User talk:LeytonstoneGuru

Ways to improve St John The Baptist's Church, Leytonstone
Hi, I'm Mduvekot. LeytonstoneGuru, thanks for creating St John The Baptist's Church, Leytonstone!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Please see Copyright violations

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Mduvekot (talk) 22:55, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello LeytonstoneGuru, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to St John The Baptist's Church, Leytonstone have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


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Leytonstone updates
Hi there. Just a quick note to say thanks for all your good work on updating Leytonstone and related articles. As a local I very much appreciate it (it's been on my radar for a while but I've never really found the time or energy to properly update it).

It's absolutely, of course, down to you what you work on, but I wanted to make a suggestion that the "notable people" section might need some cleanup. Most of them have been added over the years because the articles for the individual people say that they were born or brought up in Leytonstone, but there's rarely any kind of good citation for that. I strongly suspect that many of them were simply born at Whipps Cross, and otherwise have no connection to the area, but I'm loathe to remove them from the list without taking the time to properly research that. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 11:37, 24 August 2018 (UTC)