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Sincerely, P.I. Ellsworth  ed. put'r there 11:01, 1 March 2021 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)Reply

Two drafts...

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...have been submitted to Articles for Creation (AfC) for review. There are > 4,000 drafts waiting for review. It is not a queue. Expect a review as soon as days, as long as several months. Reviewer will Accept, Decline or Reject the draft. If accepted, it becomes an article. If Declined, reasons will be stated about what to fix. David notMD (talk) 14:55, 1 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

The Teahouse

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Hi. On the talk page of one of your previous IPs, I said the following, a couple of days ago:

Please do not tell new editors that they always have to use British English in articles, because that's not true (here is more information).

I am guessing that you never saw that, since you just added this advice at the Teahouse. Your willingness to help is appreciated, but please avoid giving advice to other new editors, because it is easy to get things wrong when you haven't yet learnt many of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Thank you. --bonadea contributions talk 12:51, 2 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Kothadi has been accepted

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Kothadi, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

You may wish to consider registering an account so you can create articles yourself.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 02:44, 3 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Your thread has been archived

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Hi 106.220.85.12! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, I want to creat article about a village in India, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread.


The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:00, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Your thread has been archived

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Hi 106.220.85.12! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Feel free to edit expand my draft, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread.


The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

About Ghodasgaon, Jalgaon District

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  Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Ghodasgaon, Jalgaon District a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Draft:Ghodasgaon (District - Jalgaon). This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Kichu🐘 Need any help? 05:18, 18 March 2021 (UTC)Reply