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For my personal reference...

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Recent e-flux edits

Hi, Thank you for your edits to the e-flux page. I actually wrote the introduction and subsequent paragraphs after which e-flux copied this text to use on their about page. I can see how this may be confusing but hopefully this clarifies. Also I would like to amend the citations you flagged in the references section but I can't find where to correct his in the code—can you let me know so that we can remove the alerts on the page? Many thanks

Ah, that's helpful to know! I would make a note of that fact on the article's Talk page so no one else adds the copy and paste notice back in.

The code for each reference is embedded in the article where the source is first referenced - so for instance, you'll find the code for the first two references right after the first sentence of the article. Does that make sense?

P.S. Don't forget to sign talk page posts with four tildes. There's a button for it at the bottom of the editor. :) Mary Gaulke (talk) 22:11, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Mary! I'll add it to the talk page and will work through those changes to the citations. Morelcasares (talk) 20:56, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks so much for reviewing! Would you be up for adding links to this page to the Robert Adams disambiguation page and Analog Devices? (Bob is already mentioned in the second article, he just needs his name linked.) I'm asking you rather than doing it myself because I have a COI. I would really appreciate any help! Mary Gaulke (talk) 15:11, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

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@Stefan2: Hi, thanks for the notification. My goal is to get this image added to Dow Corning to replace the lower-resolution version of the logo currently featured in the article; however, I do not want to edit the article myself as I have a conflict of interest. (I work for a communications firm that represents Dow Corning.) If you have a moment, I would really appreciate it if you swapped in the new upload; otherwise, I'll be working in the article's Talk page to get this change made ASAP. Thank you! Mary Gaulke (talk) 14:01, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Done --Stefan2 (talk) 14:23, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

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punctuation and fixes to Bleach (American band)

You made a change to the Bleach (American band) article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bleach_%28American_band%29&diff=677677569&oldid=668385014 In that edit you too

"Epidermis Girl",

to

"Epidermis Girl,"

MOS:LQ states in part, "On the English Wikipedia, use logical quotation style in all articles, regardless of the variety of English in which they are written." What that means is that unless the song title ended in a comma, the comma should not be part of the content in the quotes. I fixed that one, but you seemed to indicate that you were going to make more such edits. Please be careful to use logical quotation style. Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:23, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that! I'll make sure that's consistent throughout the article. By "more to come" I just meant I'm planning to do further cleanup of the article (apart from punctuation) so no worries there. Mary Gaulke (talk) 15:59, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

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Talkback

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Page view tool (and other stuff)

Are you aware that it is easy (well, relatively easy) to instantly see how many readers have accessed a page, as well as other useful stats. For example, it tells me that there have been 99,385 pageviews of LinkedIn over the last 30 days.

If this would be helpful, you simply need to add:

mw.loader.load('//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Hedonil/XTools/XTools.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

to your common.js file (which does not yet exist).

If this sounds like a bad infomercial (I'll understand) ask at the Wikipedia:Help desk and they will confirm it is legitimate.

If you do not know how to do it, let me know and I'll do it for you.--S Philbrick (Talk) 17:30, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

This is really neat! Never experimented with it before but very cool. Thanks for the tip. Mary Gaulke (talk) 13:37, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

I thought you would find it helpful :) --S Philbrick (Talk) 14:03, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker). Dear MaryGaulke and Sphilbrick. I love that xtool and am disappointed that it is totally disabled while noted to be under "maintenance". I hear they are building something better based on current abilities. Probably a back-burner Gadget though. User:Hedonil has left the building. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 21:52, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Man, Checkingfax, I've been bummed to see it out of commission too. If I run across a worthy replacement I'll be sure to drop a line. :) Mary Gaulke (talk) 20:05, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, MaryGaulke. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Tile (software), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. This is an FYI so you can add a COI notice to any Talk pages you post COI edit requests on. Also so you know about all the COI templates you can use here and there. {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 21:11, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Checkingfax, thanks for stopping by! To clarify — is this just an FYI, or is there a specific policy violation that I should correct? Mary Gaulke (talk) 20:48, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi MaryGaulke. I am not an expert, nor have I really taken a look. I was giving you the boilerplate so you could figure it out on your own. Have you added the topper template to the Talk page of each article you edit for pay? The one that leads back to your User page COI declaration. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 21:47, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

I have not, but I can certainly start! Good call. I am all about disclosure everywhere I can be. Mary Gaulke (talk) 20:08, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Edit requests

Hi Mary. I've started making some of the changes you requested on the talk page. My weekend was a write-off, but I'll nibble away at the rest over the course of this week. Cheers. --Drm310 (talk) 18:47, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

I so appreciate you taking the time, Drm310! Let me know if there's anything I can do to streamline the process. Mary Gaulke (talk) 03:38, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

You are welcome, Mary. I did a little more editing and reworked the "Users" section into "Customers" (calling them "notable" seemed redundant). I broke them out into subheadings for a more succinct list, and added Sports Illustrated under the heading of predictive analytics.

I see there are a few unsourced items in that customer list, though. I would encourage you to find sources for those, or else they may have to be taken out. --Drm310 (talk) 05:56, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Drm310 This is awesome, thank you! Regarding the unsourced customers — Nest Labs and iRhythm are both mentioned in the GigaOM article that is the ref for the elevator company listed right below them. And here's a ref for Credit Suisse:

Shah, Sooraj (7 October 2014). "Credit Suisse saves £500k a month using Splunk, with Oracle database set to be decommissioned". Computing Magazine. Retrieved 24 March 2016.

One more thing: It looks like the only pending item from my original request is the fourth bullet, posing a new version of the first paragraph of the "Products" section that is fully sourced. Would you be up for taking a look at that and letting me know what you think? Thank you again! Mary Gaulke (talk) 22:12, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi again, Mary. I have fixed the citations in the Customers section. As for your last outstanding item, I would suggest the second sentence be reworded slightly to this:

It was developed in response to the demand for comprehensible and actionable data reporting for executives outside a company's IT department.

Let me know if you agree with this revision. Thanks. --Drm310 (talk) 20:42, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Drm310 Yes, that sounds great to me—thank you! Mary Gaulke (talk) 14:09, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

I have completed the last change. I think that's a wrap! --Drm310 (talk) 14:42, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Woohoo! Thank you again! Mary Gaulke (talk) 15:22, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rob Bernshteyn (April 7)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Godfrey Sullivan has been accepted

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August 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

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September 14: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

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Along with the main meeting, hummus and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

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Hearsay

Hi. Just a note: You might want to update their name on your user page. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 06:32, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Done! Thank you. Mary Gaulke (talk) 17:09, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

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MathWorks

Hello Mary. Could you please help me separate the outstanding issues with MathWorks from the ones that have already been completed? I'm having a little difficulty following the talk page thread. Thank you. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:06, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

@Drm310: Certainly! Apologies, should have done that sooner. All set. Thank you! Mary Gaulke (talk) 20:38, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Doug Merritt (December 23)

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Interviews don't aid in establishing notability because their content is from the subject not about them.

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Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 02:42, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

@Drewmutt: Hi! Thank you for taking the time to review my draft and give feedback. Could you please clarify whether both this Fast Company piece and this Diginomica piece are considered interviews rather than profiles? I've never run into this before, so I want to make sure I understand exactly what the issue is. Also, per WP:INTERVIEW, it sounds like interviews can be used to demonstrate notability: "An independent interviewer represents the 'world at large' giving attention to the subject, and as such, interviews as a whole contribute to the basic concept of notability." Am I interpreting this incorrectly? Thanks again for your time. Mary Gaulke (talk) 19:31, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

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Undid my edit on Western Digital

Hello, I'm just wondering when you got the logo because it looks outdated. I know my is the current one so unless you can provide a good reason to use yours I will have to revert your undo. — BrandonXLF ^(t@lk) ^{(ping back)} 14:48, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

@BrandonXLF: Hi! I work for a communications firm that represents Western Digital, and the company shared the updated logo with me last month for this purpose. If you're interested, I provided more background, COI disclosure, and some additional edit requests for the article on its Talk page, here. Let me know if you have any questions! Thank you. Mary Gaulke (talk) 17:42, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Revert of edits in Talk:Foursquare

Hi. I reverted your edits in Talk:Foursquare. It is highly inappropriate to change the record of the talk page the way you did it from Coi edit request to Rfc. In addition, I replied in the thread about the edit request not in the thread of the Rfc. The record of the Coi edit request talk should be preserved. If you want to start an Rfc please start a new thread, with a strong advice to guide editors to your previous post in the coi edit request instead of repeating the info already provided but not changing the record to use the same information in the same thread. You can also read talk page guidelines. Sorry about that but thanks in advance for your understanding. Thinker78 (talk) 03:34, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

@Thinker78: Hi! I apologize for stepping on your toes. I made a point of not deleting anything; I did collapse our conversation for easy scanning but I did not remove any record of anything. I also noted beneath my initial request, and above our conversation, that the update with the RfC was new. And I only deleted my first edit request template because you had added a second one at the bottom and I didn't want to create confusion. Again, I did not delete any record and I would never do so; I strive for transparency in all my work here. Mary Gaulke (talk) 03:51, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

The deleted record I'm referring to was the Coi edit request thread deletion and changes, basically preventing people from being aware of the Coi edit request. Although there is the complete record in the edit history, most editors won't be digging routinely there if they just are reading the talk page. The template I added was a response to the edit request template, so both should be preserved. Hey, we learn something new many times, no worries! Thinker78 (talk) 04:34, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

@Thinker78: From what I understand about Template:Request edit, you don’t duplicate it to indicate a response; you put the response in the original instance of the template. Having the template appear twice in the same response would cause it to be erroneously indexed in two separate places. Unless that’s changed? Mary Gaulke (talk) 06:20, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, I should have responded in the template already in place. I corrected it. Thinker78 (talk) 18:07, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: César Cernuda 2 (December 12)

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January 2019

Your addition to Talk:America's Health Insurance Plans has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Putting this here just for the record. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Billy Starr (June 5)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Praxidicae were:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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I don't see any evidence he is independently notable but even if he were, this is a massive fluff piece.

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Praxidicae (talk) 14:54, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

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Mary. One word: ‘’preposterous’’, for both claims, when taken in context versus the countless much, much inferior articles in the encyclopedia, and it’s evident real-world threshold for notability. Anybody who ever worked on an amine cartoon or was part of some support staff producing a CD can have an article. They are all over the place.

You know it is my personal opinion that the bio is adequate as incorporated into the Challenge article. But I am conservative on such things, and obviously hold to a higher standard than the encyclopedia does, regardless of this article’s arbitrary summary rejection. And as for being fluff, it is absurd. It may not be about the Battle of the Bulge, but it’s claims are factual and supported by citation. You could find 1000 articles at Wikipedia that are fluff without breaking a sweat.Wikiuser100 (talk) 16:13, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for weighing in! As I'm sure you saw, I asked for more input at the AfC help desk. I am happy for my work to be held to a higher standard, but I do still believe the article subject is notable. Thank you again for your help. Mary Gaulke (talk) 16:19, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. TheAwesome Hwyh 21:03, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! I've done a little email excavation and replied there. Mary Gaulke (talk) 02:41, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Edifecs (August 18)

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K.e.coffman (talk) 15:35, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

COI list addition

Greetings. You should add, per this diff, Calvin Cheng on your COI list. -The Gnome (talk) 07:12, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi, he's on there! Alphabetically by surname. Thanks! Mary Gaulke (talk) 14:13, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

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