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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! FLA-ALP-1 (talk) 04:48, 3 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. George Greyson (talk) 08:48, 3 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

July 2023

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Your contributed article, History of catering

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, History of catering. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Catering. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Catering. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

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@Alexandermcnabb and George Greyson: Unless I'm missing something - and there is every chance I have - History of catering would appear to me significantly different enough from Catering (and in particular that aricle's section History of catering) to not be a candidate for speedy deletion under WP:A10 criteria. That said: George, if you have copied text from the Catering article, it must be attributed. Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:36, 24 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
Hello! Thank you for your interested towards the article I worked on. Before writing it, I thoroughly read the History of catering section in the Catering article. However, it's subject, if to be more precise is primarily "History of catering in the US", with the exception of the little passage on Soviet Union. In the case of the article which I prepared, it's the history of catering as a whole, about the phenomenon as such in our culture. The tradition is obviously way broader than the US. And as for attributing the material used from the main article, I would do this of course if there was any. Thank you for your kind messages and suggestions! George Greyson (talk) 15:48, 25 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

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