Utmark9684

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Good luck, and have fun. --Bonadea 16:29, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

April 29, 2007

Thank you for your contributions! However, you should keep in mind that there may already be a Wikipedia article about the subject, and before creating a new article you should search to see what already exists. One example is Pan-Africanism, which covers much of the contents of your new article What is pan-africanism. There are also existing articles about the history of slavery. Please do not start any new articles without checking carefully that there isn't already an article -- you are of course welcome to contribute by improving existing articles! Thank you. --Bonadea 16:29, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Slavery

Please note that Wikipedia already has various articles about the topic of Slavery and related issues. Please consult the existing articles before adding new ones covering the same subjects. --Metropolitan90 16:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Life of jackie robinson

A tag has been placed on Life of jackie robinson, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

duplicate of Jackie Robinson under unlikely article name

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By this, I mean that articles about people appear in Wikipedia under the person's name, not "Life of [the person's name]". We have an article called George W. Bush, not Life of george w. bush. Metropolitan90 16:33, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

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Your edit to Different types of slaves

Message posted on Sunday, April 29, 2007

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Cquan (talk, AMA Desk) 19:47, 29 April 2007 (UTC)