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Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: John G. Crabbe ↗ (May 31)


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~Liance<sup>talk</sup> 02:57, 31 May 2024 (UTC)</div><!--Template:AfC decline-->

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Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Robbie Fletcher ↗ has been accepted


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<span style="background:blue;border:solid 1px;border-radius:8px;box-shadow:blue 3px 3px 3px">&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:yellow">'''Kentuckian''' </span>&#124;💬&nbsp;</span>&nbsp; 22:33, 17 June 2024 (UTC)</div><!--Template:AfC talk-->

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I have noticed your many edits on Kentucky legislators, and I appreiciate you taking time to expand the articles from the 5-sentence stubs you found them as.
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Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Kentucky Superintendent of Public Instruction ↗ has been accepted


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KylieTastic (talk) 16:20, 20 September 2024 (UTC)</div><!--Template:AfC accept-->

Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Adjutant General of Kentucky ↗ has been accepted


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Avgeekamfot (talk) 17:59, 28 March 2025 (UTC)</div><!--Template:AfC accept-->

Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Chad Meredith ↗ has been accepted


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Cabrils (talk) 05:13, 26 June 2025 (UTC)</div><!--Template:AfC accept-->

Concern regarding Draft:William F. O'Donnell ↗


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Concern regarding Draft:Thomas J. Coates (Educator) ↗


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Concern regarding Draft:David T. McFaddin ↗


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Concern regarding Draft:Wendell P. Butler ↗


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Concern regarding Draft:Jere A. Sullivan ↗


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Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Spencer Cobb ↗ has been accepted


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—🌊PacificDepths (talk) 22:52, 7 December 2025 (UTC)</div><!--Template:AfC accept-->

Did you know nomination



I nominated Spencer Cobb ↗ for Wikipedia:Did you know ↗ at Template:Did you know nominations/Spencer Cobb ↗. A reviewer might want help verifying the citation in Middleboro Daily News; if you'd like this article to be featured on the main page, please be prepared to make the citation available to view via a publicly available link or email (WP:DYKCITE ↗). —🌊PacificDepths (talk) 00:35, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

:@William R. Wilks II just in case you didn't see my ping: your help is requested here to cite a statement in Spencer Cobb ↗: Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Prep_2:_Spencer_Cobb_(nom) ↗ —🌊PacificDepths (talk) 11:33, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Gus Thomas ↗ has been accepted


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Theroadislong (talk) 16:33, 11 December 2025 (UTC)</div><!--Template:AfC accept-->

Your draft article, Draft:Adam T. Siler ↗


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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. <!-- Template:Db-draft-deleted --><!-- Template:Db-csd-deleted-custom --> <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">'''''L'''''iz</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">'''''Read!''''' ↗ '''''Talk!'''''</sup> 03:55, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Spencer Cobb


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Concern regarding Draft:John E. Buckingham ↗


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Your draft article, Draft:William F. O'Donnell ↗


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Concern regarding Draft:Bernard Coffindaffer ↗


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Your draft article, Draft:Jere A. Sullivan ↗


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