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 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Archibald Clerk. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 16:09, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Archibald Clerk has been accepted
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Archibald Clerk - thanks
Thank you, Ronaldcameron, for your excellent article Archibald Clerk. I've taken the liberty of fiddling with it, and thought I'd explain here what I've been up to. I also want to raise and immediately settle a concern about the image used.

I've made two main amendments in this edit:
 * 1) I reformatted the references to books using cite book, the template preferentially used for book citations. There was nothing wrong with your by-hand citations, but there are probably advantages of consistency and data accessibility in using a structured template for such data.
 * 2) I then used sfn - short footnotes - for the two books to which you have multiple references, and demoted mention of the book titles to a sources section. This is (as I understand it) Harvard format referencing. The advantage here is that the references section can point to the author (or editor), date and page number, avoiding repetitions of the title, publisher, etc, in the references list.

I very much hope that you'll contribute more, and if so, I'd encourage you to use cite book. Equally, if you don't, the chances are that someone'll come along and convert them in due time.

Next, the photo. First, I moved it in an earlier edit to the top of the page - this is the conventional position for an image of the subject of the article. My concern here is that the image on the commons - - did not have a copyright/licence tag on it, and I thought it likely that the image would at some time be challenged. From its description, I concur with you that it is in the public domain. I've added and  to the file in this edit, which should do the trick.

Finally, thanks also for your work on Mary Mackellar. Slàinte mhath! --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:04, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Mary McPherson
Nice addition .... are you close enough to get pic of the plaque? cheers Victuallers (talk) 13:30, 12 September 2016 (UTC) Thanks. I've just added some more content. In the next few months I should be able to photograph her gravestone and the plaque in Portree. A photo of Mairi herself is also scanable and in the public domainRonaldcameron (talk) 16:27, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

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Seasons Greetings
Merry Christmas from me! Thanks for your company during 2016. We have seen the percentage of articles on women rise from 15.5% to 16.77%. 20% is within our grasp and that's an increase of 11% over what we first found. Victuallers (talk) 15:50, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

John MacKenzie (mountain guide)
It was great to see your new article on John MacKenzie (mountain guide) - it brought back many memories of climbs on Skye - including standing on the Cioch Buttress over 20 years ago. As there don't appear to be any images of MacKenzie on Wikimedia, I wondered if you'd considered contacting Skysculpture or Jamie Grant to ask if they would be willing to make any of their photos available? (close up of grave/sculpture mannequin etc). If not, I'd be happy to do this for you. There are clearly a lot of old images of MacKenzie out there (see the @SkyeSculpture Twitter stream), though I'm not sure if it could definitely be provable that they were out of copyright. (Wikimedia licencing is not my strong point). Maybe you already have plans for this? Sorry if my added references are a mess. I didn't want to break convention by converting all of yours to citation template format - so hopefully you'll deal with mine if they aren't quite right. Regards. Parkywiki (talk) 12:34, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Help me!
How can I reply to a message from an editor who has made improvements to article that I started, please.

Please help me with...

Ronaldcameron (talk) 18:58, 30 December 2016 (UTC)


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