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Rushton2010 (talk) 23:54, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

And your reply gave me a first see of how the new Echo notifications system works. Rather missing the orange banner, though. Are you from Derbyshire, like myself, or further afield? Sir Rcsprinter, Bt (confer) @ 00:37, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

You can always disable it at preferences, Sir Rcs. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 01:23, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

user:rcsprinter123/Not Rcs. Sir Rcsprinter, Bt (speak) @ 15:22, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

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Hi there,

Don't know if you noticed, but something seems to have gone wrong with the picture you added to Tom Levitt.

Cheers WhaleyTim (talk) 22:03, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello Tim - it's been deleted mysteriously, so I've asked why. Sir Rcsprinter, Bt (cackle) @ 06:34, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Can you adopt me :D

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	Thanks for your support of my RfA. It didn't succeed this time, but that's no reason not to have some nice pierogi. Cheers, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:24, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

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Sorry to shoot emails and talk-page messages within minutes: do we have a source for the HK and London estimates of attendees? Tony (talk) 12:56, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Not as such, I got the figures from when I made the graph using predictive software based on the past rate of attendee escalation manipulating the numbers up into the future going higher and higher as the event becomes more popular. I wouldn't be surprised if we got more than 2000 people coming. Sir Rcsprinter, Bt (orate) @ 15:12, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

OK, I'm ready. Arctic Kangaroo 15:23, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Good, the test is there waiting for you. Remember you don't need to post on my talkpage unless I haven't responded for a while; I can see on the adoption page when you are ready. Sir Rcsprinter, Bt (post) @ 19:49, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

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Hi TWA folks!

It's been a long time since we worked on The Wikipedia Adventure together, but this spring I proposed the game for an Individual Engagement Grant and it was accepted :)

I spent the last two months refining the script and getting ready to build the game using Guided tours. I am working with an amazing designer and getting expert curation tips from the Grant program leader.

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	I noticed that you do a lot of WP:DELSORT-related work on AfDs. Thanks for your hard work! Edge3 (talk) 09:28, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Sir Rcsprinter, Bt (yak) @ 11:43, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

As the closing editor for the Conversion Hub AfD a couple of days ago, I wanted to make you aware that the editor that listed the article for deletion has re-listed it after your no concensus closure Adel4570 (talk) 14:11, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I saw. Sir Rcsprinter, Bt (lecture) @ 14:24, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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Oh, right... what's the difference? Sir Rcsprinter, Bt (talkin' to me?) @ 11:37, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

I would have hoped that the difference was obvious. F2 is used in a case such as File:Varg fotograferad pa Polar Zoo Norge (6).jpg where someone had created just a description page containing "Gaby is cool". F8 is used where actual images exist on both Commons and Wikipedia. I did check the first time you tagged the bus image with F2 - if the Common image had been there at the time, I would have accepted the F2 tag, deleted the image and told you to use F8 in future. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:50, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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