MauriceJCooper

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Hello, MauriceJCooper, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Valfontis (talk) 17:38, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Hood River County, Oregon

Please take a look at the page history and the edit summaries to understand why your edits are disappearing. I'm assuming you don't know where your edits went and not that you are edit warring by restoring the edits. Your last three edits were deleted as they added external links that were not specifically about Hood River County, restored the name "Boucher" which I had already reverted, it was duplicated/misplaced in one section and not wikilinked. Generally we are not adding names of communities in the lists in the Oregon county articles unless they are classed by the USGS as populated places or have some other notability and link from another article. Oregon has tens of thousands of place names and by doing this we keep the lists manageable. If an article is written on Boucher, Oregon, we can restore it to the list. I hope this helps. Valfontis (talk) 01:05, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

templates

Please stop creating single issue templates like {{Bloucher Spur Airfield}}. Even as an article, this is probably not a notable topic. Also your changes to Bloucher, Oregon significantly messed up the style of the article. I have reverted it to the state it was before your changes. Feel free to try again, but you might want to read the some of the content in the welcome message above to learn how about our Manual of Style, and particularly the Five Pillars which is the core of the policies which decide which topics we include and do not include as well as what and how we write about them. Thanks! —EncMstr (talk) 18:13, 25 February 2013 (UTC)