User talk:Megwd

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Hello, Megwd, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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US Chamber of Commerce

Ok, I MUST work on uploading to this page soon. I am interested to see what will happen. I have found some scholastic sources from journals that I can use as references...but I need to actually do this. I'm just nervous b/c the formatting and "code" scares me. Got to try! signing off now... Megwd (talk) 17:58, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I see that you are planning a class project on the United States Chamber of Commerce. Great! It could use some expert attention! I've done some work trying to improve the article myself and look forward to the contributions from you and your class. I will note that I removed the unreliable source tag, since I have cleaned most of the blogs and other unreliable sources from the article a few weeks ago. If you have any questions, you can ask them on the article talk page or by writing on my "talk page" (which you get to by hitting the "talk" button next to my signature. I will also keep an eye on this page so we can communicate. Also, you may want to list your project at Wikipedia:Class projects. Again, welcome! Sailsbystars (talk • contribs • email) 22:16, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

From Meg

Hi Sailsbystars, thanks for the info! This really feels over my head, but I'm trying to learn as much as quickly as possible! Thanks for cleaning up the blogs. What is the proper procedure--deleting the "citation?", adding a new one, marking it unreliable?

Also, I had a question about the Mother Jones references. I think they are probably less than reliable if they stand alone. We should get another source up there to agree and/or disagree. I don't know about MJ's editorial review process and I think it probably stands on the extreme side of the circuit. Lastly, the publication says exists to promote an agenda (which would skew their journalistic reporting). Whatever the case, this page is contentious and needs good citations! :) thks

Yes, mother jones is a sub-optimal source and it would be nice if there were some other sources available. Unfortunately, the only time USCC seems to make the news is when they've been accused of something controversial. And indeed this is a contentious page. We had an edit war on the page last month where some groups tried to less than neutrally report on the foreign donors controversy. One source I've been thinking about adding is this one [1] which has some history on the org, but is technically a tertiary source.

As to procedure, there is no single procedure. Sometimes, you can just remove dubiously sourced statements along with the cite. Sometimes it makes more sense to remove the cite and put a "citation needed" tag next to a statement. The best solution is to re-write such statements sourced based on a more reliable or neutral source. PS, you should sign your statements on talk pages using four tildes. Sailsbystars (talk • contribs • email) 21:52, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Meg, I saw that you did some updates to the CofC article. Just a few comments. I tweaked your wording a little bit, as we need to make clear that there is no evidence supporting one side over the other in the 2010 funding dispute, but the addition overall is a good one. With regards to your tagging, the tags seem to be mostly well-placed. A better alternative to a tagging spree however, would be to fix the tagged problems. I'll try to do a bit of that before I turn in for the night. Cheers, Sailsbystars (talk) 03:39, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

recently uploaded images

Thank you for work on the US Chamber of Commerce article. Unfortunately, the image [2] you have uploaded are copyrighted and do not have an appropriate fair-use justification, as they don't really add anything to the article. Sailsbystars (talk) 22:54, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:22chamber-g-popup.jpg

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Replaceable fair use File:22chamber-g-popup.jpg

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