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Is featured at #wikiwomeninred on twitter today - thx for updating Victuallers (talk) 15:41, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Faulty ISBN
Hey, in this edit you added an ISBN for the book Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins … but that's not the ISBN. The digits you used are the odd numbers ascending, and even descending, from 1 to 10, probably because they're printed nearby in the front matter of the book. I'd usually fix this myself, but I don't know which version of the book you used, so I can't decide between the two 13-digit ISBNs listed for the book on WorldCat. Would you please fix it? :) Thanks, {&#123; Nihiltres &#8202;&#124;talk&#8202;&#124;edits}&#125; 19:04, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Done! Thank you for spotting this. Laughing sandbags (talk) 20:32, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

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This pertains to your Adam Matthew application. Best regards, Peripatetic / Peripatetic (talk)

Many thanks for the quick approval! I was wondering if you could check whether my Adam Matthew application is still in process? I received a form to fill out by e-mail but haven't heard anything since I returned it. I know these things take time, but I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss a step somewhere along the way. Thanks again!

Thanks for setting up the Adam Matthew trial access for me! Much appreciated. Laughing sandbags (talk) 16:58, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Does your access work now? --Peripatetic (talk) 10:47, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Yes, thanks! Looks like there is a whole world of interesting material available there. Laughing sandbags (talk) 10:48, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

It's too bad that access to the East India Company collection is not included in the Adam Matthew Digital trial. If they are looking for feedback from Wikipedia Library users at any point, I would like to submit a request for inclusion of this resource. Laughing sandbags (talk) 11:01, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for reviewing the page. I think you may have caught it when I was editing the biography template (I should figure out how to edit this without saving it first). To make matters worse, I seem to have incorrectly removed the speedy deletion tag myself. Please feel free to take another look and accept my apologies for the rookie editing mistakes.
 * It looks okay to me. In my personal opinion, anyone who lived a hundred years ago about whom there are reasonable records is probably notable.  Robert McClenon (talk) 16:30, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Alan Searle


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Thanks for your attention to this article! I've tried to make a case for preserving it on the talk page.Laughing sandbags (talk) 15:55, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

I've removed the CSD tag - I think at the very least he could redirect to Somerset Maugham's article and have a footnote there. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  16:02, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

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