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If you have a question/concern concerning me or my edits or just want to drop a line, feel free to leave me a note here. Know that I'm not particularly familiar with Wikipedia's back-end coding and some procedures, but I have been a user since 2008, and am familiar with usual things like re-directs, editing citations, talk pages, and article merging/creating/deletion. Despite the fact that I'm not on Wikipedia particularly regularly, I will answer you eventually. :) Forbes72 (talk) 05:01, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Looking for Feedback

Hi! As part of my university curriculum, I've contributed to the banking lobby wiki article which I believe you've contributed to before. I'm contacting past editors seeking feedback on my contributions, so if you could take a look at it, I would appreciate it. I am new to Wikipedia, so I apologize for any mistakes in the article. No problem if you cannot take a look, thank you for your previous contributions to the article! Peanutbutterisbad (talk) 20:12, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Peanutbutterisbad: First of all, thanks for contributing. I see the article was short and had a very US-centric scope before your additions, so I appreciate your work rounding out the scope of the article to cover more areas of the world. A couple suggestions for your contributions: adding information on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, you cite the website of the group itself, and end up sounding a bit promotional. The group probably does play a role in international banking regulation, but it's better to source information from WP:THIRDPARTY sources to keep Wikipedia's coverage neutral and fair. In the Latin America section, you attribute lobbyist control to a lack of regulations. The source you cited does back up the point that lobbyists have a lot of control over the banking sector in these countries, but the source cited seems to talk about a lack of enforcement and lack of state capacity, rather than blaming elite capture on loose regulations. It's important to avoid WP:SYN and focus on summarizing what the sources cited say rather than trying to draw your own conclusions. Overall, I think you made a substantial improvement to the article; there a few places where you could improve the encyclopedic tone. 〈 Forbes₇₂ | Talk 〉 19:19, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Thank you for this in-depth feedback - I really appreciate it. I will look into your suggestions and make those edits. Again, thank you! Peanutbutterisbad (talk) 21:47, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on 2012 in science

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Chromatic symmetries

Thanks very much for your comment on the articles Dichromatic symmetry and Polychromatic symmetry. I thought of adding a new, summary article on Color symmetry, referencing the two existing articles, and replacing the current redirect to Color charge. Do you think that would be useful? GreatStellatedDodecahedron (talk) 11:21, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@GreatStellatedDodecahedron: I agree redirecting color symmetry to color charge is less than ideal, but I am not sure we need a separate article for color symmetry, since it might end up duplicating the scope of those two existing articles. Perhaps a disambiguation page would be helpful instead. 〈 Forbes₇₂ | Talk 〉 03:39, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Discussion at Talk:Gallium antimonide

Hi Forbes72. I've left some notes at Talk:Gallium antimonide about value of the direct bandgap of gallium antimonide. I changed the value that was given in the lead to what I think is a more accurate value that is more broadly supported in the literature, with other (secondary) sources cited. Since you originally added the bandgap to the article, I wanted to make you aware of this change and solicit your input at the talk page, if you would like to add anything. Best, MaterialsPsych (talk) 03:09, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hey thanks for the nice work on trickle-down economics. It's nice to finally have someone fix that up. Andre🚐 04:05, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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ISSN numbers

Hi, while I appreciate your efforts and applaud the removal of undesirable iin-text external links, the additions made in this edit really are unnecessary. Clicking an ISSN number leads you directly to the corresponding WorlCat entry, so a "reference" to the ISSN portal is absolutely superfluous. One unwanted side-effect of this is that the list appears to be incredibly well-sourced, whereas in reality it is not. Basically, you replaced one EL problem with another... --Randykitty (talk) 12:32, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Group 5 element

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