User talk:James Bowes

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AfD etiquette[edit]

If you want to respond to a comment I've made, the proper way to do it is to start a new line after my signature, use a colon (:) to indent and then make your response, rather than adding the text in between my comment and the signature. I've moved your comment on the Moldova national rugby league team accordingly and responded, but you should bear that in mind in future. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 11:15, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, just remember this policy. You're welcome to have views about articles, contributors and arguments, but when you start namecalling there will be problems. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 11:23, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother you again, but can you try to remember to sign your comments in AfDs? Just type four tildes (~) after your name, which wil expand to your username and the date/time the comment was left. It makes life a lot easier for admins or other users trying to follow who said what and when. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 11:34, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BUECU[edit]

References to Andy Weatherly in the BUECU article made me chuckle and wonder - you wouldn't be doing it yourself, or know who is doing it?

(BTW, Andy Weatherly is no longer a CUSW and thus has very limited association with BUECU.)TheologyJohn 12:12, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rugby Barnstars[edit]

		Rugby Barnstar
		For your contributions to Rugby related articles, Oddbodz (talk) 20:53, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Ways to improve Conference League South[edit]

Hi, I'm Kieranian2001. James Bowes, thanks for creating Conference League South!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Reviewed as part of page curation. Short article on Rugby League. Needs references for verification. I added it to Rugby League category also stub tag.Kieranian2001 (talk) 14:47, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Cumbria Men's League[edit]

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ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

James Bowes (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I can't believe I got banned for no reason, I had only just logged on and made two constructive and productive edits to Wikipedia and then some sad jobsworth nerd came on and blocked me immediately without warning. (talk) 16:34, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Obvious disruptive editing, no warning needed or deserved. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 16:14, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Including personal attacks in your unblock request is unlikely to help your case. DonIago (talk) 15:27, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your ability to edit this talk page has been revoked as an administrator has identified your talk page edits as inappropriate and/or disruptive.

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