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January 2009
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Hop Diseases
Do you already know about the article, List of hop diseases? This article is literally just a list of all organisms known to cause disease on hops inlcuding ones that aren't really considered significant. Alot of the individual species articles are only a line or so though. If you google all the species you can get a good idea of their significance just by the number of results. You'll find for series diseases alot of American Universities/The Agricultural Research Service will have a page of useful information about the disease and how to tackle it, which will come up at the top of the search results. You'll also get links to journal articles which I don't know if you'll be able to access, but often the abstracts tell you everything interestings you might want to include! Hope this helps and don't fail to hesitate to contact me again if you have any more questions. Million_Moments (talk) 21:54, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

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--Awinda 12:25, 6 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awinda (talk • contribs)

Vernacular names
I tried to answer your question on my talk page. Will be away for a few days and may not answer promptly. JMK (talk) 13:37, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

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Kasteel Radboud
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 * Actually the page was translated from the Dutch Wikipedia - but I have since edited fairly significantly so I hope this now meets your approval.&amp;Brew 08:12, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Kasteel Radboud
Hello Andbrew.downes,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Kasteel Radboud for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Tco03displays (talk) 21:48, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Translating articles
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Brilliant - thanks for that, it's a bit of a minefield out there ...

Will use the template in future. &amp;Brew 06:33, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

How does 4 tildes work?
When I sign my talk pages with the required tildes is does not save as a signed comment.. is there something I am doing wrong? &amp;Brew 08:27, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Odd - could you just reply below with four tildes so we can see what actually results? If you mean that your signature isn't linked, that's probably because you've changed it in your preferences without creating a link to your userpage - to fix this, go to Special:Preferences and edit your signature to read, then tick the box beneath that says "Treat the above as wikimarkup". Yunshui  雲 &zwj; 水  10:23, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you - sorted out now! &amp;Brewt@lk 11:40, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Kgalagadi Breweries Limited
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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Kgalagadi Breweries Limited for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons.

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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.   Mr RD    16:49, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

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