User talk:Dr JBW

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Thank you for signing up! Gnan garra 03:53, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Dr JBW, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Jaquelyne Hughes have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:36, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Thank you for participating in the Franklin Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Women in Health and Medical Research. Your enthusiasm and diligent work has made a real impact. We’d love for you to keep using those new skills – there are still many suggestions for pages to create or update on our project page. Looking forward to seeing you around Wikipedia! SnapFreeze (talk) 06:56, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Thanks for creating Kirsten Banks.

User:MurielMary while examining this page as a part of our page curation process had the following comments:

Thanks for creating this article on Banks, great to have more editors writing about women in science! Happy editing!

@MurielMary: Thanks for the welcome! What an interesting community I've joined! Dr JBW (talk) 00:59, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

To reply, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|MurielMary}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ .

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

MurielMary (talk) 11:42, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Kirsten Banks

On 15 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kirsten Banks, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Australian astrophysicist Kirsten Banks was inspired to learn about her Wiradjuri heritage while training at the Sydney Observatory? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kirsten Banks. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Kirsten Banks), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

valereee (talk) 00:03, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]