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Hi, I have added a task to your desk. Andreww 05:29, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the cleanup of Captain George Shelvocke. You had done most of the things needed to close the task -- all I did was change the taskforce closed tag from {{cleanup taskforce closed|}} to {{cleanup taskforce closed|Captain George Shelvocke}} and added [[Wikipedia:Cleanup taskforce closed/Captain George Shelvocke]] to Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/closed. Cheers. Andreww 06:31, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Peetiewheatstraw.jpg

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Article on Reeves James

This article was listed under cleanup for February 11th. RJFJR and I went over it for grammatical errors and style, but the facts need checking. Could you take a look at it? Mgummess 23:23, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you. How do you go about getting an article removed? I'm a new user, and I'm not familiar with the standing policy.

I've added it to the list of proposed deletions so it will be dealt with in the next few days, hopefully. C i d 10:15, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

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Unspecified source for Image:Joseph Magliocco.jpg

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I think a link to the website where this image was taken from should suffice. --Fritz S. (Talk) 19:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Weetabix

Hi! I have reverted your additions to the above article. If you are able to provide some references then please do not hesitate re-adding your additions. Thanks, --Ali K 14:04, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Not being able to provide a web-based reference definitely does not mean it isn't true. I was trying to maintain references for the article, but you are entirely right, you titled it "trivia" and hence should not really need a reference. My justification is that I was making sure you had not made it up off the top of your head. Now I know you heard it on the radio (and many others are sure to have heard it as well) I think it is back to where it should be. Sorry for the inconvenience. --Ali K 14:25, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Bonanno Crime Family

Hi, indeed, I assume you refer to Little Joe Shots. I agree that his contributions amount to a lot of uncorrobarated fairy tales. He is not only trashing the Bonnano article but every US Mafia Family article and the Apalachin Meeting article as well (see his Contributions log). I already put a request for verification on the Bonnano and Apalachin article, but he seems to be totally unresponsive. Maybe we should revert to the pre-Little Joe Shots versions to make him aware that there are some serious doubts about his contributions. Mafia Expert 15:38, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

OK, we will give him some time. On the other hand his contributions are making the articles unreadable and do not fit the WP standards. He has to be more concise or we have to revert to the previous versions. --Mafia Expert 15:53, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

I have changed the tag from "verify" into "disputed" and asked for references. If not I think we should revert to the pre-Little Joe Shots version. --Mafia Expert 17:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce

Are you interested in working on the article about the guitarist Kevin_Cadogan? RJFJR 17:35, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I'll take that on in the next couple of days. C i d 20:59, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

It's on your desk. Thank you. RJFJR 22:18, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the fast job. You know what they say about if you do a good job, you get more work? Well... I jut added Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Gob (band) to your desk. accept, reject or let me know and I'll reassign it, please. Thank you. RJFJR 14:38, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Trashing of Mafia article

Hello, Little Joe Shots is now trashing the Mafia article. I reverted his editions to the previous version, and left this message:

I have reverted the edits of Little Joe Shots. This contributor is regurlarly trashing articles on Mafia related issues with unreferenced, unreliable, badly written contributions that lack Wikipedia standards. -- Mafia Expert 11:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I think this user has to be stopped trashing articles and damaging the contributions of other people. Is there something we can do about this? -- Mafia Expert 11:52, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:2-3-Gaetano-Lucchese.jpg

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Image:Vincent_mangano.jpg

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Genovese crime family

Hi,

I saw your recent post on this article's talk page, and I'm inclined to agree that the length and style of the article have become absurd. I've temporarily taken the rather dramatic approach of reverting the article back to a much earlier, shorter version, as I think this is a better starting point for fixing the article than trying to edit the long version down, and also because it gives readers something usable in the mean time.

I'd be grateful for your thoughts on what approach to take going forward on this article, or alternatively, your opinion on whether I've gone too far here!

Best regards, Oli Filth 18:39, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce

There are two articles on your desk. Please look at them and determine if they are ready to be closed, need more work or are outside your area of expertise. Let me know if you'd like the reassigned or are ready for more tasks. Thank you. RJFJR 16:00, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

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Please feel free to assign yourself tasks from the list of unassigned tasks at Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce. Arranging assignments is too much work for me to do by myself. We have a large backlog of unassigned tasks and there is probably something in there that will interest you. RJFJR 22:16, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

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