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Re. Correction on Denise Levertov page --

Thanks for the following:

"(Corrected factual error; Washington U holds only a 1-box collection; the papers are at Stanford.)"

I've been focused exclusively on developing the Bibliography, so haven't looked at or evaluated other listings, such as thhat to which you refer. What is more needed is defense of my efforts to add Tables of Contents to the individual titles under Primary Works. Someone before I hadded added two quite a while ago, and those were undisturbed. In no time after my efforts one of my additions was deleted. And after that, becaues of my mention of them, another of mine -- and the two existing -- were also deleted.

At this point I view the continuing objection/s to adding Tables of Contents as harassment, as they are increasingly made up of invented rationales.

Thanks again. JNagarya (talk • contribs) 17:45, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

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William Faulkner Foundation
Hello Leofstan, I just created this article using your AfC draft because I was working on starting one anyway and found your version via Google searching which was much better. Strangely it was on a Japanese site. It seemed stalled after 3+ months and looked pretty good. Glad you made the information available until now it wasn't anywhere on the Internet. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 07:20, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
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Our Great Virginia
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Moved page T. j. sellers to Thomas Sellers without leaving a redirect: Name capitalization and format
G'day, I've moved your article to conform with Wikipedia's WP:TITLE standards —   IVORK  Discuss 01:19, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Randolph Lewis White) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating Randolph Lewis White, Leofstan!

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Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:20, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Jefferson School (Charlottesville, Virginia)


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A page you started (Vinegar Hill (Charlottesville, Virginia)) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating Vinegar Hill (Charlottesville, Virginia), Leofstan!

Wikipedia editor SkyGazer 512 just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

"Great work on the article, and it's a very interesting topic as well! The article could use some more links to other articles, as well as categories. Additionally, words that are not proper nouns shouldn't be capitalized within section headings - I've already fixed this for now, but just for future reference."

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SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 20:53, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Carole Frances Lung
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