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Meelar (talk) 21:47, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I see you left a link re Caribou (musician) on the disambiguation page a while back. When I came across the page someone had reoved your entry. I added it back but it's been removed again. I'm going to keep a watch on the page and invite you to do the same. I'm not sure why someone repeatedly removes our entry but ? Take care Hu Gadarn 01:36, 4 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I stumbled across the Estadio Victor Jara page via the random article link, and was intrigued by the lack of info there. I saw you had left a similar comment to my feelings on the Victor Jara talk page. After digging around, I found a reputable article which clarifies where he was killed, and also mentions that there were (at least) two stadia used for prisons during the coup. I edited the two stadium articles to make things a little clearer. I also left an answer on the talk page, but wasn't sure if you were still checking it or not. Neier 11:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Until very recently, all British peers were automatically members of the House of Lords, which meant that they were members of a national legislature, and therefore notable according to one of the provisions of WP:BIO. Please don't mark a short article for deletion because it's a stub. In fact, if you could remove the speedy tag from any articles about British peers where you added one, that would be a great help for everyone. Thanks in advance. -- TruthbringerToronto ( Talk | contribs) 04:28, 1 November 2006 (UTC) reply

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The above refers to your use of an edit summary to make rude comments about other editors (see diff). -- BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • ( contribs)} 11:47, 1 November 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi, I have replied on my talk to your response there. -- BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • ( contribs)} 12:05, 1 November 2006 (UTC) reply

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Hey there! Yes, Blake was a Canadian MP and party member over there but this was before that period; he also spent some time in the British House of Commons as a Liberal Party MP, and it is his resignation from that position which was documented here. The chiltern hundreds resignation is an entirely British phenomenon; if his entry was about his work in Canada he wouldn't be in there. Ironholds ( talk) 07:52, 9 February 2009 (UTC) reply

See Index of appointments to the Stewardships of Northstead and the Chiltern Hundreds; he's there as Blake, Hon. E B. Ironholds ( talk) 10:01, 9 February 2009 (UTC) reply

May you please list specifically which statements you consider to be POV on the talk page so that they can be fixed? Thank you. ---- Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 03:50, 12 January 2010 (UTC) reply

Done.-- Lairor ( talk) 04:10, 12 January 2010 (UTC) reply

Good catch. Rl ( talk) 10:39, 6 March 2010 (UTC) reply

Thanks for noticing and correcting the vandalism to this article. I am not experienced in detecting vandalism, but I think what happened is that this IP user made two edits in a matter of minutes. The second was less egregious than the first, and the second edit kind of masked the first. I appreciate your sharp eyes and willingness to correct the bad edit. As someone who watches this article, I regret that I didn't notice the vandalism. Thanks again. Cullen328 ( talk) 04:34, 25 April 2010 (UTC) reply

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Thanks for removing the statement that Be My Baby was Phil Spector's only Grammy Award winner.

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The ever-doubtful About.com says he won a Grammy in 1970 but there's no other mention of that anywhere. Regards, -- Seduisant ( talk) 14:55, 8 April 2015 (UTC) reply

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