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Bub: Thanks for the welcome. Although it would have been much more helpful if I recieved this after my first few edits--not two weeks after joining. So this is my delayed response to your delayed welcome! mahlered 01:50, 29 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Request edit

Hi, just a note, if you remove a request from the requests page because of an alternate spelling/misspelling, it's good to create redirect pages for these spellings, since the presence of the request indicates someone couldn't find the article under that title. Chubbles (talk) 14:04, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Oh, that'd be great. Our coverage of classical performers is sadly underfed, if you compare it to some of the other Wikis. Thanks for the help. Chubbles (talk) 16:45, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge edit

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Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

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