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rise of the silver surfer was on disney+ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.159.74.235 (talk) 04:11, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2022-03-06T04:11:00.000Z","author":"73.159.74.235","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-73.159.74.235-2022-03-06T04:11:00.000Z-you_incorrectly_removed_my_edit","replies":[]}}-->
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My Edits on the University of Cincinnati Baseball page
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Dave, Hi I'm sorry and deeply regret all the edits I made on the University of Cincinnati Baseball page Friday, If you don't mind for future edits I decide to make will do them in my sandbox, then hit submit. Not Mad at you or nothing, I know what I did, my fault. If you want to look at my sandbox page, I corrected my dumb mistakes (corrected order based on other team pages) and added new stuff and sources. Let me know what you think, Hope you're not mad at me
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Perhaps you could change the wording to reflect on how the bust doesn't have to be made before 1925 in order to be on the article if it never had a copyright to begin with Journey896 (talk) 01:32, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2022-03-07T01:32:00.000Z","author":"Journey896","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Journey896-2022-03-07T01:32:00.000Z-Vice_president_bust_notes","replies":[]}}-->
Just a suggestion Journey896 (talk) 01:32, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2022-03-07T01:32:00.000Z","author":"Journey896","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Journey896-2022-03-07T01:32:00.000Z-Vice_president_bust_notes-1","replies":[]}}-->
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Hi Dave - I'm trying to adapt the Hicks source to the updated Ref/Source I've edited. Still getting an error notice. The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel)
Can you help the article adding an image as well; the notability of the article is on the name but adding an image the duos performing gives more liveliness to the article; sometimes we do not need image to "poor" or those kinds of articles but this is not that situation here, I guess; I am a 24 years old editor and beginner here; and if you cannot do it can you tell to somebody very experienced to do so ILYM22 (talk) 04:25, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20220804042500","author":"ILYM22","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-ILYM22-20220804042500-Jordan_&_Bek_Ge'ez","replies":[]}}-->
at the end of the Lead - "outer pair AB were" makes no sense
Polaris triple system since 1929/2005 (Aa with Ab and Polaris B (Herschel-1779) is 18" away)
I wanted to check with you since it was your edit 09:05 pacific time 15 September 2021
Dave 21:36 pac 04:36 utc
At the time of the original discovery, the Aa/Ab pair hadn't been discerned yet, so AB just refers to the original finding. It is the notation used by the Washington Double Star Catalogue. Praemonitus (talk) 04:52, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20221012045200","author":"Praemonitus","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Praemonitus-20221012045200-Polaris","replies":[]}}-->
Second Violation of Article - February 2024 | EDI Wiki page edit
Was there any reason why you missed the link to the page https://datatrans-inc.com/edi-856-advance-shipping-notice-asn/ linked from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_data_interchange wikipedia page, since it seems blatant advertising? I am trying to understand if there is any clear reason you can show me as to why only edits by some of the users are being removed by other wikipedia editors such as you, even when those edits point to educational content - but why you miss those other pages? Ann Alwis (talk) 06:04, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for your edits at Culiseta alaskaensis. I sent you a thanks but that seems less personal. My internet went down and I am having to connect with my laptop via my phone. I knew there were issues but was afraid I would lose info if something crashed. The article looks better with your assistance. I was/am considering creating more related articles but this is slow. I may just create a few stubs for now. -- Otr500 (talk) 13:58, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241031135800","author":"Otr500","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Otr500-20241031135800-Article_help","replies":[]}}-->
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