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  • Comments noted and actioned as follows:
    • Leumeah railway station page: corrected link.
    • Macarthur Astronomical Society page: The correct link would be to (I believe) "International House_University_of_Sydney" but as the page is currently unavailable, I have left the link as it is for now.
    • University of Western Sydney page: corrected the link.

--Ggreybeard (talk) 12:41, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]


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  • This was only the first notification to me, not the second. However I completed the survey following receipt of the above message, on 2nd February 2012.

--Ggreybeard (talk) 01:48, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes i'am sorry about that. I copy-pasted the message that i used on the pilot study. Thank you very much for all the help and support :-) --Michael Tsikerdekis (talk) 11:00, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comments noted and actioned. Both disambiguations fixed.

--Ggreybeard (talk) 01:48, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Noted & changed. Ggreybeard (talk) 11:31, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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There is no such thing as "Related Lists" sect on Wikipedia - we call it = See also[edit]

There is no such thing as "Related Lists" sect on Wikipedia - we call it = See also.

Please read WP:LAYOUT.

Thank you,

Cirt (talk) 01:28, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On a side note, cool userboxes on the bottom of your page, dude. Most fascinating. ;) — Cirt (talk) 01:29, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Cirt. I understand that now but I have removed the White House Astronomy Night link as it has no relevance to a group of Australian Astronomers holding lectures. :)

Ggreybeard (talk) 01:42, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, no worries there. Thank you for understanding, — Cirt (talk) 01:48, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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