User talk:Jeff560

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December 2008

Please stop. If you continue to add promotional material to Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. Themfromspace (talk) 04:37, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't block this user. He's not adding promotional material, he's fixing broken external links. Yes, he's probably the author of the site in question, but these links need fixing, and it doesn't matter who fixes them. --Zundark (talk) 09:07, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

January 2012

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Edward F. Dunne (judge) with this edit, did not appear to be constructive, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Calabe 1992 17:25, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This issue was resolved long ago, but nevertheless here is an explanation. The man's name was not Edward, but Edmund, and the page has been corrected.

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October 2016

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Beckley, West Virginia, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:34, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This issue was resolved long ago, but here is an explanation. I discovered that the Wikipedia article on Beckley included a lengthy history of the city that was copied and pasted verbatim from my own web page, and of course I was not happy about that. I was not credited, and I presume this is against Wikipedia policies. My web page that was copied is at http://jeff560.tripod.com/beckley1.html although back then it may have been at http://members.aol.com/jeff560/beckley1.html Jeff560 (talk) 21:21, 19 September 2018 (UTC) Jeff560 (talk) 21:20, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Capt. Harold B. Jeffries House

The sources show his name as "Harold" and not "Howard". If you think Howard is correct then find some sources that say it. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 08:22, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is telling me that you sent an email but for some reason I can't get any email at the moment (I'm not at home). It looked from what I could see from the Wikipedia message that you wanted me to move the article back to Howard. However, the sources I looked at showed his first name as "Harold". So if you had some sources that say his name was really Howard then it could be put into the article but as the registration is under Harold it should remain where it is. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 11:29, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This issue was resolved correctly a while back, but I am putting info here now to explain. The man's name was without any question Howard. I made a little web page just for Wikipedia editors at http://fivay.org/howard.html which provides proof and actually explains how the "Harold" error got started. Jeff560 (talk) 21:19, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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