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A page that you have been involved in editing, Ben Hodges, has been listed for deletion; you may wish to participate in the deletion discussion. Thanks. StaticGull  Talk  16:13, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You posted your reply at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 juni 26 instead of at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Hodges. Please use this page for your reply. Please also read this about how autobiographies on wikipedia have fared in the past...Wikipedia:Autobiography, to help you with your reply. SriMesh | talk 02:13, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved two comments of yours from other places into the actual deletion debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Hodges. If you want to make any further comments, that is the place to put them so that anyone interested will see them. One further point - when adding comments to talk pages, it is useful to end with four tilde characters ~~~~ which the system automatically converts to a signature with your user-name and the time and date - like this. JohnCD (talk) 07:43, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

... for the article on Theatre World. I'm sorry to see that you had quite some trouble with your own biographical entry. All the best, <KF> 20:09, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]