User talk:ClaireFanch

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Hi - I am a little WikiGnome, who goes around tidying up spelling mistakes - especially words beginning with R. I have just changed a lot of your uses of "Reasearch" to "Research". I know how easy it is to copy and paste one mistake into numerous articles - but could you please correct this spelling before adding it to any more articles? Thanks - Arjayay (talk) 14:00, 18 March 2015 (UTC)


 * OK - I've asked nicely already - please learn to spell research, the third letter is not an a. - Arjayay (talk) 21:10, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi, sorry about that! I can't seem to find the "original" spelling mistake though, what is the sentence? I don't mean to reproduce this typo!ClaireFanch (talk) 09:38, 23 March 2015 (UTC)


 * As it is the only thing you ever seem to edit about, I suspect you should declare a conflict of interest please see WP:COI particularly the section WP:DECLARECOI, it is the Stockholm International Peace Reasearch Institute - as you misspelled 4 times in this diff and numerous others. - Arjayay (talk) 10:22, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, I have now addressed this issue. ClaireFanch (talk) 09:22, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

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Conflict of Interest?
Hi Claire. As noted above, if you have a conflict of interest you need to disclose it and change how you edit on certain articles. It's great that you're updating statistics, but I think SIPRI will be a primary source, so it's best to leave the secondary source with analysis on that issue in. - ChrisWar666 (talk) 22:47, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

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