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| For your recent exceptional work in kicking User:DPL bot in places which must have hurt. Narky Blert (talk) 21:15, 6 November 2017 (UTC) |
Thank you! :-) R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:20, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
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| Thanks for you hard work in maintaining Misplaced Pages. Txantimedia (talk) 18:21, 18 November 2017 (UTC) |
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For helping out fixing all those disambig links on all the new Hisatsu Orange Railway pages, much appreciated! :) RubenSchade (talk) 00:12, 29 November 2017 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| For running the disambiguation contest month after month, there are not enough barnstars in the world. BD2412 T 17:09, 2 February 2024 (UTC) |
Expiatory chapels
Hello
I came across this term on a number of pages recently and added some links (viz. this, on 27 Oct); you subsequently changed them to something else. As the link I added went to the Votive Church page, which explains the term, and your link (which uses more text) goes to a page that doesn’t, how exactly was that an improvement? Moonraker12 (talk) 19:54, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Perhaps I was too hasty. Votive church is a disambiguation page, and if that's the only Misplaced Pages page that explains what an "expiatory chapel" is, that's a problem. In this case, I think the problem is that Votive church is a broad-concept article that's been incorrectly marked as a disambiguation page. In other words, there are churches that have "Votive" in the name that need to be disambiguated, but we also need an article (not a disambiguation page) that explains the overall concept of what a votive church is. The current page could probably be improved to serve that function with a few references to reliable sources. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 22:33, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, again (and my apologies for the delay in replying!) I did think, on looking back over this, that it was something to do with the dab page tag, and I agree, it does seem to be misplaced. So I have raised the issue there, if you wish to chip in. Anyway, thanks for the explanation, and for your comments: Regards, Moonraker12 (talk) 23:28, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
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Kathi people
Several books and articles are all present in the in a the government libraries and preserved in a very good manner by the princely states of Kathiawar.
Sources by James Tod are very reliable and also of Annals and Antiques of Rajasthan have already proven its worth. Hsjebalia (talk) 22:25, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
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