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Welcome messages

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I suggest that it's a good idea to keep one of your welcome messages on your talk page, as otherwise editors who think you are a completely new editor may well put new ones up there. Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:42, 16 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Editing and discussion

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An editor previously posted on this talk a welcome note with a list of links on how wikipedia works and its various guidelines and policies. I suggets you read them, they're extremely helpful, even to much more experienced users. Wikipedia works through WP:consensus, with changes to the articles being discussed. I reverted your map change and gave a reason. A common (although not castiron) rule of thumb in relation to dealing with reverts is the WP:Bold, revert, discuss cycle. Edit summaries such as "cool story bro" are not in any way decent arguments, and will probably be seen as an unwillingness to edit, which may quickly lead to you being unable to edit, something not good for anyone. May I suggest you discuss your desire to change the maps, here or elsewhere? It's also worth looking at the note posted on this page just before you deleted it about personal information. It's probably not something you want to write here. Once on wikipedia, it will always be on wikipedia, however an admin can remove it from public view. CMD (talk) 15:43, 16 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Your user page

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Further to JamesBWatson's message, it is not wise to show your email address on Wikipedia, because spambots crawl the site looking for them, and you could find yourself getting a lot of unwanted spam. As you have enabled email, anyone who wants to email you can do it that way. You might like to have a look at Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:57, 16 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Further to that, I suggest you would be well advised to remove your real name and date of birth also. -- Alarics (talk) 11:03, 17 February 2012 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the advice. Josh Robinson 22:16, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism

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  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Democratic Republic of the Congo. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Mightymights (talk) 09:47, 17 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Article restructuring at the Beatles

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There is a straw poll taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc (talk) 02:46, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Scarborough - half a million - 2011 census

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In this edit [1] you claimed that the 2011 census revealed that the area around Scarborough had a population of half a million according to the 2011 census. I have been unable to find data from the 2011 census anywhere so where did you get yours from???? Eopsid (talk) 19:54, 19 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

File:Johannesburg Montage.png

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I thought it necessary to bring under your attention that the montage you created of Johannesburg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johannesburg_Montage.png) contains a picture of the Cape Town Stadium - which, I'm sure you will appreciate, is not in Johannesburg. Would you please fix the problem? Perhaps replacing it with a picture of Soccer City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_City) would suffice? Thank you. (User talk:Wikimastername) 21:06, 13 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Hi your collage of pictures in the article for Johannesburg includes a photo of the cape town stadium. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.188.112.148 (talk) 04:03, 15 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Current/Past Members of the Beatles

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There is a straw poll taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc (talk) 00:47, 20 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Re:your edits to Methodism

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Thanks for your contributions to the Methodism article. I see you created a section on Northern Ireland with this edit. However, in your next edit you remove this addition and add new information further down the article about the church in the Caribbean.

Was this a simple mix up (which can happen if you're editing two versions concurrently)? There weren't any obvious problems with the former edit. -- Peter Talk page 21:47, 19 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

It was a mistake, it said edit collision or something, so yes it must of been a mix up. Jrobin08 (talk) 21:51, 19 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
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File permission problem with File:Johannesburg Montage.png

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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

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