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The Bourne Identity

The paragraph you recently added has been moved to the "differences from novel" section of the article, not removed entirely; there is no need to keep re-adding it to the introduction. Additionally, the paragraph was removed previously simply because it is uncited and thus can be construed as being original research. If you could add a citation to it, perhaps from material written by Ludlum fans about the novel, then it will no longer matter. Thankyou. Qjuad 16:18, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Friendorama

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Speedy deletion nomination of Ed boks

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You have just recreated this page, complete with the speedy deletion template still on it. If you are unable to correct the problems that lead to the first deletion very soon, it will likely be deleted again. Repeated recreation of deleted articles is considered edit warring and is not a good idea and could lead to a block. A better option would be to work on this article in your user space until it is ready to "go live". Click here to start a subpage in your user space on this topic. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:53, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Actually, after examining this article and doing a quick search, I was able to provide a source and have declined the speedy deletion. If you are aware of any more reliable sources that could be used, it would be great if you could add them. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:02, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Are You F*cking Kidding Me

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J stack

I appreciate what your trying to do but please stop. The idea of splitting stack from the main article has already been discussed on the talk page and shot down. It's unlikely to ever be approved unless there's substantial coverage of his early life. - Stillwaterising (talk) 23:42, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Security doors

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convergent power series

Hi -- I saw the link for convergent that you added to analytic function -- that was helpful, but that link leads to a disambiguation page with lots of different meanings of "convergent". In a case like that, it's better to use a piped link that links the word directly to the more specific meaning appropriate to the context, in this case [[convergent series|convergent]]. Joriki (talk) 18:47, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

yes i see what you mean. that was an oversight and thanx for correcting it. :) --Mikewax (talk) 18:23, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

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Natural selection

Can you tell me what you mean by "more variable" in your edit to Natural Selection? Over time loci that are not subject to selection will accumulate mutations via drift; although this sounds like more variation, it should actually result in less phenotypic (and genetic) variation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trashbird1240 (talk • contribs) 15:30, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello Trashbird, i didn't actually write that paragraph, but i think the point is that when a certain form of selective pressure in the environment stops operativing, then any spontaneous new alleles that occur will no longer be "pressured out". but i can't say if it ultimately increases of decreases variation.

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Deletion discussion about Textaholism

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Deletion discussion about College–industrial complex

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Proposed deletion of Micro DVR

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Please do use minor edit for really minor edits.

Please see WP:Minor edit. Thanks! Johnjbarton (talk) 02:36, 9 November 2023 (UTC)