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Thank you
Thank you for your nomination. It was a nice surprise on the evening when Santa Claus places gifts into our shoes here in Hungary. :) Borsoka (talk) 18:15, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
 * You very much deserve it. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:25, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXVIII, December 2016
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News
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Nomination for MilHist newcommer
I'm very honoured by your nomination. Thank you Robert Brukner (talk) 03:12, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * You're very welcome. Best of luck! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:58, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy Saturnalia!

 * Thanks, Ealdgyth. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:58, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Eretria (Shannara)
Now that there's some notability, I've been working on an article for this character. I notice that you also created one a long time ago, so I thought I'd let you know that it's back. -- James26 (talk) 12:04, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Seems like a lifetime ago. Nice work! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:58, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Do note that there was once a Template:The Sword of Shannara that I can restore if you create several of these articles, assuming there's enough refs for them. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:59, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the compliment! I'm only familiar with Elfstones, so I probably won't be creating articles for characters from Sword. -- James26 (talk) 19:35, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

I am led to understand
That you are of the opinion that filmographies do not need to be sourced. As an academic concerned with rampant plagiarism at wikipedia, and the practical impossibility that tracing sources via wikilink places on student and other readers (as well as the explicit statements in WP:VER that wikilinks do not satisfy the requirement for sources)—all this makes incomprehensible an opinion that such blocks of non-"sky is blue" purported factual material need not be sourced. By any widely accepted standard (for instance this), this removes all film and other arts related articles with such lists as being anything other than IMDB-copied or -comparable untrustworthy sources of content (and so off of any reading lists we might offer). This is all the more the case, since the vast majority of high traffic articles are BLP-focused. Reply here with the argument to the contrary? Le Prof [Leprof_7272] 73.210.155.96 (talk) 08:02, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 December 2016
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Holiday card

 * Thanks, . Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:56, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

 * Many thanks, . Same to you! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:06, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Revolt of the Lash
The article Revolt of the Lash you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Revolt of the Lash for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nick-D -- Nick-D (talk) 06:41, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Nick! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:06, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
 * No worries, and sorry for the delays - your response coincided with a crazy busy period at work, and I must have been too zonked to have seen it when I got home. Nick-D (talk) 00:08, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
 * No problem at all—I had honestly forgotten about it too, and you may have never seen it because I messed up the ping. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:17, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

 * Same to you, . Always happy to see your name pop up on my watchlist from time to time. :-) Hope life is treating you well! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 02:20, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:40, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Same to you, ! :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:58, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Alc. poisoning
Another apparent methanol poisoning – 32 dead. Sca (talk) 16:34, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Eek. 'Tis the season, apparently. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:58, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

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South American dreadnought race - Translation in French
Hello The ed17,

No, the only people to thanks is you, because you have made most of the work. Unfortunatly, in the French article there are a lot of red links, that is why I can not propose it to a label at the moment. Anyway, I have discovered on your page two gold mines (first one and the second one which include articles about French battleships that we do not have). I am going to finish a translation about a broken dam in America and I think I will have a look to Argentine–Chilean naval arms race. I wish you a happy new year. Skiff (talk) 10:16, 31 December 2016 (UTC)