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Hey all :)
A couple of new things.
First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.
On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right.
It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 00:11, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. Just a little suggestion which you're welcome to ignore. I've just created an article on Drexel 4257 (which came out unintentionally long). This is a music manuscript from the Rimbault Library which was auctioned by Sotheby's in 1877 and is now at NYPL. I believe there was another manuscript owned by Gamble (and Rimbault) that went to the BL, though I can't determine which it is from the catalogue. If you can find out, it might be nice to make (or have someone else make) a corresponding entry. -- kosboot ( talk) 14:37, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
I am sending this note to Wikipedians with whom I have most closely collaborated over the last six years or so. After pondering hard during a month's wiki-break in July I have sadly decided to withdraw fully from contributing. I have been worn down by continual carping, sniping and belittling from a wearisome few (you know the sort of people I refer to); the joy has gone out of taking part in this wonderful enterprise. I should be more resilient, but alas it's finally got to me.
Working with you has been a pleasure and a privilege: I count myself fortunate to have had such colleagues. My warmest wishes go with you for the future.
I am deeply conscious that I have let you down badly by backing out of Wikipedia after you have gone to such lengths to set up new contacts with the BL. Forgive me: it is not done impulsively or lightly.
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Not too keen on adding another UK-wide geonotice at the moment - there are the regular meetup notice and the EduWiki notice already. Der yck C. 13:37, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Andrew! Gordo ( talk) 13:32, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
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Andrew, I see you're going to be tied up with the British Museum through at least October, but I'm wondering if you're ready for more work in the trenches at Milhist? Signups start Saturday-ish. - Dank ( push to talk) 21:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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Ok thanks, The information hasn't lost any value on my part. Cheers, -- ceradon talk contribs 20:36, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
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For the star, and I am glad you enjoyed the paper! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:13, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 18:15, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Andrew, I wanted to run something by you. Recently, I have been working on a proposal (with mock-up) for citing historical imagery in articles with regular footnotes, rather than having to click through to the image description page. The idea came about during meetings with several Library of Congress staff recently, which I could talk more about—but I thought I would just show you first. The explanation of the rationale is at User:Dominic/Image citation and the mock-up is at User:Dominic/Image citation/Sample. The idea of changing the manual of style or WP:CITE and editing thousands of articles to add these is pretty daunting, but my eventual goal right now is just to make sure that this is deemed an acceptable practice that people won't revert for being non-standard. Before bringing it the broader community, I'm curious to hear any thoughts you have on that implementation or the idea in general. Thanks! Dominic· t 21:24, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
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A late reply at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Inclusion of sounds, in case you're not watchlisting still. :) — Quiddity ( talk) 03:13, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Andrew,
I copied the sound examples from de-wiki onto Talk:Doppler effect, maybe you can find a spot for them in the article. Regards,-- Cirdan ( talk) 10:50, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
When you say "wireless and workspace will be provided" does this mean that no computers will be provided and I'm expected to bring a laptop? Thanks. Secretlondon ( talk) 02:33, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Andrew. That would be great. — MistyMorn ( talk) 11:09, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
I didn't come to the event as I wasn't really sure what it was for. We don't have access to the collections- is the idea that we would just edit in a room like we would edit at home? If so - why bother? Secretlondon ( talk) 13:36, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Mentioned you here about a query that's been bothering me. Regards, — MistyMorn ( talk) 21:08, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the barnstar. As you probably guessed, I was inspired by the Independent article about the coverage of women in science. Southdevonian ( talk) 21:49, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey Andrew Gray/Archives. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.
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I see this as basic market research that can be easily and quickly done by testing with web analytics and anonymous cookies. It is surely WMF's responsibility to do usability testing and market research, and even A/B testing a small number of popular pages with and without diacritics in the title could resolve this issue. It doesn't only affect Wikipedia users and supporters, it is also a hit on editors who believe in following guidelines and keeping a neutral POV vs. those who believe in mob rule—whoever has the biggest private army. No publisher would be so stupid as to use complex Vietnamese diacritics in the title of a book intended for English readers. Article titles, book titles, and movie titles are not a "content" issue, any more than book cover design and layout. Most publishers understand how important such issues are. Talk:Buôn Ma Thuột city#Survey is just one example of ongoing diacritics pushing. The diacritics pushers say that "redirects are cheap", but that is yet another issue the WMF should be able to give numbers for. Knowledgeable web people never say that "redirects are cheap". LittleBen ( talk) 03:31, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
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Started this. Need help expanding. Can you help looking in google books and making references using http://reftag.appspot.com/?♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:27, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Andrew- I'm editing the Brick Lane Market article for a class project. Our teacher warned us that our contributions could be deleted if we don't have backing from other Wikipedia editors. As a resident of London, I was wondering if you could help my project group by looking over our additions to the article in the next few days. Any advice you have would be much appreciated. Thanks! User talk:D4n2elle/BrickLaneMarket Joey236 ( talk) 20:50, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestions on our Truman markets article. I tried finding some more information about how it started up in the 80s but have been unsuccessful so far... hopefully another knowledgable Wikipedian can find something! As for secondary sources, they are sparse, so unfortunately we have to rely on a wealth of primary sources for now. Will definitely try to improve upon this article in the future though. Thanks again! D4n2elle ( talk) 02:30, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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I suppose it's too late now, but it would have been helpful if you had provided a more meaningful edit summary when reverting VIAFbot's edits. I just wasted time working out why an apparently constructive edit had been reverted in one of my watchlisted articles, and I'm sure that the same goes for many other editors. Don't be surprised if many of these edits of yours get reverted as unexplained removal of valid content. Phil Bridger ( talk) 20:49, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Copying reply here to keep the discussion in one place.
Hi, I've a list at User:Dsp13/Redlinks/Women#Science_etc. which I thought might come in handy for your Ada Lovelace day. Good luck with that, Dsp13 ( talk) 13:12, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
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In the case of David Morris (Conservative politician), the problem seems to be in the VIAF record itself (assuming that he didn't write the "Gift of America" book, as seems likely!). The VIAF record has the link to his Wikipedia article. I don't know how those links were added, but I hope it isn't symptomatic of too many wild assumptions that any two persons of same birth year and name are identical. But it can't be blamed on the bot which is assigning VIAFs to WP articles - should that be a distinct category of Wikipedia:VIAF/errors? (And what a lot of librarians there are around on Wikipedia - nice to meet yet another one.) Pam D 15:13, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
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This thing has been in draft form on one of my userpages for months if not years. Now making the push to add it to all the articles... :-) Lozleader ( talk) 21:36, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. Most of the ones I've listed have very "common" names (David Smith and suchlike), so it's perhaps not unlikely statistically that software finds matches on name/vital dates. Alan Ross (footballer born 1942) has the same years of birth and death as the one listed at VIAF 169058377, and Dave Smith (footballer born 1950) has a date of birth only one day away from the Dave Smith at VIAF 49405649. I'm only finding these mismatches because, having seen a couple of VIAF links added to pages on my watchlist, clicked them and found they referred to other people, I started looking for them. Perhaps if people in other fields were checked, there might be similar levels of mismatch among people with similarly common names? cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 10:43, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Andrew! Thanks for putting up the geonotice for the GWU Wikipedia Loves Libraries events! Specific coordinates for the corners could be: Washington DC area: lat:39.303416, long:-76.470337; opposite point: lat:38.740088, long:-77.486572. Thanks again! Lisa N Marrs ( talk) 14:26, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hey all :).
We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.
However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.
Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 12:18, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks all the same. We have someone in Boston who might be able to help - where do people sign up to join the set of maintainers / how are updates applied? emw used to do some of this but is busy off-wiki these days. – SJ + 12:53, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you commented on the mess that is our COI guidance. I've started a rewrite at WP:Conflict of interest/draft and would appreciate input and collaboration. Gigs ( talk) 01:27, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Please be careful about the commas in JS pages. This is the most common cause of JS errors. Kaldari ( talk) 01:25, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Andrew,
I was looking at the article you created for Alice Everett, you did a really great job and there is lots of information, but none of it is referenced. Could you please include the references so everyone can link to where you obtained your information, as the key to Wikipedia is that everything is verifiable. (I know this is a pain, but there is a shortcut toolbar for templates for references and you can just put in the web address to make an easy reference).
Many thanks, -- Geneticcuckoo ( talk) 13:41, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hey all :)
A couple of new things.
First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.
On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right.
It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 00:11, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. Just a little suggestion which you're welcome to ignore. I've just created an article on Drexel 4257 (which came out unintentionally long). This is a music manuscript from the Rimbault Library which was auctioned by Sotheby's in 1877 and is now at NYPL. I believe there was another manuscript owned by Gamble (and Rimbault) that went to the BL, though I can't determine which it is from the catalogue. If you can find out, it might be nice to make (or have someone else make) a corresponding entry. -- kosboot ( talk) 14:37, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
I am sending this note to Wikipedians with whom I have most closely collaborated over the last six years or so. After pondering hard during a month's wiki-break in July I have sadly decided to withdraw fully from contributing. I have been worn down by continual carping, sniping and belittling from a wearisome few (you know the sort of people I refer to); the joy has gone out of taking part in this wonderful enterprise. I should be more resilient, but alas it's finally got to me.
Working with you has been a pleasure and a privilege: I count myself fortunate to have had such colleagues. My warmest wishes go with you for the future.
I am deeply conscious that I have let you down badly by backing out of Wikipedia after you have gone to such lengths to set up new contacts with the BL. Forgive me: it is not done impulsively or lightly.
With my very best wishes,
Tim. (
Tim riley (
talk)
16:09, 10 August 2012 (UTC))
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Not too keen on adding another UK-wide geonotice at the moment - there are the regular meetup notice and the EduWiki notice already. Der yck C. 13:37, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Andrew! Gordo ( talk) 13:32, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
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Andrew, I see you're going to be tied up with the British Museum through at least October, but I'm wondering if you're ready for more work in the trenches at Milhist? Signups start Saturday-ish. - Dank ( push to talk) 21:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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Ok thanks, The information hasn't lost any value on my part. Cheers, -- ceradon talk contribs 20:36, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
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For the star, and I am glad you enjoyed the paper! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:13, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 18:15, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Andrew, I wanted to run something by you. Recently, I have been working on a proposal (with mock-up) for citing historical imagery in articles with regular footnotes, rather than having to click through to the image description page. The idea came about during meetings with several Library of Congress staff recently, which I could talk more about—but I thought I would just show you first. The explanation of the rationale is at User:Dominic/Image citation and the mock-up is at User:Dominic/Image citation/Sample. The idea of changing the manual of style or WP:CITE and editing thousands of articles to add these is pretty daunting, but my eventual goal right now is just to make sure that this is deemed an acceptable practice that people won't revert for being non-standard. Before bringing it the broader community, I'm curious to hear any thoughts you have on that implementation or the idea in general. Thanks! Dominic· t 21:24, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
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A late reply at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Inclusion of sounds, in case you're not watchlisting still. :) — Quiddity ( talk) 03:13, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Andrew,
I copied the sound examples from de-wiki onto Talk:Doppler effect, maybe you can find a spot for them in the article. Regards,-- Cirdan ( talk) 10:50, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
When you say "wireless and workspace will be provided" does this mean that no computers will be provided and I'm expected to bring a laptop? Thanks. Secretlondon ( talk) 02:33, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Andrew. That would be great. — MistyMorn ( talk) 11:09, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
I didn't come to the event as I wasn't really sure what it was for. We don't have access to the collections- is the idea that we would just edit in a room like we would edit at home? If so - why bother? Secretlondon ( talk) 13:36, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Mentioned you here about a query that's been bothering me. Regards, — MistyMorn ( talk) 21:08, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the barnstar. As you probably guessed, I was inspired by the Independent article about the coverage of women in science. Southdevonian ( talk) 21:49, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey Andrew Gray/Archives. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.
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I see this as basic market research that can be easily and quickly done by testing with web analytics and anonymous cookies. It is surely WMF's responsibility to do usability testing and market research, and even A/B testing a small number of popular pages with and without diacritics in the title could resolve this issue. It doesn't only affect Wikipedia users and supporters, it is also a hit on editors who believe in following guidelines and keeping a neutral POV vs. those who believe in mob rule—whoever has the biggest private army. No publisher would be so stupid as to use complex Vietnamese diacritics in the title of a book intended for English readers. Article titles, book titles, and movie titles are not a "content" issue, any more than book cover design and layout. Most publishers understand how important such issues are. Talk:Buôn Ma Thuột city#Survey is just one example of ongoing diacritics pushing. The diacritics pushers say that "redirects are cheap", but that is yet another issue the WMF should be able to give numbers for. Knowledgeable web people never say that "redirects are cheap". LittleBen ( talk) 03:31, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
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Started this. Need help expanding. Can you help looking in google books and making references using http://reftag.appspot.com/?♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:27, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Andrew- I'm editing the Brick Lane Market article for a class project. Our teacher warned us that our contributions could be deleted if we don't have backing from other Wikipedia editors. As a resident of London, I was wondering if you could help my project group by looking over our additions to the article in the next few days. Any advice you have would be much appreciated. Thanks! User talk:D4n2elle/BrickLaneMarket Joey236 ( talk) 20:50, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestions on our Truman markets article. I tried finding some more information about how it started up in the 80s but have been unsuccessful so far... hopefully another knowledgable Wikipedian can find something! As for secondary sources, they are sparse, so unfortunately we have to rely on a wealth of primary sources for now. Will definitely try to improve upon this article in the future though. Thanks again! D4n2elle ( talk) 02:30, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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I suppose it's too late now, but it would have been helpful if you had provided a more meaningful edit summary when reverting VIAFbot's edits. I just wasted time working out why an apparently constructive edit had been reverted in one of my watchlisted articles, and I'm sure that the same goes for many other editors. Don't be surprised if many of these edits of yours get reverted as unexplained removal of valid content. Phil Bridger ( talk) 20:49, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Copying reply here to keep the discussion in one place.
Hi, I've a list at User:Dsp13/Redlinks/Women#Science_etc. which I thought might come in handy for your Ada Lovelace day. Good luck with that, Dsp13 ( talk) 13:12, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
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In the case of David Morris (Conservative politician), the problem seems to be in the VIAF record itself (assuming that he didn't write the "Gift of America" book, as seems likely!). The VIAF record has the link to his Wikipedia article. I don't know how those links were added, but I hope it isn't symptomatic of too many wild assumptions that any two persons of same birth year and name are identical. But it can't be blamed on the bot which is assigning VIAFs to WP articles - should that be a distinct category of Wikipedia:VIAF/errors? (And what a lot of librarians there are around on Wikipedia - nice to meet yet another one.) Pam D 15:13, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
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This thing has been in draft form on one of my userpages for months if not years. Now making the push to add it to all the articles... :-) Lozleader ( talk) 21:36, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. Most of the ones I've listed have very "common" names (David Smith and suchlike), so it's perhaps not unlikely statistically that software finds matches on name/vital dates. Alan Ross (footballer born 1942) has the same years of birth and death as the one listed at VIAF 169058377, and Dave Smith (footballer born 1950) has a date of birth only one day away from the Dave Smith at VIAF 49405649. I'm only finding these mismatches because, having seen a couple of VIAF links added to pages on my watchlist, clicked them and found they referred to other people, I started looking for them. Perhaps if people in other fields were checked, there might be similar levels of mismatch among people with similarly common names? cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 10:43, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Andrew! Thanks for putting up the geonotice for the GWU Wikipedia Loves Libraries events! Specific coordinates for the corners could be: Washington DC area: lat:39.303416, long:-76.470337; opposite point: lat:38.740088, long:-77.486572. Thanks again! Lisa N Marrs ( talk) 14:26, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hey all :).
We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.
However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.
Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 12:18, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks all the same. We have someone in Boston who might be able to help - where do people sign up to join the set of maintainers / how are updates applied? emw used to do some of this but is busy off-wiki these days. – SJ + 12:53, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you commented on the mess that is our COI guidance. I've started a rewrite at WP:Conflict of interest/draft and would appreciate input and collaboration. Gigs ( talk) 01:27, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Please be careful about the commas in JS pages. This is the most common cause of JS errors. Kaldari ( talk) 01:25, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Andrew,
I was looking at the article you created for Alice Everett, you did a really great job and there is lots of information, but none of it is referenced. Could you please include the references so everyone can link to where you obtained your information, as the key to Wikipedia is that everything is verifiable. (I know this is a pain, but there is a shortcut toolbar for templates for references and you can just put in the web address to make an easy reference).
Many thanks, -- Geneticcuckoo ( talk) 13:41, 21 October 2012 (UTC)