Tspofford

Your submission at Articles for creation: William B. Spofford (bishop) (July 27)

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PotatoNinja^{(Talk to me!)} 07:23, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: William B. Spofford (bishop) has been accepted

William B. Spofford (bishop), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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Happy Squirrel (talk) 01:50, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

A belated welcome!

Sorry for the belated welcome, but the cookies are still warm!

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Again, welcome! Happy Squirrel (talk) 01:51, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Possible COI

Hello, I have re-reviewed and accepted your article. Congratulations! I noticed your username was similar to the article title. If you are related to Rev. Spofford, you should mention this on the article's talk page just to be above board. This is because family members often feel strongly about their relatives, which is great, but can affect how they react and write on Wikipedia. You can read wp:COI for more details. By the way, you did well to use the AfC process to allow others to comment on your work. Don't hesitate to ask me any questions. Happy editing! Happy Squirrel (talk) 01:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Navigation and internal communications

Because it's a Wiki, I guess, this is very different from the document management systems I've used in the past although I'm starting to grasp, more intuitively than anything, the general concept but I'm still more or less in the dark about how to have a dialog with another user or editor. For example, I have 3 messages from "happysquirrel" that I very much appreciate but I don't know how to respond. (I don't see a "response" or similar link. Can somebody give me (or point me to) some Wikipedia Talk for Dummies bullets? Tspofford (talk) 17:14, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

WP:POTENTIALCOI

Yes, it's a potential conflict. I'm eldest son and de facto biographer (see http://spof.org). I was very cognizant of that as I wrote the article and omitted factual statements that, even though I know them to be true, I couldn't objectively document. Is this where I would/should have recorded the PCI?

Thanks for the cookies!!! Tspofford (talk) 17:20, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

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Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 17:36, 28 July 2015 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 17:36, 28 July 2015 (UTC)