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November 2018

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Your edit here to List of German Americans was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links in references which are discouraged per our reliable sources guideline. The reference(s) you added or changed (http://ethnicelebs.com/andy-griffith) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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Your edit here to List of German Americans was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links in references which are discouraged per our reliable sources guideline. The reference(s) you added or changed (http://ethnicelebs.com/megan-fox, http://ethnicelebs.com/chris-pine, http://ethnicelebs.com/brad-pitt) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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Image placement - sandwich of text

Could you please read over WP:SANDWICH as some of your edits have caused some ACCESSIBILITY concerns.--Moxy 🍁 20:47, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Please be more careful with your choice of sources for biographical information

Hi OhanaSurf. Your contributions to List of German Americans included poor and unreliable sources. If you're unfamiliar with the quality of a potential source, please check WP:RSP and consider searching WP:RSN. --Ronz (talk) 04:42, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Nailuva moved to draftspace

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:50, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Sister cities of Arizona

Hello, what's the point of splitting Arizona from the United States list when there are only 16 of them? FromCzech (talk) 16:51, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Other lists like Maine, Vermont, and Northern Mariana Islands also have a small number of sister cities, yet they were given their own separate pages from the main list. I figured that eventually each state will have its own page. OhanaSurf (talk) 17:00, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me? Maine and Vermont are within the New England list (which is also not ideal), NM Islands are part of List of twin towns and sister cities in Oceania. So that'S definitely not a goal. FromCzech (talk) 17:09, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve List of sister cities in Arizona

Hello, OhanaSurf,

Thank you for creating List of sister cities in Arizona.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Great page! I have tagged it with orphan as there aren’t any links from other pages, but other than that, great work! Keep it up.

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Thank you! OhanaSurf (talk) 17:03, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of writing to the Edit summary that you separated the content from the existing site, do you pretend to be your work? Not cool. FromCzech (talk) 17:27, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't mean any harm. If it needs to be added to the edit summary, that can be done. I'm not trying to steal anyone's credit. I barely edit on Wikipedia, so I didn't realize this is a norm. OhanaSurf (talk) 18:16, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, no problem. I'm sorry, I had a bad day and twin towns are "my children", so I overreacted. FromCzech (talk) 19:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate it. It happens to all of us. I hope you are feeling better :) OhanaSurf (talk) 11:43, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Middlefork Savanna moved to draftspace

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Hi. I've added more information and am ready to publish. I do not see the submit button at the top of the page. How can I submit the page for review? OhanaSurf (talk) 17:54, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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