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SouthOckendon says. "Comment appreciated and problem corrected.(I hope)"

It's OK to remove this message. It is also ok to leave it here to remind me to be more careful,.09:58, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

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2016/05/12 I'm on it.Thanks for the heads up.

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Lea Valley

Hi South Ockendon. Thank you for your contributions to the above article. After reading them I decided to contact Dubmill via his talk page Dubmill (talk) where I asked his opinion on your edits. If you have time please look at our conversation and see if we can make some improvements to the article. Thanks. Northmetpit (talk) 15:25, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Southockendon. Thanks for message left on Dubmill's talk page. Do you think it might have been a better idea to have saved your text on your sandbox page till it was ready for public viewing? By the way where do you moor your boat in the Lea/Lee Valley? Northmetpit (talk) 17:32, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

2016-12-31/2132 Sorry if I'm a bit unorthodox in my editing but it is not a major activity in my life. But now that you have mentioned it, I will attempt to familiarise with the "sandbox". As to your "mooring" enquiry, I am a continual cruiser, constantly on the move throughout SE England. The Lee/Stort is my home navigation and my usual [favourite] mooring points would include Three Mills, Ponders End, Rye House, Stanstead Abbotts and Ware.

== My test submission at Articles for creation: sandbox has been dealt me. I thank those who are helping me and wish you a Happy New Year.

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There seem to be a few very large egos messing with edits and entries

I have been a very occasional but persistent editor since 2006. (Over the years I've made many contributions without signing in! When I do I'm "82.3.66.177". I have a life and only edit when I find badly-written English, fake news or bullshit on a subject in which I am VERY well versed and written by someone who thought he knew better. (I assume it to be "he" until someone admits otherwise)

My favourite moan would be about "citation needed" when or if the matter being questioned is self-evident. On the same subject of "citation needed", if I find such a thumb-print dated 2012 next to TWO valid citations, I suspect some ego higher up the chain of command is too full of himself to actually follow his own stupidity to its illogical conclusion. Recently, some such ego undid a tiny edit made by me and then actually READ what I was trying to say and reverted it.

Thanks for nothing. I NEVER question what bots or egos do. Life is too short. But now Brexit is Done, some of you need to get out more.

Would someone who reads this like to check the entry on "Andrew [Stuart] MacKinlay" and remove the unneeded "citation needed" from the record. There are two reasonable citations at [16] and [17] there and I could provide another half dozen just by going to the newspaper room of the British Library. But could I be arsed? Shaun Wall 19:24, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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