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May 2009

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Esser

Hello. I replied to your question here. --Michig (talk) 08:13, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Michig - Will get on the creating! 08:19, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

YMCA

I notice you are replacing many instances of the longer form of the name to the abbreviation. Why? The YMCA article makes clear the organisation was founded as the Young Men's Christian Association and fails to ever mention that the name changed officially to the abbreviated form and if/when that occurred in the various countries. I ask because you have changed a number of historic mentions of the organisation in Australian articles, and I wonder if that was really its name at that time. We should use the name that was correct at the time being discussed, which can be redirected to the currently-named article. I cannot find any discussion about renaming the organisation across Wikipedia at the article's Talk page and wonder where consensus was established to do this. Kerry (talk) 23:39, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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→ Hi Diannaa, I dispute that copyrighted content was included, the edits that have been removed that you have cited as copyrighted material were in my own words, and sourced. Perhaps you can add some clarity? Thanks Mikebromfield (talk) 12:30, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: World YMCA (April 18)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by RoySmith was:

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Your submission at Articles for creation: YMCA in America (April 23)

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Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at YMCA instead.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Is there enough here that's distinct from YMCA to justify a stand-alone article? BTW, I notice that a significant amount of material here looks like it's copy-pasted from YMCA; in fact, it looks like the entire History section is copied.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Leigh Folk Festival

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