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Hi, you can sign your messages with 4 tildes (Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:41, 18 May 2012 (UTC)). I've restored the article. I can't that it's unambiguously an infringement of the claimed page Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:41, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

GA review of Ghana

I have taken on the review of the article Ghana that you nominated for GA. I hope you will be able to respond to my comments on the article's talk page. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:05, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

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Barnstar

The Guestbook Barnstar
For being the 10th to sign my guestbook.

A520 | Talk me away!/sign it! 15:03, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you!

Hi, thanks for the barnstar! The IP who vandalised you user page was blocked for a week. It wasn't just your user page, they had done it on quite a few! Cheers, --Chip123456 (talk) 19:34, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Ghana wants you on board

Do you know that there's actually some few people, including myself, trying to establish[Wikimedia Ghana]?

Since you are Ghanaian, and an excellent contributor to the wikis, you're well qualified to be part of the Wikimedia Ghana. The official email of the Wikimedia Ghana is wikimedia@gmail.com

Please get in touch with us soon as we are currently in need of determined and dedicated editors like you!

Nkansahrexford (talk) 22:11, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Sure is a great opportunity

That surely is a great opportunity.

Will surely love to chit-chat with you because we need people like you to push this foundation forward. Its quite unfortunate how Ghanaians

Do add me up here on Google + https://plus.google.com/107174506890941499078/about Thanks

Nkansahrexford (talk) 13:43, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Windows Phone upgradeability

Hi Gregory. I reverted your change on the Windows phone article. Neither Microsoft nor its partners have made any official statements on whether devices running Windows Phone 7.5 will be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8. The references given by another user are blogs that are relying on Hearsay. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:40, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

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Hi Greg, Just a note for when you close AfD's (and since when did non-admins close AfD's? – although I do understand that consensus was pretty clear): please follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Administrator instructions. You did indeed put the formatting on the AfD request page itself, but you did not remove the notice from the Retina display page. You also need to post a banner on the talk page stating that the article had gone through AfD before. This helps others know the article's history better, especially if and when they want to bring the article back to AfD a second time. Thanks, Airplaneman ✈ 05:54, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

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