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August 2017

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Comment

First the easy bit. It's possible that Caorongjin may not have noticed your connected contributor notice on your user page, you should put it on the draft's talk page too. Editors will be aware that you can edit with a COI as long as it is declared, but Caorongjin may not have looked at your user page.

What Ammarpad has to say is more important than my comments, but I've removed an (unnecessary) use of Wikipedia as a ref. For the first Charity Commission link, you would do better to link to the financial and documents pages rather than the overview. Organisation annual reports and similar are usually acceptable as sources for financial info since it's really the only source for that, and other sources would have to refer back to it anyway. For your patrons, Vaughan would be better to have a ref other than your own website. I'm not sure what wrong with Mayhew's ref. Although his biography is likely to be written by him, I'm not clear why the reviewer is challenging his seeming uncontroversial claim to be a patron, you will have to ask Ammarpad.

I think that a small charity is always going to struggle a bit to find really good refs, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:19, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks so much again for your invaluable help. I will make those changes and see if Will Vaughan can add something to his external site. I'm expecting an independent article in another newspaper later this year so that might also help. I will keep trying till it's right! Matthew Sanders 73 (talk) 08:49, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

- sorry, another question: does a mention on Mumsnet count as a reliable source? https://www.mumsnet.com/things-to-do/introducing-children-art-galleries. Thanks for your advice. Matthew Sanders 73 (talk) 09:04, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

I wouldn't use it, it's a blog, we don't know who posted it, and it's not mentions you need, it's facts about the organisation. If a named art critic talked about you, that might be OK, but an anonymous posting on mumsnet has no value as a source. Incidentally, if you want to be sure that I see replies like the above, link to my user name as I have done with you reviewers above, and make sure you sign the message Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:10, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Jimfbleak, got it, all makes sense. I thought as the Mumsnet page is Mumsnet editorial generated by them as opposed to someone posting on the site it would be ok but I totally take your point. I'll keep on till it's right... Matthew Sanders 73 (talk) 17:30, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

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Ammarpad (talk) 16:55, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

@Ammarpad: Great news... thank you again for all your time and considered advice, it's greatly appreciated. I will endeavour to improve that article as best I can. Matthew Sanders 73 (talk) 09:16, 30 October 2017 (UTC)