User talk:Martin Petherbridge

After almost four months of editing, an ordinary welcome tag feels out of place. So here is a very informal welcome from me to you! Lova Falk  talk  09:04, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Susanna Jones


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The Goldfinch (novel)
Hi Martin Petherbridge!

I was reviewing your page about The Goldfinch (novel) and I added some tags to it. Please do not be alarmed by the number of tags since most of them are easily dealt with (e.g. adding links from other articles to your page and vice versa). However, there is a chance that someone will nominate it for deletion because it does not really give an indication of why the book is important and does not have references to establish notability. Please find reliable references and prove it's notability. I would hate to see your page get deleted. Good luck!

Sosthenes12 (talk) 23:34, 26 March 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12


 * I came across this while stub-sorting, started off by adding the ISBN and was about to add a link to a newspaper source about it ... then realised that the article section has much more information about it, so made this into a redirect to that. Eventually, of course, there will be an article, and I've also added it to the disambiguation page at Goldfinch. Incidentally this didn't need to have the disambiguator "(novel)" as there's nothing else in the encyclopedia with the title "The Goldfinch", so I'd moved it before turning it into a redirect. See also Notability_(books).


 * There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia, but it's an interesting journey. Happy Editing!  Pam  D  10:06, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Tom Franklin (author)


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Tom Franklins
Hallo, As you moved the poker player from the base name to Tom Franklin (poker player) and then created a dab page at Tom Franklin, it's your responsibility to clean up all the incoming links to him which are now pointing to the dab page. This is explained in the message on the screen when you are doing the page move. Please sort this out. Thanks. Pam D  23:18, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I've merged the two dab pages, but the same still applies: you need to correct the links which used to point to the poker player so that they still point directly to him. Thanks. Pam  D  23:29, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I've now found a navbox template 1990s WSOP Bracelet Winners which seems to account for the vast majority of the links, and edited it - so you only need to mop up any remaining incoming links once the template change has worked through the system. Pam  D  23:29, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

No thank you.


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No thank you. I don't subscribe to these rules.

Rennie Airth
Hi. Regarding this addition, I was wondering if you have a source. I can't find anything online so I've tagged it, but it occurs to me you might have seen something in a trade publication or something. Rivertorch (talk) 15:14, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Pierre Lemaitre


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Speedy deletion nomination of Pierre Lemaitre
Hello Martin Petherbridge,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Pierre Lemaitre for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Sourov0000 (talk) 22:35, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Regarding future titles
Titles which have not yet appeared must have a reference (a source) in order to be verifiable; you can't just add to a list if they don't exist already. Please provide a verifiable reference for this information before adding it back. Icarus of old (talk) 20:30, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

No. I shall continue to add the information. If you want it to be verified so badly, search for it, it's very easily locatable however I am neither a pedant nor jobsworth and refuse to get drawn into a kafkaesque enterprise where i have to prove the existence of facts i know to be true. that's my prerogative. yours is to remove them if you want them to be verified, however your position is a much more philosophically ludicrous one which I leave to you and your selfesteem to look after. and there is no point responding to me i have been doing this for years. if blocked i will sign up again under a different name and carry on.
 * That's not how Wikipedia works. Read this if you have any questions; it clearly states that the "burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material." I will get an admin involved if you revert again. All best. Icarus of old (talk) 23:00, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

that's fine by me.

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August 2014
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 * BTW what ever happened to the book  A Dreadful Murder that you were adding a couple years ago?

It was published.
 * Then what was your "she hasn't written in seven years about? MarnetteD&#124;Talk 15:46, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

"she hasn't written a novel in seven years" - A Dreadful Murder is a novella.

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Putin vandalism
Hi Martin,

You've been on WP longer than I have, and I'm not going to template a regular. However, your recent edits to Vladimir Putin's page were vandalism. They've been reverted.

Thanks. Amccann421 &#160; (talk) 20:31, 3 March 2022 (UTC)


 * You're damn right they were. Martin Petherbridge (talk) 20:36, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

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