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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:59, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Hello fellow North Carolinian ReallyAmazingDude13 (talk) 03:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Environmental Impact statements

I just found a few environmental impact statements about I-85 that will probably be of use to you. When citing them, be sure to use the exact title given in the document and |via=Newspapers.com at the end of the citation.

[1], [2], [3].

- Bneu2013 (talk) 04:47, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Thanks. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 05:12, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bneu2013 Wait, one question. Does the article look like it's in GA criteria to you? NoobThreePointOh (talk) 05:43, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I was slow to respond. It still needs some work, but is much improved. These clippings should help:

[4] - p. 2B
[5] - Durham Morning Herald, pp. 1A, 2A
[6] - Durham Morning Herald, p. 3B
[7]
[8]
[9] - p. 2-C
[10]
[11] - p. 3A
[12] - p. 1-B

I have included page numbers and paper names for articles where this is different that what the website gives. Bneu2013 (talk) 00:05, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! NoobThreePointOh (talk) 00:05, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bneu2013 Also, can you convert this source into a Newspaper.com citation if possible? This is it: ^[1] The title is "Part of widened I-85 to open this weekend". Thanks for being a big help. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 21:33, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Important note about speedy deletion

Hi NoobThreePointOh! I greatly appreciate your efforts countering that LTA constantly re-creating attack pages over and over and over again. But there is one major thing I wanted to point out, that I strongly suggest you follow – from now on, uncheck the "notify the page creator" box when CSD-tagging the pages they make. This is clearly and obviously an LTA who will never, ever actually listen to warnings whatsoever, so all that these notices really are doing is 1. inflaming the troll further by angering them and giving them more reason to actually do it; 2. creating unnecessary additional workload in the future for other editors when they blank out old inactive IP talk pages; 3. possibly creating confusion for legitimate other editors who happen to be using those IP addresses. The principle of minimal participation (Wikipedia:Revert, block, ignore) suggests not to place warnings or notices on LTAs' talk pages when dealing with their edits whatsoever.

Please consider these things above when dealing with LTA page creations (and also warnings for edits too). Thank you! — AP 499D25 (talk) 00:20, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please don't blank the entire message, it's an extra step to find the IP to block. You can just blank all but the signature, then we can use the signature to quickly block. Acroterion (talk) 00:32, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AP 499D25 @Acroterion Thanks for the info. I generally use Twinkle to mark speedy deletions and the G10, but that option blanks the whole page. Sorry about that. I'll only mark it as G5 next time. Thank you again! NoobThreePointOh (talk) 01:06, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

^ Lyttle, Steve (April 3, 2012). "Part of widened I-85 to open this weekend". Charlotte Observer. Retrieved April 17, 2014.

[1] Lyttle, Steve (April 3, 2012). "Part of widened I-85 to open this weekend". Charlotte Observer. Retrieved April 17, 2014.

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