User talk:Audreyborden

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Hello, Audreyborden, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 21:04, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
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Organ procurement organization
Congratulations on creating your first article. You seem so excited about it that I hate to rain on your parade, but I don't see any reason to keep this article, when there is already a section titled Allocation of donated organs in the organ transplantation article. Your article does not seem to say anything new that isn't already covered there; and your article doesn't cite any sources. Did you plan on expanding this article further? WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 21:04, 21 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks WikiDan61,


 * For your welcome and feedback on my first page. (Hope I'm using this Talk page right, gotta read up on them.)

You're right: I haven't added anything new. I'm studying Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) and was sad to see there wasn't a page defining OPOs, only a definition buried on the Organ donation page. I would like to expand the article but have little to add at this point. It's my understanding that there is a broader definition that includes organizations involved with actually recovering the organs and preparing them for transplant when a person dies. But I don't have that information yet. So this article was intended as a place holder (is stub the right term?) and a reason to jump in and create something. Let me know what you think. Audrey (looking for the tildes on my keyboard) Audreyborden (talk) 21:47, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Audrey, I've taken the opportunity to expand on your initial page, and provide some references. I've also edited the organ transplantation page to make mention of (and link to) the organ procurement organizations.  Let's hope the page continues to grow!  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:40, 22 March 2012 (UTC)