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 |style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray; height:5em;"| For your vast improvement to the article on the Dartmoor Preservation Association. 
 Since you've expanded the article by well over five times, you could nominate it to appear in the Did you know section that appears on the home page. I'd be happy to help you with this if you want.  —   
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 Welcome to Wikipedia! I trust you enjoyed your foray into WP article writing, and hope you plan to make other contributions – we could do with more active editors for Devon topics. I maintain an interest, but most of my work recently has been in general vandal fighting. 

 I've read the article and think there are just a few changes that would improve it. The main one is that the lead section should summarize the rest of the article: its second paragraph and part of the third would be better as a separate "Background" section, and the last para., "The DPA continues to...", mostly belongs under "Recent activities" – for which "Since 2000" (or something similar) would be a better heading – we're writing for the long term here! Do you want me to make these changes, do them yourself, or discuss these suggestions? 

 Finally, and just for the record, I assume that you're associated in some way with the organisation, which is fine, and it hardly shows in the article, though if you haven't done so you should cast an eye over our policy on conflict of interest. I know that there has been criticism of the DPA in the past: maybe a section on this aspect could be added.  —