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Happy editing! John of Reading (talk) 16:52, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks- my only New Year's resolution. Started! Beirniad33 (talk) 06:20, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

Citations with dead external links

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia.

I have reverted your recent edits to Peter Lord (art historian) because you deleted several citations, and your edit summaries indicated that you did so because the external links were not working. Please do not do this, because the incomplete citation may be sufficient for our readers to find the source, or for another editor to repair the citation. See the guideline at WP:DEADREF, where it describes what to do.

One of the citations you removed had a link to a webpage archived at archive.org.[1] The link is valid but archive.org is often swamped, and their archived pages are often slow to appear and sometimes time-out before they do.

I am aware that I have deleted some other of your changes which might be useful. You could redo these (or I might do so). I noticed a couple of issues with your new section headings: 'Recent Books' and 'Full List of Works'. You are unlikely to be certain this the list is complete, even if you are Peter Lord himself you might have forgotten something. Also, Wikipedia articles should be written so that the text will remain accurate into the indefinite future, we don't know when an article will next be updated, and Wikimedia content may be used in printed books or copied to other websites. If this article is not modified for a few years then 'Recent' will be inaccurate and the 'Full list' will be out of date

A more minor issue is that the Wikipedia Manual of Style specifies that section headings should be in sentence case, see MOS:SECTIONHEAD.

Welcome again, Verbcatcher (talk) 15:44, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I will look at the guides. I had intended to add the latest book of 2022 only. I had read about "link rot" & certainly the "404 error" must be gone. But I will take advice on how these are to be respected. Beirniad33 (talk) 17:37, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

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Thank you. That is much appreciated and for elaborating it at good length. I will study everything you have written and make sure to apply to the procedures in future. Beirniad33 (talk) 10:07, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Link spam

Hello, I'm Velella. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Afon Glaslyn have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   01:11, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

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