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Beverly McKnight

Hello Pam:

I added references and hope I did it correctly. I also have newspaper photos, but do not know how to upload. Thank you.

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Flavia Albia and Falco books

Hello PamD, I'm working in concert with you to replace "installment" with "book", as you wish, in both series. Additionally, with regard to the Flavia Alba series, I've found and inserted references to provide evidence of the use of the series descriptor: Flavia Albia Mysteries (Falco: The New Generation). Froid (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

@Froid: I have a feeling that it's a series title used in USA not in UK - something to do with American tastes. On Amazon.co.uk compare UK ed with US (Minotaur) ed. I've not got the time to sort it out now (just got home, got to eat and get out), but I don't think the US series title should dominate these articles about books by a British author, just as the US covers should take second place, if present at all, to the rather classier (to my mind) UK covers! But then the UK covers are designed to appeal to me, the US ones not. I'm sure we can work out some sort of wording which reflects the fact that only in the US are they called "Mysteries": Brits are happy with "Novels". PamD 18:15, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

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The Interior, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:13, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

"What not to include"

Hi Pam,

Concerning your revert: I agree it was bold--but that was actually requested by the original bold editor :-):

"Added longish para on purpose. WP:BRD, delete or edit as thought best"

In any event, I also agree with your revert, mainly because as I looked at the original paragraph more carefully, I realized there was a lot more that really should be changed. So I took it to talk... please take a look. Thanks, NapoliRoma (talk) 19:50, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

• @NapoliRoma: As you've probably spotted, I've replied on the talk page. Thanks for the note. PamD 22:10, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

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Barnstar for ya!

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		Stub sorting is probably a pretty thankless job and I just thought that I would take a minute to thank you for it. I ran into traces of your work at Mark Pearson (journalist), which I caught in the New Pages queue and worked on for a few minutes this morning. Anyway, thanks for your efforts on behalf of our project. —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 18:09, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

@Carrite: Thanks for that. Stub-sorting brings me into touch with a wide range of articles - I tend to try to keep the letter "P" of Category:Stubs clear, and pick up others which look as if they need a DEFAULTSORT, or have a disambiguator and might not be properly linked from the main term, or look in some way dodgy as if they might be a longer article over-written or something else odd. And while stub-sorting I do a few other bits of cleanup as routine - DEFAULTSORT and birth/death cats, slam on a few tags if need be, tidy up a bit of formatting... that journalist was a bit of a mess initially and I cleaned it up somewhat, though I see you've now gone far beyond that. Thanks again for the barnstar. PamD 22:26, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

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Martin French

Hi - I noticed that you removed my proposal for deletion of Martin French. I proposed it for deletion because the two people it asks you to choose between have never had Wikipedia articles, so I don't think it's a useful disambiguation page. Why do you think it's worth keeping? --211.30.17.74 (talk) 07:03, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

See Talk:Martin French. PamD 08:28, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 11:00, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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Pam,

Thank you for replying at: the Carpenter List page.

I made a reply there.

I appreciate your time and patience. Any help is appreciated. Jrcrin001 (talk) 21:41, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

I think there may be a consensus. See: Is this issue resolved? Please advise if this is okay or not?

Thanks Jrcrin001 (talk) 01:45, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

@Jrcrin001: I'd say it's not resolved until you apologise at ANI and on their talk pages to the two editors you incorrectly accused of violating rules and damaging the encyclopedia. PamD 08:39, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

I really appreciate your help in fixing the link. I was fustrated but when I just thought of giving up, you came right in time to help me fix it. Thanks and Merry chrismas in advanceMahveotm (talk) 00:40, 24 December 2015 (UTC) Mahveotm (talk) 00:40, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

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