User talk:Sirana

Welcome to Wikipedia![edit]

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Thank you for experimenting with World Chess Championship. Your test worked, and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. --Ioannes Pragensis 15:50, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Classical World Chess Championship 2004[edit]

Many thanks for formatting the results table. BlueValour 15:29, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

sure thing Sirana 17:36, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Templeton Prize[edit]

Many thanks for your comments on this (Templeton Prize) - you're spot on! Tompagenet 14:34, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs[edit]

Hello Sirana! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 943 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Glen Duncan - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 22:39, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open![edit]

Hello, Sirana. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]