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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]

Edit requests

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.

The requests

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An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes.

   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. 
   Explanation of issue: No reference available

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 WH Weston Award for Teaching from the Mycological Society of America, under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading. 
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://msafungi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/William-H.-Weston-Award-Past.pdf or https://msafungi.org/william-h-weston-award-for-excellence-in-teaching/

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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.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: http://www.ima-mycology.org/awards/de-bary-medal

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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.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03449329

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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.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://msafungi.org/distinguished-mycologist-award/

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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.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://www.isham.org/about-isham/awards/lucille-georg-award-1982-date

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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.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://www.mycologicalsociety.org/rhoda_benham_award

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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.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://msafungi.org/c-j-alexopoulos-prize/

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   Information to be added or removed: Add citation for American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://www.aaas.org/fellows/listing

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   Information to be added or removed: Add citation for American Academy of Microbiology (1998), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://asm.org/Academy/Academy

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   Information to be added or removed: Add citation for International Mycological Association (2018), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: http://www.ima-mycology.org/society/ima-fellows

An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes.

   Information to be added or removed: Add citation for Mycological Society of America (2005), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://msafungi.org/msa-fellow-award/

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   Information to be added or removed: Add citation for California Academy of Science (1993), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/academy-fellows

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

   Information to be added or removed: Add citation for Taylor-White Endowed Lecture at UC Berkeley (2011), under "Honors and Distinctions" subheading.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://ipmb.berkeley.edu/seminars/history-procedures/endowed-lectures/taylor-white

Done this one. -- Euryalus (talk) 08:25, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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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.
   Explanation of issue: There is currently no reference for this section
   References supporting change: https://msafungi.org/msa-graduate-and-undergraduate-best-oral-and-poster-presentations/

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]

An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes.

   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.
   Explanation of issue: No reference available

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]

An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes.

   Information to be added or removed: Add citation for "Their approach has been very influential in fungal evolution and ecology [ ]" under Research subheading.
   Explanation of issue: Citation missing
   References supporting change: http://msafungi2.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/February-2013-Inoculum.pdf

FungiL (talk) 01:11, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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