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A favor -Environmental law articles ready for preliminary review

Hi Buggie111. I see that you're an online ambassador. I'm the Professor for Aaron Frank's environmental law class, and while you're not signed up for my course, I was wondering if you'd be willing to take a look at any or all of the articles my students are working on. One of the aspects of this sort of course is that students understand that they are putting their work out before the wikipedia community for review. In the past, there hasn't been that much activity on their pages as they were working on them. I was hoping that if you were willing, you could take a look. If not, no problem.

The students now have draft articles in mainspace and are starting to review each other's articles, and they could also use a preliminary review by an experienced Wikipedian in this area. If you get a chance, ideally sometime before Thursday or so, please take a look at the following list of articles and leave feedback on the talk page:

Thank you! Aarf613 (talk) 06:10, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Roy Hesketh Circuit

Hi Buggie111. Re Roy Hesketh Circuit.You seem to have a problem with so called copyright material. If you would go to the following web site http://whois.domaintools.com/royheskethcircuit.com you will see that I am the owner of that site and the webmaster so I am not in infringment of any copyright material. By adding to the wiki page about the OPEC fuel crisis is public knowledge and whatever way it is written will almost surly come out the same.Your Views (Nigel Petrie Thomas Owen (talk) 08:31, 5 May 2013 (UTC))

Thank you for messaging me. Sorry if I was acting like an arse about the paragraph, and I would have been happy to restore it if you had told me about you owning the site earlier. You can add it in now (although I think one of the sentences sounds a tad off, might just be me hallucinating), and I suggest reading the first post-TOC paragraph of this to make sure that your site states that content there is under the CC-BY-SA license (so that others on the web can also copy and paste your info). cheers, and happy editing. Buggie111 (talk) 21:35, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 April newsletter

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXVI, May 2013

 
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GOCE May drive wrap-up

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