User talk:FeralOink

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Dear FeralOink,

The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).

• In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
• In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)

We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:

1. 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
2. In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
3. In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.

Click here to view the top images »

We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.

Thanks,
the Picture of the Year committee

You are receiving this message because you voted in the 2013 Picture of the Year contest.

Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:00, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

07:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Category:Massacred_Civilian_Poles_by_Ukrainians has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you! čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ italiano ∙ magyar ∙ Nederlands ∙ português ∙ polski ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ македонски ∙ русский ∙ українська ∙ ತುಳು ∙ ಕನ್ನಡ ∙ ไทย ∙ עברית ∙ 日本語 ∙ 中文 ∙ +/−

Jmabel ! talk 04:41, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have my gratitude for your most random words of appreciation, all the best!

Adûnâi (talk) 22:08, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, dear Adûnâi! I keep meaning to explain my words of appreciation so that they will not seem so random. I might finally get around to it, 4 months later! I'll stop by your Commons talk page. You were unfairly banished from en:Wiki but a few powerless editors (including me) didn't think that was fair. You were a good contributor.--FeralOink (talk) 16:25, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@FeralOink: Ah, don't make me blush! (And I would probably have been banned anyway considering how a few years ago I saw the Strelkov article use a lying source amounting to a libel against a living person (Girkin always opposed any use of nukes against the Ukraine), and nobody seemed to care).

But if you'd like to get a feel of my Wiki Gnome activity from beyond the grave, I'd like to draw your attention to a few quirks I've found just today:

1) weasel words and atrocious punctuation (lower case after a period) in the "Efforts to Promote Tifinagh" section of the Tifinagh article;

2) "Simple Black Ruthenian" when the Russian translation clearly just says "Russian" in the Belorussian article (but it's probably related to how Ruthenian is a fake term, and that's a bottomless rabit/d hole).

My ban does not extend to other Wikipedia projects, however, and that's how I managed to save the Hitler article from vandalism on the Hindi Wikipedia yesterday (don't worry, the vandalism amounted to deleting all the text there, so it was easy to correct).

And, of course, apologies if this write-up has made you change your view of me to a radical extent, I haven't meant to offend anyone aside from Ahriman :(--Adûnâi (talk) 19:22, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]