User talk:Ebonelza
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[edit]Regarding Hauppauge Media MVP. It is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. -- SoothingR(pour) 17:54, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. A while back you posted, at Talk:Octagon house: "For those interested, there are two octagon houses less than a mile apart on Ramshorn Rd, in Dudley, Massachusetts, US. I drive by them several times a week. From the car, they seem to be pretty old." When you posted, that Octagon house article wasn't set up to accept additions like that, but now we have List of octagon houses and we have more knowledge about how scarce they are in general, and consensus that probably all old octagon houses are "notable" in wikipedia terms. Anyhow, if you would be willing to take pics of these and upload them, I would really very much like to include them into the List of octagon houses now.... doncram (talk) 17:37, 10 July 2008 (UTC)