Joanne McAllister

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Speedy deletion declined: James Edwin Ferguson

Hello Joanne McAllister. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of James Edwin Ferguson, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Provides a useful redirect from the person's full name. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 05:41, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

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Just dropping by to let you know I created your requested redirect Jose Rey de la Torre → José Rey de la Torre. While I don't mean to discourage you from submitting future requests for redirect, if you didn't already know, you are also able to make redirects on your own. For full details, check out WP:Redirect. Monty₈₄₅ 21:26, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

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File permission problem with File:Jim Ferguson in 2004.jpg

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Hello -- I have contacted the copyright owner (Jim Ferguson) and have asked him to follow the above appropriate steps for a new, more current photo that will be uploaded soon. Note that he did give permission for the subject photo to be used, but didn't know at the time that it required more Wiki paperwork to support this. Since the photo has already been deleted, I have replaced it with another photo of Jim Ferguson that I also uploaded long ago, and is being used by another page, and for which Jim Ferguson also gave his permission to be used. This one is just temporary, and will be replaced with the more current photo very soon. Thanks... Joanne McAllister (talk) 20:51, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

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Jim Ferguson

I thought I would let you know that I had to cut to quite a bit from the Jim Ferguson article. There was a lot of cheerleading. Even if sourced, an encyclopedia is different from a hagiography. Are you connected to him in some way? It looks less like writing, more like selling. The first few paragraphs are overlinked and oversourced. Why are there so many citations for such a simple fact? It's okay to use material from the subject's web site, but not to an excessive degree, to the degree that the article looks like an advertisement. I don't see the point in posting large amounts of material from his site, given that a reader can just as easily get to his site through Google without having to go through Wikipedia. Moreover, the introduction appears to be crowded with everything he has ever done. This material is then repeated in the body and again in the end sections. The same thing is being said over and over again ad nauseam. There are many places on Wikipedia that help with how to write these mini biographies, such as

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• Essay directoryVmavanti (talk) 18:18, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

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File permission problem with File:Jim Ferguson in 2004 cropped.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Jim Ferguson in 2004 cropped.jpg, which you've attributed to Jim Ferguson. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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