User talk:Emily.lavelle

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September 2011

Hello Emily.lavelle. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Peter Tomsen, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Your additions were reverted, as they were unsourced, and there was undue amount of external links. The COIN board was notified due to the explanation in your edit summery. See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COIN#Peter_Tomsen Thank you. Phearson (talk) 00:47, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Don't you or Mr. Poullada worry too much about the removal. All the added information is still in article history. As I told User:Phearson, I was planning on building this up from scratch using found sources anyway. Your additions will still help me do the work you intended. BTW, I notified the COI noticeboard myself. Better to let everyone know, so that nobody thinks Public Affairs is trying to pull one over on the pedia. We like transparency here. And there's no deadline; the ambassador is clearly notable, so building his article is inevitable. If I didn't do it, somebody else would eventually do so. As long as we stay honest and above-board, your contributions will make a difference. Nobody will object if you can upload an appropriate image. BusterD (talk) 01:12, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Heinz fellowship

This link seems to indicate that the Heinz fellowship didn't exist in 1964. Do you have any information which might disagree with this source? BusterD (talk) 04:35, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]