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I was looking for an engineer infobox when I found this discussion: [1]. I used the box you adapted for Stephen Harriman Long on Donovan Berlin's article. Works great. Thank. Malke 2010 (talk) 04:06, 29 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Wikishovel! Thanks for message to my talk page re the prefixing of user space drafts. Yes, a) I forgot abut the prefix (I'm 5yrs on Wikipedia, but only created my first user sub-page a couple of days ago), and b) You guessed correctly, I am indeed the "Pete" account. I write my name as Peter most places, but the other ("Peter") account was already taken when I began on Wikipedia. Thanks for also setting speedy deletion underway for the "Peter Hobbs/Westbahn BS-map-v2" page. Pete Hobbs (talk) 06:29, 29 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for adding that one. This is one of my favourites Even though it's not one of his classic solo efforts, it has some really superb guitar breaks from Gaggy Mroceck, Achim Reichel and Rainer Baumann, and some very tasty Hammond from Jean-Jaques Kravetz. The whole album is really inventive. I would send you a link to the full album on YT, but it's almost certainly a total copyvio. Praise the Lord!! Martinevans123 (talk) 20:04, 4 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

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