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 * I think that there must have been some mistake with this review; the sources provided in the article clearly meet the minimum requirements for inclusion. I have therefore moved the article into Wikipedia mainspace; it is now located at Herbert Charles Tippet. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  12:11, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

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Acceptance as an author/editor
I have authored one article and contributed to several others over the past year, (see my contributions) as well as making corrections to a number of pages authored by others. What do I still have to do to become accepted as an accredited editer? Duncanharrington (talk) 14:22, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

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Lynn Ripley
She is from Surbiton which has its own list of notable people from which she is strangely absent. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 13:48, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

April 2022
Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Doon Mackichan. Per WP:BLPPRIMARY, public birth records should not be used to source personal details like dates or places of birth. Lord Belbury (talk) 10:52, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Duncanharrington! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Lord Belbury (talk) 10:52, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Birth records
Hello. I think the angle WP:BLPPRIMARY is taking was that if the only source we can find for somebody's date or place of birth is an entry in the National Archives, it's not up to us to make the call on whether that's the person we're looking for. Even if we thoughtfully weigh up other biographical details that seem to match, there's always a small chance that there's a coincidence at work and it turns out to be another person with the same name, or a relative that they took the name of, or who knows what. The National Archives don't say whether a given baby went on to be famous, after all.

Alternatively, if we're quoting a reliable press source for a date of birth then we know they'll have fact-checked it to a level their editors and lawyers were happy with, and that the subject didn't subsequently ask them to retract it as incorrect.

The related policy of WP:BLPPRIVACY adds that if a person's exact date of birth hasn't already been widely published, they probably don't want it to be, which seems fair enough.

If that still seems crazy, you can question it at Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons. I may be misinterpreting it, but "Do not use public records that include personal details, such as date of birth" does seem cut and dried for whether or not we should use a National Archives database search to support someone's date of birth. --Lord Belbury (talk) 19:37, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

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