User talk:Mattc58

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow book promotions in articles on history and geography. For more information on this, see
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The info about the Dan Simmons new novel probably belongs with that author's article; it's not really appropriate for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin articles.

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 * The real John Franklin story is a fascinating one and set in an area that's challenged explorers for centuries. I can imagine the new Simmons novel will be interesting.--A. B. (talk) 15:39, 10 January 2007 (UTC)