User talk:Mattstan

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My apologies.
Dear fellow editor, Please accept my humble apologies for the two edits I applied less than skilfully to the article on George Fenton, earlier this afternoon. I fully agree with you that I rushed these and should have consulted the citation first, as you suggested. I am pleased to say that the clarifications you added while reverting have now improved the article further, as I am sure I would not have felt compelled to intervene (however clumsily I may have done) if the text had been written as it now is, thanks to your latest edits. In any case: thank you and, once again, my apologies for causing you some frustration and also some unnecessary work. With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 19:10, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * - don't worry at all, while it was slightly annoying at the time, you are quite right the edits I made after your intervention, to make things more clear, are an improvement to the article and they wouldn't have been done if you had not undone my work in the first place. All the best, Matthew
 * Dear Matthew,
 * Many thanks for your most gracious reply! I can see you've continued to improve the subject article and it looks great! I wish you success with this and all your other projects here at the Wiki.
 * Finally, I hope you won't mind that I took the liberty of formatting your reply above according to the established practice of using an increasing number of colons to indent each message in successive exchanges between editors. I've also added the ping template that we use to alert the other editor that a reply has been posted.  Also, it's good practice to add four tildes (~) to sign at the end of each message; this will automatically append your username and a time & date stamp in place of the four tildes. I hope you will find these suggestions useful in your future exchanges with other editors, although I apologise if you already knew all these tricks but chose not to use them.
 * All very best wishes, Matthew, and thank you for your contributions to our encyclopedia.
 * With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 10:31, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year Mattstan!


Happy New Year! Mattstan, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 11:42, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2016}} to user talk pages. Dear Matthew, Have a great year in 2016! With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 11:42, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

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==Speedy deletion nomination of Finnigan-Klaembt==

A tag has been placed on Finnigan-Klaembt requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company, corporation or organization that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Moved to draft
On reflection speedy deletion is probably not appropriate yet, so instead I've made the article a draft to allow time for the addition of independent references to other sources to demonstrate notability adequately. When you think it's ready, it's easy to re-submit it.Ingratis (talk) 13:11, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Finnigan-Klaembt


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