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Sincerely, Paine Ellsworth, ed.   21:43, 11 July 2019 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)

You been around for awhile, technically longer than I have. Hope you stay longer this time! Paine Ellsworth, ed.   21:43, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

@Paine Ellsworth Thanks for the welcome! Welcome back i guess :P. It honestly feels good to be welcomed, I tend to get disillusioned and feel unwelcome on wiki becasue of people here always dismissing any correction or suggestion i make as "Ukrainian nationalism" and insinuating that as a Ukrainian i have no right to talk about my language, country, history or whatever else on here. Blindlynx (talk) 18:29, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Yes, sometimes it seems to take a great amount of intestinal fortitude to live in this world, to search for what you like and can't find, and to edit this encyclopedia. It's like my uncle used to tell me when I worked on cars, "If you don't shed some blood, it won't work right." Same goes for editing Misplaced Pages I guess. Just always remember that this job is a volunteer position, so there is always a lot of time and room to have lots of fun! So have fun with it. Best to you! Paine Ellsworth, ed.   23:39, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

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Reg Hartt

You asked my opinion about the article Reg Hartt. It's horribly written and needs a rewrite. Some of the references are to newspapers, which seems good, but I haven't checked the actual reference text to see what they say about him. RJFJR (talk) 13:18, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	I'd like to thank you, as a Circassian, for acknowledgeing the real side of events in the discussion. ~𝓐𝓭𝓲𝓰𝓪𝓫𝓻𝓮𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽~ 14:56, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

WP:BELARUSIANNAMES

• Hi, I have started a thread you might be interested in at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Cyrillic)#Belarusian_geographical_place_names,_Part_2. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 18:50, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

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Follow up

In response to your earlier inquiry, I just did a few searches and just looking at the early 100s archives I found the following:

• Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Archive_107#National_spelling_variation:_Retaining_the_existing_variety
• Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Archive_109#WP:RETAIN_-_restore_original_point_of_first_contributor_rule
• Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Archive_117#Revising_WP:RETAIN
• Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Archive_126#Does_WP:RETAIN_go_too_far?

Scanning through search results there are many more, something like n+1 total discussions where n is some biggish number, so I hope you like reading. If you really want I can look into it some more but it would be rather time consuming, and tbh I found much of it to be tedious. As I've said before my own opinion is that readers largely will neither notice nor care if there's some style variation within an article, and if someone adds a well-researched paragraph it shouldn't matter what style it's written in, but obviously that view doesn't have consensus. It's impossible to enforce anyway; 80%+ of articles have few watchers and most casual contributors don't know anything about our MOS and are just going to contribute in whatever variety their browsers spell-checker happens to be set to. Regards, 31.41.45.190 (talk) 23:02, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

thanks! after reading some of this I agree that it's probably going to go unnoticed, but probably not worth trying to change—blindlynx (talk) 18:15, 5 May 2021 (UTC)