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One more note

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I noticed you posted comments on the deletion discussion talk page. The usual convention here on Wikipedia is for those comments to be made on the deletion discussion page directly. Another user has moved them to the correct place for you, I hope you don't mind that.

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Welcome and article:William Geddes

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Thanks for creating the William george nicholson geddes article, another past-president off the list to do. I have added my support to it's deletion page and fortunately there seems to be overwhelming support to save it. Don't worry about the lower case name, it's an easy mistake to make and easily solveable.

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PS: as if to show how easy it is to make mistakes, initially I accidentally posted this to your user page instead of the talk page! Apologies for that.

RE:William Glanville

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Glad to see you back. Thanks for correcting the article, both the Royal Society and the Dictionary of National Biography have got it wrong in their biographies - its nice to see Wikipedia with a more correct article! Cheers, Dumelow (talk) 20:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Skype

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  You might note that at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Alan Muir Wood, also introduced some extraneous text around some numerical characters. This may be due to a combination of your browser and Skype trying to identify and highlight telephone numbers. Thank you.--Rumping (talk) 23:21, 21 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at AfC Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame was accepted

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October 2013

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Draft:Structural-Safety (June 9)

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Your draft article, Draft:Structural-Safety

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Draft:Structural-Safety concern

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Your draft article, Draft:Structural-Safety

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Draft:Structural-Safety concern

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Article I mentioned

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Your draft article, Draft:Structural-Safety

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Hello, Gordon Masterton. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Structural-Safety".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Puffin Let's talk! 10:47, 25 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Category:Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame

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Hi @Gordon Masterton: I plan to recreate this category in a short moment, particularly when there is so many people in it and add them all in. If you see any that I have missed, can you add them in please. Thanks. scope_creepTalk 10:03, 15 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

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