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User talk:Shirt58/Archive 18 (Late July 2015 to late February 2016. Includes DYK for Happy Man (Sunnyboys song)
User talk:Shirt58/Archive 19 (Late February 2016 to early April 2017. Includes DYK for Mason Cox
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Speedy deletion nomination of Vishal Bawa
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Nomination of White Plains Wombats for deletion
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Editor experience invitation
[edit]Hi Shirt58 :) I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 17:31, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
Judite Mendes de Abreu
[edit]I do not understand your problem with this article, apart from its shortage of subtitles, which I have now addressed. Why is the lack of a pt.wikipedia article on the person relevant? Thanks. Roundtheworld (talk) 11:18, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
"Vital Articles" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Jewel Palmer moved to draftspace
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User:Lauren Kolodny
[edit]Hi Shirt58. User:Maria Lourdes Diño/sandbox and User:Lauren Kolodny/sandbox can't just be a coincidence. Any suggestions on how to proceed here? FWIW, I'm asking you about this because you added a "Welcome-Coi" template to User talk:Lauren Kolodny and because your also an administrator. -- Marchjuly (talk) Marchjuly (talk) 02:00, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for your assistance
[edit]I appreciate that you took the time to delete User:FryBryTry. After patrolling recent changes for several days, I've noticed many brand-new accounts trying to side-step the article creation process by "publishing" the article as their user page. Some are vanity projects or obvious silliness, but most are people, businesses or other organizations trying to improve their visibility in Google search rankings. They treat Wikipedia as a free webhost.
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A cookie for you - User:Nibblea
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WP:BEFORE? Wasn’t familiar with that one until you mentioned it. I’d best add that to my list for other CSDings. Thanks for calling it to my attention. I’m guessing I was way off, thinking G11 applied? MM (Give me info.) (Victories) 14:22, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
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