Firstmagnitude

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Solar eclipse

Thanks for the heads up on the outdated NASA information. I hope a solution can be found.  — TimL • talk 23:45, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Your User page

A more appropriate place for the information on your user page would be the talk page for the Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. With your permission I would like to move it there, or you may of course do so yourself. Cheers.  — TimL • talk 17:23, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Ha, good timing. As I was writing the above you posted it to my talk page. Thank you.  — TimL • talk 17:25, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Maximum duration

"Wikipedia does not mention the United States Naval Observatory's (USNO) findings http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Eclipse2017.php They have a maximum duration of darkness at 2 minutes and 44.6 seconds" I'm not seeing a maximum duration listed on that page. Am I missing something? Thanks.  — TimL • talk 18:03, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

June 2015

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Madonna: Truth or Dare. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. —Indian:BIO ^{[ ChitChat ]} 03:55, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. Glen 04:03, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

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