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Your contributed article, Beth Brooke-Marciniak

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Academi

Hi, Gobonobo. In December 2011 you participated at the discussion which resulted with moving the Academi article to its current title. There is a ongoing RfC which is related to that move. Your input is appreciated. Beagel (talk) 20:13, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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Obama mania

Hi Gobonobo, why did you create the page Obama mania? I guess I'm a bit confused why we should have a page just pointing to wiktionary, especially when this doesn't seem to be a very significant term. I'd like to hear what you think. Zeus ^{t | u | c} 15:37, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

@Zeus: Hi. It's actually a very significant term (a 2008 word of the year in fact). Sometimes when we don't have a Wikipedia article for a term, but there is a Wiktionary article, we create a soft redirect, as I did. You can see the editing guideline at WP:SOFTRDR. Hope that helps, gobonobo ^{+ c} 15:41, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Okay, the wiktionary page didn't seem to be very significant to me, hence my confusion. Could probably use some work. Thanks. Zeus ^{t | u | c} 15:44, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

WP:FORK List of State Democratic Parties

Hi. Per WP:FORK, "Article spinouts: "Summary style" articles[edit] For more details on this topic, see Wikipedia:Summary style. Shortcut: WP:SPINOFF Sometimes, when an article gets long (see Wikipedia:Article size), a section of the article is made into its own article, and the handling of the subject in the main article is condensed to a brief summary. This is completely normal Wikipedia procedure. The new article is sometimes called a "spinout" or "spinoff" of the main article; Wikipedia:Summary style explains the technique."

The point here is that the Democratic Party article is more than large enough. The information is valuable but a directory needn't be in the main article. Capitalismojo (talk) 00:02, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Capitalismojo. I think we just disagree on the scope of WP:CFORK and maybe what constitutes consensus. Let's try to keep the discussions about what to do on the article on the article talk pages though, if you don't mind. gobonobo ^{+ c} 15:48, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Sure. No problem. Capitalismojo (talk) 02:47, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

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Janine Connes

Hi Gobonobo, though I'm fine with you having done it, as the only contributor to the article I would have appreciated at least a quick message on my talk page notifying me that you were planning to move Draft:Janine Connes over to article space before you did. Thanks, Sam Walton (talk) 18:22, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Sam Walton. My next step was to drop you a note. The draft looked mostly ready to go so I figured I'd just be bold and move it to article space. Was there anything you were planning on adding before bringing it to article space? Were you planning on going for a DYK? gobonobo ^{+ c} 18:26, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Ah ok, I happened to be logged in and noticed almost as soon as you moved! As it turns out I don't mind that you moved it, some encouragement to do so was probably needed. The reason I hadn't so far was that it has almost no information about her and was all about her work, but I couldn't find any so it's not a big deal. I do DYKs as and when I see the opportunity for a good one, and didn't have anything in mind for that particular article. Sam Walton (talk) 18:30, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I've been searching for sources that have any biographical information on her and there isn't much out there. It looks like you got most of the useful references in there already. I now recognize that you've been doing work on the women scientists worklist. I've been combing through the recently created articles from there, which is how I came across your draft. gobonobo ^{+ c} 18:38, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

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Alfred Fessard and Denise Albe-Fessard

Hi Gobonobo. I'm dropping by your talk page to thank you for your edits to Denise Albe-Fessard, and to thank Anthonyhcole as well (he created the article). I'm not sure if you were aware, but the impetus for that article came from a list I created while looking through some volumes of neuroscience autobiographies at a Neuroscience Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. I've recently discovered that the autobiographical chapters are online, and I've left details here in case you might be interested in doing more work on such articles.

The other reason I'm leaving a note is that I noticed your gender gap redlist and I thought it worth pointing out that there are a number of sources out there about Denise Albe-Fessard's husband, Alfred Fessard. The French Wikipedia has five red links to him (at the time of writing) that an article would turn blue. One possible source is here. There is also a nice picture of the two of them together here. I have a passing interest in husband-wife scientist article pairings and it is interesting when the wife gets an article and the husband doesn't - a gender gap of a different kind? :-)

Finally, I noticed that a Madame Fessard is mentioned in the Oskar Vogt article, and was wondering if that is a correct link or not (not sure who did that link)? Carcharoth (talk) 20:43, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Carcharoth. Thank you for dropping by. I hope that the Neuroscience Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Royal Society was a success. I'll see about adding the names of the women neuroscientists from The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography to the gender gap redlist. We can also add those names to the WikiProject Women scientists worklist and the list of potential articles for future Ada Lovelace Days.

I agree that it is probably unusual to see the wife of a husband-wife scientist pair get an article first. As for Alfred Fessard, I think for the French Wikipedia's red links to turn blue, there would need to be an article in the French Wikipedia for him. That link to Mme Fessard in the Oskar Vogt article is just a piped link, but it looks like it was a red link for quite some time. gobonobo ^{+ c} 21:25, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

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Importing articles from Sourcewatch

Hi Gobonobo: I noticed that you've created a number of articles by importing them directly from Sourcewatch. I find this to be problematic, because Sourcewatch states that it does not require a neutral point of view [1]. Of course, Wikipedia does. A few of the pages I'm referring to are Arkansas Policy Foundation, Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute, Solutions for New Jersey, and Donors Capital Fund. There are quite a few more. As you can see from these articles, right off the bat they refer to the article's subjects as "right-wing" and "claiming" to be XYZ. These articles are laden with weasel words. I think it's best if you refrain from importing future Sourcewatch articles, and go back to the ones you've already imported and do a thorough sweep to ensure adherence to WP:NPOV. Safehaven86 (talk) 04:32, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

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