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I am sorry you didn't come on to someone's radar to be welcomed when you first registered your username. You might want to get familiar with WP policies and practices, particularly WP:WIAGA before taking an article through GAN (though there is certainly nothing to stop you). At this stage, that article would be failed at GAN for various reasons, including the fact that the lead is not a summary of the article text (it contains facts that are present nowhere else), and that the article is too brief to be comprehensive. There are also issues with the referencing (there shouldn't be Harvard cites in the text as well as footnotes, and usually cites are not needed in the lead). You might also need to consider WP:COI in terms of editing the article to claim yourself as the discoverer, though high-quality reliable sources may meet that objection. Nonetheless, it's great to have you here making a contribution, so welcome! hamiltonstone (talk) 00:50, 18 January 2011 (UTC)