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Response to article deletion

I have considerably expanded and revised this article to avoid direct copying, in so far as possible, of material in obituaries for Donald Kreider. I am in the process of obtaining copyright permission for the photograph of Kreider from his partner Bill White, who took the photo and supplied it to Dartmouth for use in the obituary.

I would like to include a link to an oral history in the Rauner Special Collection at Dartmouth. My preferred link (www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiUkqG1u_L0AhXRTN8KHd-WCwIQFnoECAcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dartmouth.edu%2Flibrary%2Frauner%2Farchives%2Foral_history%2Foh_interviews_pdf%2FKreider_Donald.pdf) to an on-line copy of the history was rejected because the site at Google was on a blacklist. I can supply a link to the catalog entry for the history in the Rauner Collection, but it is not possible to read the oral history by following that link. How can I make the history readable on-line? 21:44, 20 December 2021 (UTC)SJGarland

Managing a conflict of interest

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Donald Kreider (March 20)

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Likely notable, but the section 'Early life' is unreferenced, as are personal details such as DOB/DOD. --

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Donald Kreider has been accepted

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Devonian Wombat (talk) 05:34, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Structured BASIC

I'm still beating the Dartmouth article into shape, but I think it's starting to stabilize now. I'd now like to separate out Structured BASIC. Do you have any resources from that era? There's practically nothing about it on the 'net, unless my google-fu is failing.

Has IEEE or ACM or any of those interviewed you about this era? It would be nice to have this down somewhere.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 01:03, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Dartmouth ALGOL 30 for deletion

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Potential WP: COI violation

Hi, please clearly disclose your conflict of interest with Dartmouth ALGOL 30 on your user page or on the article’s talk page. You mentioned that you were involved with its development at the corresponding AfD discussion. I understand it’s in your biography, but it’s sandwiched between several paragraphs of other text and should ideally be made more prominent (e.g. with a userbox, as you’ve done with Donald Kreider).

You should also disclose COIs that you have for any other article you’ve edited. You stated on your user page: “I contribute particularly to topics with which I have a personal connection.” I find this remark deeply concerning, and I must remind you that Wikipedia’s article space is generally not a place to write about your own accomplishments. HyperAccelerated (talk) 06:44, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Response to potential WP: COI violation

I have disclosed my COI with Dartmouth ALGOL 30 and several other pages on my user page. When I return from a trip abroad at the end of the month, I will look for and disclose any additional COIs. In the future, I will take care to suggest edits to topics for which I have personal knowledge instead of editing their pages directly. Regarding those topics, it's not that I want to write about my own accomplishments; I simply desire to correct and improve Wikipedia's historical record.