Mark.longuet-higgins
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editHello, Mark.longuet-higgins, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Michael S. Longuet-Higgins
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Hello, Mark.longuet-higgins. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Michael S. Longuet-Higgins, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:
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- I don't want you to be too alarmed by the above notice. As far as I can tell, your edits to the article are good. However, you do need to be aware of the apparent conflict of interest and the need to be careful editing this article. Any questions, just ask. Mjroots (talk) 20:06, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, yes, there is plenty of process and procedure around here, and it can be pretty daunting for a newcomer. What would be really helpful would be if you could cite things to specific pages in textbooks, specific newspaper articles or reliable web pages (like the NERC oceanography centre): it isn't enough to give vague general indications like Royal Society Biographies, which are not traceable - I did just check. It's your responsibility to provide verifiable sources, not ours to try to chase them down for you. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:35, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
- Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society are certainly available at http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/. For Follows of the RS they are definitive biographies, which are written with great care by other Fellows. I suggest that they are excellent references. --Bduke (Discussion) 22:01, 15 May 2016 (UTC)