Weissmax25

Beach Nourishment

I noticed your ClueBot False Positive Report where you mentioned being a representative of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association and wanted to make a quick comment. First I'd like to say welcome to Wikipedia! People who have extensive knowledge of a particular area are always in great demand and I'm happy to see that you have decided to create an account and make a substantial change to an article.

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Your edit was reverted by ClueBot because the bot noticed that a large amount of text was removed from the article by a new user. This something which is commonly associated with malicious editing, known as vandalism. Since ClueBot is a software program it doesn't have the same ability as a human editor to distinguish between edits.

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Weissmax25, good luck, and have fun. --nn123645 (talk) 07:15, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Beach_nourishment

I have replied, on Talk:Beach_nourishment.  Chzz  ►  08:46, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Reply now archived in User talk:Chzz/Archive 23Beach Nourishment COI Edit.  Chzz  ►  14:09, 28 June 2010 (UTC)