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Hi Billso, I am making some edits to the article on Turnitin and would appreciate your input. Cutter20 21:17, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

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Question concerning your edit to Superman-Prime

I have a question concerning your recent edit to Superman-Prime. In your edit summary, you said "In-universe reference", which I assume you were referring to what you had changed. It could be because it's 10 to 1 AM my time and my brain is just completely forgetting what in-universe looks like, but I'm not sure I quite understand how it was an in-universe reference. Could you please clarify for me? Thanks. Anakinjmt (talk) 05:50, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

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Hi!

I'm would like to bring your attention to something. I did not vandalize Damn Yankees The person that vandalized it did it after I edited. Look at the person directly under your name in history - he was the one who valdalized it! Entertainer91 (talk) 04:06, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Fixed it

My apologies - you're correct, Entertainer91. I have removed the template from your talk page. billso (talk) 04:15, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 19:14, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Education Program Fall 2012

Hi, Bill!

I saw that you're teaching at Hawaii Pacific University, and I thought you might be interested in participating in the Wikipedia Education Program for the coming term. If you're still teaching a class and would like your students to edit Wikipedia as an assignment, please email me at jmathewson@wikimedia.org to talk more about the program! Thanks!

Thank you for your contributions to the Typo Team. ;-)

Dear Billso,

Thank you very much for your contributions to our Typo Team, and also for updating the log earlier today; it's great to see this year's brand new list growing so fast already!

I know that such lists often add the latest entry at the top but, in this case, the list is chronological from top to bottom. I therefore hope you won't mind if I suggest that you re-locate your latest entries towards the end of the current list? Thank you very much, Billso.

Happy New Year and thank you once again for your help towards our cause.

With kind regards;

Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk) 21:55, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

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Done! I'm happy to help. Billso (talk) 22:06 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks alot!

Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk) 22:30, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

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