Markphodgkin

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If you need any more information, plenty of help is available - check out Wikipedia:Questions; ask your question here and attract help with the code {{helpme}}; or leave me a message on my talk page explaining your problem and I will help as best as I can. Again, welcome! strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 14:24, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Eliot Hodgkin

Thank you for this interesting article. Would you be able to add page numbers to the various references to the 1990 biography? I've got a couple of questions: bearing in mind that all information needs to be accompanied by verifiable sources, are you able to add (a) the names of his parents? (b) a brief list of EH's major works and their locations? I think that these things would improve the article further.HeartofaDog (talk) 13:22, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the additions and the images, which make a great difference to the article.HeartofaDog (talk) 14:42, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Talk with me

Hello, many thanks the best way for talkings is by this page http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_utilisateur:Philippenusbaumer, Best regards. Philippe Nusbaumer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.217.76.164 (talk) 05:06, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for you contributions

Hi Mark. Thanks for your contributions. I noticed you wrote an article about Eliot Hodgkin on German Wikipedia. Note that for further articles, you should create them in your userspace first, as articles that seem translated badly might get deleted. But I fixed some errors and now it's okay :) Good work, carry on! Kind regards, Church of emacs (Talk) 19:15, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Please excuse me if I am mistaken here – the coincidence of your username and your monothematic interest in this person suggests that I am not. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:02, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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