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Finger trouble at "New Stadium" section of MK Dons edit

Thanks for fixing my finger trouble. You'll see that I've modified it again, to use the "<ref>...</ref>" as is now preferred (see "Wiki markup" at the bottom of the edit box). I doubt that the MK Dons article will ever make featured article, but all the FAs and FACs use this technique now to cite their sources. --Concrete Cowboy 16:43, 2 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

No probs Concrete Cowboy. I'm still fairly new to all this Wikipedia stuff and so I'm not all that sure about the way the code, markups and tags and stuff work. I noticed that the url was just floating with some lost tags either side so I tidied it up a bit. Between you and me we can keep this article up to scratch! Zorro77 10:50, 3 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

It has seemed a one-man battle at times, so it is good to have somebody who is on top of it like you are. By the way, if you want to reply to somebody, it is usual to reply on their talk page rather than your own. If you want to ask me anything, leave me a note. I'm no expert but when I've noticed clever things on other articles, I look to see how they did it. I haven't written a template yet, though! --Concrete Cowboy 17:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Which means that you can only use if the person who took it gives it to you for anyone to use or copy anywhere, according to the GFDL licence. --Concrete Cowboy 00:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC)Reply
Well it got deleted. You need to take a pic yourself unless you can persuade the owner of MKDONSЯUS to upload to http://commons.wikimedia.org under GDFL licence. --Concrete Cowboy 00:25, 30 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Pete Winkelman edit

Could you add Pete Winkelman to your watch list. When I found it, it was a travesty so it needs keeping an eye on. --Concrete Cowboy 23:48, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Denbigh Stadium edit

Thanks for your message. I was lucky enough to have a tour of the stadium yesterday when I was able to take those shots myself. Unfortunately I couldn't get an overhead shot as a planned helicopter ride was cancelled due to the weather :(. think an overhead view is worthy - probably with a caption saying when it was taken, and it seems as if you already know enough about licensing... Regards --Mk3severo 16:54, 23 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Stuart Murdoch edit

Thanks, hadn't spotted that one. I've done a rewrite, feel free to improve. --Concrete Cowboy 12:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

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WikiProject Milton Keynes edit

You might be interested inWikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Milton_Keynes? --Concrete Cowboy 16:58, 24 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

You might want to take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Buckinghamshire. We extended the scope of the project to get more people interested but a Milton Keynes specific task force is definitely on the cards. SeveroTC 21:05, 3 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Author of two CC-BY-SA-2.5 photos? edit

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Hi again, I'm not sure what is the custom of answering in the English Wikipedia (on the Bulgarian the dialogue continues there where it has started)... anyway, you've got a detailed answer on my talk page, feel free to continue there. --Spiritia 20:40, 30 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Stadium:MK hotel? edit

One of the two local papers was speculating that the M&S store would be instead of the hotel (and on the hotel site), that InterMK had not managed to interest one of hotel chains to invest (you really would have to be mad about football to stay there!) I definitely got the impression that they were speculating though so if you want to reinstate it as certainly being in the orignal plan, I don't have a problem with that. --John Maynard Friedman 16:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)Reply


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Copyright challenge to Image:Denbigh_stadium_aerial_july_06.jpeg edit

See talk:Stadium:mk#Copyright violation : Image:Denbigh_stadium_aerial_july_06.jpeg. I've deleted it pending your arguments for the defence there. I'm afraid the policy statement says that, on issues of copyright, we are guilty until proven innocent. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Paul Mtichel edit

Should he be in the squad template when he is out on loan? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

I could see arguments both ways and didn't have a strong feeling about either, but I did think it needed to be looked at. I suppose I could have used the template talk.
I agree with you about Lewi. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:13, 5 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

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