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Thanks for the welcome and the links! Will try to make accurate edits. Rich6500 (talk) 09:28, 5 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure! edit

 
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That was surprisingly good fun, and a rather handy introduction to basic code! P.S. Bold and Italics, just for kicks. Rich6500 (talk) 10:12, 5 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

File:Independent Power Corporation Logo.jpg edit

 

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September 2018 edit

  Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Independent Power Corporation. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

|image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

|image=SomeImage.jpg.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as |caption=Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:11, 11 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

Will do it properly next time. Thanks for the advice! Rich6500 (talk) 12:21, 12 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Peter Earl edit

 

The article Peter Earl has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable businessperson, no in-depth coverage in reliable sources. Provided citations are to sources that are either not independent or mere mentions. The best coverage in a possibly-independent source is [1], which does not seem particularly reliable.

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Hi Rosguill, is there any way to get the text of a deleted page back? I’m hoping to re-edit it and include new sources, but I don’t have the draft I originally did saved. Thanks! Rich6500 (talk) 17:16, 11 August 2020 (UTC)Rich6500Reply

Peter Earl moved to draftspace edit

Here you go, feel free to either submit it through AfC or move it to mainspace yourself when you think the article is ready. signed, Rosguill talk 17:25, 11 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

That’s grand, thanks! Rich6500 (talk) 17:30, 11 August 2020 (UTC)Rich6500Rich6500 (talk) 17:30, 11 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:Peter Earl edit

 

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