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[edit]Hello Voello, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Grand Arcade (Wigan) have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.
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Acre
[edit]Hi Voello, I've started a new section at talk:acre#Status in the United Kingdom so that we can work towards an consensus for the article. Please comment there. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 10:17, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Operation Pluto
[edit]I'm taking this as a vote that the article is a "UK engineering-related article", what EEng would call the "chain rule". Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:20, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- I'm getting to "that age", so maybe I'm missing something. Why would I call it the chain rule? or maybe the chain rule? EEng 05:39, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
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- In Operation Pluto the first sentence of the lead mentions it was an "operation by British engineers" and the majority of the article concerns the engineering of the pipeline. So, yes, I would class it as one in my view. --Voello talk 05:58, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
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