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Hello, Richard a slade, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Shortmead House. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Acather96 (talk) 19:02, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Lin Homer 1.jpg

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Your submission at Articles for creation: sladedesign (October 6)

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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:40, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello! Sladedesign, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:40, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Sladedesign/sandbox/sladedesign, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages; user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: Click here to contest this speedy deletion which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy deletion candidate). Doing so will take you to your user talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also edit this page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:43, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Sladedesign, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to St Neots have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:44, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Life Squared

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Your submission at Articles for creation: George Soper RE (May 3)

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CommanderWaterford (talk) 15:22, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: George Soper (illustrator) has been accepted

George Soper (illustrator), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Hoary (talk) 09:28, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

St Neots pages

Thanks for your kind words on my talk page.

I have never quite understood -- in this situation -- whether Wikipedia automatically tells you if I have replied to you on my page, so I thought this time I would reply here.

As you have seen I have recast the St Neots page quite a lot; there was a lot of stuff on it that would put the casual reader off. There is still some work to do; I think the section order towards the bottom isn't right yet, and some of the information still needs refining.

As you have seen, my drone-owning contact has done some good work. I am hoping he will do a panorama of St Neots, like the one for Eaton Socon. (I would like to get the panorama at Eaton Socon right at the top of the page, but I fear that some people would object to the infobox being moved down.) I hate infoboxes; they are visually unappealing. Do we really need to know that the Police area is Cambridgeshire?

Again thanks for your support, I am still on the case. Afterbrunel (talk) 05:54, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Nope alas no automatic notification but this works here. Agreed there was lots of unnecessary and irrelevant information about the town so great to see it cut. If you need another drone/land photographer I can recommend my friend, and local St Neots guy Maciek Platek. If you need any other contacts let me know.

Just for reference, the local history section in Huntingdon library is also very good and if you need any historical stuff about the Eatons they will be held at the Bedfordshire records offices and libraries. Richard Slade 09:43, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Richard. Maciek was the second kind drone owner to reply. Please especially thank him for me, for his kind offer. I had a conference (well, a chat) with the first volunteer earlier today and he is going to some more. The articles are all ratehr picture-heavy now; I must get back to writing text. There is still a heck of a lot to do, and the History page is already biugger than "recommended". Still to do sanitation, education, street lighting, gas and elec. Not to mention correcting my typos. Then there is cross-checking against Gorham (groan) and the Escon pamphlets and the SN Local Hist Soc stuff. Then there is the Norris collection of old photos at St Ives (but a lot covering St Neots), the Museum collection ("You can come in on a Tuesday and look at the thumbnails in the computer, but we haven't got digital copies.")

My home network is down at the moment and I am writing this now with the benefit of some cabling until that gets sorted out; it means that I can't really do very much today (or yesterday), and in fact all I am doing now apart from replying to you is uploading pics I took myself the other day. WHich then reminded me that I have started a section on the Workhouse Eaton Ford, that says "To be written". If I had done that on a railway article it would have been deleted by now. Afterbrunel (talk) 14:53, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Richard, I wonder if you could do something to help with this. I'd like to get AUTHORITATIVE population figures. St N, Eynesbury, Eaton Socon, Eaton Ford separately. Is that something you could work on? It's on the internet somewhere. Don't forget the boundary change when Eaton F and S joined St Neots; and the UDC change when Eynesbury Hardwicke split and the urban part of Eynesbury joined St Neots UDC and the Hardwicke bit stayed out; ditto Abbotsley.

Mostly population data coincides with census years, and there is a porediction of the 2021 figure somewhere; maybe they have alrady done the computer run and it's an actual, not a preduiction.

We don't need every census year, just pre-war (say) and then 1951 and if possible every ten years.

I must empasise all of this needs to be able to be cited, back to authoritative information (so not for example a booklet issued by the Town Council unless it says "Figures derived from XYZ")

I also emphasise that this is a tall order, and if you don't fancy it, then there are no hard feelings (but please let me know!). Afterbrunel (talk) 15:38, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Hey Nigel, I can take a look to see what I can find, although the Cambridgeshire Insight is generally the best place within this county to get that type of data. Leave it with me and I'll dig. Richard Slade 16:35, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Winsome Douglas (June 12)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Devonian Wombat was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Devonian Wombat (talk) 21:51, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Winsome Douglas

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:03, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Winsome Douglas

Hello, Sladedesign. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Winsome Douglas".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:26, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Interestingly before I got to finish or publish the article another Wikipedia user created a new article. Not sure if this is a regular behaviour? 51.219.13.233 (talk) 08:20, 10 June 2022 (UTC)