User talk:Ethel the aardvark

Anne Manne
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Fan sites
Please do not add links to fan sites, WP:ELNO specifically says to avoid these kind of links in articles. Camw (talk) 09:35, 8 May 2010 (UTC) Hi Camw, apologies for very late reply. i didnt describe this site appropriately my apologies, I hope the changes are acceptable now. cheers, ethel. Ethel the aardvark (talk) 06:12, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Shane Flanagan


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hi Rettetast thanks for pointing this out, I added some background citations so hopefully this will remain. best wishes, Ethel. Ethel the aardvark (talk) 06:10, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Australian Centre for Independent Journalism
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Messages to my Wiki Colleagues
Hi Eric, thankyou for fixing up my new article so quickly, appreciate your efficiency, will try to get my formatting right next time!
 * Hello and you're welcome! ErikHaugen (talk) 06:52, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

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Thankyou for pointing this out, I have added fair use rationale to the file now, hope this is sufficient. Ethel the aardvark (talk) 18:03, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Bianca Nogrady
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Thanks for the note on this article about an Australian journalist. One sentence duplicated the list of publications that she wrote for - hardly plagiarism, however this has now been reworded to avoid problems with bot search in future. The article is a stub and needs further updating.

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As an academic, I've always been meticulous about avoiding copying anyone else's material. Because this was a stub article quickly written I included background info of a list of publications from this journalists own source. While in retrospect I should have used third party sources rather than the subjects own material so that content was verifiable, I'm really shocked that duplication of a list of publications was considered plagiarism and have rewritten the content as much as possible. I hope this is now acceptable and that the notice can be removed. Ethel the aardvark (talk) 23:54, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Verno, I see the Copyvio notice has been removed. Ethel the aardvark (talk) 11:11, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

YouComm News
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 * Thanks Grutness! I have had a look at the page & sample templates - hopefully I got the last one correct, please let me know if there is anything else I should do with stubs.Ethel the aardvark (talk) 01:06, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks good! BTW, the list of stub templates is long and convoluted, so don't worry too much if you use a "lower grade" template rather than hunting for exactly the right one (e.g., the less finely-scoped Australia-bio-stub). As long as it's within the tree of stub categories fairly close to where it's supposed to be it'll be eventually sorted into the right place. Keep up the good work :) Grutness...wha?  04:36, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Signing in edit summaries
Hi, Ethel, and thank you for your contributions - they improve the Wikipedia project.

Just a note: you don't have to ~ in edit summaries - your contributions show up in the page history and in your contributions. --Shirt58 (talk) 12:09, 5 November 2010 (UTC) ps: I've been bold and added indents (:, ::, ::: and so on) in the conversation above.

Thankyou Shirt58!

Proposed deletion of Michael Prysner


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 * Fails WP:POLITICIAN - not been elected to anything

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