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Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Hermann Heuvers ↗ (April 23)


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Walled garden



Excellent work on your most recent articles. Since they presently only link to one another, I encourage you to read this essay ↗ on strategies for placing links to your new creations in other articles to ensure people can naturally arrive at these great works you've created. Let me know if you have any questions! ~ Pbritti (talk) 05:51, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Catholic Tübingen school


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Precious


{{user precious|header=global Catholicism|thanks=for quality articles around the history of Catholicism in the world, such as Catholic Tübingen school ↗, Hermann Heuvers ↗ (in April), The 26 Martyrs of Japan (film) ↗, Yves de Montcheuil ↗ and Synod of Qarqafe ↗, for your focus on content, -}}
You are recipient no. 2880 ↗ of Precious, a prize of QAI ↗. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:50, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

:Thank you! M.A.Spinn (talk) 17:50, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

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:Thank you! M.A.Spinn (talk) 01:13, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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:Thank you! Been trying to get back on my editing game 😎 M.A.Spinn (talk) 19:11, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

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:{{Re|Moriwen}} Thank you! M.A.Spinn (talk) 16:50, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

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:This has to be one of the most M.A.Spinn-coded articles I have ever seen. ~<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Darth Stabro</span><sup>Talk ↗&nbsp;•&nbsp;Contribs ↗</sup> 00:57, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
::You should see how I yammer about him IRL to anyone whose ear I can get M.A.Spinn (talk) 13:20, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Giulio Basetti-Sani


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:Great, I'll add those very soon and follow up. M.A.Spinn (talk) 02:48, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

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Serge de Beaurecueil



I'd encourage you to nominate Serge de Beaurecueil ↗ as a Good Article ↗. Actually, Giulio Basetti-Sani ↗ as well. ~<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Darth Stabro</span><sup>Talk ↗&nbsp;•&nbsp;Contribs ↗</sup> 15:13, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

:You think they could pass muster? I'm definitely not opposed, at least. What I actually want to do at some point is get Jean-Mohammed Abd-el-Jalil ↗ up to speed (mainly fixing the citations and filling out with some more details about his academic work) but that can be a later project. M.A.Spinn (talk) 15:15, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
:Well either way I went and nominated it. I'll nominate Giulio Basetti-Sani ↗ in due time as well I suppose. My next DYK project I hope to take up is expanding and rewriting Paul Mulla ↗. (Just so happened to pull the monograph length Italian biography published in some Vatican journal from the library a couple weeks ago.) M.A.Spinn (talk) 15:38, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
:Great, they got quickfailed for "relying on only one source" 😭 M.A.Spinn (talk) 18:36, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
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::shouldn't be too difficult of a fix tho ~<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Darth Stabro</span><sup>Talk ↗&nbsp;•&nbsp;Contribs ↗</sup> 19:20, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
:::The good news is Serge de Beaurecueil ↗ is finally getting reviewed... M.A.Spinn (talk) 21:40, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
:::It made it! M.A.Spinn (talk) 13:46, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

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:I'm still at it! M.A.Spinn (talk) 14:06, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

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:Awesome, my first GA! M.A.Spinn (talk) 13:53, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

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