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Proposed deletion of Adrian Curlewis

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Response to your email

Per the message at the top of my talk page, if the communication is not confidential, please do not email me. Anyway, I did not delete your draft, all I did was move it back to Draft:Changi University, which still exists. You moved it to the project namespace, which is not meant for articles, so I moved it back. I have submitted it to Articles for Creation on your behalf, and a reviewer will get back to you soon. – Train2104 (t • c) 15:51, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

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working with references

Hi Robert. Thanks for adding sources to the Australian Rostrum article. I did some cleanup, since the way the references were formatted were not standard. I would recommend reviewing Help:Footnotes, and in general using a reference template. I appreciate that you found printed sources... are any of them available online? If possible, this would allow editors (like myself) to verify them.

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Hi Robert. Just some feedback about replying to conversations on talk pages. You don't need to start a new section to say its a reply or response, just go to the next line and begin the line with a colon. This will indent your response, and the indentation indicates it's a response to the comment above. See Wikipedia:Indentation for more information. And as per Wikipedia:Signatures, sign your comment with the four tildes (~~~~) at the very end of your comment. I've formatted your reply accordingly at Talk:Australian Natives' Association because it would get too complicated if each reply had its own section. :) Damien Linnane (talk) 10:14, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Damien Thanks again. I very much appreciate you feedback and the way you impart knowledge. Also agree this is a good place to have a discussion. Robert (Bic) Bicknell (talk) 12:32, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Australasian Women's Association

Hello. The above article looks very promising. I'm worried that it may get deleted for want of more sources. Do you have more sources? I can look around for more or ask for help if needed.--- Possibly (talk) 05:25, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Damien Agreed it is an interestign topic. I have added one additional reference to the registration of their Constitution. Unfortunately the AWA did not get much press and they require deeper digging.

My focus just now is aspect of the ANA. I am expecting a book or two to be published on them this year which I expect will provide more information on the AWA at the same time. Robert (Bic) Bicknell (talk) 12:37, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Credentials

Hi Rob. Just some more information about editing. Have a read of MOS:CREDENTIAL. We avoid using titles on Wikipedia, and as per WP:COMMONNAME you should call people by their commonly known name. For example, you should call the person Carty Salmon, not "Hon. Dr. C. C. Salmon". Past-nominal letters should also be avoided when mentioning someone in passing, such as listing them in a table. Accordingly, a lot of the entries at the list of chief presidents need to be modified. Damien Linnane (talk) 01:39, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

OK Thanks I am woking though it Robert (Bic) Bicknell (talk) 04:07, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

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Re: Request Use of Australian Parliament House Picture

Hi Robert. Re: User_talk:Jjron#Request_Use_of_Australian_Parliament_House_Picture, not a problem, please go ahead. ~~ jjron (talk) 16:37, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

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