User talk:Hardwir3d

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Hi, and a belated welcome to you. You are off to a great start on Western Encroachment into Imperial China, however I have one question on your references. The article, as currently written, appears to have a number of hard coded reference brackets (e.g. [5], [10], etc. . .) which appear to be an attempt to correspond to some of the references you had already added. Can you confirm if that is what you meant to do, and if so I can show you how to accomplish the same thing dynamically with a named reference. Thanks.  7  03:35, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Western Encroachment into Imperial China. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as yourself. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Europeans_in_Medieval_China. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Europeans_in_Medieval_China - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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