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NE Meetup #4: January 18 at MIT Building 5

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You have been invited to the New England Wikimedians's 2014 kick-off party and Wikipedia Day Celebration at Building Five on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus on Saturday, January 18th, from 3-5 PM. Afterwards, we will be holding an informal dinner at a local restaurant. If you are curious to join us, please come, as we are always looking for people to come and give their opinion! Finally, be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.

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You're invited: Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March

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New England Wikimedians is excited to announce a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons that will be taking place at colleges and universities throughout Massachusetts as part of Wikiwomen's History Month from March 1 - March 31. We encourage you to join in an edit-a-thon near you, or to participate remotely if you are unable to attend in person (for the full list of articles, click here). Events are currently planned for the cities/towns of Boston, Northampton, South Hadley, and Cambridge. Further information on dates and locations can be found on our user group page.
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NE Meetup #5: April 19th at Clover Food Lab in Kendall Square

Dear Fellow Wikimedian,

New England Wikimedians would like to invite you to the April 2014 meeting, which will be a small-scale meetup of all interested Wikimedians from the New England area. We will socialize, review regional events from the beginning of the year, look ahead to regional events of 2014, and discuss other things of interest to the group. Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.

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You're invited to the Peabody Essex Museum Edit-a-thon Spring 2014

On May 3rd, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts will be hosting a Native American and Chinese Art edit-a-thon from 9:00-5:00 pm. You are more than welcome to attend, as there will be free food and drink, and an outing afterwards. If you are interested, please sign up here, as we would love to see you there!

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Adrianne Wadewitz edit-a-thons in Southern New England

As you may have already heard, the Wikipedia community lost an invaluable member of the community last month. Adrianne Wadewitz was a feminist scholar of 18th-Century British literature, and a prolific editor of the site. As part of a worldwide series of tributes, New England Wikimedians, in conjunction with local institutions of higher learning, have created three edit-a-thons that will be occurring in May and June. The events are as follows:

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New England Wikimedians summer events!

Upcoming events hosted by New England Wikimedians!

After many months of doubt, nature has finally warmed up and summer is almost here! The New England Wikimedians user group have planned some upcoming events. This includes some unique and interesting events to those who are interested:

Although we also aren't hosting this year's Wikimania, we would like to let you know that Wikimania this year will be occurring in London in August:

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New England Wikimedians summer events!

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Your GA nomination of Philip A. Hart Plaza

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Your GA nomination of Belle Isle Conservatory

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Your GA nomination of Palmer Park (Detroit)

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Your GA nomination of Palmer Park (Detroit)

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Belle Isle Conservatory

Hi, could you take a look at the good article review which you nominated some time back? There are a number of outstanding issues that need to be discussed and addressed before it can continue. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 17:07, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Philip A. Hart Plaza

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Your GA nomination of Belle Isle Conservatory

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Copyright violations at Frank Liberati

I have removed text from Frank Liberati that was essentially copy-pasted from one of the citations. You have to rephrase the text in your own words; merely changing one or two words or joining two phrases together is not good enough. If you've done this in other articles, please fix them. Copyright is an important issue. And, looking at your edit count, I honestly don't want to go through your edits and check them. If this is a common occurrence in articles that you've created, it might have to go to WP:CCI. Ugh. Looking at Erika Geiss, it looks like you did the same thing: copy-pasting text into Wikipedia. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 09:21, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

I appreciate your diligence. I do not think a CCI is necessary, but I will double check and be more mindful in the future. Thanks. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 10:02, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Upon review, yes - you are correct. I will be making some additional edits in the coming days to clean up any additional potential violations. My apologies and thank you for bringing it to my attention. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 18:28, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
For simple, descriptive facts there isn't much that you can do to rephrase them (for example, "She graduated from university in 1990."). In these circumstances, it's alright to just state the fact. However, when you start getting into more creatively worded sentences ("She was then inspired to become an activist after hearing a speech on globalism by Bono."), you should make an effort to rephrase it. For something like that, you might say, "After graduating in 1990, she was drawn to activism. Bono was an early influence; she later described his work as being the genesis of her own interest in the topic." Something like that, but better, because I don't want to spend an hour trying to come up with better prose to describe an imaginary person. I'm sure you get the idea. For U.S. politicians, you might try searching .gov domains for public domain sources that you can import into an article. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:22, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Good tips - I think I just got lazy in some rewording. I am traditionally not as lazy, but was trying to get the newly elected folks up. I know better, and it won't happen again. In any case, it's been a good excuse to copyedit some of my older articles, which, upon review, needed it. Good evidence that we learn and improve, thanks in part to nudging like this. I am also having some admins I know verify my edits and such to make sure I did not miss anything. There are a few left I want to edit further, but I've done a lot of tweaks already to try and be safer. There are some state government websites where I know the administrator and have had some casual chats about loosening their copyright on text and image, so I am aware of their thinking, but to my annoyance it is not yet documented. I think those conversations made me more complacent than I should have been, but your ping was a good reminder to not do that. Thanks again. :) --Varnent (talk)(COI) 20:33, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
 Done for now - will check again and some more articles later, but the potentially problematic edits were focused in a couple specific areas. Thank you again for the nudge. Let me know if you see other pages I haven't gotten to yet or need to trout whack me for anything else. :) --Varnent (talk)(COI) 21:29, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Writer's Barnstar
Dear Varnent, thank you for all your contributions to Wikipedia, especially your recent creation of Fred Durhal III. Keep up the good work! You are making a difference here! With regards, AnupamTalk 04:18, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

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A page you started (Central Michigan Correctional Facility) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Central Michigan Correctional Facility, Varnent!

Wikipedia editor Gderrin just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Interesting article. It would be helpful for a reader to know what "Level 1" means. Thank you for your work.

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 Done - good idea - thank you! :) --Varnent (talk)(COI) 04:16, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Doom Book (filmmaking)

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A kitten for you!

Thanks for your help with the RMN article.

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Motor City Pride

I just removed a copyright violation from Motor City Pride that you copy and pasted from the official website of Motor City Pride. Don't reinsert it. Instead, rewrite what the website says in your own words. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 07:00, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for doing that. The origins of the text is a non-copyright source - but since it is gone and they've added a copyright to their page - I'll allow others to go ahead and reword that text. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 13:37, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Looking at the source page - it is more expansive than it once was. I'm wondering if they copied some text from the enWP article as once upon a time the page was not that expansive. In any case - I agree a rewrite is best. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 13:51, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

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LGBT Person Task Force issue

Hello! I saw your name on the LGBT Person Task Force list. I'm wondering why Peter David is included in that project. It seems to be only for individuals who are confirmed as LGBT, which Peter is not. He's supportive, he's written many LGBT characters, and he's won a GLAAD Award, but he is not LGBT himself. There's nothing in his article about it, but his Talk page mentions the LGBT Project and the Person Task Force, so I thought perhaps it was a mistake. -Etoile ✩ (talk) 04:39, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

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Ways to improve LaTanya Garrett

Hi, I'm Ironholds. Varnent, thanks for creating LaTanya Garrett!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Thanks for writing this article! Please do address the tags on it. Let me know if you need any help doing so :)

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Ironholds (talk) 16:01, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

I agree with the tags - it looks like something went a bit off there. :) I'll try to clean up when I can. Thank you! --Varnent (talk)(COI) 17:05, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! :). Ironholds (talk) 17:28, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

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Please join the discussion on Talk:Glengarry Glen Ross (film)

Hello! I am soliciting comments for an RfC that is currently open on the "Glengarry Glen Ross (film)" page. There is disagreement about where the film was set (New York vs. Chicago).

One of the issues is whether it is original research to cite to elements in the film itself (including props, dialogue, and a statement in the end credits that it was "filmed on location in New York City") to establish setting.

Response so far in the RfC has been mixed. Comments welcome! Xanthis (talk) 13:55, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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