User talk:Madelainemurphy

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We met at the Wikimeetup today? Just thought I'd introduce myself; I was going to suggest my being your mentor but it looks like you already have that covered :) Still, any advice I can offer you, let me know. Serendi ^pod ous 17:54, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again

Nice to meet you on Sunday. If you wade though Banaticus' tutorials you probably won't feel the need for mentoring! But if you want advice don't hesitate to ask.

You asked what is an "unpublished synthesis". I usually describe them as "essay / original research". Here are two recent examples: sample abuse and human STX polysialyltransferase and its role in mental illness. I have e-mailed you the arts and education - that received this AfD discussion - note the author's cheeky statement "the contents are being used for school assignments".

Reginald Gray (artist) is a blatant autobiography which I somehow got dragged into helping with. I have e-mailed you a copy of John Skelton (Irish artist) - that got deleted because the author had simply copy&pasted from a website. His style is probably too chocolate boxy for your taste but if you happen to know of him, that might be an article for you to re-create.

Julien Friedler on the other hand, strikes me as a pretentious self-promoter. The article about Be art survived fine on the French Wikipedia (follow the Français link at the left) but the non-English Wikipedias all seem very much less fussy about notability. Here, I deleted it twice: at Be Art and at Be Boz Be Art. (I note that the French version of the latter also got deleted.) Do you think it deserves to be here? — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 00:57, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

April 2011

Hi there, I haven't seen you editing for a little bit now, I hope everything's going well. If you'd like any further help, contact me on my user talk page or put a {{help me}} template up on your own user talk page and someone will be along to help you. :) Banaticus (talk) 16:23, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]