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Fulfills WP:PROF: "The person has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society." Benjamin (talk) 22:01, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am a helping John Taylor to improve his Wikipedia page, as it was completely bare and he was requested to improve it. We followed examples of other scholar pages to edit this page. We would like to adhere to Wikipedia rules on COI and request edits on errors flagged on the page.
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Information to be added or removed: Remove the Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley (2005), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
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No problem with removing unsourced content. However have you considered adding a {{fact}} tag to this instead of deleting? Or are you saying this award was definitively not awarded to Taylor? -- Euryalus (talk) 08:35, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Information to be added or removed: Add citation for DeBary Medal from the International Mycological Association (2018), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
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Information to be added or removed: Add citation for Von Arx Medal from the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (2012), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
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Information to be added or removed: Add citation for Distinguished Mycologist from the Mycological Society of America (2018), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
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Information to be added or removed: Add citation for Lucille K. Georg Medal, International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (2003), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
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Information to be added or removed: Add citation for Rhoda Benham Medal, Medical Mycological Society of the Americas (2004), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
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Information to be added or removed: Add citation for Alexopolous Prize from the Mycological Society of America (1986), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
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Information to be added or removed: Add citation for California Academy of Science (1993), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
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Information to be added or removed: Add citation for Taylor-White Endowed Lecture at UC Berkeley (2011), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
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Done this one. -- Euryalus (talk) 08:25, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Probably doesn't need a second reference for an uncontroversial point like this, but feel free to add this directly if you wish. -- Euryalus (talk) 08:25, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Information to be added or removed: Remove "He was invited to deliver the Keynote presentation at the International Mycological Congress (2010) and the Perkins-Metzenberg Lecture at the Fungal Genetics Conference (2019)." found under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
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As above, no problem with removing unsourced content but this might be equally well served with a {{fact}} tag unless you're saying the invitation was not so much not sourced as not actually made. -- Euryalus (talk) 08:35, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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