User talk:Cbmccarthy

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Hi there, and welcome to Wikipedia! I read your message on the new users log - yes, you are correct, those pages need quite a bit of work before they are up to standard. Those articles tend to be less frequented than others, and probably is the main reason why they are not as authoritative as they should be. We are in need of people with your expertise, so feel free to jump right in and begin editing. You may find List of WikiProjects of interest to you - a WikiProject is generally more cohesive sub-community on Wikipedia where editors gather and focus on editing a particular topic. I hope you'll be able to find something of your interest, and if you have any further questions, please feel free to drop by my talk page. See you around the Wiki! --HappyCamper 18:56, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I've looked at your edit history, and it seems you made a stop at Investment bank. I'm not familiar with the topic, but I've added the verify and cleanup tags to the page - hopefully someone will come by and do some fixups. It may take some time before this happens, but adding these tags increases their visibility in various subpages of Wikipedia, and notify other editors of the need to review the article. Thanks again for your detailed feedback. --HappyCamper 19:00, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * In this edit, your concerns about spelling on talk pages has been addressed. A long time ago, Wikipedia used to have a built in spellchecker, but it was removed because it took up too much computing resources for the servers to handle. --HappyCamper 19:06, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

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Edit summary
Sweetie, could you please start using edit summaries when you are editing articles? it helps people know what you are what changes you made. see Edit_summary for a clearer explanation. EraserGirl (talk) 18:24, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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Proposed deletion of Moldovan–American Chamber of Commerce


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Historical Markers in Orange County
Hi Cbmccarthy.

I noticed that you seem to have done some work on NYS historical markers in Orange County. I have, sadly for other aspects of my life, become quite interested in historical markers and have spent way way too much time updating the listing for Ulster County. I point this out to inspire you should historical markers and/or Orange County be interesting to you; I think they are a fascinating view on what and how people remember. If you are interested, the best list of original markers is referred to on this page. I also found it useful in Wikimedia to create a category for the markers in Ulster County rather than just put pictures in a category for NYS markers.

And, Neversink Drive! How cool to have markers that tell a story along the road. How dumb to put them on a narrow, winding road where stopping to read might not be so smart. Traffic collision.

Let me know how/if I can inspire you to do for Orange what I am doing for Ulster. -- HighAtop94 (talk) 03:38, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

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Walker Body Company
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Thanks. That source was already cited in the references. I modified the text substantially so that it is in no way a copy-paste.Cbmccarthy (talk) 03:09, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Biddle and Smart


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 * I think whichever of you did the speedy deleting was a little bit trigger happy.  I wrote this article along with two other articles in an attempt to give more coverage to the once-thriving automobile body manufacturing businesses of Amesbury, Massachusetts.  I clearly cited the source.  If the text was too close to the original sources, I could have easily modified the text so that it wasn't plagiarism.  Is there any way someone can restore the article for a few days so that I can fix it??  I went through the effort of linking about half a dozen pages about early automobile manufacturers.  It would be a shame to have to re-do those links instead of just being given a chance to edit what had been there.  Thanks.

Cbmccarthy (talk) 18:19, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * (cross-posted from my talk page) I can send you a copy of the deleted article by email if you like, but you will have to activate your Wikipedia email first. Note the deletion nomination was also for notability concerns, so you will also have to establish how the company is notable enough by Wikipedia standards for an article. The guideline for companies is at Notability (organizations and companies). — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:34, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Biddle and Smart
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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

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Nomination of Olive Baptist Church for deletion
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