User talk:JohnGurney

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You're off to a great start -- thanks for starting the Margie Hyams and John Collins (jazz guitarist) articles.

--A. B. 18:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

PS Both articles have been tagged with [|"wikify"] tags -- if you get the chance, you might use the links on the tags to reformat the articles. Just the same, good content's more important than format -- Wikipedia's got lots of people cleaning up article formats -- so we appreciate your work, wikified or not!