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First Crusade edit

Hi Awwiki, thanks for your help with the First Crusade article. A number of us were trying to perfect it last year and bring it back up to Featured Article standards, but I ran out of free time and others seem to have lost interest. It's looking better with your additions though. Adam Bishop (talk) 21:32, 30 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Edit Summary Question edit

Hi, Awwiki. I noticed that in the edit summary for a change you made to Did Jesus Exist?, you asked a question about the sourcing of a quote you deleted. If you have questions about sourcing (or anything else in an article), I'd strongly recommend that you ask them on the talk page of the article. Edit summaries don't really provide a place for anyone to answer your questions. Also, I've seen plenty of edit wars start with a precipitous edit, and if you really have a question, making the edit before you've given anyone a chance to answer could lead to an unnecessary dispute. Anyhow, I don't object to the edit you made, but just wanted to give you a suggestion to help you with future edits. --RL0919 (talk) 14:23, 13 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Euclid's Elements edit

Thanks for your recent edits to Euclid's Elements. Could you please add page numbers to your citations of references? Thanks again. —Finell (Talk) 07:23, 14 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

Early windmills edit

I note you added a mention of a windmill in 1137 in Leicester to the history of wind power article. Can you add that mill the the List of windmills in Leicestershire and give a reference please? Mjroots (talk) 08:10, 20 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hmm, best left off the list then. I thought it a bit early - too close to Weedley, which is dated 1135 1185. Mjroots (talk) 08:41, 20 August 2009 (UTC)Reply
Oops, my bad! 1185 is correct, according to Roy Gregory (East Yorkshire Windmills) amongst others. Mjroots (talk) 09:07, 20 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

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