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Laila Tyabji

Thanks for your edits on Laila Tyabji. I have since made a few corrections. By the way, editors in Wikipedia, by practice, do not seem to follow the pattern, fourth-highest, but prefer a simple fourth highest. However, I have left it like that, may be, some one else will have a look at it. I have also corrected the sentence, The organization has a producer group base of over 250, and employs more than 36000 artisans; Dastkar does not employ 36000 artisans, it is the group base which has that many artisans.--jojo@nthony (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for correcting my mistakes! I wasn't sure what the sentence about the producer base was intended to say; I thought it meant that Dastkar had a producer-artisan-relationship system or something similar, with 250 producers for the 36000 artisans. Crossark (talk) 19:41, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Your Userbox Requests

Hello Crossark! Your requests are completed. The first two are the ones made by me while the last two are from already existing Wikipedia user templates:

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{{User:SimonOrJ/Userboxes/Neurology}}	This user is interested in Neurology.	Usage
{{User:SimonOrJ/Userboxes/Y'all|Texas}}	y'allThis user lives in Texas, and has practiced the use of y'all throughout their lifetime. This habit occasionally makes its way into the conversations.	Usage
{{Template:User harp-4}}	harp-4This user is a professional harpist.	Usage
{{Template:User Texan}}	TXThis user is a native speaker of Texan. Howdy, y'all!	Usage

I did not do the harp one since the one with similar content already exists. If you'd like custom colors or changes/additions made to userboxes, don't hesitate to ask so! I'd be glad to help you with it. Best wishes, "SimonOrJ"^(U/T/C) 02:44, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

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Barnstar thanks

Two barnstars in one evening for the same good deed ... it really must be Christmas Eve! Thank you so much, and have a happy holiday. Daniel Case (talk) 01:35, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Re: Help with Megalith

Thank you for the comment. Could you be more specific about what confuse you, or put a tag at it or a note at the Discussion page ? I just try to put some sources actually, and rearranging the text accordingly. May be I miss something. Kembangraps (talk) 23:54, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

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February 2015 Wikification drive

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Happy Valentine's Day!!!

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Nomination of Anne Louise Avery for deletion

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Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the April drive has been started. Come on, sign up! :) One hand on the mouse, one hand on the keyboard... and the feet can do the rest! Hee-hee! (talk) 03:17, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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June 2015 Wikification drive.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Céline Bosquet (June 10)

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New deal for page patrollers

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Your draft article, Draft:Céline Bosquet

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Chinese alligator

I see you're not a fan of MOS and good English. Maybe you could take a technical writing course and learn how to use a dictionary.47.184.175.161 (talk) 00:11, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Please, elucidate me as to specifically where in the MOS your edits are addressed. Also, elucidate me as to how the phrase "by peopleby people" is, as you so elegantly put it, "good English". Sincerely, a former editor of a student publication.Crossark (talk) 00:16, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

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I apologize for leaving out a citation for this information. It would've been prudent to do so, I acknowledge, but it was late for me when I made the edit and I figured I'd come back to it the following day to add citations (assuming no one else already had). However, I notice that other information in the same section lacks a citation and hasn't been removed — notably the blurb that says the film received a RiffTrax commentary. I don't understand why this "cite first, publish later" standard for citations isn't applied universally. I hope you can forgive me for believing that easily fact-checked information that also contained no esoteric language that would need to be sourced from interviews/thinkpieces (like the properly cited, "x influenced y," sentences in the same section do) would be in less urgent need of citation, and that they could be added at a later date by one of the many users who go around the site adding citations to correct information all the time. Indeed, I admit that I wonder why you were so quick to remove the information when it was easily verifiable, and a citation could have been added by you at the time. It would seem you're simply removing any new uncited information, without doing anything in the way of due diligence to determine whether the information itself merits being in the article — something of a scorched earth policy that I don't know if I fully agree with. Nevertheless, I shall provide citations in a little while for the information I provided. Thank you for informing me that they were needed.Crossark (talk) 23:38, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

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