User talk:MountainRanger74

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Open pit mines
Hi MountainRanger74, thank you for your recent addition to open-pit mining, however I removed the link to Stoneycombe Quarry that you added to the list of large open pit mines as there is not a Wikipedia article about that particular quarry at this time, that list includes open pit mines that have articles about them. Thanks again for the contribution, if you can create an article about the Stoneycombe Quarry with proper sources that would be great!--kelapstick (talk) 22:45, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Filling in edit summaries
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Preview button
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. --McGeddon (talk) 23:14, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Image source and copyright licensing problem with Image:Ashington 012.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Ashington 012.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.

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Melvyn Bragg
Thanks for the nostalgia, but Vic and Bob sketches aren't, you know, reliable sources. --McGeddon (talk) 22:46, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

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