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John Adams edit

You have recently created the article John Adams, Sr.. This was deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policies. Please do not recreate the article: if you disagree with the article's deletion, you may ask for a review at Wikipedia:Deletion review.—WAvegetarianCONTRIBUTIONSTALKEMAIL 00:41, 2 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

I tagged it for deletion because it wasn't apparent to me that he had done anything notable other than sire a future president out of the 3, 4 maybe I can't remember, children that he had. I didn't think that the article would ever expand much beyond what was already covered in the John Adams article. I'm not actually able to delete articles as I am not an admin. This means that an admin agreed with me and deleted it twice. The second time you recreated it, you added more information. What I ended up doing is merging the only thing in your article that I didn't find in John Adams into the Early life section, specifically the birth and death years of Sr. Currently, the article you created redirects to John Adams. If you think you can write an article that is more than a stub about Sr., then you may follow this link and write it up. I just don't think there is much to say about him that isn't adequately covered in the article on Jr., but I have been wrong before.—WAvegetarianCONTRIBUTIONSTALKEMAIL 03:46, 2 May 2006 (UTC)Reply
Yes. If you can write up a bio on him, by all means do so. Just follow the link above. —WAvegetarianCONTRIBUTIONSTALKEMAIL 01:50, 3 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

They all look good. Could you add the source of your information? When writing stubs it is generally very helpful to give a reference as a jumping off point for further expansion. —WAvegetarianCONTRIBUTIONSTALKEMAIL 01:04, 4 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Re:Images edit

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India (cat) marked for deletion discussion edit

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Steens Pictures edit

I saw on the Requested Pictures page that you were looking for pictures of Steens Mountain. Here is a link to my steens picures on flickr: SteensPictures. If you think any of these would be appropriate, I would be happy to release them under GFDL or CC licenses. Sheldrake 20:45, 31 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Portland edit

Hi Coby2! We're working on the article about Lewis & Clark for the german Wikipedia and we would like to ask you, if you might be able to take some pictures of the following sites:

  • Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Portland
  • Fort Clatsop National Memorial bei Astoria, OR

If you could take some pics and upload them on Commons? I would be glad to do the upload for you, of course! Maybe you have the chance to stop by and help your german friends out, we really appreciate your time and effort. Take care, --Hedwig in Washington (TALK) 02:22, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

WP:POKE is doing some housecleaning edit

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to unlock luigi edit

To unlock luigi you have to beat mushroom kingdoom in 24 or 52 seconds then he will appear in a battle insted of mario beat him in that then finish adventure mode he appear again beat him and voila you have. luigi message me back hope you get him --Shadow rocks101 15:07, 2 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion of Smooth Softshell turtle edit

 

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In response to question edit

The reason the tag is gone because another user optioned against my decision (which is fine). However, I still do not feel right about the page. Would you be willing to expand it, maybe give it a reference or external link? I know that you are a new user, so, if you want, let me know if you want me to help you with that. I would be glad to. If you have any more questions or comments, feel free to contact me.--LAAFan 03:14, 2 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

AfD nomination of India (cat) edit

 

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November 2009 edit

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Hello edit

You created the page Shattered Peace, and I would like to thank you for it. I would also like to inform you that there is currently a WP:WikiProject Warriors, if you would like to join. Brambleclawx 21:50, 14 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Invitation to join WikiProject United States edit

 

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"Torshic" listed at Redirects for discussion edit

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