User talk:McFarlandDana

Your submission at Articles for creation: Canadian Nursing Students' Association (January 1)
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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:34, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Canadian Nursing Students' Association


Hello, McFarlandDana. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Canadian Nursing Students' Association".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. &raquo; Shadowowl  &#124;  talk  13:26, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cowichan Leader (January 5)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by AngusWOOF was:

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AngusWOOF ( bark  •  sniff ) 19:20, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Women in Red
Hi there, McFarlandDana, and welcome to Women in Red. It's good to have another librarian interested in covering women and their works. I see you have already created one biography and hope there will be many more. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 11:02, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Welcome
No one seems to have welcomed you, and it has been several years now! I will leave a standard welcome next. BY the way, you can delete anything on your talk page that you don't want to have here, like the notices above. --- Possibly &#9742; 18:19, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

A belated welcome!


Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, McFarlandDana! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:


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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! --- Possibly &#9742; 18:19, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Kuper Island Indian Residential School
Hello. I reverted your recent addition of the listening circle information to the above page. Much of what you added was quite subjective. Writing on Wikipedia merely restates that which has been published in reliable sources. Language like "led a virtual listening circle to better understand what reconciliation requires of us." and "they reach out to neighbouring communities in shared grief and loss, and with an invitation to take courage in action for mutual support and healing." is what we call unencyclopedic language. The listening circle material, without a reliable independent source, basically amounts to an advertisement for that process. We don't include that kind of thing. If a number of sources had reported on the listening circle, that would be fine. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the Wikipedia page is not a site for reconciliation: we merely restate what others have said that has been reported on in reliable independent sources. Thanks. --- Possibly &#9742; 20:11, 22 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello again. I'm pasting here what you said on my talk page, to keep the discussion together.
 * "Hello, thanks for your advice. I consider that the edits that you reverted were paraphrases of the source material, and that the sources themselves, one of which you have removed, represent local, expert Indigenous perspectives that are critical to represent in an article on this topic."


 * "I appreciate that this may not be an approach that aligns tidily with Wikipedia guidelines regarding encyclopedic writing and use of sources, however it is an approach that I believe is necessary to improve equity of representation."
 * I too can appreciate your intent, but there is extremely strong and very, very established concensus that we do not exist to right social wrongs. In fact, see WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS. To repeat what I said above, we publish material that has been already reported on in independent sources. If you do not agree with that, I would encourage you to go to the Neutral Point of View Noticeboard and ask there. We are absolutely not a platform for political expression or reconciliation, although you may gain some traction in raising consciousness by simply creating articles, which is what I did in the case of Kuper Island Indian Residential School. Thanks.  --- Possibly &#9742; 20:47, 22 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Possibly Thank you for the direction to these resources. We are going to disagree about what's actually happening here and I am not going to waste time in processes that valourize neutrality as defined by folks who find ourselves more or less comfortable in here. I do agree this is absolutely not a platform for many things, but since people use it, I will continue to offer substantive edits when I have them, within its limited affordances. Appreciate the talk, thanks for your work. Dana McFarland &#38;#124&#59; Librarian (talk) 21:50, 22 July 2021 (UTC) McFarlandDana

See: Danielle Robichaud, Krista McCracken (2018). Doing the work: Editing Wikipedia as an act of reconciliation. UWSpace. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14198 Dana McFarland &#38;#124&#59; Librarian (talk) 17:53, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

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