User talk:WavyGeek

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French Pass
Hi WavyGeek. That's a useful start you've made. I expanded French Pass and nominated it for a joint DYK. I also started another article called Marine power in New Zealand. If you would like to contribute to that over the next week, we could nominate that for a joint DYK as well. The stuff you added to Pelorus Sound is interesting. You could improve some parts by making them clearer for a reader who doesn't already know about tidal flows. Cheers --Geronimo20 (talk) 08:41, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Cinzia Verde (June 18)
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Ringbang (talk) 02:20, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Nancy Bertler (June 18)
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Ringbang (talk) 02:23, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Karen Heywood has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Karen Heywood. Thanks! Tushi Talk To Me  06:05, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Nancy Bertler has been accepted
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Karen Heywood has been accepted
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Christina Hulbe has been accepted
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Pat Langhorne has been accepted
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Victoria Metcalf has been accepted
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Gillian Wratt has been accepted
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Cinzia Verde has been accepted
 Cinzia Verde, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Keilana (talk) 03:12, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
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Use of thumbnails in Infoboxes
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 * This is now the second time I am warning you. You have once again used a thumbnail in the infobox for Pat Langhorne. Please do not do this. -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:04, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Cinzia Verde for deletion
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Wikipedia and copyright
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July 2021
Hi WavyGeek! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Helen Elizabeth Shearburn Clark that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 07:45, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

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