User talk:Matt Dunne at Leeds Uni Library

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Matt Dunne at Leeds Uni Library, good luck, and have fun. Pam  D  18:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)  Pam  D  18:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Alf Mattison
Hallo Matt, Good to "meet" another Leeds Uni Library person. I started editing not long after early-retiring in 2003, introduced to it by Andrew Cooper, another ex-colleague. I worked there 26 years, mostly in the EBL but latterly in the bowels of the Brotherton. There seem to be quite a lot of retired, and indeed current, librarians editing Wikipedia.

Your article triggered a notification to me because it links to an article I created many moons ago, on Lord B. A couple of points: refs always go after punctuation, not before, and dates are written without "the" or ordinal numbers. There is a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia, but it's an interesting journey and can becime a great time-sink. Happy Editing.

Oh and the wording of your COI declaration seems to say that you yourself are an institution. Needs a slight tweak? Pam D  18:49, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I see Keith D (no relation) has tidied up those two points. Another thing, though: please don't use all-numeric dates except, if you really want to, as "access-date" or in cramped tables. They are ambiguous because of odd US date habits. "5 June 2020" is unambiguous and preferred (but if writing on a US topic it has to be "June 5, 2020"). See WP:MOSNUM for a l-o-t more detail. And the Meadowcroft ref date is wrong too. Pam  D  19:09, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the comments and nice to find another library person! I work in Special Collections in the Brotherton and created this article as we hold a quite a large collection relating to Mattison. I should hopefully be adding some more articles for people relating to collections we hold so you might see me pop up again when linking to the Lord Brotherton article.

This is my first article so far so there's still a lot to get the hang of. Thanks for the feedback, that's really helpful! Matt Dunne at Leeds Uni Library (talk) 09:07, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating Alf Mattison.

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