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Category:Yale Sterling Professors

Hi, I've sorted out the Category:Yale Sterling Professor category. There was no easy way to do it as we can't move a page that doesn't exist to replace a another one so I created the Category:Yale Sterling Professors, repopulated it and deleted the old one as being an empty category. I think it's all OK but you might want to just look it over. Kind regards, Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:08, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

James Spudich

It shouldn't be problem. The original was deleted as a WP:PROD so can be recreated at any time. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 15:19, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Ronald Vale

My apologies - I was under the strong impression that he went straight from the Ph.D. portion of his M.D./Ph.D. program to a faculty position. I will try to find a source on how long his post-doc at the MBL was. Thanks for the note about this! Orangutans (talk)

Proposed deletion of Gerald Crabtree

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Hi Giajin42. The HHMI biography has typically been considered a reliable third party source. I just wanted to confirm my thoughts on that before removing the {{prod blp}} tag.Chrisvanlang (talk) 01:06, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

I removed the BLPPROD. Per rule, there has to be no references or external links (reliable or unreliable) in order to add a BLPPROD. As the BLPPROD was added against the rules, I deleted it. Bgwhite (talk) 01:24, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks Bgwhite.Chrisvanlang (talk) 01:26, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Proposed deletion of Susan Ackerman

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NPOV means we talk about bad stuff and good stuff, whatever it is. Every one of your edits to this article has removed negative content. Please stop doing this. Jytdog (talk) 17:32, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

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Infoboxes

Reading this case led me to think about the (few) articles I have created, and to wonder which of them have infoboxes. I found that you added an infobox to Robert Schimke, and it's much the better for it. Thank you. Maproom (talk) 15:03, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Advice

Hi. I'm sure you are aware of the Wikipedia:Conflict of interest policy. I appreciate that you are skilled in certain areas and have kept off the topic of your own employer, but you need to understand that the COI guidance also applies to academic colleagues and anyone you may have a close association with outside Wikipedia.Deb (talk) 14:31, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi Deb. I took a quick look at my edits over the past couple of years. I don't have any COIs to report and I don't have any personal or business connections with any of the articles that I have created/edited. We should be set. Thanks for the cross-review. --Chrisvanlang (talk) 15:11, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I try to make sure people are fully aware because so many newer users aren't. No offence taken, I hope. Deb (talk) 15:30, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

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Request reason:

Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. Place any further information here. Not sure what is going on to trigger a block. Specific to IP: 208.87.232.0/21. Chrisvanlang (talk) 04:27, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Decline reason:

I'm sorry, that IP address range belongs to Forcepoint/Mailcontrol, and serves as a VPN. You'll need to disable your use of that service if you wish to edit here. Yamla (talk) 10:45, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks. I think it's part of my company network security. I'll figure a way to work around the VPN.Chrisvanlang (talk) 14:27, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

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