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 * The real reason that it was reverted was that you failed to provide a citation to support the assertion. Your edit to Bill Benyon has the same problem.  See the Five Pillars of Wikipedia in the welcome. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:35, 24 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I was just coming round to your talk page to make the same remark. Please find some publication (surely somewhere on the OU website?) which lists the honorary graduates, and provide links to it. If you don't know how to format references, just ask and someone will help. Thanks. PamD (talk) 11:34, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * To expand: has the OU got an equivalent of http://tldynamic.leeds.ac.uk/leedsyorkshire/honorary/honorary_graduates.asp ? If not, does the list of honorary graduates get published in a national newspaper? There must surely be some public source where people can verify that someone is an honorary graduate of the OU, and your editor-name suggests that you're well placed to know of it! Please help us all by adding a link to such a source. PamD (talk) 11:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * And it would also be useful to link Honorary degree and Open University in your additions: you and I know what the OU is, but remember that WikiPedia is an international encyclopedia and many readers will not. Thanks. PamD (talk) 12:02, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I've upgraded your addition to Lynne Brindley, and moved it to a more logical place in the article, under "Awards" alongside several other honorary degrees. It makes a better article that way. I found a source by googling, but you may know a better one. PamD (talk) 12:10, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Please stop adding unsourced material to articles, as you did with this edit to Tim Berners-Lee. Doing this violates Wikipedia's Verifiability policy. If you continue to ignore these admonishments, and re-add the material, you will be blocked from editing.

In addition, subjects of biographical articles are generally referred to by their last name, not their first name. Lastly, make sure you provide an Edit Summary for your edits, as this is required. Nightscream (talk) 03:48, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Please listen!
You are adding unsourced and unlinked material to many articles. You could do it so much better. Some of your additions are likely to be deleted - Wikipedia is very careful about information about living people. Please read the above and act on it, to save us all time. Thanks. PamD (talk) 12:13, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Position within article
If there's an "Honours and awards" section, then that's the place for an honorary degree - see Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, which I've now fixed. Please stop your disruptive addition of unlinked and unsourced content. PamD (talk) 06:48, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

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Which Couve de Murville?
Are you sure the OU degree went to French diplomat Maurice Couve de Murville and not to his cousin, RC Bishop of Birmingham (and involved in HE), Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville? Without a reference it's not easy to check. PamD (talk) 14:41, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Could do better!
Hi, OU Comms. If you or any of your colleagues return to Wikipedia to continue to add information about OU honorary degrees, or anything else, please do so more carefully. I've just spent time patching up your input, out of some vague loyalty to OU as a former (possibly ongoing) student. I've established that you allocated a degree to the wrong Couve de Murville (it was the Bishop of Birmingham, not the French diplomat), and moved various mentions to more appropriate places in articles, and given a link to honorary degree and to Open University, and added the "citation needed" tag to each entry as you didn't have the courtesy to tell us your source - this is especially important in regard to living people, as most of your subjects are. If you edit Wikipedia in future, I'm sure your contributions could be much better than this lot! Thanks. PamD (talk) 15:54, 3 July 2009 (UTC)