User talk:Georgepaton

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Speedy deletion of Webbpaton
A tag has been placed on Webbpaton, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information.

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January 2009
Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from pages you have created yourself. Please use the template on the page instead if you disagree with the deletion. Amalthea 01:31, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * You might be interested in our Business FAQ, since you appear to be strongly affiliated with that company. -- Amalthea 01:33, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

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December 2010
Welcome and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Wikipedia talk:Tutorial worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. --Bsherr (talk) 18:51, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

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Draft:WebbPaton Chartered Surveyors of Royal Wootton Bassett concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:WebbPaton Chartered Surveyors of Royal Wootton Bassett, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Your draft article, Draft:WebbPaton Chartered Surveyors of Royal Wootton Bassett


Hello, Georgepaton. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "WebbPaton Chartered Surveyors of Royal Wootton Bassett".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the  or  code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. 1989 (talk) 17:23, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Expansion plans from MK
I reverted your addition to Milton Keynes because it is too detailed a point to go in this overview article. The right place for it is Expansion plans for Milton Keynes. (But I don't believe your text is correct in any case. It is not MK Council that is proposing this expansion northwards but a private developer consortium. The big problem is that MK Council doesn't currently have any plan for the present period - which means that developers can get any rubbish through on appeal. The first draft of the (overdue) plan is expected this month 'for consultation'. If it follows the MK2050 Strategy, it will say "expand up to and including Cranfield".) When you put your text there, please ensure that it is supported by a reliable citatation. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:03, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Copyright violation report
For your information, I have reported File:Milton keynes Expansion Plan.jpg as almost certainly a copyvio and highly unlikely to be the 'own work' of the contributor. I strongly suspect that it has been copied from a local Council document and is not open source licensed. If you wish to respond, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Help_desk#How_to_report_copyright_violations I hope I am wrong but I doubt it. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:01, 8 February 2017 (UTC)