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Louis Robert

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Hi ! I have announced your article on the Wikipedia:WikiProject France/New article announcements. This helps people interested in France-related topics to contribute and coordinate their efforts. Happy editing, STTW (talk) 14:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

digital classicist

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As a classical civilisation graduate I'm intrigued by the concept. But to survive this article needs to read less like an advert- maybe to discuss similar projects in the article?Merkinsmum 20:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Albedo One

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Albedo One was in danger of being deleted. I noted you as one of the early contributers. Not sure if you have a horse in the race or not.

I am just writing to let you know, I substantially edited it and rewrote it. But being unfamiliar to the subject, I could not confirm it still makes sense. Fortunately in wiki land, all things can be undone.

The unimpeachable change I made was creating the magazine info box, and fleshing out some of the references. --K3vin (talk) 13:36, 3 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Greek Magical Papyri

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I just revisited the page on the Greek Magical Papyri and was disappointed that it didn't live up to my memory of its quality. Reading the talk page, I began to see why. I'm rather ignorant about the mechanics of Wikipedia and am unclear how to view an older version of the page. In other words, I'd like to see something closer to what you intended. I left a rather testy comment on irresponsible editing, and this incident certainly points to a fatal flaw in Wikipedia: that without closing the editing process at some point (and making future edits through a responsible editor), articles can simply deteriorate through the whims of imbeciles. Cynwolfe (talk) 14:00, 26 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

I appear to have engaged in implicit name-calling toward other users with that 'imbeciles' remark. Apologies; not my desired M.O. That must've been the day I decided there was no point contributing to Wikipedia if a good article to which one had intended to link could be left in ruins without due process. So many people turn to Wikipedia first, particularly students, and I believe in the project. Just wish the editing process could be more rational. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:29, 19 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

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I was going through magazine categories and saw that Midnight Street has been largely unreferenced since its creation in 2006, with little editing from other editors. I was going to PROD it as I was unable to find any reliable sources to incorporate showing notability, but you may be privy to sources discussing the subject that I was unable to find in my search. Do you know of any sources that could be added to the article? Currently, the sole source is an interview, which is considered a primary source and not useful for showing notability. Waxworker (talk) 08:44, 6 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

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I am concerned about your additions. They seem to be original research. The source you cited for Sosipatra does not use the word "occultist" on the page you cited. Skyerise (talk) 12:34, 22 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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