User talk:May963

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Hello, May963, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Margaret Mayo (children's author) did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Tacyarg (talk) 17:22, 28 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello Tacyarg,
 * Thanks for your message and advice
 * The page I was editing is about my mother Margaret Mayo Margaret Mayo (children's author)She died on the 25-8-22 and our family are concerned that this has not been noted on her Wikipedia page. I have her death certificate but have been looking and can find no way of confirming her death with an online source, though her publishers Hachette now refer to her in the past tense on their authors page  https://www.hachettechildrens.co.uk/contributor/margaret-mayo/?id=303810
 * Do you have any advice as to how I can make the needed corrections to the page so they won't be removed again given the lack of an online source?
 * Thanks! May963 (talk) 15:32, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your message. Is there an offline published source for your mother's death? If so, that would be fine, and you are welcome to update the article to add this, or let me know the details and I will do it.
 * Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 19:30, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for getting back to me so quickly
 * Probably the best alternative source for Mum's death is the Brighton and Hove Register Office (Brighton Town Hall, Brighton, BN1 1JA) https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/births-deaths-marriages-civil-partnership-and-citizenship The Register Office issued her death certificate, keeps a record of all deaths in Brighton(not online) and will supply copies of the death certificate if anyone wants to apply for one.
 * If you feel this is appropriate to use, I would be very grateful if you would update the article to add Margaret's death on 25th August 2022, which occurred in Brighton, UK (I feel it is more likely to be successful if you rather than I do it!)
 * Thanks and best wishes May963 (talk) 17:52, 3 January 2024 (UTC)