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February 2010

Please stop removing commas from articles. In some cases your edits are pointless, in other cases your edits are creating grammatically incorrect sentences. If you wish to contribute to this project, please find something more constructive to do.

Two examples:

nonessential relative clauses require commas, a type of punctuation mark, to set them apart.
though it is clear to most, we use commas to separate subordinate clauses when they precede the main clause.

Rklawton (talk) 17:29, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas (Mariah Carey album)

Nice cleanup! Thanks, MartinPoulter (talk) 21:25, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Pipe mark and wikilinks

Hi RjCan,

You may already know this, but you can change the text that is displayed for a link by using the pipe ( | ) mark. For example [[Edward Smith (sea captain)|Edward Smith]] will be displayed as Edward Smith instead of Edward Smith (sea captain), but will link to the same article.

Cheers. WhaleyTim (talk) 23:30, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

TACA Flight 110

Hey, I noticed you added the text "An unusual element of the amazing event is that Captain Carlos Dardano had but one eye." to the article TACA Flight 110. Wikipedia has a strict policy called neutral point of view, which describes how entries in the encyclopedia are to be written in a completely unbiased and neutral tone. Your addition seemed less than neutral to me. I might be a bozo for warning you about something that happened months ago, but I just wanted to be sure you don't do it again. Thanks! Michaelzeng7 (talk) 20:29, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ceuta

Thanks for your minor tweak - any interest in that area? Victuallers (talk) 16:45, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Redlink removal

In your comments when you remove red links, you should probably use that term rather than "square brackets". Also, if you haven't already read this, please do: WP:Red_Link. Regards, Tarl.Neustaedter (talk) 03:25, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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January 2014

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Fly fishing may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "{}"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

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helped institutionalize fly fishing by supplying angling equipment.{citation needed|date=May 2011}} His tackle catalogs, distributed to a small but devoted customer list in the late 1800s, are now

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 16:55, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your Mas Canosa edits

Thanks for your edits on Jorge Mas Canosa - they help make it flow/read more encyclopedically. Much appreciated. -LuisVilla (talk) 22:04, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

March 2014

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not remove citations or information sourced through citations simply because a link to a source is not working, as you did to New Denver, British Columbia. Dead links should not be deleted. Instead, please repair or replace the link, if possible, and ensure properly sourced information is retained. Often, a live substitute link can be found. Links not used as references, notes or citations are not as important, such as those listed in the "External links" or "Further reading" sections, but bad links in those sections should also be fixed if possible. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. P.S. It was not a good idea to delete categories or other non-link page content when you are deleting external links. Dl2000 (talk) 17:27, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

July 2014

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of the territory lie north of the [[tree line]], and its most northern regions form part of the [[Canadian Arctic Archipelago

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Problem with your custom signature

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