User talk:Geofflos

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If you need any more information, plenty of help is available - check out Wikipedia:Questions; ask your question here and attract help with the code {{helpme}}; or leave me a message on my talk page explaining your problem and I will help as best as I can. Again, welcome! strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 18:59, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for File:LivingOceansEdit.jpg[edit]

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Non-free files in your user space[edit]

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Orphaned non-free image File:LivingOceansEdit.jpg[edit]

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Problems with upload of File:Los09.jpg[edit]

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Orphaned non-free image File:LivingOceans.jpg[edit]

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Wikipedia user policy[edit]

Thanks for declaring your interest in LOS. However, Wikipedia does not permit accounts for whole organizations, only individuals. Since your name may indeed be Geoff, and you edit for LOS, the username is fine, but you should clarify the text at the top of User:Geofflos. --Lexein (talk) 21:16, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the advice and I think I've clarified my COI on the topo of the page. Geofflos (talk) 22:51, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! That's excellent. Now, per WP:COI, the main way to reduce the COI problems at the LOS article are to limit editing to non-controversial removals of errors and vandalism, and adding independent sources, paying attention to maintaining a neutral point of view, to support the claims made in the article. For article content additions, make suggestions on the Talk page.

Thanks for diving in to source the LOS article. I've put back a few of the LOS citations - primary sources are ok to have, as long as independent RS support all claims made. --Lexein (talk) 23:53, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some other Living Oceans Society?[edit]

Found this reference to a Living Oceans Society in 1982. Which organization is that?

"Which is the Experimenter?". Popular Mechanics. November 1982. p. 42.

--Lexein (talk) 01:38, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it must be another outfit that I've never heard of, lost in time before the dawn of the Internet. Thanks for digging that up. BTW I enjoyed the Beatles vs. Jesus comparison. Lennon called that one correctly and adroitly sidestepped the apology he was forced into. I'll keep chipping away at the references for the Living Oceans Society.

Geofflos (talk) 22:13, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FYI[edit]

No big deal, but "Minor" edits are things like single-character (non-controversial) spelling fixes, or spacing. See WP:MINOR. Adding prose or citations is always "major". --Lexein (talk) 23:46, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (File:Los09.jpg)[edit]

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File permission problem with File:Proposed tanker routes and tanker prohibition zone.jpg[edit]

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