Laura Markowitz

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Fiddle Faddle (talk) 20:13, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest

Hello Laura Markowitz. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article In the Family (magazine), you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 20:13, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

In the Family

If this article is to survive it required, absolutely requires, references to verify its notability. Those references must be in reliable sources, and finding those online is next to impossible.

I had hopes for the awards section, but the only award I can find was won by one Laura Markowitz, not by the magazine. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 16:02, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

You got mail!

Hello, Laura Markowitz. You have new messages at Timtrent's talk page.
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In addition to replying on my talk page I have also added almost all of the references you gave me to the article. As it stands at present it is touch and go whether the article will survive or not. To me it looks vulnerable to a deletion discussion. The only way to seek to ensure it stays is to find good quality references that assert the notability of the magazine itself. These can be in print media, for example. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 18:38, 23 February 2012 (UTC)