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Proposed deletion of Michael Malone (basketball coach) edit

 

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Proposed deletion of Brian Herosian edit

 

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Nomination of George B. Boomer for deletion edit

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Inline links to Worcester Academy edit

Please do not link to Worcester Academy's website in the text of articles, such as Bruno Haas. Not only does it run contrary to Wikipedia's policy on external links, but the way you're doing it messes up the existing link to the Academy's page on Wikipedia. Thanks. -Dewelar (talk) 23:32, 3 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Spammed links to Worcester Academy edit

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March 2011 edit

  Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Arthur Pope. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. GcSwRhIc (talk) 22:07, 9 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Please stop edit

Your changing of wikilinks to external links is against Wikipedia policy and convention. All of your edits will be reverted and, given that you have been warned a number of times, you could easily be blocked for continuing this disruptive form of editing. Thanks--TM 14:39, 14 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

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More information needed about File:Boomer1.jpg.png edit

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More information needed about File:Boomercolumn1.jpg.png edit

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More information needed about File:Boomerbase1.jpg.png edit

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February 2012 edit

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Speedy deletion nomination of Benaiah L. Whitman edit

 

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Help me! Photo file will not show edit

Please help me with...

I have an embedded image that will not show. Here is the source code of the embedded file:

File:Https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ralph Donnelly on horse.JPG

Can you advise me as to edits?

Tatnuck (talk) 14:24, 12 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I have moved the article to Draft:Ralph E. Donnelly as it is not ready for main space. Please see the Manual of Style for details on image formatting.  Philg88 talk 14:30, 12 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

AfC notification: Draft:Ralph E. Donnelly has a new comment edit

 
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Ralph E. Donnelly (November 12) edit

 
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Your draft article, Draft:Ralph E. Donnelly edit

 

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