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Hi, John

Sorry about the quick deletion. You'll probably understand when I say that we get a lot of spam, and deletion is one of the chores that have to be done and there isn't a lot of spare time to do it in.

I've restored your article and hope you can improve the tone of it to make it more encyclopaedic. See some of the guidance pages listed above and they will lead you to others. Deb (talk) 15:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

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Max Factor Article
Just a thank you for the brilliant edit. A fascinating read!

--99.231.199.18 (talk) 23:59, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

WP:OMT invitation
I know you've got these pouring out of your ears, but do you want to join WP:OMT? It's an attempt to make every single articles about battleships and battlecruisers featured. I wwouldn't usually just be going about, invinting people, but your work on Mutsu and Nagato class battleship suprised me. I think you'd do well there editing Japanese realted articles (There's a good deal of them without really good explanations). So think about it. The doors are always open!

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Dave Gallaher
Hey. Good to see that expansion of Dave Gallaher that you performed. I've been meaning to expand the article myself. If you've got access to any good references for material on him, it would be great if further inline citations could be added. Anyway main point of this message was to say good work. - Shudde  talk 08:27, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

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 * Zeitels grew up in New Rochelle, New York . His father, an orthodontist, pushed him to take up a career in medicine and enrolled him at the
 * discussed extensively in print media, radio, and television both nationally and internationally i.e. Good Morning America, The Today Show, ABC World News, Wall Street Journal, [[

Teatro di San Carlo
Thanks for your additions to the article. That book looks like it could be quite worthwhile.

As a longtime (9 years) member of WP:Opera, I'd just like to draw your attention to several editing conventions employed in this and in (almost) all other articles which fall under the WikiProject Opera group, which via a consensus of editors over the years, have become established and agreed upon.

For instance, we use the "Notes" (footnotes) and "Sources" (even dividing between "Cited sources" and "Other sources") under the main "References" heading. If you wish to take a look at the Project page, you can find it here: WikiProject Opera/Article styles and formats. All the best, Viva-Verdi (talk) 17:58, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Nellie Melba
Hello! I noticed that you added a few interesting facts to the Nellie Melba article. Unfortunately, you did not cite your sources, so I have removed the information for now. If you can point to the source(s) (including page numbers or URLs) where you got the information, feel free to re-add it, together with citations to the source(s). See WP:V for more information. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:39, 29 April 2014 (UTC)


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Dave Gallaher again
Hey John. I've been slowly going through the Dave Gallaher article, giving it a bit of a clean and a copy-edit, and also trying to get it referenced appropriately. In the Memorials section I've not had any success finding a reliable source for the inscription that is on the statue of Gallaher outside Eden Park. I'm pretty sure you added this text to the article, do you have, or know of, a source for this text? Thanks. -- Shudde  talk 02:24, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for adding the beautiful Great Houses of London to all those articles! The book has provided a great resource for me in my Wikipedia work, and evidently a great pleasure to you, too. Any work you do on the great London houses is much appreciated. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 00:13, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Gallaher again
Hey John. Just letting you know that I've requested a peer review for the Dave Gallaher article; the review can be found here. Thought you may want to contribute, basically looking for any feedback at all (no matter how pedantic) on the article. Aiming to have it featured on the main page one day. No problems if you don't have the time, but thought I'd let you know after all the work you did on the biography. -- Shudde  talk 06:55, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

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It's great that you've been adding this book to the articles, but please understand that you should add it in a separate Further reading section since the book actually isn't being used as a source for any of the articles. Also there's no need to specify the format, so replace it with "|lastauthoramp=y" to match the format of the citations that use an ampersand for multiple authors.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 04:23, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

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Otago Witness
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Your draft article, Draft:Inca Písac


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 * Dear Liz,
 * Thanks for deleting this draft.
 * A editor had prevented it from being published and wouldn't reply to my efforts to discuss it. As result I couldn't make any progress. After being upset by his attitude for 6 months I returned to the article and was able to get around him and it has been published with the title "Inca complex at Písac". It has been subsequently recognized as a B-class by Wikiproject Peru. John Prattley (talk) 04:17, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

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