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Thank you very much :D Jothefiredragon (talk) 03:56, 22 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
 

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that the page you created, Template:Free and open-source categories, was tagged as a test page under section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion and has been or soon may be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other test edits you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.

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Hi, thank you for this informative message.
The intend usage of that template wasn't clear so it's rather understandable that it got tagged for speedy deletion. My intent is to standardize every categories related to free and open-source in Wikipedia to use the term “free and open-source” in the category name instead of “free” but I figured it'd be more practical to use edit all category tags to utilize templates just in case the term “free and open-source” get changed again in the future.
By the way, do you know if there's any place where I can discuss a lot of categories to potentially move them? Jothefiredragon (talk) 02:31, 28 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:22, 28 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for the heads up 👍 Jothefiredragon (talk) 08:46, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Jothefiredragon,

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username FULBERT, and I thank you for your contributions.

I wanted to let you know, however, that I have tagged Gamers Nexus for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. You may find our guide for writing quality articles to be extremely informative. Also, you may want to consider working on future articles in draft space first, where they cannot be deleted for lacking content.

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FULBERT (talk) 10:06, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@FULBERT: Hello. The article Gamers Nexus currently doesn't have any content at all. However, I originally created the page as a redirect but another user blanked the page without any specific reason. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gamers_Nexus&oldid=1201223591 ) Which to be honest I didn't know is possible Jo the fire dragon 🐉「talk」 10:14, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
But tbh I don't think this redirect would ever be used so I wouldn't mind if it gets deleted. Jo the fire dragon 🐉「talk」 10:22, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Jothefiredragon Thanks for the update. Did you revert the page blanking perhaps, as pages should not be blanked without a reason provided. FULBERT (talk) 10:27, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
@FULBERT: I tried to remove the speedy deletion tag by myself but Wikipedia:Edit filter prevented me from doing so with “The creator of a page may not remove a speedy deletion tag from it.” as the reason. Jo the fire dragon 🐉「talk」 10:44, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Jothefiredragon You may want to contest the deletion via the link with an explanation of what happened, as that will then be seen by an Administrator who can help with this process. FULBERT (talk) 10:54, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
FULBERT, your speedy deletion tagging was improper. It wasn't a blank article per the speedy deletion criterion. You should have restored the redirect rather than tagging for deletion. I have since declined your speedy deletion request and restored the redirect. ~ GB fan 11:23, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
@GB fan Thanks for your clarification and fixing this issue. FULBERT (talk) 13:15, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello Jo, just wanted to let you know that I added your guestbook here and also signed it. See you around! Volten001 ☎ 09:20, 26 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you very much :) Jothefiredragon🐲talk🐉edits 08:29, 27 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
You're most welcome. Happy editing 🤛 Volten001 ☎ 11:50, 27 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
You too! Jothefiredragon🐲talk🐉edits 14:45, 27 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ayy bro, just wanna say, happy late April Fool's 2024! Hope you're doing well. Btw, I hope we could resolve our problem on Verbal ASE article, which you can still look up here! Oh, also, I've done my April Fools' plan, but, may not be similar to what I've talk on my userpage (if you read). You can look up the April Fool's today, on Wikipedia! Thank you for kindly reading this message.

Truly yours,

  Qadri223 Talk or discuss only my contributions to the Wikipedia 07:41, 2 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, apologies for the late response, a lot was going on irl.
As for the Verbal ASE article, now I came to think that there's no point in keeping the article as the person is no longer relevant (nor the related memes).
Also it should be mentioned that I'm way more active on Thai Wikipedia than on English Wikipedia.
Best regards, Jothefiredragon🐲talk🐉edits 21:47, 5 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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May your "downtime " always be the relaxing kind.

:(

Jo the Fire Dragon's device ran into a problem and needs to restart in a loop forever

Your insistence on including mention of Microsoft may yet pay off. Thank you for always reiterating your concern civilly, despite the frustration of being ignored repeatedly.

And thank you for responding quickly, during the second move discussion, to my synthesis idea of Windows system outages. (Of course, I'm biased, because you responded positively to my newest suggestion. I wasn't sure you would, since Microsoft and Windows aren't the same concept.)

Jruderman (talk) 03:52, 4 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

I eulogize your kind words. Sorry I didn't respond earlier as I was too worried that I might not sound nice to you enough.
As for Talk:2024 CrowdStrike incident/Archive 3#Requested move 30 July 2024; we'll have to wait and see how it turns out.
Cordially,
Jo the fire dragon Jothefiredragon🐲talk🐉edits 06:23, 7 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
 

The article Thai Linux Working Group has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not notable enough

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@Arijit Kisku I'm going to be honest with you. I'm not in a good mood. So please excuse in advance if I come off as rude. But don't you think it'd be better taking the article to a formal AFD? Jothefiredragon🐲talk🐉edits 19:29, 24 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Jothefiredragon don't be RUDE man
I understand that everyone has their off days. I didn’t mean to cause any frustration. My goal is simply to ensure the guidelines are followed, and I’m happy to go through the process if that’s more appropriate.
Arijit Kisku (talk) 19:38, 24 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Module:Foss has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 17:12, 10 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Jothefiredragon. Thank you for your work on K2D. Another editor, MPGuy2824, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

please convert this into a disambiguation page. k2d is also something to do with human genetics.

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