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West Plains, MO
editHave deleted Stephen W. Thompson twice. No such person in Wikipedia, although there are multiple people of note who might be meant. Perhaps you could create the article for the person you're referencing, or add a note to clarify notability, so that another Wikipedian can do likewise? Otherwise, the name will be suspected of being a vanity item or a joke, and will be deleted again. DavidOaks 19:19, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
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Steven W. Thompson
editNot to worry! Your references are all still there -- they've just been converted from displayed text into more-easily clickable footnotes. DavidOaks (talk) 18:58, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- Fixed both items -- the display refs operator was missing, and the other simply was an inappropriate category listing. Don't know about the explosion -- if your Dad's records were hosed in that garage, and if the dates fit... DavidOaks (talk) 20:13, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the correction regarding Trans-World Airlines, what alerted me originally was that you had created a redlink. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 23:25, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Bobby Jim--the address you tried was incorrect. It's udbuckboard@hotmail.com. Looking forward to hearing from you.--Reedmalloy (talk) 18:45, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
July 2015
editHello, I'm Arxiloxos. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. I could find no source connecting LeRoy Prinz to Cheviot Hills. If there is a reliable source that does so, please feel free to re-insert his name, with a footnote citing the source. Thank you. Arxiloxos (talk) 01:10, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
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First aerial victory by the U.S. military listed at Redirects for discussion
editAn editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect First aerial victory by the U.S. military. Since you had some involvement with the First aerial victory by the U.S. military redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 16:13, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
May 2018
editYour addition to Harry S. Truman has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. General Ization Talk 17:07, 28 May 2018 (UTC)