Dofedave

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Some baklava for you!

Thank you for working at the DofE organisation. That work is most valuable. Greenmaven (talk) 23:47, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

January 2012

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, such as on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St Peter's Middle School, Old Windsor, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when they said it. Thank you. Also please note that you can only vote once on a particular issue (while I wouldn't mind more "keep"s ;). ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 10:17, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks for the advice - I found it very confusing to get involved in the debate so I did my best... I'll go back in and try and sort it out! Dofedave (talk) 10:20, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

No worries. If you need any other help at any point, talk to me... :) --> ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 11:33, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks for helping to improve the article for St Peter's Middle School. I'm sorry that you've had such a bad experience with your first attempts to edit articles on Wikipedia. Articles on historic schools such as this do not normally get deleted. Unfortunately an editor mass-nominated lots of primary school articles over the Christmas period without making proper checks before doing so and this school unfortunately got caught up in the mess and didn't get the full attention it deserved. I'm now trying to take steps to get the article reinstated. For now I've moved the article into my own user space while I work on it and will restore it its proper page when it is has more references. If you can help to add more content it would be much appreciated. You can find the new article here User:Dahliarose/Sandbox 2. As you have the books that were used as sources I wonder if you could let me know what the school's original name was. In old directories I've come across references to both an Industrial School and a National School in Old Windsor. Dahliarose (talk) 15:32, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

May 2012

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January 2014

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Ah - didn't realise I wasn't logged in... I'm not used to this! Many thanks...

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