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Impressive

That is a very impressive first contribution to Wikipedia, and from a first look, seems to be a great article. Welcome to Wikipedia! --allthefoxes ^(Talk) 01:18, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Ditto. I went to look Fanning up when he passed and was a little surprised there was not already an article. Kuru (talk) 02:03, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Buckner Fanning

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Nomination of Buckner Fanning for deletion

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Nomination of John W. Goode for deletion

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