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 * Hi Harborsparrow! On Talk:Design_Patterns I just added my reasoning for removing the link to the online copy of the GoF book. --213.209.110.130 09:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Yikes! I see now that it is from Romania.  Thanks for the clarification; I have removed the link again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harborsparrow (talk • contribs) 14:48, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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 * After further checking, I found that permission cannot be granted to use this file. Thus I have removed the links to it.  It can be deleted.  I would delete it myself but do not know how.Harborsparrow 14:08, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

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 * My language may have seemed a bit hot to you, but I don't think that I wrote anything false. You *did* dismiss my complaint two years ago just as quickly as you did this time, and further, you looked through my history and reverted another edit of mine, which was on an ESSAY, that perfectly describes what you have been doing with regard to Macrobiotic diet, calling my description "silly" and "revenge".  Who is making a personal attack here?Harborsparrow (talk) 18:41, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * You were. The word "revenge" was not used that I can see. Bon courage (talk) 19:13, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * Ah, now I see that that article is really intended to be just a series of sources from outside media that criticize Wikipedia. That was not clear to me upon my first view of the article. Got it. Harborsparrow (talk) 17:45, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok. Basically anything in an article should be verifiable by sources meeting WP:RS. Doug Weller  talk 21:40, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you. - w o lf  20:48, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

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Anyway, I will leave that up to you. Have a nice day - w o lf  21:20, 6 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Wolf. I usually do sign posts; probably I was upset and forgot.  I appreciate the fix and the civil response and coaching. Harborsparrow (talk) 21:22, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * Thank you S0091. I appreciate the work you are doing. Harborsparrow (talk) 16:10, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * He was a tough one. Clearly influential but sources were tough to find, I think he meets WP:BASIC though.  I did not go through other articles to wikilink him so please do that if you have the time. S0091 (talk) 17:43, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

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Bartlett Tree Experts
Hi there, what source are you intending to cite in this edit? If I follow the link I get a four-page newsletter PDF that doesn't mention Wistman's Wood. Belbury (talk) 16:54, 10 July 2024 (UTC)


 * @Belbury Sorry, I had referenced the wrong edition of the newsletter. I think it is fixed now.  Thank you for finding this.Harborsparrow (talk) 01:44, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that matches up! Reading that newsletter, though, your text is a very close copy of that source, with some sentences taken word for word. Per WP:PARAPHRASE there are potential copyright issues with this, so I'm afraid I've had to revert your edit. It just needs to be rewritten in your own words.
 * From the kind of text you're adding, it looks like no additional source is required - the information is already present and sourced later in the article. The lead section of an article doesn't need to be footnoted with sources where it's summarising sourced content from later in the article. Belbury (talk) 08:11, 11 July 2024 (UTC)