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Hamish Carter

Retirement? Could you please provide a source for that? Because I believed that he had retired already last year, though that was from the ITU scene. Mathmo <sup>Talk</sup> 15:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
:Thanks, although I'm sure that is his second retirement message (heh, after doing a search round for the earlier statement (maybe it was just him hinting at it? Memory might be getting wonky...) I see there is a lot of coverage of this one, silly me should have just done a search originally). At least there is a source for that one there now, and if I come across the earlier announcement (that was specific to the ITU) I'll add that. Mathmo <sup>Talk</sup> 00:20, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Trivia

The only "trivia" word one needs to pay attention to is the one here ↗, maybe two "trivia" words, the other being here ↗. <span style="font-family:Tempus Sans ITC"><small>'''<span style="background:Maroon;color:Gold">  BIGNOLE </span>'''</small></span> <span style="font-family:Showcard Gothic"><small>(Contact me)</small></span> 22:33, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Beat me to it, Bignole. ColdFusion650 01:36, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Tommy Woodroofe

Thanks for putting this in WP, it's always been a great favourite of mine & it would be good to have the text of "The Fleet's Lit up" here rather than as an external link, but I suspect there may be copyright issues. As to the tags, they were placed by an automated BOT, and they do tend to be rather unthinking. Having said that, TW is mostly known for the Spithead commentary - I wasn't aware of the cup final commentary - & it's difficult to imagine what more could be added. Some of the best WP articles are short. --Rodhullandemu 01:18, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

My pleasure :-) And I'm not quite sure but I think Woodroofe also reported on the Battle of Britain, I'll do some research to see if I can find whether that's accurate. Cheers. --Maarten1963 22:35, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

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Rex Hunt

Hello. Do you have a source for the following, which I believe you added? "He was chairman of the Falkland Islands Association for many years. He retired as chairman in 2004 and moved to Yorkshire ↗." If so, kindly add it to the text. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 05:51, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

RE: CLP Olympics additions

Hello, I hope you do not think I was being nasty by reverting your contributions. Its just that at the time, they were unreferenced. But now I have no problem with them, regards. Police,Mad,Jack ↗ (talk ↗ '''·''' contribs ↗)<span style="font-size:large;">☺</span> 20:00, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Removal of citation requests on Alfred Hitchcock ↗

You shouldn't remove legitimate citation requests from an article. Yworo (talk) 22:30, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

I didn't think they were legitimate. --Maarten1963 (talk) 22:33, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism of Vasco da Gama#Legacy ↗

I am sure this wasnt intentional, yet this ID is tagged as the editor.
Edit with vandalism occurred March 19th 2009. <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by Galootius (talk • contribs ↗) 06:55, 1 November 2009 (UTC)</span></small>

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Bruce Matthews

You are correct that there are other people in the Deaths section who are not internationally notable and should be removed. Unfortunately going through every article of every person listed to objectively decide who should be included is a very time consuming processs which I have not got around to, yet. However WP:Other stuff ↗ applies here, the inclusion of other non-notable entries does not justify the inclusion of 1 more. Bruce Matthews has only 2 articles in non-English languages, both insubstantial, which suggests he is not well-known internationally. Cheers, <span style="background-color:red;color:lime;">DerbyCountyinNZ</span> <sup> (Talk Contribs ↗)</sup> 20:28, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

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Just wondering which bit of this you don't understand: {{green|In 1914, when the First World War began, Stone enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment, and in the following year was commissioned in the Royal Fusiliers. He served throughout the war, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross, and was three times mentioned in dispatches. He was promoted to major in 1917 and was appointed aide-de-camp to General Pereira, commander of the 2nd Infantry Division in 1918.}} No need for snide remarks, I think. '''<span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color:# 660066">Tim riley</span><span style="color:#848484"> talk</span></span>''' 20:45, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

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