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RFC

Are you planning on doing anything with your sandbox RFC on me? If not, would you please remove it? There is no need for something like that to be sitting around for 6+ months, especially when it totally and completely skews situations unfairly. Thank you, Metros (talk) 17:30, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Removed --English836 (talk) 00:25, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Much obliged. Metros (talk) 01:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Apologies for the revert

I clicked the wrong button :) \ / (⁂) 06:56, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

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Smithborough

Hi English, hope you don't mind but I've declined your speedy deletion nom for Smithborough, its a village in Ireland; what do you think of the article now? ϢereSpielChequers 12:26, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

I've not readded the Speedy Tags, but in the future, once a tag is up, you cannot remove it. Ive orphaned the article and requested it be wikified. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to ask.--English836 (talk) 12:37, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi English, I think you'll find that any editor can remove or amend a tag except the editor who created the article. May I suggest that next time you tag an article as "a very short article lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article" you first check the links - this article already had incoming ones which explained what it was (if you didn't know from the article). ϢereSpielChequers 13:52, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey, Sorry i didn't know you were an administrator--English836 (talk) 19:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Not a problem, I'd guessed you assumed I was the author. I do try and give feedback when I decline speedies and checking the links can be a useful way to salvage articles. ϢereSpielChequers 14:22, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Amenia, Millerton pics

Good! Do you mind if I transfer them to Commons later? Daniel Case (talk) 10:34, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Be my guest :) --English836 (talk) 17:24, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

P.S. Theres one of Copake too, any a few more coming up tonight. Be on the lookout for some!

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Fixed--English836 (talk) 20:00, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

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Arlington High School

I have a question about a couple of your edits related to Arlington High School. How is this spam? Nothing is being advertised as far as I can tell. Additionally, what was so wrong about 81.175.83.141's edits that you needed to leave this message? Why would you threaten to revert someone "totally re-working" the article when it was a highly beneficial improvement to the article? What policies did s/he violate that you say s/he did? either way (talk) 21:00, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

I'd be more than happy to explain s/he 's issues. here s/he blanked an entire section (Campus). Secondly, s /he also changed the sections, switching to bold text. Third, s /he also added a completely unsourced paragraph regarding Marching Band. here s /he also removed a good part of the article, which remained in part of the article for quite some time. Again here s /he created a gallery. As a administrator, you should know Misplaced Pages is not a collection of images. S /he removed all the images out of the article, and placed them in a useless gallery on the bottom. Enough errors? If you wanna play the anonymous editors advocate fine, but at least review the edits. --English836 (talk) 21:47, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

The first edit did not remove the campus section. It moved it down in the article. The "bold text" of the section headers were sub headers (== v. === section headers). That's a totally appropriate way to organize articles. As for the marching band paragraph that s/he "added," s/he did not add it. It was already there, the IP just combined several paragraphs that were already in there. The second edit, again, did not remove the information but moved it down in the article. The last one, the gallery, should probably not have been done since it took them out of sections in the article where they would have been within context, but galleries are perfectly acceptable on Misplaced Pages. So, all these edits are fine and in good faith. Additionally, please don't accuse me of not examining the edits when it is clear that you yourself have not clearly analyzed them. either way (talk) 22:44, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Articles For Deletion

Please take a look at Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/City_Of_Beacon_Fire_Department deletion discussion regarding one of your articles. Also, please be advised that your template will likely be considered for deletion as well, as the majority of the entries are non-existent firehouse articles, none of which are likely to be considered notable. Bullzeye 22:39, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough. There isnt a need for an attitude on the AFD page though "yeah right" ... --English836 (talk) 02:40, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

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File:2007.11.29 - Joesph Saia and Patrick Quigley-AHS.jpg listed for deletion

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April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive

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AfD nomination of Beacon Volunteer Ambulance Corps

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NYCRR Stations

Hey, my name is Emily... I don't actually log into Misplaced Pages all that much anymore, but I did to leave a message here on your page... I'm hoping that you still check it! I noticed that you were the person that created most of the station pages for the old Upper Harlem Division. I'm actually looking to go to these old stations shortly. I'm assuming that you added the coordinates, but I am having difficulties in finding some of them, like Craryville. There is a photo there, so the place must still exist, but the coordinates on a map look like it is in the middle of a forest. If you have any thoughts or you think you could help me out, I'd love it if you could email me... info (at) iridetheharlemline.com Emmyceru (talk) 15:22, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Sharon NYCRR Station

Is there any chance you could split off the original image of File:Sharon Station NY.JPG? I suggest a name like "Harlem Valley Rail Trail @ Sharon Station." ----DanTD (talk) 02:38, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

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