User talk:Avoryfaucette

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Avoryfaucette! Thank you for your contributions. I am Kaldari and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Kaldari (talk) 20:07, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Mahbubnagar district
Hi; thanks for copyediting this article, and good job! I'm one of the reviewers for the May copyediting drive, and I spotted a few further bits of editing in it - however, I'm sure that if you reviewed my copyediting, you'd similarly find more things to correct, particularly given your background! Some of what I did was automated stuff (I can point you toward the scripts if you'd like); most of the rest was wiki-specific things (like that people without some indication of notability - either their own articles, or at least two references for each of them - shouldn't be in a listing of notable people). Allens (talk &#124; contribs) 16:57, 19 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Same sort of thing on List of objects dropped on New Year's Eve - most but not all of what I did was altering (some of) the references to a more reliable style (not just a bare URL), using RefLinks (there are two versions of RefLinks, BTW - this one is the better one). Allens (talk &#124; contribs) 19:36, 19 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the tips! I didn't realize there were automated ways of doing this kind of thing, so I'll definitely be using RefLinks in the future (and watching out for the notability issue).  I've familiarized myself with a number of policies on Wikipedia, but most of what I know how to do so far is slap a template on something that isn't well-referenced or isn't clear or what have you.  I'm always happy for advice on tech tools to make it easy. Avory (talk) 20:51, 19 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I've extracted (from User:Allens/common.js and User:Allens/vector.js) the browser-based scripts that I use for copyediting (and that are working properly!) and put them into User:Allens/sandbox/scripts_in_use. I also have a Perl program that I wrote - see the discussion on Wikipedia_Talk:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Backlog_elimination_drives/May_2012 - but that one's a lot more complicated to use. Allens (talk &#124; contribs) 22:59, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

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May copyedit drive
You appear to be CE'ing Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy but it's not clear because you have not added him to your list of articles as. Please confirm. --Greenmaven (talk) 01:58, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Confirmed! My mistake, I intended to finish that article when I got home last night and trains were delayed.  I will finish this morning.  Avory (talk) 09:59, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

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Wow - for someone who so recently arrived, you cut a wide swath! Very impressive! Please stick around and, if you feel like it, rock down on some medicine and cancer articles - we coul use your help :-)~

Very warmest of welcomes and very best regards: Cliff (a/k/a &#34;Uploadvirus&#34;) (talk) 23:43, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:AvoryFaucette.jpg


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Category for Gay Wikipedians
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Merge discussion for Pangender
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Hmong childbirth issues
Hi! I commented on the issues here: Talk:Hmong_women_and_childbirth_practices. I started writing Wikipedia articles on books that Wikipedia itself uses as sources so the issues with the books themselves become more widely publicized. For example, I started Hmong: History of a People WhisperToMe (talk) 08:38, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

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