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		For over 100 article reviews during 2021. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:22, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Maile66! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy 16th anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! Please accept the belated invitation below we meant to have offered you last year. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:09, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Maile66,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 19:09, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I added the icon to my user page — Maile (talk) 21:41, 25 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

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@SL93: Have you by any chance seen Sealioning? Just saying ... life is too short to respond to someone who does this. — Maile (talk) 12:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:47, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Lovely thoughtfulness. — Maile (talk) 01:10, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

	The Master of Salad Award
	Awarded to Maile66 for staying strong, Popeye-strong, even in the face of UTTER LACK OF NOTABILITY. That's how we're going to win this war! ;) Drmies (talk) 13:10, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I proudly accept the award. If your ESP is working, you should now be seeing me taking my bows. — Maile (talk) 13:15, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was driving to work but I think I felt something--then again maybe I've been playing Tonight's the Night too often. How's it going Maile? Still here after all these years, I see: thank you for that. Ima go see what other AfDs you been in, just to mess with you. Take care! Drmies (talk) 14:37, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maile, it may be the Dutchman in me, but when I look at Hofstra University rape hoax I'm tempted to delete this on the spot as a BLP violation! Drmies (talk) 14:39, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome to look through my edits of anything, as far as I'm concerned. I have no idea what you are getting at here. But there have been a lot of AFDs ... just within the last 12 months. The thing about AFD is, like all of Wikipedia, anybody can join in, regardless if they know WP's complicated, and often conflicting, guidelines on anythig and anybody. And you can often find a WP guideline to justify any direction of something. — Maile (talk) 16:18, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just joking, my friend--but I'm glad I saw that Hofstra thing. You run into these old things and you wonder how they got written up in the first place, and how they managed to stay around. How long do you think our project will last? Drmies (talk) 16:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The overall Wikipedia project? I believe it will out-live me. Judging from the Deceased Wikipedians/2024, Jimbo Wales dreamed up a doozie of international connections when he created Wikipedia. We all have become an international family. — Maile (talk) 20:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Maile66! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:34, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! What a nice gesture. — Maile (talk) 02:35, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Maile66, I checked some of User:Kartal1071's articles (some of which you marked as reviewed), and they contained copyright violations. Not only that, they were in need of copyedit(yet you did not tag them as needing copyedit), and the references were sfn without the actual references- so I was wondering on what basis you reviewed them? DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) 15:19, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks to me like the sourcing and eternal links were non-English, which I would not have been able to read. Obviously, my errors. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please feel free to revert my edits. Thanks for telling me, so I can be more careful next time.— Maile (talk) 15:55, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]