Astro erin

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Some stroopwafels for you!

hi, pleased to meet you at She Blinded Me with Science III Duckduckstop (talk) 15:08, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Catherine Corrigan

The article Catherine Corrigan has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not meet notability guidelines.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. RichardOSmith (talk) 20:10, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Cari Corrigan

Wow, you picked a great subject! Here are a couple of suggested sources:

• Asteroids, Meteorites, and Comets, By Linda T. Elkins-Tanton ISBN 9781438131863 (OCLC 650854447) pp. 118-120
• All the Antarctic Meteorite Newsletters at http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/amn/amn.cfm#381

I think there's plenty of material to improve the article so that it can be nominated for Did you know? so that it will be featured on the Wikipedia Main page. Google Cari rather than Catherine (because Catherine gets too many hits on other women by that name). If you'd like, I'll help you get through the WP:DYK process.

Do you know Cari or someone who does? Can you get a picture or get someone who took the picture to upload it to Wikipedia or Commons? I looked for any photos with a suitable license but found none. The rules for living people don't allow Fair Use because it's possible to get a snapshot. Even the Flikr pic's are "all rights reserved".

Answer here (I'm watching your talk page). Custom is to put a colon in front of each paragraph in your answer to indent it. For now, take care, DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 04:09, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

I've got the Asteroids, Meteorites and Comets book up in Google Books, I'm just trying to make sure their is a second source for some of the info! I did put in the Antarctic Meteorite Newsletters, but I've also been trying to think of notable meteorites that she may have classified as well to put in there. I'll also try and get her master's degree work on the K-T boundary in there as well.

As per the photo issue: I know, I got frustrated that Flickr was through AGU, not Smithsonian. That said, the Qrius site says the photo is Smithsonian Institution, so will that get us around the rights thanks to the Smithsonian being a government entity and this being a not for profit use? Astro_Erin 19:09, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

The whole Wikimedia community is (in my opinion) overly strict about copyright of photographs, especially of living people. A formal release from the photographer under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License (or even better, released into the public domain) through WP:OTRS is needed unless the photographer uploads the photo directly and makes the release at the time of upload. Many (maybe most) pictures are taken and uploaded by Wikipedians. See the No free equivalent section at WP:FAIRUSE. That's why I was hoping you knew her or her friends who might have a suitable snapshot. For the small image in a biography infobox, even a smartphone selfie looks OK. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 16:32, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Fixing your Wikipedia signature

See the redlink signature above? Looks like you prefer Astro_Erin over Astro-erin so...

1. Create a WP:REDIRECT so other folks can find you. Click on the red signature to take you to that blank page. Ignore all the warnings 'cause there'll never be an account approved for Astro_Erin because it's too similar to your username. Copy-paste "#REDIRECT [[User:Astro_erin]]" (without the quotes) into the page. Add an edit summary something like, "Redirect to my account in lieu of WP:DOPPELGANGER" and save the page. If someone looks for Wikipedia user Astro_Erin, they'll be sent to your page. Do the same for the Astro_Erin talk page but use "#REDIRECT [[User_talk:Astro_erin]]".
2. Click on your Preferences at the very top of this page. About half way down the profile page, put Astro_Erin into the signature box. Don't check the "Treat the above as Wikimarkup" box and don't put in double-brackets unless you want to do something fancy. Save the page and BINGO!, when you use four tildes (~~~~) to sign your talk page edits, your signature will be Astro_Erin instead of Astr_erin.

Take care, DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 17:03, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

PS: I created a bunch of WP:REDIRECTs for the Cari Corrigan article. You can see them by clicking the "What links here" under Tools on the left side of the page.

Thank you

		SIA Women in Science Edit-a-thon Barnstar
		Thanks and appreciation for your efforts to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Women in science at the 2015 Smithsonian Institution Archives Women in Science Edit-a-thon. It was a success and you were a great part of it! And we're so happy you worked on Ursula Marvin. --Digitaleffie (talk) 15:49, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Early Did you know... alert

Hi again, Erin. Wanted to let you know that the Cari Corrigan article that you started will likely appear in the Did you know... section of Wikipedia's Main Page on or about 14 April 2015. It's sitting in the Did you know queue now. Take care, DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 18:01, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Catherine Corrigan

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:47, 14 April 2015 (UTC)