User talk:Oakling

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Eric Wester 23:51, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy editing! ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:36, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:36, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Oakling, regarding this edit [1], be aware that to edit in the Israeli-Palestinian topic area on Wikipedia accounts must be at least thirty days old and have at least 500 edits. This includes editing talk pages, with the sole exception being for simple and specific edit requests, which should be in the form of "change x to y for reason z". IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 05:16, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Quick note on Giełzów, Łódź Voivodeship

Thanks for your edits to Giełzów, Łódź Voivodeship. As a note for the future, there's no need to add a generic {{Stub}} template when a more specific one is already present. Also, see WP:STUBSPACING for info on where stub templates go in the future. Happy editing! Bsoyka (t • c • g) 03:44, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent info, thanks, I didn't see the more specific one there! Oakling (talk) 17:27, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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you have not provided any evidence other than you feel it's not logical. 2604:3D08:2C78:FE00:2D20:68EB:B863:B6D3 (talk) 21:11, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's also no citation for it. I couldn't find any evidence out there for it having begun in the 1920s beyond the statement on the SFSU GUPS website. That site doesn't give any context or detail, so there's no way to tell how this group would have started before there were any Arab Palestinian universities or any Palestinian-identified diaspora. And so far, none of the Arabic-language sources about GUPS say it started in the 1920s either. This really seems like it was an error. Oakling (talk) 01:58, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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