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This article appears to be a copyvio you may wish to comment.Geni 22:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
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Please don't do this. See WP:ENGVAR. Quale (talk) 02:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
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Re. your adding "Dave Lawson - keyboards" to Tubular Bells, do you have any more information about this? I've never heard of him, and quite a lot has been written about the album. His website doesn't say what he did on the album (as far as I could see), could he have just been an engineer or consultant? --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 16:02, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello, i put your pic OakleyCourt.jpg into the WP-Commons. I hope i did it right. Because i need the pic for the german article. Thank you 80.134.189.80 (talk) 15:18, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
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How is this PD-self? I'd appreciate some more information on the file description page? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 20:32, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
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