User talk:Alliemallie

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Hello, Alliemallie, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Reciprocal IVF - duplicate article
Hallo Alliemallie and welcome to Wikipedia. for info (and see last para in particular).

There's a major problem with your otherwise excellent new stub Reciprocal IVF: there is already an article at Partner-assisted reproduction, another term for the same thing, which has been in the encyclopedia since 2011. I found it because when I stub-sorted your new piece I checked to see whether there were incoming redirects from all the bolded alternative terms, as there should be (the only reason they are in bold is to help someone arriving via a redirect to spot the term easily so they know why they have landed on that page). I found a redirect from Reception of Oocytes from Partner to the existing article, though there should also have been a mention on the disambiguation page at ROPA (there is now).

I've formally proposed a merge. I note that no-one else has added any content to the article, only categories etc. One solution would be if you yourself contribute your new material to the existing article, and then turn "Reciprocal IVF" into a redirect. As no-one else has contributed intellectual content, we don't need in this case to worry about providing links to former versions for purposes of attribution.

I've made redirects from the other terms, pointing them to the existing article. Once we've got the content brought together into one article, if you or anyone else feels that it isn't at the best title we can use the proper "Move" process to move it to the right title, and all the redirects will end up following and pointing to the right place.

On a quite different topic: has anyone spotted that all the pages about your college course project have got "college" spelled as "collage"? It's a really bad bit of PR for the college, ("We have the sort of staff who can't even spell/type straight and don't bother to fix things which are wrong"): I wonder if anyone can fix it at this stage? Unless I'm missing some subtlety and this is a deliberate mis-spelling to provoke a reaction?! Happy Editing. Pam D  08:35, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi ! Thank you so much for pointing this out! I'm going to try and get this fixed! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:35, 29 May 2018 (UTC)