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I know you have been around for a while, but you haven't had any messages on your talk page so I thought I should put one on. You have some great contributions, especially the David Greenglass article. Just one improvement would be to make sure not to mark all your edits as minor unless they are actually minor. Particularly, new articles are definitely not minor edits. Academic Challenger 05:43, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Diane Nash

Thanks for correcting my error. Even more thanks for contributing such a well-written piece. Italo Svevo 16:43, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Evangelicalism ↗

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Be bold in updating pages

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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 18:45, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Chippewa Valley ↗

Thank you for creating Chippewa Valley ↗. Could you please add in-line references for the content you added?Zigzig20s (talk) 12:39, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

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Hoax

Don't upload hoax images like File:Beverly-Carradine.jpg ↗! Obviously not someone named Beverly.

In fact, Beverly is sometimes a male name, and in this case, it is, which is supported in the article about Beverly Carradine ↗. Mdmcginn (talk) 05:10, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

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By the time I checked, the speedy deletion tag had been removed. Mdmcginn (talk) 05:18, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

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