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I just read your comment at Talk:List of HIV-positive people, regarding that you might want to read Wikipedia:Verifiability. Garion96 (talk) 18:21, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Verifiability, WP:POV, WP:NOR

Your personal speculation about Eldon Hoke is the possible topic of an essay, but not a Wikipedia article. Have sources, present neutrally, eliminate your point of view, cease with speculation, please, before re-adding anything of that nature. KP Botany 21:29, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

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Editor reverted own edit after reading edit summary at about same time I posted this notice, so I retract the notice. KP Botany 22:36, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

M-bag

The United States Postal Service, although controlled by the federal government, retains copyright in its works such as stamps and web pages. To quote the bottom of their homepage, "Copyright© 1999-2007 USPS. All Rights Reserved." Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 05:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Little context in Stone of terpon

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Hey Dick Kimball, I had some fun expanding that one. Τῷ δὲ καταστήσαντι Οὐικιπαιτᾶν χάριν ἀνταποδοίη. :-) Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:51, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Salt of the Earth

Hello, happy Friday. Nice additions to an article I've edited for a long time. I've been meaning to download the film from Internet archive but it takes a long time and I'm on dial-up. Even on DSL it takes and hour or two. Best -- Luigibob (talk) 15:29, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Chaplain

Hi, I have placed a response to your comment here: [1]. Regards, Springnuts (talk) 20:35, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Fins

See my response using this link to your comment at the WP:ERRORS page. I hope that explains why it hasn't been changed. Regards. Woody (talk) 19:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

November 2009

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to Jewel De'Nyle. Thank you. Morbidthoughts (talk) 21:09, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Tony Award

I responded to your concerns about the description of the Tony Award medallion on the talk page of the article; to sum up, the description was probably taken from a playbill article. I asked there, and will ask here, do you have suggested alternate language? Thanks, JeanColumbia (talk) 16:56, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

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I'm not the guy you want to block. My access goes through a common Internet gateway for Massachusetts state employees; there are probably thousands of us at this IP address. I have no idea who Williamsbeth is except that it's not I. Anyway, all I was trying to do was point out a needed gramatical correction in On this day...

...an estimated tens of thousands deaths across France.

should probably be ...an estimated tens of thousands OF deaths across France.

Dick Kimball (talk) 12:11, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

--Sumo broadcast== I don't know how I missed your comment on the talk page of Makuuchi late last year, but your comment is valid - it should be stated and not assumed that bilingual broadcast is in English. Thank you, I added in a clarification. FourTildes 20:42, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

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Your request to add overthrow of James II of England to November 5 page

Hi User:Dick Kimball. I saw your comment here, and left a response. Paul2520 (talk) 15:52, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Valls Cabinet

Thanks. It is always good to learn something new. --Klausok (talk) 21:01, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

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Would you mind tweaking your signature so that the font is not increased and there is no line break, per the guidelines at WP:SIG. Thanks, Stephen 00:46, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

You need to change your signature per the policy at WP:SIG#Appearance and color. No line breaks and font size increases. Stephen 05:00, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

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Please remove the line break from your signature. Stephen 23:01, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

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Your question on WP:ERRORS

Hi, I have closed your query about today's featured article on the main page, as consensus is fairly settled that we do not put disambiguation terms in brackets on articles. A permanent link to the discussion is here. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:59, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Vindication, seven years later

Hi, way back in 2010 you pointed out on the Juliette talk page that 'prequel' was not an accurate term for the novel and/or its relationship to Sade's other novel, Justine. For some reason, another editor responded to you with a churlish 'lolwut' and basically gave you a non-sequitur for an answer. I read Justine in university, and a bit of Juliette: the characters are sisters and the action over both novels is simultaneous, so yeah, they would not be prequels regardless of when they were published (sequel might apply, but certainly not prequel: more like companion pieces). Just to let you know I've fixed that page. As for the editor, he appears to have gone pretty inactive later that same year. ZarhanFastfire (talk) 01:14, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

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