User talk:MJCdetroit

Taking a break to enjoy the simpler things in life

My talk page policy: If I posted a comment on your talk page—please reply there. I will watch your page for a week or so after I post something. Thanks. MJCdetroit 17:47, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Ottawa List of MPs, MPPs, and Senators listed at Redirects for discussion

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Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll

You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:47, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Photo requests

Do you do photo requests? WhisperToMe (talk) 17:49, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Photographs of what? Please explain more. —MJCdetroit ^{(tell me)} 06:01, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Oh.. I just saw the page (almost a year later!). What I mean is that there are certain photographs desired for Wikipedia of various places. I have a list of possible photos at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Michigan/Detroit#Photo requests of various places in Metro Detroit (Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties) WhisperToMe (talk) 12:15, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe:

I'll see what I can do. The Belle Isle, Del Rey, and Riverfront requests seem easy enough. —MJCdetroit ^{(tell me)} 18:50, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

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Titanic, fathoms, and U.S.

Hi there, I hope you don't mind that I partially reverted you on the Titanic article. MOS:US says keep it consistent and there's a load of "UK" in there already so I've gone back to "US" and made a couple of others match. The fathoms I think are brilliant and I have left them alone – I've got no idea what the "official" line on them is (and it does not seem to be in the talk page archive) but I hope they will stay! Thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 08:53, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

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I have asked for them back. —MJCdetroit ^{(tell me)} 12:32, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

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