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Your submission at Articles for creation: Maxine Feibelman (May 18)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Shadowowl was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
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To Shadowowl, I am grateful for your helpful comments, and I will work on editing the article's formal tone -- and particularly avoiding peacock words. Thanks, AlineXu (talk) 16:37, 19 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Aline,

Thanks for the addition to the Maggie Lettvin article. I created the article, and had to fight for Wikipedia to keep it. I love that NYT article! It's a great addition to the article. I lived in Bexley when they did. Are you an alum? Paulmlieberman (talk) 14:06, 23 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Paulmlieberman, yes, I did live in Bexley when the Lettvins lived there. I hope that we (and other wikipedians) will build and bolster Maggie's article to the full extent that she deserves. AlineXu (talk) 16:55, 25 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

John Shannon Hendrix

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Hello AlineXu. The article "John Shannon Hendrix" that you recently created and that you update regularly can be further improved to receive more visibility and also to start to be rated for academic notability. Placing the tag for that purpose will begin the process of attracting more editors to improve it just in case some might later find that it does not have sufficient references or does not meet the notability criteria and aim at calling for its deletion. Since you seem to know the content, maybe you can further enhance its quality with citations and references. Thanks (AcademeEditorial (talk) 08:24, 10 July 2017 (UTC))Reply

@AcademeEditorial, I am grateful for your kind tagging of the article on John Shannon Hendrix, which I agree is a good step toward bolstering the article's quality. I'm not an expert on Professor Hendrix's field or work, but I've read enough of his writings to try my best at enhancing the article with more citations and references. Thanks! AlineXu (talk)

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  Hello, I'm Tamzin. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you unlinked one or more redlinks from Galaxy Quest. Often redlinks can be helpful, so we don't remove them just because they are red. They help improve Wikipedia by attracting editors to create needed articles.

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This is very helpful – I must confess that I didn't realize redlinks are useful at all. I will certainly apply this guidance in future and be much more fastidious about only removing redlinks when there is a good reason to do so. And I will carefully review the definition of what does and doesn't count as minor for any of my future edits. I am quite grateful for your kind and worthwhile advice. – AlineXu (talk) 15:49, 1 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
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