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Your submission at Articles for creation: Betty Boyd (Oklahoma Legislator) has been accepted
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Joe Anna Hibler (February 27)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Donna Nigh (March 3)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Edmon Low (March 3)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Cindy Ross (March 4)
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Onel5969 (talk) 03:06, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

I see no reason not to publish this; sources include a news wire service, university press releases, award organization websites, and a newspaper. I consider WP:RELIABLE and WP:N to both be met at this point, so I've gone ahead and moved this draft into the article namespace. After all, it's far better cited than the majority of stubs and starts on Wikipedia. – voidxor (talk &#124; contrib) 00:39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

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Adding links and categories
Hey Amcdougal! You have been doing great work! However, some of the articles don't get very much visibility because they aren't connected with the other content on Wikipedia. One of the best ways to do this is through watching File:Category_explanation.ogv and following the guidelines at Categorization. Similarly its important to add links to the article so its connected to articles that mention the topic. I highly recommend using Find Link which can return results like this, that help you find places to link articles that already mention the topic. For more information about linking, read Manual_of_Style/Linking. Keep up the great work! Sadads (talk) 02:48, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Della Warrior
I have nominated your article on Della Warrior for a DYK. Thank you for adding to the history of our Oklahoma heritage. You can follow the progress here: Template:Did you know nominations/Della Warrior SusunW (talk) 04:50, 1 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Congratulations! The nomination passed. Really quick review. My first one took much longer. You will get a notice when your article will appear on the front page of Wikipedia. SusunW (talk) 21:45, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

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Sally Kern edits
Some of your edits on Sally Kern removed citations, included no edit summary, and were marked as "minor". In fact, every edit you've made has been marked "minor". Citations are very important to Wikipedia articles, especially about political figures, and (if possible) should be fixed or replaced rather than removed. Edit summaries are very useful in explaining the reasons for changes, helping other editors to assess them ... and your motives. And the "minor" checkbox is intended only for edits that don't make substantive changes ... and unexplained removal of citations don't count. If your intent is to contribute constructively to Wikipedia, please replace your chronic misuse of "minor" checks with edit summaries. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 03:47, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

I apologize. I am occasionally instructed to go through certain Wikipedia pages and check for dead links. If I am able to replace the link, I do. I added new citations to Sally Kern's page as well as removed ones that were dead. My only intention in that case is to remove/replace the citations that lead to nowhere. I have never visited a page with the intention to remove work done by others. As for the issue of the "minor" checkbox, that is simply how I was trained to go about my work, but I will make a conscious effort in the future to use that more sparingly. Amcdougal (talk) 13:58, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Your Della Warrior Article
Hi Amcdougall. Thank you for your contribution of Della Warrior article, which I had the pleasure of reviewing for the Did You Know nomination. I think it's a worthwhile addition to Wikipedia, and hope you will continue contributing articles. It seems you have excellent access to valuable source material at OSU. The references you cited seem to have additional detailed information about Warrior that could be included to give more insight into what she has done and how she went about it. I believe that would reinforce the concept of her notability and improve the likelihood of elevating the article class and importance. I also intend to add the article to the WP:Oklahoma project, since she was a native. The article seems to imply that she no longer lives there. Bruin2 (talk) 04:22, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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Really nice work
I have been reviewing links, categories, etc. on your files. You are doing really nice work and contributing so much to adding women to Oklahoma's historical record. Thank you! I noticed that on your politicians, they are not linked to the pages for the sessions in which they served. The easiest way to make that link is to press the "What links here" under tools on the left. If you do not see something like 39th Oklahoma Legislature, then click on the link. At the very bottom of the page is a chart labeled Oklahoma State Legislatures by year convened. Select the appropriate year and look for your subject on the page. More than likely, their name has not been bracketed. Place brackets around their name, save and go to the next year of their service, if applicable, to bracket the name.

Don't know if you are aware of this page either Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame. I have noticed a few links that showed no articles when actually an article existed with a slight name change. Keep up the great work! If you need anything, feel free to ping me. SusunW (talk) 13:47, 8 April 2015 (UTC)


 * A couple of clean up things.


 * I went through your creations in March and added all the Women to the Wikipedia Women's History page. I don't think I missed any, but you might double check. Article had to go to mainspace in March or have updates in March. WikiWomen's History Month/2015/Outcomes
 * A couple of pages had "orphan tags." That means that they do not have any other pages linked to them on the "What links here" tool. It was easily fixed by linking them to the legislative sessions pages. I fixed both Debbie Blackburn and Carolyn Coleman's orphan status with legislative page links. On Anita Fields I added her as a notable alumni on Institute of American Indian Arts.
 * Jan Collins had a "more references needed" tag. This may be applied if either there are not in-line citations or if there is only 1 citation. I added 3 more and removed the tag. SusunW (talk) 00:23, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Della Warrior
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Mona Jean Russell
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