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Notable Potential Candidates, 2008 Presidential Election
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Snug Harbor Cultural Center
do you have a minute to come back and help figure out how to handle this article?Elan26 (talk) 21:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)Elan26

Twin Towers 2
As a contributor to this article, you may be interested to know it has been nominated for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/Twin Towers 2. Robofish (talk) 14:28, 24 June 2010 (UTC) Just FYI, I never contributed to this article. richardw 01:38, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Please help me with... The page in question is "The Poetry Society of New York." I want to request an undelete. There is no copyright. The people who founded The Poetry Society of New York gave me written permission to use it because there was no legal claim to it an it can be used by the public. Please advise?

richardw 16:26, 19 March 2017 (UTC)


 * The image was uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons; if you want to contest the deletion, you will need to do so over there. That said, if "there is no copyright", we'd need evidence to that effect. I rather doubt the logo of an organization established in 2015 was first published before 1923; thus we would need to see evindence that the copyright holder released it into the public domain or under a free license that allows everybody to re-use and modify the logo for any purpose, including commercial purposes. Going by the deleting admin's comment, there was a claim that it wasn't copyrighted because it was too simple to meet the threshold of originality; the admin disagreed with that claim, and after checking the Society's website (presumably it was the book-to-bird logo?) so do I. WP:Requesting copyright permission explains how to demonstrate that the copyright holder has released an image under an appropriate license. Huon (talk) 17:49, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for the advice.

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Rajveer Purohit
With respect to this article, what is the evidence that he is of any significance in transgender surgery? I see no significantly cited publications in the field., or references to his work in the field

Otherwise: I have followed up you good edits by shortening the long list of citations to the 3 most cited articles by objective data, as is standard practice, and removing a paragraph about minor work.. and removing duplicate and excessive categories. There's more to go.

When there is major material available, it detracts from the significance of notable people to include minor material. WP articles are not intended as complete CVs.  DGG ( talk ) 00:13, 26 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the assistance. You have made very helpful modifications and I've learned a thing or two -- much appreciated. Regarding your core question, and as someone who also finds that CVs belong on job boards, not encyclopedic works, the subject was selected by me for these reasons:


 * He is a director at a prestigious medical university;
 * He was an early director in training doctors in gender reassignment (today's politically correct term seems to be gender affirmation), and the first at Mt. Sinai;
 * He was the first person to lecture, as a visiting professor Ethiopia, on gender reassignment -- in other words, in a continent where sexual practices and "deviancy" are still punishable by death;
 * He is published and peer reviewed;
 * He is of interest to the transgender community and those who may be searching Wikipedia to find out who the distinguished medical "players" are in the field;
 * While the book he appears in does sound like a novelty of sorts, it's actually a quite serious topic and led the doctor to establish credibility in the global press; and
 * With increased curiosity, acceptance, and demand for gender reassignment and related gender studies (that didn't even exist 10 years ago because they were taboo, perhaps), it seems that those who are on the front line of the societal change should be easily accessible.

Well, those are where my thoughts were. Globally recognized, professionally established in a high position, someone who can clain "the first one who..." with regard to several elements.

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Paid editing
Are you paid to edit Wikipedia? Please be aware of WP:COI and WP:PAID. Alexbrn (talk) 18:46, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Response
No. I've been meaning to write a short bio on my page identifying my background, interests and what brings me to Wikipedia. Perhaps I should do that sooner than later if people think I'm a paid agent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.9.249.227 (talk) 18:51, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back! I ask in part because you have uploaded multiple images of people as your "own work" - which suggests (in order to have photographed them) you have some connection to them. So yes, it would be good to clarify. Alexbrn (talk) 18:54, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

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August 2020
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Thank you, I will certainly investigate and correct. I'm not aware of directly importing text (my page development process would make that difficult), but one never knows... so I really appreciate that you brought it to my attention. --richardw 13:28, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Some of the content you added was the same as that in https://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn2/kahn.asp— Diannaa (talk) 13:31, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! When I started editing this page, it was a stub someone left with only only one paragraph, and https://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn2/kahn.asp was one of the sources. I didn't notice any problem and probably made it worse. I will make corrections ASAP. --richardw 13:44, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

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