User talk:Sdgmartin

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As a student of Tampa history, I'm sorry to say that I haven't yet read your book. I plan to fix that problem during the summer, when I have more time to read and relax.

However, since you added it to the bibliography of a couple of Ybor City articles, perhaps you could contribute the articles themselves? Some people on wikipedia are really quick to delete anything which they deem to be promotional, and some may look upon the author's inclusion of her own book as "spamming", however well intentioned. If you expand the History of Ybor City article a bit using the book as a reference, however, I don't think anyone would have a problem.

The "History of" entry desperately needs a section on "Cuba Libre". And I was thinking spinning off an article focusing on the social clubs when I have the time. Maybe you could help get that started, at least the Marti-Maceo section?

In any case, I hope you stick around, as wikipedia participation from Tampa-area editors on Tampa-area articles has been pretty weak over the past several months. Below is a standard welcome message with some guidelines you may want to review before jumping in with both feet... Zeng8r (talk) 01:25, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

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