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Depression in college students

Now Draft:Depression in college studentsPamD 09:13, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi PamD our page is for a class project it had that memo on it that its for a midterm where we have to make a wiki page for a psych presentation. It will be deleted in 2 weeks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psychteam4 (talk • contribs) 00:19, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome typo

Hello Pam! Um, I think your welcome paragraph has a typo - a missing "after" between "look" and your late Mother. Just saying!

Perhaps some more work on tidying up units is on the way; I am trying to assemble a survey of the various dodgy sources which are the only basis for some of these pages. OTOH, I started investigating the fother the other day, and it's really a fascinating business -- all about measuring lead.

Imaginatorium (talk) 15:55, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for spotting that - now corrected. After several years of living in two places we're announcing our official change of address from town to inherited country village bungalow (I can see the Howgill Fells across the fields as I type...) and I thought I'd update the page... but didn't proofread it. As for units ... good luck! PamD 16:41, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Lovely hills. Mine were the Black Mountains of Hereford and Brecon -- where we live now I could (once) just see Mt Fuji from my office window: [1] (right in the middle)... now there's just the house next door. Imaginatorium (talk) 17:12, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for sorting that out... I wasn't sure what to do. I'm happy with any version, though I'd be even happier if some American literary scholar could contribute some basic information about the poet, like birth and death dates... It would also be nice to know if he's the same JCA who wrote a book on Business Spanish in the 1920s! seglea (talk) 14:58, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Seglea: Hmm, interesting. The politican had no offspring ("one child died in infancy") so his namesakes are more complicatedly related. There's one of them born 1862, probably too early to be our poet: here and continued here. Just realised they're the same book, just different sections 7th generation and 8th generation. The Alma Mater ref gives a little more info about the prof, but nothing to help decide whether he's the poet or not, as you say. An obit of prof and/or poet would be wonderfully useful! Good luck. (My own family had 4 generations of "Robert Moffat", not a middle name amongst them, which complicates family history research). PamD 16:20, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The deleted version of 'Preston Richard' was just a redirect to 'Endmoor'. I'm sure whatever you submit will have more information. DS (talk) 16:40, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DragonflySixtyseven: OK, thanks. PamD 16:42, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi PamD,

I just made a change to the redlink, then noticed that you'd changed it from Matt Peacock (journalist) a couple of days back. The rationale for using that rather than Matt Peacock (Devil's Dust) is that the latter will never warrant a separate character page, that Devil's Dust comes after Killer Company, that standard practice where a role is a real person is to link to that real person, and that the journalist redlink (which itself may never warrant an article of its own) has multiple non-DAB appearances elsewhere. I'll add a mention of Devil's Dust at Killer Company, however do not believe it should appear at the DAB page (fictionalised portrayals/representations of real people don't get so disambiguated). Cheers, ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 14:22, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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