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Block
Thank you for your help with user "Merlin the 2nd". Is it possible to nuke all the edits? Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:09, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I went through his edits, and they weren't all bad. I did rollback all of the ones that were messing up the templates, as far as I could see --- which includes all of the ones made today. Deville (Talk) 22:14, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

LA County Sheriff
Thanks for the help with my mistake of putting the stub in disambiguation. I updated the sheriff chain and list of LA County Sheriffs which pointed to a different John Scott. The sheriff will change again soon when the new elections come. The upcoming election will be the first truly ope election since 1915, making it 100 years. In the interval the sheriff would appoint his successor who would then be the incumbent at the election. The exception was the previous change, when the sheriff died during the election and still got one third of the vote. Law in LaLa land:-)  Saltysailor (talk) 22:26, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Thomas Conolly (1823–1876) (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)
 * added links pointing to Irish and MP


 * List of American places named after people (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)
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The wp aiv
I thought that promoting your company was also against the rules here. Wgolf (talk) 20:01, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
 * It is against the rules, but it is not necessarily vandalism. Whether or not edits are advertising or not is a more subtle question, and is dealt with in other places, e.g. WP:UAA.  In short, most of the things you reported *should* be reported, just not necessarily at WP:AIV. Like I said, please review the details of what is and isn't vandalism on the link I showed you and I suspect it will be more clear.  Thanks! Deville (Talk) 23:50, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Ha ha okay, thanks (Well better safe then sorry then), well I got it! Wgolf (talk) 23:50, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Ibrahim Gashi (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)
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The Ditto Crisis
Hello, I noticed that you protected The Ditto Crisis. To let you know I have opened a sock puppet investigation, as I believe that the user who kept re-creating the page is using multiple accounts to do so. --ThomasO1989 (talk) 03:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

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Wikilinking
Hi, and thanks for your work on the English Wikipedia.

I noticed an article you worked on. Just a short note to point out that we don’t normally link:
 * dates
 * years
 * commonly known geographical terms (including well-known country-names), and
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Help needed...
...here. Thanks, JNW (talk) 03:18, 5 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Done. Deville (Talk) 03:25, 5 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Much appreciated, but it's whack-a-mole. Hoping for page protection soon. Cheers, JNW (talk) 03:26, 5 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Also done! Deville (Talk) 03:35, 5 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Very best, JNW (talk) 03:37, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

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Hi, I've modified the block on that IP address, it's actually an IPv6 address, not an account. I put 31 hours since it looked like normal vandalism, feel free to extend it if that isn't the case. HTH, Legoktm (talk) 05:38, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Woops, I didn't even notice it was an IPv6 and I thought it was an account (as you correctly deduced from my block actions). I'm definitely ok with your actions in light of that.  Thanks for the message!  Deville (Talk) 23:08, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

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Transport House
I can't seem to find a reference for Transport House, London, being a listed building. Where was it that you found that information? 142.160.89.97 (talk) 20:22, 10 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Good point, this was a mistake that I've now fixed. Deville (Talk) 15:06, 11 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks! 142.160.89.97 (talk) 18:29, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

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