Donald Albury
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Dunedin, FL
editI represent the Dunedin History Museum and the city historian. The reference link(s) to the first land grant and the incorporation of the city is from an old incorrect city of Dunedin page. The dates 1852 and 1925 are incorrect for the first land grant and the founding of the city.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.96.115.241 (talk • contribs) 15:10 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Arecaceae
editIn fact that editor has repeatedly refused to advise me of what the problem is. I'm surprised to hear that editor is an experienced editor as I had not seen need to check. Right off attempting to inject FRINGE political bias and going on to repeatedly demand I debate positions I don't hold is strange for an experienced editor. I have said several times that we can remove and change any parts of my added text and asked how he wants to do that: He still refuses to reply instead insisting on these debates. Invasive Spices (talk) 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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Comment from 69.159.70.172
editDonald Albury -
Sir - Why do none of you supposed ' administrators ' ever do any proper checking yourself - ??? -
If you had a ctually read KARL WALLENDA page down to bottom you would see references to what you say is missing - ?!?!?-
Please try to do some work yourself and not always relay on all of the additions from people who only enter proper / right / correct data - US - !!! -
You must be well aware at you advanced senior age ( we appear to be older than you are from your bad photo ) where there are many areas where no ' reference ' is now available this many years after the fact or can be attested to / found anymore -
It is only in recent years where Wikipedia has ' demanded ' this which is downright dumb / stupid / wrong to expect people to provide -
More than 70 % of what appears on most Wikipedia pages show no reference - !!! -
However, what you seek is right in front of you on KARL WALLENDA page at end - ???-
We knew him having worked with RBB&B Circus over time and guarantee all which was added is absolutely correct -
Therefore, please now restore our addition as entered -
Thank You Very Much -
- 69.159.70.172 - 69.159.70.172 (talk) 15:58, 29 July 2024 (UTC) -
- Responded on IPs talk page. - Donald Albury 17:03, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Douglass
editThank you for the correction. Shipsview (talk) 20:22, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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List of fossil sites up for deletion
editI would like to see your thoughts on the deletion proposal for this list: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fossil sites.
Also, if you know how to find the archive of the responses to the previous deletion proposal (circa 2017?), I would appreciate any help locating it. Elriana (talk) 06:41, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Elriana: I see two old proposals to merge this into other articles, in 2008, and in 2010. I do not see any prior page for an AfD for this article, nor any notice of an AfD in 2017 in the page histories of the article page or this talk page. A search for "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fossil sites" finds only the current AfD, so it does not look like any formal AfD has been previously proposed for this article. - Donald Albury 13:22, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. That’s really weird. I can see where I might have mistaken the merge discussion for a deletion discussion, since I was mostly reading them to find previous criticisms. But I really thought one of the discussions was more recent than that. Elriana (talk) 05:45, 8 August 2024 (UTC)