User talk:ProfessorTofty

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Proposed deletion of Jeff Wellbaum


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Dayton airport
The airport is in an exclave of the city of Dayton. This is the Census Bureau map for the area showing the city boundaries.-- Ibagli ( Talk ) 04:39, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The airport website also says "the Airport is unique because it is considered an “island” of the City, as the majority of the Airport property (approximately 3,000 acres) was officially annexed into the City of Dayton during the 1980s."-- Ibagli ( Talk ) 04:54, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Admin help
Need somebody to rename Fred Strahorn (Ohio politician) to Fred Strahorn. No reason for the article be under the former title, but "Fred Strahorn" was previously deleted because it had been created by a banned user and can't be created by a normal user. The page is create-protected. ProfessorTofty (talk) 18:15, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your good-faith attempt to help, but it appears that the article was created by the very banned user that had caused the other article title to be protected. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:27, 20 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I have moved your userspace draft. It is now at Fred Strahorn. Thanks for rewriting this article, which I think is now better than any of the previous versions. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:35, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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Winter storm naming
I just wanted to make you aware of this discussion I started at Winter storm naming. I have no intentions of making any changes to the article myself, but was just hoping to get input from editors previously involved in the article (or recently-closed AfD) in an effort to improve the article and clarify its purpose. I will leave any changes to the consensus of other editors who decide what's best. Your participation would be welcome, regardless of your views on the issue. Thank you. 76.189.111.199 (talk) 22:38, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Septimus Heap series
I would like a review of what has recently happened with the Septimus Heap series. The articles for a number of titles in the series have suddenly been redirected to the main article for the series, based on one user's analysis of notability. This is despite the articles having existed for years and being a dramatic change, and I feel a review of this decision is merited, but I'm not sure where to ask about this. ProfessorTofty (talk) 04:22, 18 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi ProfessorTofty. The best place to start a discussion on that would be Talk:Septimus Heap. Just press New section and start a new discussion. --Ushau97 (talk) 04:53, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Dori Hillestad Butler
Hi, I'm Kmccook. ProfessorTofty, thanks for creating Dori Hillestad Butler!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Expand.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Kmccook (talk) 02:01, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

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