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Ear-coverts

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Excellent start, but a small word of caution

I note the Bot comment above, and the "Quoted things" in your sandbox: I realise you're just using the sandbox as a holding pen, but make sure you're absolutely scrupulous in using your own words when you come to writing the finished article with these notes. I would always suggest taking voice-less bullet-pointed notes from sources, so you're forced to write the article with your own prose, without even the possibility of unintentionally plagiarising the source materials.

Would you be interested in giving a very brief talk about your article on Friday? Nothing onerous, just "was this a valuable thing to do?", "would you do this again for fun rather than credit?", etc?

Yes, just what you enjoyed about it, the skills you learnt, etc. Probably on Friday morning at the end of the podcasts. 5 min would be fine, but even that's probably overkill. polypompholyx (talk) 17:14, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Smile!

A smile for you You’ve just received a random act of kindness! 66.87.0.137 (talk) 13:28, 31 March 2012 (UTC)