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About Pele
Hello dear User. I know you are not very interested in footbal (soccer), but I have one thing to ask you. In the article about Great footbalist Pele (here [1]) I talked about his own confession about gay experiences while he was teen. Nobody responded, so can you advise, can we write about it in article (personal life section) or it is not necessary for Wikipedia. Thanks in advance. 217.76.1.22 (talk) 05:47, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
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Input needed
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CSD tag
You tagged File:Equality Pennsylvania Logo.jpg as F1, did you mean F5?--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:06, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- Yes - that would work as well. For some reason that's not an option on the Twinkle script I was using. It was also technically in use when I did that - but has now been fully replaced. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 16:57, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry to be picky, but my concern is that it was a different color and format, both of which are required for F1. I deleted as F5.--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:43, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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May we use YouTube videos as references?
Hello Varnent.
Thanks for your help.
May we use YouTube videos as References? Maybe as External Links?
Still working on this page, but the are not so many references.
I found some You Tube videos, but from personal accounts, just individuals not media accounts.
Also I found some good videos, but maybe there's a conflict of interest because that account belongs to the person I'm writing about.
Any advice?
Thanks!!
Rcarrillo67 (talk) 08:29, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
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New huggle 3.1 is going to be released soon
Hi Varnent, we are to release a new major version of huggle, but we did receive almost no feedback from our beta testing team, which you are a part of (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members). It would be of a great help if you could download it (if you have windows, all you need to do is getting http://tools.wmflabs.org/huggle/files/huggle3.1.0beta.exe and putting it to a folder where you have installed huggle) and test it. You can always get a help with making it @ #huggle connect!
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Hello Verbena, What is the name of the old man at the beginning of Fifa 2008 Pc game? I am interested in the speech or monolog. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.249.93.109 (talk) 10:11, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
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Mya Byrne/Jeremiah Birnbaum
You seemed to be the one who added the "WikiProject LGBT studies" tag to Jeremiah Birnbaum (now Mya Byrne) which makes me think you have knowledge of this artists transition/coming out. My concern is this, the only sources for the name change are facebook and a blog, both WP:SPS, do you think you could find a more WP:RS? Else, it seems that wikipedia policy would require removal of much of the information, including the LGBT studies tag. CombatWombat42 (talk) 15:26, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
- I cannot speak to the content in the article - you would need to speak to the editors which added that information for clarification. However, I can comment that the tag on the talk page of the article does not require the article itself to be a LGBT person. While there are not technically any actual WikiProject talk page policies - there are numerous examples of this specific project's tag being applied to talk pages where the issue of the person's LGBT identity is often debated for various reason. There has been a consensus that those discussions present an interest to that WikiProject and tagging the talk page (again - not speaking to the content of the article) makes sense. The Tim Cook talk page is just one such example. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 19:50, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
- It looks like it all got sourced in the mean time, thanks for replying though. CombatWombat42 (talk) 21:14, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
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