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September 2018
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Alan Claude Ferguson, from its old location at User:Solowalk/sandbox/Alan Claude Ferguson. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. &mdash; Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 15:00, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I hope I am doing this correctly.I have a question on my page Alan Claude Ferguson. He was really know as Claude Ferguson .Most news articles and his Indiana University collection is under Claude. Most of his pages are located by tying in Claude Ferguson.

Any suggestion? Thank you!!

solowalkSolowalk (talk) 18:32, 7 September 2018 (UTC) — solowalk(Solowalk (talk) 18:35, 7 September 2018 (UTC))


 * Hi Solowalk, I have moved the article to Draft:Claude Ferguson as the common name. &mdash; Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 18:40, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Good Idea! Thank you solowalk(Solowalk (talk) 19:36, 7 September 2018 (UTC))

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Ways to improve Claude Ferguson
Thanks for creating Claude Ferguson.

A New Page Patroller Rosguill just tagged the page as having some issues to fix, and wrote this note for you:

"The article needs more footnotes and some copyediting for tone and flow"

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Remarks about article
I'm glad to see that my Uncle Claude has an article concerning his contributions. I recently included a link on my father's to his article. If there is anything I can help with please let me know. Robertbruceferguson (talk) 22:57, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

I would be glad to help with page, having lived through all which this page reflects. Many of the anecdotes need sources and are attributed to A. Claude but were from other members of the family. Would you like me to get approval from someone whoever you are before I change? But, overall a good timeline. Yes, I have removed my name. Please, do not add back. Nowaytorunarailroad (talk) 19:21, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

I see that you had originally suggested the page be called A. Claude Ferguson. But, fraye, the sock puppet suggested you not. Yes, many newspapers and academic folks shortened his name due to space consideration, but he was always adamant about being called and cited as A. Claude. This is distressing and a harm to his legacy to have an inaccurate public page. His death certificate was also originally incorrect as just Claude Ferguson, and I went to extreme lengths to have it corrected to his birth certificate name. He was dedicated to genealogy, and history and his legacy. Please honor him with his correct name usage. Thank you. Nowaytorunarailroad (talk) 21:23, 14 June 2019 (UTC) Nowaytorunarailroad (talk)

June 2019
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Thank you. Masum Reza 📞 00:40, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Conflcit of interest editing
Hello, Solowalk. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Claude Ferguson, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:03, 23 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello and thank you for your help. To comply with COI issues..how do I find someone to complete and clean up my mess?Solowalk (talk) 16:24, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking. I suggest placing help me on your talk page to ask for help. Masum Reza 📞 16:44, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Solowalk. First of all, thanks for taking a look at the conflict-of-interest editing page I linked to above. The best thing to do in this case would be to follow WP:COIADVICE and WP:PSCOI (don't be confused by the link names, you'll find the information you'll need if you click on them). Basically, other than a minor change (like one listed in WP:MINOR), you should use the article talk page to make edit requests. There are other editors now working on trying to clean the article up and bring it more inline with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines; so, one of them is likely to see your request and respond. Just be a little patient and someone should get to your request as soon as they can. Try and understand though that bringing the article up to Wikipedia's standards might me actually removing unsourced or otherwise inappropriate content in some cases. If that happens it's because it's the best thing for the article and Wikipedia, not because it's an attempt to try and diminish anything your father accomplished. The ultimate goal is to make the article be a suitable for Wikipedia as possible, not Wikipedia as suitable as possible for the subject of the article. In the end, articles are written about subjects, not for subjects, in Wikipedia's voice and should only reflect content which can be verified through citations to reliable sources (preferably independent and secondary) written in a neutral tone.Finally, I saw the post you left on 's user talk page where you referred to yourself as "Carla". You posted at the Teahouse that you were Ferguson's son. "Carla" is generally a female name (I apologize if it's not in this case), so I'm wondering if you might be Ferguson's daughter or another female relative instead of his son. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:51, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * HI, Marchjuly. I must have made another typo or forgot who I am.., I am his daughter...Carla... I was going to post the same to you as I did to Cullen..the two of you have been very understanding and helpful. I don't want to make anymore mistakes and I want to be compliant. I only want the truth out there...but I do have outside newspaper publications that state what I wrote. that is where I got alot on my info. I probably have 200 newspaper clippings. How do I get those to editors for their work on the site. Rosemary O'Learys book is probably the best source for his lawsuit, etc. The Ethics of dissent.
 * I am just fumbling through this. Thanks again!! Solowalk (talk) 22:22, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * @Solowalk: My bad for mistaking you as Ferguson's son. Not sure why I assumed you were male. My apologies for that. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:28, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * , Carla said at the Teahouse that this person was her father. She did not say that she was his son. I do not have time right now to look at all of this in more detail. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  23:28, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks for catching that . I realized that myself after I made my post and was going to correct it when I got near a computer. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:25, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hey, Friends, I'm good with it all..thanks, CarlaSolowalk (talk) 01:33, 24 June 2019 (UTC) I would not have been surprised if I had said son.Solowalk (talk) 01:37, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

help meSolowalk (talk) 12:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, Cite for lawsuit and off road vehicle articles are in publication and online at: Rosemary O’Leary Syracuse University

When a Career Public Servant Sues the Agency He Loves: Claude Ferguson, the Forest Service Oﬀ-Road Vehicles in the Hoosier National Forest. and the book, The Ethics of Dissent. In addition: DDT Aerial Spraying faulty original diagnosis, cortisone use and problems arising from it, DRs and hospital names are cite. in published 1977 newspaper article... "Ferguson still battling Bureaucracy but tired of waiting" by David Hulen IDS Staff Writer Indiana Daily Student, Bloomington, IN. This exists, I have the article. I need for someone to cite these for article since I cannot due to COI. Thanks much!Solowalk (talk) 12:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello, if someone is willing to go to http://academic.udayton.edu/RichardGhere/POL%20318/O%27Leary_Rosemary.pdf the article I am trying to get cleaned up will be there I have a COI and cannot edit further. I appreciate any help and not judging me. Thank youSolowalk (talk) 22:07, 24 June 2019 (UTC)


 * This request is a duplicate of the one at Talk:Claude Ferguson. I have commented there; there's no need to ask for help with the same issue on two pages, and the article's talk page is the better venue to discuss the improvement of the article. Huon (talk) 23:10, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Deleted is not lost
View history saves all edits (additions and subtractions), seen by clicking on prev for each edit. As suggested elsewhere, now that this article exists, changes you hope to see in the article are better suggested at the Talk page of the article. David notMD (talk) 01:41, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Stuff
Hi Solowalk. Since article talk pages are mainly for discussing ways to improve and article, I will respond to your last post at Talk:Claude Ferguson here on your user talk page instead. A couple of things. First some general, and then some specific. I will answer you question about the actual O'Leary source under your post about it on the article's talk page. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:10, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
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