User talk:Angusparker

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Some of the pages you have created for Paul Hawkins and his various projects see more promotional than informative. They need to avoid what we call Peacock terms, and have references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. Almost all the references to the projects are from their own pages, and we cannot tell how important they are. I advise you to do this very quickly, before the article gets nominated for deletion.  DGG ( talk ) 13:05, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - I've since learned how to properly document with plentiful references and to avoid Peacock terms.

Angus Parker (talk) 03:01, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Island Conservation (June 29)
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LaMona (talk) 23:17, 29 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Removed the excess section on reason for island eradications and added an additional reference from CBS News. Hopefully this will clean up the page sufficient for approval. Best, Angus Angus Parker (talk) 04:31, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest
As per Island Conservation (if this pertains):

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Thanks, LaMona (talk) 23:20, 29 June 2016 (UTC)


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 * Thanks for the heads up. I have a limited COI on the page as I am a volunteer board member of the organization. That is precisely the reason I created a Draft and sent the page into review. I will not edit the page after it has been created. Angus Parker (talk) 04:29, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Island Conservation has been accepted
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 * Could you remove the redirected from Island conservation that is going to Island_ecology? Also, Thank you very much for your approval Angus Parker (talk) 15:09, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

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Sorry about that - I will endeavor to do that from now on. Most edits are minor typos when I don't put in a summary. But I will reference a minor edit from now on. Working hard to add lots of references. Then I will tackle the mess that is the Program section! Best, Angus

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