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PAT BURNES, thank you for adding the excellent list from Varnum of writers and teachers Baird influenced. I added links to to the bios I found (perhaps the unlinked ones are a good list of bios to create?), and did some wikitext cleanup for page refs. Please review the changes, as I made assumptions about the placement of the initial quote mark and about the parenthetic page refs that I converted with the Rp template. Good work! Grand'mere Eugene ( talk) 18:23, 7 April 2022 (UTC) reply