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Your draft article, Draft:Kaski (brandy)


Hello, Davidnicholsknowsbest. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Kaski".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 13:57, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

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June 2021
Your recent editing history at Back to the Egg shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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"Straight Outta Cullompton" connection to the Monkees' 1968 film "Head"
I acknowledge your 19 March 2021 critique. I included the quote to show that there is another side that one should consider besides just the downbeat evaluations that everyone else made. Accordingly I would like to undo your cut of that section.98.149.97.245 (talk) 02:19, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Be my guest. I think my main concern was lack of context.

I just undid the cut, and, in front of the now-restored section, I added a sentence to explain to what the positive comment refers.98.149.97.245 (talk) 04:27, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Great! thanks for keeping me in the loop, I appreciate it

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Glass Creek
Hi, thanks so much for your edits on the Glass Creek article, really appreciate the research. I'd been meaning to find out more about it but never got around to it. If you're the same David that I'm thinking of, I was one of your students and thoroughly enjoyed your classes (and excursions to interesting places). Takerlamar (talk) 01:54, 4 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you! For your thanks and also enjoying my classes and excursions. I'm glad you liked the Glass Creek stuff, I hope to find some more material to add in from the Public Records Office at some stage (deep dive into the MMBW files, I suspect). David Davidnicholsknowsbest (talk) 10:48, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Re Styles. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

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 * Hi Liz, I didn't give a page a different title - I am not sure what this means or how I would do it. I linked the name Re Styles in another page, then used the link to create a new page - as was suggested in another Wikipedia page. So, not sure what's been picked up here, but that isn't what happened. Davidnicholsknowsbest (talk) 08:58, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

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