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Hi Aude,
File:FrankMorphscapePose2.jpg got renamed to File:Frank Klepacki on an insert photo of his Morphscape album.jpg on Commons. File:FrankMorphscapePose2.jpg is in use only on Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 5, 2007 but I can't change it because I'm no sysop on en.wikipedia. Can you please change it for me?
kind regards --D-Kuru (talk) 17:12, 12 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Aude,

I wanted to ping you about the Arabic task force, I understood from an email from Eugene that you took some steps to push the ball forward. There are a couple of members of the task force in addition to me (Histolo2 and Nadia) that are definitely still interested and willing to contribute. I understand we are running out of time, how about we hold an IRC or skype chat meeting to discuss how to get this thing moving? I dont have much time but I definitely have 4-6 hours per week I can spare for this. Let me know what you think, thanks. --Shipmaster (talk) 04:25, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for being willing to help with the task force. Whatever amount of time you have is good. I posted on the strategy:Talk:Task force/Arabic page. An IRC meeting would also be good. --Aude (talk) 22:04, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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You deleted Jason Durham, with a WP:CSD#G6. I am trying to keep a record of why articles I started were deleted. Forgive me if I requested deletion. Would you please look up the article, and clarify, for my notes, why it was deleted?

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Hey -- just created a page for DC10, hope you can make it, and will you help me spread it around? Also, not really a bot-guy, but I think people have used bots in the past to spread meetup info around. Know anything about this?--rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 15:40, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. I've done a lot of work to making pin maps on wikipedia from OpenStreetMap, recently I created en:Template:Location map Norway Oslo actually to display landmarks!! However I just came across the geohack on German wiki. When you click the geo globe on German wiki now it features on the open street map at different zoomable levels without having to leave the site. This would absolustely ideal for english wikipedia and end a long term disagreement over set pin maps and to provide the option for zoomable maps iwthin wikipedia itself. Could you please import the technology they are using on German wikipedia to display open street maps within the wiki site itself. This would be perfect and would mean we could probably not bother with the city pins. Would it be possible to display these zoomable open street maps within article infoboxes themselves? An example. See Harris Theater. If we had the zoomable open street map within the infobox theatre we would not need that pin locator. By default there could be none but a "Click map" option within the infobox. When you click it, it would then display the open street map zoomable as shown here [here. Can you do this? It would be extremely beneficial to us. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:18, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We are working on some implementation of maps on Wikipedia, using OpenStreetMap data. This would allow automatically generating maps, based on parameters (e.g. coordinates), and at some point we also want such interactive maps. Please join the Wikimedia mailing list that has more discussion about this. [1] Cheers. --Aude (talk) 11:02, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I just noticed that you were working on cleaning up some of the Arlington Cemetery articles and I wanted to mention I am working on creating a list of Medal of Honor recipients buried there as well as adding articles for those that are buried there that don't already have an article. Just thougth you would like to know. --Kumioko (talk) 18:18, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Check out the new things that the Smithsonian is offering us! Sadads (talk) 15:41, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Aude/Archive12! We are looking for editors to join the Smithsonian Institution collaboration, an outreach effort which aims to support collaboration such as Wiki-Academies, article writing, and other activities to engage the Smithsonian Institution in Wikipedia. We thought you might be interested, and hope that you will join us. Thanks!!!

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Please check out the conversation at Wikipedia talk:GLAM/SI#First workshop session, thanks Sadads (talk) 22:26, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, the final date and time for the first Workshop has been set. If you want to sign up for the team check out Wikipedia:GLAM/SI, Sadads (talk) 19:38, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Just to make sure, I meant the Tuesday the 10th, sorry.Sadads (talk) 02:38, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I have joined OSM, and used it as a tool for adding Schuylkill River bridges to Wikipedia, but I have no idea how I would contribute to OSM. Will you be at the NYC event on Saturday, or only on Sunday? Perhaps I will see you there. --DThomsen8 (talk) 15:41, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was good to meet you at the NYC conference. Now I am attempting a rather minor edit, and cannot figure out how to do it. Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia is shown twice, and the second one, at 4th and Walnut, is actually the Todd House. See [[2]]. How do I change the name? --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:02, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good to meet you at Wiki-Conference NYC and happy to see you editing OSM. :)

For Carpenters Hall, I see it twice too, and I also see Todd House (just one).

• Carpenters Hall #1 - added by an individual OSM contributor
• Carpenters Hall #2 - added from Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) data import into OSM
• Todd House - added from GNIS

Some GNIS data is correct (especially names) but the locations are often inaccurate. In this case, I recommend keeping Carpenters Hall #1 (feel free to tweak the location), and delete (in Potlatch "edit" mode, select the node/point hit "delete" key). Adjust the location of Todd House.

In this case, you are deleting the "bad" data point and moving Todd House (no renaming). If you want to rename something, just go into edit mode, single click on the node (point), and the editor should show you the attributes/tags. You can change any of the tags, delete or add any additional tags. (guide to tags)

Just editing the points is totally okay, but once you feel more comfortable with editing, feel free to draw outlines (polygon) of the buildings and put the labels (name=___, building=yes, tourism=attraction, historic=yes) on them, and then remove the points (as redundant).

Cheers. --Aude (talk) 20:25, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I succeeded in removing all the tags from Carpenters Hall #2, but the green dot is still there. Can you remove that? --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:30, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It looks better! I could remove it but would prefer if you can learn how to. Here is a tutorial page about the editor:

• https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch/Primer#Editing_an_existing_way

What you need to do is:

• Click on the point to remove
• Press Ctrl-Delete (or Backspace)
• Click save

Let me know if this doesn't work and I can take a look. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 21:38, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Now I don't see any green dots there, and the correct Carpenters Hall is shown on wider views, but not in closer views. The First Bank of the United States is not there at all. Sorry, but I am giving up for now. Too much of a learning curve, when I can do more right here. --DThomsen8 (talk) 10:42, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I hope to do an OSM workshop sometime in Philadelphia. Not sure when/where but hope you would come and can learn more. Once you get the hang of it, then it's fun to add things to the map. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 15:05, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Aude - I am new to this project and I had a question for you. Instead of posting it on the discussion page and since there are not too many members listed as part of the project, I wanted to bring it directly to you. I was working on adding some resources to the September 11th closing/cancellations page and I was wondering if I could have your 2 cents on something. There was a tag added on the closures section that the section does not list any references, but after my additions and some other pre-existing ones, there are now 4 legitimate, referenced citations on this section listed. It's far from perfect, but the tag is no longer warranted for attention. Since I'm new, I didn't want to ruffle any feathers. Can we remove it? Thanks in advance :). WiiAlbanyGirl (talk) 22:34, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to remove the tag. The references look good and thank you for making improvements! Cheers. --Aude (talk) 20:26, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks,Aude. I look forward to contributing more in the future. WiiAlbanyGirl (talk) 18:13, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Aude. Just wanted to pick your brain on a couple new points. 1 is the notability issue of the Stairwell_A article. It had a nonsourced tag, which I removed because I added a citation directly from the 9/11 commission report to it. Also, Stairwell A is directly mentioned more than once in the 9th chapter of the Commission report as the sole, intact staircase in the South Tower. I wanted to know if you feel that this specific mentioning in the commission report warranted our removal of the notability tag. I think that its mention makes it notable, but then it would need to be added to our wikiproject and be accepted by the whole group.

Also, I added 2 sources to the survivors section of the Casualities page regarding the WTC specifically. Someone had incorrectly stated that Stairwell B was the only intact stairway after impact on the South Tower and had a significant lack of information (which I corrected with 2 citations). However, there's something that I am calling into question since it is unsourced. The Casualities article mentions that 'only 23 survivors who were in or below the towers escaped from the debris, including 15 rescue workers', but my Time magazine source (which I mentioned in the article and can be seen [3] seems to refute the fact by saying "(Giselle Guzman-McMillian) became the last of just four people caught in the debris to be found alive. (An additional 14, mostly fire fighters, survived relatively unscathed in a lower part of stairway B that stayed upright.)" I would have changed it myself but I wasn't sure if you've seen or heard of a source that backs up the original article's claim.

I'd love to hear your input on both points. Thanks, Aude! I am loving being a part of this project, for sure! I hope you enjoy my contributions as well. WiiAlbanyGirl (talk) 00:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome to WikiProject Screencast! I look forward to meeting you this weekend! --Another Believer _(Talk) 16:39, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Aude, it was a pleasure meeting and working with you this past weekend. Perhaps we will work together again in the future--until then, best wishes! Oh, and good luck on the articles you are currently working on. --Another Believer _(Talk) 18:56, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Very awesome to meet you!!! You did great work, look forward to seeing you at some future event, and on-wiki :) --Aude (talk) 17:31, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi – you're listed at Wikipedia:Portal/Directory as one of the maintainers of this portal, which is looking rather neglected at the moment and would seem to fail current standards for featured portals. I've raised a few issues on the talk page which might be of interest to you if you'd like the portal to keep its bronze star. Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 12:33, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Haven't worked on portals for a very long time... really no time available now for that kind of work. Sorry. --Aude (talk) 17:30, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Aloha. I was wondering if you could help me clean up the commons category a little? (commons:Category:WikiProject Screencast). I'm not very familiar with categories in general, and at commons not at all...

• Possibly some subcats would be appropriate? (eg. the content seems to be mostly split between: "mobile screencast videos", "behind-the-scenes videos and pictures", "test materials for script 1")
• This file (commons:File:Assembling material screencast.ogv) has no audio, and should be deleted or redirected in favor of this file (commons:File:WP-Screencast-KO-Script3.ogv).

Those are just suggestions, and possibly you can see a better solution. No rush, I'm just making notes as I find things that need doing :)

Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 18:10, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deletions are easy... done. I'll need to look at categories later. (please ping me if I forget) Cheers. --Aude (talk) 19:59, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, your test was successful! ;-) --Kim Bruning (talk) 16:16, 11 October 2010 (UTC) I[reply]

Hey Aude, any idea why I was on the list of users to receive the invite notices for Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 12? Cheers, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 07:57, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I compiled a list of users who signed up on past DC meetup pages, either as "Attending", "Maybe", or "No, but inform me about future meetups", then removing people who are retired, been inactive editors for a long while, a few banned users, and people who signed "don't inform me about future meetups". You must have signed one our meetup pages at some point. If not, I'm puzzled how you got on the list and sorry :( Let me know if you want to be removed or you can remove yourself here: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List --Aude (talk) 21:16, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... very odd, I'm intrigued as to how I ended up on there. I certainly don't recall ever having signed up. But no matter, if you could remove me that would be appreciated, I'll not do it myself to avoid messing anything up. I'm also listed at Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List12, not sure if I would need to be removed from there too? - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 21:23, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List12 is specific for this meetup, removing folks that already RSVPed. It won't be reused. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 21:39, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, your nomination of Alexis Rockman at DYK was reviewed and comments provided. --NortyNort (Holla) 10:49, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In advance of the meetup, I thought I'd see if I can get a brief What's-the-Deal for FedFlix? I've actually seen a talk by Malamud and thought he's doing some pretty cool stuff. So I'd be pretty interested in lending a hand to digitization.

Is this a new idea for a WikiProject or something I just hadn't heard of? Are there Wikipedians talking about getting this going? Is there a request list of videos for articles or is it yet to be figured out what videos could go where?

--Qwerty0 (talk) 01:47, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very happy to know you are interested in helping with digitization!!! :) We have been doing digitization for a while now (since ~Feb or before), and I got involved in July. The WikiProject is a new idea, thinking up ways that Wikipedians can (1) help look through what's been digitized, see what could be useful for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, etc. (2) make use of video and other materials digitized (3) get more volunteers involved, both online and offline. I can move the project pages to the Wikipedia namespace in the next few days, though wonder if some of it should be on Wikimedia Commons? Cheers. --Aude (talk) 17:12, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh cool, then I'd love to come on board and see what it's like to help out. I'll ask you about it at the meetup. You're right, sounds like a project that applies to Commons, not just Wikipedia. But if it helps with visibility and involvement maybe leave it on Wikipedia?

--Qwerty0 (talk) 01:21, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks! :) I'm just getting the ball rolling and want to get something in before the Thanksgiving holiday. At the meetup and on-wiki, we can discuss how we want to do future meetups, when, what format, special activities, socializing, etc. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 20:10, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Aude,

I was at our first GLAM presentation for the Smithsonian's American Indian museum. I have a friend who works at the Library of Congress, and last night we were talking about her work, and she mentioned the gigs of hi-res images she's working with. I mentioned the Wikipedia Commons to her, and how they love to host public domain multimedia. I had previously told her about the GLAM presentation for the American Indian museum, so she brought that up and saidhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Aude&action=edit&section=53 we should get in touch with her, and that she knew just who she wanted to forward the information to. I think this could be a good opportunity for the GLAM initiative. Would you email me about this?

Thanks,

—Perceval 23:43, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think we certainly are interested, and need to work on arranging / scheduling things. Perceval, if you in the DC area, it would be awesome if you want to get involved and help? More people we have helping is always a good thing. --Aude (talk) 01:29, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am interested in helping with LOC and SI in any way I can as well. If you send me the list of articles that need to be created (from the EMAIL you sent) I can wikifi it for you. Also in regards to the LOC, do we have a project page setup yet? and do we want to put it under GLAM or under WikiProject United States or both? I think it fits pretty well under either so its fine with me either way. It Might also be a good idea to start setting up a project page like we did for the SI. I can build that if you want as well. That way when we start talks we have a solid launching off point. Let me know what you want to do. I also looked at the categorization for LOC and as with SI there is some work to be done there as well. The LOC currently has far more articles than SI and there are quite a few I found with minimal effort that haven't been tagged at all. --Kumioko (talk) 03:17, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome that you are willing to help out!!!!! :) I'll forward the list of SI articles and post info on WP:GLAM/SI. Articles don't all need to be created, but rather one of those charts generated that show them by quality assessment and importance. That will help Smithsonian folks select a handful that are high importance but low quality; thus, their improvement and help from Smithsonian will make a big impact. (of course, if important articles are missing, they can be created too).

For LOC, we can discuss it at the meetup. (User:Edsu will probably be there) I'm hesitant to get too involved at this point with yet another GLAM project because of lack of capacity (thus far) as a group. At the same time, it would be sad to say *no* to LOC. If you and others step up, then let's go for it. --Aude (talk) 04:28, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I can get the project page setup for the most part in a couple days but I gotta ask a couple groundwork questions.

1. Is the format and layout we used for GLAM/SI ok or do you want me to change it for this one?
2. There are 3 places I can think of to get this going. GLAM, WikiProject Libraries (I don't know how active they are) and WikiProject United States. SI was setup under GLAM and I would say that would work for this too but I know that a lot of the articles for LOC are already tagged with WPUS/DC so we could do that as well. WikiProject District of Columbia, U.S counties and superfunds have begun using the WPUS template collaboratively and I could add LOC pretty easily to that group as well since a large chunk of the articles already have the US and or US/DC banner. But I can do it with the other 2 as well although with WPLibraries we would need to get buy in from them before I go fiddling around in their namespace.
3. I can copy the verbiage for the most part for some of the templates from GLAM/SI so that should be pretty easy. I'll get that started in the next couple days as well.
4. Are you referring to the chart like the ones found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Assessment#Quality and importance tables? If so this requires that the articles contain article quality categories, which is doable for the most part for the articles that are created. Although I might not be the best to determine importance for all of them I could get the assessment piece pretty good.
5. There are several images we could use for the LOC templates. I like this one File:US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg? but there is also:

• • File:US-LibraryOfCongress-Logo.svg
  • File:US-LibraryOfCongress-AltLogo.svg
  • File:US-LibraryOfCongress-Seal.svg
  • others such as a picture of the outside of one of the LOC buildings

I think this is a good start number 2 is the most important because I need to know where to start building the project page. Once we make it its a bit of a headache to move it. --Kumioko (talk) 05:04, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If its ok with you I will start building the project page under WPUS since more than 80% of the LOC articles are already marked as US and DC. If you would prefer it under GLAm thats fine too though. I should be able to get it build over the weekend. --Kumioko (talk) 14:49, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think either putting it under WPUS or WP:GLAM works. If we're dealing substantially with images, then some part might also belong on Wikimedia Commons. (maybe later, once we figure things out). Whatever you do is cool with me :) [PS - I still need to email you the list from the Smithsonian] --Aude (talk) 16:02, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem whenever you get the chance. --Kumioko (talk) 16:35, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(Invading Aude's talk page) I do think it would be kind of nice if it sat under WP:GLAM, so it would fit in comfortably with the GLAM/SI and GLAM/BM projects.--Pharos (talk) 17:07, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I just noticed this. I can but I already started building it here under WPUS.I can move it though if you want. I only thought this would be better since most of the articles are already tagged with WPUS and or WPUS/DC that way we wouldn't have to add another banner. Just let me know what you want me to do though. Also, I still have a lot of work to do on the project page but let me know what you think so far and if you have any suggestions or comments. --Kumioko (talk) 03:44, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh sorry Aude I forgot to mention I took the liberty of adding your name under the members tab under the assumption. I hope thats ok. --Kumioko (talk) 04:22, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok the Shell of the project has been built, the categories have been created, {{WikiProject United States}} has been updated to support it and the project has been displayed at the top of Wikipedia:WikiProject United States in prominance with the other 3 it currently supports. There is still a lot of info that needs to be filled in before were done but I think its a decent start. As I mentioned above if the decision is made that it should go under GLAM then we can make that happen. Please feel free to start adding to what I started or let me know what you need. --Kumioko (talk) 20:55, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Very happy to see the project started! I won't have time to work on it for a few weeks, though but feel free to go forward with it. --Aude (talk) 22:28, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I will. I waited to start tagging the articles until my bot request is approved or denied (apparentyl its unnatural in WP for someone to spend 10 or 12 hours a day editing and rack up 3-5000 edits in a day..lol) but once that comes back I will get cracking on it. If you end up wanting to move it under GLAM as Pharos suggested its doable but as I mentioned before the bulk already have the WPUS/DC tag anyway. Let me know if you need help with anything else. --Kumioko (talk) 22:36, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Aude! Thank you for the award. Its always nice to know one's work is appreciated. I, too, am looking forward to a full return as soon as possible, though when exactly a.s.a.p. will be has yet to be determined by the fates. As they say, life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

At the moment have yet to explore the full fedflix project, though from what little I have read it seems to hold great potential for a number of different projects (milhist included). For what should be obvious reasons I would prefer to wait on lending any assistance to the project until such time as I actually get my tower back up in working condition, since I would prefer that the editing I do not be few and far between such as it were.

On the matter of technical help though two people do come to mind, though I regret that of the two only Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs) lives in the DC area. The other user I can think of who may be in a position to lend technical support to the fedflix project is Stan Shebs (talk · contribs), he is also in the software field and by curious twist has an account on the commons, which may be helpful since I gather that the material you are attempting to get uploaded here may eventually end up there. I hope this helps. TomStar81 (Talk) 08:59, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Aude! I recently got an email from someone with a link to American School for the Deaf, and I looked into the wiki history, and noticed some rather general pattern involving User:Clercfan, namely that his edits are often reverted. I also looked at Clercfan's talk page, and there were numerous criticisms of the failure to follow the guidelines on copyright policy, which had been ongoing over the years. I get the impression that this guy never bothered to read his talk page, and, based on the email, I believe I know who that guy is behind the name Clercfan, and that guy lives in California, and is somewhat well-known in the deaf community (I won't name who here). Of course I have no way of telling whether Clercfan actually lives in California (I have no info on Clercfan's usual IP addresses), or that Clercfan is actually that guy.
At any rate, I thought to flag this user for your attention, and I hope it isn't a distraction or that I made some mistake in my judgment about that user. Thanks for at least looking into it, and possibly taking actions as needed. TheBlueWizard (talk) 16:22, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I can't look into this right now. [I'm waaaaaaaay too busy with real life right now] I hate to refer anyone to the admins' noticeboards but might need to do that here. Try asking on WP:ANI --Aude (talk) 16:08, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas, Aude! Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, whether it's Christmas or some other festival, I hope you and those close to you have a happy, restful time! Have fun, Rock drum Ba-dumCrash (Driving well?) 16:42, 23 December 2010 (UTC) [reply]