Carroll F. Gray

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September 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit that you made to the page Talk:Gustave Whitehead has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Please use the sandbox for testing any edits; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing for further information. Thank you. intelati 01:49, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikiquette alert about Roger491127

Carroll, your name came up at Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts#Roger491127. Feel free to participate in the conversation. Binksternet (talk) 06:41, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Re:Color Question

No. Any custom signatures you see are just there for fun. Some users (myself included) have scripts installed to highlight user's names if they do have a particular status - for example, I see links to administrator's user pages highlighted in light blue, blocked user's names are crossed out, and indefinitely blocked users are crossed out in italics - but by default there's no distinction. Hope that helps! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 03:04, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Whitehead sandbox

I would like to see how you would write the Gustave Whitehead article if you were the only editor. What if you copied and pasted the current article into some sandbox space and worked on it solo, perhaps at User:Carroll F. Gray/Whitehead or similar userspace? I would keep an eye on it and offer pointers. Eventually, when you felt that it was ready for show, you could seek consensus for replacing the current article with your version. Are you up for the challenge? Binksternet (talk) 20:31, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Here's an example where I took a hotly debated aircraft article and made a sandbox version. You can see in the history that other editors took part in some of the editing—they showed up after they were told of the sandbox's existence, and they helped make it a better article. On that article's talk page (Talk:Coandă-1910, now in the archives), I offered a Request for Comment where I asked editors to decide whether the sandbox version should replace the mainspace version. The consensus was 'yes'. Binksternet (talk) 21:01, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I watched sandbox talk and want to add, that you can try categories and interwiki-links by adding a : [[:category...]] instead of [[category...]], you can see what will happen, but it's not active. Of course you have to remove the : when you copy from the sandbox to an article, smile. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:15, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, Gerda and Binksternet - I'll settle into this during the upcoming weekend and into next week and see what develops. Carroll F. Gray (talk) 21:20, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.95.122.230 (talk) 20:42, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Christopher Carter portrait.png

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Update

Hello Carroll F. Gray, I have marked the file File:Christopher Carter portrait.png as permissions received, no further action in this matter is needed. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia and happy editing. Cheers, Mlpearc (open channel) 19:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Christopher Carter (March 3)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Onel5969 was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Onel5969 (talk) 19:04, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello! Carroll F. Gray, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Onel5969 (talk) 19:04, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Christopher Carter concern

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Your draft article, Draft:Christopher Carter

Hello, Carroll F. Gray. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Christopher Carter".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 17:31, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Christopher Carter

Hello, Carroll F. Gray. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Christopher Carter".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 20:01, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Draft:Christopher Carter concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Christopher Carter, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:32, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

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