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unreviewed articles
Hi, could you please review the following articles for me, when you have time: Croftinloan School, Doug Mitchell (film producer) and Alan Watson Featherstone. I have been waiting for almost five months for the Croftinloan article to be reviewed! Obviously, a lack of editors. (You previously reviewed my article for John Henderson Sinclair last year) Many thanks. Gomach (talk) 09:35, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
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May 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Wikipedia:Help desk, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. AlexTiefling (talk) 16:19, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
- WTF are you talking about? Turning URLs into Wikilinks? I've been doing that for years an no one has batted an eyelid. And BTW, please read WP:DTTR.--ukexpat (talk) 16:27, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
- No worries. I left it as-was, because it is clearer; I'd just always tried to regard other users' comments as sacrosanct. Please feel free to delete this entire section, though; I was needlessly officious, and I apologise. AlexTiefling (talk) 16:29, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
- RE: DTTR - it didn't occur to me that the template would tell you 'Welcome to Wikipedia'. That is, of course, absurd. My apologies once again. AlexTiefling (talk) 16:30, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
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Just so you know ...
Fiorano Software was salted over four years ago. Daniel Case (talk) 17:28, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
- OK thanks.--ukexpat (talk) 18:16, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
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hello. since you are an editor of the article Ammar ibn Yasir, would you be interested in voting for it to make it a featured article or not? thank you for your time Grandia01 (talk) 12:57, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
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My article Abel Laureano wasn't accepted
My article Abel Laureano wasn't accepted. Sincerely I don't know what to do to make it acceptable. Can you tell me what I did wrong? Many thanks. Maria RentoMaria.Rento IESF (talk) 21:30, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
- You need to cite reliable sources that demonstrate that he meets the WP:BIO guidelines. If you need further help please ask at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk.--ukexpat (talk) 02:23, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you so much. I see you fixed my link tagging. What is the next step. I am concerned that my article is not in my original sandbox. When I click my sandbox in the top menu it takes me to another link appearing on the left. It's a small link that says "Sandbox/GreenLips User". When I click there my article does appear—and nicely linked, thanks to you. Any help is appreciated. GreenLips (talk) 14:04, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
- The draft is in a user sandbox - I moved it from your user page to User:GreenLips/Sandbox. You really need to add more references to the early part of the article. I fear that if you resubmit it now, it will be rejected again for not having enough references. When you are ready to resubmit it add the text {{Subst:submit}} at the top and click save. --ukexpat (talk) 21:35, 7 June 2014 (UTC)\
- Dear Ukexpat,
- Thank you, thank you, thank you. I found you to be the most helpful. Please continue to review our article titled Bill Haney. Your kindness and helpfulness is appreciated. I don't know how my article got in the wrong area. I couldn't figure out how to get it back in my original sandbox for my review. Thank you for moving it there. Again, your help and sage advice is very much appreciated. I will follow your advice.GreenLips (talk) 14:44, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Ukexpat,
Please don't delete the HealthDay page. It is similar to Reuters health and has tons of great health content available daily. The news website is consumer.healthday.com and has free articles and videos. It is not spam since the articles written are from health reports and medical journals. HealthDay is not a pharmaceutical company. I agree with the changes you made. It's much shorter and easier for people to find information.
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by ReynaLarios (talk • contribs) 19:41, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- I am not an admin so I cannot delete the article - I have just nominated it for deletion. If you want it to remain you must cite some additional sources that demonstrate that the business is notable per the guidelines at WP:CORP.--ukexpat (talk) 20:49, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks very much. Think I'm on top of things now - very useful links. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adproductionguy (talk • contribs) 15:18, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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No edit conflict?
We edited at practically the same time on the helpdesk. How did this not cause an edit conflict? I submitted after you did, but my comment is above yours. How is this possible? Piguy101 (talk) 21:02, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- I have no idea!--ukexpat (talk) 21:08, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- That's funny. Piguy101 (talk) 21:14, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- I am content just to gnome away. The inner workings of Wikipedia are a mystery to me.--ukexpat (talk) 21:15, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- That's funny. Piguy101 (talk) 21:14, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
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Grace College
I noticed you changed corrections that were made to the Grace College & Seminary page. You changed things that were correct, do you have any connection with Grace? Why are you changing these corrections? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bpintern4 (talk • contribs) 15:26, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
- No I have no connection with Grace. My changes were solely to make the article conform to Wikpedia's policies, guidelines and manual of style. Please continue any content-related discussion on the article's talk page. Thanks.--ukexpat (talk) 18:13, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
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Dear UKexpat,
The note below is in response to the Speedy Deletion of a submitted article on The Society for Planetary SETI Research.
From Horace Crater to "Ukexpat". Please let me know if the material I provide below is sufficient for me to use the first few paragraphs from my website http://spsr.utsi.edu in the formation of my proposed Wikepedia articles. Let me know if there is any thing else I can provide to you.
Thanks
The following sentences were formed based on the website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CONSENT..
I hereby affirm that I, (Horace Crater), am the creator and sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the web site http://spsr.utsi.edu I agree to publish a portion of that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
My name is Horace Crater. The web site is a faculty web site at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. I am the owner of the content of that web site. I wish to use only a portion of that web site http://spsr.utsi.edu for which I am copyright owner (in particular the introductory descriptive paragraphs as an introduction to a proposed Wikipedia article. Since I am the owner there is no issue of copyright for that text. I am a professor at my institute and my email address is hcrater@utsi.edu. The web master here can verify the information I am sending to you. His name and email address is Richard Gulley, rgulley@utsi.edu.
Hcrater (talk) 19:22, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
- I am sorry but you must communicate permission to Wikipedia via the process described at WP:IOWN.--ukexpat (talk) 19:48, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
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