User talk:Jpramas
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Again, welcome! BCorr|Брайен 22:09, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Excellent research[edit]
You should put it back in the main article. I would do it, but you should do so you get the credit. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 08:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
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Hello, Jpramas, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
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WP WikiProjects and editing[edit]
P.S. Jason, as a professional editor, you would be especially welcome at the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. You may also consider the WikiProjects associated with the portals on labor, socialism, etc.
Sincerely, Kiefer.Wolfowitz 08:06, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
thanks much for pointing that out, Kiefer ... between my MFA Visual Arts program at Art Institute of Boston (which, btw, is one proof that I am, in fact, a photographer ... lol) and running Open Media Boston, plus assorted "side" projects like the Boston media reform network, I'm pretty swamped right now ... however this experience is inspiring me to seek out Boston area academics to start documenting people and institutions on the Boston left here on Wikipedia ... and, let me also say that I appreciate your spending time on my bio article ... my sharpness about the recent deletion of my article is general and not specific, if you know what I mean ... and I've certainly learned my lesson about violating NPOV and BLP so directly ... I do blame myself for not simply seeing to it that qualified people did some work on the article in the past, rather than my just casually neatening it up periodically ... but I was certainly annoyed by the deletion - which I thought was unjust ... cheers, Jason jpramas (talk) 14:11, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Jason!
- I am glad that you accepted my efforts as (fallible but) good faith. Frankly, I was concerned that my recently having spent more time writing an article on Tom Kahn than on making minor improvements to Frank Llewellyn would lead to questions of political bias ....
- I am glad that you reviewed the BLP and COI policies and agreed with their good sense. Your editing history of Jason Pramas seems to have been almost entirely limited to correction of English errors or objective facts, and such minor edits are blessed by WP policy.
- If there is ever a problem with your biography, feel free to alert me or even e-mail me. You can of course alert the BLP project or any relevant project also. In case of libelous or slanderous material, you can directly delete material, per BLP; such actions should probably also be accompanied by a notification of the BLP project, who can help with deleting improper material also from article history. In general, the WP community takes the concerns of living subjects very seriously, although some very public figures like Francis Fox Piven have received more WP coverage than they desire.
- Your organizing a Boston-left project would be worthwhile. There was an article in Harper's or in the Atlantic Monthly some 10-15 years ago about a cab driver's retirement from the Boston DSA, which might be a useful source. Whether it would establish notability of the Boston DSA, I cannot say, but it at least gave an impressionistic account of one local's activities and personalities, which is probably relevant to the DSA article.