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Help choose next week's choice

The current community collaboration is for works related to the Eminent Women Series. Last collaboration: Slavery in the United States (1837)

Help choose next month's proofreading

The current Proofread of the Month is A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories  (1926) by Montague Rhodes James. Last month completed: A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand The next scheduled collaboration will begin in January.

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Yann (talk) 18:03, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Adambro (talk) 18:25, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

QST

I just wanted to thank you for proofreading some of the QST issues I've posted recently. A second pair of eyes seems to help catch the various OCR errors that made it through to posting. Sagsaw (talk) 01:21, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the sdelete

-- billinghurst (talk) 11:37, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of User page

Adambro, did you want your account deleted or just your user page? --Eliyak T·C 20:40, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Can accounts be deleted nowadays? I didn't think that was possible. Adambro (talk) 20:44, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

I was just checking into it, and I think you are correct. The best I could do would be an indefinite block so that no-one could take over your user name. --Eliyak T·C 20:50, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

That won't be necessary, deletion of my userpage would be appreciated though. Adambro (talk) 20:51, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with this. Adambro (talk) 21:16, 5 December 2010 (UTC)