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I added in the paperwork, so its fine now. I believe it meets all requirements, as do the rest. Dream Focus (talk) 23:43, 20 December 2008 (UTC)Reply


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Fixed. I had it listed for The Legend of Zelda instead of The Legend of Zelda (series). Dream Focus 09:45, 6 March 2009 (UTC)Reply


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Fixed. Dream Focus 03:43, 19 March 2009 (UTC)Reply


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Corrected. I thought clicking that it was the cover of a game's box was enough, but apparently you have to fill in the standard useless information. Dream Focus 03:05, 7 April 2009 (UTC)Reply


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Essentially all traditional christian religious groups, not just Catholics, believe that Jesus is God, though they express it in a rather complicated way--see the above article. The Unitarians don't , and this is their distinctive belief among Protestant groups. Just fyi, re God in Fiction. DGG (talk) 06:02, 15 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

No, actually, I was raised a Methodist, and that's not how it works. Jesus is the son of God, but he is not God. You pray to God, not Jesus, they taught as two separate entities. Dream Focus 09:43, 15 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
it's time you re=read the first chapter of John. DGG (talk) 03:24, 17 April 2009 (UTC)Reply


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I noticed you voted "keep", citing as your rationale that Marquez was mayor. He was never mayor Purplebackpack89≈≈≈≈ 21:28, 10 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

Simple mistake. Scratched out my comment. Thanks for pointing that out to me. Dream Focus 21:59, 10 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
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You'll need to request a history merger for attribution purposes. Also, the title would correctly be spelled "1970s", not "1970's".  Sandstein  07:02, 2 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

When you moved it first to my user page, you didn't give me the history, which is rather odd. Anyway, do I request you do a history merge, do you just click something on your administrator tool bit, or do I post a request somewhere for that to happen? Dream Focus 10:44, 2 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
I'm not very familiar with the process, but see WP:HISTMERGE for how to request it. I didn't restore the history because you only said you needed the information, not that you wanted to restore the article in another form.  Sandstein  11:03, 2 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
I only needed the half of the article that was for the list, which no one was doubting or arguing to delete. I put the tag on top of the article to get it on the list of articles whose histories needed to be merged. [1] Dream Focus 11:10, 2 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
 

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Deprodded of course. If there are two links in the reference section, both to major newspaper giving very ample coverage to this, then its notable. Dream Focus 10:20, 27 June 2012 (UTC)Reply


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That is odd. I wonder how that happened. Dream Focus 12:43, 5 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
I've seen it happen occasionally due to a technical glitch, where the software doesn't properly detect an edit conflict - that's probably what happened here, I expect -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:51, 5 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Easily fixed. Notice you went and found an image of mine to prod for deletion after I complained about you mass prodding on your talk page. [2] Dream Focus 14:40, 25 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Just responded to it. Hope the message is gotten across by those with open minds and the determination to make things happen. Dream Focus 02:03, 6 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

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