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Regarding Menlo Park SLAC edit
The example I cited was to verifiably prove that the employment table was misleading as presented. It does not include public employers, however no mention of that fact is made either in the article or in the cited source.

I felt that a disclaimer of some sort was entirely relevant and, in fact, needed. Cities with large federal employers (e.g. a national laboratory like SLAC) are impacted by their presence, so that the table in the article becomes quite misleading without a prominent disclaimer. I provided such a disclaimer via a cited example of a large, public-sector employer that was absent from the list. I could cite additional references, if necessary.

You would, instead, advocate rephrasing the preceding paragraph to indicate that only private employers are reported. However the report, from which the table originates, makes no mention of this fact. It is guesswork on our part that only private employers are represented; it is not a verifiable fact! All we know for certain is that list of top employers is incomplete. We clearly do not know (in the sense of citable sources) that the source meant to list only private employers (note: I skimmed the report!). Consequently, I propose reinstating my edit, which points out that the table is not fully accurate with a verifiable fact, instead of your suggestion of including language based on unverifiable supposition. It's a more accurate representation of the available information. — Precedingunsigned comment added by 131.243.162.244 (talk) 23:47, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Gtwfan52 I have been enjoying my cookies. One thing I was happy to do a bit on Wiki was simple proof reading - particularly if the articles just have poor English - I remember one of these when I first joined up. Is there a way of finding such work? Thank you :-) Danh108 (talk) 10:36, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Overlinking on McNeil High School
Hi, I just want to say that I didn't actually put any wikilinks in McNeil High School in my edit ( [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=McNeil_High_School&diff=571819624&oldid=571730377 diff] ). There was just a stray "of" that somehow got out of place, so I removed it. Thanks,  RainCity471 report my errorslist of failures 13:54, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: User:Emily Pfeiffer
Hello Gtwfan52. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Emily Pfeiffer, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: '''this is not what user pages are for, but not far enough out to qualify for G11. Let the MfD take care of it.''' Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 09:41, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

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Removal of non-breaking spaces from my signature
Hey, just a friendly question: is there a reason you replaced the non-breaking space Unicode characters from my sig with regular spaces withthis edit? While they're there to help create a padding (proper CSS made my sig too long), if they're somehow inappropriate characters for a sig, please let me know. Thanks! DK  qwerty    05:57, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
 * well it obviously happened, but I didn't do anything to cause it to happen. I added an edit conficted edit back into the top section of the edit conlict window and saved it.  That may have done it.  in any case sorry that happened. Gtwfan52 (talk) 06:00, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
 * No worries! Are you using Firefox? It has a very unfortunate bug where it copies-and-pastes non-breaking spaces as regular spaces. Oh well, no harm done!   DK   qwerty    06:03, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Chrome. Gtwfan52 (talk) 06:05, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, maybe it's the Windows clipboard that's at issue (to which you'll undoubtedly respond, "I use a Mac," or, "I use Linux." :P)   DK   qwerty    06:07, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Doubtful, as I didn't copy anything to the clipboard but my own words. Gtwfan52 (talk) 06:17, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Please Cut Me Some Slack
Well, I was in the middle of citing my sources about my deceased mentor, but, you know, you guys can just keep changing the article back and sending me a stock message. It's only 4 in the morning where I live, and I'm only crying as I try to find sources about a person I knew personally for most of my life and is now dead. But it's cool, you gotta be factual, even when you're grieving a loved one. I'll cite it. I am not "vandalzing". It's late. I worked two jobs today. And this article is difficult for me to edit without bawling. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shivere (talk •contribs) 08:21, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

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Added citations to Brighton, Michigan
Thanks for the reminder to provide references for the statement about the controversial sculpture [{Decision Pending]]. I had started there as part of WP:CCLEAN and introduced the statement on Brighton, Michigan to better integrate the former article into the encyclopedia.Kjtobo (talk) 15:06, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

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