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I need your help

Hi! can you please check out this Florian Munteanu case a German actor. I've seen plenty of pages here on Wikipedia with actors who played a single role in a movie. I don't understand why some people complain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:4F8:1C17:530D:0:0:0:1 (talk) 14:14, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Merry Merry

		Happy Christmas!
		Hello Finlay McWalter, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?" My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk 20:44, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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Valora Noland

Is this the right place to leave a new message for Finlay? It is the very bottom. Valora Noland here. I see you removed the quotation marks from the title of my book "Horse Stories". Please ask to see it at Amazon. The quotation marks are part of the title. Perhaps today they are not as often used as they used to be. I just read a book where I saw a lot of them used as I have---to indicate a word, a term, which is not used in the usual manner. Regular horse stories, as I read them in my youth, would usually be different stories about different horses, invented or real. I have used "Horse Stories" as my title because I used to read them and now have written them. However, the book is all about JUST ONE HORSE. So, not quite the same as just horse stories, if you get the point. Could you please put them back?

Since I first got an account in Wikipedia I have only added a few pieces of data, and made only a few corrections. To Be Free (whoever that may be) was a bully a few months back, for he kicked me out of being able to log in and do anything. So I am trying to contact you this way. I think there could have been a less dictatorial way of dealing with my biography. Perhaps not all I would add or correct, but certainly some of it. I have no reason to lie about my short time in Hollywood. Thanks, Valora Noland/Valora Tree

Hi Valora. I've readded the quote marks. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 20:54, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

OKAY< BUT WHERE DID THE BOOKS GO?

Finlay, even if I was able to use Wikipedia like the true humans do, I wouldn't necessarily know how to reply to you, so am doing it as an edit here. Looked at my page to see if you had gotten the message, and don't see either book mentioned anymore, "Horse Stories" (which you might enjoy reading), or Water Lily Ponds. Some of the poetry in Water Lily Ponds was written during the 1960s, so is more the real "ME" than any Hollywood engendered profile. About quotation marks as I'e used them, Websters says to use them on words used in an unusual sense, coined words, and slang words (aside from as quotation marks). Valor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.102.103.18 (talk) 21:13, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

You can discuss the content of the article at its talk page, Talk:Valora Noland. I don't know much about the article or what is or isn't in it; mostly I'm just a "worry about punctuation" person. Which is every bit as fun as you might imagine. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 21:31, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

File:Wfm cygwinx rootless.png listed for discussion

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A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
	Thanks for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terminal_Island&diff=next&oldid=860569987 BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 01:03, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Claire Challis in Trollie Wallie

Your edit to the article Trollie Wallie says "we should cite a source for the sister's name" in the edit summary. The title screen of the actual game Trollie Wallie says "Graphics by Claire". Does that count as a source? JIP | Talk 13:13, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Sure, I think so. Most games have a "personnel" section, listing people's responsibilities, and that, with a footnote citing the title page, would seem fine to me. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 13:42, 6 September 2019 (UTC)