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I may be going to Tokyo sometime this summer. Do you know if this is safe to do so? I've heard various conflicting reports on this from various articles. Gooballsam (talk) 15:19, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

@Gooballsam: yes, perfectly safe. In fact, you will probably get more radiation from the plane flight (3 uSv/hr) [1] than from Tokyo (0.03 uSv/hr) [2]. VQuakr (talk) 16:19, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

@Gooballsam:Lucky you! I have no special knowledge in this area but I tend to look first at the UK Foreign Office advice - Japan is generally very safe. You cannot travel close to Fukushima for obvious reasons (though thanks for the radiation context from VQuakr). Take a look at your government advice, if there is some, and go from there. If I were able to I would certainly feel safe travelling there! |→ Spaully ^~talk~  16:29, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Spaully! Gooballsam (talk) 19:41, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Baltic Estonia

Please do not delete article Baltic Estonia! This is a completely new approach, it points out that Estonia shares a lot more with Latvia than with Finland. One may delete Lithuania but Estonia and Latvia are in many aspects one unit. This article is a common project of Estonian and Latvian wikipedia authors, Latvian ammendments to the article will appear soon with focusing culture, cuisine and folk costumes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maalane (talk • contribs) 17:51, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

I have replied on your user talk page, feel free to answer there and I should see it. |→ Spaully ^~talk~  20:19, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

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excuse me, why the article "Baltic Estonia" is not found via google search? Could you please make it possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Räcx2 (talk • contribs) 22:43, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

It takes some time for new pages to appear on Google for a variety of reasons - the main one we cannot change which is that it takes time for Google spiders to trawl new pages. New articles will also only appear once approved. Would you say the article is now what you intend it to be? Then I or another editor can read through and offer advice. |→ Spaully ^~talk~  08:44, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi, can you please remove redirection to Baltic states from the article "Baltic Estonia". Räcx2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Räcx2 (talk • contribs) 15:28, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

It wasn't redirected until you introduced a redirect, after posting this message on my talk page. Why? |→ Spaully ^~talk~  15:45, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

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Stale draft

Greetings! I have been combing through stale userspace drafts recently, and happened upon one of yours: User:Spaully/Test2. As you do not appear to be currently using it, I was wondering if you'd be willing to either blank it or request it be deleted by tagging it with {{db-u1}}. Thanks! —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 20:32, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Done, no problem. |→ Spaully ^~talk~  09:11, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

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Are you really telling those who are engaged in discussion that they shouldn't apply the clear consensus of the discussion because some people who don't even have the courtesy to present their thinking it edit notes, yet alone in the discussion, have been obstructive? That is the absolute negation of the essential principles of Wiki. Kevin McE (talk) 21:47, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

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The word "and" does not use a comma before or after it as that would be ungrammatical. Therefore, you do not use a comma on either side. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Johnson1212 (talk • contribs) 16:47, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

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I'm really following the history of Beckenham and connections to Bruyn and Marney. The History of Parliament entry for Robert de Marney indicates the Alice le Lacer/de Marney marriage to be about 1365, so 1345 looks like a typo. Robert de Marney doesn't get 'good press' in the history of Parliament being a tad avaricious to say the least. The sources are really life of William Bruyn (d1361) and the Robert de Marney entry on hist of parliament. But in the interests of accuracy i wanted to flag it up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Novafact (talk • contribs) 15:39, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for the explanation on the graph :) Springnuts (talk) 06:03, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you, that is a useful tip. I've used Inkscape a bit before but have not used software that natively produces .svg graphs. I've updated that graph and will use it from now on. |→ Spaully ^~talk~  08:17, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the interesting graph. I contacted ons - there is an update: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales This data is available weekly, every Tuesday at 9.30am. The graph seems to use figures for Covid deaths by date of registration - I think date of death might be better? But in any case an update would be fine. Jschreiber (talk) 23:32, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I will be updating the original graph today but you are right there are many other good graphs that could be made from this data. |→ Spaully ^~talk~  05:05, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

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It is valuable content which I contributed. Please tell me why you make it spam link. l know you are king of Wikipedia like lion in forest and right to do what you want. But it is very true together, we can do big. Thanks 124.253.144.126 (talk) 23:22, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. |→ Spaully ^~talk~  07:57, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

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