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Hi Barrychoward! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. We hope to see you there!
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I noticed your edit to Aztec Club of 1847 today. Thank you. This message is to provide useful feedback to help tune your contributions. Please accept it in the positive spirit in which it's intended.
One challenge for connected contributors is how to bring the knowledge inherent in their "connectedness" to bear in a positive way. The contributions you've performed today are very useful and helpful, because you are advancing pagespace, making connections to the organization you represent. Your edit to Bloodlines of Salem was helpful, but was not optimal; by merely leaving a note at the top of the page saying the org was closed (with no sourcing), your edit left the impression a page vandal might leave. For defunct organizations which are notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia, we would not normally remove the page, but instead edit the page so as to correctly indicate to the reader the org's historical nature. A source for closure would be helpful here, and (because of your relative closeness to the subject matter) you might actually know where that notice was disclosed publicly, if such it was.
I'm not suggesting you halt, slow down or moderate your edits. Quite the contrary. Please edit boldly! There is a connected editor ( User:EMarkel-JoyetAPS) who has declared they will only perform a few sorts of edits: adding statements to biography articles that the page subject is or was a member of the American Philosophical Society and details relevant to that election. She might have completed this by now (there are a finite number of elected members). Her declaration was helpful to those who "watchlist" pages we've worked on or are concerned about. By seeing her COI declaration and her statement of intent, she became a true wiki-ally. I hope wikipedians grow to feel you are such an ally. Now that all the low hanging fruit of articles have been created, Wikipedia is now in an era of page improvement focus. Specialized knowledge is now even more helpful to us. So thank you for your disclosure and your contributions.
My normal editing field is 19th century American biography (and I created the Aztec Club article), so we're liable to run into each other at some point. If I can be of any service, please consider me a wiki-ally. Contact me if you need guidance or assistance of any kind. BusterD ( talk) 18:36, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
Hey Barry! I hope you are settling in and finding usefulness in Wikipedia. We appreciate you. I am looking for reliable independent sources to document current membership numbers of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Your society's website does not offer such details but I thought you'd be a good person to ask about sources. Can you recommend a source or more for such queries? I am specifically NOT asking for your input on the discussion, just drawing on your content knowledge to find where you might look. BusterD ( talk) 23:21, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Hope that is helpful, Buster 2601:154:C480:FDF0:A1CF:5D3F:8B90:17B7 ( talk) 16:03, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Barrychoward! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. We hope to see you there!
Delivered by HostBot on behalf of the Teahouse hosts 16:01, 5 February 2021 (UTC) |
I noticed your edit to Aztec Club of 1847 today. Thank you. This message is to provide useful feedback to help tune your contributions. Please accept it in the positive spirit in which it's intended.
One challenge for connected contributors is how to bring the knowledge inherent in their "connectedness" to bear in a positive way. The contributions you've performed today are very useful and helpful, because you are advancing pagespace, making connections to the organization you represent. Your edit to Bloodlines of Salem was helpful, but was not optimal; by merely leaving a note at the top of the page saying the org was closed (with no sourcing), your edit left the impression a page vandal might leave. For defunct organizations which are notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia, we would not normally remove the page, but instead edit the page so as to correctly indicate to the reader the org's historical nature. A source for closure would be helpful here, and (because of your relative closeness to the subject matter) you might actually know where that notice was disclosed publicly, if such it was.
I'm not suggesting you halt, slow down or moderate your edits. Quite the contrary. Please edit boldly! There is a connected editor ( User:EMarkel-JoyetAPS) who has declared they will only perform a few sorts of edits: adding statements to biography articles that the page subject is or was a member of the American Philosophical Society and details relevant to that election. She might have completed this by now (there are a finite number of elected members). Her declaration was helpful to those who "watchlist" pages we've worked on or are concerned about. By seeing her COI declaration and her statement of intent, she became a true wiki-ally. I hope wikipedians grow to feel you are such an ally. Now that all the low hanging fruit of articles have been created, Wikipedia is now in an era of page improvement focus. Specialized knowledge is now even more helpful to us. So thank you for your disclosure and your contributions.
My normal editing field is 19th century American biography (and I created the Aztec Club article), so we're liable to run into each other at some point. If I can be of any service, please consider me a wiki-ally. Contact me if you need guidance or assistance of any kind. BusterD ( talk) 18:36, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
Hey Barry! I hope you are settling in and finding usefulness in Wikipedia. We appreciate you. I am looking for reliable independent sources to document current membership numbers of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Your society's website does not offer such details but I thought you'd be a good person to ask about sources. Can you recommend a source or more for such queries? I am specifically NOT asking for your input on the discussion, just drawing on your content knowledge to find where you might look. BusterD ( talk) 23:21, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Hope that is helpful, Buster 2601:154:C480:FDF0:A1CF:5D3F:8B90:17B7 ( talk) 16:03, 5 January 2022 (UTC)