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An archive of most conversations from this page during 2007 is available at User talk:Michael Devore/Archive 1. Should I or others find the current talk page excessively boring or contentious, we can hark back to happier times by reading the archive's thank yous, or admiring the barnstars and awards, including the justly famous groundhog with a Santa hat. -- Michael Devore (talk) 22:22, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Archive the Second: an archive of this page for the approximate time period of January through September 2008 is available at User talk:Michael Devore/Archive 2. It contains more thanks; awards; barnstars; another groundhog(!); basic editor, article, bot and admin interactions; and minimal griping. Pretty boring stuff, if you're one of those editor who look for gory action and major drama. Well, there's always a chance of big drama next time. -- Michael Devore (talk) 03:54, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Archive Number 3: an archive of this page for late 2008 through 2009 is available at User talk:Michael Devore/Archive 3. Woo hoo! A bit of drama in this one. Not a whole lot, but sometimes you got to take what you can get. -- Michael Devore (talk) 07:56, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Archive Number 4: archive of this page for 2010 through August 2014, available at User talk:Michael Devore/Archive 4. Nothing really clever to say about that. Had a couple lean years there, life dramas and work schedules kept me away from Wikipedia for quite a while, as least as far as significant runs of editing work. What can you do, life is like that sometimes. Well, I'm back for now. Yay! -- Michael Devore (talk) 08:12, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

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Nah, it was a small typo in a sentence that probably shouldn't be in the article in the first place. But I fixed it for your botly self, so we're cool right? -- Michael Devore (talk) 05:55, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

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I fixed the 1st sentence of jennifer winget's page, can u please have a look? I did that as saraswatichandra has ended.Durr-e-shehwar (talk) 15:30, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi I added the award in the awards section, which I forgot to do earlier, can u see if u can accept that? regards120.23.240.140 (talk) 15:47, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

i added awards to the jennifer winget page, can u please see if they can be approved??120.23.240.158 (talk) 18:02, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

OK, the referenced checked out, so I accepted the edit and cleaned it up a bit in the following edit. Of course, your addition may be edited further by other users, but it looked solid enough to accept as valid in review. -- Michael Devore (talk) 18:30, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Seasonal greetings

	Merry Christmas and best wishes for a happy, healthy and productive 2015!
	Ruhrfisch ><>°° 21:08, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Faversham

Thanks for the fixes, I was sure there was a faux-pas in the article after I'd done a large copyedit, but I was too tired to tackle it yesterday. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 08:58, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Memling's Annunciation

Thanks for the copyedits there. Much appreciated. Victoria (tk) 20:59, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

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Ashanti (protectrate)

This article is wrong. There was never an Ashanti Protectorate. See: Ashanti (Crown Colony). Apologies I do not know how to move this article. I have updated my note to include an appeal to editors with more technical know how to delete or move the article. If you have the Wiki know how, please could you do that? I never claimed my note would fix the problem. It’s intention was to encourage an editor with he know how to do so. There isn’t any doubt or controversy about the matter. The story of Ashanti is set out at its article. It was a Crown Colony and not a Protectorate. Anyway, if you would like to help, that would be great. WP is too complicated now for me to make article deletions moves.

Generally the method to delete an entire article that isn't clearly vandalism, made up, testing, or non-notable would be to submit it to Articles for Deletion at WP:AFD, which has detailed description of the process. It's not trivial to do, but it's not impossibly difficult if you follow the directions. It can be a bit tedious to get it done manually, I've done it a few times, but not for years. Be prepared to provide a good reason for the deletion other than opinion or hearsay, and provide follow-up support for that assertion against other editor's queries.

An editor simply stating that an article is not correct or shouldn't exist is not sufficient reason to remove an article. For example, I have no idea whether what you say is accurate, although it seems likely you think you have good reason to believe it. However, I'm not an expert or even educated on the topic. It is never correct to post individual editorial comments about an article within an article itself, otherwise practically every Wikipedia article of any controversy, and many without, would be chock full of various editorial remarks. Other potential suggestions for you are to tag the article as in need of citations or unreliable (there are a great many other available tags, though I personally think they are heavily overused in Wikipedia) using perhaps WP:TAGGING as a starting point; present your objections or attempt to gain deletion consensus on the article's talk page; possibly enlist the effort of an experienced Wikipedia editor to help with the deletion or rewrite, or change the content to reflect what you think is accurate about it even if that means it is a spurious belief; including citations to support that position. -- Michael Devore (talk) 19:21, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

I am not willing to invest the time to learn the procedures and follow them. I am not sure I have the skill or patience for that anymore. It used to be easier. I was hoping some one who could ‘do it in a jiffy’ might simply do so. I hoped you might take the time to read up a little (I linked an article) so you could come to a view and ‘have an idea’. It’s not complicated. It’s a very marginal topic so little interest is paid to the article. It cannot be a protectorate and a colony at the same time. The colony article is well referenced. The end result is that I’ve received a dull sermon, no one bothered to interact collaboratively with me to improve WP, and WP still has an article on a fantasy (as in, invented on WP) jurisdiction. You were entirely mannerly and respectful and thank you for that. Frenchmalawi (talk) 20:35, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

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