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Good job!

Your edits to the 9/11 protests with the timeline were excellent. --In ur base, killing ur dorfs 00:46, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to United States gubernatorial elections, 2006

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Praise

I merely wanted to drop a note thanking you for your work in updating the election-related articles. Excellent work! · j e r s y k o talk · 19:06, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Regarding edits to Illegal drug trade

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Islom Karimov

Thanks for adding those sources! KazakhPol 19:19, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Information from www.seds.org

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Michele Bachmann

Please expand on why you believe that the article is cluttered. I don’t have a problem with moving the segment on her political positions lower in the article or reviewing the wording and layout of that whole segment (most of that went up during the 2006 campaign and could use an overhaul), but I don’t see how cutting and pasting the segments on her history makes the article more readable. The events of her personal life directly influence each stage of her political activity so seperating these into seperate tracks results in a loss of understanding on what motivates and drives her.

--Wowaconia 01:27, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Sourcing

Good job on your sourcing campaign. Tewfik^Talk 04:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

• Not so fast. I reverted your edit to the Swift Boat Vets article. The two sources you removed had valid citations, including publisher, author, date and page. That is a valid complete citation, whether there is a live url there or not. I checked the URL's as well, and one that you removed went to a live abstract. But in any case, please don't remove valid citations to reliable sources, just because there is not a convenient and free url to click on. Citations were being written long before the internet existed, and those articles can still be verified through purchase, library microfilm, or other methods offline. URLs are only there as a convenience. A complete citation with no URL is actually preferable to a URL-only citation, because when the link goes dead, we still have the publication information, and a new URL can usually be found using that info. - Crockspot 18:30, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
  • update I went back and double checked, one of the sources (Boston Herald) didn't actually have all the cite info needed to verify, (no date of publication), and I was not able to find the original article in a news archive search based only on the title and publication name, so I removed that one again. Just be careful about links. They are not required for a valid citation. As long as there is enough info for some kid to look the news article up at his library, it's good to go. - Crockspot 18:41, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Wynn Las Vegas

I saw that you added a 'reference'. Please try to use the reference tag and one of the citation templates so that the references can be fully attributed in the article. I updated this one for you so you can see what to do. Thanks. Vegaswikian 18:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Dead ref's

Please read WP:DEADREF to learn how to deal with dead references. Simply removing the entire reference is not appropriate. --Veritas (talk) 17:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

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