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Your contributed article, Political financing in Canada edit

 

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Userfy edit

Hi, based on your comments on my talk page I have userfied a copy of the most recent version of your draft article before it was deleted from article space (by someone else). Please see User:Justinform/sandbox where you can continue working on it. You might find WP:RFF a useful place to get an independent review before re-creating it as an article. If you have further questions please drop another note on my talk page. Thanks (talk) 21:08, 3 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Hi Fæ. Ok, I can do the set up in the sandbox. When I do re-create the article it will be obvious that it is not in any way a fork and it will be much more extensive than the brief mention in passing that's on Politics of Canada. Cheers. Justinform (talk) 21:22, 3 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
Sounds good. If you are not aware of them, you might find the guidelines on Content forking, General notability guideline and User pages useful as a bit of background reading in case you have anyone quizzing what you are up to, or need to justify the end article. Cheers (talk) 21:38, 3 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Discussion occurring for the Occupy Canada article edit

Thanks for letting me know, I appreciate it. I read over the discussion and it looks like it may have mostly wrapped up for now. Justinform (talk) 01:14, 20 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Occupy movement edit

Wikipedia:WikiProject Occupy movement

Hello User:Justinform. Sometime ago you expressed interest in my proposal for an Occupy movement project on Wikipedia.[1] A formal proposal has been made at the project council proposal page. If you are still interested you may add your name at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Occupy movement.--Amadscientist (talk) 22:04, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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