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Please comment on Talk:Manned mission to Mars

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Hi ErranX. As a former contributor to this, you may wish to take a look at this. If you do, please read it carefully in order not to miss the explicit objective. Comments on its talk page. Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:03, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Do not feed the animals

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Re:Dudley Clarke

Thank you, but the main author of the translation is User:Epìdosis (it:Utente:Epìdosis), in this case I am only a sort of "proofreader". :-) --Franz van Lanzee (talk) 14:24, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Minerva (video game) for deletion

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A Force

About half of the source material

Hi. I am considering performing the GA review on Victor Jones (British Army officer) in the future and in my cursory search I noticed you started an article in sandbox about A Force. I'm curious to know when you plan to take that article live, since I'm already looking at the cited references. Chris Troutman (talk) 03:05, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Well to be honest A Force is one of about 4 major articles in the topic area (the others being Operation Bodyguard, London Controlling Section and Operation Fortitude). Admittedly out of the 4 it's probably the 'easiest', but it's still a bit of a hydra. My notes for it currently fill most of a binder. It will be at least as long as my Dudley Clarke article, if not a couple of lengthy articles. My main focus at the moment are the Bodyguard sub-plans as they are a bit easier to manage (Fortitude aside). So sort answer; it might be a little while ;) However, feel free to contribute to the sandbox, and if you can get it into halfway decent shape (current content really is an outline) where you think it would work live then let me know and we can look at moving it. I tend to write new articles in my sanbox a) so they are relatively mature once live and b) so that when I feel happy about them being live they still qualify for WP:DYK :D --Errant ^(chat!) 08:23, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

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