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Log College
Hi. I see that you recently edited Log College and also the template for the Calvinism Project. I think the Log College story is strongly related to Presbyterianism and only tangentially related to Calvinism. Perhaps you can comment at Log College:Talk. Martindo (talk) 02:19, 30 May 2023 (UTC)


 * All Presbyterians were Calvinists at that time and many are still today. I recommend you read the articles on Calvinism and Theology of John Calvin. Countercheck (talk) 16:23, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi again Martindo. I've done a bit more research and thought I should share it with you. Forgive me if you already know this. There doesn't seem to be a Project Presbyterianism so the closest is the Calvinism one. This may also be the case for the traditional Congregationalist and Reformed groups too. Note that the article had no Project "adopt" it so now at least one (the Calvinist Project) have. This resulted in it getting a rating and an importance mark which I think is beneficial. More than one group, as I'm sure you know, can assign an article to their Project, so perhaps others will now notice the article as appropriate and show an interest as the Calvinism Project now shows. Countercheck (talk) 17:14, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Glenn Dubin
Hi. I work for Glenn Dubin to help keep the Wikipedia article about him neutral and updated. I noticed that you are a participant in WikiProject:Biography. I am hoping therefore, that you might want to help with an edit request I submitted here at Talk:Glenn_Dubin in which most of the bullet points of the edit request were implemented, but there are still two left that I believe should be completed. You can see the discussion about those last two points if you follow the above link, but for your convenience I will briefly summarize: the first is an issue of a paywalled source for a small edit— adding the word "philanthropy" as one of the reasons Dubin retired; the second is whether a line in the "Personal life" section, which I believe should be removed, is more like "celebrity gossip" than useful information that belongs in an encyclopedia. I would really appreciate if you could look this over and see what you think, and implement the remaining bullet points if you agree the edits improve the article. Thanks so much. AM for Dubin (talk) 13:39, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

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Gene Grabeel
Hi again. I did some casual reading in light of Oppenheimer and other movies that recently became available. There is a banner on her Talk page for Biography: Science and Academia. She was definitely not an academic, and perhaps not even a scientist. She founded the Venona project of counter-intelligence, a major undertaking. Page content indicates her recruitment to Sigintel a mere 5 weeks earlier was not based on "science and academia". Her talent was cryptographic skill, which was not an academic discipline then.

I think it would be more appropriate to put her page into a different Biography category, esp if there's one for Espionage. Due to secrecy of the project (decades elapsed before its existence was declassified) it's hard to be absolutely sure of how to categorize her. However, "academia" is clearly off base, and "science" doesn't seem likely. What do you think? Martindo (talk) 11:07, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Off-topic addition
Hello, Countercheck. Sorry, I made an error in attributing the linked diff to yourself. I've struck through my comments.

I'm sorry to revert your well-formed addition to Ancient Rome and wine, but it's of doubtful relevance to the article - it doesn't actually deal with any aspect of the article topic, and is not a high level source for the contents of the Vindolanda Tablets. It mentions wine once only, in a very brief list of foodstuffs. It doesn't deal with the possible preference of beer to wine among auxiliaries or legionaries of Gaulish, British or Germanic ancestry; that might be more be relevant to topic, if very carefully sourced. Regards, Haploidavey (talk) 08:55, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

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Ferndale Museum
Some time ago, you asked me to review edits to the Ferndale Museum page and remove a Conflict of Interest (COI) tag which I did not place. Please forgive my delay, however I have now reviewed and made changes to the article:


 * Information cannot be added to a cited sentence and still cite it to same author.
 * Uncited information cannot be added to a sentence cited to another author.
 * Several citations are problematic and some formatting needed to be changed;
 * Citations should always be listed in order of first cited in the article (ie. 1,2,3 - not 13, 2, 10, 1);
 * The same book was cited with three different reference tags leading to it being in the citations 3 times;
 * Wrong author: Wendy Lestina was cited as the author of Beverly Carlson's book ;
 * Unreadable citation formats intermixed with valid citation format are not useful;
 * Bold headers were followed by as little as one sentence of data; and
 * The Museum's website pages are cited as a valid source - which they aren't.

I am surprised you deleted the section about the mural on the front of the building. The mural is encyclopedic. Murals are notable and the information was cited. Additional the photo caption about the front of the museum references the mural - another reason to leave the information. In this case, I have restored what you removed.

If the Museum wants a more detailed article, perhaps they could get an article about it in a real publication which could then be cited for these factoids. Please do not be distressed if other editors stomp on the article a little harder - it could still use a lot of work to come up to the standards of the project and I think there needs to be a citation by citation check to see if you inserted more information into what the cited works actually say. Not having access to all these publications at home, I was unable to verify/not verify what you inserted.

However, I respectfully request that you do not edit the Ferndale Museum page again. Wikipedia policy requires that people with a conflict of interest should not be editing pages on which they have a conflict of interest. I have restored the COI tag you removed. As a Conflict of Interest editor - you should not remove COI tags.

The problems listed above are usual problems from COI editors because the topic is too personal, too close and too big to you - when it is really a very small museum in a very small town and needs neutral editing - not cheerleading.

Thanking you for your non-COI contributions to the remainder of the project.

Sincerely yours, Ellin Beltz (talk) 06:25, 14 January 2024 (UTC)