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Proposed deletion of Michael Toner (journalist)


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Hawkins
Thanks for this. Good little biography. Cheers! —  Cliftonian   (talk)  12:31, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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Red links
Hello AlexdeGrey! I reverted your removal of red links at Template:RAF generals because red links are not inherently wrong. As per WP:REDLINKS, "It is useful while editing articles to add a red link to indicate that a page will be created soon or that an article should be created for the topic because the subject is notable and verifiable." In this case, the two red links on the template are notable individuals who qualify for an article but having had one created. Red links (hopefully) encourage people to create these articles. I have since created Frederick Heath-Caldwell, but because you removed the link in the template, again, it wasn't being linked from it. I hope this explains why I reverted your edits. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 23:00, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Ways to improve Frederick Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baronet
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Speedy deletion nomination of Frederick Charles Keyser


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Bruce Belfrage
Hi, and thanks for your very useful recent edits on Bruce Belfrage. However, I had some difficulty with some of your citations and thought I'd ask you to consider reviewing them before my jumping in with remedial action. For instance, here you provide ". which appears to lack specificity, or any help in accessing the reference or its page number. In fact "auto1" is used three times and possibly requires a page number each time. Your second citation (Liberal candidates in 1950) is OK and covers St Johns and modern languages. I would suggest including the page number (p.10). Likewise, a page number would be useful for the citation of One man in his time. Again, here, the ref " " leads to an uninformative page, having no value as verification. Similarly, the bomb episode citation could benefit from having the relevant title included ("BH becomes casualty of war") Enough for now but I promise to give what assistance I can in helping you to improve this article. My interest comes from the fact that in the 1970s I was part of Joyce's first media class at Macquarie. Cheers, Bjenks (talk) 16:37, 28 June 2019 (UTC)


 * OK, if no reply after 7 days I'll go ahead and edit myself. Cheers, Bjenks (talk) 02:14, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

MESSAGE TO BJENKS, 3 July 2019

Please take a fresh look at the page itself. You will see that I made extensive edits on 29 June 2019 and 30 June 2019 to improve the referencing. Please note that I did not create the page. Regards, AlexdeGrey (talk) 06:46, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks--yes, you've put in good work and long hours there! I'll see what I can do to help. Bjenks (talk) 17:22, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of E. E. Cammack


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Tony Claydon
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Precious
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