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Again, welcome! Buster Seven   Talk  14:50, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Phoenix Living Poets has been accepted
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 * Although I accepted it, I removed some of the content that is really too detailed for a general encyclopedia. As a librarian, I greatly appreciate the detailed bibliographic work you have done, but this is not really the place for it. It is still in the earlier versions in the article history in case you wish to work on it further for some other publication.
 * I hope you'll continue here--the most important thing you could do to help the encyclopediais to write articles on the poets in this series who do not yet have them.  DGG ( talk ) 22:33, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, that is really helpful advice. I do have a problem, though. The day after you posted this message another user (Banner, I think) deleted all the poets listed who did not have their own pages. What is a tactful way to undo all these deletions? They appear to have done the deletion in two or three steps - but I am not sufficiently experienced with Wikipedia editing to know if that is exactly what they did. If I (or you) can undo those changes without causing offence then I can possibly start to put stub pages up for all of them. It seems to be much easier to undo those edits rather than reposting them one at a time. What do you think? Thank you. Steve Millar (talk) 10:11, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
 * the very best way is to write at least stub articles,and then ad them back. The edits with the name remain in the article history. Alternatively if you do not have time to do that just now, you can add them back,with an explanation,as you were advised at the Teahouse. You shouldn't directly revert to earlier versions, because other desirable changes have also occurred since then. DGG ( talk ) 18:48, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * Thank you. Steve Millar (talk) 09:56, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
 * It worked. :) maybe you can write something on your own page here and 'ping' all the users you want to ask. Good luck, w.carter -Talk  10:03, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Indeed, it did, many thanks again - and thank you for this brief response to reassure me that it was working :) Steve Millar (talk) 10:13, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

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