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Please comment on Talk:Elizabeth Warren

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Thank you for quality articles promoting human rights, such as Agape Foundation and Matthew Shepard Foundation, for gnomish "minor clean up", page moves, redirects, for heart, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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The current state of shmup articles

Hello! You're invited to express your views about this topic on the discussion topic. Jotamide (talk) 06:09, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating this article and contributing to the Wiki Loves Pride campaign. Do share if you create any other new LGBT-related articles this month! :) ---Another Believer (Talk) 22:22, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Will do! :) --Varnent (talk)(COI) 22:23, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

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US Thrill Rides

Hey,

If you are interested in expanding the US Thrill Rides article, I had collected a bunch of sources a while ago that may help!--Dom497 (talk) 13:00, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Excellent - thank you! --Varnent (talk)(COI) 16:08, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia

Hi, Varnent. Thanks for creating the Eyerly Aircraft Company article. I notice though that it was created with text copied directly from the Lee Eyerly page. I just wanted to remind you that this does require proper attribution per terms of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Although all Wikipedia text is licensed under a CC-BY-SA Creative Commons license, this only creates a co-license in which contributors still maintain their right to attribution. Therefore, when copying Wikipedia text from one article to another, attribution must be given in the edit summary and should be done on the talk page, as well. I've gone ahead and added the attribution for you at Eyerly Aircraft Company and Talk:Eyerly Aircraft Company if you need to see how to do it. The page at WP:Copying within Wikipedia provides a better explanation. It will help you to do this on any future copying (and to add it to any of the past articles you may have created this way if you hadn't already done so). Cheers. CactusWriter (talk) 18:01, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Excellent - thank you. I was going to look into that more as I hadn't done it before - but you solved that. :) Thanks again! --Varnent (talk)(COI) 18:12, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
No problem at all. CactusWriter (talk) 23:12, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

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Your reversion.

I think you reverted my edit by mistake. I went ahead and reverted back. Just wanted to let you know :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 22:31, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Ack! My apologies! I accidentally clicked the link on my phone and thought I hit cancel when it asked to confirm - but apparently that's not mobile friendly. Sorry about that! --Varnent (talk)(COI) 03:58, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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Alphabet Task Force

@Varnent: Please revert edits changing Alphabet Task Force to something within Google. StudiesWorld (talk) 17:12, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

StudiesWorld (talk) 17:12, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

@StudiesWorld: Do you want it to be a separate WikiProject then? Task forces exist within a WikiProject generally. Also, it seems very unlikely to me to succeed as a solo WikiProject, I would strongly advise against that change - especially as the two topics are obviously connected. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 17:29, 20 August 2015 (UTC)