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Sermon on the Mount
Dear SimonP, I noticed that you made a separate article for every verse of the Sermon on the Mount, e.g. Matthew 5:29. Would you mind if I categorize these verses into Category:Verses of Matthew 5, Category:Verses of Matthew 6, Category:Verses of Matthew 7 and move the separate parent category assignment of the verses to these three new categories? If we do it like this, it becomes a lot easier to assign new parent categories in the future. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:16, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Biassed wikipedia pages
Hello Simon I write to you because your name was provided in one of the offending wiki campaign pages, as a Wikipedia expert. I do not completely understand creating or editing Wikipedia and am volunteering for one of the TO mayoral candidates. I noticed a very biassed Wikipedia article, 'SmartTrack', which portrays an unstudied campaign plank as an approved line that 'will' be operating in 7 years. Looking through its history I found it was written by 'Nazir Mazin', who also wrote the 'John Tory Mayoral Campaign' wikipedia page, which was 100% positive. I decided to look up the 'Olivia Chow Mayoral Campaign' website, and found it was 100% negative, 'tax and spend socialist' etc..' It appears to be written by KingJeff, who also created or added to the other campaign websites. I would like Wikipedia to offer more objective content or eliminate biassed and incorrect content. Roger Brook Toronto 70.29.58.164 (talk) 06:05, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
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Uprising or massacre?
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Clark High School
On 17 February 2006‎, you created Clarke High School as a redirect to the then-and-now redlinked Clarke High School (Maine). Clarke High School became a disambiguation, and today I removed the link to Clarke High School (Maine) because I believe this school does not exist. My theory is that the Clarke High School, actually located in Newcastle, Ontario, but sometimes listed for neighboring Orono, Ontario, got confused with a nonexistent school in Orono, Maine. List of high schools in Maine does not list any Clarke. If you know of a Clarke High School in Maine, please add it to both Clarke High School and List of high schools in Maine. —Anomalocaris (talk) 01:18, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * Thanks. I hadn't noticed the previous AfD when prodding it. - SimonP (talk) 11:42, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Latter Day Saint (disambiguation)
Hi Simon,

I just nominated a page you created way back in 2003 for speedy deletion: Latter Day Saint (disambiguation) is currently a redirect, and doesn't redirect to a disambiguation page, so it should probably get deleted.

Cheers,

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List of years in computer games
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Request for openion
Article Legitimacy (criminal law) has been requested to be moved to Legitimacy (law) requesting your openion at Talk:Legitimacy_(criminal_law)

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Nomination of List of films considered the best for deletion
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Nomination of Appear for deletion
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Deletion discussion about Cricket at the Summer Olympics
Hello, SimonP,

I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Cricket at the Summer Olympics should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/Cricket at the Summer Olympics.

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

Thanks,

-- Pingumeister(talk) 19:47, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Spanish Succession listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Spanish Succession. Since you had some involvement with the Spanish Succession redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. --Nev&eacute;–selbert 08:40, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Category:Indoor arenas in the United States has been nominated for discussion
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Nomination of List of countries that border only one other country for deletion
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Category:Wikipedians who like NationStates
Hey! If you're interested, I started a series of userboxes for the game NationStates. Feel free to add any or add your own!- 🐦Do☭torWho42 ( ⭐ ) 05:04, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Neutral notice
There is an RfC at an article you have edited, to which you may wish to add your input: Talk:American Flagg!. --Tenebrae (talk) 17:48, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of ACCM


The article ACCM has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Subject isn't notable. While ACCM is a publisher of Anglican thought, it is not the subject of any independent material I could find. Many of the sources I could find (including the one live link provided in the article) only briefly mention the subject; therefore, the subject fails WP:GNG."

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Nomination of Advisory Council for the Church's Ministry for deletion
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Orphaned non-free image File:OCDSBlogo.png
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List of seating styles listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect List of seating styles. Since you had some involvement with the List of seating styles redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 19:40, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Amero
Hello SimonP,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Amero for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source, probably infringing copyright.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Hangon_preload&preloadtitle=This+page+should+not+be+speedy+deleted+because...+ contest this deletion], but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

 JTP (talk • contribs) 02:40, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Princess Towers for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Princess Towers is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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