User talk:CharlesSpencer

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Great, just what we need around this place... more close-together names. :) Cheers. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 18:16, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Prod for George R. Bidwell
If you could add the significance of the office to the article, that would certainly help explain why this person is notable. --Wtshymanski (talk) 21:48, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Will do. thanks. CharlesSpencer (talk) 05:26, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Parenthetic referencing
You're probably right. I don't recall converting specific articles to parenthetical referencing and if I did it was with articles that were small and not very developed. You only 'dug up' four. I did like to have the articles I often contributed to in the format that worked for me. Yes, maybe it is not the best format for the reader in Wikipedia, but it IS much easier to construct. Boy you seem fairly irritated for changes to a few articles in a theme that no one generally cares about. But, yes, I can promise it will never happen again.--Cstevencampbell (talk) 17:45, 5 October 2020 (UTC)


 * thank you very much for your swift reply - and you are quite right, it is genuinely weird how much it annoyed me - quite out of proportion to the importance of the topic(s) as you say! Apologies if it came over a bit strong. CharlesSpencer (talk) 17:53, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
 * CharlesSpencer and, please note that parenthetical referencing has in fact been deprecated. Articles using the style should be converted to another citation style or, in the interim, tagged with . I did go through a lot of toy articles when parenthetical referencing was still accepted, harmonizing (not converting) them, but all of them now need to be changed. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 05:05, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks - that's really helpful. Kind regards CharlesSpencer (talk) 22:37, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

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