User talk:Gerstman ny

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Thank you for the prompt and kind welcome. I am very, very new to Wikipedia editing. I have looked at most of the material you mentioned and have also tried to look at other examples for style and appropriateness of content. Please do not hesitate to contact or correct me should I be doing anything wrong. Gerstman ny 16:18, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
Gerstman ny, if you are Dr. Louis Gerstman of Haskins Laboratories, please take a look at Conflict of interest if you have not done so already. Wikipedia strongly discourages editing of articles on subjects to which a user has direct connections. Cheers--ragesoss 01:21, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello. I am not Dr. Louis Gerstman. I met him in New York at the Rusk Institute and found him to be quite charming. He was working at City College at the time and consulting at IBM, Rusk, and other places. My information is that he worked at Haskins Laboratories in the 1950s and left there in the late 1950s. Unfortunately, Dr. Gerstman passed away in 1992 (http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=per&v1=GERSTMAN%2C%20LOUIS&sort=newest). Late last year, based on a conversation with another old acquaintance, I began taking a look at and editing articles related to his and similar work, including the early speech synthesis work at Haskins and elsewhere that I find interesting. I adopted this moniker as a tribute to him and the recollection of those wonderful days in New York City. Please let me know if the use of this name is inappropriate. If so I will use something else. Gerstman ny 18:10, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think anyone will have a problem with your username. And sorry about the above comment; obviously I didn't dig deep enough.--ragesoss 18:35, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Gerstman ny! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot notifying you on behalf of the the unreferenced biographies team that 1 of the articles that you created  is currently tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

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