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Congratulations for creating the Donna Strickland article back in 2014. She supposedly wasn't notable enough at the time, but is now a Nobel laureate - hmmm, let's hope Wikipedia has learnt as much in the intervening period as she apparently has! (I note that the men she shared the prize with didn't face the same challenge to their notability - what are the chances of that, I wonder? JezGrove (talk) 19:48, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

For the record, the Strickland deletion had nothing to do with notability: as the notice makes explicit, it was entirely a result of SteplightJohnson being heedless about Wikipedia's policies on copyright. DS (talk) 20:24, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Optical Society

I undid your changes to the lede as it reads like an advert. This is an encyclopedia and articles should have an encyclopedic wp:tone Thank you Jim1138 (talk) 07:44, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

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