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A barnstar for you!

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	I, Sarah, award Lowbourne with the Editor's Barnstar. Your great decisions in editing have not gone unnoticed. It also makes me so happy to see a new editor finding their niche so quickly in the world of Wikipedia. Keep up the great work! Sarah (talk) 04:14, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

{{Help me}} In my sandbox is a major redraft of the article on Joan Hassall. The existing article is based entirely on internet references, and its greatest defect is the significant omissions from her life and work. I have rewritten the article, and referenced it to primary and secondary printed sources, and retained the useful internet sources. How do I go about replacing the existing article? Do I just copy mine in instead?

Since User:Lowbourne/sandbox only contains edit by yourself then the answer is a reserved "yes". Just copy and paste into the article. I say reserved yes as I've no idea if this a better version, it might be prudent to ask other like minded editors if they agree with you - or you can just be bold.

If the sandbox had been a collaboration of edits from different people then you would have to ask for a history merge (not something you can do yourself). Ronhjones ^(Talk) 01:07, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lowbourne - I see you have updated the article on Joan Hassall. Don't worry about doing something wrong on Wikipedia. If anyone else cares about her they'll reedit your work. But don't say things like "Ronhjones advised me to be bold". You're on your own here. I came across you when you edited the article on Bookselling. I too am interested in books. Welcome to Wikipedia. We need serious people who might turn out to be longtime editors here. If I can be of any help to you, drop me a line. -- GroveGuy (talk) 02:51, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How you update Golden Cockerel Press is completely your call. I wouldn't presume to suggest how you might go about it. I do think it is good for new people to have a variety of experiences in Wikipedia - fighting vandalism and correcting typos for example. In that article I see a suggestion for a new article: do you see "Oak Knoll Press" at the bottom in red? I think it deserves its own article. -- GroveGuy (talk) 06:14, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Muriel Jackson

You have two different birth years for Jackson, 1901 (article) and 1910 (category and persondata). It is nice to know other people, besides me, make this kind of mistake. I don't know which digit was transposed. Bgwhite (talk) 00:55, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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