User talk:FreyjaPatton

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Re: Draft:Eric Brown (director of the National Gallery of Canada)
Hello FreyjaPatton I have added projects Canada, Biography, Visual arts, to your article. You may wish to join them, check their to-do, and meet new people with interest in these topics. ( To reply click "edit" next to this section, and add your reply at the end. ) Cheers, --Gryllida (talk) 00:56, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Joseph Martin (National Gallery of Canada director) has been accepted
 Joseph Martin (National Gallery of Canada director), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!  DGG ( talk ) 22:53, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Terrance Houle (April 8)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Kirbanzo was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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Kirbanzo (userpage - talk - contribs) 22:04, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Mabel Killam Day‎
Hello! Thanks for your work on the above article, it is much appreciated. If I can make a small suggestion: put something on your user page. Anything. Red-linked user pages tend to look a little suspicious, and I have the feeling that you are going to be around for a while. Welcome. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 21:11, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * PS: the talk page for Women in Red is an excellent place if you want a stampede of input by highly skilled editors to any article you are working on!ThatMontrealIP (talk) 01:15, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Terrance Houle has been accepted
 Terrance Houle, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Thanks again, and happy editing! Kirbanzo (userpage - talk - contribs) 01:56, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Using personal correspondence as a source
Thanks for your work on Terrance Houle! Just a heads up that I had to take out the personal correspondence item as we never use items like that (it can be reinserted if you find published sources). It may well be true, but the way the wiki works is that we exclusively use sources that have been published by independent parties. No original research is a core policy of Wikipedia, and it allows editors with no subject mater experience to edit and build the wiki, as we are always relying on material that was independently vetted. It also ensures that we are fully independent of the subjects we write about. Corresponding with article subjects is also frowned upon as it may bias an editor one way or another. Thanks. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 23:01, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Common Woman Books (March 18)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by -noah- was:

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Noah  💬  00:07, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

June 10 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Hi FreyjaPatton

Leaving you a note to personally invite you to our next A+F edit-a-thon on June 10th on Edmonton's Queer history. This year we are partnering with the Edmonton Queer History Project for an in-person Wikipedia edit-a-thon, but we are also encouraging anyone to join our event dashboard.

You did such great work on the Common Woman Books page that we are using as an example in some of our training slides. I'm hoping you can join us again this year! Viola-Ness (talk) 20:44, 17 May 2023 (UTC)